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  1. Re:Disappointed on The Nuclear Bunker Where Wikileaks Will Be Located · · Score: 3, Informative

    I would guess some sort of metamorphic rock, having been in Sweden a lot. There's a lot of metamorphic rock smoothed by glaciers there. When roads were built, they drilled into the rock and put in explosives to blast away the rock, which is how you get a rock face like the one in that picture of what looks to be the main entrance. Or at least that's what it looks like to me, that picture is small. Anyway, such rocks tend to be quite large and extend quite a ways under the earth. So it's definitely possible that it's solid rock all the way down to the level of the bunker.

    Unrelated to the rest of the post, this whole bunker business may be unnecessary, but you can't deny they've got style.

  2. Re:Why does the submitter see this as a bad thing? on Apple Outs Anti-Jailbreak Update · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As well as this not being a bad thing, why is this even news? We all knew that Apple would try to put a stop to it the moment we saw what Jailbreakme could do.

  3. No such Ubuntu tracking measures on Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations · · Score: 1

    While that's true, it's worth noting the package popularity-contest which tracked the installations of different packages. If you can disable it while installing Ubuntu (Like you could with popularity-contest, at one point anyway, I don't know about how it is now) then I'm fine with it.

  4. "Grundlag" on Without Registration, Swedish Law Does Not Protect Wikileaks Sources · · Score: 4, Informative

    It literally means Sweden's constitution.

  5. Re:So... on Volkswagen Creates Sewage-Powered Beetle · · Score: 2, Funny

    What a load of crap.

  6. Re:False assumption on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    It was a troll. Ignore it.

  7. Re:Huh? on Pixel Inventor Goes Back To the Drawing Board · · Score: 1

    And non-square pixels help the general public how? I'm having a hard time imagining a screen that could display non-square pixels, or rather pixels with varying shape, using today's technology. Or technology in the next five or so years.

  8. Re:Applications, not issued patents on Microsoft's Health-y Patent Appetite · · Score: 1

    I accidentally moderated this "Redundant" instead of "Insightful", commenting to erase that.

  9. Re:Last time I checked... on Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Relevant TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/saul_griffith_on_kites_as_the_future_of_renewable_energy.html I haven't actually watched it but my brother said it pretty much blows all other renewable energy resources out of the water.

  10. Re:*sniff* on Swedish Pirate Party To Run Pirate Bay From Parliament · · Score: 1

    As a Swedish-speaking American (Living in Finland), I can say that Swedish is an incredibly easy language not unlike old English. I was able to pick it up in about a year. The culture is different enough to shock, but you'll recover, it's really very western.

  11. Re:I love it ... on Swedish Pirate Party To Run Pirate Bay From Parliament · · Score: 1

    Here's a better translation (You were right about two or more years, or in the exact wording, "no less than two"): Swedish Constitution (You'll have to scroll down to chapter four article eight).

  12. Please change the title on With World Watching, Wikileaks Falls Into Disrepair · · Score: 5, Funny

    "With World Watching, Wikileaks Withers Woefully While Walruses Wrangle Wrapped Wrens"

  13. Re:They are undermining their own argument on ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not to mention that the fact that they are starting this is proof that CC, EFF etc. are a serious threat to their way of business.

  14. Re:"Deep pockets" on ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF · · Score: 3, Informative

    In addition to this, after a quick search for Creative Commons on ASCAP's website, I found this lovely article which gives the same give peace a chance/save the whales vibe as their letter did.

  15. "Deep pockets" on ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That continues to baffle me. Apparently you can't make money off of copylefted music, so where did all this acclaimed money come from? If they can have deep pockets as copyleft organizations, then why doesn't ASCAP become one themselves?

  16. Re:"The worlds fastest browser" on Safari 5 Released · · Score: 1

    You have a point but you just had to troll didn't you? I use FF because of the addons really. There are some I just can't live without.

  17. "The worlds fastest browser" on Safari 5 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just like Opera! I think that I'll stick with Firefox and Chrome.

  18. Re:Please. on HP Gives Printers Email Addresses · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Whitelist? Oh no. They're gonna get rich from all the ink this uses!

  19. Re:Competition is a good thing on Apple Announces iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    Very true. With such a small sensor the video quality is going to be quite pitiful. Off topic, but I find it interesting that a Canon 5D MKII has a bigger sensor for video than the Red One. (Used for movies like Gamer and The Book of Eli) If I wanted to shoot 720p, I would just go for a midrange Nikon or Canon and get about 5x the quality.

  20. Re:After 10 years.... on New Sony OLED Display Can Roll Into Cylinder · · Score: 2, Informative

    The source URL of the article already has to be unique, however, a source URL isn't always required. To quote it: Main url of submission (optional but if provided must be unique).

  21. Re:Just give up. on What Microsoft Must Do To Save Its Mobile Business · · Score: 1

    Nokia has Meego, a fusion of the Debian-based mobile OS Maemo (Nokia) and the instant-on OS Moblin (Intel). It's quite new, and I haven't seen any devices with it yet, but it certainly looks promising. That said, Nokia is not dumping Symbian, but it is dumping the old interface that is s60, to be replaced with Symbian^4 (Whatever that means) which has a nice redesigned interface. A step in the right direction in any case.

  22. I missed my chance. on Happy Towel Day · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Reason #453 to not live in a time zone other than the US: I never remember Towel Day until someone in America reminds me, during the afternoon.

  23. Nirvana on Company Offers "Rockstar" Funerals · · Score: 1

    I could make a joke about the band right now, but... No.

  24. Re:People are using it? on Google Wave Now Open To All · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe this will lead to someone actually knowing what Google Wave is. I never thought I'd see the day.

  25. Re:All good and well, on The Pirate Bay Sinks And Swims · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's the page from the Swedish Pirate Party's homepage, run through Google Translate: "Golden Pirate"