Posts by Matthew Saroff

One Part of the Article is Wrong

Turbines require less maintenance, and are more reliable than piston engines, typically by at least a factor of 10.

I'm Shocked to Discover that There Is Gambling Going on in This Establishment

Your winnings sir....

I call BS too

Too much current required at 110v single phase.

AOL Drops Usenet?

The endless September is finally over!

Ummm...He Might Be Roman

There is a school of thought that believes that Arthur was a Roman, and that Avalon was in fact what we now call Avignon, France.

Paint Stripper????

I have this image of some bird done up in a Goldfinger getup.

This is bat%$#@ insane.

When you look at those cases, like that poor school teacher in Connecticut sentenced to jail for basically having a spyware infected computer, and the fact that it's law enforcement who doesn't get the basics of how a compute works and screws it up, this is insane.

This is like requiring that the person performing the autopsy to be a cop.

They don't need to be a cop, they need to be a pathologist.

Can you say patent troll?

Good, I knew you could.

Actually, it is the job of the Supreme Court

And the patent court to evaluate patent standards against the constitutional reason given for patents and copyright, "to promote the useful arts and sciences."

This Report is Self-Serving Contractor Agitprop

What happened was good, old fashioned mission planning and intelligence.

This is a defense contractor feeding a story out to generate business for themselves.

The Israelis determined where the sites were, how and when they operated, and set up the strike accordingly. Much less high tech than BAE's "Suter".

As to high tech, I would remind everyone that that F-117 Stealth Fighter that got shot down over Yugoslavia happened because it flew the same route, at the same time, 3 days in a row.

I go into this at http://40yrs.blogspot.com/2007/10/interesting-if-flawed-analysis-of.html

I want the recipe

Seriously. It's a true 5 alarm sauce.

Yet another Bull#$@! Patent Helping the Big Guys

IP is there to promote the useful arts and sciences, not to maintain monopolies.

IP law is out of bloody control.

You Know That This Will Be a Force For Evil

It will be a way to make people attend teleconference meetings while doing Yoga.

Yet another sanctuary done away with.

Lefties are Craxy, huh.

Well that explains why my left-handed wife married me.

You are wrong

You say, "the income generated by the levy has been negligible because AHRA does not apply to the new generations of technology, including personal computers and MP3 players."

There has been negligible income because the levy, and the mandatory copy protection technology, killed the digital tape recorder by making media and hardware too expensive, and reducing sound quality.

Story Misses the Big Point

It's that the 3 Dorges Dam is a bloody ecological disaster.

If this Were any more clever

You could put a tail on it and call it a weasel!

It's not about prudery.

It's about meatspace casinos and state run lotteries not wanting competition.

A Backdoor to Hardware DRM?

Just wondering if this is a back door to getting DRM hardware installed on people's machines.

I would think that this technology might very well be a way of locking down machines at a later date, so that people can't back up DVDs and CD (and there is that whole Bit Torrent thing).

This Article is Better Than the One In Aviation Week

In that article, the writer drew analogies between ion and Star Trek, because both drives glow blue.

see http://fourtyyears.blogspot.com/2007/07/note-to-aerospace-journalists-star-trek.html

All Your Base Are Belong To Us

Kind of surprised that I'm the first to think of making that comment.