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  1. Autotools,makes even seasoned programmers nauseous on KDE Goes Cross-Platform, Supports Windows and OS X · · Score: 5, Informative

    Love the way Ars describes Autotools!

    Autotools, an intractably arcane and grotesquely anachronistic cesspool of ineffable complexity that makes even seasoned programmers nauseous.

  2. Palm zire 31 on Which eBook Reader is the Best? · · Score: 1

    You can pick up a second hand zire 31 for 20 euro's on ebay. It displays pictures, pdf, html, doc, rtf etc.
    It doubles as an mp3 player, PDA and flashlight. It is my one year old's favorite toy as well

  3. Re:Don't forget the cable towers on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 4, Funny

    those specs are incredible!

    Details:
    Decrease Smear - Increase Resolution
    Uninterrupted Cable Flux Field
    Controls Resonance
    Unequaled Performance Design
    Low Contact Surface Area
    Stable Four Point Design
    Non-Conductive Cable Retention Ring
    Two Cable Support Capability
    Extremely Low Dielectric Constant
    Low Capacitance to Ground Test Results
    Exceedingly Low Insertion Capacitance
    Accepts Cables to 1.4" - 37mm
    4.5"/11.5cm Tall - 3.5"/9.0cm Wide
    State of the Art CNC Machined Acrylic
    Made in USA
    Four Designs Patent Pending
    Available in Black or Clear

  4. Re:Make things redundant on Trans-Atlantic Robots · · Score: 1

    Parent post was suggesting a single hull with keel ballast, these designs are very safe, but they are never good planers, so they will not easily exeed their hull speed.
    I suggest a multi hull because they are very good planers, and safety is much less a concern here because the machine is computer driven, a multi hulled planing design would probably be ideal.
    With a rigid wing sail or a kite sail the risk of capsizing can be minimized.

    Making things redundant counts for hulls here too : )

  5. Re:Make things redundant on Trans-Atlantic Robots · · Score: 1

    Better make t a multihull
    A ship with a keel is limited in its speed by its lenth, this is called hull speed
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_speed
    The maximum lenth is set here to 4 meters, the maximum speed of a single hull ship of this lenth is 17,5 Kilometres per hour.
    I expect to see a multi hull ship win this
    <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multihull>

  6. Don't clean the keyboard! on Are Keyboards Dishwasher Safe? · · Score: 1

    Just after finishing art school, me and a few friends brought our Amigas to shed we rented from my aunt and started a video production company. One evening we needed a joint but we where out of hashish. Then i suddenly remembered how my colleague always rolled his joints on top of his keyboard while reviewing Dpaint animations. I got out a screwdriver and surely there was enough crumbs there to build a decent joint.

  7. Poor Lowlandsdepowlands on EU Bans Sock-Puppet Blogs · · Score: 1

    His website http://www.lowlandsdepowlands.nl/ will have to go!

  8. Sure way to win hearts and minds on Street Fighting Robot Challenge · · Score: 1

    Just rip em out with your steel claws

  9. Ill just buy one off some poor kid.. on OLPC Says No Plans for Consumer Release · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think some if these children will be happy to part with their laptop for a little money.
    Watch for my ebay ad!

  10. Re:Simple fix on Finger Pointing Over iPod Windows Virus · · Score: 1

    The virus was on the gold master so we did it ourselves.
    Just lack of experience with windows in an all mac shop.
    I do think the way we "solved" the problem is very professional. ; )

  11. Simple fix on Finger Pointing Over iPod Windows Virus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I used to work for a small company that made CD-ROM's
    Only after we recieved 3000 copies of our free handout Amsterdam nightlife CD-ROM did we discover that there was a windows virus on all of them.
    We simply slapped a "MAC only" sticker on them and handed them out!

  12. Why ask anything if you are not willing to listen? on AI to Monitor Foreign Press for Threats · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would you ask an AI to look for threats if you are not even willing to listen to your close friends and allies?

    Read for instance this letter from the French Ambassador to the United States in 2003
    http://www.counterpunch.org/levitte02142003.html

    It clearly warns about the mess a war in Irak would get us all in to.
    It states that Iraq is not a threat and it predicts the rise in terrorism worldwide, the destabilisation of the region and the civil war in Irak that we see now.

    One month after this the whole "freedom fries" thing started.
    http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/sprj.irq .fries/

    This AI will just add data to the heap that is allready ignored.

