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  1. Re:Pathetic. on RIM Accuses Motorola of Blocking Job Offers · · Score: 5, Informative

    For what? A dispute with Blackberry? Screw you Motorola, you've just lost my business forever.

    Motorola is having a lot of troubled times lately. They might be laying off people, but I think they are probably playing the 'end of the year' game I see so many large companies do. Basically what they're trying to do is lay a bunch of people off to make the end of the year budget, but after the first of the year they'll hire a signicant percentage of those laid off back when new budgets kick in. I've seen this pattern a thousand times, especially in the auto industry. Of course, the people they'll hire back will be taking a pay cut.

    That's why they want to keep RIM from hiring them off.

    Kinda dirty.

  2. Re:That's good, but. . . on Notebook Sales Outpace Desktop Sales · · Score: 4, Informative

    Many parts in a laptop are user-replaceable/upradeable. The parts that matter, at least, such as the HDD and memory, for instance. Graphics cards and such often are not, however. PCMCIA was supposed to address this whole problem, but even that has its limitations.

  3. Re:The new graphics on Linux 2.6.28 Promises Year-End Presents · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ditto on Ubuntu. The package management scripts are very intelligent in regards to Xorg and Mesa updates when the NVidia drivers are installed. Kernel updates, Xorg updates, and Mesa updates will all trigger init scripts that re-install the NVidia restricted drivers.

  4. Re:With a cabinet on How Do You Monitor Documents? · · Score: 1

    Note that if these cabinet documents were electronically created, they need to be created locally on a PC (never on a server) and you need a good file wipe utility.

  5. Re:Active Directory Rights Management Services on How Do You Monitor Documents? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can this solution be used without an Active Directory environment?

    No. AD RMS, as the name implies, requires an Active Directory implementation. Microsoft is all about doing it one way -- The Microsoft Way. You obviously require re-education. Quick. Send in the consultants!

  6. Re:Active Directory Rights Management Services on How Do You Monitor Documents? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The U.S. government has an entire agency dedicated to cracking cryptography -- it's called the NSA. Are you accusing the NSA of utter incompetence.

    (Remember, the NSA is listening to you. Thanks, AT&T!)

  7. Re:640 X 480 on Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Gnome and KDE can handle this much better. That's one reason why the push to SVG for icons, etc. Try changing the font settings in Gnome, for example. Change your application font, and watch what happens to the size of your icons, etc. It's not perfect, but it's better than on either of the other two major platforms.

  8. Re:Proud to be an American... on Aussie Net Filtering Trial Delayed · · Score: 1

    Interesting. While the Puritans certainly could have been considered 'religious extremists' back in the time they settled here, they were, by far, not the majority.

    Most of the Founding Fathers weren't Puritans -- most weren't even Christian. Like many educated, affluent people, these men were influenced by the Age of Enlightenment, thus, many of them were Deists and Freemasons. Their influence is found in our founding documents -- the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The stuff about all men being created equal, etc., is straight out of Deist thought and philosophy.

  9. Re:Proud to be an American... on Aussie Net Filtering Trial Delayed · · Score: 1

    Transportation to the American colonies just ended earlier then it did in Australia and to a far lesser extent as immigration came from many countries.

    I think you're missing some punctuation in their somewhere .... do you mean:

    Transportation to the American colonies just ended earlier then it did in Australia -- and to a far lesser extent -- as immigration came from many countries.

    IOW, if the 'and to a far lesser extent' is parenthetical rather than essential, then, yes, you're right.

    Early America was settled by the British, but also by the French, Dutch, Spanish, Germans, etc. Most of the early settlers came here to find new opportunities -- make a good living, start a new life, etc.

  10. Re:Constitutional basis for the pork? on Universal Broadband Plan Calls For $44 Billion · · Score: 1

    Article I, Section 8, first paragraph:

    "to ... provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States"

    Definition of Welfare:

    welfare n. 1. health, happiness, or prosperity; well-being.

    The Dwight D. Eisenhower Interstate Highway system seems to fit into Defence and general Welfare. It was a military expenditure -- it's original purpose was to be able to move troops throughout the United States quickly and easily.

    A universal broadband plan seems to fit into 'general Welfare'.

  11. Re:Niggers. on Universal Broadband Plan Calls For $44 Billion · · Score: 1

    OMFG! It's CmdrTaco!

