Comment Re:Yeah they did stop innovating (Score 1) 544
705,000 hits for "Kernel Panic OS X"
I don't think that means what you think it does.
About 2,060,000 hits for "Kernel Panics Linux"
That is meaningless.......
Comment Re:gotta love it (Score 0) 44
how about posting Jack Valenti's grave? http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19109468
Comment Re:How would you register a downloaded car? (Score 1) 343
It's not really hard to do. Just keep all records of where the parts came from so they can make sure that they are not stolen. Pay your fee and they will issue you a number to stamp on the frame. Check with your local DMV because laws vary from state to state.
Comment Re:You're not allowed to hate in America (Score 1) 890
Ever here of these people? www.godhatesfags.com
Comment Re:Theif soultions (Score 1) 668
AC and RF only run in the outside layer of a conductor. It's called the skin effect, if the copper clad is thick enough the conductivity will be the same as a solid wire as long as you don't run DC through it you will be OK.
Comment Re:We're doomed (Score 1) 273
Some people have already started.
http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/
This will be the kind of site that will be shut down. Nasty pirates stealing old ham radio equipment manuals.
Comment Re:Democracy in Action (Score 2) 507
Getting people involved would be nice but, Google buying one of the big 5 media companies and dump all content more than 14 years old into a CC license would be priceless.
Comment Re:Cheap labor (Score 5, Funny) 330
Austin is part of Texas. It's where we keep all of the Democrats.
Comment Re:duh (Score 1) 213
3 letter password? I guess not everything's bigger in Texas.
Just the idiots.
Submission + - Wisconsin Vote Controversy and Microsoft Access (nytimes.com)
An anonymous reader writes: There a lot of analysis going on over a Wisconsin state judge election. Some additional votes were discovered, putting the conservative candidate ahead in a highly contested election. Conspiracy theories about on the left, with some finding implausible Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus' claim that there was a computer error involving forgetting to save in Microsoft Access that led to earlier announced vote totals being wrong. This has a lot for geeks to talk about, from how Microsoft Access works to the statistical analysis of voting to the poorly-run IT by Nickolaus.
Comment Re:Hahaha (Score 1) 313
this is why copyrights should only be 5 years.....
Comment Re:Cell Phone Jammers? (Score 1) 428
Well where I worked the supervisors and warden carried cell phones as did the tower officers. I worked tower for almost two years and always had my cell phone with me. If I needed to call the supervisor I had a direct line. If you use the radio every inmate knows what is happening. So jamming wouldn't work, at least in my case.
Submission + - Zionists organize to edit Wikipedia (nytimes.com) 4
djconrad writes: NYTime's The Lede has a piece (and video interview) on an "instruction day for Wiki editors," whose goal is to present a Zionist perspective. From the article: At the opening seminar, attended by about 80 activists, one of the organizers, Naftali Bennett, said that the aim of the course is to make sure that information in the online encyclopedia reflects the worldview of Zionist groups. For example, he said, “if someone searches [for] ‘the Gaza flotilla,’ we want to be there; to influence what is written there, how it’s written and to ensure that it is balanced and Zionist in nature.”
Submission + - How can so many wrongs be a copyright? (arstechnica.com)
ColdWetDog writes: Ars is running perhaps the oddest copyright story ever. A small company called BlueBeat.com has decided that storing another copy of a copyrighted song (In this case, the Beatles) allows them to submit this new "performance" for copyright (which of course is owned by BlueBeat) and sell it legally. For $0.25 a track. Nice price. Weird lawyers. RIAA is not amused.
Submission + - Pentagon Wants ‘Space Junk’ Cleaned Up (takefreetime.com)
slreboy writes: The orbit around Earth is a very messy place and the Pentagon’s far-out research arm wants to do something about it. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency put out a notice yesterday requesting information on possible solutions to the infamous space debris problem.
“Since the advent of the space-age over five decades ago, more than thirty-five thousand man-made objects have been cataloged by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network,” the agency notes. “Nearly twenty-thousand of those objects remain in orbit today, ninety-four percent of which are non-functioning orbital debris.”
“Since the advent of the space-age over five decades ago, more than thirty-five thousand man-made objects have been cataloged by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network,” the agency notes. “Nearly twenty-thousand of those objects remain in orbit today, ninety-four percent of which are non-functioning orbital debris.”
