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  1. In the Seattle PI and Times on Where To Find Opus On Sunday · · Score: 1

    I just read them in glorious Islamic Extremist girlfriend of Steve Dallas color at brunch.

    Nice head coverings.

    Want fascism? Move to America or Saudi Arabia - free of charge.

  2. Their latest MSFT fix to WinXP on MS Responds To Vista's Network / Audio Problems · · Score: 1

    bogged down my system even more.

    No, I don't want WinVista.

    And stop resetting my defaults and adding autoload cruft with every update - you wonder why we hate you?

    At this rate I'm getting a Mac (if not Linux) for my next computer.

  3. I decorate my room with the US greenbacks on Users Trash Wal-Mart On Its Facebook Site · · Score: 1

    that Walmart isn't getting from me to send to Red China.

    Which part of p0wned don't they get?

  4. Re:Boiling frog or why not to trust cash on New York Taxi Drivers To Strike Over GPS · · Score: 1

    You should read slashdot more.

    Apparently the NSA was all concerned about the RFID chips in Canadian twonies just a while back.

    Of course, it was all a farce, but trusting that a commercial enterprise won't use private information for nefarious purposes is like believing you can drive while stoned.

  5. Re:Boiling frog or why not to trust cash on New York Taxi Drivers To Strike Over GPS · · Score: 1

    Not if your dollar coin contains an RFID chip.

  6. Re:This is how sabotage started on New York Taxi Drivers To Strike Over GPS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No. Breaks are short for smoke breaks.

    Originally, back when you were a child (or before), most people smoked. We took smoke breaks. Well, except for me (that is, I didn't smoke).

    Then, as we moved away from smoking, we changed it to coffee breaks, starting first in industries where many women worked.

    But that's an interesting way of looking at it.

  7. This is how sabotage started on New York Taxi Drivers To Strike Over GPS · · Score: 1, Interesting

    When the industrial workers stuck their wooden shoes, or sabots, into the machinery that forced them to work without breaks.

    Privacy is our birthright, no matter how many lies they give otherwise.

  8. Information just wants to be Free on iPhone Freed From AT&T, Twice · · Score: 1

    And I for one say "Take these shackles off my iPhone!"

    Let Freedom Ring!

    Ring. Ring. Ring.

    Yes?

    Um, sure, the pizza will be there in 20 minutes.

  9. Re:And, as a nerd just why do I need 50..... on FCC Head Supports Ala Carte Cable · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, but that's extra.

    You could just watch them Showtime at 9 pm on Thursday like the rest of us ...

  10. Re:And, as a nerd just why do I need 50..... on FCC Head Supports Ala Carte Cable · · Score: 1

    I only wanted ONE channel: The anime channel ^_^

    You can't get that in Seattle with Comcast. You can only get 120 sports channels.

  11. A La Carte is french for More CEO Money on FCC Head Supports Ala Carte Cable · · Score: 1

    When you get your Red Bushie Dictionary out, you will find that the translation for "A La Carte" is "Excuse To Raise Rates On Consumers While Providing Less Service".

    It's in there before "Above The Law".

  12. I recall writing about this idea in the 70s on MS Seeks Patent On Virtual Fuzzy Dice · · Score: 1

    I claim prior art - all of MSFT's profits are belong to me.

  13. Re:Oh, real tough getting (copyright/trademark) on Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies · · Score: 1

    Given that Oz is ounce and the word Oz has been in common use as a synonym for a foreign country (Australia) since I was a small child, I seriously doubt any trademark would stand up in court.

    Even if I did trademark All Of The Above (tm) once.

  14. Re:Oh, real tough getting (copyright/trademark) on Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies · · Score: 2, Funny

    Given that the title includes the word Oz, that is unlikely to be much of a barrier.

    They could always call it 0Z (chr(13)) instead and it would ... look like Oz, but would be more like the original typeface that more resembled a zero plus Z.

  15. Meanwhile Canada does it all with paper on Secrecy of Voting Machines Ballots At Risk · · Score: 1

    and pencil.

    It works, they have a higher accuracy rate than we do, and they register ALL of their citizens to vote while we barely get 30 percent to vote.

    Hmmm.

    I'm thinking maybe this whole electronic voting thing is maybe the wrong choice - how about you?