  12. Re:his eyes are fine on Blind Man Navigates Obstacle Maze Unaided · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I did RTFA. And I think the article is a load of BS. The visual areas of the brain will light up because the brain doesn't know the difference between what you see with your eyes and what you see with your imagination and memories. IMHO, sight doesn't happen as much in the eyes as it does in the brain.

  13. Re:his eyes are fine on Blind Man Navigates Obstacle Maze Unaided · · Score: 0

    I did RTFA. Again, as I said in an above post, I think the article is BS and the guy didn't see anything at all.

  14. Re:Its not that hard on Blind Man Navigates Obstacle Maze Unaided · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't doubt it all. Lots of people can. The brain automatically enlists your other senses when one of them isn't working. That's why I think the article is a just a load of BS. I don't think the man saw anything. I think his brain was just able to use his other senses to accomplish the same goal.

  15. Re:his eyes are fine on Blind Man Navigates Obstacle Maze Unaided · · Score: 0

    No, he's not. Without a working visual cortex, nothing from the eyes enters the brain. At all. Most likely, he is using sound or air pressure. Blind people can often maneuver by hearing things like subtle changes in sound of footprints, etc., echoing off of or being aborbed by walls, etc. There are also subtle changes in air pressure as you approach obstacles, and that can often be 'felt' by blind people. The blind usually develop their other senses to a greater extent than sighted people as a means of compensating for the fact that they can't see. It just happens naturally.

  16. Re:Looks like anchor drag to me. on Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again · · Score: 1

    Damn. I wish the Mozilla Foundation would quit trying to make God.

  17. Re:flicker crashes on New York City Street Lights To Go LED · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They can choose any frequency they want for the tail lights, so for the parking lights, which are normally used at night, they choose something around 60-70Hz. It is like they are trying to be annoying.

    I dunno. Lots of people claim they can see the 'flicker' on a CRT with a 70 hz vertical refresh rate. If I turn my head wayyyyyy to the left or right, putting the monitor in my peripheral vision, I might be able to see the flicker on a 60 hz, but never at 70 hz or higher.

    Then again, there's also a bunch of crazy people that say they can hear LCD flat panel displays making a buzzing noise. I can't hear that either.

  18. Re:How on New York City Street Lights To Go LED · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's it to you, pal?

  19. Re:Tough choice on Baby To Be Born Without the Gene For Breast Cancer · · Score: 1

    And that IS screwing with nature.

    Look, if we all screened all of our embryos to hold up to our popular standards of beauty, for example (blonde hair, blue eyes, thin), what will we be doing to our own genetic diversity? And what happens when a species begins lacking genetic diversity? You got it -- extinction.

  20. Re:Tough choice on Baby To Be Born Without the Gene For Breast Cancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've already adopted a 25/yr w/her own apartment and a steady job. It's not all it's cracked up to be. Trust me.

  21. Re:But what % of battery use does it represent? on Student Invention May Significantly Extend Mobile Device Battery Life · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or use a Web browser. Phones typically communicate with the Internet through the cellphone network over the two-way radio. This might improve WiFi phones, too, as WiFi also (obviously) employs a (much lower-power) two-way radio.

  22. Re:Huh? on Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please state the nature of the medical emergency.

  23. Re:ScuttleMonkey doesn't even read TFS on Hacked Business Owner Stuck With $52k Phone Bill · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ScuttleMonkey probably just hasn't figured out that, as far as the telcos are concerned, everything on the INSIDE of the drop is the customer's problem, everything on the OUTSIDE of the drop is the phone company's problem, unless the customer has specifically hired the phone company to handle the customer premises equipment. And more and more phone companies aren't doing that anymore.

  24. Re:Dear Ben (Rothke) on Trick or Treatment · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the GP, but I try to boldly split infinitives at least once in every sentence if there is any way to slyly make it work.

    Well, I try to never split infinitives! I am trying to sickeningly tell people to immediately cease their constant splitting of infinitives, but people are too stupid to not split their infinitives!

  25. Re:Good luck with that on RIAA To Stop Prosecuting Individual File Sharers · · Score: 1

    Well, if they do that, hire a lawyer. Sue them into last Sunday. You'd have a valid breach of contract case, if you ask me.