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  1. Re:Brilliant achievement on First Fully Electric Manned Helicopter Flight · · Score: 1

    According to your commend you seem to be a novice to aluminium welding because it looks pretty much standard.

  2. Counter claim: 3, 2, 1 on Samsung Halts Galaxy Tablet Promotion In Germany · · Score: 3, Interesting
    It would greatly surprise me when Samsung isn't preparing a monumental counter claim to make up for lost revenue.

    Apples claims will not stand up to reality.

  3. Re:don't people already do this? on Heise's 'Two Clicks For More Privacy' vs. Facebook · · Score: 0

    Your computer obeys you.

    I see you don't own a recent Apple iSomething...

  4. Re:It's only right! on US Gov't Lobbied EU To Approve Oracle-Sun Merger · · Score: 1
    You shouldn't just judge a country by it's lack of hygiene.

    ;)

  5. Re:"competing freeware program" on RealNetworks Sues Dutch Webmaster Over Hyperlink To Freeware · · Score: 1

    +1

  6. $ sudo pkill -KILL -u cmdrtaco on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1
    Sorry to see you go!

    You've set up what has over the years become my favourite site.
    The first couple of months I resisted registration as I don't enjoy spreading my details but the way you treated your members convinced me otherwise :).

    I sincerely thank you for all the stories and their insightful comments you've exposed me to and wish you a nice new playing field!

  7. Re:Software patents in the EU?? on Dutch Court Says Android 2.3 Violates Apple Patents · · Score: 1

    as while the EU parliament is elected, the council of ministers and the commissioners (who create the laws & policy) are appointed posts.

    Yes?

    They are appointed by the elected governments of the constituting EU nations.

  8. Re:On the other hand... on When Schools Are the Police · · Score: 1
    Strange, this 'problem' of state cops not being able to police a university only exists in the US.

    The monopoly of violence should be exclusively reserved to democratically controlled bodies like the state.

  9. Law on When Schools Are the Police · · Score: 3, Insightful
    There's a serious lack of law in a state where schools are allowed to run their own police force.

    There's a serious lack of law in a state where a school needs to run their own police force.

    There's a serious lack of public moral in a state where voters allow the previous two issues to exist.

  10. Re:Stroking a blow! on 25,000 Danish Hospital Staff Moving To LibreOffice · · Score: 2

    So you are telling me there are NO insurance companies in Denmark? No claims, no adjusters, nobody to interact with but the government? Must be candyland to have everything work without a single interaction with the outside world.

    odf is the Danish government standard for documents, when a company wants to communicate with government entities using a Word Processor format (that's not the same as a document like pdf) then they can comply with the law of the land.

  11. Re:Wow on China Cracks Down On Fake Apple Stores · · Score: 1

    I suppose Apple never even contacted the Chinese authorities but instead leaned on their Chinese suppliers who in turn contacted the local mob/ party official who then had things straightened out.

  12. Re:Service Pack Search? Seriously? on Bing More Effective Than Google? · · Score: 1
    A few months ago Google determined their regular search had become good enough to remove the dedicated Linux search.

    I have to agree, except for some l33t it didn't add much.

  13. Re:Easy solution: molecular tagging on US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fracking · · Score: 2

    This is similar to 'Fingerprinting' what has been around for years without the need for additional chemicals, it's the reservoir fluid that gets fingerprinted and the prints are kept by the regulating authority who pulls them out when a spill needs to be traced.

  14. Re:Have other independent bodies endorsed fracking on US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fracking · · Score: 2

    and just how bad it is to get methane in your well water? Is this the sort of thing for which we have a filter?

    You ask a very dangerous and stupid question.

    It's more prudent to ask "why should there be methane be released into our water?

    Because when proper engineering practises are employed there is no need what so ever for such a release.
    As someone working in the industry I say a frac that causes/ allows gas seeping/leaking into an aquifer is a horribly failed project that's probably going to cost more in clean up than the well's production could ever make up for.

  15. Re:WTF? on US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fracking · · Score: 1
    There's nothing new about hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas reservoirs.

    As a matter of fact I'm this very moment involved in one.

    The reservoir is 3,500 m. down, the salt dome that for in excess of 250 million years has prevented the gas to seep up has by the frac process not been affected in any way and continues to contain the valuable energy till the reservoir has been depleted by the investing company.
    This is not to say oil or gas recovery can't cause serious issues when regulations aren't followed. The problem is a USofA one where ruthless companies were able to 'convince' greedy politicians that regulation is a bad thing as it gets in the way of making short term money.

    In the mean time the civilised world continues extracting hydrocarbon energy from safely fractured wells without causing any ill effects to the environment.

  16. Re:The op is a... The author is an idiot on Old Arguments May Cost Linux the Desktop · · Score: 1
    You have an edit button, it's called Preview.

    Hell, you're not even shown the 'Submit' button without at least once going through this preview!

  17. Re:Not enough flexibility on DOE Announces Philips As L Prize Winner · · Score: 1
    I can't say anything about the life expectancy except the oldest one or two have already lived longer than the incandescents I used to have.

    But when I accidentally dropped one the glass sphere broke yet it still works fine a a sort of spotlight in a desk lamp.

  18. Re:Cost? on DOE Announces Philips As L Prize Winner · · Score: 2
    Heat is their biggest enemy, when they are enclosed they get too hot and die prematurely.

    I've got two jam pot sized ones, because of their size I put them in quite large standing lamps so they get plenty of air circulation and are getting close to 20 years old.

  19. Re:Not enough flexibility on DOE Announces Philips As L Prize Winner · · Score: 1
    That's exactly what they are, dimmable with a conventional dimmer.

    I've got a living room light with five of the 7W version, over the past 18 months I replaced the 40W incandescents one by one when they burned out and while they were mixed you could hardly see the difference!

  20. Re:Cost? on DOE Announces Philips As L Prize Winner · · Score: 1

    In the EU where we have the good sense to separate our waste, recycle the vast majority and only dump what's left, the mercury content is not an issue.

  21. Re:No, we haven't on Hundreds of Bank Account Details Left In London Pub · · Score: 0
    An insightful observation, the average Brit can't handle alcohol and goes straight for abuse.

    Have a look in Amsterdam, when you see a drunk in broad daylight chances are nearly 100% he's a British 'tourist'.

    This point alone should be an incentive for companies that handle sensitive data to enforce a good and drunk-proof security.

  22. Re:My guess - on NASA Briefing on New Mars Finding This Afternoon · · Score: 1

    Good guess :)

  23. Re:and London Heathrow? on London Could Soon Get Free Wi-Fi Everywhere · · Score: 1

    London's best airport, Schiphol Amsterdam, is a short 355 km (220 mi) away and has for the first hour of use free WIFI.

  24. What proof do you have? on What Do I Do About My Ex-Employer Stealing My Free Code? · · Score: 2
    1.) Fork the already public/ published part.

    2.) When you get proof they publish/sell your work you get a lawyer to write them a notice of infringement.

    When no 1. never happened you are probably out of luck and only an expensive lawyer could help you.

  25. Does it run Linux? on Study Compares IQ With Browser Choice · · Score: 4, Funny
    My first thought was, yeah sure, of course those running Linux compatible browsers are smarter!

    But then I realised of all IE browsers it's IE6 that runs on Linux...

    :)