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  1. 3 Google on Japanese Government Will Censor Fukushima "Illegal Information" · · Score: 1

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  2. Re:Pertinent part of the article on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wait, they don't switch these off, when they go for a bombing run?
    Doesn't this defeat the whole idea of stealth?

  3. Re:Why is that a crime? on Facebook Wedding Photos Result In Polygamy Arrest In Michigan · · Score: 1, Funny

    I bet it has something to do with Michigan.

  4. PayPal on Judge Lets Sony Access GeoHot's PayPal Account · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If that cash went through a real bank, would the outcome be the same?
    PayPal's weird semi-bank-state allows for legal action I never heard of otherwise.

  5. Re:A real shame on US Reneges On SWIFT Agreement · · Score: 1

    This is between the US and the EU.

    So maybe you should look at the table from the exact same page you got your images from:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
    "European Union 16,106,896" M$

  6. Looks more like a toy on EADS Bicycle Made of Steel-Strength Nylon · · Score: 1

    The concept sounds cool until you click the link and see the picture. What a letdown. That rubber band for a bike chain is dishearting.
    If there is real advantage in using this technology like this, they should build mutiple parts and assamble a real bike.

  7. Re:Help me statistician your my only hope ... on Can You Beat a Computer At Rock-Paper-Scissors? · · Score: 1

    It searches for patterns.
    20 scissors in a row is a pretty clear and obvious pattern.

  8. Re:Thank goodness for Canada on Leaked Cables Reveal US Thinks Saudi Oil Reserves May Be Overstated · · Score: 2

    Well, that's the whole "blood for oil" discussion all over again.

    But if you read the grossly huge number, that tells us the cost of that war, you need to remember, that a big chunk of this money went right into the US economy.
    This makes a huge difference to straight out paying another country for resources. That money is gone for good (unless you make them buy your weapons and other goods with it, then you get a bit of it back).

  9. Re:US Thinks Saudi Oil Reserves May Be Overstated on Leaked Cables Reveal US Thinks Saudi Oil Reserves May Be Overstated · · Score: 5, Informative

    The origin of this information is a former saudi oil company exec. The leak just quotes it and tells us, that US diplomats think he's believable.

  10. Re:Thank goodness for Canada on Leaked Cables Reveal US Thinks Saudi Oil Reserves May Be Overstated · · Score: 1

    Hence the "invade" part, to get it cheaper...

  11. Re:By what authority? on MPAA Threatens To Disconnect Google From Internet · · Score: 2

    Google has an ISP?

  12. Re:wait what? on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 2

    If I would crash a Toyota because of my own idiocy, I know what I would claim... "Yes, the car accelerated on it's own, just like in the news!"

  13. Re:If it wasn't 99% memorization no one would chea on 61.9% of Undergraduates Cybercheat · · Score: 1

    In most science classes I took, from about school year 10 up to university graduation, I could bring reference material to tests.
    Often it would be something like "2 pages, handwritten", sometimes it would be "anything you want, bring a library if you like". Tests were focused on problem solving and speed. If you were prepared, you would look at your huge stack of material like once or twice during that test.
    If you didn't learn, you would spend so much time searching your material for answers, that you wouldn't have time to finish anything.

  14. Re:Cheating vs. Illegal Downloads? on 61.9% of Undergraduates Cybercheat · · Score: 1

    Yes, the latter is far worse.

  15. Re:Cybercheat? on 61.9% of Undergraduates Cybercheat · · Score: 1

    This is not cheating, unless they somehow knew exactly which questions would come up.

    In any given test you should have a pretty good idea of what kind of questions will come up and how your professor tends to form them (or how the textbook he gets them from does...). Exercising questions that are likely to show up in the test is what every student does.
    And if the student can answer all questions from a given book, he has learned a lot already. I assume even those teachers that use textbook-sources will at least alter the numbers a bit.

  16. Re:free copper! on Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion? · · Score: 1

    Let's try sending all that waste energy to mars. It's pretty cold there, so there is room for a lot of that stuff. Send some people with it, to make sure the energy gets properly disposed off.

  17. Re:Its really on New Mega-Leak Reveals Middle East Peace Process · · Score: 1

    It is still an additional 1600 documents of information that we now can base our standpoint on.
    If they decided not to release some documents, that does not make the information they did release worthless. You just need to fill in the rest of the picture from a different source.. like always.
    They are not responsible for providing all and every last bit of info to you.

  18. Re:Milking the cow... on H.R. Giger Returns To the Alien Franchise · · Score: 1

    As long as there are no Predator-Aliens in that movie, I'm happy.

  19. Old Tron game on 'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World · · Score: 1

    Alright, we're on the Tron topic now, so maybe someone can help me out.
    I had this awesome Tron game back in the days on my Amiga500. You and an A.I. player are facing each other off in a box shaped arena made out of big plates on both the walls behind each player and the ground. In between the players there's a gap in the ground. You fight your opponents by throwing a discus over to there side and try to hit a plate behind them. If you do, you can destroy that plate and with it, a plate in the ground will disappear too.
    The goal is to get your opponent drop down, by destroying the floor under his feet.
    You have to use the force of the discus flying towards you and let it bounce back in a good angle, so it would gain speed and power. The faster it goes, the more it pushes you back when deflecting it, so you can get pushed into a hole behind you if you are not careful.
    Overall a very nice and fast paced game. There was a tournament mode and the A.I. was pretty challenging.

    But I don't know the original title of that game and I can't seem to find it nowadays. Anyone knows the name?

  20. Re:Computers do what they are told to on When Computers Go Wrong · · Score: 1

    If you read TFA (...), the pentium case fits the title pretty well.

  21. Re:Shouldn't they be happy? on RIAA Now Blames Journalists For Its Piracy Trouble · · Score: 1

    But those $64M include the costs of lawsuits, which includes paying lawyers, which is THEM.
    So the RIAA may get out with a negative balance, but the guys involved earn big cash.

  22. Re:no thanks on Estonian Economist Suggests Abandoning Cash · · Score: 1

    On all cards I have owned, it was possible to spend more money than you have.
    This is an auto-loan service by the bank though. They stock up your account for the exceeding amount and immediately start charging you for interest on that loan. The limit to this is based on your credibility. I always chose to set it to zero for all my cards for security reasons.

  23. Re:2000 packages? 85% more code? on Red Hat Releases RHEL 6 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope those 14000 bugs were found in the new code, or we're looking at about 16470 more to go.

  24. So.. is it on, or is it not on? on Nintendo Seeks To Trademarks "It's On Like Donkey Kong" · · Score: 1

    What does that even mean?
    Is Donkey Kong on? Or not, implying that 'it' is not on either?
    Clearly I can switch Donkey Kong 'On' and 'Off' at any time, making that statement useless. So it must be something else I'm missing here.

  25. Re:Winter? on Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights · · Score: 1

    Why do you call me an Anonymous Coward?

    You are one, not me!