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  1. Re:World Nut Daily on Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally · · Score: 0, Interesting

    If you read the article a little further they also say Google hasn't posted any Christmas logos until recently. Is that true? I do agree that Google is extremely Liberal though, 99% donating to Democrats all the time to the max limit and even heavily involved with Democrat Bill Clinton fund raising who is well known for corruption issues. And they have had accusations from posting only liberal based attack ads and not Republican or conservative. Also they say that Google has preferential treatment for CNN, ABC etc. in Google News. Is that true? Also they say that Google has Armistice (military) day logos for other countries all along but not the U.S.

  2. Re:Talk about... on Street Fighting Robot Challenge · · Score: 0

    So it's OK to have a 'peaceful' nanobot in the hands of your next door neighbor. That can go anywhere and slowly dissolve your brain after entering your ear or even worse screw with your DNA?

  3. I'm uploading the Second Life when they're ready on Street Fighting Robot Challenge · · Score: 0

    OK, it's bad enough but just imagine the little brat next door with a nanobot kit or the government. Fuck the real world.

  4. Assasanation? on Surgical Microbot Developed · · Score: 0

    What if it's let loose on the general public to kill someone or something like it? Then what? This is great for surgery but where are the laws restricting these bots being used by the general public? How long before someone gets enough brain or genetic damage to realize someone was tampering with them using a nanobot? Think.

  5. Re:Closed source online games are dangerous, perio on Is World of Warcraft More Than Just A Game? · · Score: 0

    Sorry for the misspells.

  6. Closed source online games are dangerous, period! on Is World of Warcraft More Than Just A Game? · · Score: 0

    Why would I risk identity theft or a company selling my personal information for profit in such a moneyed situtaion? 'Second Life' has had 2 incidents of this recently. Also, one-way virutality can be dangerous because it can teach people to mimic crazy things they are taought by a coorperation so they can get rich in real life as they do in the game. If the game teaches crappy principals like to just kill instaed of think or focus on acccumulating wealth as a good thing as is the rpime focus of the for profit closed source online virtual worlds.

    Think about Star Trek and the abuse the Holodeck sometimes inflicted. But the Holodeck was an open system I think and could be manipulated for safety and health reasons. Open it up or it can be a strong addiction for the real life loser.

  7. They should support directors with real world tool on Possible Delays for Vista in Europe · · Score: 0

    They should step more into real world and offer incetivces like studio time and cameras to their directors who are allowed to upload full length videos. The quality could get better and they could partner with other sites.

  8. Re:Anti-dark-matter scientists are like ID scienti on Dark Matter — "Alternative Gravity" Team Responds · · Score: 0

    Well, some real testing is needed. Is their any practical use for this like FTL travel?

  9. Negative messages could be harmful on Subliminal Spam Using an Animated GIF · · Score: 0

    I am still against this as they could put negative messages in as well that could disturb people if it's proven to have any effect. 'Kill Yourself" etc. Testing should be done.

  10. Blarney is a child molester on EFF Sues Barney Producers over Spoof Sites · · Score: 0

    Blarney has a big diansaur peepee

  11. Not open source if you don't own: Sounds Communist on The Open Source Business? · · Score: 0

    This is totally communist and not open source. Open Source is actually having full and total Private access to the original product and then owning it, not having to use a moajority rules 51 percentile voting mechanism to get nothing done.
    Democracies suck.

    The best open source situaltion would be one private person or owner to create the product and then give it away for free as the consumer would own it and have immediate access.

  12. Re:I think we're missing the point here. on Intel Open Sources Graphics Drivers · · Score: 0

    I dont think Intel needs Nvidia since they have been so successful with their own IGP implimentation. If this new chipset is fast enough it might be the ticket they need. If it's open osurce enough that is.

  13. They've gone to far: Government is dead on The UK's Total Surveillance · · Score: 0

    We dont need government: switch to a non-profit.

  14. King of the masochists on Is Windows Vista Ready? 'No. God, no.' · · Score: 1

    At least he could use XP. This just shows how fucking stupid these people are. They have nothing to do all day so they use a fulty OS.

  15. Just Like Mic(rosoft) on Apple Announces More Options Troubles · · Score: -1, Troll

    Like Microsft, they have their heads up their asses too. Why? becase, like MS, they are a UI company that went too far in trying to do the whole thing.

