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  1. Re:How long before... on KDE Goes Cross-Platform, Supports Windows and OS X · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Nothing to see here on SpaceShipTwo Design and Pics Released · · Score: 1
    If you disagree with this statement, go ahead -- explain why you feel that a vehicle with this low delta-V, horrible ISP, and proportionally high mass that faces bare minimal reentry heating -- advances the state of the art.

    So a private citizen designs, builds and tests his own SPACECRAFT, and all you have to say is it isn't technologically advanced enough for you. I suppose the one in your garage is ultra L33T, right.

    Made by private citizens to be used by private citizens, I don't remember there even being a state of the art to be advanced. So using that metric I'd say he advanced it to START.

  3. Re:Puzzled ... on Understanding Art for Geeks · · Score: 1
    But it doesn't seem at all clever; it's just baffling. And there's nothing resembling an explanation or other clue that I can find. What am I so non-geeky as to be missing here?

    Notice that the painting is damaged in those areas. Then note how incredibly dense you were not to notice this before commenting and then laugh uproariously like we all did at your post.

  4. Nintendo get moving on Wiimote Turns TV into Touchless MS Surface · · Score: 1

    A piece of $4.99 hardware and Jonny Lee Chung's Hack creates the #1 best selling Metroid of all time.

  5. Video Link on Robotic Fly to Descend on New York · · Score: 1
    Here is an unslahdotted video link.

  6. Best article on the whole nasty affair on Gamespot's Editorial Problems in Perspective · · Score: 1
    If you are a gamer "READ THIS ARTICLE."

    Lameness filter encountered.Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

  7. Just in time on Maryland Scraps Diebold Voting System · · Score: 1
    2010? Just in time for the all important Senate and House races.

    I'm sure there will be no problems in the next presidential election.

  8. Re:NBC lost a lot of revenue leaving iTunes on NBC's Zucker Hints At Return to iTunes · · Score: 1
    You could use NBC/Universal's partnership site Hulu Join the Beta.

    Or you could use this site OpenHulu

    OpenHulu uses the embedding capability of Hulu for the poor souls not in the beta. You get a few ads but as opposed to nothing it's not too bad. Legally watch Simpsons, Family Guy, Heroes, Battlestar Gallactica, Bionic Woman and more.

    If you configure it right, it even works in Linux. (I have to use Mozilla IceApe)

  9. Re:Oh, spare me. on EPA Asserts Executive Privilege In CA Emissions Case · · Score: 1
    Oh, I didn't say I'd vote for them, just that they were telling the truth.

    Hillary gets my vote, Just because Bill deserves to be the First Man. Hope she takes Obama as veep.

  10. Re:{sigh} on Copyright Lobbies Threaten Federal College Funding · · Score: 2, Insightful
    No it's enough to make you wish you had enough money to buy your own politicians, so you could write the laws you wanted.

    Umm, we don't have to buy them, we already pay for them. We just have to act like it. Money does not keep them in office we do.

    A group of voters from their district in any significant number scares the sh!t out of most Congressmen. Especially when they have petitions, signs and a few soccer moms.

  11. What I learned from AA on Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do not shoot the CO.

  12. Re:Obama? on EPA Asserts Executive Privilege In CA Emissions Case · · Score: 4, Funny
    Do you have any pointers to scandals that can change my view?

    Stephen Colbert says he once fathered a Black Child, does that count?

    http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/74281/

  13. Re:Oh, spare me. on EPA Asserts Executive Privilege In CA Emissions Case · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Just out of curiosity, who is that guy? I'd really like to know, so I can vote for him

    Dennis Kucinich, if you are a Dem and Ron Paul if you are a Republican (poor soul).

    Consequently, their tendency to tell the truth has all but eliminated either from serious consideration or even inclusion in later debates.

  14. I'll bid on Texas Creationist Museum Facing Extinction · · Score: 1
    $3.00 in dimes.

  15. I predict on Pentagon Working on "Human Fear" Weapons · · Score: 1
    The scent detectors being used to measure the effectiveness of propaganda.

    These systems could unobtrusively monitor individuals within military operational environments or crowded civilian settings by relying on passive detection. It's like the Neilsens for Fox News.

