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  1. Re:Low Tech/High Tech/Somebody Else's Tech on Fight Spam With Nolisting · · Score: 1

    I do run mail servers. I asumed that people would realise that there would be other plans, just as they are othere cell phone & long distance ones. You just shop around get the one you need. However, Jane & John Doe internet user do not send thousands of emails a day. Only the spam bots taking over their systems do. So lets stop the spam from originating instead of trying to filter it once it is cloging up the internet thus reducing the overall burden to the net.

    I essence you would be buying internet usage not internet access it is just a different billing pattern.

  2. The only solution... on Fight Spam With Nolisting · · Score: 2

    ISPs must restrict clients to 'n' emails (ie free minutes) per day based on their type of account. If they want to send more they have to pay.

  3. The more info they have the better. on NYC 911 to Accept Cellphone Pics and Video · · Score: 1

    One day while walking my dog I found what I thought were some explosives in a dump site. Took a picture and emailed it to the police along with a Google maps shot of exactly where it was. The local bomb squad chaps were around in jig time to pick me up to take them to the exact site incase they could not find it and blew the stuff up.

    They liked the idea of the photos because they could actually see the problem and they did not have to rely on a probably unreliable witness that might have wasted their time.

  4. Re:Absolute waste of money on Anti-Missile Defenses For Commercial Jets · · Score: 1

    This will cost billions but there is no money to fix all the wiring that passes through the fuel tanks which has actually caused air disasters.

  5. My magic rock on Anti-Missile Defenses For Commercial Jets · · Score: 1

    It makes you safe from tiger attacks.

  6. Re:How about Gun Control on Anti-Missile Defenses For Commercial Jets · · Score: 1

    Stop making and selling guns.

  7. Re:Membership Milestones? on Inside MySpace.com · · Score: 1

    Its about 4 GB (compressed).

  8. Re:Membership Milestones? on Inside MySpace.com · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Only about 30% of all accounts are really active, accessed once every 2 weeks. (Yes I have the data)

  9. Re:Capricorn One... on Japan Scrapping Moon Mission · · Score: 1

    They, the tapes, were just reused and overwritten as a cost cutting measure.

  10. Non-Technical proof we went to the moon. on Japan Scrapping Moon Mission · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Non-Technical Proof Of The Moon Landings by Arthur Paliden © 2006 In 1969 the Americans first landed men on the moon. Now some people have made names for themselves by saying that this and subsequent landings never happened. Their position is that NASA faked them in order to save face and fool the public. To prove their point they rely on explanations of the reported events using dubious science and lay explanations that any first year science major would and does, laugh at. However, they always miss or purposely avoid the the one piece of irrefutable proof that it did in fact happen. That is that the Soviet government never refuted the American claims and they were in a unique position to do so. For even after the Americans landed on the moon the Soviets still continued to send orbiters, landers and rovers to the moon. http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft_planetar y_lunar.html Now if they wanted to get the goods on the Americans all they had to do was to land, photograph or explore with a rover the American landing sights. Just imagine the embarrassment not to mention the the damage to American credibility, at the height of the cold war no less, that such information would generate. Records even show that they never landed or even explored the areas that that American landings happened. So they did not even go and look to make sure because they knew it really happened. The next question then is even if they did know they were faked why did they never use the information. They did not use it to pressure the Americans to stop bombing North Vietnam and Cambodia where Soviet military advisers were being killed as a result. They did not use it to pressure the United States to stop sending military advisers to and providing Stinger missiles to the Afghan fighters during the Soviet occupation. They did not use it to stop the Star Wars program of the Regan administration. In fact they did not even use it to turn the West's attention away from the Soviet Union during the Soviet Coup of 1991 when members of the Soviet government briefly deposed Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and attempted to take control of the country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_coup_attempt_o f_1991 Which every body knew was the last death throws of the Soviet empire. If they did not use the information then to turn the attention of the American, and world public, inward to their own governments lies and thus corruption and force it to ignore the events in the Soviet Union in order to deal with a damaging domestic and international issue. Then the proof of faked moon landings does not and never did, exist. One final thought. After the fall of the Soviet Union the Russian economy tanked. People were selling all kinds of stuff owed by the crumbling state, ships, weapons, artworks and knowledge but nobody ever approached any Western news agency or tabloid to sell them this information. And to say that one would buy it but not publish is foolish. The seller could just keep peddling it until some on did and then it would be old news and worthless until then it would still be worth something.

