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  1. I was wondering... on Encryption Passphrase Protected by the 5th Amendment · · Score: 1

    Just how did the judge come to this conclusion? On the summary side of things, it makes sense, but just what circumstances led to this particular notion?

  2. Re:I think Apple.... on FireWire Spec to Boost Data Speeds to 3.2 Gbps · · Score: 1

    I have to disagree. I have a couple of computers setup to transmit over USB 2.0 thru NetBEUI to each other since I don't have firewire and only have a 10mbit NIC.

    Also, when I worked at Solectron, we did HP image restores directly thru USB 2.0 from multiple servers scattered across the floor. USB has come a long way forwards.

  3. Re:Hmmm... on Can Time Slow Down? · · Score: 1

    My source? I am part of a study on the effects of disturbed REM sleep. I can't very well cite something that hasn't even been fully tested nor published.

  4. Re:How??? on Cloned, Glow in the Dark Cats · · Score: 1

    I've seen hair fluoresce green, purple, yellow, and hundreds of shades of blue. Not once have I ever seen a dye that would fluoresce red, EVER. Not even Manic Panic's "Wildfire Red" does what it claims under an ultraviolet light.

  5. Re:Hmmm... on Can Time Slow Down? · · Score: 1

    DMT is responsible for your dreams, and is constantly produced throughout your life unless you're a dreamless freak. When you enter REM sleep your brain dumps DMT into the system. This has been known for decades, now, as far as I'm aware.

  6. Re:McKesson... on Switching Hospital Systems to Linux · · Score: 1

    No, some asshole decided to give me a gimp cane and won't refund my cash. I don't deal with meth, I just smoke pot. I hate this bullshit. I have enough problems walking as it is with a rebuilt femur.

  7. McKesson... on Switching Hospital Systems to Linux · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yea, right. These are the same people that fired my stepbrother in Memphis for unplugging a refridgerator that he was told to unplug (and in the process destroyed 5 million in medical chemicals) and got fired for doing what he was told to do thanks to ignorant management. I wouldn't trust these fuckers as far as I could throw their 25,000 sq.ft. building that's located at the corner of Shelby Drive and Hickory Hill.

    Hell, even the cane they had "custom made" for me is a fucking joke. It's already broken within two months, and they're refusing to replace it. Makes me want to shove said cane up the supervisor's ass(es) and beat them senseless with my wrist brace.

    If you trust McKesson, you trust idiots and you deserve what the fuck you get. End of story. Buy McKesson and you support DOMESTIC TERRORISTS.

  8. Re:Go Figure on France on PDF Is Now ISO 32000 · · Score: 1

    You never owned those arguments to begin with. In fact, before the Gauls had any major influence, the same reasoning was posited by the Greeks and Romans. ;) Not to say that they were right, because they weren't. They just used a facet of mobthink to appeal to others for their cause.

  9. To help clarify your statement.... on Intel Demos Software Defined WiFi/WiMAX/DVB-H Chip · · Score: 2, Informative

    I refer everyone else to section B of FCC regulations. If you can't Google it, then you don't belong here. :) In short, a device may not cause interference, but it must accept any interference it may receive due to natural or other issues that interfere with/tie into the operation of an EM-based device.

    To put it short, you can receive and listen in to anything you choose to, but to transmit may be a different story. End of simple statement.

  10. Re:Fuck Them on Best Buy Hands Out Cease & Desist Letters for Christmas · · Score: 1

    Too bad 'bomb' means "Fuck You" in Polish. So what happens when a Pole says that to a TSA agent when he illegally asks to search the bags? (TSA = government, airlines = private. government has no right to search anything for a private business to circumvent the 4th amendment)

  11. How??? on Cloned, Glow in the Dark Cats · · Score: 1

    How do you get a red glow from exposing a modified animal to what is essentially blue-wavelength light? They're on totally different ends of the spectrum!

  12. Too bad woot meant.... on 'w00t' Named 2007 Word of the Year · · Score: 1

    ... a type of carbon-steel or the shellac produced from steel working, yea? W00t that one for awhile whilst I make yet another sword.

    You're all amateurs. It wasn't even a geek word to begin with. what's worse is Wikipedia doesn't even have that meaning as far as I can tell. So much for a useful study resource. My metalworking book had more information than Wikipedia did.

  13. WRONG.... on 'w00t' Named 2007 Word of the Year · · Score: 1

    Metalworkers have been using WOOT for CENTURIES, as it's referring to a type of metal conglomeration that is formed during a forging process, specifically in the making of Damascus steel (and woot is sometimes referred to the carbon-laden base metal as well, despite what WIKIPEDIA's idiots think.) You fools took it from us, thinking it was a cheer, when in reality when we said "woot!" it was us being burned by the by-products of forging metals for your scientific programs. WOOT = WOO + SHIT, that was close!