  16. If we're talking the original Oz books on Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies · · Score: 1

    I'm saying Woo Hoo!

    Jack, we need you, Pumpkin Head!

  17. Re:It is NOT that they were trying to hide it on Nuclear Info Kept From Congress and the Public · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How do you think we get the nuclear fissile material in the first place?

    We mine it.

    To mine it we release toxic chemicals into the environment, heavy metals that poison rivers, cause early deaths for mine workers, and release radon gas.

    You need to look at nuclear from a total life perspective - from source (mining) to use (fission) to eventual neutrality (a few tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years).

    In my state alone, many hundreds of people have died from this "cycle".

    Stop trying to gin the numbers by restricting it to the input into the reactor to output from the reactor - this is a fraction of the total bykill.

    Now, don't get me started on coal. And, in case you wondered, I've owned Peabody shares (IPO) so I am aware of the risk factors of that. People always underestimate the lethality of energy generation - I worked in power generation when I started my career, so I am keenly aware of who dies and from what. I have lived in mining towns. People have a way of hiding the truth from themselves about the impacts of their favority power source, to justify it in their minds. No matter WHAT it is.

  18. It is NOT that they were trying to hide it on Nuclear Info Kept From Congress and the Public · · Score: 1

    It's that they thought you were gullible enough to believe their lies about how safe nuclear fission energy sources are.

  19. Adversely affect? on Super Pathway Discovered In Southern Ocean · · Score: 1

    My plans to colonize Antartica are going great?

    Mind you, all you people in the former temperate zone are going to learn why the Aboriginal Caucasoid population of Australia has brown skin now ...

  20. Re:Passive house - what about windows on Woz Details His Plans for Energy-Efficient House · · Score: 1

    If you read my post, I said homes built to the code that Seattle adopted in the 1990s.

    Obviously this would not include housing stock from WW II or before.

    But you should note that the population of Seattle has literally increased more than 50 percent since 1990. And that's a lot of new housing with triple pane windows.

  21. Then stop using flash, moving images, and sound on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users? · · Score: 1

    That's why you get adblocked!

    If I wanted my browser to burn up my limited bandwidth with movies, I'd click on your static ad.

    Comprende?

  22. I globally adblock the adservers on How Much Are Ad Servers Slowing the Web? · · Score: 1

    if they use moving images, sound, or flash animation.

    I'm sorry, if you can't serve up a static image, or use a small ad, you're going BYE!

  23. These are a few of my favorite things on Class Action Initiated Against RIAA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "sues for negligence, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, federal and state RICO, abuse of process, malicious prosecution, intentional infliction of emotional distress, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trespass, invasion of privacy, libel and slander, deceptive business practices, misuse of copyright law, and civil conspiracy."

    Every time they sue a student who had someone jack his wireless connection in the dorms - I'll be there.

    Every time they sue a university for students downloading songs they properly were researching for a thesis paper - I'll be there.

    Every time they pretend to be agents of the FBI to get in your door without a warrant - I'll be there.

    Every time they act as if 90 percent of the wireless access points on my street can't be used by everyone at the two coffee shops and three bars at the end of my street - I'll be there.

    Because, let's face it, RIAA is just a plot by the middlemen who are upset that most consumers now buy their music DIRECT from the musicians and cut them out of the loop - so that the band gets $5 of the $10 that I pay them for their CD instead of $0.01 of the $12 that they would get if I bought the CD at anything other than any independent music store (the latter give them about $1 to $2).

  24. Re:THIS is WRONG - it is WORSE (clarity) on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 1

    Again, my first sentence was to ask that people read the original source scientific articles.

    And I used bold to say that.

    Perhaps you are sensing that I'm not happy that so many believe the distortions of the truth and believe that instead? As evidenced by the preponderence of "anti-bacterial" soaps?

  25. Re:How to breed tough germs on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 1

    Your question was "if I am in a hospital".

    If you are not in a hospital don't use antibiotic soaps unless you have just cut your hands or have been doing farm work or yard work where you were exposed to feces or intestines. If you were gutting a fish or pulling the entrails out of a bird, feel free to use an anti-biotic soap if you must.

    But if you're not actually bleeding at the time, you would be better off just using hot water and soap and scrubbing thoroughly - just like you see doctors do on TV.