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  1. Re:Nah, not scary on The Chimera Dilemma Manifested in Sheep · · Score: 1

    Have you ever played worms, were the sheep were suicide bombers. But I guess without possible thumbs the sheep couldn't make the bombs or wire themselfs with it. On the other hand if we give monkeys possible thumbs maybe the sheep could free the monkeys and teach the, to use fire arms against. The next world war will not be man against man but man against modified animal man-hybrids.

  2. Re:Might not be a big deal on UK Report Suggests Designer Offspring · · Score: 1

    I think that they may have. I think though that the ease of abortions versus killing a baby you can see and touch, you don't just have a large belly and some sonagrams of a fetus plus there is the agrument that the fetus is not really yet alive. These factors lead to more abortoins then murders. An other factor is that if you are able to get the sex of the child before you are showing you could get the girl aborted and noone but you and your docter would know about it. These would mean there was no real stigma involved because it was private your husband may not even know. These would lead to even more abortions.

  3. Re:Best Buy on Forbes Lists Top Corporate Hate Web Sites · · Score: 1

    I have had it where a door check at costco resulted in me saving two bucks on an item I had not purchased. I was given a prompt refund at the member services desk next to the exit. It was quite fun. I have also had to walk back into a store to agrue over 2 hundred dollars in charges for items I had not bought. at a store without door checks. It took the store two times to get the right amount. I lucky had a calulate in my car to fingure the right amount . I had bought a lot similar items over 200 hundred and was on the cell at the cashier. I honest person who thinks that door checks are alright. I always check my reciept before I leave the store to see if the reciept matches what I got even with door checks.

  4. Hey dude. Your math smells on Star Flung From Milky Way at High Speed · · Score: 1

    1.5 million mph is about equal to 1/400 of the speed of light. The reasoning is because the speed of the star is 1.5 million mph over the speed of light 600 million mph. So you get 1.4m/600m which reduces to 1/400.

  5. Re:Can I get it in Mac? on If The Problem Persists, Reboot The Car · · Score: 1

    I think it was BMW who produced and test a system that used a joystick to control a car. (Forward to speed up, middle to keep the same speed, backwards to slow down(by cruising if you slow a little) and of course steering by left and right. Tester's said that it took a bit of getting used to but once you got used to it, they felt it was much better. I can't imagine parial parking. The point is you could have one pedel where you press it down to speed up and let it up to brake and keept it in the middle to stay at the same spee.

  6. Re:what a BULLSHIT on Verizon Central Office Heist Spoiled By 911 Outage · · Score: 1

    wait, You when are we going to rob that train again.

  7. Re:And to think.... on Intel Quietly Adopts AMD's x86-64 · · Score: -1

    64-bit processors are not usful for most poeple even geeks. I only have one app that would benefit from running on a 64-bit processor and that is NTP but it does fine on 32-bit processors. Games do not need 64-bit processors look at N64, the games run fine on 32-bit processors and look as good the without the extra floating point accuracy. Why would I want x86-64, gives my nothing but 64-bits. AMD is making money using intels old trick of running bigger numbers but instead of clock speed intel is marketing 32 more bits. Intels Itanium was a real improvement it gave you 64-bit but it also gave one so much more. What I wonder is if intel could have made it's Itanium compatible with x86 with a microcode translator since this is how modern x86 processors work. Apple included a 6800 emulater with it's ppc computers so that one could use all the old 6800 code. The first ppc machines ran slower because there was almost no ppc software for them to run. okay that was a long rant.

  8. Re:Remember on Home-made Portable PlayStation 2 · · Score: 1

    I smell a setup. Why would you say a couple of plastic bags and yarn. I think you are ether one person or in kahoots.

  9. Re:Any problems? 3 of them. on Boeing Successfully Tests Anti-Missile Laser · · Score: 1
    1st There are people who want to knock you down mainly for being successful. They are not successful and they blame you for it. Yes, the US may tried to make it hard for them to be a first class country.

    2nd, if you are going to launch an attack on the united states, don't make the mistake of leaving much of it left to retaliate. The US is an angry country don't wake it, if you can't defeat it.

    3rd, there is no reason not to have multiple defense systems because all of them have one or more alkalis heels. Developing more then one at a time is a good idea because you might spend five years to find out that it is just is not viable. You would have to start from scratch on a new system.The military uses radiance for a lot of thing because things fail.

    --Don't forget that if we worked on only on missile defense system and it failed, to blame G.W. for no developing more then one system.

  10. Re:kyoto is not good for the US on U.S. Continues Opposition to Kyoto Environmental Treaty · · Score: 1

    Hasn't the EU been losing manufacturing jobs and all of their pollution more so then the US. I am almost certian they have. You don't really lower the globe CO2 levels by out-sourcing the sources of pollution. Especial if the work goes to a country with even lower envormental standreds. I know that EU has been reducing pollution by other means but I have never seen the lose of pollution causing jobs to other counties factered into lower pollution level charts. \\This Post is based on asumed facts

  11. Re:Apple is showing the way on On-CPU Peltiers From AMD? · · Score: 1

    the system could be closed pressure systems AKA car cooling systems.

  12. Re:hrmmm on Ozone Hole Getting Smaller · · Score: 1

    Another thing is that skin cancer does not allows equal too much sun. The genetic mutation could have come from anywhere. notor oil, epoxes, greases, house hold cleaners, soap, mosturizers, x-rays, plastics, and my favorite Sun Screen. Yes, some types of Sun Screen where carcinogenic, imagine that.

