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  1. Re:Big Science on A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice · · Score: 1

    Suppose you have bills, bills, bills to pay. It would be optimal for the future (ie, your credit rating) to get them paid. Now, imagine some random guys, really rich guys, are willing to pay some of the bills for you, leaving you to only pay for a few bills the rich guys won't pony up for. What are you going to do?

    Not particularly interesting actually, simple dollars and sense, perhaps it does not sit well that you might have to work for the evil industry, with all their "agendas", but it gets the job done. Tech moves along pretty well for no government funding.

  2. Music Not Porn on Online Storage With a Twist · · Score: 1

    After using the service for the last hour, I have to say this is a great place to share music, violating copyright and "illegally" downloading tons of material.

    Kiddie porn is one concern, but the RIAA will shut this down before the slow bureaucratic police.

  3. Re:You can't be this naive ... on Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual · · Score: 1

    The French and Polish resistance never specifically targeted civilians, rather they tried to kill soldiers/nazis, not simply any of the German people.

    After all, simply being a citizen of a country does not mean you agree or support the actions of your government.

  4. Re:It's not a church on Internet Group Declares War on Scientology · · Score: 1

    Also, you've neglected to mention the time when Christianity was also a 'cult' by your own definition. They read the bible in church in the original language, despite the fact that none of the lower members understood it. They definitely attacked all other beliefs, locked people up, used any possible means, etc. It appears you are referencing medieval catholicism, with the mentioning of locking people up, however, the catholic church read the bible in Latin, whereas the New Testament was written in Ancient Greek, which was the common language at the time of writing. And yes, that part of reading text in a language no one understands is merely a power play, thankfully there were plenty of dissenters, reformers even.
  5. Read My Lips on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    No More Dupes!
    And all editors proven incompetent shall be ground into a fine product: Torgo's Executive Powder

  6. Re:So? on Copy That Floppy, Lose Your Computer · · Score: 1

    What does Jesus have to do with this? Even if 1/2 of congress claimed Jesus was their justification, it does not make it so.

    The Bible presents Jesus spending quite a bit of time railing against The Establishment, greed, and injustice.
    And I think that anyone would be hard pressed to define the current state of affairs as _just_.

  7. Re:Not affect how skilled hackers get malware on Google Wants You to Report Malware · · Score: 1

    Google is definitively not a common carrier
    They do not transport goods/data, they merely search them. As a public company they can drop any search results they disagree with or that make them look bad, etc...

    For Evil or Good, Google can do what it pleases with its search results.

  8. Re:Yes they are... on A Chat With the Voice of Mario · · Score: 1

    Note: The girls are actually _fans_ not models or ad people.

  9. Re:more interesting, who's ethics committee? on Whose Laws Apply On the ISS? · · Score: 1

    When can we learn that stem cell research is not illegal in the US?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_controversy#U.S._Congressional_response

  10. bittorrents shaky legal ground on FCC Complaint Filed Over Comcast P2P Blocking · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While I applaud this effort to hold Comcast accountable and hopes it works, it is going to be an uphill battle to defend bittorrent, given the current status of P2P in the courts, and media's eyes.
    It seems the more prudent approach would be to use the blocking of Google traffic, as Google is loved by the media and has been helpful to the courts on a few occasions, to file the complaint, and then rely upon the Google decision to defend torrent traffic. Much like the "tame" playboy defends the more hardcore free "speech"

    Go defenders of Neutrality!
    Screw Comcast and get Gmail notifier to work again!

  11. Re:concert-recording on the cheap on Transform Cellphones Into a CCTV Swarm · · Score: 2, Informative

    That comparison is flawed.
    To use a car analogy: You can construct a complete working car from a junkyard provided that the cars in the junkyard have different problems and conversely different working parts.
    As the way multiple low resolution images of the same seen create a higher resolution is primarily based upon the (usually accurate) assumption that the images will be lit differently such that where information is lacking in one image, it _is_ in another, and vise versa.

    However, with the phones, the same set of frequencies (3,400 Hz) and going to be dropped by bandpass filtering.

  12. Re:We should give this test some additional criter on Word 2007 Vs. Open Office 2.3 Writer · · Score: 1

    Err. 502

    A broken Gateway? What is going on here! I'm using a Dell.
    Did Acer have a hand in writing OO.org?

  13. And we care...why? on Antigua May Be Allowed To Violate US Copyrights · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fry: "What do we care? We live in the United States."
    Leela: "The United States is part of the world."
    Fry: "Wow, I have been gone a long time."

