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  1. Re:Lets to the opposite and merge on Goodbye, California? Tim Draper Proposes a 6-Way Split · · Score: 1

    Isn't it enough that you have taken "America" for your name? What about Central and South America or, who would've thought, Canada????

  2. Re:Background Info on Germany Produces Record-Breaking 5.1 Terawatt Hours of Solar Energy In One Month · · Score: 1

    Man, that looks interesting. Have you got some links to further investigate this? I'd really appreciate those!

  3. Incomplete Summary on RIM CEO: 'There's Nothing Wrong With the Company' · · Score: 1

    They missed the small wave he made with his fingers when he said it. Move along.

  4. Re:Good news everyone! on Killing Cancer With Engineered Viruses · · Score: 1

    Damn. Where's Etymology-Man when you need him?

  5. I'm interested in driving from LA to SF by the PCH. Any word on how the coverage is? I'm constrained to a GSM smartphone, so Verizon and Sprint are off the table. I know the coverage won't be good, but which one has the "less-worse" option?

  6. Neon Genesis Evangelion on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 1

    Nobody made a reference to the Magi??? I'm starting to lose my faith on ./

  7. Independence from Google on Apple Switches (Mostly) To OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    So is this one more step to be independent from Google services? I don't see Apple starting their own search engine, but if they can get rid of the other Google products they use then it would let them do more things in iOS without Google having to explicitly allow it. In a kind of related rant, why does it have to be so hard to access StreetView info from an iPhone?

  8. Registry on For Windows 8 Users, Stardock Revives the Start Menu · · Score: 3, Informative

    I had the urge to change the metro interface to the classic one in my copy of the Developer Preview and, after some googling (google is my friend indeed), I found that it only requires changing a certain value in windows registry. So this Stardock changes only that? Seems to be just a glorified way to set a registry value. Citation!

  9. Re:Toxilogical Info on Skin Cancer Drug Reverses Alzheimer's Symptoms In Mice · · Score: 1

    So the effects would be similar to taking isotretioin? I had a Roaccutane therapy for two years and, though it was unconfortable, it was manageable. IMHO, the benefits outweigh by far the risks, if it's cancer or Alzheimer's.

  10. RIAA? on Sale Or License? Sister Sledge Sues Over ITunes · · Score: 1

    I know we all love to hate the RIAA, but the one who's being sued is the label directly. As much as I'd like to blame the RIAA directly, the one who should be recieving my hate is Warner... after all, they're also scumbags

  11. Security through obscurity on Satellite Phone Encryption Cracked · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These guys have once again proven that security through obscurity is not a sensible strategy. If the codes were published in due time, the flaw could have been found with enough time to allow for preventive measures to be deployed. (I know there are a lot of inferences in the sentence, but it seems plausible to me, taking into account what has happened with other algorithms (DES, anyone?))

  12. Re:$299 with a contract? Really? on Verizon's Galaxy Nexus To Launch Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    CDMA is also a flagship of the US. IIRC, when the US invaded Iraq, they planned in the middle of the reconstruction ordeal to build a new cell network. Guess which standard they would choose? CDMA. In some ways it makes sense, since the leading CDMA provider and owner of most of it's patents is Qualcomm.

  13. Re:states? on A Quarter of the EU Has Never Used the Web · · Score: 1

    What I find amusing is how americans don't say that they're from the US but from their particular state when somebody asks them where they're from. For instance, when you ask someone from Europ where they're from, they will answer with their country's name, but if you ask someone from the US they would say something like "I'm from Montana" or "I live in California". It's funny if you ask me, but I believe it diminishes the feeling of national unity to call yourself from a "state" instead of your country, although they have proven me wrong a lot of times with their wicked redneck agenda... Just my two cents as a foreigner.

  14. Re:No on New Theory Challenges Need For Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Planck. He introduced quantization to make the equations match with the experimental data. He said it himself that he believed it was just a mathematical trick.

  15. What could possibly go wrong? on Using Toads to Predict Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    His last name is Freund, after all.

  16. Re:Storm... on 'Alternative Medicine' Clinic Attempts To Silence Critics · · Score: 2

    Damn, I really wish I had mod points now. The first time I saw that beat poem, I was hooked. A very funny and smart skeptic. For those interested, you can listen to him in youtube, spotify, etc., since he has recorded some musical works (he's a very competent pianist and musician also).

  17. Re:Berlusconi's a c**t... on Italian Wikipedia May Shut Down Due To New Legislation · · Score: 1

    You mean, he's a continuing source of inspiration, Jimmy?

  18. Re:Dupe! on Imaging the Molecular Orbitals of Pentacene · · Score: 1

    My mistake. As always, I didn't RTFA before posting. Now I realize that they're talking about the molecuar orbitals (who would've guessed!) and not the picture taken by IBM before. It's actually pretty nice. Again, apologies.

  19. Dupe! on Imaging the Molecular Orbitals of Pentacene · · Score: 1

    I remember having seen this very same picture a year ago or so posted here... It's still in my pictures folder because it really impressed me that time. Guess it shows that chemistry isn't alchemy after all. Link to the original article

  20. Where's Florian Müller? on The Dark Side of the Tech Patent Wars · · Score: 1

    It's so common to find him in patent-related articles that I'm starting to miss him... What's happened to you, /., a sudden change of mind?

  21. Re:I wouldn't hit it on Chinese Researchers Propose Asteroid Deflection Mission · · Score: 1

    My worries are that moving the asteroid could somehow disrupt the balance of the solar system and have gravitational repercussions with other objects, kind of a butterfly effect... Yes, it's small, but if it disbalances the orbit of another object, and those do the same thing to others... the millon-years-old balance that we have in the solar system could be wrecked. Just a very wild thought. Any astrophysicist that could help me with this? Is it really possible, or is the lack of coffee messing with my mind?

  22. Re:Apophis on Chinese Researchers Propose Asteroid Deflection Mission · · Score: 1

    But he'll come back, as usual

  23. Re:OK fine, they were employees on Music Copyright War Looming · · Score: 1

    I'd think that the market itself its it's own Hawking Radiation, and there's no limit to the mass a financial system can have for it to spontaneously evaporate... I think we may be on to something here

  24. Re:OK fine, they were employees on Music Copyright War Looming · · Score: 1

    Don't worry! Once they pass the modified Chandrasekhar limit for critical financial mass (hasn't been properly calculated for monetary matter), they're pretty much in the realm of Relativistic Accounting, for which no solution exists.

  25. Re:Java is for goatfuckers on Sun CEO Explicitly Endorsed Java's Use In Android · · Score: 1

    I'm beginning to suspect this guy (For a Free Internet) is a machine... have you seen his previous posts? Either he is one, or he hasn't passed the "toring" test himself.