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  1. Use Russia's FB - It has free music and videos on Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over With Facebook IPO · · Score: 1

    FB could cave in to vk.com, which is basically a clone of FB, but with completely unregulated up- and downloads of music and videos.

    Default interface is English.

    There's even a logout button in the main menu.

  2. US: 2,000,000 in jail on North Korean 3G Mobile Subscriptions Hit Half a Million · · Score: 4, Informative

    And a quarter of the number of people that the US has in jail.

  3. Human echolocation on Should Dolphins Be Treated As Non-Human Persons? · · Score: 1

    Here are two links to articles about children who use echolocation to compensate for their blindness:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1QaCeosUmw

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1218291/Blind-boy-7-Briton-able-ears.html

  4. Re:Why the wall won't work: AFR charges $100/month on NY Times Confident of 'First Click Free' Paywalls · · Score: 1

    The Australian Financial review charges about $100/month for news and seems to be doing OK: https://subscribe.afr.com/afr/default.aspx?referrer=1

  5. Western cannon? Rommel included? on Harvard Ditching Final Exams? · · Score: 1

    "Columbia requires all students to study the important books of the western cannon. "

    Do they include Rommel's "Gefechts-Aufgaben für Zug und Kompanie : Ein Handbuch für den Offizierunterricht" (Combat tasks for platoon and company: A manual for the officer instruction)?

    I know it's not cannon-centred, but surely such a classic must have been on the list somewhere?

    And what about his "Infanterie greift an" (Infantry Attacks)?

  6. That's almost how they made the... on Deformable Liquid Mirrors For Adaptive Optics · · Score: 1

    Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, although they had to grind it anyway after it had cooled down (three months later).

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13606-giant-telescope-project-begins-with-a-spin.html/

  7. KAL 858 was downed with nitroglycerine on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    in 1987 by North Korean agents, so liquid explosives do actually present a potential threat.

    Some more information about liquid explosives:

    http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-149180.html/

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_858/

  8. Re:Why Haven't They Tried Spinning Up...... on Disease May Prevent Manned Journey To Mars · · Score: 1

    A good idea, of course. But what happens to the ship's rotation as its centre of gravity continually changes with the movements of its passengers? Should the ship have some sort of compensatory device? How could this be dealt with?

  9. Re:Best Intentions on Porn Surfing Rampant At US Science Foundation · · Score: 1

    And ended with a "Big Bang"!

  10. Road deaths: Germany 9.8; Australia 10 per 100,000 on For New Zealanders, No More Phones As Sat-Nav Devices · · Score: 1

    While in theory, I greatly admire the strictness you have described, according to NationMaster figures, Germany's road death toll is just slight of Australia's, which has a pretty easy driving test.

    Putting death toll aside, are there any other benefits of this test? More considerate driving? Less road rage? Death toll is not the ultimate measure of road usability, so it would be interesting to hear about whether the strict testing has any effect on road culture.

    This is assuming that NationMasters' figures are more-or-less accurate.

  11. Stinger on another balloon. on 250-Foot Hybrid Airship To Spy Over Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    How about sending up a Stinger on another balloon with some remote control built in? Surely it wouldn't cost that much to stabilise and fit with video for capturing the target. Could you capture the target from the ground and send up the initial coordinates? Does this make any sense at all?

  12. "Kudos" no "kudo" on OS Performance — Snow Leopard, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.10 · · Score: 1

    Just for your information (unless you were joking), "kudos" is not a plural, so there is no single "kudo". Sort of like there is no "octopu" as a singular octopus. OK octopuses are countable, while kudos is not, but you get the drift.

    Maybe a better example would be you can put hommos on your pita bread with your falafel, but not one hommo.

  13. How about voice control? on Apple Racks Up the Gaming Patents · · Score: 1

    Fair enough point about the lack of buttons, but what if Apple added some voice control via the iPhone or whatever?

    That could be fun!

  14. Re:hilarious on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No-one deserves abuse while in custody. Especially abuse so petty, childish, and vindictive as that described.

    If you have principles, you should stick to them--especially with someone like SH. Show him that your values actually have some substance. Pathetic.

  15. A disaster--91% didn't want to buy an iPhone on Why Japan Hates the iPhone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Goodness--only 9% of people might want to buy an iPhone when Apple is looking for 1% of the market.

    What a disaster!

  16. Yahoo POP is free in some other countries on Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout · · Score: 1

    Actually, Yahoo POP is free of charge in some other countries. If I understand correctly, for some reason it was illegal not to have the option in the UK. I've got it working fine in Mail on a MacBook.

    You can always set up a UK account and have it display a US (if that's your base) homepage.

    http://help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/mail/original/manage/manage-281222.html

  17. Make the contributors pay on Wikipedia Almost Reaches $6 Million Target · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they should make the contributors pay, as is done for some scientific journals.

    It might help to keep the noise down and force writers to be a little more thoughtful about their contributions and editing.

    What would be more effective--paying per edit or per word?

  18. Really? on Aussies Hit the Streets Over Gov't Internet Filters · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I'm wrong, but I always understood that the more odious autocratic regimes tended toward presidential systems where the head of state and executive are one person - with the United States being an exception.

    Have I misread something?

  19. How about Bitwise? on Good Open Source, Multi-Platform, Secure IM Client? · · Score: 1

    Bitwise is pretty decent: Windows, Linux, Mac; encrypted, whiteboard, voice, peer-to-peer, basic version free. http://www.bitwiseim.com/index.php/

  20. Ubuntu on free terminals at Sydney Airport on Russia Mandates Free Software For Public Schools · · Score: 1

    I passed through Sydney Airport yesterday and all of the free internet terminals were using Ubuntu. Unfortunately, on the screens I saw, there were no desktop icons for Opera, so if someone closed the browser window, people though the computer had crashed. You get the picture. In short, while some tech people are trying to make open-source available to the public, many short-sighted mistakes are still being made.

  21. Re:They copied the Russian on everything... on China Announces Launch-Success Details — Before Launch · · Score: 1

    That's "Soviets", not "Russians". There is a difference.

  22. Re:And he's absolutely right on In Leaked Email, NASA Chief Vents On Shuttle Program's End · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One of the benefits of the station is the symbol and fact of international co-operation. Words like "extort" and "hamstrung" are right off target. It's not like Russia is spoiling a US party. If anything, the party is only happening because of Russia.

  23. Re:Hmmm on Russian Google Competitor Embraces Open Source Messaging · · Score: 1

    Have another look at both pages. Yahoo is cluttered and about three screens deep.

    Yandex's home page is just one simple screen and easy to look at. Much closer to Google than Yahoo's unreadable mess.

  24. So, what is the answer? on "Wisdom of Crowds" Works For Individuals Too · · Score: 1

    So what is the answer to the article's question: "What percentage of the world's airports are in the USA?" ? Anyone? Hive-mind?

  25. Re:It's back! on Line Forms At Apple's Always-Open Manhattan Cube · · Score: 1

    I think you mean iRony.