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  1. Re:Dont't like the idea anyway... on Australia Adopts EU's Geographical Indicator System For Wine · · Score: 1

    In the case of Tokaji, a specific kind of nobel mold is also needed, that as far as I know only grows in the cellars in the Tokaj mountain.

  2. Re:Australian Tokay makes me sad on Australia Adopts EU's Geographical Indicator System For Wine · · Score: 1

    "This geolocation restriction only makes wine look like exquisite beverage and allows old wine producers to overcharge for their products without actually registering and protecting their trademark."

    Why is trademark holier in your book than geolocation restriction?

  3. Re:Australian Tokay makes me sad on Australia Adopts EU's Geographical Indicator System For Wine · · Score: 1

    Romanians do the same, but with Roman culture. Check out the Dako-Roman theory.

  4. Re:ATI close-source driver on Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Even 9.10 offered that (fglrx), but it completely crashed my system, even after removing the package fglrx.

  5. Re:Upgrade or Full install... on Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    I've just done a partial upgrade from 9.10 (security fixes mostly, I guess), and nothing is broken yet.

  6. Next target ... on Simon Singh Talks With Wired About His Libel Battle · · Score: 1

    astrology,
    homeopathy,
    feng-shui,
    graphology,
    psycho-analysis?

  7. Re:Like Iridium on Duke Nukem Forever Back In Development · · Score: 1

    As far as I know it was bought by the US military, so I don't know what kind of profitability are you speaking about.

  8. Re:Annnd... brain goes splat. on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    Gravitational lensing is the most prominent evidence for this

    But photons have mass too. So I don't see, how it proves your point.

  9. Re:Experience is a Gift... on Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age · · Score: 1

    Well, you can argue that it's not "true" opensource, but whatever standards you have in your mind, but it's still more free than C#.

    It would be nice if JavaME would be opensourced as well, but mobile computing never was as open as desktop. Even if you use Android the Network owners and resellers will be much bigger problem than JavaME could ever have been.

  10. Re:Virtual babies? on Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    Low birth rate, high bit rate.

  11. Re:Stress? on 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away · · Score: 1

    If you get your facts from commercials, it's quite enogh reason to look down on you.

  12. Re:Experience is a Gift... on Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age · · Score: 1

    Sun in 2006 opened the source of all Java SE, except a few multimedia codecs they licensed from 3rd parties. Can you tell the same about .Net (C# is language, I'm speaking here about the platform).

    And don't come with Mono, it's a clean-room reimplementation (and is seriously lags behind).

  13. Re:Experience is a Gift... on Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age · · Score: 1

    "1) Out of date? Java is out of date and screaming towards obsolescence with Oracle suing Google. "
    IBM has an alternative Java VM and noone is suing them. Maybe you should educate yourself on this issue. Java is opensource, and as long as your VM adheres to the spec., you wont get sued for patent infringement. (i.e. you have to maintain backwards compatibility)

  14. Re:Let The Confustion Begin on It's Official — AMD Will Retire the ATI Brand · · Score: 1

    GP assumed that only integrated GPU/CPU units will be sold by AMD.

  15. Re:Education... on Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy · · Score: 1

    I mean it's not scientific if you have to believe in that. (Kind of half assed irony here.) Sorry, if I sounded ambigous. I love Kahn's work too.

  16. Re:Gates Foundation on Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, the main problem I see is that you don't see these charities supporting trade schools, only elementary schools (and that won't improve the students' job prosopects).

  17. Re:Gates Foundation on Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I tell you one example when the schools didn't have choice:
    Hungarian government seals a 25 billion HUF deal with Microsoft. That includes both academic and government licenses. The universities had no say whether how would they prefer to spend the money spent in their name.

  18. Re:Education... on Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ... but not scientific for sure ...

  19. Gates Foundation on Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It would cool, if the Gates Foundation donated for Khan Academy, because as far as I know Khan is now burning his savings.

  20. Re:How do you anticipate weak points on Teacher Asks Students To Plan a Terrorist Attack · · Score: 2, Funny

    Haven't you heard, Big Brother loves you?

  21. Re:Medical corruption on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    But hey, psychology is science! /ducks

  22. Re:And I want their bandwidth... on ISPs Lie About Broadband "Up To" Speeds · · Score: 1

    Just for the free-market sake:
    In the EU ISPs must give their average bandwith in advertisements.

  23. Re:Sigh on Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand the Brain · · Score: 1

    It's the native instruction of that machine.

  24. Re:Uh on Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand the Brain · · Score: 1

    You still don't get it. The DNA uncompression algorithm uses all laws of physics and chemistry. You don't have a complete reality simulator to simulate the brain, but the DNA can use information that's encoded in the laws of physics and chemistry.
    Therefore you have to consider the enthropy of a reality simulator/lines of codes needed to build a reality simulator.

  25. Re:"Central Europe" on Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe · · Score: 1

    The Russians moved out of Austria in 1955, so I think they distanced themselves pretty well. (If you were thinking about Hungary, it sometimes calls itself a Central-European* country, but most often Central-Eastern European.)

    * but hey, it's next to centre of Europe!