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  1. Re:Same old Russia on Anti-Government Webmaster Shot Dead By Russian Police · · Score: 1

    An Aegis cruiser is a lot like the AT&T it can reach out and touch somebody. Note that the Russian gov was not to happy with 3 or 4 of them cruising around the Black Sea. They were REALLY not happy with the one that was in port in Georgia. The old 5" 54 could put a 5 inch projo in a moving cubic foot air or land space 40 times a minute. They carry lots of them. It took me and another beeforilla 8 hrs to load the magazine. That only covers some of the short range stuff. The Russians know what a Modern US cruiser can do better than that. It has been 20yrs since I was on one. Lets just say it can dispense a lot of ordinance in short period of time.. They know when the US is not fooling around, the big tonnage naval vessels start showing up. Remember that a US cruiser just shot down a satellite with an "obsolete" missle system.

  2. pg ^ PG\/ on Microsoft Patents "Pg Up" and "Pg Dn" · · Score: 1

    Ensign Chekov quit the star trek mission and got a new job as a patent attorney for microsoft

  3. Re:Nations vs. Internet on Navajo Nation Losing Internet Access · · Score: 1

    The main difference; the Republic of Texas and the Republic of California sought to join the Union and The Nation did not. The issues between The Nation and the ISP may not come out as 1 sided as The Nation and the Union. I am quite sure being Jewish is not a requirment for admiitance to law school. There may be a lawyer or 2 that is a Navaho.

  4. The Nation cut off by the ISP on Navajo Nation Losing Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Betcha the ISP is DishNetee/WildBluie/EchoStarved. Probably violated the excessive use policy you know, too many Gb in any 30 day period. Probably the Nation will have to continue to pay anyway, because, them pesky customers want to continue using the internet,,, and even if they dont use the ISP will collect anyway.

  5. Re:Suddenoutbreakofcommonsense on Tenise Barker Takes On RIAA Damages Theory · · Score: 1

    include this::: What RIAA doesnt want you to know is FM radio reception is free. You dont need music to read a good book. All you need is a library card. You do remember what a library is? If you can read text messages, a book should be easy. That is if your attention span gets does not get in the way.

  6. Re:Awesome. on $1,000 Spray Makes Gadgets Waterproof · · Score: 1

    does this make zip lock bags obsolete for use as water resistant backup cover? only $1000 can I get 3?

  7. Re:well... on WB Took Pains To "Delay" Pirating of Dark Knight · · Score: 1

    10 reasons why camcorder versions suck are: 1. Some person answers thier cell phone. 2. chewing pop corn with your mouth open. 3. camcorder mics suck. 4. the resolution really sucks. 5. It used up the bandwidth downloading it. 6. My wife wants to see it anyway. 7. Army Wives is on and it was better than the movie. 8. 9. 10. After watching as much as you can stand you do one of 3 things 1. Hey this is pretty good it might just be worth the price of admission, lets go see it tommorow. 2. Wait till it goes to DVD. 3. Let her watch it on Lifetime or if one of those certain ones and it been a while maybe she will give me some.

  8. Re:First Olympics? on Olympic Media Village – Most Expensive Internet In the World? · · Score: 1

    I know someone that spent 50,000 euros a day, for living space at the Greek olympics. She rented a French registered yacht, and paid for its movement, because all the first hotels were booked.

  9. Re:Capitalist China? on Olympic Media Village – Most Expensive Internet In the World? · · Score: 1

    Ther are many other places on this planet where it is cheaper to hire a local to represent you instead of doing it yourself. Have you been to the Philipines, India,Malaysia, Mexico or Thialand? There may not be as many restrictions. As the Thai say the 'Fulong' can afford to pay more.

  10. Re:I see no comments... on Olympic Media Village – Most Expensive Internet In the World? · · Score: 1

    If my ISP does read this they may decide that they are under charging (89.99 for 512/128) and will follow that service model. I can just see them thinking it over.... I think it's a capital idea. Hey lets charge more for less. See its working, nothing is getting through and a plus, those pesky customers aren't clogging the network

  11. Re:An the solution is.... on MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux · · Score: 1

    Having Linux is like driving a stick shift automobile. I appoached a Chrysler dealer 2 years ago in Northwest Detroit and asked the now out of business dealer rep if they had 5 speed Dakota on the lot. They said they do NOT stock Vipers or any other vehicle model in a manual trans and had not done that for 10 years. I can understand why. A person who can afford a Viper is not interested in getting 15mpg instead of 13mpg with automatic. There also that tacky activity of shifting gears that interfers with texting on your iphone Linux is the super car of OS systems and it has the rep only a skilled operator can get along with it. That will change. People will eventually accept that the skills needed to use and maintain a M$ system and Linux are at the same level. Just give it more time, Ubuntu/Debian keeps gaining on the Redmond OS, and Firefox is proof.

