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  1. Re:Voting for Obama, But Not Enthusiastic on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 1

    Well you can see it anyway you want, it's a free country, I'm just trying to be reasonable.

  2. Re:Voting for Obama, But Not Enthusiastic on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 1
    Well damn, I guess I'm condemned if I question things instead of blindly following.

    I just posted hilights of Obama's Senate record. He's also got years of Illinois state assembly to judge from. There's many years, with many projects he's worked on. Even projects that didn't succeed show where his priorities are. That's a real track record. None of which can be described as "too good to be true". Some people just aren't satisfied with the facts. Some people are so unsatisfiable with facts, that even the fact that they're discounting the fact is something to dismiss.

    I'm sure I can post many other Senators track records that appear just as good, after all it's politics. Fact's are only good based on a limited amount of time, after all it was known to be a fact for centuries that the earth was the center of the universe. Truth is what we need.

  3. Re:Obama wants change for America on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 1

    Well, what's the platform your running on?

  4. Re:Voting for Obama, But Not Enthusiastic on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 1

    Er, "Junior Senator" means only that he was elected more recently than his state's other senator.

    Er, not exactly true, here's an excellent description of the difference between the the two.

    There is no mandated difference in rights or power, although Senate rules give more power to senators with more seniority. Generally, senior senators will have more power, though being a member of the majority party is more advantageous than being senior. In addition, by custom the senior senator from the president's party controls federal patronage appointments in his/her state. Thus being the junior senator is disadvantageous if the senior one is from the same party.

    There's no reason to believe that Obama didn't do the work associated with those bills. I suppose if you're not interested in learning about what Obama has done, but only looking for reasons to believe he's done nothing, then nothing anyone says will convince you.

    I am more than willing to listen, I guess being over 40 and in the State political structure myself, makes me very skeptical of politicians and the claims they make, as the saying goes, "If it seems to good to be true, it probably is". With someone who doesn't really have that much of a background in politics (Obama) I don't see enough of a track record that he keeps to his word, thats all. He may actually be for change, right now I can't tell.

  5. Re:Voting for Obama, But Not Enthusiastic on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 1

    Interesting, I didn't think McCain did that much work?! Seriously, like most junior senators how much was his and that of Veteran Senators? Digging deeper a few of those bills did not get passed and some probably won't be. Not to say he wasn't working, I know he was, but like what a lot of people say about the The Obama-McCain Climate Change Reduction Bill, "it's not much and will probably fought fiercely."

  6. Re:Voting for Obama, But Not Enthusiastic on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 1

    and Obama overall looks pretty good - based on his past actions, and his public understanding of some of the solutions we need.

    Based on his past actions??? He was in his first term as a junior senator, the guy has no history of doing anything. He's a good orator but so far thats all I've seen.

    I'm not a big McCain fan either, frankly there isn't anyone I would vote for. Maybe Colin Powell, but he isn't running.

  7. Re:Could you please hurry up? on Ask Aubrey de Grey About Longevity Research · · Score: 1

    Also I would like to go to the moon, and it'll probably be a while before that's an option for poor people.

    Well, you'll have a 1000 years to save up.

  8. Re:Altered Carbon on Ask Aubrey de Grey About Longevity Research · · Score: 1
    Well the poor get the 'poor man's' immortality, uploading their personalities into a robotic device, which of course are servant's to the immortals.

    So see, no more poor people!

  9. Re:Recapturing past glory? on Nasa Details Shuttle's Retirement · · Score: 1

    Not this again! NASA is not a space agency, it is an aeronautics and space agency. What you see at Canaveral is a small part of the agency's overall work. Dryden, Glenn, Ames; every day innovative work goes on at those sites.

    Okay, it's an "Aeronautics and Space Agency", hope it makes your day. Honestly, It doesn't change what I experienced.

  10. Re:Outsource management! on Surviving Outsourcing? · · Score: 1

    You go it on the first try, but they're to busy protecting their own butt's by placing the rest of us on firing line.

  11. Recapturing past glory? on Nasa Details Shuttle's Retirement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Visiting NASA at Cape Canaveral a couple of years ago with my wife, I can't help feel like the whole place was a shrine to Apollo age. I would talk to people at NASA and they would just talk about the "Good old days", not once did they talk about the Shuttle or ISS. Honestly, I think we need a new Space Agency, one who can look to the future instead of being stuck in the past.