  11. Hunting rifles are sometimes used to kill people. on Google Earth and "Collateral Damage" · · Score: 1

    So shall we get rid of them in order to protect our civilian population at home. After all more people are kill by them than are military personell by insergent attacks using Google photos.

  12. Hi, we' re from the Government, on Microsoft Gets Help From NSA for Vista Security · · Score: 1

    we are here to help.

    Right....

  13. Re:It's simple on What Makes Software Development So Hard? · · Score: 1
    Or how about:

    I want you to turn this Volkswagen Beatle into a Porsche and no we cannot stop the Beatle you have to work on it while it is moving and no we cannot afford to buy another beatle to test stuff on. Oh and by the way you have to use only VW parts.

  14. It's just what I asked for.... on What Makes Software Development So Hard? · · Score: 1

    But not what I want.

    The problem is that no one takes the time to really analize what it is the customer "needs" and how they will "want to" use it.

    Once this is done creation of the design document and coding is easy.

  15. Re:Home of the free...No More WalMart on US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI · · Score: 1

    Note on clothing sizes. They vary from country to country and from manufacturer to manufacturer and the French will always be different.

    So how many of these complete systems will be standing by to make the clothing. I don't want to que up every time I want to get a new suit. It would make purchasing clothes as much fun as getting your licence renewed.

    Another note: Ever taken your wife shopping for clothes. Looking a catalogues just does not cut it for the fairer sex. Everything has to be on the rack to be touched, tried on, accessorized and to enable them to ask the most dangerious of questions "Does this make me look fat?".

  16. Re:Home of the free...No More WalMart on US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI · · Score: 1

    Spoken like someone who has never had kids.

  17. Re:Home of the free...No More WalMart on US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI · · Score: 1

    And where are these automated talor shops going to hold all the bolts of cloth, notions and jigs that will be required and how long will it take to actually get the item made once you walk into the shop.

    It is actually a lot more complicate that it would seem at first glance, even doing it by hand is. For instance cloth is not rigid and therefore is very hard to manipulate. Which is why we have sweat chops in third world contries today.(knited stuff is a different matter it lends itself easly to machine production)

    No, I need kids clothes now, I do not have the time to wait for the system to measure my children, fetch the cloth, load it into the system, cut it out, assemble it.....

    I want to go to the rack get it, hold it up to my kids, see if they fit and then purchase it all before the little brate start to get fussy.

  18. Re:Home of the free...No More WalMart on US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI · · Score: 1

    I can just see it every one dressed in the same outfit, China 1960s comes to mind.

  19. Re:Home of the free...No More WalMart on US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI · · Score: 1

    Just think no more cheap products to fill the shelves of your local WalMart stores. Won't the masses just love that. Remember that clothing is still made by hand.

  20. Re:Sun? In ENGLAND? on Sealand Put Up For Sale · · Score: 3, Informative

    On avarage, London has more days of sunshine than Paris.

  21. Re:2.4 million users? Hah! on Second Life Open Sources Client · · Score: 1

    And less than 30% of all MySpace accounts are active, get visited at least once every 2 weeks.

  22. Re:My personal favourite on 10th Annual Wacky Warning Labels Out · · Score: 1

    You have obviously never watched an inspector from a workman's safety organization inspect a machine to ensure the workman's safety.

  23. In 1812 the "US" decalired war on Britian on Bush Claims Mail Can Be Opened Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    President Madison's use of economic pressure to force England to repeal its blockade almost succeeded. The revival of the Non-Intercourse Act against Britain, prohibiting all trade with England and its colonies, coincided with a poor grain harvest in England and with a growing need of American provisions to supply the British troops fighting the French in Spain. As a result, on June 16, 1812, the British Foreign Minister announced that the blockade would be relaxed on American shipping. Had there been an Atlantic cable, war might have been averted. President Madison had sent a message to Congress on June 1 listing all the complaints against England and asking for a declaration of war.

  24. Where is the photo. on UFOs In the News · · Score: 1

    Or to be more precise the grainy cell phone photo of said UFO? After all at least one of these United Airlines people had to have a cell phone.

  25. Re:TO our european friends on Flying To the US? Pay In Cash · · Score: 1

    But what if they don't use their real names or email addresses how will you catch them.