  12. Re:simple solution on Real-World 3G Monthly Cost With Taxes and Fees? · · Score: 1

    A telephone/cellular provider license is a license to bait and switch? This seems to be a trait or business practice for all communication based businesses. Check out Dishnet and see if you can find terms and conditions, maximum through put per month.... You can find it but dont expect to be easy. Hint it is not on the Dishnet site.

  13. Re:Are you sure he's a criminal? on The Inside Story On the San Francisco Network Hijacking · · Score: 1

    I think his ethics and ego got in the way of practicality. I do know this, a person cannot operate a crane in a oil refinery with proper qualifications. Dropping 20 ton load on 10 inch propane feed can make a spectacular explosion. It is something to see but only from a distance. First comes the explosion, then comes the fire. It is a good thing to avoid both. Think MOAB. That as far as I am concerned a good reason to keep the keys away from the boss at least until you are far far away. He should have made a graceful exit and watched the fire and explosion from a distance.

  14. Re:Are you sure he's a criminal? on The Inside Story On the San Francisco Network Hijacking · · Score: 1

    This was this mans' solution to not allow a unqualified person, at request of person uable to judge the skill level needed to avoid the pitfalls. Whatever he decided was based on well founded thery that It would cause him harm to allow another to tamper with the network. Because in these whatever negative happens is you are blamed. If something positive happens then managment gets the bonus. As far being schizo to manage, a severe personality disorder is a minimum requirement in the department of vetrans affairs. MOST veterans do not want to follow the management model the nonvets set forth because we know that a blanket party is and you as a civilian most certainly do have access to all military records! I know better.

  15. proggramering on Do Women Write Better Code? · · Score: 1

    In the beginning there was Adm. Grace Hopper and she begat basic. and then the programmers begat ibm/ms dos and dr dos. ibm/ms dos paired with norton/windows and dr dos and paired with pctools. things were clear and concise with the tools and dr dos and many obfuscations could be cleared up using these resources.

  16. bait and switch marketing? on AT&T Embraces BitTorrent, Considers Usage-Based Pricing · · Score: 1

    I recently got nicked by Dishnet/Wildblue Fair Use Policy. I am paying 69.99 per month for service when available that could be matched by 2 phone lines and 2 modems. The price for the service is on one web site with a dead link to the fair access policy on the other. I suspect that the family tree for echostar is a wreath. Thier pitch seemed extremly attractive, until u get to the terms and conditions. simplified it is my at my usage level not what was represented by sales. i am limited to 12 Gb bit bucket for a rolling 30 day period. the valve is turned down to a trickle 500kbs>128kbs>3900bps when the bucket is 60% full. Most of the time I get the 128kbs burst rate. 2 say that I am disatisfied with the service is putting it mildly. Also the contract points to a difficult to find clause that is not on the paper you sign. If you decided you got hosed and cancell, you still have to pay $30.00 per month for the remainder of the contract. If you upgrade and cancell another additional $25.00 is added to the fee. I guess if this business tactic works for the Dish they will follow suite after they get you locked in. I would say that putting a portion of the fees collected to improving bandwidth is not as attractive as keeping it & forcing you to pay more for less.

  17. Re:If comcast want'sto do this on Comcast Defends Role As Internet Traffic Cop · · Score: 1

    so this is why bittorent is slower than repository or ftp feed for a linux distro ?

  18. Re: Yeah, right. on Air Force Seeking Geeks For 'Cyber Command' · · Score: 1

    He wears a size 14 ring, and he is looking foward to meeting you

  19. Re:He's done nothing wrong on On-Call-IT Assists In Government Data Destruction · · Score: 1

    The office of Special Counsel has the same function as Internal Affairs has in a police department. This is who you contact as an employee to blow the whistle. I would look a few more pay grades up the food chain to find out who really wanted those drives erased.

  20. Re:Hire someone??? on On-Call-IT Assists In Government Data Destruction · · Score: 1

    I agree that most slash doters can do complete cleaning of a system. I will go further and say most slash doters are more skilled than your local gov office. I would not trust the skills and the motivation of a local gov IT tech to do complete job. Most do not have any formal training. Their grasp of coding is barely beyond high school. I had one GS-9 level tech tell me that Open VMS was not A variant of Unix! You are hard put to find an A+, MCSE, CNE or any other qualifications at that level. Just call the the Geek Squad. They will use the proper software and sanitize your computer. Another effective method is firing up a hard drive while it is sitting on top or between two of large rare earth magnets I believe that the eddy currents would probably cook the magnetic media in the hard drive. I know that magnetic media does not survive high temps. Maybe it be something like sticking a cdrom in a microwave oven. I could try it an old 5Gb drive and see what happens.

