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  1. Carbon nanotubes kicks ass! on Nanotube Muscles Are Strong As Steel, Light As Air · · Score: 1

    Now literally!

  2. Re:What would really be nice... on Recovery.gov Not Very Transparent · · Score: 1

    I'm just saying it would be nice if the law were a little more succinct so that we could see the details of the laws getting passed.

    If that were the case, they wouldn't be able to pass a Child Healthcare bill with millions allocated to impotence research... etc...

    Hey! Impotence is a very common problem among young boys! A lot of the boys younger than 6 years old hardly get erections at all!* =)

    *I have no idea if this is really true but at least after googling it i now know that boys of all ages can get erections but not really how often. The more you know...

  3. Re:Why not a small screen? on iPod Shuffle Finds Its Voice · · Score: 1

    Though voice is more accessible and helps blind people, for the vast majority of non-blind users it is simply very inconvenient.

    Yeah! And what about the deaf people? They won't be able to hea... oh, wait

  4. Oblig. on South Korea Joins the "Three Strikes" Ranks · · Score: 1

    "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
    Sooner or later people will say enough is enough and stop listening to the content industry altogether...

  5. Re:Good reason to get shut on US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles · · Score: 1

    Hmm... sorry about that. Didn't read the parent. Thought it was just a normal terrorist attack not a nuclear attack. Of course unless there was a chance of the terrorist doing a similar attack again there would still be no gain.

  6. Re:Good reason to get shut on US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles · · Score: 1

    If you had to choose whether to take out a bunch of families half a world away for no gain or doing nothing, would you do it?

  7. Re:Support Amazon on Packing Algorithms May Save the Planet · · Score: 1

    Let's just hope they don't patent the packing algorithm...

  8. Re:Not sure of the value of this. on Targeted Advertising Coming To Cable TV · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Not sure of the value of this. on Targeted Advertising Coming To Cable TV · · Score: 1

    Fun fact: In Sweden it's illegal to target children with commercials since they are so easily influenced

  10. Re:So? on BASH 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    ** is very interesting. mplayer **/*.mp3 for example =) This might not be useful in scripts though

    PS. I'm assuming that ** works like it does in zsh because I haven't RTFA

  11. Re:A Strawman for the Symptom on Pirate Bay P2P Trial Begins In Sweden · · Score: 1

    Personally i can say that I would never buy music for the outrageous price of $1 but if the price was ~10 cents i might start using legal music as my main music source.

    (This is not 100% true. I bought all Jonathan Coulton songs for ~$1 each but I'm quite ashamed about it but I don't like lying. At least it's the only legal music I've bought for myself in my entire life)

    I agree that in most cases the rule lower prices -> more sales is not true but I do believe it's the case with severely overpriced stuff like music. And people obviously want a lot of music: just look at the size of mp3 player

  12. Re:A Strawman for the Symptom on Pirate Bay P2P Trial Begins In Sweden · · Score: 2

    With a price of ~10 cents people could afford to buy a LOT of music. Many people wouldn't hesitate to buy a thousand songs. A lot of people would probably use the same downloading style they use for torrents, i.e downloading every song an artist made if they like the artist.

  13. Re:Good Riddance on Internet Killed the Satellite Radio Star · · Score: 1

    What you need is to regulate away the monopoly on broadband so there can be competition. Nobody could violate net neutrality with decent competition.

  14. Re:Cats ? on How To Keep Rats From Eating My Cables? · · Score: 1

    Cat's may be good natural hunters but they need to be taught by their mothers how to kill. They might learn it on their own but I believe it's pretty unusual;at least unless there is loads of mice and the cat has all the time in the world.

  15. Re:promising..but... on The Incredible Shrinking Operating System · · Score: 1

    It's a python script called command-not-found. It's called by bash when a command is not found (If I understand correctly)

  16. Re:Boss levels on What Spoils a Game For You? · · Score: 1

    Games are supposed to be challenging. If you make too easy they cease being fun =)

  17. Re:What sold me.. on Ubuntu Wipes Windows 7 In Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    From what I understand it's not extremely unusual for games to get a higher FPS in wine than in windows(of course most of the time it's probably the other way around). I usually play my games on my windows partition

  18. Re:Makes you wonder on US Becomes Top Wind Producer; Solar Next · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah and Denmark gets pissy about Sweden's nuclear power plant and we have to shut it down.:(

  19. Re:Question on Apps That Officially Support Wine · · Score: 1

    Considering that most applications work out of the box in wine I would think it would pretty easy to get that extra audience.

  20. Re:HAHAHAHAHA on DRM Shuts Down PC Version of Gears of War · · Score: 1

    It would be really nice if companies had donate links on their webpages easily accessible=/ I don't really want to support stores but I do want to support game companies... Oh well... i guess they can live without my money

  21. Re:A step in the right direction on Microsoft Releases Source Code For Web Sandbox · · Score: 1

    It takes a while to regain trust (and there is the whole OOXML bribing thing which happened not to long ago)

  22. Re:Powers of 2 on WD's Monster 2TB Caviar Green Drive, Preview Test · · Score: 1

    Powers of ten are not naturally more convenient for humans. It's just that we are used to it. We should have used power of 16:S. That would be convenient for both humans and machines!

  23. Re:Rational on Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study · · Score: 1

    You could drive at 5 km/h. That should be enough to compensate.... of course you won't since your judgment is impaired.

  24. Ext4 in Ubuntu jaunty jackalope on Fedora 11 To Default To the Ext4 File System · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Apparently there is a serious risk of data loss at this time in case of power loss (at least in ubuntu). http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1040199

  25. Re:Just stop watching TV on Most Hackable Coupon-Eligible DTV Converter? · · Score: 1

    You could theoretically buy it on DVDs from amazon