    The more you know, the more you grow. Get thine head out of electronics and study other fields that have had an impact on your life, like metalworking.

    Yes, I'm trolling. I'm sick of this bullshit "internet slang" using words that were already defined and made CENTURIES AGO.

  14. Re:No turns on red in the UK on UPS Using Software To Eliminate Left Turns · · Score: 1

    "Which means that the turn which requires you to wait for a gap in traffic in two directions rather than just one is the right turn, not the left turn."

    Guess what, no matter which side you drive on, the SAME FUCKING PROBLEM OCCURS BUT VICE-VERSA!

    This post being modded informative when the "This ain't the UK!" joke has been played out for so long it's no longer funny is just fucking stupid.

    Mods need more of a brain. Seriously, the GP was joking. If you can't detect that sarcasm in a supposed text-only no-feeling post, then you need to go back to school.

  15. Re:Hmmm... on Can Time Slow Down? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Now if you don't think the good neuro-transmitters kicked in give them a dose of DMT before they go.

    DMT is responsible for dream states, so DMT altering a potential memory isn't that far-fetched. Now, tell me this, how do you explain the lack of real time compensation when there are people out thre that in a huge brawl just weave their way thru EVERYONE and still kick the shit out of their target? (Witnessed this at a club in Memphis, guy goes nuts, crowd goes nuts and flees, guy going nuts just slips effortlessly thru the mob-mentality crowd without being knocked over and smashes a Hennessey bottle right into the offending party's head after wading thru about a thousand people, drunk as fuck, without being knocked over? Actually, better example. I've done Muay Thai for several years, and one year was professional (that was a big mistake, in retrospect,) and I'm not joking, when you get in the ring, it's either you see the move in slow motion and react, or you just don't see it at all and your ass is flat on the mat with a countdown ringing above your head. Seriously - read a book named "Nanotime" and ponder that book upon completion. You'll see the lines and connections drawn match up pretty well with the "Life flashes before my eyes" people.

  16. Re:Don't estimate. Litigate! on Best Buy Hands Out Cease & Desist Letters for Christmas · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if the fear of bored/idle lawyers is the source of half the litigation in the US.

    A bored or idle lawyer I could deal with. They're not doing anything, and are rather easy to kill. Busy lawyers, on the other hand, always have public exposure, so killing them and getting away with it becomes a more difficult task.

  17. So that means... on The 305 RAMAC — First Commercial Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Linux is not likely to operate on that hardware due to incompatibility between our 8 bit characters and the 7 bit characters. Wow, have we finally found something that cannot support Linux?

  18. You're gonna mention a RARE composer and... on Twelve Game Music Tracks Worth Keeping · · Score: 1

    not even mention Battletoads?!?!?!?!!?

  19. Re:I wanna see Hubble... on Final Repair Mission To Extend Hubble's Life · · Score: 1

    Radio telescopes are nice, but I'd like to see it in the visible spectrum. You guys have fun with all that data, I just want to SEE.

  20. Re:Go Figure on France on PDF Is Now ISO 32000 · · Score: 1

    "Where on Earth do you find your Frenchmen?"

    In France, over IRC networks. You know what those are, oui?

  21. Go Figure on France on PDF Is Now ISO 32000 · · Score: 2, Informative

    But then again, I know many French people, and they're opposed to proprietary software becoming an ISO standard, especially with patent and copyright as it stands now here in the US.

  22. I wanna see Hubble... on Final Repair Mission To Extend Hubble's Life · · Score: 1

    ...get placed in orbit around the moon. I wonder if it would result in better imaging capability or not.

  23. Re:If you don't like their business model.... on LimeWire Antitrust Claims Against RIAA Dismissed · · Score: 1

    As if most of the whole world wasn't, already?

  24. If you don't like their business model.... on LimeWire Antitrust Claims Against RIAA Dismissed · · Score: 1

    Then take the source code for LimeWire (since they do offer it,) change a couple flags, and then you have the PRO LimeWire for free. No need to pay them anything. I don't understand that particular little loophole of theirs, but hey, It certainly kills the nag screen and does make my downloads a bit speedier, so I won't complain.

  25. Re:Can you feel it? on NJ Blogger Fights for Anonymous Free Speech · · Score: 1

    What freedoms are lost? I've scoured the Constitution and Right to Anonymity is not listed there.

    Read the Constitution and Bill of rights again. Fourth Amendment - the right to be SECURE in *PERSON*, PROPERTY, and PAPERS.