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  1. Re:Clear Channel on 2004 Jefferson Muzzle Awards · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Janet-boob incident and yanking Howard Stern

    What, exactely, are those boobs saying that is being censored? Is there anything they can communicate in a printed sentence or a speech given from a podium wearing clothes w/o using terminology of excrement and reproduction that's of any importance? Or are they just cheap publicity stunts and shocking behavior for it's own sake to em'bare ass' people? And why focus on these marginal incremental pushing public limits of decency - why not just claim that preventing Miss April from walking down broadway stark naked is some kind of censorship? Take it to extreams to see how rediculous this crying about 'censorship' is. [again, WHAT EXACTLY are they saying that is being 'censored'?] - Say Janet wants to lay down and rub her labia while Justin masterbates into a paper bag on national prime time Sunday night TV that anybody can tune in - isn't that 'censorship' as well?

  2. Re:What kind of car do the complainers drive? on What Should a Documentary Filmmaker Ask About Offshoring? · · Score: 1

    My Toyota was built in Kentucky.

    They also have a plant in West Virginia, and just announced plans to expand.

    Are there Japanese workers complaining about "outsourcing" to Appalachia?

  3. Re:When NOT to hack on Hack Your Ride · · Score: 1

    As long as they're playing with the engine and not the brakes or suspension, what's the worse that can happen? Then engine won't run. I've done lots of engine work and the worst thing is having to call a tow truck to take it back to the garage. But when it came to brakes or wheel alignment, I would take it to an experienced shop.

  4. next invention: concrete tires on a rubber road on Bicycle Riding on Square Wheels · · Score: 1

    sounds plausible to me.

  5. dont have to keep loads of junk on HP Experiments with 'Always On' Camera · · Score: 4, Interesting

    just have the camera always on, but discarding anything over a minute or two. Then when something happens you want to keep press the button and the last two minutes are saved, plus what happens as you watch.

  6. Another reason.... on How India is Saving Capitalism · · Score: 0, Redundant

    is all the socialist employment / environmental laws the US politicos keep passing to get reelected - like the Clinton era family leave act. That costs employers real money, the end result of which is employers go to where they don't have to play by those rules, nice as they sound.

  7. Here's the development kit on OpenBSD Ported to Gameboy · · Score: 1

    here

    The above is real. So is ucLinux running on a softcore MicroBlaze processor in a fpga.

  8. old subliminal message tapes on Homemade Subliminal CDs · · Score: 2, Informative

    We had some of those on cassette tape and one time I played it 'fast fwd' on a cheap player, basically you hold the play button down part way where it doesn't fully latch, and the hub would pull the tape past the head real fast w/o the capstan regulating the tape speed. Anyway, we could definitely hear a voice in there then, like a faint chipmonk type speech.

    Subliminal messaging definitely does work, but maybe not in this format of sub-audible talk under a soundtrack. It's used all the time in visual print advertising.

    To answer the question: just record a message track, mix it in with your music track and adjust the volumn so it can't be consciously heard. Use cooledit. A five yo child could do it.

  9. Re:Movies kill the radio star on Signor Marconi's Magic Box · · Score: 1

    Nonetheless, the facts in the presentations are obscured by what starts to look like blind hero worship. Sure, there's some valid points to be made about who invented what, then they go overboard and lose the audience while looking like just another nutcase.

    I've heard the turn off in action, ham radio operator A doesn't even want to talk with operator B because "all he talks about is how Tesla invented everything".

  10. Re:Movies kill the radio star on Signor Marconi's Magic Box · · Score: 0

    the inventor of radio, AC power, and everything else in the 20th Century except toothpaste tubes and the phonograph.

    Wow! I never realized that Tesla invented:

    The zeppelin,escalator,safety razor,vacuum cleaner, air conditioner, neon light, teddy bear, crayons, bottle-making machinery, powered airplane, windshield wipers, ductile tungsten, teabags, tractor, vacuum diode, theory of relativity, cornflakes, sonar, electronic amplifying tube, bakelite, color photography, helicopter, gyrocompass, celophane, geiger counter, Instant coffee, talking motion pictures, automobile ignition system, motorized movie cameras, tanks, life savers candy, crossword puzzle, ecstasy, bra, zipper, gas mask, pyrex, stainless steel, pop-up toaster, flip-flop circuit, arc welder, tommy gun, band-aid, robots, lie detector, insulin, traffic signals, television, dynamic loudspeaker, spiral binding, liquid fueled rockets,pez candy, quartz crystal watch, technicolor, aerosol can, iron lung, penicillin, bubble gum, electric shaver, car radio, the yo-yo, scotch tape, neoprene, jet engine, electron microscope, frequency modulation, stereo records, drive in movies, monopoly game, tape recorder, nylon, frozen foods, canned beer, radar, xerography, voice recognition, ballpoint pen, strobe light, teflon, freeze-dried coffee, turboprop engine, nutronic reactor, synthetic rubber, slinky, silly putty, LSD, aqualung, kidney dialysis machine, hypertext, atomic bomb, microwave oven, holography, mobile phones, transistor, tupperware, frisbee, velcro, jukebox, cake mix, credit card, super glue, power steering, videotape recorder, mr. potatoe head, bar codes, radial tires, oral contraceptives, solar cells, McDonalds, tetracycline, optic fiber, hovercraft, liquid paper, FORTRAN, modem, laser, hula hoop, pacemaker, Barbie Doll and the halogen lamp!

