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  1. Re:Why military on The Truth About New Jet Pack Hype · · Score: 1

    Because the military is where the money is to move technologies like this along.

  2. Re:AT&T numbers are likely for iphone specific on Math on iPhones Just Doesn't Add Up? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure Apple knows exactly how many iPhones have been activated on the AT&T network. Mainly because you have to do it through iTunes.

  3. Why still no DVR on AppleTV? on Netflix and iTunes Rentals Aiming At Different Crowds · · Score: 1

    WHat I can't understand is why Apple still doesn't put any DVR in AppleTV. I have two Tivos with a total a 3 tuners. I can download movies and TV shows from Amazon and should I desire have both Music Videos and Rhapsody music service streamed into them. I can also watch audio and select video Podcasts. That said I would have bought an AppleTV at the new price point if they had just added the ability to record TV. I just don't get it.

  4. Re:Cash Cow Concerns on Congress To Investigate FCC · · Score: 1

    /. can just barely police itself. What hope does anarchy have on any larger scale or with something that really matters.

    But, if we ever vote in anarchy how do we vote it out?

  5. Re:I don't even know what that means. on New Chip For Square Kilometer Radio Telescope · · Score: 1

    Yes. If you had asked,"Will my taxes go up if this isn't built?" The answer would also be, yes.

  6. Further proof Wired SUCKS at news. on Boeing 787 May Be Vulnerable to Hacker Attack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The FAA document in question is basically saying that there needs to be some previously unneeded standards for certification for the 787 just to make sure that the electronics can't be used to do what the Wired artcle and the headline of this thread threatens.

  7. Re:Spluh on Antitrust Suit Filed To Halt Apple 'Music Monopoly' · · Score: 1

    I can't play my VHS tapes on my DVD player. Damn those bastards.

  8. Re:"behavior-detection officers" on Airport Profilers Learn to Read Facial Expressions · · Score: 1

    Just being WASP like isn't even a defense against the idiots that make up the front line of the TSA.

  9. Oh Crap on Sperm Could Power Nanobots · · Score: 1

    I, for one, do NOT welcome our new sperm powered overlords.

  10. Re:Obligatory on Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter · · Score: 1

    Let's just close down all the prisons then.

  11. Re:Obligatory on Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter · · Score: 0

    They don't have to prove that they wanted the aircraft to crash. They did knowingly did soemthing that not on endangered the crew of the helicopter but the lives and property of anyone that happen to be under them. I think 20 years sounds about right.

  12. Re:In one acronym: EIRP on Does Active SETI Put Earth in Danger? · · Score: 1

    How long is it now that we have been shooting our radio and TV signals to orbit for rebroadcast? You thing the satellites catch all the signal?

  13. Re:Sad, but predictable on House Bill Won't Criminalize Free Wi-Fi Operators · · Score: 1

    Well most Presidents have at least made sure that their home states at least got their fair share. Clinton didn't. Well at least we did get the ugliest Presidential Library in history.

  14. Re:Sad, but predictable on House Bill Won't Criminalize Free Wi-Fi Operators · · Score: 1

    "And she'll scrape you off her shoes when she has no further use for you. "

    It runs in the family. Here in Arkansas everyone was tickled to death, well almost everyone, when Bill got himself elected President. It was all, "Think what he will do for the state." After a couple of years everyone, even his biggest supporters, knew the answer. Not a damn thing.

  15. Easy out... on How To Beat Congress's Ban Of Humans On Mars · · Score: 1

    Just spend the money to figure out how to get to Jupiter and then stop short.

  16. What if... on On the Moral Consequences of Gaming · · Score: 3, Funny

    "...what if everyone on your Friends List were notified each time you killed a Little Sister--or every time you rescued one--like the Status Updates on Facebook? "

    There would be a surge in Little Sister kills.

  17. Where does it say the US is doing it. on Government-Sponsored Cyberattacks on the Rise · · Score: 1

    The summary and TFA both claim that the US is carrying out attacks but I can't find any cite for that in TFA. Not that I don't think the US would do this against an enemy or in retaliation but I kind of doubt that it is going to be discussed in a report that the FBI was involved in producing.

  18. Re:Nah on China's First Lunar Satellite Sends Back Pictures · · Score: 1

    "We Never Went To The Moon" Currently owned by Desert Publications in El Dorado Arkansas. Currently out of print but they may have a copy or two laying around.

  19. Re:I've read about this before. on Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic · · Score: 1

    You do realize that Constitutional protections have been suspended in the past, right? And after the threat they were returned.

  20. Re:I've read about this before. on Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic · · Score: 0, Troll

    Some people also don't believe that the Constitution is a suicide pact.

  21. Re:The question we're all thinking. on Babelfish Sparks Minor Diplomatic Row · · Score: 1

    What bothers me is that if they had a lick of sense they would realize that the foreign ministry of any country, especially a European country, is going to have someone there more than capable to do the translation. They were alo probably wrong assuming that the person who was the intended recipient could have read English him/herself. -- Welke lasten me dat ben als zij een lik van betekenis zij hadden zou realiseren dat het buitenlandse ministerie van om het even welk land, vooral een Europees land, iemand gaat daar hebben meer dan geschikt om de vertaling te doen. Zij waren waarschijnlijk verkeerde alo veronderstellend dat de persoon die de voorgenomen ontvanger was het Engels hem/zelf kon gelezen hebben.

  22. From the Facebook TOS on The New Facebook Ads - Another Privacy Debacle? · · Score: 1

    By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.

  23. Re:Never saw this coming on Is a Laser Data Link 1.5 Million Kilometers Feasible? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just as long as they don't mount them on sharks.

  24. Re:No Music in the Summer. What's up with that? on Napster - Music Subsciptions Are Overrated · · Score: 1

    OK, I'm an old guy and didn't know that. One question. When you go back in the fall and are resubscribed do the songs become active again are do you have to DL them all over again?

  25. Re:idear on Napster - Music Subsciptions Are Overrated · · Score: 1

    I didn't know XM had that service. To bad it doesn't work with my iPhone. If Apple would just add Flash 8 I could do it through the XM site.