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  1. Re:New Hope, Circa 1981 on Lost Star Wars Scene In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Tell you what, please provide a cite.

  2. New Hope, Circa 1981 on Lost Star Wars Scene In the Wild · · Score: 1

    It's been known as "New Hope" since the re-release of 1981.

  3. David v. Goliath on Geek Squad Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter To God Squad · · Score: 1

    Hey, "Best Buy" has got some issues if God ever figures out how to file an amicus brief.

    For prior art, "God Squad" existed well ahead of "Geek Squad". But, if t he issue is the "Black and White", sorry, police departments around the country have that one. If its the logo on the door, if the priest changes it to a nice blue and white shield, or even a cross and avoids the oval shape, then Best Buy has nothing.

  4. Idiots Abound on Lucas Promises Star Wars on Blu-Ray in 2011 · · Score: 1

    Poor addled little Sparky, if you carefully check the history of "Star Wars", the title "A New Hope" was added to the 1981 re-release, after "Empire". So, more than a decade before your claim. Those of us around at the time remember it when it was re-released.

  5. Pardon me, but.... on World's First Voice Call From a Free GSM Stack · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pardon me, but what does this really mean? Does this mean that we could develop our out cell phones, a kind of born unlocked? Would this allow us to create our own devices that include GSM without relying upon the industry providing us feature sets we don't want or need?

    Is this really historic, or just a really nerdy, geeky milestone?

    In other words: What will this do for me?

  6. All your eggs... on EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game · · Score: 1

    Never keep all your... ...PLEX in one cargo hold ...Eggs in one basket

    Don't spend real money on fake crap.

    All your PLEX are belong to us.

  7. Re:Privacy on Google Testing an Airborne Camera Drone · · Score: 1

    Cool, my new arduino controlled anti-drone system will get a work-out. O.k., I designed it for crows and animals feeding on my garden, but now I'm going to for really cool surface-to-air tech.

  8. Re:Poppy Cock on The Second Age of Airships · · Score: 1

    Sorry about the second post. I got an error and reauthored it. Boom, both show up.

  9. Poppy Cock on The Second Age of Airships · · Score: 1

    The DoD has been using LTA platforms for years right under our noses!!!

    The Secret Nose Blimps are a myth. Where did you get such a silly idea. You probably believe in yeti, black helicopters, the Face on Mars, Art Bell, and Stan Lee.

    Just to be clear, the agents knocking on your door having nothing to do with your mention of Secret Nose Blimps.

  10. Re:Great, instead of peak oil ... on The Second Age of Airships · · Score: 1

    The secret Nose Blimps are not real. I don't know where you heard about such a fanciful idea. You probably believe in Black Helicopters, Yeti, Art Bell, and Stan Lee.

  11. Re:The glasses can do it too ... on Why Bad 3D, Not 3D Glasses, Gives You Headaches · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or the feeling that you had been mugged at the box office for the extra $3 and told that it's not for the glasses so you'll have to pay each time you see a 3D movie.

  12. Re:Why don't they use Silverlight? on Microsoft Unveils Street Slide Map UI · · Score: 1

    NMCI may have certified it, but DADMS says it isn't allowed.

  13. Re:Why don't they use Silverlight? on Microsoft Unveils Street Slide Map UI · · Score: 1

    The U.S. Navy, and a few other U.S. Gov't agencies have decided they can't secure Silverlight and won't allow it to be installed on their networks. In fact, the Navy automatically removes it when it shows up on a workstation. MS is very sensitive to gov't agencies use of their products. You can bet that MS is working furiously to make Silverlight work for the gov't.

  14. Re:why spend millions when you can spend billions? on Dell Ships Infected Motherboards · · Score: 1

    Wrong, but thanks for your jumping to the wrong conclusion. If you check my post history, I'm actually for the little guy in Vietnam supplying Walmart. Spreading the manufacturing wealth is essential for the economic recovery. However, national security also requires an infrastructure of trust. A decade and a half ago, George Bush released critical government research to U.S. companies in the chip industry. Much of that info has now gone overseas.

    Take your broad brush somewhere else. It's not as black and white as you make it.

  15. Mmmmm, French Fries on World's First Molten-Salt Solar Plant Opens · · Score: 1

    Molten salt? Cook your frozen fries as you salt them. Efficient, fast, delicious.

  16. Re:why spend millions when you can spend billions? on Dell Ships Infected Motherboards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about bringing the fabs back to the U.S.? Too many chip manufacturers have gone overseas.

  17. Paranoid Much on Vaccine Patch Removes Needle Pain · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ah, someone who listens to Alex Jones and buys his hats in the sandwich wrap aisle.

  18. Re:Does it work in reverse? on Vaccine Patch Removes Needle Pain · · Score: 1

    Paranoia strikes deep.

  19. OMFG, You Just Said... on Remix This Game — a Free Software Experiment · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes because freedom is having one person define what freedom means.

    OMFG, in the last 18 years or so, something has been itching at the back of my head after hearing RMS speak. I've been following the whole GPL, BSD, etc. BS for awhile. Something kept nagging at me and I couldn't find the words for it.

    You're post, screaming for a true implementation of a sarcasm tag, just wrapped up the whole thing for me. You have provided my new sig line.

  20. Re:My Thoughts on Remix This Game — a Free Software Experiment · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No special software or programming experience are needed

    No special software or programming experience were used for this.

    There, fixed it for you?

    Now, bigger question: Who was the jackass that decided this was a good post? I've seen what Taco has done to this place, but not even he can be this incompetent.

  21. My Thoughts on Remix This Game — a Free Software Experiment · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    God, why waste the effort. After looking at it, why bother. Sorry, dude, but I'd rather work on yet another rehash of the classic grid based Trek. Hell, I have one of my old listings from '76 for Trek on a teletype terminal. I may have the paper tape as well. I have better looking and coded programs from my old Sinclair ZX-81.

  22. No Netflix? DOA. on PopBox STB To Ship Soon But Without Netflix, Pandora · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I couldn't care less about the standard res portion of that. But, without the single most popular stream service on the face of the planet, it is DOA.

  23. Re:Zero Gravity? on Doctor Invents 'Zero Gravity' Radiation Suit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Don't you mean "Inertial Pampers"? They contain the mess when the dampers go out.

  24. All My Work is Ruined on The Proton Just Got Smaller · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, I've been working on a new Proton Filter. Everything was going fine. Now I have to contact my Chinese factory engineers and retool for a smaller seive. Damn it all to hell. No one wants a proton filter that will let proton through. What am I going to do with 45k faulty proton filters?

  25. Tablet Design on Surveying the Challenges of Linux On Cortex A9-Based Laptops · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see this in an open source hardware project to create what we all thought was going to be the crunchpad. This would be so cool.