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  1. Re:It's aboot time, eh? on Landmark Canadian Hyperlink Case Goes To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Leave it alone anony mouse, as soon as those amricandians realise canadian beer has more beer in it, and canadian gallons are 20% bigger, where the hell will that leave us ? ? ?
    carbon-based life was probably a pretty dull affair before the cell wall

  2. Re:Talk to a curator on Digitizing and Geocoding Old Maps? · · Score: 1

    This sounds like a hoot.

    Two indispensible tools would be: MB-Ruler which helps you to measure distances and angles on the screen and distances on a map or air photo at: http://www.markus-bader.de/MB-Ruler/ .

    And Solution for calculating the solution of a right angled triangle.
    It's features include: Calculates lengths and angles if two are known.
    User defined number of decimal places

    http://www.rabsoft.co.uk/software/solution/soldownload.php

    douglas

  3. Re:Remember folks, it's a NETbook. on Google Docs Replaces OpenOffice In Ubuntu Netbook Edition · · Score: 1
    with faster and faster netbooks, I just don't see the point................... Well I do,

    Ms Office, Ooffice, and other full blown word processors are just too cumbersome for realisticly integrating with fast paced net work. A notepad replacement, or richtext editor would usually fill the bill. Adding a google docs option puts some nice iceing on the cake without all the native overhead involved with the others. I call that lean, clean elegance.

  4. Re:Darpa keeps reinventing the wheel on Chemical "Infofuses" Communicate Without Electricity · · Score: 1

    We are geniui: An RFID tag in the dogtag, that can pump out a signal big enough to be seen by an overflying aircraft BUT...with a set of contacts to short out, to activate a pre coded burst of info..

    You first saw it right here.

  5. Re:Hell yeah on Church of Scientology On Trial In France · · Score: 1

    Not Buddhism Life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth. Hare Krishnas are Hindu I'm occasionally tempted to start marketing Organic Hemlock Tea ... "The first tea that's guaranteed to reduce your impact on the environment!"

  6. Re:Why burn them up? on Russia To Save Its ISS Modules · · Score: 1

    There has to be a reason why space scrap, a re-usable resource lifted up there at great cost, isn't consolidated into "Space Scrap Piles" for future use. Maybe in a "Space Scrap Pile Belt" Anybody know what thwat reason might be?

    Unhindered solar input and evolving matter printers make it a no brainer for me at least.

    What am I missing?

    douglas

  7. Re:Military required? on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    "Failed States?" Such insular, crosseyed ignorance. I wonder how you would like it if the rest of the world went to a "buy local" policy. Free market economy indeed

  8. Re:Military required? on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    SORRY! Idaho is the only one we would take.

  9. You ALL take yourselves too seriously on A System For Handling 'Impostor' Complaints · · Score: 1

    You ALL take yourselves way too seriously. This is just the internets for cripes sake, get real. If the lady has a genuine problem I'm sure she has recourse through harassment laws and so on. It is clear from reading the original article in its entirety that the situation is unfortunate but picayune in a systemic sense. If nothing else she must have a big brother or something. my friend Crotch Dave could help for a few bucks. Lets try and keep this all organic, eh? The Koona This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13.

  10. Re:Life on Earth on Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing? · · Score: 1

    Yes, well we had better just get our asses in gear and send some breeding stock elsewhere for a while. eh?

    After all is there another evolutionary driver that could justify all this very odd brain activity?

      Specialization is for insects. -- Robert A. Heinlein

  11. Re:Bread on Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing? · · Score: 1

    NOPE Cookin grease (lard), bullets, beans, barley (Rye or rice) IN THAT ORDER.

    Thats a list built from long experience.

    Strangely enough, just this fall I put $3500 into just that.

    You might wonder why. eh?

    Now is later.

  12. Re:Life on Earth on Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing? · · Score: 1

    Well we do know that overpopulation, Starvation, and disease are self limiting feedback mechanisms, often proven positive to the overall system. . Should we now start examining truncated web access, excessive foot travel requirements, and inadequate gardening skills in the same light? Human beings are like cockroaches, no matter what you do, you'll never get that last ten percent.

  13. Re:I know the solution on Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing? · · Score: 1

    I for one.

    Getta "medicine for mountaineers" and a few good herbal medicine books for C.

    "Modern" medicine isn't even appropriate for post modern" times.

    Now is later than you think.

  14. Zulupad for the details on Tools & Surprises For a Tech Book Author? · · Score: 1

    Textmaker, Oo, LaTeX, Adobe, for the big picture, yes. But none of those are adequate for the smaller scales. Try ZuluPad by Tom GERSIC to keep your minutae all in one file and organised. http://gersic.com/zulupad/ Nothing else I have found bridges the gap so well between the neccessary artificial hierarchical framework we require to grasp complex things, and the actual nodular homogeny so inherant in real life. I use this app for expository prose but I'm sure it would be adequate for even, fiction. I have seen the truth, and it makes no sense

  15. Re:How this works on Is Open Source Software a Race To Zero? · · Score: 1

    Exactly like all those others? Destroying thier own habitat in the process? Think Negentropy!

