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  1. Re:Irresponsible on Young Women Encouraged to Go For IT · · Score: 1
    I make e-learning.

    Are you the video professor? if so, DIE SLOWLY!

  2. ...i had to say it on Wi-Fi VoIP At 80 mph · · Score: 4, Funny

    All hail the Information Superhighway!

  3. Re:more sources on Richard Clarke on Microsoft security · · Score: 1

    good point

  4. Re:Yes but on Sim Icarus Boeing 777 Handmade Flight Deck · · Score: 1

    They haven't built them yet, they area waiting for Microsoft WaxFeathers 4.0 to come out, since they are using MSFT Flight Sim, and it's incompatible with regular wax.

  5. sites on One Giant Step for Humanoids · · Score: 4, Informative
    Here are the homepages for the biped labs of the three universities represented in the article.

    Delft

    Cornell

    MIT

  6. Most impressive on Sim Icarus Boeing 777 Handmade Flight Deck · · Score: 1

    Judging by the photos alone, this is the most impressive homebrew sim I'veseen yet. Props to the editor to actually posting links to old sim articles, by the way, so we don't get 200 links to mod on this one...

  7. Re:Follow the link - MOD UP PARENT! on Richard Clarke on Microsoft security · · Score: 1

    I noticed that they were identical after I posted them.

  8. more sources on Richard Clarke on Microsoft security · · Score: 4, Informative
    For you who doubt Clarke's credentials as a "cybersecurity" expert, here are a couple more interviews for you.

    From July 2003

    From Feb 2001

  9. another interview on Richard Clarke on Microsoft security · · Score: 5, Informative

    Clarke has talked about cyber security before. To the IEEE, in fact. Read it here.

  10. Dylan Thomas? on Phone Numbers Go Locationless · · Score: 2, Interesting

    nice Dylan Thomas reference in the summary there... "The regional bells will not go quietly into that good night."

  11. release date on GNOME 2.10 Beta 1 Screenshot Demo · · Score: 1

    I'm confused, according to their release schedule, this is due on the 9th. Is it really coming out 3 days early? How often does that happen?

  12. 1989 on List of Polish Spies Leaked On The Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It was only 16 years ago that Poland threw off communism with the first free elections in the former Soviet bloc. This list likely contains the names of people that did great harm to others (and also many unrelated people). To simply write offf the list as something that should be forgotten, as some have suggested, would be foolish. We as americans must still atone for injustices done to others during the civil rights era, and many europeans are still dealing with the spectres of war from sixty years ago. To "forget" something that happened as recently as sixteen years is foolish and unreasonable.

  13. Re:I believe it was Churchill who said... on List of Polish Spies Leaked On The Internet · · Score: 1

    those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it

  14. Re:Oh great on TheOpenCD 1.4 Released · · Score: 4, Informative
    Now we'll see this CD turning up on eBay. There's a surprising amount of people selling Free software to uninformed people.

    Like this?

  15. Torrent on TheOpenCD 1.4 Released · · Score: 4, Informative
    sorry about whoring...

    but just in case...

    torrent

  16. Re:Voltage issue... on Rescuers Prep for Hybrid Car Accidents · · Score: 1
    I am from a farm, and I regularly come into contact with our electric fence, which runs at 10,000 volts.

    There are easier, less painful ways of getting a date for Saturday night.

    {sarcasm}

    The cows were busy.

    {/sarcasm}

  17. Re:Reminds me... on Rescuers Prep for Hybrid Car Accidents · · Score: 2, Interesting
    (reminds me...) of a guy who felt the call of nature and went to relieve himself behind a hedge, as you do. Little did he know that there was an electric fence running through the hedge - he soon found out the hard way that water conducts!

    Happened to a friend of mine when I was about 10 or so. Funny at the time, but he was pissed... in more ways than you know.

  18. Re:Voltage issue... on Rescuers Prep for Hybrid Car Accidents · · Score: 1
    To clarify and provide a source for the info on electric fencers:

    Parmak Fencers

  19. Voltage issue... on Rescuers Prep for Hybrid Car Accidents · · Score: 5, Informative
    IANA Electrical Engineer, but I do know that it is not the voltage that is an issue, but the amps. I am from a farm, and I regularly come into contact with our electric fence, which runs at 10,000 volts.

    From the article:

    The battery powering the electric motor carries as much as 500 volts, more than 40 times the strength of a standard battery.

  20. Re:Flocking Road Cones on Robocones · · Score: 1
    I would just like to point out that I referenced the UNL cones at halfbakery over a year ago.

    From halfbakery-

    link

    "Baked in a sense by my college, Nebraska. They have orange barrels with robotic bases controlled by a "general" using GPS and such. I talked to the guy in charge of the project a while back, and they have something here that is really getting interest from many roads departments. Check out my link above. r84x, Oct 01 2003"

    I just wanted to take credit for that.

  21. Re:Koolio eh? on Koolio, the Beer Delivery Robot · · Score: 1

    No, but the circa 1996 website does. I hate embedded music.

  22. Three step DRM removal guide. on New Tool Cracks Apple's FairPlay DRM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Step One: Buy music from iTunes store. Step Two: Burn said music to CD. Step Three: Import CD into library. Outcome: Standard mp3 encoded non-drm files. Easy to do, no messing with other programs, and undeniably legal.

  23. Legality? on Music Industry Loses In Canadian Downloading Case · · Score: 1

    So, it is now legal to download music, since they can't prosecute you? So can I download from a Canadian server? If a canadian downloads from me, is it ok? Or is this just another ruling that the music industry will find a way around?

  24. Re:You are correct on How The Web Ruined The Encyclopedia Business · · Score: 1
    Problem is, would this lead to a tyranny of the majority? If something like Wikipedia were around in Gallileo's time, would it ever say that the earth is round?
    Contemporaries of Galileo would most certainly agree that the earth is round, as he lived from 1564 to 1642. Between 1519 and 1522, the crew of Magellan's ships circumnavigated the earth. It is the concept of a geocentric vs. heliocentric universe that would have been disputed at this time, until confirmed by Kepler and others.
  25. Re:Dish will get sued and lose on Viacom and DishNetwork Battle On Air Over Contract · · Score: 1
    I was quite annoyed with the black bars too but my view is that if Viacom has a gripe with it they should pay for commercial time instead of scrolling their complaints every 10 minutes.
    Who would viacom pay for commercial time? Themselves? They have the right to alter THEIR OWN shows. They own them. Dish Network simply rebroadcasts them.