  12. Load Balancer maybe?? on Keeping an Eye Out When Sites Go Down · · Score: 0

    Any type of load balancer in front of several web servers and application servers would prevent about 99.99% of downtimes. Thats of course barring poor coding and human error, but if you hire the rights guys, shouldn't be an issue.

  13. Re:Better than iPhone 3G... on Openmoko's Open Source Phone Goes Mass-Market · · Score: 1

    Looks like the AT&T rep was right iPhone 3G will need 'unbricking' when purchased?

  14. Re:3D? on A 3-D Holographic Display · · Score: 1

    So is Hitler your roll model? or are you just incredibly ignorant?

  15. Re:3D? on A 3-D Holographic Display · · Score: 1

    What's the old adage, you can give a man two eyes but you can't make him see in 3D?!?

  16. Re:Let's put it like this on NASA Tests Hypersonic Blackswift · · Score: 1

    PDE's are very efficient as the fuel burns mostly completely and is converted into thrust.

    Should have said "PDE's are very efficient as the fuel burns completely and is converted into thrust.

    . This is done using a long tube which retains the fuel long enough to go speed up the burn,

    Should say "This is done using a long tube which retains the fuel long enough to speed up the burn,"

    *Sigh* This is what I get for writing at work...

  17. Re:Let's put it like this on NASA Tests Hypersonic Blackswift · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually the Pulse Detonation engine, I've made a small one for testing, can use fuels such as kerosene and oxidizers like hydrogen peroxide (above 50%), most fuels deflagrate, in other words burn rather slowly, ICE (Internal combustion engines), as in cars, tend to deflagrate, they do not detonate. Detonations are hypersonic burning of fuel basically. A PDE needs to go from deflagrate to detonation typically. This is done using a long tube which retains the fuel long enough to go speed up the burn, the tube length also needs to resonate with the detonations or time to burn. PDE's are very efficient as the fuel burns mostly completely and is converted into thrust.

  18. Re:Fact free news ! on NASA Tests Hypersonic Blackswift · · Score: 1

    The funniest part was when the TV reporter said, "How would the human body stand that,at six times the speed of sound?!" Me thinks he was thinking 6 G's or something.

  19. Re:Better than iPhone 3G... on Openmoko's Open Source Phone Goes Mass-Market · · Score: 1

    Okay, Thats what the AT&T rep said, not me.

  20. Re:Wtf? 4.8" screen? 500Mhz? on Openmoko's Open Source Phone Goes Mass-Market · · Score: 1

    Check here for hardware specs.

  21. Re:Wtf? 4.8" screen? 500Mhz? on Openmoko's Open Source Phone Goes Mass-Market · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thats the old Neo1973 stats the next iteration is the GTA02. Check here for more Freerunner goodness!

  22. Better than iPhone 3G... on Openmoko's Open Source Phone Goes Mass-Market · · Score: 1

    Why you may ask? After talking to AT&T the Wi-fi will be bricked on the iPhone 3G if you do not have a $30 data plan. Not so with the freerunner.

  23. Re:Can someone please clear this up? on Google Begat the End of the Scientific Method? · · Score: 1

    It's kinda fuzzy, sort of, not really. Taking your example, that a son may become a good runner because one of the parents did it and he grew up around it. It may be true he will lean towards actually becoming a runner. Physically though if the parents passed down genes that gave him better lung capacity or a more efficient way to metabolize oxygen or muscles that could retain and/or utilize carbohydrates more effectively, etc. would give him an advantage and make him a better a better runner.

    The parents gave him the idea and motivation to run, the gene's gave him how well he will do when he does run.

    Kinda sorta.

  24. Not really Science then... on Google Begat the End of the Scientific Method? · · Score: 1

    If your just data mining, you have to assume that the data is valid and not someones scientific bias. Thats a big assumption. There has to be some objective methodology to test claims and results, if not then there are no checks and balances and we are reduced to "crack-pottery".

  25. it's okay if... on When Is a Self-Signed SSL Certificate Acceptable? · · Score: 1

    You maintain the CA and have it hardened and secured on the network. I wouldn't use it , let's say, if it was used on an e-commerce site. But typical in-house ssl vpn connections should be ok, as long as you follow what I said earlier.