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  1. Fixed it for you on Windows Patch Leaves Many XP Users With Blue Screens · · Score: 1

    5) Copy ALL important files to the USB drive (probably safest to copy your entire user directory, if your USB drive is big enough.

    Copy ALL important files to the USB drive (probably safest to copy your entire user directory, that command is)
    cd /C //moves to the c directory
    rm * //retrieves the media in the current directory

  2. Re:So Iran's standards then? on Appeals Court Rules On Internet Obscenity Standards · · Score: 1

    Amish communities are able to access it some choose not to, some Amish sects allow the use of cellphones which could easily have internet access as well.

  3. Re:Without a doubt on Appeals Court Rules On Internet Obscenity Standards · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The internet should not change a thing it is simply a means of commerce similar to a phone, the reason the feds are involved is because it is interstate commerce. Using this as precedence all interstate goods can be regulated in this manor, that is the scary thing if Microsoft decides to buy a town (many mining companies own the town) they could outlaw Apple, Google, Linux, and who ever or what ever they see fit.

  4. Re:So Iran's standards then? on Appeals Court Rules On Internet Obscenity Standards · · Score: 1

    According to the dim wit appellate court no more out of state beer or porn. Luckily there are beer, whiskey, wine, and cheap vodka manufactures in my state which can't be regulated by the feds, I guess I'll have to get into indy porn for that fix. I'll raise my glass to the gun nuts who have protected intrastate commerce I may not be able to enjoy my vices as much but thank God I'll still be able to enjoy them.

  5. Re:Laziness on Google To Challenge Facebook Again · · Score: 1

    Google will fail to get a foothold for one reason laziness

    On the contrary, that's precisely the reason they stand a chance. All the people who already use GMail can start reading what their friends are up to at the same time as checking their e-mail.

    So after checking email clicking on the facebook shortcut is too much work? As opposed to moving over all your photos and having to re-friend everyone. Moving over photos could be automated but not refriending (friend John Smith). Even if Google would find all the John Smiths do I really want to wade through all of them on the chance he has moved over.

  6. Laziness on Google To Challenge Facebook Again · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google will fail to get a foothold for one reason laziness, the masses will not want to change over their account to something else. There is little innovation to be had in social media and the little tweaks that facebook does not copy from google will not be enough for people to deal with the hassle of changing.

  7. premature discharge on New Material Transforms Car Bodies Into Batteries · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem I can't even fathom how to solve is the premature discharge problem, imagine the insulator being worn by vibration between the two panels or an accident. To make it safe the panels would need to be divided into cells that have 1 V max, how the hell do you divide up a solid panel into so many small pieces cheaply.

  8. Re:Biased Reports? on Studies Find Harm From Cellular and Wi-Fi Signals · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yeah right, the Big Money Hippies will be exposed for influencing the studies done by the poor little oil and energy conglomerates.

    The fact that you think global warming is a fraud is a good case study in how money can buy science, and can especially buy people's perceptions of science.

    Al Gore was worth 2 million before he started warning people about manbearpig now he's worth 100million because he sells manbearpig repellent.

  9. Re:Is it only me on Huge Phishing Attack On Emissions Trade In Europe · · Score: 1

    Only the companies that want to taut their CO2 levels would decide to put them on there.

  10. Re:Are most programmes multi-processor? on Intel Details Upcoming Gulftown Six-Core Processor · · Score: 1

    Yes&No, it requires a higher level of skill and understanding to program in parallel. It is even harder to use them efficiently, IO conflicts for instance will make any multi-threaded program run much slower. The most glaring example, Microsoft has yet to solve, simply try to copy two large files separately on a multi-core and then copy the same files together the files copied in series will take much less time because the seeks have been reduced. Some programs will see no benefit Hello World for example.

  11. Re:Is it only me on Huge Phishing Attack On Emissions Trade In Europe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just as a matter of interest, why do you hate market solutions so much? Are you some kind of socialist?

    Remind me how exactly a commodity, emissions in this case, will be limited by the government and sold by the government to the people or given out by the government to chosen companies (see pay to play schemes) who can then trade them is a market solution. A real market solution would be companies who want to tout their C02 standards can advertise that they are good for nature and people could buy that product and will be able to look down on other people who choose not too, note the second way does not mention government in it which would make it a market solution.

  12. Re:No different than any other sequestering on Courts Move To Ban Juror Use of Net, Social Sites · · Score: 2, Informative

    This seems to be about recommending that ALL jurors refrain from accessing these social networks, etc. But I can't see how it's practical outside of the courtroom or deliberation. They can "instruct" the jurors all they want not to go online for the length of the trial, but that's not going to stop too many people...