  21. Re:How much POWER will that take? on Quantum Dots Might Be Key For Teleportation · · Score: 1

    Back when lasers were new in 1975 and I was taking electronic physics, it was thought to be impossible to make a LED or laser function in the blue/violet or UV range because of the waste heat. But now we can buy dozens of UV and wide spectrum LED flashlights, for less than a 1975 1/4 watt ruby laser. The laser and the LED are related, and my understanding of the Quantum physics is frozen in 1975, because I don't need to know how it works. The math was really atrocious then. I don't wish to even glance at it now. I'm so glad don't need the 5 credit hours to graduate today. Today you only need know how it works if you are going fix it. Now I just need know how to flip the switch. Dammit! Just tell me where the power button is Scotty.

  22. fruit picking robots on Robots To Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers · · Score: 1

    Won't the Mexican robots go EL Norte? Are the National Guard and the Border Patrol been aware of this? What if the robots network and unionize, make the growers pay minimum wage? Will congress respond in time to avert economic desataster? Will the pay exemption amendment to the minimum wage laws be low enough? The real big question is, will the robot manufacturer and the growers get to buy new megayachts? In the way back machine, you broke into computer support by installing computers and networks ($8.00)..next helpdesk ($10.00)..next hardware(12.00)..next deskside ($16.00)..and then went sys admin ($22.00).. programming($30.00). Now (20 years later)all the only person required on the property and also the highest paid is the installer/replacer(still gets $8.00 to 10.00). Notice I didn't include the IT boss, because installing, repairing, patching, adding equipment and operating the NOS are not necessary skills for that position. It works a lot like this. How does an American Princess change a lite bulb? She calls her Daddy. He calls an electrician. If you think this is not real world? http://www.holidaylighting.com/ Yes, they also change lite bulbs for a living, for the rich. So what does this have to do with replacement of migrant workers? Nothing if replacement of union drywallers in California in the 80s was a good thing, union 17.75 hr plus bennies vs the immigre @ 4.50 hr. How did this happen? It is called right to work. This means your boss can fire you because you won't work for less than Joe FOB. I have a friend who is a union master carpenter he works 3 months a year. After the non union (Mexican 7.50 hr) carpenters are finished he does what is called clean up. Clean up is fixing all the code and structual fuck ups. If he wants to work, he works for cash at less than 3rd year apprentice wages, no benefits. I guess replacement replacement of all workers would be mucho grande. Building Pyramids without craftsmen results in mounds of dirt.

  23. Re:Of Course They Should on Should Schools Block Sites Like Wikipedia? · · Score: 1

    Haven't you heard of creative journalism? It is called news reporting. Any AP story that is 80% accurate is above norm for accuracy. Combine military operations with that,and the statement content accuracy drops to 5% or less.

    Maybe newspapers should blocked also?

    James T. Kirk should have said "The winner of a conflict always rewrites history, Isn't that true MR. Checkov?"

  24. Re:Grades on Uncle Sam Earns C-minus Grade for PC Security · · Score: 1

    The VA office I work in has a Printer/Copier/Scanner/Scanner to Email/Fax to Email, Store and Foward, reprint on demand and remote and local authorization codes. It has four cascading paper drawers. This is a rented $12,000 machine. It is not hooked to the network, because information management doesn't know how. (most of the IRM techs act like it someone elses job to RTFM). IRM wont let the contractor hook it up under supervision, probably cause they don't know what they are supervising. IRM techs are either WG 7 or GS-12. My department mz-manager (gs-15) is always crying about where is all the paper going? She then decided to add another process that eats another 700 pages a day. She also discovered she had to add another laser printer to the 6 lasers and 2 impacts. We have 15 people working 7 days a week on different shifts in this office. The paper is under lock and key. She had a cow when when she learned I store 2000 sheets for use when I work weekends. I ran out of paper last week end. I called the VA police, she moved the key to somewhere unknown. So I emptied all printers in the locked offices including hers and used that to furnish the essential printers. I am considered to be essential to the operation of the Medical Center (gs-4), the gs-15 is not. BTW I worked for IBM Global directly and indirectly for 10 years, now I work for benefits and 52 weeks of salary.
      Overall grade D-, only because they will show up, in 2 or 3 days. They then scratch their head, leave and sometimes come back in another 2 or 3 days.
    P.S.
    One of them told me "Open VMS is NOT unix operating system, its MicroSoft" That one is a WG 11.