  13. Re:This has already been suggested... on Ozone Hole Getting Smaller · · Score: 1

    SKIN != TOO MUCH SUN. While UV rays are carcinogenic. Many other things are also carcinogenic. I read some where that certain sun screens maybe more carcinogenic then the UV light they are supposed to be protecting us from. GOOGLE FOR IT. Motor Oil and other greases are also carcinogenic. Getting X-Rays will lead to more cancer causing cells. Almost everyone has cancerious cells, but they only became a cancer when they split into two cells. So of course skin cancer is on the raise along with every other cancer you can think of. TOXIC WORLD, not TOXIC SUN.

  14. Re:VoIP prices? on VoIP Price War Declared · · Score: 1

    yeah, But then no one would be able to afford to buy any thing from walmart because they are paying everyone so litte. I have only once been into a walmart. It was to by a tomis guide(Big Map Book) to figure out how to best get out where walmart was the only store that sold Tomis Guide. Okay, I in reality I had to live out there for some work and needed a really good map.

  15. Re:Don't confuse me with a conspiracy theorist whe on Navy ELF to Be Scrapped · · Score: 1

    except for that a 686, can do almost everything a 286 can do. But differnet ways of communicating via radio, laser, etc. All have differing postive and negative points. And if I understand the technology well enough. Then I would think that the Navy has a few underground ELF stations because the waves can travel through the ground. The Article which I skimmed did not mention if the antennas would be removed/unmantained on the existing subs or if they would not be part of future subs. ELF has, I as see it, advatages that are not found in any other comunactation method. Making it worth keeping around in case of emergances where those advatages out way the disadvatages.

  16. Re:Why Not? on Microsoft Releases FlexWiki as Open Source · · Score: 1

    hmm, they could though. If they gave free access to their support lettrature. You know that flow chart they use and stuff. Would be better cool.

  17. Re:What about Europe? on Is The Public Stuck With The Broadcast Flag? · · Score: 1

    regionless DVD encoders are cool but I am interested in DV camcorders, Can you still by an in box fully functional one or do you have to hack it to make it fully functional. As far as I remember you could not out put the DV clip to a TV. To get one that could out put to the TV you had to pay a lot extra. Of couse the DV manufactures just disabled the video in software. So you could do a firmware change and get the missing functionality. This of course really hampers the functionality of a DV.

  18. Re:At $550 per hour... on Randall Davis: IBM Has No SCO Code · · Score: 1

    But remember to bill as if you used grad students and Abacuses. Btw I thought Abacii as some sort of way of repersenting text on abacuses

  19. Re:No, a really really bad one would modify your M on New Worm Installs Sniffer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, I think it is called linux.

  20. Re:I've got mine on pre-order. on Port-A-Nuke · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have had bad luck with the spiral flouresents, they go bad for me in about 4 months. It takes a least a year for the normal ones to go bad. I am starting to think that my apartment building may have something wrong with the mains. What brand are you buying and how long have they actually lasted???

  21. Re:Fuel is not a source on Getting Serious About Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    Um, what about the trasport of raw hydrogen. You do now that hydrogen is the smallest atom. It actully finds it's way through containers. It reacts with almost any chemical in the air producing even greatter polution. I know that Ford is working on using hydrogen bound up in a soap chemical. This could be one solution to the problem. Another is to make methanol and ethonal from plants. You can break it down in the car and get hydrogen from it. So I am wondering if it is really worth the effort with the way things look right now.

  22. Re:Good to see on Japanese Deploy Solar Sail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I forget what the theory is called but if we deploy the probes now. later, we will develop faster probes. The faster probes will over take the older slower ones. Another question is that will we be around to hear from the probe and will anyone back here remember to listen for it.

  23. Re:Heat? Naw. Here's some better problems. on Sun Working to Obsolete Motherboards · · Score: 1
  24. Heat? Naw. Here's some better problems. on Sun Working to Obsolete Motherboards · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dust & dirt. I would imagine that at such low voltage levels, induced current would require a damn near perfect level of alignment between the chip and the "socket". This is admitted in the article. What they don't admit is that it's going to be nearly impossible to get the damn thing in the socket without letting dust or dirt inbetween the chip and the socket. And a more interesting topic is their consistent mentioning of taking the cache of the chip. That's a nice dream and all, but where the hell are you going to put it then? Hardwired onto the motherboard? That's going to dramatically increase the cost of mobo's (so they are simply shifting who gets to eat the high sticker price on their products). And what if I buy a quad capable mobo, but only put 2 processors on it, I'm effectively wasting 2 sets of cache, rather than simply wasting 2 cpu sockets, and the sockets are a hell of a lot cheaper than the cache. I suppose you could fix this by going back to COAST (cache on a stick, yeah i know you remember that nasty stuff). But that brings in a whole new problem: These days, cache is only fast because it's so close to the cpu. If they move it off the die, it's just going to be put back on in 2 years because we can't access the cache fast enough ever since we moved it off the die. I'm no super computer engineer, but these guys better have an entire family of rabbits they plan on pulling out of their asses or this fucker's gonna flop.

  25. Space on Sun Working to Obsolete Motherboards · · Score: 1

    One thing is for sure. If they can get this to work and if heat production can be cut down, this would make computing equipment and electronics much smaller. The printed circuit board is one of the big things holding us back from much better electronics miniaturization.