Last time I checked, your price for purchasing something was a 'trade secret' and therefore any subsequent calculations based on that number are also a secret.

You don't want the public knowing who really has the lowest price, do you?

Wh knw tht Pk's brshd thr tth?

That's how all public demonstrations should be done: Simple, elegant, and without permanent damage.

While I may or may not stand behind their message, I do stand for how they did it. Bravo.

@mikelotus: What makes Verizon evil? I have had them for years, and never had a single issue with them.

It's obviously what I like to call "Junque" which is 'Junk Antique' mashed together.

The other option is to use superglue. Never remove it. PUNK FOREVER!

@g5man: Crying, like he always is. Lame Emo-kid... Hope he cuts himself to death.

Now, if only Osama had scrambled his face--we would have found him like that, *snap*

Chocolate guy - 1
The World - 0

A WINNER IS YOU!

Where are the hairdressers? And why are these people off of their ship?

I heard from a friend who still runs Windows that if you are just going to have a partition to run games, you should install Server 2003. Apparently, since it's a server, it loads/runs nothing in the background, and that makes it better for games.

I don't know, so I can't say. This was from a friend. take it with a grain of salt.

Man oh man... I love it when a new Distro is released. I almost took off work for it.

Because it would have taken me that long to configure it!

*rimshot*

But it's not all bad... Take Compiz for example. I mean, the last time Windows looked this wobbley was when I got that virus after that all-night drinking party!

*rimshot*

Yeah, just the other day I was trying to install Steam so I could play Portal.

Boy are my fingers tired!

*rimshot*

I tried to play a DVD the other day. What a piece of work that was. I not only had to type in one command on the shell, but it automatically downloaded and configured it for me! I didn't have to do anything, other than put the disk in after that!

*crickets*

And updates! Oh man... Don't get me started! I get a little popup window that says there are updates for me to install. I click the button, and they install. I mean, I didn't even have to restart my computer AT ALL!

*crickets, coughing*

Umm... How about this? I wanted to listen to some music on my computer, but I have so many CD's, and I didin't want to be swapping them in and out all the time... So I put one in, and it asked me if I wanted to save them to my HD. But not before it downloaded all the cover art and information about each track. Then it proceeded to rip them to a directory that was the artist name, album name, and then it numbered all the tracks. But the weird thing was this OGG format. The files were smaller than MP3, they had more information about the song inside the file, and they sounded better! BETTER! What is up with that?

*chairs shuffling, people getting up to leave*

Wait... I got more! I wanted to edit a family photo, and it downloaded and installed thie program called The GIMP! Not only did it take seconds to download, but it looks almost like Photoshop, and has almost all the same tools! In fact, you can open Photoshop files, and edit them, and have them still work in Photoshop!

Come on! Don't leave!

I have one program that handles all my AIM, MSN, ICQ, YIM, IRC and Google Talk! I mean, it's just one program, instead of 6! It also puts all the IM messages in one window with tabs on the top! talk about convenient!

Wait!

I don't have to run anti-virus, spyware, or any sort of firewall at all!

My computer is so much faster to startup and shutdown as well!

I get free updates on all my software, not just my base OS! And if I want to install new software, I don't have to go to the store and buy it I load up a program and it shows me what is ready to be installed!

All of my Icons look good at any resolution, because I use Vector art that scales up without any pixelation!

I have an intelligent system monitor that makes sure that both of my CPU's get utilized evenly so my system is responsive even if it has been on for days!

I don't have to run Scandisk or Defragment anymore, unless something has really gone wrong!

No, please! Don't go! WAIT!

What. The. Fsck.

It's cereal people. Get a grip.

I have said for years that the future is this:

You show up at the airport. You are handed a dufflebag. You proceed into a small stall which locks behind you. You are now secure.

You change out of your clothes and into the bright orange jumpsuit that is in the dufflebag you were given. You place all your clothing and personal effects into the dufflebag. You then place the duffle back through a hole in the wall where it passes through an x-ray machine, by a drug sniffing dog, through a metal detector, and then finally through an explosive/chemical detector. It then goes into a metal case, which is locked, and then returned to you.

While your dufflebag is being processed, you have to submit your personal information. On the sleeve of the jumpsuit is a number. In fact, it is all over the jumpsuit, in one way or another. You key this number into a small keypad that is in the wall. Then you scan your fingerprints. Then you give them a sample of your hair. Then your saliva. Finally, a picture of your face is taken, and you scan your retina. You put your ticket into the wall, which is linked to your information you just gave.

By this time, your duffle has made it back to you and you key in the number that is on the case. The door is then unlocked, and you are allowed onto the concourse.

