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  1. Re:That's remarkable, but... on Spider Silk Cape Goes On Display · · Score: 1

    Chemistry was Alchemy, and Alchemy was a sink to put your useless monarch money extorted from the peasants. Alchemy was considered as "might be amusing once per year, and may produce gold, but the record tells us its unlikely".
    Chemistry was useless before it became Chemistry.

  2. Re:What a load of drivel on New Cable Designed To Deter Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    Because the bloody Polish "boarder roamers" are still earing crap. Instead of national robbers we have east european robbers who roam the countries looking for cash.
    And why is that? Because you don't earn any money back in their countries. So its usually never the locals.

  3. Re:I really hate this article on Homeless Student Is Intel Talent Search Semifinalist · · Score: 1

    Sorry to say so, but the only way to "get rich" is either by starting off rich, or working alongside the line until a wild capital oppertunitiy appaer out of thin air.
    Now... in good country, if you work hard, you may be able to reach middle middle class instead of being stuck as a loser at bottom of society. What the article is about is just a student who has managed to reach upper middleclass via scholarship luck.

  4. Re:I guess I don't understand... on SOPA Makes Strange Bedfellows · · Score: 1

    Look at it this way: All creditcard companies and banks have a webpage.
    By effect that means that if you ask them to block something under SOPA, you basically ask for them to do a complete block of all products of that company. And since all transfers is done via the web anyhow, you have just killed all their economical support.
    So basically the reason they want to support SOPA is because that gives them more rights to deal with other companies, at every level but what is being sold in the store if its not imported.

  5. Re:Wait, what? on Japan Plans To Scrap Nuclear Plants After 40 Years · · Score: 1

    Fuku was suppose to be replaced in Mai..........
    While I have not payed any attention to if there has been any effort to actually complete this plans, I sort of assume Fuki will be running for more years after stabilization because it would be even worse PR to build another plant.... Or at the least that is what the Germans are telling me, so the Japanese might think differently.

  6. Re:Study of the Public Domain on What Could Have Been In the Public Domain Today, But Isn't · · Score: 2

    Another important thing about CC is that it also defines what "Public Domain" is suppose to mean, which also means that if you license something under CC you now use CCs definition instead of your countries definition. Which may or may not save somebody some headache.

  7. Re:Yeah, yeah...everything enjoyable is bad for yo on Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? · · Score: 0

    I assume Gluten is actually quite a bit like milk: We are allergic too it, and we have not adopted for using it yet, its just that its not directly illl inducing.

  8. Re:1% of all nuke plants have melted down now. on Report Condemns Japan's Response To Nuclear Accident · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sure: Deaths per TWh
    0.04 deaths per TWh for nuclear. Hydro is a bit more than twice that, wind is at 4 times as much, and Coal is at 42 times that again.

  9. Re:Listened to reason? on Crowdsourced List of SOPA Supporters · · Score: 1

    SOPA works just fine against US sites, mainly because they have been given no immunties. Read SOPA please, it clearly states that its against INTLECTUAL PROPERTY VIOLATION, and not "FOREIGN SITES WHICH ARE QUESTIONABLE".
    So basically what Technician needs to do is to just send a letter with his statements and perhaps even a comparision to VISA(they lifted X without permission), Paypal, Google and the DNS organisation in charge of .com (since its US based). The companies receiving the letter or email are now in a dire position: They will be taken directly to court if they do not comply, and since the court system is not fixed it will be quite the shame to do so, so they will comply.
    So unless Makezine main funds come via a foreign bank, or a US bank with no Internet page, they are effectivily killed in action.

  10. Re:Really? That's Investigate Journalism? on Using WikiLeaks As a Tool In Investigative Journalism · · Score: 1

    If that truely is how the media works, then there would be a outcry against the writers and the editors each time a court case went in the opposite direction of what the newspapers wrote about.
    I am quite sure I have read about the media preconvicted a lot of people, turning medias frontpages into smear campaigns.