    All that the committee is saying is that jurors can't use electronic media in the court house and can not use electronic media to research or discuss the case outside the courtroom.

  13. Re:Living with Mom on DIY Texting System For Really Underground Radio · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why risk your pasty white skin getting outdoors to text?

    What nerd doesn't have wifi and a wifi enabled phone.

  14. Re:Damn SOCIALISM on Reported Obama Plan Would Privatize Manned Launches · · Score: 0

    Before everyone starts deciding how this is going to effect NASA remember who said it, has he kept any of his promises. Here are a few, Guantanamo being closed by 2010, the US out of Iraq in 16 months, Afghanistan will be the focus, cut the deficit in half by increasing spending, no earmarks in the stimulus bill, not hiring lobbyist, bring war crime charges against Bush administration, stop the development of nuclear weapons, end missile defense, unemployment would not rise above 8% if stimulus is passed, conduct wire tapping investigation, so the fact that he promised to bring his change to NASA is probably a good indication that it will not happen.

  15. Re:Afro-American Racism Against Whites and Asians on Reported Obama Plan Would Privatize Manned Launches · · Score: 1

    And 95% of McCain voters voted for McCain due solely to the color of his neck.

    Liver spotted? Why would anyone vote for that.

  16. Re:Depends on specialization and responsibilities on Is Programming a Lucrative Profession? · · Score: 1

    Looks like we have a whiny MBA on our hands.

  17. Re:To summarize... on China Will Lead World Scientific Research By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Here are just a few examples of things the USSR gained from spying.
    -USSR started using the US method of uranium isotope separation namely gaseous diffusion after they learned of the US success with this method.
    -The use of plutonium as a fission weapon was also gained from spying. -They received the blueprints for the original Bomb there is no telling how many setbacks that eliminated. I'm not saying Russia wouldn't have gotten the bomb but they were more then 5 years behind the US and once the US started tightening up their controls there advancements started retarding.

  18. Re:Depends on specialization and responsibilities on Is Programming a Lucrative Profession? · · Score: 1

    No matter what technological breakthroughs there are lower level programming takes a larger understanding of what is going on. Here is a check list to determine if you're a MBA programmer or a CS programmer. If you answered yes to the majority of them you are a CS programmer capable of handling most programming tasks if not stop calling your self a CS programmer you need more knowledge to earn the title.

    _Do you ever have to write or interact with assembly
    _Do you spend more of your time making the gui look nice or the code running efficiently
    _Do you have more then 3 c/c++ compilers on your computer
    _Do you know what the RFC pages are
    _Have you installed more then 1 Linux distro on you home computer
    _Do any of the builds of code you work on take more then 5 minutes to do a complete recompile
    _Have you programed interrupt handlers
    _Have you forgotten more languages then you can remember

  19. Re:Not if you have a magic time machine... on Is Programming a Lucrative Profession? · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I had a magic time machine and went back to 1999 the only thing I would be doing is selling short.

  20. Re:To summarize... on China Will Lead World Scientific Research By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Really? What else did nice US propaganda workers tell you?

    Holy fuck, of all things, USSR had one of the best nuclear research programs in the world.

    So you never heard of the atom spies have you, countless amounts of technical and theoretical information was stolen by your comrades which undoubtedly lead to breakthroughs. If you look at Pakistan and N Korea neither of them posses the technical know how to build a bomb but through spying they were able to build one. The USSR may have had nice facilities but they still gained a lot from spying.

  21. Re:To summarize... on China Will Lead World Scientific Research By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Don't know how China will become a leader if their research model is espionage. The USSR propped up its research by doing the same thing (see nuclear weapons) and ultimately lost when better counter measures were taken to stop them.

  22. Re:The real annoyance.. on Researchers Claim "Effectively Perfect" Spam Blocking Discovery · · Score: 1

    There is all ready a fix for spam RFC 3514.

  23. What about changing the templates on Researchers Claim "Effectively Perfect" Spam Blocking Discovery · · Score: 1

    So what happens when botnets start adjusting the templates?

  24. Re:Failure of thought on SourceForge Clarifies Denial of Site Access · · Score: 1

    What exactly is the point of ideals if you don't stand up for them?

    So you refuse to pay taxes because part of that money goes to things you don't agree with or have you moved to a different country where your and their ideals align completely?

    It's nice to have ideals but an all or nothing attitude won't get you very far.

  25. Re:They did a similar experiment on Slime Mold Could Lead To Better Tech · · Score: 1

    Lay of the peyote you're in Las Vegas at NY NY.