Since all your personal effects were placed in the dufflebag, which was then placed into the metal case--they are all the same size and shape and they can fit very efficiently into the belly of the plane. Loading them will take no time at all, as the metal cases stack very nicely.

As for your checked luggage, that is taken on a separate plane, which you brought up to the airport and sent off the night/day/weeks before. All of your luggage is placed in similar metal cases (larger, and you get up to three of them) which go through a similar process to your dufflebag, before being loaded onto the cargo plane. Again, because the cases are all the same they stack very efficiently and because the plane is only carrying bags it can carry a significant amount of luggage easily. You will receive a number, as well as the information being linked to your fingerprint scan for when you check in tomorrow.

When your flight arrives you will leave the plane and proceed to picking up your case with your dufflebag in it. You will then go through the same procedure, only in reverse. Your luggage will be ready and waiting for you to come and get it.

There. Done. Secure end to end. And the best part? No people to rely on to check you in and out. It's all up to you. take as long as you want in your changing room. You won't get out unless you give them all your information. Plus, if they do find something you are easy to detain. nobody else will see you, and cause a fuss.

Go ahead. Disprove me. I welcome all discussions of this at my email. spokeN.O.S.P.A.Mheadz@gmail dot com

Each passing day, more and more of our liberties are dying in the streets. Now they are moving into our homes.

Paul Revere--nay, all the founding fathers--must be spinning in their graves.

@slawkenbergius: that's the best thing about free speech. I don't have to care WHAT you think is funny, I can say whatever I want.

And all this bullcrap about 'hate speech' needs to stop too. There is no such thing. You are allowed to say whatever you want about someone. If you actually do those things then you are supposed to go to jail. Saying something does not mean you are going to do something.

This country is going downhill FAST.

@stranahan: I don't think so. Sure, there will always be the 'underground' films that are basically nothing more than glorified whorehouses...

But for the bigger companies, it really isn't that big of a deal. Actor/Actresses get tested for diseases and drugs regularly, they get a choice on who to work with and what types of films... It's a job.

Plus, when was the last time you made 8-thousand dollars for 8 hours of work? I seriously doubt your plug is going to generate that kind of cashflow.

More to the point, the problem isn't so much that the industry makes it seedy--it's the clientele. old-school porn (cheesy storyline, bad soundtrack, no acting abilities whatsoever) just isn't appealing to people now-a-days. They want quick, hardcore acts of porn.

@CS Loser: You don't know, and there is no way to know. You have trusted your entire life to a government that has ensconced themselves into every facet of your life. There isn't one thing that they can't monitor you on.

You trust them because you have nobody else to trust, because they won't let you.

I love it when these stories come out of Ohio... Makes me feel good to be in the northern half.

waitaminute... no it doesn't!

@Nelson.C:

I wasn't referring to dentistry, directly. I was referring to nationalized general hospital health care.

I apologize for not making this more clear. however, my reasoning still stands. If it is available for free--no matter what it is--people will abuse it. If people are abusing it, then it will get canceled or the quality will go down.

The average wait time for a doctor's appointment in Canada is over 3 months. This excludes emergencies. Obviously a broken bone is going to get in to be treated.

But what about a hairline fracture? something that couldn't be diagnosed without an x-ray?

Three months for an ear infection that might result in deafness in that ear? Three months for am pain in the side that could be the onset of appendicitis? Three months for blood in the stool, when it's not hemorrhoids but a bifurcated colon?

yea, that's a GREAT system... Lets make the people wait and say, "Yea, you know what? I don't need to go in. It's just gas." and then they die when their appendix burst and let that toxic float around their body for a few days. Or from fecal matter going into their bloodstream.

Again, this is not an attack on YOUR system directly, but a generalization of all free health care systems.

Do you know that bums in the USA like to take ambulance rides? Sure do. Hobo-taxis are a real problem, and because of the way that the US law works ("No patient shall be turned away") they get rides and a free overnight stay in the hospital and a free meal. Then they check themselves out of the hospital the next day, and go about begging change off of people.

They don't pay taxes, but they enjoy everything that my tax-dollars do pay for.

I don't know what the answer is. I know it's not free, that's for sure. Free == abuse.

I love how Christiananity looks like an atomic bomb going off at the end there.

LOL@organized religion

This is the exact problem with a unified health-care system. When everybody has it, everybody goes in for every little thing, and then the people who need it have to wait forever.

The free clinic by my house is no longer taking appointments. Why? They have appointments until August of NEXT YEAR.