  11. Re:Public Transit on NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers · · Score: 1

    Public transit sucks because only in the large cities you can have departings each 15th minute, while in the suburbs or out in the countryside or out at the real farmland the sore truth is that the buss never leaves at a appropiate times, and is usually delayed if there is any slight change on conditions. I live in the Norwegian equivalent of the countryside, and we have buses going at early in the morning then midday, and then a buss about the same time as the school buss, and 1 evening buss. If you miss one, you have to wait hours. If its late, you have to sit out in cold for almost half an hour because thats how things work.A even more important problem is that the buss schedules is never properly aligned to your work time either, so usually there is a hour of dead time each day because of the inconsistencies.
    Another large problem is that its usually half a kilometer or more to the next bus stop, while it takes 5-10 minutes to walk that distance its still a 10 minute head start if you had gotten into the car and just drove in the first place.
    And lets not bring grocery shopping into this mess shall we? Especially for a family?

  12. Re:They got paid for this... on Adblock Plus Developers To Allow 'Acceptable' Ads · · Score: 2

    Engine stop due bad clutching, somewhere in a heavly trafikked intersection.
    I can think this is a likely scenario, and if the people behind are going to wait a extra 30 seconds, they may even attempt to lynch you, along with whatever fines you can get from the local police.

  13. Re:Annoying Valley Girl echoes on 'Vocal Fry' Creeping Into US Speech · · Score: 1

    Because nobody understands what noting plural and singular is suppose to mean anyhow.
    It took me 2 years of studying spansish before I understood that you used the "Lo, la, los, las" and whatever ever similar ones to denote singular and plural just like in my own language.

  14. Re:First he has to win this appeal... on Assange Wins Right To Submit Appeal · · Score: 1

    Speeding is one of those things are too easy to do. I mean: The difference between 80 and 90 kilometers an hour is abour 3 and a half meter a second, which again is nothing compared to the speed you are already moving at.
    So what do you have to detect the difference? You got the sound of the gears, the sound of the air friction, and the speedometer. If you are driving at a flat landscape, and suddenly its a minor downhill, you won't notice the speed increase unless you speed up exessivly. While the cops looking for speeders usually don't mind cars being 7-8 km an hour faster than the speed limit, the cameras notice.
    And how large is the fine? Too large for it to be neglishable.

  15. Re:Frameworks on Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer? · · Score: 1

    Because all of those are not corporations.
    With normal products, they CAN and WILL go bankrupt if things go bad. For example: Netscape..... And what happened when Netscape died? A few people who liked netscape get the sourcecode and decided to make Firefox. The entire fact that Firefox is not a corporation is what allowed it to survives IEs dominant age.
    Counterpoint: Opera. The best browser on the desktop, but lacks markedshare. So why did this corporationade this who made browser survive? Because what they sell are primarely not their browser. They sell their engine to use on devices, and this creates enough profit to keep them floating at a decent rate. Without that, Opera would have died like Netscape did.

    The law of the marked is clear: The greater something had to be, the larger amount of fail needs to happen before it is so great. For each great feature in a OS, time must have been spent attempting to create this feature and failing at it a few times. And because "trying to do something" means that you spend time, and time is money, attempting to create something good is really costy.
    Which again brings us back to your point: How many hours of "failure" do you think it took to create the Linux kernel? If it was made by a private corporation, they would most likely have gotten bankrupt before they got anywhere, but instead it was a FLOSS project so that it could afford quite a few failures to get anywhere.

    Even so, for Y to be a alternativ to X, Y needs to exist and be a complete entity. If its still in it's infancy stage, its not really a option if it?
    Side comment: FLOSS projects apparently are good at keeping somethings momentum going, but quite a bit worse at creating something from bottom. Private corporations are better at getting the core done, mainly because they can get dedicated people to do a dedicated job.

