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  1. Harley riders on Robots: The New Cure for Baldness · · Score: 1

    What's the difference between kids having a farting contest and Harley riders trying to blow out everyone's eardrums?

  2. Re:Abusing It on Cubism For CG And Movies · · Score: 1

    It will be used in BushCo's version of "Reefer Madness" for the "this is what marijuhuana does to you" scene. Instead of playing piano, our victim will be laughing and rapping at the same time, taking giant tokes on a spliff given to him by the evil Al-Queda druglord.

  3. MIT w/o Computer? Black golfer, white rapper on MIT Releases Subpoenaed Student's Info · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    MIT student w/o a computer. Riiiiight.

    Now I bet you expect me to believe that the best golfer is Black and the best rapper is White.

  4. load times on Wario Ware GameCube Craziness Explored · · Score: 1

    The slow load times of CD-ROM games is why cartridge consoles rock, even though there's no longer a modern cartridge alternative. Zero rotational delay!

  5. Re:Little explanation? I think there's enough. on Joss Whedon's Firefly Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 1
    Yet it was pushing a subtext that still needs to be addressed in American society. I give +4 for positive karma alone. It was watchable, too.


    Nichelle Nichols had turned down the part of "Uhura" but reconsidered when Martin Luther King asked her to take the part - sure she wasn't a main character, but she wasn't a whore or a servant or a drug addict either. It was a positive role model for many young blacks. There was a place for them in the future.

  6. Re:ST theme became clear the other day on New Heinlein Novel · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that jet Bush trained on was declared not fit for combat before he joined up, and he went AWOL for his last year of service.

  7. Re: emate on Sharp Zaurus C-7x0 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Pocket-sized means a crummy keyboard for anyone with normal-sized fingers. Now, graduated keyboards for kids might make sense for a few years until they hit adult size. You might be able to get away with a 12-key interface, especially with the "younger" generation, and go for a combination of literal [2-2-2 gets you to 'c'] and ITU-spec guestimation [4-3-5-5-6 gets you to "hello"] with alternates.

    Lose the keyboard and go for speech-recognition [chyeah] for a small device that's all display, it's going to eat processing power and will be a general flop due to poor recognition, much like the early Newton's handwriting recognition engine.

  8. Re:Likeable characters on Joss Whedon's Firefly Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 1

    If you didn't like the characters, perhaps you did care about them. I'm reminded of being forced to watch "Thirtysomething" in the eighties and constantly wishing the worst for all of the characters....

  9. Re:GREAT NEWS! on Joss Whedon's Firefly Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 1

    Dark Angel season one was just fine. Dark Angel season two got suckier, what with the fuzzy-wuzzy genetic freak of the episode thrown in.

  10. Re:Oh boy on Joss Whedon's Firefly Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 1
    Witchblade Season One: Very cool.

    Witchblade Season Two: Very lame.

    I really really really wanted to like Witchblade's second season, but the suckitude was entirely too high for it to continue by the time they finished broadcasting season two's shows.

    Face it: Witchblade was put out of its misery.

  11. Re:Deep Psigh on Sharp Zaurus C-7x0 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Um, it's called an emate.

  12. Re:GREAT NEWS! on Joss Whedon's Firefly Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 1
    props to [Murdoch & company's] business skills
    Sure, in start-up mode. Two of the series they made in the early days are still bringing them major bucks today. And as it has been pointed out elsewhere, they're no longer taking risks, instead preferring to copy low-brow concepts from elsewhere.
  13. Re:Oh boy on Joss Whedon's Firefly Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 2, Funny
    with an hour of special effects, gratuitous sex and fight scenes added.
    You're saying that as if it were a bad thing...
  14. GREAT NEWS! on Joss Whedon's Firefly Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Firefly is a prime example of how Fox is populated by PHBs. Fabulous show, great concept .. and they show the episodes out of order and at random intervals so the audience just can't get into it. They could have capitalized on Farscape's cancellation [SciFi: A channel for SF fans run by PHBs], but nooooooooo!

  15. Re:Is that legal? on Blocker Tags to Protect Privacy From RFID Tags · · Score: 1

    It's in the unregulated part of the spectrum. You [the blocker] have just as much right to it as the RFID people.

  16. Re:Cheaper alternatives available... on Roomba Robot Vacuum Gets Siblings · · Score: 1

    They self-recharge given the foodstuffs the chilluns drop and if you supply bulk nutriments in a standard location, they will make up any shortfall without being asked to. Perhaps your offspring are too neat.

    Hm. Probably time to replenish the nutriment stores.

  17. Re:Something's amiss here on Roomba Robot Vacuum Gets Siblings · · Score: 1

    I believe it's the principle known as "what the market will bear".

  18. virtual McCarthyism perhaps on DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists · · Score: 1

    But rather than one powerful figure and his buddies compiling secret blacklists, it's known people giving methods for their lists [both to add and remove].

    Nobody's forcing you to use the blacklists. Nobody's not forcing you to use the blacklists.

    Those of us who use blacklists accept that there may occasionally be collateral damage. Too bad. If it keeps one porno spam out of my daughter's mailbox, then I am one happy father.

  19. Re:Client-side blocking on DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you don't like it, don't subscribe. Nobody's forcing you to use the blacklists. However, the spammers are forcing you to process and store their emails.

  20. Re:Ah, never mind on DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists · · Score: 1

    And where do you think the Greeks came out of anyway? I'm sure they loved a good poo joke just like anyone else.

  21. Re:Anything but this! on During Blackout, Ham Radio Shined · · Score: 1

    And how many pro-code ninnies would be inputting it with a keyer rather than a keyboard?

    Reading through the old QSTs [circa '61] regarding the then-coming "Enhancement" was enlightening. The old farts never change attitudes, just names.

    kissing cousin six sugar sugar sugar

  22. Re:Intermodulation on Wireless Growth & Wireless Interference · · Score: 1
    This has zero interference potential to 800 mhz.

    Provided the transmitters, especially the amplification stages, are properly sheilded from the outside world. The frequencies aren't generated at 1900MHz, they start at lower frequencies and mix their products to acheive the final result. Given that a perfect Faraday Cage is difficult to acheive when you need to poke holes in it in order to get things such as power and data in, as well as final signal out, you get weird leaks, causing interference to other services.

  23. 4-80MHz on Hams Complain about Powerline Broadband · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh goodie, they're going to splatter all over the low TV channels and the first harmonics will trash the VHF band as well, not to mention low-band VHF used by many police/fire departments in rural/hilly areas.

  24. Re:Seems Fair to me... on Hams Complain about Powerline Broadband · · Score: 2, Informative

    They're not "hooked up" [think terminated], so there's lots of spare wire serving as an antenna and corrosion serving as a discriminator -- no wonder you're getting "interference" -- you have a simple radio reciever. Put a small cap across the speaker terminals and your problem goes bye-bye.

  25. Re:Just use a phased-array wireless switch. It's e on Sluggish WiFi Connections Hurt Everyone · · Score: 1

    You do not understand the problem, Grasshopper.

    The stars shine all day
    Jealous Sun keeps us focused
    Twilight shows Venus