God forbid you have a broken arm, or need an ultrasound for kidney stones. Or any other kind of medical treatment, because all the crackheads who get shot up because they are paying with monopoly money for their drug are 'emergency' cases.

You would need to quadruple the number of doctors in the USA in order to meet demand--and that isin't taking into account that some areas like New York which have 4000% the population density of Nebraska.

So we'd need more doctors... but nobody would become a doctor then, because you'd get no money anymore. So there would be a need, but no real demand to become one.

I could go on all day about this, but it's moot.

If there isn't a way to comment on a post, then comments have been disabled for that post. Probably because it doesn't warrant a discussion.

Secondly, Keep up the good fight EFF! I have donated to you, and I see my donations have gone to good use.

Keep fighting for the little guy! Or in this case, the entire USA.

@felsby: It's like a timeshare. You pay for your time, and then someone else pays for theirs. You don't own it, you are just renting time.

only 388 days left until the monkey is out of the office. We can only hope that this idiot somehow manages to remove himself from the earth, along with his brother and two kids.

I had a frog. Its name was peepers. It eated little bugs. I liked him. It's sad that a EULA made me eat him.

Yes, pollution affected the value of the area that it effected.

Grammar Nazis eat your heart out.

You could say they have a face for radio...

@Dillenger69: No, that is so not how it works. The basic idea of the law is: No matter what you score on tests, you deserve to graduate from school to get a job.

While it sounds like a great idea, it really fails in the most spectacular way. If every single child is forced (yes, forced. Federal law) to go to school, then you get kids who are just there to be there. They don't want to learn, but yet they HAVE to be given every chance that every other kid is given.

Also, if there are no 'dumb' kids, then how are we supposed to know when we have smart kids? If everybody passes, how are we supposed to know who is brilliant? The kids who score the highest on tests? Bzzt--wrong. Tests are standardized. They are made so that everybody has the same chance to pass as everybody else. Meaning, the kid who never showed up to class at all and never turned anything in has the same chance as every other kid to pass that test. And next year, when kids don't pass--they make the questions easier and easier, until everybody can pass.

And as a kid who had a 'learning disability' I can tell you: It's a crock.

My 'learning disability' was my complete and utter lack of any sort of writing skills. I just coulden't make the shapes on the paper. And when I finally learned the shapes, they would start out okay, but then they would rapidly disentigrate into illegable squiggles. My mind was working faster than the pencil could keep up. I recognized it early, and I wanted to use my Atari 1200xl to do all my homework on.

To this very day, I would rather type out things than write them down. It takes me forever to write something on paper, whereas I can type this whole article in about 5min. I know that most of the people on the internet would say the same, but I have been typing this fast since I was in the 4th grade. Back when Apple IIe were in schools, I had a Compaq Luggable (Suitcase PC) that my father got as a donation from his work. I wrote all of my 4th grade assignments on it. It was my 'best' year in terms of grades and how I acted in school.

But with this NCLB... It's a whole other ballgame. Kids who have serious issues with school--fighting, stealing, selling drugs, skipping class, and just plan-old dumb kids--are given every, single, possible chance they can give them (which is, forever) to pass. Over, and over again until they finally do.

I had it explained to me by my HS Consellor: So long as you show up, they have to give you as much attention as you need to pass. So the kid who is just never going to get Algebra, but has to have it in order to pass--gets the most attention. So the smart kids have to learn on their own, and wait until Biff gets it.

Meanwhile, the next Nicola Tesla or Alexander Graham Bell is sitting somewhere, reading ahead in the book and learning ON HIS OWN because the teacher is struggling with Biff. The kid who set fire to the bathroom last week. Again.

The rest of the world has nothing like NCLB in place. Hell, for most of the world you have to EARN the right to BE in school, or else you are just a guy working in a factory where you push a button, put a piece on another piece, and then push the button again.

Not the most glamorous job, but someone has got to make every single little part that goes into everyday devices. A job is a job. If they wanted something more, they should have buckled down and worked at it.

Oh, wait... We farm those jobs out to other countries. Wonder why that is...

Maybe because we don't have anybody who wants to do those jobs, because they have been told all their life that they will be given something if they just show up and that is good enough for school and it must apply to the rest world because school is supposed to be training you for the real world?

I don't know about you, but I can't just 'show up' to work, and they give me a paycheck. I can't just show up to a meeting, and spin around in my chair, and when it is all over ask one of my co-workers what the meeting was about and can I copy your notes from it. I can't just use other people to get my work done, and still be considered a valuable member of the company.

And I bet you that every single last person reading this knows at least ONE of those people. Why do we let them ruin our workforce? Because we are taught from an early age that showing up is good enough.

