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  1. Re:I'm actually pleased... on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 0

    Read this (original published in TJ).
    http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v16/i1/ice_core .asp

  2. Re:throwing the baby out with the bathwater on The Grassroots Blogging Provision's Real Purpose · · Score: 0
    This is the real deal:

    the requirement would have applied to anyone who, in the service of their employer, engaged in the stimulation of grassroots lobbying designed to influence more than 500 people, as long as the organization spent over $25,000 per quarter on the activity. Thus, anyone who was paid $25,000 per quarter to maintain a weblog with a readership of more than 500 people would have to register with Congress under section 220 if they spent all of their time encouraging the general public to contact an executive or legislative official over a matter of public policy.
  3. Re:The great thing about these schemes... on The Anatomy of Pump n' Dump Stock Spamming · · Score: 0

    I bet curious people like you help keep these scams funded too. It really does sound interesting to get scammed a few bucks on purpose.

  4. Re:Anti-DRM Advocates are Missing the Point Here on Microsoft Answers Vista DRM Critics' Claims · · Score: 0

    You missed the point. The studios will allow the disks to play in Windows ONLY if Microsoft includes this DRM. DVDs were grandfathered in, which is the only reason the studios were unable to force MS to lock them down also.

    MS's only other option is to not allow any HD disks, which keeps the geeks happy at the expense of the average user: "What!?!? My brand new machine I just spent $7000 can't play my movies! This is supposed to be the latest, greatest, fastest thing you can buy! I can't believe I can't use my stuff on this new Windows that just came out! I'm going to go see if it will work on my friend's Mac."

    MS has no choice.

  5. Re:I'm actually pleased... on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 0

    The planes are a strong indicator that the "rings" in ice core samples cannot be used for dating. While I don't disagree with the temperatures they might record, I do disagree with most of the dates that are assigned to the temperatures.

  6. Re:What? on How the Camera Phone Changed the World · · Score: 0

    Maybe it's time for a one pixel camera.

  7. Re:IMHO on China Tests Anti-Satellite Laser Weapon · · Score: 0

    I think he is referring to the anti sat/missile stuff Reagan ordered.

  8. Re:Who Cares If It Makes You Feel Better? on Anti-Missile Defenses For Commercial Jets · · Score: 0

    Isolationism was nice in its day, but it's hard to isolate yourself from ICBMs.

  9. Re:Safer? on Nanobatteries — Safer By Design · · Score: 0

    Please note the word unnatural. Of course there have been nanoparticles for all time, but artificial ones could be a very different story, esp in biological and chemical weapons and pollution.

  10. Re:First Post? on Will Telecommuting Kill a Career? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Bu it'll sure kill a taxi-driver's career! Quick, a regulation!

  11. Re:I'm actually pleased... on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 0

    I put no stock in ice core drills. (Remember those crashed WWII planes found over 200 ft deep in Greenland?)

  12. Re:500 what? on Political Bloggers May Be Forced to Register · · Score: 0

    Exactly.

    The right to free speech must be protected (First Amendment). And we can and should protect it by civil war if unnecessary, providing we still have our guns (Second Amendment).

    Our forefathers weren't as dumb as politicians would have us think.

  13. Re:Safer? on Nanobatteries — Safer By Design · · Score: 0

    From what I've been taught by my nano-crazy professor, the biggest foreseeable problem with nanotechnology is that unnatural particles on the nano scale can pass easily through the skin and enter the bloodstream. (Imagine having battery compounds you can directly absorb from the air.)

  14. Re:hmm BTX style?: Shuttle mini market on AMD Aims At New Standard for Motherboards · · Score: 0

    Hey, my 1998-1999 OptiPlex GX 110 already has the CPU fan on the back with a hood going to the heat sink. I'm way ahead of these new-fangled thingies!

  15. Re:I'm actually pleased... on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 0

    If the earth is 12.4 billion years old, or whatever the current age is, how can we tell that it's warming up if we only have a few hundred years of recorded temperatures? Why couldn't it just be a cycle?

  16. Re:The problem... on Expensive U.S. Spy Satellite Not Working · · Score: 0

    Next time, change BV_UseBVCookie=yes to BV_UseBVCookie=no, and other people can use the link.

    http://www.officemax.com/max/solutions/product/pro dBlock.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=no&expansionOID=-1610650 957&prodBlockOID=1611493001

  17. Re:Macintoshes on IBM's New Processors To Exceed 5Ghz · · Score: 0

    They did at some point.

  18. Re:New Legal Strategy for Big Corporations... on Supreme Court Clears Patent Invalidity Suits · · Score: 0

    And of course, in the end, the lawyers win. No,then there is actually a hearing on whether or not it is a valid patent. Now it's actually up to a judge to decide what happens, instead of "whose got the biggest wallet and the most lawyers?".
  19. Re:To quote from B5 on North Korea's Secret Biochemical Arsenal · · Score: 0

    Some of us = almost nobody. Ever since somebody (I think the WHO) declared smallpox exterminated, it has only been known to exist in labs (and maybe the dark jungles of Africa). And now nobody is vaccinated against a disease you can't catch.

  20. Re:Macintoshes on IBM's New Processors To Exceed 5Ghz · · Score: 0

    But for integer and multimedia code, there's nothing faster than the Core. Then why does PIXAR render with Sun processors?
    IBM has almost always been ahead, but they simply are not interested in selling to Joe Cool. They sell to Big Stan the Businessman, and he orders them in bulk (eg. mainframe).
  21. Re:Pet Peeve -usb flashdrives with crap software on The Problem With Driver-Loaded Firmware · · Score: 0

    And I've never seen one that comes with removal software.
    It's so annoying that I always carry a U3 removal tool on my "fixer" flashdrive, and I have a software policy restriction that prevents U3 from running when somebody sticks their flash into my machine.

  22. Re:NISPOM tells us on U.S. Mass Declassified Documents At Midnight · · Score: 0

    Um, why do you need classified documents to tell the NSA to start spying? Why not just send a letter with instructions to keep it confidential (eg. out of a filing cabinet)? And if they need money, just bump up the budget (nobody will ask too many questions about that). What's so hard here?

  23. Re:But... on Lost Gmail Emails and the Future of Web Apps · · Score: 0

    I have. Back when I used OE, it asked to compact my mail one day. I clicked yes, and everything was fine for a few seconds. Then the compact window froze for a long time, and after Ctr Alt Del and a program restart everything was gone. POOF

    So now I keep a synced backup on a second HD.

  24. Re:It isn't the flying that's the hard part on A Working, Winged Jetpack from Switzerland · · Score: 0

    There are only 12 people who have actually flow a jetpack that can take off from the ground. The most well-know guy, (can't remember his name, Bell or something) flew for a couple presidents, Nascar and some Bond movies.

    There are only a couple working jetpacks, and one of the famous ones disappeared. Chemical companies got sued a while back, and quit selling high-grade concentrated hydrogen peroxide to hobbyists, so jetpacks died off until some Mexican guy invented a distiller that made 90 something percent hydrogen peroxide, and he has a working jetpack of his own design. He has 3 more in the making, and he pays for them my selling hospitals his distillers. (I wish I could remember more about him.)

  25. Re:not entirely on Department of Defense Now Blocking HTML Email · · Score: 0

    Sanitizing the HTML somebody pasted from a random word processor isn't as easy as it looks. Ever studied the code outputted by some programs? It's a mess.

    Cleaning messy code required complicated scripts, and complicated parser scripts are terrible vulnerable to odd code that goes in as special goop and comes out as working code. It's one of the most basic attacks. Think, people.