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  1. Re:In a word... on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 1

    we're already doing that, we passed a prop that allowed for high-speed train to be built on our sales tax.

    http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/

  2. switched blackberry on Solving Obama's BlackBerry Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Could you really tell if Obama switched blackberries midstream and started writing emails that weren't documented. we have this rule to preserve checks and balances and the freedom of information acts. if it's written, it must be recorded. somehow you all miss the point, the president chooses advisors, those advisors come to him with information, he makes decisions based on that information. running the united states is a big task, last thing i want his our president wasting his time googling or making youtube videos. i can just see the presidential blog now... there's plenty of other things obama needs to worry about than having a blackberry, for christ sake he's got a personal assistant that follows him around everywhere, that's his own real live flesh blackberry.

  3. hardware design on New Hardware Design Software · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The title makes reference to hardware design, in most of us in the technological world this seems like it might be a new PSpice or the likes. However this is a mechanical engineering software program, not a hardware design program. Agh, I got all excited for a second.

  4. Re:Apple isn't stupid on Apple's Colossal Disappointment? · · Score: 1

    my question to this is, why not have their unix kernel achieve this (such as linux does) and design OS X to be a window manager...problem solved!

  5. Re:Thunderbird version increases from 1.0.2 to 1.0 on Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.6 Released · · Score: 1

    and it's not like the x.x.6 release is a major release either, jumping several points on the third modifier is quite common.

  6. screenshots on yellowTAB's Zeta 1.0 Reviewed · · Score: 3, Informative
  7. Re:Fake Collection Agencies on Wired Strongarms Subscribers? · · Score: 1

    Watch out for gym memberships too, I'm going through a process right now fighting with a collection agency that says I owe some ungodly amount of money.

    Also, if they send you a letter and you don't respond to it within 30 days the debt is valid and they can take you to the legal dept with it.

  8. Re:Uh.. on x86-64 Slackware Clone Released · · Score: 1

    Also Gentoo has an AMD64 release as well...

  9. Re:Not just corporate America... on A Rubric for IT Analysis · · Score: 1

    time to find a job that doesn't have such bad sales people...maybe the programmers shouldn't be dealing with the clients...

  10. Re:Uh, latency? on Wi-Fi Coming on U.S. Domestic Flights · · Score: 1

    JetBlue's satallite service for television works just fine, however I don't know how it does it's satallite homing, however it does use satallite with DirectTV...

    so most likely they will be using that sort of technology with data, which is already being done ... oh, and I think there are regulations the FCC has with air to ground communications where using cell phone towers would be out of the question...

  11. Re:No, it isn't. on Double Your Fun with DoubleSight · · Score: 1

    Unless you are into digital editing, or watching TV on your PC, this dual monitor bit is nothing more than a rich man's folly.

    Dual monitors isn't a "rich man's folly" with most video cards touting dualheads adding on an additional monitor is not an expensive feat at all. These types of monitors however are useless and for the same amount of money you can buy 3-4 regular LCDs and sit them next to eachother. Maybe if they had reduced border size it would have been a better idea. I personally have a 21" CRT and a 15" LCD sitting next to it, having the second monitor makes coding and productivity skyrocket. Also, multipul monitor setups are highly prefered in the stock trading enviornment where they have 2-15 monitors set up for each workstation... Oh, and LCDs are getting fairly cheap...very affordable now, along with dead pixles not really being a problem, it's the response time you pay for nowadays...

  12. Re:Such a sad choice of editor... on Poor Man's Kinesis Keyboard: The K'nexis Keyboard · · Score: 1

    nano is a reimplementation of pico, which is the text editor included with pine (an internat mail client) for the uninitiated (folks who don't know vi or emacs).

    Translated: there is nothing to be proud of in using nano --- learn vi or emacs, or go back to using windows/macs, softie.


    a text editor is a text editor, why make it overly complicated by using vi with it's command mode / edit mode whereas nano has easy key combinations to do exactly what vi does without the overly complicated hassle. I know how to use vi / emacs i just prefer not to...

    everyone has their own pref to editors, however because i use nano doesn't mean i should just ditch linux because i don't use vi... get your priorities straight...

  13. Re:Such a sad choice of editor... on Poor Man's Kinesis Keyboard: The K'nexis Keyboard · · Score: 1

    vi is such a sad choice of editor as well...

    use nano!

  14. Re:Huh? on No Billboards in Space · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware that the US owned space. are you kidding me? so we want to keep ads out of space, so we're going to do something about it, because most likely it's US companies and such that want to launch ad billboards into space, and you have to throw in that why should the US do this, the US doesn't own space, lets just clutter it with whatever because nobody owns it, it's free space. Imagine if everyone could just litter international waters? same concept!

  15. Re:Something is fishy on Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0 · · Score: 1

    Anyway, how can Real-ID be "controversial"? Nobody but slashdot readers and "bloggers" even know it exists.

    Then again, the ideas that are based on this act is the fact that those little kids can't fake ids anymore, and we won't have such a problem with illegal ids and passports. Also, technically all the states have access to your drivers record anyhow, it just takes them a bit longer to get it. Try to apply for auto insurance with an out of state drivers licence, they get your info anyhow... I think it's a good idea, better licenses, less paperwork, better security, it's not really a privacy issue, i mean common, it's all public record anyhow...