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  1. Re:Money well spent? on New York To Spend $27.5 Million Uncapitalizing Street Signs · · Score: 1

    How about fixing the roads themselves. Filling potholes and the like. Maybe straighten out some of the really messed up roads. Some of the bridges in NYC are ridiculous. Oh, that's right, It would cost $5 million to come up with the plan to fix some roads and another $25 million to implement (And this is just filling some potholes). That would put us over budget where we like to be. Raise taxes to finish the work.

  2. Re:Firefox users with Adblock: 12% on Google Says Ad Blockers Will Save Online Ads · · Score: 1

    And another small percentage modifies their hosts file to redirect all the advertiser domains to 127.0.0.1 and never have to worry about them again.

  3. Re:I'd much rather... on "Loud Commercial" Legislation Proposed In US Congress · · Score: 1

    ok, It's not about volume controls on the TV/Receiver/other.
    Do the cable companies make the commercials? The cable companies get paid to show pre-recorded commercials.
    Lets give the cable company the right to collect the money and the Commercial. Review the video and if the audio track does not meet certain specifications they can keep the money and never have to display the commercial. This would force the organizations who create these commercials to develop to the same spec or lose their money. (ok, give them a couple of tries...maybe two)
    I'm pretty sure all the development houses would fall in line and this problem would disappear rather quickly.

    It all comes down to who causes this problem and how far up the line we have to go to give someone power to say...Sorry. Your commercial does not play because it does not meet our spec.

    Now, if the cable company is charging companies an extra fee to up the volume on a given commercial as they push it out over the wire then that is another problem.

    Does the government have to be involved in this?

  4. Re:Human Size Ants on Beamed Space Solar Power Plant To Open In 2016? · · Score: 1

    "If you're worried about microwave radiation, remember that this includes the frequencies that make up the WiFi, Bluetooth, and AM/FM radio waves that pass through your body all the time."

    If wifi,bluetooth and am/fm waves are so similar, there must be plenty of energy floating around us. Why can't we just recover that energy?
    Power your laptop from your WiFi signal.
    Heck, with all the radio stations transmitting around us we should be able to pluck a few dozen frequencies and power the radio itself.

    How efficient are these antennas again?

    Ok, you can flame me now

  5. Re:My first thought was... on Cold War Standoff Over ISS Toilet · · Score: -1, Troll

    Have Obama add another billion to the stimulus plan. It's creating jobs!

  6. Re:Which is absolutely fine on Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can I have rollover Gig?

  7. Re:Tell us in September on North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September? · · Score: 1

    I don't believe you will.
    I don't know about the UK or other areas of the world but here in the USA we do not believe in accountability anymore.

  8. Re:Already Free on Adobe Puts Free Photoshop Online · · Score: 1

    Ok, didn't see that one coming. + to mono

  9. Re:Already Free on Adobe Puts Free Photoshop Online · · Score: 5, Informative

    If your on a windows system why not use Paint.net http://www.getpaint.net/

  10. Re:Stating the obvious problem on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 1

    I'll second that. I was working with Nutch a while back and it was pretty hard to set it out on a crawl without having to run a filter on your index afterwards. All kinds of garbage can get picked up on a free open web crawl.

  11. Re:How can you justify still using SMS? on The True Cost of SMS Messages · · Score: 1

    This is why I can get SPAM on my cell phone.

  12. Re:Dialoge? on Pope Cancels Speech After Scientists Protest · · Score: 1

    He's on a mission from god? Is he the 3rd Blues brother?

  13. Re:Ozone production FTW on New Chip-cooling Technology · · Score: 1

    Um. I was just in southern Chile in the beginning of this year. The hole is looming over that part of the planet still causing issues. Solved...I doubt it. I have yet to read anything anywhere other than your statement that relates to "Solving the ozone problem". Please add a link to your findings for reference. I am very curious.