The next time you have a day off (if you can get the idiot to stop handing you his job to do) go and watch a kids sporting-event. Little kids. Like, under 8. Baseball, soccer, football--doesn't matter. Any game will do. Watch how they play.

Some of you have kids, and you know this. Some of you don't and need to be told. They don't keep score. It's just, 'Go out there and do whatever'. And it makes me sick.

I'm not saying you should make winning more important than having fun. But they have to know that not everybody gets an equal chance. They are not all equal--but that applies to ALL of life. Just as Billy will be better at football than Randy, Randy will eventually end up going on to MIT and making the robot that will perform the brain surgery on Billy when he's 70. It all works out.

America is also the nation with the fewest engineers. We have no smart kids. How would we know a smart kid if everybody gets a "thanks for showing up" diploma? There is no competition. When there is no competition, you get stagnation and no innovation. Sure, we have people who are smart like that but look where we send everything to be made, tested, improved, or otherwise made smaller/better/faster/stronger.

This rant has gone on far enough, I feel.

Checking now... Yes. This is possible. Simply run the filter back with negative values and it comes right back.

This is also possible in The Gimp, a freely avialable tool that you can download and use without paying a dime for Photochop.

I always thought that ages ago when our diet was more protein (meat, bugs, etc.) that it was extra large intestine that simply we did not need anymore with our move to carbohydrates as our main staple of food.

Just a week ago, I learned that the Lower-GI (large intestine) is used primarily for water absorption, and not really the digestion of food. Not only that, you want to move meat out of the body as quick as possible--or else it rots, and is no good.

But then I learn that carbs are no good either, as they turn right into fat quickly if you don't use them up.

So... No. I don't really know. all I know is that it gets infected, and can kill you if it's not removed. And somehow, that's good enough for me.

Couldn't be that the blond's are on the same mental-level as the Orangutan.

Ouch... sorry Sibu. I couldn't pass that one up. We all know your not as dumb as those airheads.

Emo chair is emo...

I only thought that it was after you eat the Thai food you were considered a terrorist...

At least that's what my family calls me, when I'm around them.

You can opt-out of all of these contracts by choosing not to use this company's service.

If you don't like it, go somewhere else. I'm sure that you can complain that a change to the TOS makes the previous agreement escapable. Meaning, you signed a contract on the old TOS and if you don't agree with the new TOS you can leave and not pay the service fee.

Unless that is in there too. At which point you would just have to complain more, I'm sure.

Just remember to get everything in writing.

The article is nothing like the blurb. WTF?

Wonderful. Keep making it even 'safer' to fly, TSA. I can't wait until nobody flies anymore because of all the possible ways to die--not including the airplane.

Most of the American public will call that a crack pipe, and you will be jailed for possessing that on 'probable cause'. I used to carry around

Whereas a pipe is/can be simply for tobacco. There is no way any judge will believe that is just used for tobacco. Not to mention that you can't pass this around very easily... it looks incredibly fragile.

Vaporizers are expensive, finicky, and pretty obvious what you are doing with them.

Whereas pipes are cheap, easy to use, and fairly small to hide them out of sight.

Rolling a fatty is even cheaper, but they are finicky to get right, but they conceal well.

I personally don't smoke (believe it or not) but I have done the research on it. Personally, I won't ever use the stuff (I don't even like the idea of being knocked out for surgery) but I can see if some people wanted to do it that it would be better for everybody involved to legalize it, and tax the bejesus out of it like they do tobacco.

Oy... You carb zelots. Excuse me while I promptly ignore you and the non-factual babble spewing forth from your mouth.

Carbs aren't the enemy. Sitting around on your duff all day is the enemy. High-fructose Corn Syrup is the enemy. But not carbs.

How is this any worse than french fries?

I personally favored De'anna... But, any chick that CAN read my mind gets a vote in my book. Arguments would be so much easier.

"Look, just read my mind and you figure out what I mean by what I said when I was drunk."

This is why all citizens should be armed--or at least know how to use a firearm. If it is mandatory, the muggers won't know who has one or not. If they don't know that, they won't go robbing people randomly without a gun of their own.

With a gun of their own, they suddenly get a lot more jailtime, are easier to track down, and they get higher bail. Even without firing it.

Or, take some self defense lessons. Not the best idea, but better than nothing.

It's a shame that our native people of America are still being oppressed.

We need to remove the government for about 50 years. Then, all the people depending on the government for help will realize that they are boned without it.

There are all kinds of forgiveness on the part of the victim. They do it so that they get on TV/Internets.

