That's some heavy trolling, but I'll bite.

I've lived in the Fort Riley area for 20+ years.

Growing up in northeast Kansas, I'm aware of the stereotypes. Fort Riley has a large influx of migrating soldiers and their families who echo your sentiments.

The most common complaint is "There's nothing to do here in Kansas".

Being a geeky kid, I shrug. Each city I've lived in had around 20+ fast food joints (due to the soldiers and college kids), a few movie theaters, and malls + shopping centers if that's what they meant. Sure, we lack a major league sports franchise. Kansas City is the closest and I always hated having to drive there to attend a Magic: the Gathering tournament.

There's not many concerts/conventions here except for Kansas State University's events & the annual country music one.

I wish we had better ISP choices. COX cable is tolerable, & I detest AT&T/SBC DSL. Some places near the Missouri border get Timewarner/Roadrunner instead. We also lack GOOD public transportation. Owning a car is a necessity.

I grew up thinking this area was safe from tornados. I was wrong, I experienced my first one last year. We had a flood in 1993 but my side of town was unaffected.

From Wikipedia:
The agricultural outputs of the state are cattle, sheep, wheat, sorghum, soybeans, cotton, hogs, corn, and salt.
Growing up here, I've not seen many corn fields compared to wheat and soybeans. And I was surprised to see sheep, cotton, and salt mentioned.
I've met many people who produce beef, hogs, wheat, and soybeans however. But that's just my personal experience.

I'm passing the blame here. I've never been taught creationism in public school. We do have a lot of Catholics & Protestants residents however. Dr. George Tiller was murdered in nearby Wichita, Kansas. On a junior high school field trip to Topeka, we saw Fred Phelps picketing the roadways from our school buses. Before that day, I never witnessed a hate-group.

Kansas can't help but be associated with Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, & Nebraska on locale. We are a "red state" but our recently former governor is Kathleen_Sebelius who I'm proud to say I've met personally.

I spent a lot of time with table-top gaming, Magic: the Gathering, and LAN parties. Most of the soldiers I met were very cool and down-to-earth. Instead of trying to recruit me, they actively warned me about the downsides of military life. They were funny, quick thinkers, skilled, and had amazing stories. But each moved out-of-state when their military-service was complete.

I'm sympathetic to the soldiers. Most need the job for income. But they get treated poorly. If they are lucky enough to return from duty, they usually face high divorce rates and health problems.

So far, you have stereotyped this entire region and I'm disappointed. I would have expected more convincing facts, and less inane drivel from an intellectual authority such as yourself.

Disclaimer: I am a student at Kansas State University who has lived in Iowa, Missouri, Georgia, and Germany.

All the cool kids wear sundials on their arms.

I think people like myself are surprised how this is patent-worthy.
Not necessarily trying to bash it.
If the software handles it really well, and adds redundant error-correction to survive multiple splicing and editing jobs, then I would be amazed.
But if it's easily duplicated by "home-made" (single-person, low budget) methods, why shouldn't we scratch our heads in wonder when they try to patent something simple?

I agree, it doesn't seem very patent worthy.
It's Digital Watermarking with a software thesaurus/dictionary.

The movie industry used digital watermarks for VHS trailer tapes. http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4616.cfm

Trent Reznor used an alternate strategy for one of his short films (from 1992?):

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/08/the_10_most_amazing_unreleased_things_ever_made.php

Let me clarify: The ideal workaround is to get a very close translation (small error rate) and reverse the process so that the errors build up.

I took your quote on Babel Fish and ran it back to English to get this:

"All point of technology is to encode consecutive numbering by doing the little modification to wording of message. Reading those words to another medium still maintains the hand harsh number."

It's a terrible translation example but if you used a professional translator, you'd still have transformations from syntax and sentence structure from each language.

Step 1) Hire someone to read the message into recorder.
http://www.examiner.com/x-6665-Liberal-Examiner~y2009m7d24-Miss-Teen-South-Carolinas-title-of-dumbest-person-alive-threatened-by-California-woman

Step 2) Convert voice messages to text using "SpinVox".
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/23/228208

The problem is he often makes early/first posts with slanted views that do not accurately reflect the information presented. Some of them are convincing and he gets upvoted but it spreads misinformation.

Earlier today he posted this: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1313945&cid=28806481

The flaw lies in the implementation of the HTTPD used for router's Admin Web GUI. Which is a custom rewrite by Brainslayer & the DD-WRT team.
A brief history of DD-WRT (warning: it's biased against the project): http://www.bitsum.com/about-ddwrt.htm

He complains of "the dangers of homogeny" when the software bug was from a hobbyist-type build of a custom firmware.

Then he closes with the following statement: "Just because we love Linux doesn't mean that we should sacrifice the entire ecosystem to that love. We need to nurture other implementations to prevent this type of virus from wiping out our entire networking infrastructure."

While melodramatic, he's misrepresenting the actual number of DD-WRT users. The subset of router enthusiasts with DD-WRT is smaller compared to those who use other 3rd party firmwares (OpenWRT, Tomato, etc available on Broadcom or Atheros chipsets) and those who never bother to reflash their routers at all or have routers that are unsupported by DD-WRT.

You have to re-flash the firmware to install DD-WRT (or Tomato, Open-WRT, etc).

I don't even see your device listed here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

It's mostly Broadcom or Atheros chipset WiFi routers that are supported.

Velcro ones might lose grip after a while but those worked for me. Or cheap garbage bag twist ties are ok. You can usually collect them from bagged loaves of bread.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=GoDaddy+sucks

I didn't notice any problems. Here's the coral cache anyway:

http://www.networkworld.com.nyud.net/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend=/export/home/httpd/htdocs/news/2009/072009-iran-censorship-tools.html&pagename=/news/2009/072009-iran-censorship-tools.html&pageurl=http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072009-iran-censorship-tools.html&site=printpage

pdf mirror

That would make it easier to monitor also if the start or end points are trackable.