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  1. Re:Brown on NASA Releases New High-Definition Image of Earth · · Score: 1

    Late summer at the time the photograph was taken?

    Season change makes a big difference at any height

  2. Re:Ban the use of faucets! on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 1

    Still, how many bottled water companies have been busted selling filtered faucet water?

  3. Re:Holy cow ... on A Planet Literally Boils Under the Heat of Its Star · · Score: 1

    I can imagine it's something like that hot planet from The Chronicles of Riddick.

  4. Re:Not Blacked Out? on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do About SOPA and PIPA? · · Score: 1

    Well... right now is showing a black ribbon.

  5. Re:My prediction on Predicting Life 100 Years From Now · · Score: 1

    and the rest 0.01% will hardly tell if he/she is alive anymore.

  6. Re:humour on Oracle v. Google Trial On Indefinite Hold · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Oracle has always being misleading in its answers.

  7. Re:Better link available. on Chile Forbids Carriers From Selling Network-Locked Phones · · Score: 2
  8. Re:An outbreak of common sense on Chile Forbids Carriers From Selling Network-Locked Phones · · Score: 4, Informative

    Almost any phone can be unlocked instantaneusly from the carrier's web form.... except iPhones... only Apple can unlock their phones... you have to fill a form (by pen at the carrier office) and wait for 15 days for the iPhone to be unlocked.

  9. Re:Great on Chile Forbids Carriers From Selling Network-Locked Phones · · Score: 1

    That is incorrect. You can take your number to any carrier you want... if you've got credit for buying a phone, then you still have to pay for it.
    You sign two, independent, contracts one for the phone service (that by law you can end anytime you want), and another one for the leasing of the phone.

    Greetings from Chile ;-)
    (somebody turn off the heat please!!!)

  10. Re:rongorongo on Copiale Cipher Decoded · · Score: 1

    The language is still spoken by the Rapa Nui Inhabitants.
    (or a derivative taking in consideration a couple hundreds of years since the tables were written)

  11. rongorongo on Copiale Cipher Decoded · · Score: 2

    Not actually a ciphered text , but.

    Any chance to use these techniques to finally be able to read the only written language of the Polynesia? (rongorongo from Rapa Nui)

    The ability to read these "tables that speak" was lost due to the slavery of the Wise Elder that had the knowledge.

  12. Re:Here let me fix that for you. on iPhone 4 Prototype Finder Gets Probation · · Score: 1

    Law in Chile has a term for that "Hurto por hallazgo" (theft by finding - or something like that)
    and it is treated very similar to simple theft.

  13. Not bad!! on iPhone 4 Prototype Finder Gets Probation · · Score: 1

    So, as I understand it from the summary (who RTFA, right?) its $4750 for a 40 hours job?

    Not bad!... it's the only the one year probation that doesn't allow this to transform into a full time job.

  14. Re:Am I the only one on New Close-Ups of Saturn's Geyser Moon · · Score: 1

    Is it getting closer? It didn't look THAT BIG yesterday!!
    Sure that would be scary.

  15. Re:Shotgun on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Excuse my ignorance. But, on what grounds, shooting is considered educational?

  16. Copy/Paste form Chile on FCC Finalizes US Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Sounds suspiciously similar to the Chilean Net neutrality law. :-)
    Greetings from the south cone.

  17. Re:Gimbals on Using Flywheels to Meet Peak Power Grid Demands · · Score: 1

    If the axis is perfectly oriented to the geographic north pole, then there is no problem.

  18. Cyber war on Does China's Cyber Offense Obscure Woeful Defense? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    first to post, wins!

  19. First post? on Erasing CDs By Using 150,000 Volts of Electricity · · Score: 1

    Erased by lightning... it's Alive!! ^H^H^H^H erased!!

  20. Re:Not bothered on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    Most DVD now can play downloaded content, like movies or series encoded in Xvid.

    Also, there's a lot of competition from on-line content players like the Boxee Box, that can even play blu-ray content stored on hard disk. I can't see how stand-alone Blu-ray players would be able to beat that.

  21. Re:No need to break what isn't broken on Supreme Court Rules On Corporate Privacy · · Score: 1

    Breaking the law is never in the public interest, so a corporation that does so is dissolved

    Death penalty? I guess only in Texas :-)

  22. No tooltips please! on Eye-controlled Laptop Presented At CeBit · · Score: 1

    There are some web pages that instantly pops up a tooltip while hovering over a link (sometimes very big, covering everything on the surroundings).

    I find that extremely annoying, even nowadays using the mouse, so I guess trying to read those pages using this tech will be next to impossible.

    Please get rid of it, just like the infamous blinking text

  23. Re:Their other projects are also superheroes on Nvidia Demos 'Kal-El' Quad-Core Tegra Mobile CPU · · Score: 1

    Let's hope this doesn't become a Blur

  24. AIDS on Bombay High Court Rules Astrology To Be a Science · · Score: 1

    Here in Chile, a couple of years ago a judge declared that a convict was cured from AIDS during his time served
    (actually he was wrongly diagnosed with AIDS and had to serve his time in a separate jail, around other prisoners carrying HIV, when they let him go, he was "cured")

    one can expect everything from lawyers/justice.

  25. Read my lips! on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 1

    When I hear these declarations, for some reason I also hear two echoes in my mind:

    - "Read my lips, no more taxes"
    - "I did not had sexual relations with that woman..."