  13. Re:Snazzy little yellow box? on Hacker-Built PC Scans 300 Wifi Networks At Once · · Score: 1

    Well I wish you lots of succes traveling with your equipment now.
    You must be some kind of terrorist with all these snazzy little yellow boxes.

  14. Re:Redundent department of redundancy. on Scientists to Build 'Brain Box' · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our new brainbox overlords.

  15. Logic leaves only one conclusion: on WGA Turning Off PCs in the Fall? · · Score: 1

    They are going to switch off all European computers soon.

  16. mod as funny on 'Big Brother' Eyes Make Us Act More Honestly · · Score: 1

    OO

  17. Re:All the banks knew on U.S. Secretly Tapping Bank Databases · · Score: 1


    >All the banks knew, SWIFT is a society made from a collection of banks. They all took the >view that doing business in the USA over-ruled their duties under banking laws and their duty >under US law.

    Yes and the national banks that are there to protect national interests where sleeping, or they were not and warned thier governments who then did nothing to protect us. I think the real story for a European national here is the fact that our governments gave away our privacy.

    Just yelling "f*ck america" is dumb.

  18. Re:What a great idea on The Pentagon's Supersonic, Shape-Shifting Assassin · · Score: 2, Informative

    Please quote a source for your numbers
    My sources tell a different story:

    National Defense $423,098
    Education, Training, Employment and Social Services $91,817

    From budget 2005:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_budget_ process#Structure_of_the_Budget
    http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy05/browse.html

  19. European gouvernments failed to protect you. on U.S. Secretly Tapping Bank Databases · · Score: 1

    It looks like the Dutch national bank agreed on the CIA using this information without informing the public.
    If a puny Dutch national bank knows it the rest of our governments are probably aware as well.
    Please start putting blame on America only after blaming your own leadership please.

    Link in dutch Nu.nl "Dutch National Bank knew of CIA tapping bank data"
    http://www.nu.nl/news/763087/22/rss/DNB_wist_van_c ontrole_CIA_op_geldverkeer.html

  20. Welcome! on Microsoft Developing Robotics Software · · Score: 1

    Oh well, I for one welcome our new robotic overlords.

  21. Re:Europeans on On Point On Slacking · · Score: 1

    If you stop looking at them as a threat, you might see the possibilities.

    If they become wealthy and powerfull, they will need products and services frome everywhere.
    The economic downfall of the USA would not benefit the Chinese, they need you as buyers for their products and as a supplier. The chinese have invested billions in the States, they depend on your prosperity as much as you do.

  22. Where are the comedies? Well, here they are! on Leisure Suit Larry's Maker On Wedgies v. Bullets · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most of the enemies in SIN Episodes die in extremely funny ways, yelling stuff like: Aargh my legs! or: it burns, it burns!
    If you score a headshot in GTA vice city the head disappears and the victim walks on squirting blood, hilarious!
    In Carmagueddon you can chase grannys and score "style" bonuses if you made nice streaks of blood on the tarmac very inventive!
    In Half Life 2 you can learn about physics by playing around with a sawn trough corpse hanging from a tree; both fun and educational!

  23. Amerika is building 14 permanent bases in Iraq. on Winning (and Losing) the First Wired War · · Score: 4, Informative

    Amerika is building 14 permanent bases in Iraq.
    http://www.google.com/search?q=14+permanent+bases+ in+Iraq/

    Your leadership is keen to hold press conferences on it, but you are there to stay.
    It is the only choice they have because there simply is no base for a US friendly regime in Iraq.
    To keep control over their oil you will need military presence

  24. Re:Well, it's only fair. on U.S. to Gain Access to EU Retained Data · · Score: 1

    Yet we spend like three times as much money on social entitlements as we do on defense.
    Please check your federal budget, http://www.federalbudget.com/
    you spend more on defense than on all other real posts combined. Treasury is the cost of lending all this money from the rest of the world. You spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined.US spending on defense is outrageous and wrong by any standard.

  25. why we fight on Americans Not Bothered by NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    If you are wondering what is happening to America these days, you can get a lot of pointers from "Why We Fight"

    "Why We Fight" is a documentary film directed by Eugene Jarecki that won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
    The film describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial complex while concentrating on wars led by the
    United States of the last fifty years and in particular on the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

    Please have a look at it, it is really wel done, none of the Michael Moore style sensationalism, but more disturbing for its simple presentation.


    Trailer from sonyclassics
    http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/


    Bittorrent links to the complete movie:
    http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3367179
    http://www.torrentspy.com/download.asp?id=347228

    Hey you with the mod points! Dont be to harsh, this one comes from the heart.