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  1. Re:externality on National Academy of Science Urges Carbon Tax · · Score: 1

    PPP GDP per Emissions (in international dollars per ton):

    Sweden: 6,259 (highest in EU)
    European Union: 3,490
    Germany: 3,318
    United States: 2,291


    Looks like it is working out ok.

  2. Re:anonymous coward on Scientist Uses Nanodots To Create 4Tb Storage Chip · · Score: 1

    It's terabits, one byte is 8 bits thus the confusion.

  3. Re:I don't get it on Software SSD Cache Implementation For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Well an example to solve that problem would be to use several pieces for that single block and simply cycle through them, using the one with the most recent stamp.

    Though I doubt that is how the SSD manufacturers actually solve the problem it is a solution to the problem.

  4. Re:Before someone posts only the xiph link on H.264 vs. Theora — Fightin' Words About Patentability · · Score: 1

    The guy at xiph is retarded, sure in the "random" frame he is showing it's hard to tell a difference but watch the two actual videos side by side at the same time. The superiority of h264 is obvious.

    In particular when there is white text overlay on the film, the compression artifacts of theora becomes very visible.

    Look at (for example) 21s and 26s into the movie and then try to say with a straight face that theora is better.

  5. Re:ubuntu joins apple... on Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release · · Score: 1

    That's simply not true.

    Due to lax policys some american physical engineering fields may possibly use it sometimes, the entire rest of the world uses metric all the time.

  6. Re:Not a good letter. on Free Software Foundation Urges Google To Free VP8 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I agree, quotes such as:

    If you care about free software and the free web (a movement and medium to which you owe your success) you must take bold action to replace Flash with free standards and free formats.

    don't exactly make you very willing to help a person who is currently begging you for free stuff.

  7. Re:Eh wouldn't surprise me... on Windows 7 Memory Usage Critic Outed As Fraud · · Score: 1

    What is grandma doing with an incorrectly installed copy of word to begin with?

  8. Photoshop and open source on 20 Years of Photoshop · · Score: 1

    It's a sad state of affairs that open source should be so behind in image manipulation programs that people would rather spend thousands of dollars on license costs with draconian inspection clauses rather than use a truly free program. Sadly GIMP seems to be going nowhere and Paint.NET is targeting another audience.

  9. Re:Science or Religion? on A Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow · · Score: 1

    If the earth warmed uniformly 5 C everywhere instantaneously tomorrow there would be widespread death and panic everywhere, yet it would still be cold enough to be a blizzard on the northern hemisphere that's why a large blizzard does not refute global warming.

  10. Re:I'm with stupid on Ex-Pirate Bay Admin Launches Micropayment Service · · Score: 1

    Don't be silly now. According to Swedish law you can't be an accomplice in copyright infringement (which is what they were sentenced for) if there is no main culprit. That is, you cannot be convicted to be an aid in a crime when the crime has not been established, several legal experts have testified to the judgement being in error and it will be overturned when it gets to Hovrätten.

    Tingsrätten is only for filtering minor issues and frivolous charges, almost every crime there is taken to Hovrätten. In fact you have the legal right to be tried in Hovrätten if the judgement gives you a punishment.

  11. Re:Out of touch? on Bach Launches Updated MP3 Format · · Score: 1
    Uh what? 2^3 = 8 which is even.

    Also 3^(ln(2)/ln(3)) = 2 which is also even :P

  12. Re:Bible Code? on 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There are 4^3000 (about 1.5*10^1806) different 3000 letter works (if you only have 4 characters). The odds of finding your specific one in a 3 trillion collection of random letters is so small, you can't even imagine how small it is. (approx 1 in 2*10^1794)

    But let's try anyway. Imagine playing the universal lottery. You are supposed to pick one subatomic particle in the entire universe, and if you choose the correct one you get 1 nickle, the odds of winning is about 1 in 10^80, if you were to enter that lottery a billion trillion times a second (10^21) by the time all protons in the universe would have decayed the likelyhood that you would have won even once would be so small that you could not even imagine. Never the less.

