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  1. Re:You can't. Really? on GPL Edutainment Software · · Score: 1

    But the yammerheads will never know what's in the books unless they read.

  2. Err, no on Cringely Looks at the WikiLeaks Debacle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Using a bank that's famous for money laundering defeats the whole point of money laundering. This could cost them their exisiting customers.

  3. Plan 9 on SCO Goes Private With $100 Million Backing · · Score: 1

    Find another sucker and pay yourself years of salry and bonuses look busy.
    As long as you actually go through the motions, is it really fraud?

  4. meanwhile... on Ethics In IT · · Score: 1

    You'll have fun,fun,fun 'till the software takes the car keys away.

  5. Waved aside? on US Government To Release Electronic Passport · · Score: 1

    Once security decides you're trying to get waved through, will this passport set you up for extra attention?

  6. Just get a new DVD recorder on Official DTV Converter Box Coupons for Americans · · Score: 1

    Units with digital tuners have been under $130 at Best Buy and Wal*Mart for months now. They'll only do standard defintion, but that's all a standard definition TV needs.

  7. This is to stop Disney from claiming ownership on Egypt to Copyright Pyramids and Sphynx · · Score: 1

    Otherwise, once these ideas have been used in a movie, it's Disney's intellectual propery now. For example, Polar Lights had to rename their reissue of a 1960's Aurora model of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2000-01-27 (scroll down)

  8. Traffic lights use LEDs on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 1

    And have for years. Thats why they have all those little round dots instead of one big lens.
    Local governments save a ton of money this way, not just because of the power costs, but beacause they don't have to have a bunch of guys with bucket trucks running around changing bulbs all the time.

  9. Re:This story pops up every couple o months on UPS Using Software To Eliminate Left Turns · · Score: 1

    Becuse the union needs to sign off an _any_ change in the work rules?

  10. Re:Surgeon accountability? on Bar Codes Keep Surgical Objects Outside Patients · · Score: 1

    At $500 per hour, some lawyers would love an excuse to "persue absolutely every available avenue, even the ones with a very poor likelihood of sucess."

  11. Re:easier than a book? on Hands-On With The Kindle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you load up a few hundred titles, it is no longer heavier.

  12. Re:Why can't they be self powered? on Space Elevator Teams Compete for NASA Prizes · · Score: 1

    Solar power works fine for freight- just climb all day and park at night. After all, what's time to a robot?

  13. The publishers will LOVE this on Don't Take Notes In the Bookstore · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does this mean they owe the coop royalties on if they let other bookstores use the same ISBN numbers?

  14. NUTS on Shuttleworth Says No Patent Deals With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    For those who didn't get it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_McAuliffe

  15. Future cowboy Neal option on A New Global Memory Card Standard · · Score: 2, Funny

    "2,048 Gb should be enough memory for anyone"... where have we heard this before?

  16. Re:Conspiracy? on Canadian Coins Not Nano-Tech Espionage Devices · · Score: 1

    Even those who are concerned with this very issue know that Canadian coins are harmless: http://zapatopi.net/afdb/build.html

  17. Re:Physics is a bitch isn't it on French Train Breaks Speed Record · · Score: 1

    Here's an example (warning- link to time sink): http://davidszondy.com/future/Living/subtrains.htm

  18. Picky Picky on New Software Stops Mars Rover Confusion · · Score: 1

    Pioneer 10 & 11 came out of Nasa Ames.

  19. Re:Define an "Interactive Site" on Sen. Ted Stevens Introduces "Son of DOPA" · · Score: 1

    Even some congresscritters allow contact through their websites. To be fair, not all of them do it well: http://stevens.senate.gov/contact.cfm

  20. Re:Wrong presupposition on Has Productivity Peaked? · · Score: 1

    This is how Tokoyo real estate came to be "worth" more than all the land in the US put together. For a while.

  21. Re:Use of crops for ads? on First Company Logo Visible From Space · · Score: 2, Interesting
  22. Re:It is an example of not patenting on Interview With Spreadsheet Creator · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Mr Bricklin's site also has an explaination of why VisiCalc wasn't patented: http://www.bricklin.com/patenting.htm In short, it just wasn't how things were done then, and the lawyer didn't think he could pull it off.

  23. Re:Solution to the solution on A Solution for the Ten Letter Acrostic Puzzle? · · Score: 1

    For example, use modern English instead of anchient Greek. You get a lot more words to play with that way.

  24. Re:I think pop-up blocking browsers helped too on How Text Ads Tamed Ads on the Wild, Wild Web · · Score: 1

    Personally, I don't have Flash installed for Opera. In the event I want to see a Flash game or animation I'll use a different browser but for general surfing I prefer to stay Flash-Immune. Oh, and its really easy to toggle graphics on and off, too.

  25. Re:Governing Gameplay from on high... on Blizzard Sued for Death of Gamer · · Score: 1

    The "fatigue system" would add an element of realism to game play. Or, you could play WoW and Everquest and Star Wars galaxies and that Korean time sink whatever its called and still have 4 hours a day left over for eating shitting and Xbox.