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  1. Forget that! on Antarctica Once Abutted Death Valley · · Score: 1

    Antarctica made up his mind long ago. As you probably have missed completly, antarctica decided to move over to europe. It just takes time to move such masses of land. Once it connects with the coast of norway, it is legally a new citizen of europe. If you wish, you could come over for a visit then.

  2. A handful of photons are bouncing off the moon. on Simple Mod Turns Diodes Into Photon Counters · · Score: 1

    You could then measure the distance to the moon with a 10 Watts laser, a telescope, a very precise clock and the newly build photon counter. On the moon are placed some special reflection spots just for exactly this purpose.

  3. This is great news! on Provider of Free Public Domain Music Re-Opens · · Score: 1

    How about extending the databse to a storage of midi files of those old music sheets?

  4. Ninety minutes does a signal need to earth on Mars Probe Brings the "Weather Rock" New Respect · · Score: 1

    from mars. In imperial units that's
      about one and a half our.

  5. Here is your mom on World's Newest, Most Powerful Laser Comes Online · · Score: 1

    Don't shoot it in your foot, son!

  6. Amstrad floppy disks on Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs · · Score: 1

    You could store your secret files on amstrad floppy disks. For added security, you could store them where gold watches get stored to not get into the hands of the vietcong. I don't want to go into the details, but the amstrad floppy should provide enough security alone.

  7. As long as they only eat your computer... on Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In southern india someone stored all his earnings in the form of paper for his later retirement into a bank vault.

    After some years time he looked into his box to see only some pieces left and some bugs which ate his money. The bank vault was not completly tight and the warm humid weather did it's part in this sad drama, too.

    The bank could not be held liable, because it warned its customers of the bug problem long ago. And even when they were liable, they only would have to pay his money for the rent of his box, which is not much rupies instead of his financial damage.

    Morale of the story: Don't think something lasts forever. Your DVD's are due in about 15 years time. HD and Blueray much shorter, so don't store your money on it.

  8. Whose flying there? on Swiss Man Flies With Jet Powered Wing · · Score: 1

    Count Orlok is that you or do i have to call the defence minister?

  9. Re:Good, if your name is Zorin... on Zeppelins Over California · · Score: 1
  10. Good, if your name is Zorin... on Zeppelins Over California · · Score: 3, Funny

    and want to flood the silicon valley to push the prices of computer chips.

  11. Microbes are the cows of the future! on Solar Powered Microbes Manufacture Biofuels · · Score: 1

    They will produce gas, meat and plastic in bio-reactors. Thats the future! But don't think we can waste as much energy for cars when the oil is empty, because now we are really careless about our planets recources. Then we need to either go by train or use the video phone, when we want to visit someone.

  12. With this stunt, ms shot itself in the foot twice. on Microsoft Loses Appeal of "Vista-Capable" Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    With those stickers "Vista capable", they have done themself no good, because every computer which is not really vista capable, is "Ubuntu ready". More people will migrate away from microsoft technologies to linux. Especially small buisnesses, who are not yet completly embraced by microsoft.

    Even those, who did not know before, what an operating system is and did not know its name, have registered vista with a negativism and may search for something else, which just works for them.

    Bombastic

  13. Re:Nightmare on FBI Concerned About Implications of Counterfeit Cisco Gear · · Score: 1

    You can only trust software that you have examined the code and compiled yourself, and people you trust who have examined and compiled the code themselves.

    I trust neither Cisco nor the FBI. ...nor Microsoft.
  14. Reasonable on Blizzard to Boll - DENIED! · · Score: 1

    Thank you Blizzard!!! This is worth about 800,000 votes against Boll.

  15. Re:Google translation of German source on Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid · · Score: 1

    I really hope, that your american NSA won't use google translation for their investigations. They might think they have found a top terrorist, when they had just read the calculations from a boy.

    No wonder, that they see threats behind every bush.

  16. Re:That would just about scuttle the Airbus tanker on Should Microsoft Be Excluded From EU Government Sales? · · Score: 1

    who is for microsoft, is for the terrorists.

  17. said Google product manager, Paul McDonald ... on Google Previews App Engine · · Score: 1

    Um. I suddenly get hungry. I need a burger.

  18. 2008 is the year of the Linux desktop! on Windows 7 in the Next Year? · · Score: 1

    I am now convinced, that this year Linux is making the breakthrou on anybodys desktop. Why?

    Because the best OS ever (Vista) was such a success, that it's price dropped to 50 $ and Mr. Gates makes wild announcements about a successor of Vista just one year after it's release to the market. This is a desperate attempt to prevent his customers to think about other solutions like Linux.

    Read my lips: "2008 is the year of the Linux desktop."

  19. The other way around on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh contraire! The girls should be more clear about what they intend to do. They normally say they just wanted to be friendly and are completly taken aback, when some guy understands their cryptic signs as encuragement to get together.

  20. Peace brothers! on US Ignores Unwelcome WTO IP Rulings · · Score: 1

    I detect that the hostility is rising in this discussion over this bullshit.

    Europe and USA are friends and trade partners. Don't let anyone get in between us. Especially not because of some bullshit about who can listen to other peoples radios without paying a fee. The next thing to pay for is then the fresh air you breath.

  21. moon base? on NASA's New Lunar Rover in Action · · Score: 1

    Who should live on the moon? There could be build a high security prison for dangerous people, or a permanent home for previous world leaders/ unwanted politicians.

  22. Data not lost on White House Says Hard Drives Were Destroyed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ask the chinese crackers! They would probably have a backup of the lost whitehouse mails.

  23. A cheap tricorder and pills to make you smart. on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    This would be really neccesary, because with the tricorder you would be able to see, how politicians and multinational companys fucked up this world, and with the pill that makes you instantly bright and smart like Albert Einstein, you would be able to understand the reading from the tricorder.

  24. See, how powerful Linux can be! on Aging Security Vulnerability Still Allows PC Takeover · · Score: 1

    That's an important feature of Linux. (Or Windows?)

  25. Over 100 million sold copy's of Vista on 158 Pages of Microsoft's Dirty Laundry · · Score: 1

    It seems to me, that microsoft can press everything into the market.

    Where are the 100 million vista-users? Do they only buy it, or do they install it on their computers, also? They seem not to use the internet, because the statistic says, that Windows XP is still with 80 percent the market leader.

    http://www.w3counter.com/

    If you are using vista and you are not satisfied, then it may be best for you to switch to a Macintosh. Please, if you are not in the least technically skilled, don't try Linux. You can't sue someone, if you screw up the installation and lose all your data.

    It is no good idea, to switch from Windows to Linux, only because you are temporally not satisfied with the products from microsoft. We linux-users have chosen it, because it gives us the freedom to do with our hardware what we want to do with it, not what a single company what's us to make us do with it (for a limited time until the next update has to be sold). It is a different world. You have been warned!