Because that huge station will be hit by all the small useless bit of junk, making more bits of junk to float about in orbit. Eventually, that solid station would look like swiss cheese and turn into a giant floating junk pile of millions of bits. That would be horrifyingly worse.

The part that is being left out of this discussion is the Copyright aspect of this. You should not be able to patent software, buy you should be able to copyright it. The algorithms you use might not be unique by themselves, but the way you combine them might be. THAT is the part that you should be able to protect for a period of time.

PNG Transparencies in IE5.5 and 6? DONE!

I found this a LONG time ago. I did not write it, but the link to the authors who did, sits in the comments at the top.

// Correctly handle PNG transparency in Win IE 5.5 or higher. // http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola. Updated 02-March-2004

function correctPNG()
      {
      for(var i=0; i"
                                  img.outerHTML = strNewHTML
                                  i = i-1
                          }
            }
      }
window.attachEvent("onload", correctPNG);

function fixPNG(myImage) // correctly handle PNG transparency in Win IE 5.5 or higher.
      {
        if (window.ie55up)
                  {
                  var imgID = (myImage.id) ? "id='" + myImage.id + "' " : ""
                  var imgClass = (myImage.className) ? "class='" + myImage.className + "' " : ""
                  var imgTitle = (myImage.title) ? "title='" + myImage.title + "' " : "title='" + myImage.alt + "' "
                  var imgStyle = "display:inline-block;" + myImage.style.cssText
                  var strNewHTML = ""
                  myImage.outerHTML = strNewHTML
                  }
      }

Just a quick comment on this one line...

Did Jack-in-the-Box or Odwalla go out of business when they killed people?

I live in Chicago and I'm old enough to remember when Jack-in-the-Box was here. I also remember news stories about the people they killed and it left a lasting impression in my mind... and everybody else in Chicago. I won't even eat there when I travel... those memories keep me from doing so.

It has been almost 30 years and Jack has yet to attempt a return to the Chicagoland area for that very reason. While they may not have died a nationwide death, they have certainly been removed from Chicago and are not likely to ever return.

uummm... I hope your attempting to be "+1 Funny", because the UN was formed AFTER WWII.

...you mean Projekt creep?

Sorry, sorry... but you did leave the door wide open...

If, as you say, the piece is bring written by a Bush Administration hold-over nad is not the will of the Obama Administration, why is he being allowed to push it? Why isn't the Obama Administration shutting him/it down if it is against their policy?

*crickets*

Yeah... that's what I thought.

It was a Roman Catholic Priest who said it in relation to Evolution (I forget his name and I'm too lazy to look it up), but he said something along the lines of "Science is the How, God is the Why." That is pretty much the official stance of the Church on evolution. Seems to be that Texas needs to keep that in mind.

FAIL

"...Stuff that Matters."
EPIC. FAIL.

...the more they stay the same...

Found a link for ya: http://www.liberty-ca.org/repeal17/states/montana2003oneil.htm It is a place to start anyway...

Power should be local, not national.

Which is why the 17th Amendment should be repealed. The House should continue to be elected by the people (No taxation without Representation... that is why the House controls the purse strings, not the Senate) and the State Legislatures should be appointing the Senator's NOT the masses. Think I'm crazy? Go look it up and read how it was and WHY the Founding Fathers set it up that way... Balance of Power.

Once the Senators become beholden to their respective STATES and not the special interest groups, the balance of power will start shifting back towards the States & their local legislatures, and the People of those States and away from an over-reaching Federal Government. As it stands now, there is little difference between a House Rep and a Senator in terms of who they serve. (read: themselves)

Have you ever wondered WHY State Governors got to appoint an open Senate seat but open House seats get a special election? We are supposed to be a Republic, not a pure Democracy. Repeal the 17th and we'll start getting back to that.

Psystar is not reselling the OS. If they were simply reselling the packaged Mac OS, then there would not be (much?) of an issue. Where Apple has them is because they are modifying the OS and kernel to run on non-Apple hardware, and *then* selling it.

Fake Q: "Do you really expect me to buy your product when I can get DRM-free music that I won't lose upon upgrade, cheaper, elsewhere?"

Real A: "Well, I think you know the answer to that."

That would be Tipper Gore and the PMRC