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  1. Re:Nice on GSM Association Slams Euro Call For Ban On Wireless In School · · Score: 1

    We're saved from more damaging effects by the ozone layer - an electromagnetic shield it just so happens to be

    "Electromagnetic shield" sounds much more dramatic than the actual ozone layer. For the record, it isn't dark here!

    Now everyone, repeat after me:
    O2 => O + O
    O2 + O => O3
    O3 => O2 + O

  2. Re:I noticed this on The Insidious Creep of Latency Hell · · Score: 1

    It must be said that Office 2007 is extremely irritating for a seasoned Office 2003 user (like me). Using styles, especially numbered headers, in Word is beyond braindead. (Brainstemdead?) AND MORE CLICKING!

  3. Re:2,500 years on Comet Hale-Bopp 'Frozen To Death' · · Score: 2

    Waiting for the next Kreutz sungrazer!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreutz_Sungrazers

  4. Re:EU-UK? on LOFAR, the World's Biggest Telescope, Is Up and Running · · Score: 1

    Finns will say they live in Europe. However, Europe (especially the EU) is sometimes contrasted with Finland. This was particularly notable when Finland was going to join the EU. Also now, when populistic EU-critical groups have become more popular recently.

    There is also the term "manner-Eurooppa", ie. 'continental Europe', which doesn't include Finland, Norway or Sweden. The UK isn't part of that either but Denmark probably is.

  5. Re:my prediction on LOFAR, the World's Biggest Telescope, Is Up and Running · · Score: 1

    Audiogalaxy?
    Ares Galaxy?

  6. Ob SMAC on Automatic Life Jacket Detection For Drones · · Score: 1

    Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.

  7. Re:It would have been a lot cooler on Toy Converted Into an Enigma Machine · · Score: 1

    No, it's SOIL.

    (Or SEED, but that doesn't exist any more.)

  8. See also "Harvard Computers" on Rediscovering WWII's Top-Secret Computing 'Rosies' · · Score: 3, Informative

    That wasn't the first time women were employed doing calculations. A better known groups is known as "Harvard Computers", where astronomist Edward Pickering hired women to process data. One reason is said to be that women could be paid less than men.

    Two well-known women from that group were Annie Jump Cannon and Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

    Wikipedia has a short article about them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Computers

  9. Re:Yay for research on Magnetic Brain Stimulation Makes Learning Easier · · Score: 1

    See, I posted two replies because it showed zero comments for a long time.

  10. Yay for research on Magnetic Brain Stimulation Makes Learning Easier · · Score: 1

    This is why I love science -- new discoveries are made, and hopefully can be put into use!

  11. Magnetically stimulated overlords on Magnetic Brain Stimulation Makes Learning Easier · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our magnetically stimulated overlords.

  12. Re:With a name like that.... on Facebook-Deprived Man Sues For $500K · · Score: 1

    Ah, the name is likely Albanian. For more exciting consonant clusters, you can always try Georgian (no, that isn't the most spoken language in Atlanta). English "screeve" is a borrowing from Georgian mts'k'rivi for a linguistic concept, for example.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screeve

    Apparently, mtvrali means 'drunk'.

  13. Re:Tell me more about this on Ski Lifts Can Could Help Get Cargo Traffic Off the Road · · Score: 1

    There isn't that much information about Ropecon in English. http://www.ropecon.fi/pmwiki/index.php/Conry/InEnglish

  14. Re:Installation on LibreOffice 3.3 Released Today · · Score: 1

    You can't even get the sweat off Ellison's balls without signing a service contract.

    And an NDA as well.

  15. Re:They urgently need a new name on LibreOffice 3.3 Released Today · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they could consider... Loffice? Flossfice? OpenWorker? Productivities? Chopped liver?

  16. Re:The meaning of random on Greenland Ice Sheet Melts At Record Rate In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Water's capacity to absorb CO2 increases with temperature.

    What? The page you linked to doesn't say anything like that:

    2. The temperature. Solubility decreases with increasing temperature.

    This is a usual property of solubilities of gases in liquids. It's a factor that may have effect on sea life in polar areas: if water becomes warmer, there will be less oxygen for organisms in water.

  17. Unnecessary hard work (ObXkcd) on Norwegian Police, Seeking Info On 2 Bloggers, Take Data From 7,000 Accounts · · Score: 1

    From TFA:

    Kopierte hele harddisken i jakten på to brukere
    Copied the entire hard disk in the hunt for two users

    Apparently, the Norwegian politi doesn't know regular expressions. See http://xkcd.com/208/

  18. Consider Jupiter on RIAA Threatens ICANN Over Music-Themed gTLD Standards · · Score: 1

    Jupiter has (equatorial) radius 11.209 (courtesy of Wikipedia) times that of Earth, so its surface is about 125 times that of Earth!

    Unfortunately, Jupiter hasn't got hard surface -- and its gravity would crush people or make people flat anyway.

  19. I studied chemistry. It didn't happen to me but a co-student happened to lick the back of her hand after weighting oxalic acid. Fortunately it wasn't anything worse... She said it tasted rather sour.

  20. Re:Adblock as a consumer pressure tool on Righthaven Adds Forum Posters To Copyright Suit · · Score: 1

    At least no such things are listed on the adblockplus subscriptions page. https://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions There are a rickroll blacklist, though, and filters for blocking social interaction...

  21. GG user vs. USENET on Righthaven Adds Forum Posters To Copyright Suit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Google Groups user named Jim_Higgins posted a column

    Google Groups user

    The original message shows that Jim_Higgins doesn't post to USENET (and at least the majority of his posts seem to be to newsgroups) from Google Groups. What are Righthaven going to do next, sue all news server admins?

  22. Re:Come on Sony! on Sony Files Lawsuit Against PS3 Hacker GeoHot · · Score: 1

    You make it a Sony!

  23. Re:Wow... on Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Relax ... there's a correlation on Solar Dynamo Still Anemic, Magnetism and UV Lax · · Score: 0

    Piers Corbyn is a weather forecaster in Britain who uses solar activity and the phases of the moon to predict weather. His long range forecasts are somewhat more accurate than those of the UK Met Office

    Now, you really need to have something to quantify that statement, preferably with clear criteria how to assess accuracy of predictions. You can't trust your memory on things like this: you're likely to remember only recent things -- with bias.

  25. Re:ludicrous on Coder Accuses IBM of Patenting His Work · · Score: 1

    ÿëäh and that's what Spinal Tap said