    Now imagine playing that lottery one time for each billion trillion times times you look through a different set of random characters (with each set being 3 trillion characters). After having won that lottery, not once, but enough times to build a tower of your nickles 1000 times longer than the circumference of the entire universe the likelyhood of you having found a matching set to your 3000 character set would be so close to 0, that you still can not even imagine how small it is.

    So my guess would be that this virus dna didn't just appear by chance in the dna of humans.

  13. Re:Get to the point, please on DC Sues AT&T For Unclaimed Phone Minutes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I know all of us are pondering the same thing:

    Does this apply to unused gamecards for WoW? Does government have the right to thousands of hours of unused WoW gametime?

    Yes, if you were to purchase the gamecards and never cash them in Blizzard would not be allowed to just void them. The government would have the right to take them and hold them for you and if you did not collect them after a certain while the government could do whatever with them.

  14. Re:good job russia? on Geoengineering a Snow-Free Winter Fails In Moscow · · Score: 1

    I once looked it up, and 15 cargo ships produce as much greenhouse gas as all the cars in the world combined. There are 90,000 cargo ships in the world that operate all the time. Do the math.

    Lies.

  15. Re:Really.... how hard is it.... on Escaped Convict Continues To Update Facebook · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing it would be extremely easy to foist and extremely expensive hardware. Hell, while you're running and before you have time to remove it just wrap it in tinfoil that will make it nothing more than an expensive ugly armband.

  16. Re:Integration means it is still there on EU Accepts Microsoft's Browser Choice Promise · · Score: 1

    Yes, they just removed the excecutable for IE. The engine is still there.

  17. Re:Not not? on Cell Phone Searches Require Warrant · · Score: 1

    If they suspect you of having an object in there can't they already do that?

  18. Re:Connections on Lawmakers Caught Again By File-Sharing Software · · Score: 1

    Seeing as politicians are plural you should use the term are instead of is, turning the sentence to:

    we have politician who'res

    Which explains everything.

  19. Re:Barking up the wronf tree. on Student Loan Interest Rankles College Grads · · Score: 1

    In the Sweden I know, college is free no matter your grades from high school. Though you require a minimum of pass in 90% of courses and admittance order is sorted by your grade.

    Even with worse than 90% pass of high school courses college is free. But to be admitted you need other credentials (usually 5 years of relevant job experience).

  20. Re:Wow. on 1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right In Finland · · Score: 1

    This IS the Nordic women we're talking about. I'm sure even a bumbling slashdotter could land something decent.

    No honestly, do you guys have fat unattractive girls over there that no one photographs? I swear every picture I've seen taken in Sweden or Finland looks like the hot sorority house on campus.

    No, fat and/or unattractive girls are shot on sight, for the good of the genepool.

  21. We're getting closer on New Superconductor World Record Surpasses 250K · · Score: 1

    Reaching room temperature super conduction would bring huge benefits to modern day technology. Power usage of chips would plummet to almost nothing and allow a brand new generation of processors. Amongst several other very useful things.

  22. Re:Dubious figures on How To Save $1 Trillion a Year With Open Source · · Score: 1

    Apparently, using open source can save us 2% of GWP, gross world product.

    Highly unlikely.

  23. Re:Unbelievable ? In related news ... on California Publishes Television Efficiency Standards For 2011 · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're imagining things. For the last thirty years the only place where you have found incandescent lighing has been at peoples home.

    Every mall, school, workplace already use flourescent lamps (though you might only recognize them looking like this instead of this).

  24. Re:Counterpoints on California Publishes Television Efficiency Standards For 2011 · · Score: 1

    Broken windows fallacy.

  25. Re:About time! on iPhone Straining AT&T Network · · Score: 1

    The spots you are seeing when zooming in are lakes and other water areas.

    Why telia dont just paint them green aswell is unknown to me. Since ofcourse there is coverage there aswell.