    See, Telsa fanatics are your own worst enemy, trying to make a valid point but then go all crazy and make patently false, wildly exaggerated claims way out of proportion.

  11. Re:Tesla Invented Radio, not marconi on Signor Marconi's Magic Box · · Score: 1

    Does that mean that Simon is NOT the world's first personal computer? It doesn't have flow control, altho it can make decisions like "is A greater than B" and a "selection" function.

  12. Re:Sigh on MandrakeSoft Exits Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    so where's their recipie? (If it's open sauce). If the recipie's a secret it's closed sauce.

  13. Linux may not have a road map on MandrakeSoft Exits Bankruptcy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    but it's got an exit plan!

    [go ahead, select 'flamebait' - you know you want to]

  14. That's odd - visual design of software on Gates: Hardware, Not Software, Will Be Free · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In hardware design, the trend in the past 20 years has been just the opposite, going from large blueprints of gate and circuits, to a Hardware Description Language (HDL, like Verilog or VHLD) which is very similar to a programming language like C or Pascal!

    Methinks the emperor has simply announced he wants a change of fashion, and all the trendy loyal subjects in the kingdom have to change their style to fit in.

  15. Re:Methanol on Hitachi Shows Off A Fuel-Cell PDA · · Score: 5, Funny

    one whiff and you're blind

    Almost as bad is dihydrogen-monoxide, one 'whiff' of that stuff causes severe breathing problems. Did you know that many commercial foods are processed with dihydrogen-monoxide? We should boycott those as well.

  16. Re:What the fuck? on Mobile Wifi Backpack · · Score: 1

    Mayhaps Michael was inspired by the Wearable stuff Fashion Show a few articles back.

  17. Re:Dig that propeller! on Microdrone Spy Planes · · Score: 4, Funny

    what's going on behind the ten-foot-high stone walls of that rich dude's house

    only until he deploys the manually operated ground-to-air rapidly re-targetable kinetic dispersion-projectile defense system (old fashioned shotgun).

  18. not sure about this on Wearable Technology Fashion Show · · Score: 2, Funny

    A form-fitting, hand-controlled, twenty-first century navigator, this device manipulates the Internet?s visual data field as the user moves through three-dimension cyberspace with the ease of air typing. Your desires are communicated via beams of light as optical reflectance ushers in a new era in human interface.

    Oh, baby, you got it all! Beam me your desires and we'll navigate through 21st century cyberspace together.

  19. Re:RFID tags are WAY cool on Senator Leahy Calls for RFID Technology Hearings · · Score: 1

    easy solution: tampering with an RFID device becomes a federal offense. Don't laugh, it's illegal to sell or tune a radio in to certain frequency bands already.

  20. Re:Physics Question on Second Test of X-43A Scramjet Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    yeahbut, I also wondered about the 'escape velocity' thing: say you had enough energy onboard and no need for external oxygen, couldn't a vehicle just fly up at, say, a steady 1000mph and get away from the earth's gravity well? Or does 'escape velocity' have to do with orbital mechanics?

  21. Re:lineup on Comcast Signs Deal To Acquire TechTV · · Score: 1

    4) Hot chicks of the tech world in bathing suits

    What, like this ? (tho that might appeal to the old mainframer crowd ;0)

  22. Re:I hope.... on EU Fines Microsoft $613 Million, Officially · · Score: 1

    My personal gripe with the Msft hegemony lately has to do with IE and Java - those poorly designed sites that only work with IE, and also need jvm (which is no longer bundled with the os or ie) - you get directed to a Msft sales pages that tries to convince you to migrate away from java. It took me a lot of looking to find where to get the jvm from Sun to install - it would completely flummox some granny with her new pc box how to use a non-msft product.

    Somebody should sit Justice K down with that specific issue and cut thru all the legal hairsplitting. It's so damn obviously to anyone with half a brain that an Msft controlled box is nowhere near a level completitive playing field.

    Unfortunately the cure is going to be about as bad as the disease and is going to suck all around but they all brought it on themselves.

    Meanwhile I'll be playing with gimp2 on Irix 6 ;)

  23. speaking of time on The Fabric of the Cosmos · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    on a unix machine type $cal 9 1752

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    Explain - is not a bug. That was when the Colonies switched from Julian to Gregorian calender.

  24. Re:Slash dot on Opera Promises Voice-Operated Web Browser · · Score: 1

    easy:

    hch tee tee pee colon slash slash ess el eh ess hch dee oh tee dot oh ar gee

    URL's w/ spelled out punctuation have to be spelled out like an escape sequence.

  25. Re:Killer App on Sun Wants to Make Linux 3D · · Score: 1

    For apple it was Visicalc, for DOS it was Lotus

    So for Linux, it must be GNUMeric, no?

    But seriously, I'm not sure if the killer app theory still applies, just about every conceivable niche is filled by some slick commercial product. Even if something really progressive came out for Linux alone, being open sources makes it even easier for Msft to come up with a version tied to their os (can you say 'Netscape'?).