  16. I... on Microsoft Releases Specs for Binary Formats · · Score: 1

    I do not know how to feel just now.

  17. Re:Blender on Open Source On the Big Screen · · Score: 1
    The UI isn't broken its productive.

    The thing about Blender is that the UI is the keyboard. If you expect it to act like 3DStudio or Maya then you will forever be banging your head.

    Throw away everything you know about what to click and follow the new Summer of Documentation tutorial they teach you all the keyboard shortcuts so they become intuitive in no time.

  18. Re:Parents aren't early adopters on HD DVD Prices Slashed By Toshiba · · Score: 1

    I think your tone is highly critical and your list lacks structure.

  19. Re:What is Jazz on IBM Jazz Edges Closer To Open Source · · Score: 1
    Actually, I agree that TFA was uninformative.

    I was lamenting the laziness of people not finding out more information. Instead kvetching about it. Takes several more clicks than a search.

    Welcome Home Friend.

  20. It is good to know on US Policy Would Allow Government Access to Any Email · · Score: 1
    We've put the level headed in charge of our nations security.

    I for one welcome our new waterboarding, private contracting, email snooping, search analyzing, P2P sniffing overlords.

    /sarcasm

  21. What is Jazz on IBM Jazz Edges Closer To Open Source · · Score: 4, Informative
    Everyone is asking what it is. When did we get so lazy?

    What is Jazz?

    Developing software in a team is much like playing an instrument in a band. Both require a balance of collaboration and virtuosity. Jazz defines a vision for the way products can integrate to support this kind of collaborative work, and a technology platform to deliver on this vision.

    Jazz is an IBM Rational project to build a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for integrating work across the phases of the development lifecycle. We believe Jazz will help teams build software more effectively while making the software development activity more productive and enjoyable.

    Jazz is a technology platform, not a product. Product offerings that are built on the Jazz platform will be able to leverage a rich set of capabilities for team-based software development and delivery. Rational Team Concert Express will be the first of a planned family of Rational Team Concert offerings built on Jazz technology.

    http://jazz.net/pub/index.jsp

    Most of us haven't heard of it because it has been in a closed private pilot program, now open to all of us.

  22. A Little late to the game, But wanna play too. on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1
    My Platform. Join every other civilized nation on the planet:
    Institute Health Care for all
    Institute College for every American regardless of finances.

    End the War in Iraq.

    Remove tax free status of religious institutions.
    Repeal federal Drug bans and pardon non-violent offenders

    Mandate vacation time ala France

    Kill no child left behind and Reinstate Head Start

    Seperate DHS in appropriate organizations

    Make the title "____" Czar illegal

    Change FCC to ensure it actually does it's job

    Thats probably all I could hope to get done before I was silenced.

  23. I can see it now. on Helium Crisis Approaching · · Score: 2, Funny
    2010 The Rationing Begins.

    Borthday Balloons will get smaller every year. Soon you won't be able to get them at your local grocery store.

    I personally blame the Mythbusters. What between the Raft, The several thousand balloons used to lift the kid, and the Lawn chair, they probably reduced our supply by 3 yrs alone.

  24. Selected Vota Quotes on Intel Employee Caught Running OLPC News Site · · Score: 1
    "There is no doubt that if it was just competing on hardware, OLPC wins every time," Vota said. But when ministers of education ask about the service and support solution, OLPC doesn't have an answer, he said. "Intel has an answer. Microsoft has an answer."

    On another front, Vota said that the "Give 1, Get 1" program's distribution is " totally messed up."

    http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0200021S1YOK

    "Interestingly enough, I don't think OLPC has made Intel an enemy," Vota said. "I think it will essentially go back to May of this year, where we had a very strong, open competitive environment. And to some extent, I think having Intel as a competitor will improve OLPC,"

    http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/61061.html

    He consistently uses what my mother used to call backhanded compliments.

  25. Re:Blog = Bias on Intel Employee Caught Running OLPC News Site · · Score: 1
    and Col. Sanders isn't a real Colonel.

    You Sir, have besmirched the Good name of the Colonel. I demand satisfaction.

    I'd be pretty satisfied with a bucket of Chicken. extra, I say Extra Crispy.

    /foghorn leghorn.

    OK, the irony of a rooster defending Col. Sanders is a little too much.