At least they do in Cleveland. [deity] help anybody who:

hurts, maims, slenderizes, injures, kills, multilate, and any other synonyms for doing bad stuff...

to any of my family members. I will hunt them down and kill them in the most brutal way possible, but in line with what they have done. When I go to court, my plea will be "Eye for an eye. Says so in the bible. You have "In God We Trust" written on all the US currency, therefore you take the word of the bible--which is God's word--very seriously."

If I do go to jail, that will be proof that religion is a joke, and we really are all alone on this speck of dust whizzing through the cosmos. Maybe then people would stop killing each other over which side of the sandbox is theirs.

Mullets for Jesus!

But they will be adorable when they eat us all.

Aww... Look at those little legs... They are so cu--

Wow... I knew I voted for the right guy. WTG DONALD!

I play female characters all the time.

If I have to stare at a butt for hundreds of hours/levels, it better be nice to look at.

I have never flown before. I will see if there is any info on me in there...

when the site is up, that is.

Darn! Now I have to take this off my list of things to invent when I get enough money.

Crap... And it was such a good idea too.

Well... we know he went quietly.

*rimshot*

Wow... It's always the quiet ones.

*rimshot*

Now he really is trapped in a box.

*rimshot*

And finally...

Well, at least we won't hear from him again. Get it? hear? HA! Comedy.

Lol @ litigation

I think that organized religion is more dangerous than terrorism.

Oh wait... They are the same thing. My mistake.

You are right... I didn't RTFA... Now I did, and I have concluded that it isn't worth it.

As you noted, the 1 ton of the silica per 16 grams of ore, it simply isn't worth it. Silver has a value of about $12USD per ounce, which 16g is about half an ounce. So you are going to have to find a way of processing a ton of ore using less than $6USD of man-hours, equipment, chemicals, etc. etc.

Not possible. At least not by me. But then again, I am not a geological engineer. If there even is such a thing...

yay for security. hope nobody had a poppyseed bagel the morning...

It's not a lock pick. It doesn't pick anything. It pulls the handle from the other side of the door. Picking would imply that you would be making the lock function without the proper key.

Silver melts at a lower temperature than silica. Throw the stuff into a big oven, heat and strain off.

Also, I don't want no 10mil. I want residuals from all the silver you guys recover. 10% for the life of the mine should be good.

Short and sweet: He was a nutter, and deserved to be tased.

Of course the words are cut up! The pictures are the only things that remain. RTF. ll

deadlink.

Awesome. No other words can describe this.

Yes! Lets blow up the grid, and start over again! We need to beef it up in order to support plug-in electric cars anyhow.

The TSA has never caught a person trying to get on an airplane with any sort of explosive device. They have missed every single one of them.

So. It's just for show.

lev3k - No, really. This was put in for this exact reason. As Mr. Doctorow has pointed out in the comments, "The point wasn't that it was unbreakable -- the point was that now it's potentially illegal under the DMCA to interface with an iPod, because you have to break the hash to load your own music onto it."

Only it's not 'potentially' illegal, it is. You are circumventing a hash, which is pretty clear in the DCMA that doing that is a big no-no.

Unless it is for educational reasons. Then it's okay. I also guess that one could argue that it would fall under the same legislation as DeCSS is, since there is no official iTunes on Linux.

It doesn't bother me one iota, as I never plan on owning an iPod (Bought or from a gift) and I have no need for any sort of music player. Satellite radio works JUST fine for me, thanks.

But Cory is right. There is no way to stop this nonsense, as Apple has gotten so big at this point that they are able to dictate what their users want. They change all the accessories every time they release a new device, continually break compatability of their own programs for the sake of 'innovation', and so on and so on.

Apple has become rotten and we need to remove them from the barrel, lest it spoils them all.

To jump on the bandwagon:

Apple has been force-feeding people new hardware for years. Every generation of iPod has broken older accessories, in some fashion. It's not about the music--it's about the money.

We need to just set up a puppet government already, and get the heck out of there.

That, or send in all of our super-max prisoners over there... Armed to the teeth, with whatever weapon they want (Machine gun? Machete? Flamethrower? Chainsaw?) and as much ammo/fuel as they can carry, with a neck collar with C4 explosives and a satellite-uplink, and a helmet-mounted camera and microphone with the instructions: "Go nuts, buddy."

They start killing other 'soldiers', they get exploded.

They make any attempt to remove the collar, or help remove the collar of another 'soldier', they get exploded.

Basically, unless they are killing the bad guys--they get exploded.

They aren't playing for money, or prizes. They aren't even playing for their freedom. They are just killing to kill. It's what they want, so that's what they will get.