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  1. Re:utility? on Computer Monitor In Eyeglasses · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Except your eye naturally "shifts" position every few milliseconds I believe. It's a way for you to continually see since your eyes tend to "disappear" anything that is completely motionless.

  2. Re:This has been going on for years on Portions of SCO's Expert Reports Stricken · · Score: 1

    Doesn't have to be a criminal trial to have those. You can have a jury trial for a speeding ticket if you want. You just have to ask.

  3. Re:other options on Future Ships Could Float On Bubbles · · Score: 1

    Look up "Prairie Masker System"

    Mainly used to mute propeller noise, but in a ship-wide application it's what is described in the article.

    Thank you military tech once again.

  4. Re:Jon Stewart said it best... on An Inconvenient Truth · · Score: 1
    Labels don't mean anything. Only right-wingers persist in using them.
    Yep: Xenophobe, Homophobe, Racist, Redneck, Right-winger.... none of those are labels at all.
  5. Re:Jon Stewart said it best... on An Inconvenient Truth · · Score: 1, Funny
    hippy double feature.
    There. You made a small spelling error.
  6. Re:This is SOOO futuristic that it won't happen so on Bionic Bugs To Fight Terrorists · · Score: 1

    Blame hezbolla for hiding in civilian areas. More to the point, hezbola should have respected international borders themselves and we could have avoided that whole bloody mess.

  7. Re:But what about... on The World's Most-High Tech Urinal · · Score: 1

    Thank the lawyers for that little bit of trouble.

  8. Re:Go Windows 2000! on Vista's Limited Symlinks · · Score: 1

    I've got mod points, but I just had to comment.

    That's probably the most insightful approach to new Windows OSes that I've seen yet. The only way it'd be better is if you can convince MS to come to your school and have a launch party for something they are putting out.

    When I was a student, we had MS come to our campus to have a launch party for VS.NET. Just for signing up for the presentation, you got a full copy of XP PRO, full copy of VS.NET and were entered in a chance to win one of 2 xBoxes with 5 games...(oh... and this was 2 months after the xBox Launch).

  9. Re:A traumatic experience waiting to happen on The World's Most-High Tech Urinal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nah, the next version is the pay toilet that locks you in UNTIL you pay the fee. After a certain amount of time with non-payment, the machine just happens to "leak" previous customers "deposits" all over you.

  10. Re:High Tech Urinal? on The World's Most-High Tech Urinal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All it takes is a frequency scanner and data recorder. First night, get the frequency it operates on. Next night show up with a datalogger to sniff the data used to raise/lower the device.... Or, you could buy a remote off one of the poor guys whose job it is to raise the damn things.

  11. So..... are you saying? on Opening Zune Sales Flaccid · · Score: 0, Redundant

    that the Zune.... just can't get it('s sales) up?

  12. Re:This is SOOO futuristic that it won't happen so on Bionic Bugs To Fight Terrorists · · Score: 1

    On the contrary... if Israel had WANTED to commit a war of that nature, they wouldn't have been using laser guided bombs and air bombardment. The would have simply leveled everything in their path and slowly swept up to Beruit to demand surrender.

  13. Re:This is SOOO futuristic that it won't happen so on Bionic Bugs To Fight Terrorists · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Gee, I seem to remember Israel giving land "back" to the palestinians. What did they do? Went on a rampage, used that land to launch an attack and kidnap people. Use the land to fire rockets into Israel. I think you need to examine who is really the main cause of unrest in Israel.

  14. Re:How extraordinarily dumb... on Bionic Bugs To Fight Terrorists · · Score: 1

    Not that they couldn't. It's that they didn't.

    Israel is starting to have some of the same problems the US is. Politics are getting in the way of War. Therefore, the War is neglected for political expediency and the soldiers are the ones who suffer.

  15. Re:How extraordinarily dumb... on Bionic Bugs To Fight Terrorists · · Score: 1

    ASSUMING all this is for oil and not for real progress...

    The democrats could easily take away our need for oil with a few swipes of the pen. ANWR, Gulf deep water drilling, west-coast drillilng. We got tons of the shit around us, but the Democrats won't let us at it.

  16. Re:Cowardly on Bionic Bugs To Fight Terrorists · · Score: 1

    Terrorist today: "Someone who uses death and destruction to instill fear, thus gaining political advantage/goals"

    That's a far cry from someone who "opposes the interests of those who control these things".

    Get your head out ass and think through your analogies. You're just as bad a fear monger as the people you are trying to illustrate as fear mongers.

  17. Re:Learning to control planetary temperature, on Warming a Tiny Piece of Mars For Terraforming · · Score: 1

    Sure can, but then you'll get all the hippies worrying about global cooling in 20 years. Again....

  18. I want to know.... on Internet Only 1% Porn · · Score: 4, Funny

    How did they search the whole internet for porn.... And can I have some of the links.

    I'm tired of wasting 10 minutes to.... errr.... Wasting 10 minutes to search a topic and finding nothing but porn. I need those links to err.... block the porn... yeah.

  19. Re:Discovered???!??!?? on Physicists Promise Wireless Power · · Score: 1

    Yeah, how else do we get to defend our Russian base in C&C??

  20. Wanna know something Scary... on TOP500 Supercomputer Sites For 2006 · · Score: 1

    Everyone here likes to make jokes about the Southern USA being dumb, but it's amazing how much computing power is there. Hell, Mississippi missed the top 100 by not-so-much. 115 Mississippi State University

  21. Re:Will they be able to make things better? on Democrats Take House, Senate Undecided · · Score: 1

    Would you rather our soldiers NOT get things like body armor, fuel, weapons, ammo, food, shelter, etc?

    We're fighting a FREAKING WAR and war is expensive. Granted, we should cut spending elsewhere, but when people say "they won't fund the troops" then scream "you're running up too large a deficit", I just look and shake my head at their duplicity.

  22. Re:Will they be able to make things better? on Democrats Take House, Senate Undecided · · Score: 1

    I'm just pissed that my taxes are going to go up because the cuts aren't going to be re-instated.

  23. Re:Two Wrongs on AIDS Can Fight AIDS · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure because "Virus Immunodeficiency Human" really implies that it does the opposite of "Human Immunodeficiency Virus".

  24. Re:They can't get movie content on Why Apple Can't Get Movie Content · · Score: 1
    ahh...but what about the marlboro man? Whats his position?
    Last I checked... about 6 feet under.
  25. Re:Unlikely on Will the U.S. Lose Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Odd, but it seems to me that the difficulty in spying at the moment is the courts. Move those nodes outside the US, and the laws get even more lax and easier to infiltrate without judicial oversight. Thanks EU!