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  1. Re:How Much on Riot Breaks Out At Foxconn · · Score: 1

    12%. This question gets asked in most of the Apple-related threads...

  2. Re:What about the rest of the world? on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 1

    So far, summer in the Netherlands has been unusually cool and wet.

    I think we had 3 days of hot weather.

  3. Seagate on 60TB Disk Drives Could Be a Reality In 2016 · · Score: 1

    Too bad it's a Seagate drive and will probably die if you looked at it funny, just like my last 4 Seagates...

  4. Olympics on British Broadband Needs £1bn More Funding · · Score: 1

    The UK just spent 24 billion Pounds on the Olympics and nobody wanted those...

    Surely they could have spent this money better on something like this broadband project... and with that much money left, give everyone a free PC!

  5. Gold Reserves on Portugal Is Considering a "Terabyte Tax" · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, Lisbon is sitting on $19 BILLION (â14.5 billion) worth of gold reserves, most of it still left over from the good old days of plundering South America...

  6. Re:I had no idea on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 1

    If they're specialty lamps, they're exempt, otherwise, you could get them from old stock or a country that has no such silly ban...

  7. Erica Cerra on 'Vocal Fry' Creeping Into US Speech · · Score: 1

    Erica Cerra (Deputy Jo Lupo) has been doing this more and more on Eureka and calls it "acting". I find it extremely aggravating. She sounds like she had throat surgery that went terribly wrong. I wonder how many google searches there have been for "erica cerra throat cancer"...

  8. Sliders on Star Rips Exoplanet To Shreds With X-Rays · · Score: 1

    I saw this in an episode of Sliders, only with Earth.

  9. Re:That is awesome on Right-Wing German Extremists Tricked By Trojan Shirts · · Score: 1

    You're going to have to get 6XL and up shirts for tea partiers...

  10. What if your router is a PC? on Dutch Court Rules WiFi Hacking Not a Criminal Offense · · Score: 1

    I use a old Pentium 3 running Debian as a router. Ofcourse i didn't put a wireless card in it, since i don't need wireless connectivity, i doubt most people do, it's probably out of laziness that people use it instead of just pluggin in an ethernet cable... (unless your device doesn't have an ethernet port).

    By the way, you can turn off the wireless connectivity on most routers and you should, if you're not using it...

  11. Coca Cola on Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material · · Score: 1

    Coca Cola went into a business partnership with Heinz to do the same thing with their bottles.
    I remember seeing a press release about a month ago.

  12. Bullies... on US Reneges On SWIFT Agreement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bullies rarely keep their promises.

    That's what the US has become to the rest of the world; nothing more than bullies.

  13. Re:FLAC is bullshit on Why We Should Buy Music In FLAC · · Score: 1

    This may be modded as Funny, but there are a lot of people out there that have actually done this...

    See also; "Why didn't upconverting my cd audio from 16 to 24 bits make my music sound better?!?!"

  14. Not true. on The Matrix Re-Reloaded · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Insilvent? So what? on A Blue-Sky Idea For the USPS — Postal Trucks As Sensors · · Score: 1
  16. What's The Point? on Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All older bills are valid until they wear out. In other words; this is a pointless exercise unless they set an expiry date for older bills.

  17. Re:money on In UK, Oink Admin Cleared of Fraud · · Score: 1

    There was no 300K. That was the amount of donations OiNK got over 3 years' time... most of that would have gone to server cost, which was quite a lot towards the end (think $4000-$5000/month).

    The prosecution apparently did a great job of making some of their lies and half-truths into things the public takes as facts now...

  18. Re:Keep the Mainframe on US House Decommissions Its Last Mainframe · · Score: 1

    Are you familar with the movie "Terminator"?

  19. Re:Unfortunate consequences of life on One Fifth of World's Population Can't See Milky Way At Night · · Score: 1

    Yes, we need stupid things like beamers, advertisement lights and roads bathed in lights for "security"...

    Oh yeah, and everyone needs a 100 watt bulb at their front door and in the garden, burning all freaking night long.

    Turn off the bloody lights when you don't need them. It's not like the wolves will get you when it's dark.

  20. ReGenesis on WHO Investigates Claims That Swine Flu Resulted From Human Error · · Score: 1

    Wasn't this the plot of the ReGenesis tv series? Life imitates tv?

  21. IE7 is for Windows XP and up... on Norwegian Websites Declare War On IE 6 · · Score: 1

    I'm still using Windows 2000 and am forced onto an IE7 upgrade page every time i've used windows update.
    Too bad it will only run on Windows XP and up.
    Is this an oversight on microsoft's behalf or are they doing this to annoy windows 2000 users?

    PS I use opera 9 almost exclusively anyway.

  22. Re:You can run it on linux... on Red Alert 1 Released As Freeware · · Score: 1
  23. Nuke it from orbit... on What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop? · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the only way to be sure.

  24. Re:Private tracker. on Demonoid Tracker Is Back Online · · Score: 1

    Yeah... except if it weren't for the fact that demonoid has no safeguards/checks against cheating and even if the cheating is blindingly obvious, cheaters aren't punished...

    Nice ratio of 1.5 million there, buddy!

  25. Thanks for nothing, jerk... on Extreme Christmas Lights In Orlando · · Score: 1