    A PBS mind in a Fox News world.

  16. Re:Cheap-ass Chinese on Chinese Restaurant Suffers Large Translation Error · · Score: 1

    Well slashdot's just one of many of course, but a finer, more discerningly epicurean bunch would be hard to find. For free mind you.

  17. Re:Cheap-ass Chinese on Chinese Restaurant Suffers Large Translation Error · · Score: 5, Funny

    No Ad Men On /. Obviously That restaraunt is sitting on a fortune if they are smart enough NOT to take that sign down. The word is out, on slashdot no less, the world will flock to them.

    I have spoken

  18. Re:2008 just called... on White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars · · Score: 1

    Motion seconded

    [quote]Well, speaking as someone who isn't from the US, I think the rest of the world isn't going to let the US forget Bush 1 & 2. Ever.

    The US inflicted him on the world, and the rest of the world does tend towards a "you break it, you bought it" policy.[/quote]

  19. Re:Chicken Coop Cover on Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish? · · Score: 1

    My chicken coop trumps yours. Its a 1963, Thomas, 46 passenger school bus.

  20. Free Fast Simple Bulletproof and Meteoric on F/OSS Flat-File Database? · · Score: 1

    Can't believe the solutions offered here tonight folks.

    Try Table pro, I know. I have run through dozens and dozens.

    http://zgspro.com/

    E-mail: zgspro@zgspro.com

    ZGSpro .csv and .gg is the native format so you can read it with anything. exports to damn near anything.

    About as fast as DOS. WMCYPAF?

    Uses no custom database components or controls, and does not change the Windows Register or anything else outside its own directory
    It has a small footprint and makes few demands on computer resources, so TablePro can be left running on the desktop.

    koonaone

    If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in I suppose?

  21. Free Flat Simple Meteoric WMCYAF on F/OSS Flat-File Database? · · Score: 1

    Bulletproof and almost as fast as DOS

                                ZGSpro

                                http://zgspro.com/

                                E-mail: zgspro@zgspro.com

    I can't be certain it runs on vista but if it doesn't I know what I would do.

    If debugging is the process of removing bugs, I suppose programming must be the process of putting them in then.

  22. Do it yourself on Hobbyist Renewable Energy? · · Score: 1

    Do what I do. Salvage 12Vdc batteries every fall from auto shop replacements, recondition them. (getting H2SO4 is problematic) Charge this bank with 1 or more surplus solar panels with a diode.
    Run some lights, computers, audio, experiments etc from nice clean predictable direct current.
    Plug in a deep cycle charger for backing up variable solar input and usage.
    Accept plumbers and electricians advice on safety but not always on engineering.
    Forget about heating and freezing (electricaly)
    Finally, check out these guys.

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/12VDC_Power

    yours douglas

    We know exactly where one cow with Mad-cow-disease is located among
    millions and millions of cows in America.
    So, be afraid underling.

  23. Check which way the wind blows boys. on Monsanto's Harvest of Fear · · Score: 1

    Something I can tell none of you know...

    You cannot, in north america, commercially buy a hen that will lay a clutch of eggs, then sit on them until they hatch, then raise them.

    They have been bred out of existance, in favour of egg hens, and meat hens....

    I could go on about vegetables but that would clearly be beneath your concern.

    These things are the very basic elements of the means of production for common folks.

    A 1930's experience without laying hens will be something to see.

    So what has this to do with Monsanto you are sure to ask. All I can say to that is would you trust monsanto as a neighbor in really tough times?

  24. Re:Net benefit? on Canada Blocks Sale of Space Tech Company To US · · Score: 1

    | All things change in a dynamic
    | environment, your effort to remain what
    | you are is what limits you.

    When are you all going to get it into your heads that we the great Canadian unwashed do not look up to nor Trust "any" current usah initiatives in the world?

    Nobody in the world trusts you or the leaders you elect.

    Having a canadian national securuty sensitive company fall under the current USA national security laws and their paranoic abrogation of your own bloody constitution is the issue at stake here.

  25. You would ask eh? on What's The Perfect Balance For a Budget Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Oh you would ask wouldn't you.

    Something with say a 5 inch by 14 inch keyboard and maybe 8 by 14 flat screen.

      Load it with A nice xml hyper editor like Zulu pad by tom gersig and a simple but competent dBase like Table Pro by ZG in Russia.

    A flexible AC to DC and DC to DC power transfer unit built in so I could plug in to my truck, bike, trolling motor, and laundromat would be good.

    Talking with my camera and GPS unit could fit in there as well. If it would run preloaded air photos or mapsheets with imagemapping notational capabilities the world would look rosy indeed.

    Seems to me a 286 I had a lifetime ago would damn near work, but for the few graphics I would like.

    NO Windows, NO Linux No internets.

    So! For that I gife you one hunrud. Why not? Make from cheap surplus parts, in spare time, do good in the world, make yourself and someone else happy.

    Maybe tomorrow you'll ask about a car I would like why don't you?