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  1. Compared to Bing, Google is still king: on Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google is much more serious about search than Microsoft; I have access to Google Scholar, Google Books and several specialized searches that may or may not be useful to you personally, like Reader and blogs.

    Also, Google gets me much better results in Image search, than Bing, and generally better results from web searches.

  2. Re:This reminds me of a nursery rhyme on LSD Can Treat Alcoholism · · Score: 1

    There are proven benefits to drinking alcohol

    No,
      no
    and no.

    The only truth is, there's a shitload of money made from getting people to drink overpriced alcohol-in-water solutions.

  3. Re:Google is going for low price on 7-inch Google Tablet Coming From ASUS · · Score: 2

    I think I agree. I bought two Asus netbooks (different generations) and both have been nothing but flawless in every aspect.

  4. Re:Simular effect with simple filter on The Lytro Camera: Impressive Technology and Some Big Drawbacks · · Score: 1

    Linky to that Ren Ng paper on Fourier Slice theory?
    Thanks a lot in advance.

  5. Re:Makes sense on LSD Can Treat Alcoholism · · Score: 3, Informative

    You cannot be an LSD addict - LSD is not addictive.
    Here, educate thy ignorant sefl.

  6. Re:This reminds me of a nursery rhyme on LSD Can Treat Alcoholism · · Score: 1

    LSD is not physically addictive, while alcohol causes one of the strongest addictions AND is also extremely harmful - unlike LSD.

  7. At 2:37.

    No lie.

  8. The Nazis could have kept Teller on Edward Teller: Father of the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 2

    The Nazis could have kept Teller and a huge bunch of other excellent Jewish scientists, if only their grotesque racism didn't blind them, and push the Jewish scientists to the West (the USA mostly).

    I think we can be all very thankful for the Nazis' idiocy, because their anti-Jewish propaganda might just have saved the world.

  9. Getting a bit ahead of ourselves? on Could Curiosity Rover Moonlight As Part of a Sample Return Mission? · · Score: 2

    I'd wait till Curiosity lands without smashing itself into smithereens. That would be a great and somewhat unexpected success.

    http://youtu.be/xqqBy7C8gyU

  10. Re:Grab the remote... on Oxygen Found Around Saturn's Moon Dione · · Score: 1

    I'm not thrilled because it's old news. Europa was found to have a mostly oxygen atmosphere back in 1995.

    Yeah, well, but we can't fucking go to Europa, now can we?

  11. Re:Not another guest worker fraud thread... on Science and Engineering Workforce Has Stalled In the US · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to be remotely: just get in cheap management from China and India. Since management is 100% generic, any old "manager" can do it.

    As for "trusted", we have seen how trustworthy 1st world managers are. They have only one allegiance: to their own bank account. Some cheap Indian or Chinese may be a breath of fresh air in this regard.

  12. Re:Not another guest worker fraud thread... on Science and Engineering Workforce Has Stalled In the US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or how about turning it upside down, and offshore the most expensive and at the same time most generic workforce: top and middle management.

    Of course, that would never happen. The system is rigged, by and for corporate psychopaths.

  13. Re:Welcome to our world on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 1

    That's fucked up, man. Sucks to be you, and I'm saying that with all the sympathy in the world.

    But you gave me yet another reason to feel happy I live in Finland.

  14. Re:All land between the lines on roads world wide on Open Ministry Crowdsources Laws In Finland · · Score: 2

    That's true. As a Finn, I feel something akin to scorn for a political system that allows part of its population to go without healthcare. Heck, there are millions of *children* without healthcare in the US, and some in the US are even *proud* of that?!

    Deeply fucked up, and worthy of scorn.

  15. Re:Copyright and patent laws reform, here I come on Open Ministry Crowdsources Laws In Finland · · Score: 1

    A finn that agrees, checking in.

    We need a coordinating website or such.

    BTW, I'm vacillating between completely abolishing copyrights and *drastically* restricting them. I am afraid that, if they're not obliterated, there will always be a douchebag politician willing to re-extend them in duration and scope.

  16. If MS starts making excuses on Azure Failure Was a Leap Year Glitch · · Score: 1

    If MS starts making excuses for this mini fiasco, they will only manage to make Amazon, Google and Apple look like fucking geniuses

  17. Re:Welcome to our world on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 2

    We really need more subways here in US cities, but even those might have limited use as so many people live in suburbs where an underground probably wouldn't run anyway.

    I live in the suburbs of Helsinki. I walk 7 minutes to the local train station - local trains take about 15 minutes to take me to the center. Earlier I lived in another suburban area and needed 11 minutes of walk to the local train station. That train took 13 minutes to the center.

    Local trains are extremely fast, on par with the Metro, which we also have (but it's mostly intended for in-urban transportation).

    The way public transport is designed here, you can get from point A to point B even if the two points are, say, 50 Km apart, in 30-40 minutes, unless you're SOL, but even that is relative, as you'd need to use buses which would only marginally decrease the commuting speed.

  18. Re:Just too funny on HP Cuts Staff As WebOS Transitions To Opensource · · Score: 1

    No shit. Companies like Apple or Oracle, of which I am not particularly fond, do have a strategy. If I worked at either I would at least not worry for my job's long term perspective. HP? Let's just say that if HP changed their name to BOZOS Inc., that wouldn't harm their image one bit.

    When HP goes belly-up, it will be a most undignified corporate death - imagine lots of diarrhea and puke.

  19. Re:Sad for the naive on 25 Alleged Anonymous Hackers Arrested By Interpol · · Score: 0

    Sorry, but what is "egotistical" about them? They din't do shit for money, and sure as fuck didn't do it for "fame" (they're anonymous, after all), so it would be nice if you could make a not-so-emotionally-charged argument for using that word - egotistical.

  20. Just too funny on HP Cuts Staff As WebOS Transitions To Opensource · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I lost my shit at "Hewlett-Packard [..] as part of its strategy"

    HP and strategy? If you think HP has anything even remotely resembling "a strategy", you're smoking something too strong to be healthy.

  21. Re:Profit & Lies on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    Supporting organizations who don't believe in copyright such as The Pirate Bay

    Lie.

    The Pirate Bay (not the Pirate party I assume) is neither for nor against copyrights - but the Pirate Party is supportive of sane copyright terms and conditions i.e. not what we have today.

    Who modded up this dreck?

  22. Re:Hoping to Clarify ... on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 2

    After reading this lame letter/post, it appears clear that you have not done your homework and should be sued. You should be made an example of, for the benefit of other youtube users. It doesn't matter whether you're a megacorp or a crummy one-man operation (which I assume you are); this copyrights madness should stop.

  23. Re:Supremacy Clause on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    Local juries refuse to convict even in federal court.

    Is that so? That's incredible, and awesome, if true.
    Could you provide any link that could substantiate your assertion? I'd be very grateful.

  24. Wrong problem on Vaccine Could Cut Heroin Addiction · · Score: 1

    The problems caused by heroin addiction are minute compared to those caused by alcohol consumption and addiction. But of course, nobody would dare to try to fix that - there is too much interest in intoxicating people with expensive alcohol in water solution.

  25. Re:Why no right-thinking person believes in free t on Where Next-Generation Rare Earth Metals May Come From · · Score: 1

    The mine owners may be forced to sell then mine to someone with enought foresight to know that the prices won't stay low forever.

    And that will be the Chinese, as they're the only one able to concentrate enough money (through state-owned companies) to buy up the mines.

    Just a few examples.

    Libertarian, busted you are.