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  1. Are "you" listening? on How has the USA PATRIOT Act Affected You? · · Score: 0

    I don't think so much that it's affected many American noticeably and I think that's partly the point of that piece of leglislation. I haven't noticed anybody collecting all sorts of private information about me. But wait... they don't have to tell me, do they? And it hasn't decided my vote. There were plenty of other issues.

  2. Re:hmmm on RFID Not Just for Kids · · Score: 0

    it would also depend on the spacing on the monitors... if the other person doesn't know you are looking for them... and are just looking around then if the monitors are spaced too far apart they would be worthless... but if there are too many of them it would remove some of the magic of the park. Plus how long does it take to get a location? if it take a little while than it might not be accurite. So what would the use be of it then? unless you could communicate with the people/person you are looking for... I think that would be more worthwhile than just location checking.. or even if your tag told you someone was looking for you that would be better...

  3. hmmm on RFID Not Just for Kids · · Score: -1, Redundant

    but people don't stand still while you are watching them on the moniter right? So when you start running over to where they are... there is no guarentee that they will still be there, is there? Wonder how you could get around that...

  4. Re:Good for them! on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    Though they may have a right to protect themselves from foreign attack, and our Government has done much to engender a feeling of mistrust aimed in our direction... we have not used nuclear weapons as a pre-emtive measure against anyone. Being responsible for the only military use of these weapons gives us a unique perspective. We sould never use them again. I am quite sure that most Americans have no real idea the horror of these weapons in reality. They know that they can take out a city at the very least, but not the specifics of it. And being capable of the terrible destructive power that is unleashed by these weapons is not the right and duty of anyone in the world, but rather it is the duty of anyone with this capability to insure that it is not used.

    So soes it give other countries the right to use exotic weapons to inspire fear in us just because we happened to launch an unjust war? Maybe they should be an example for us. North Korea would be much better off if they tested the weapons and then declaired that they will disband all testing and use of them. That they prefer to not threaten the populace of a nation that is ruled by an unjust leader with horrible weapons, but instead trust that that nation would see the errors that they had made and change the leadership. Maybe hypocritical, but most people would not recognize that.

  5. Homepage management on Incorporating Machine Learning into Firefox 2.0? · · Score: 1

    Have firefox store information on the websites you have set to come up as you open the program, and incorporate a way for the browser to decide whether a site has been updated and display the pages from most updated to least. Also, for those that have a site like /. or cnn.com a feature could be incorperated to rank the pages as you open them by interest from previous keywords in links or articles as well as the most/least idea. -Give something that has been updated on a new website more weight in an "ammount updated" scale that decides the order that they are displayed. In addtion to that, maybe allowing the browser to decide not to bring up a website if it has not been updated, or automatically close it if hasn't so the user does not need to look through all their home pages to see if there is anything new or not. At the users discretion of course, probably in options. And just in case you look at the firefox site too, I just posted this there, so no i did not steal it.