    Thankfully, that is a transcript from the future, and America is not yet part of this "world" of which the UN speaks of

  14. Re:No, it was never that way on Sophisticated, Targeted Breakins Uncovered · · Score: 3, Funny

    Asshats!

    Now there is a title. Hackers gone, White Hat never made it. Enter Asshat.
    Today I asshatted a Big Corp's main server, so I emailed their admin to fix the hole. I am such an Asshat.

  15. I heard... Over at Google on Internal Microsoft Email about Life at Google · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard, that over at google, they have vat grown clones of Natalie Portman for use by all employee's. How is Microsoft ever going to counter that?

    My guess is with an army of brain dead Steve Balmers...

  16. The Fine print on Computer Associates Offers Warranties · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If your laptop or personal computer (collectively "PC" and "PC's") fails due to a virus infection after the CA Anti-Virus 2007 software is properly installed and registered, you can receive up to $1,500.00 in technical service and hardware replacement under the limited warranty associated with the CA Anti-Virus 2007 software. Covered malfunctions include:
    * Your PC will not boot or start up; or
    * Your PC will boot and the hard drive is accessible, but the operating system is malfunctioning, causing other components to not operate properly.

    Does "properly" mean not as fast as it should, internet explorer sending my data somewhere it shouldn't? What is Properly. That world will cause CA to soar or sink, depending on how judges define it.
    Cheers,
    -feno
  17. Bits & pieces on What Gartner Is Telling Your Boss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why would you ever assemble wisdom and business savvy when it's simpler and easier to assemble random quotes & concepts from popular seminars and "Best Seller" managerial books.

  18. Welcome aboard.. on Lockheed and Bigelow to Build Space Hotel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where are the space prostitutes!?!
    Now there will be an explosive market!
    Where can I invest?

  19. The Brilliant Way to start... on CDC Wants to Track Travelers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Frell Security! My privacy for security, poor trade, look at Britain...

    But my health, my child's health! Definitely worth while to store all this information, in the case of an outbreak and all!

  20. Solution? on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    What am I missing as this seems simple:
    K+N = Yes

    Each prisoner only changes the state of the chalice once. Each prisoner keeps track of the amount of times the chalice changes state. Once the number of times the chalice changes state is greater than K+N times (k, the number of times the king can flip the chalice, and n, each prisoner flipping it once) the prisoner can answer yes.

    So why did I just get everyone killed?

    Cheers, Greg.

  21. Re:Do-support, in brief on New Algorithm for Learning Languages · · Score: 1

    Ah, Thank you, That makes sense. So "do-support" is another syntactical rule, another if-then statement in our minds. Now my question is, if there is no current theory that explains the existence of an arbitrary rule of syntax, what _do_ the current theories explain, as almost all rules in languages are utterly arbitrary.

    We can say, Earlier you educated me. but not Earlier you teached me. Why? Why is teach an exception? Is it because one is latin and one not, doubtful or there would be more exceptions...so Why? And how do modern theories explain that rule?

  22. Re:Speaking as someone working on NLP on New Algorithm for Learning Languages · · Score: 1

    Could you explain "do-support" further, Google has _very_ few results, and any explanation seems nonsensical. As one example I found stated the question "Do you like me"? as being a "do-support" sentence. Now, this sentence seems fine, do is simply the verb. Take for example: "Be you man or mouse?" now, Be is the verb, you can stick it on the end if you want, "You man or mouse be?" Okay, it is old english, however, "do" is the same way. Do you like? a simple question...So, I am misunderstanding I assume, or linguists are all idiots, and having read some Chomsky, the latter I am not ruling out ;-) ... Do you explain further?

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    No grammatical errors are in contained this post here, me native speaker define language thus.

  23. crosswinds... on Heliodisplay In Production · · Score: 2, Informative

    Considering the FAQ states the "image may be susceptible to cross winds..." suggests just another smoke and lasers setup. With the added proof that the "top must be left uncovered for the device to work properly."

    Clearly the system is projecting onto a mist of sorts...

  24. The air is "converted... on Heliodisplay In Production · · Score: 2, Insightful
    From the FAQ:
    Will the heliodisplay affect the room in which it is operating in?

    *No, the heliodisplay converts the air and does not introduce anything new into the air that does not already exist in the air.


    So the question is...What does it "convert" the air to? Using a mist would add to the air, but it is not adding something that does not already exist...Definitely marketing speak.
  25. marginal elevation? on Another Amateur Radio Satellite · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there a type of elevation in the florida Keys _other_ than marginal?

    Marginal elevation: Elevation due to a stick of margarine. The low cholesterol alternative to butteral elevation.

    /*sarcasm*/