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  1. Re:Eh on Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I fail to see how knowing science makes you able to make rational decisions.

    You just gave us the perfect example of what becomes of us when lacking information!

  2. Re:High speed wireless on EU Reserves a Frequency For Talking Cars · · Score: 0, Troll
    Or the Brits do what they're best at, don't join because they are the only ones believing their own system is 'better'.

    Talking about Brits, just imagine the havoc caused by a car used to driving on the other side of the road...

  3. Re:Why is this free? on First Images From 50-km Enceladus Flyby · · Score: 1
    Yes a Troll you are.

    First of, this is an international project and secondly how could this possibly of 'National Interest'?

    Or do you see a bright future for importing ice from there to lower the cost of your AC?

    The advantage of widely publishing these photo's and further information gathered should be self-evident, the pictures are maybe amazing but it's the science work based on them that'll have a lasting value.

    And the more people and organisations work on this the greater the returns will be.

  4. Re:A pity on First Images From 50-km Enceladus Flyby · · Score: 4, Funny
  5. Re:And they say ... on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    lawn fertilizer, gasoline, paint thinner, ammonia, insecticides and anything else you might normally have around the house. All that stuff looks dangerous to me.

    This looks suspiciously like a receipt for explosives, we'll have to get your IP and save the homeland.

  6. Re:what email address did he register? on Who Owns Your Online Networking Contacts? · · Score: 1
    A friend works as a realtor and when he told his company he was quitting to go independent they went to court demanding he could not (continue to) do business with their clients.

    The court ruled he could in his new company not contact his old clients but they were free to call him.

    (That was the Dutch solution)

  7. Re:Devil is in the details on Who Owns Your Online Networking Contacts? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yeah, engineering in feet...

    Just wait for the conversion...

  8. Re:I fail to see what's so spectacular about this on First-Ever Photo Tour of Defcon's Network Center · · Score: 1
    Hmm, around my ways the saying goes "It takes a thief to catch a thief...

    So please don't go by appearances and nice badges :)

  9. Re:Same here. on Google's Streetview Seen As Culturally Insensitive In Japan · · Score: 1

    I would also add an barcode or DataMatrix to it and the front side of my house if that is what is needed so that they can read and respect it.

    Please note zeromorph lives where the picture shows a hole in the apartment block.

    Yep you just regained your privacy.

  10. Re:Untill your own computer is seized. on US Warns Olympic Visitors of Chinese Cyber-Spying · · Score: 1
    A very insightful comment!

    Ten years ago the the American in China would have had a 'Shadow' following his every step, that has all but disappeared as well.

  11. Untill your own computer is seized. on US Warns Olympic Visitors of Chinese Cyber-Spying · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Guess what, you can distrust anything in China but at least you know your own computer to be safe.

    Until it's confiscated at the US border.

  12. Re:No, *THESE* are slaves on Apple Sued For Turning Workers Into Slaves · · Score: 1
    I think you are slightly unfamiliar with the difficulties different languages, cultures and tax systems put in the way of a trans-European labour market.

    I do work all over the place but it is quite rare.

    Besides, as far as I know all other Western European countries have a legal minimum wage, even though they might be a lot smaller.

  13. Re:MrBoston on Windows XP Still Outselling Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Kudos to HP for still shipping machines with XP pre-installed; Dell requires the purchase of a $150 license with "downgrade" rights.

    And to Toshiba for supplying without charge and additional to the advertised Vista XP disks without me even asking.

    And that is after they announced the end of retail of XP.

    I bought the new Tecra S5 to put Linux on it but now made it dual boot with XP so I can run that odd Windows only app.

  14. Re:It's being pushed anyway on New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oh and I forgot to add the ripped version plays perfectly in Linux.

  15. Re:It's being pushed anyway on New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray · · Score: 2, Insightful

    added more invasive stricter DRM technology, and inserted unskippable commercials at the beginning of the discs. I'm sure tens of millions must groan, if not cursing out load, as their dvd skip, forward and menu buttons fail, as they are spammed with a commercial. That's gotta kill multiple future sales at the margin, every time.

    Yep, I prefer the ripped HD version.

    TB disks are cheap so why would I invest in an expensive Blue Ray burner?

  16. Re:No, *THESE* are slaves on Apple Sued For Turning Workers Into Slaves · · Score: 3, Interesting
    But in Germany you elect to be a union member, there is no closed shop.

    Legislation draws a line on which to build a contract, that way there is no reason for bitter strife between company and unions about very basic things like health care and pensions.

    The weirdest is that Germany does not have a legal minimum wage yet any reputable(!) company pays well above what is minimum in comparable countries.

  17. Re:Not just US and Lenovo on No Linux IdeaPad For Lenovo's US Customers · · Score: 1
    Computerpirates expected them yesterday but charge 430 euro...

    Others show pre order or 6-10 days delivery.

    And contrary to last weekend (when I last checked) they are now offering the 20GB Linux version!

    I'm pretty sure I saw them in the Tweakers.net price watch but they are not there right now, looks like a container got rerouted :)

  18. Not just US and Lenovo on No Linux IdeaPad For Lenovo's US Customers · · Score: 1
    Here in The Netherlands it's impossible to get the Linux version of the eee pc 901.

    Do I see a trend or is it a plot?

  19. Re:This won't have an effect in Belgium on IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One easy solution: Get twelve bags.

  20. Re:This won't have an effect in Belgium on IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent · · Score: 1
    Sad story.

    But there are more cities that do the segregation of waste after collection. Whether before or after the incinerator the glass will still be separated for recycling and not dumped.

  21. Re:This won't have an effect in Belgium on IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent · · Score: 1
    Ah yes waste, I have two (wheely) bins behind the house, both stamped 1993, the year my town did away with bags.

    Over here separate collection of paper has been the standard since ever, it's seen as a valuable recourse. Metal and glass are collected separately as well meaning the green bin for biodegradable like garden and kitchen refuse/ compost and leaving the grey bin for the rest like plastics. Oh yeas, there is this small lockable bucket for left over paint, chemicals and medicines.

    I think in Germany you now have some four different containers for waste.

    Living near the town center (that's where Europeans have their shops) I usually do my shopping afoot and then bring the tote bag.

  22. Re:This won't have an effect in Belgium on IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent · · Score: 1

    Now I have to buy my grocery bag almost everytime I go shopping.

    This is of course nonsense, who is stopping you from getting a proper and durable shopping bag that lasts for years?

    Since many years I have a cotton bag and when it gets dirty it goes in the laundry.

  23. Re:This won't have an effect in Belgium on IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent · · Score: 1

    That tax does make sense to me as there is no need for that plastic bag would people bring their own durable shopping bags.

  24. Re:This won't have an effect in Belgium on IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent · · Score: 1

    If you don't get regular plastic bags free with your shopping, you end up buying bigger, thicker plastic bags wrapped in another plastic bag to throw out your rubbish. Plus obviously you've gotta buy a bag to put your shopping in. How is that more environmentally friendly? You probably use up two or three times the amount of plastic.

    Bullshit.

    Years ago I bought a nice cotton bag (in Dead Horse Alaska...) and I use it nearly every day for my shopping.

    Just make sure you take one along in your car whenever you go out.

  25. Re:This won't have an effect in Belgium on IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent · · Score: 1
    Weird mod to declare this off topic...

    Just north of Belgium in The Netherlands it's illegal to dump what can be recycled, reused or turned into energy in an incinerator.

    Only the final ashes or sludge can be dumped.