  16. Re:More importantly on One Laptop Per Child Gets 4 Million Laptop Order · · Score: 1

    Here it is a cost issue. Sure we have all the tech and it's quality and cutting edge, but people can't get access to it. The companies price fix and the rates remain high or locked into other costly outdated solutions. I luckily was able to squeeze 18 dollars a month from ATT for my broadband wired home Internet, but I have to have their phone service too which is very expensive and not VOIP. We have bad monopolies here. That's why I think Open source will cut them down. They should have one satellite for broadband in the sky for the whole planet free.

  17. Re:More importantly on One Laptop Per Child Gets 4 Million Laptop Order · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No, I agree, I was joking a little bit, but I think when people get he basic essentials that it removes unwanted losers. CRAZZZZZZZZZINESS.

    I don't really even think Americans get the basic essentials since our cities are so without and I think we have worse wireless then China and Bangladesh. So ridiculous as homes in the suburbs average about half a million. A total joke but I'm tired of laughing. They should have free homes up front as a foundation. GNU/Home.
    People could trade homes this way. If they are in the program they get first dibs on a new home anywhere. Open source homes.

  18. Re:More importantly on One Laptop Per Child Gets 4 Million Laptop Order · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Relax with the racism

  19. Gonzo garbage on Technology And The Decline of Gonzo Journalism · · Score: 1

    Gonzo journalism is a catch word for lies and half trues about things they don't know to make money and NOW it catching up with them as fun technology and real media shows their true colors

  20. Free computers are neccessary. on India Rejects One Laptop per Child Program · · Score: 1

    Child or no it would be good for the world to actually own a free computer.

  21. Put me down for SGI to manufacture the OGP card on Is the Game Finally up for SGI? · · Score: 1

    Just another checkmark for someone to get off their ass and start manufacturing the OGP card and or more Open hardware solutions as it's allot less overhead in marketing and research.

  22. Re:Google is the best tech, not search, company on Google Moves From Search To Inventor · · Score: 1

    I guess you could also say we wouldn't have the cell phone or laptop without Bill Gates since he used BASIC to get the mainframe in the office, with others help as well though, but I still think search is the most importent. Since it is pure AI.

  23. Google is the best tech, not search, company on Google Moves From Search To Inventor · · Score: 1

    Everyone is foolish in only seeing the search aspect of Google. The reason search is so prevalent on our minds is that Google took advantage of the greatest tech out of the gate, unlike MS, and made it the best first. Now they have time to focus on everything. We have to reevaluate our views on technology from desktop centric to the Network like Sun says. Google made sure search was done right first as it is the most important technology Google is the phone company! It's great they are creating chips with Sun hopefully open source as I would think they are using the Sun Spark program. The future looks bright.

  24. Techies must see whole picture including organic on U.S. Soldiers Recipients of Newest Prosthetic Technologies · · Score: 1

    All you people think it's so cool to do all this but we still are grappling with how the cell phone might disturb the brain and cause cancer. We are going to hook up all this electronic gear to our bodies? We need to go fully mechanical or forget it. Once we can do that no more death and destruction and crime, and we can live like were all inside of a Sony megastore. ILife

  25. Re:I'm sorry, the genius behind Doom? on Interview With John Romero · · Score: 1

    Romero was responsible for the design of the UI in Wolfenstein and Doom etc. and invented the gore level Player image (The percentage meter with the player's face getting more gory as you are injured).. I thought that was a very novel idea at the time when I first played the demo, and the massive rolling levels for free, because you could really get into the feeling of your character and trying to stay alive or wanting to get health badly. Before gaming was very static but Wolfenstein 3D changed that along with the Demo and modding model.. When we were trading games on the computer in CAD class (it was like a LAN without the LAN, no simple Internet before HTML) it was hard and probably illegal, plus the games were too hard to play for the 30 minutes at a time.(ZORK and copycat 2D action games). Then the Wolfenstein3D Demo came out and allowed us to have allot of fun in 30 minutes between classes. Carmack likes to invent stuff for people who are on the go as he did that with his Doom RPG for cell phones. Everyone just had so much fun and helped to really push the mod community because of easy level design element to it. Allot of people eat the time including Linus were looking for a way out of the cooperate system as at that time programmers were considered people who didn't need college and were very smart. We were considered very powerful in society and the corporates didn't play along. The HTML Internet and open sourcing Quake helped to change that. Programmers are very independent people by nature.