  16. Re:So what? on Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer? · · Score: 1

    And you see, having this walletgarden means that instead of the default OS coming with crap, the crap is something only the superusers will encounter.
    And I for one, welcome this, mainly because i utterly detest horribly setup devices.
    Just take a look at a default Windows computer:
    -No guarantee about working drivers for the GPU
    -Power management is most likely a bunch of hacks instead of a real implementation
    -Values for "time until" for sleep, hybrid sleep and hibernation are usually set to the wrong values
    -Default touchpad driver is most likely a shitty mess, and its too small in size and supports too few input fingers for it to even be useful
    -SWAP size is not get on OS install, resulting in massive fragmentation over time
    -User files and use installs are not installed by default on their own partition, of when the computer crashes the Windows proles has lost all their files... Even better: Some applications only works due insane amount of windows registry storage, resulting in it being completely unportable.
    -And by default Windows is set to NAG the user about updates, instead of silenting upgrading in the background.
    -And on the top of this there is tons of popups and malware installed by default. Which slows down the system A LOT.

    And this is the problem of the Windows proletarians. Us super users, us bourgeois of the PC world, we might sit down and a fix some of these problems, or we install some Unix system to avoid having to deal with all the Windows problems in the first place. We are smart enough to split the files, setup the default install path to D:\Apps, remove the malvare, and enjoy fixing all those pesky little problems.
    And even we are annoyed over all the small pesky problems.
    And here is what the wallet Garden promises: "You shall not suffer any of the insane problems you are used to, and lack the competance to even look at". It such a good promise that it gets adapted.

  17. Re:Seems fair... on In Australia, Immunize Or Lose Benefits · · Score: 1

    Pretty much this.
    Child Labor didn't exterminate itself, laws had to be passed.

  18. Re:That's not the only thing on Bradley Manning's Court Date Finally Set · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I keep hearing people saying that. Can you at the least link me to a news story about some squad of soliders that has gotten killed DIRECTLY because of the leaks?

  19. Re:No editors == linguistic variation on How Technology Is Shaping Language · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't extend to the kids name. Or rather: It only extends to the kids name because the language has a complete difference between spelling and saying. If English was a perfect phonetical language with words being written as they was spoken, and spoken as they was written, the trend would die and be replaced by adding multiple names.
    "Odd Even Ragnar Jack"

  20. Re:Nothing here on Amazon Denies Reports That Airport Scanners Ruin Kindle's e-Ink · · Score: 1

    The scanner still pushes more more radiation trough it than the flight.

  21. Re:How is that possible? on Feds Helped Coordinate Occupy X Crackdowns · · Score: 1

    The law doesn't work that way. Self defence against cops is legal. The "problem" is that you don't have enough friends, to you punch out 1, get arrested, and they plant evidence against you and do fake testemonies.

  22. Re:How is that possible? on Feds Helped Coordinate Occupy X Crackdowns · · Score: 0

    Well, its the police own fault for having assaulted the protesters earlier.

  23. Re:And patents, of course on Is American Innovation Losing Its Shine? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >Ask yourself what is more productive for the economy:
    >Case1: The inventor is sued out of existence and the invention never see the light of the day since it is disruptive to the current economic actors revenue steams.
    >Case2: The invention gets copied, however, if the inventor and his investors use reasonable marketing, they still have the first mover advantage.
    You forget case 3:
    The investors keep their work a tradesecret, and takes it with them to the grave
    Case 3 is the entire reason the patent system exists. Suddenly your "work" could be exteneded by others instead of everybody having to reinvent the exact same thing. For example how to make proper steel.

  24. Re:Working drivers... on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1

    The Nvidia driver sucks at supporting randr... so its not any better. Its just better at some core areas we are suppose to care about.

  25. Re:Nassim is one of the brightest thinkers around on End Bonuses For Bankers · · Score: 1

    The bible contains:
    -War
    -Rape
    -Genocide
    -Homosexuality
    -Social changes
    -Rethoric
    -Myths
    If you ignore the fact its the Christian book, its just a really large myth collection. It has some good sections.