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  1. Re:Funny how behind the US is on Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried to drink seawater?

  2. Re:So... on Researchers Make Paper Speakers For LCD TVs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    here's a 440 Hz test tone

    A sound system incapable of reproducing that sound isn't even close to Hi-Fi.

  3. Re:Dear lord, this is horrible... on Researchers Make Paper Speakers For LCD TVs · · Score: 1

    and what's wrong with a passive solution?

  4. Re:But are they MONSTER Paper Speakers? on Researchers Make Paper Speakers For LCD TVs · · Score: 1

    Kevlar sounds cooler than "papyrus". And only kevlar has the strength to withstand the shear awesomeness that Monster Cable can provide.

  5. Re:Who needs to hunt down textbooks in Finland? on Copyright Lobby Targets "Pirate Bay For Books" · · Score: 1

    One thousand single sided pages. My, my, that must be fun to lug around.

  6. Re:Who needs to hunt down textbooks in Finland? on Copyright Lobby Targets "Pirate Bay For Books" · · Score: 1

    Did you try using the catalog?

  7. Re:More data forces the need for more bandwidth on The Road To Terabit Ethernet · · Score: 1

    What applications do you think will require this kind of bandwidth? HD video with moderate compression should easilly fit into a gigabit.

    Why settle for "moderate compression?" Dalsa Raw requires 3.2 Gb/s.

    Before a movie can be put on bittorrent, it must be edited.

  8. Re:MORON! on Rep. Jane Harman Focus In Yet Another Warrantless Wiretap Scandal · · Score: 1

    The summary is wrong. It should either describe her as "the ranking Democratic member" or as the "ranking Democrat....".

  9. Re:Fight...for your right.... on Worst Censorware Blocks Cannot Be Fixed · · Score: 1

    Marketing. It's all marketing.

  10. Re:Fight...for your right.... on Worst Censorware Blocks Cannot Be Fixed · · Score: 1

    surgical? Cyproterone isn't surgical.

  11. Re:So, basically the parents are screwed? on Worst Censorware Blocks Cannot Be Fixed · · Score: 1

    I want to know "on behalf of what parent with a kid in that school[sic] are the[sic] suing?" Nobody has a right to sue unless they are directly effected [sic] by this. The ACLU is on very questionable ground [sic] here. This is typical for these nut jobs.

    Andrew Emitt

    By they way, it looks as if you could do with a bit of schooling yourself.

  12. Re:tl;dr on Worst Censorware Blocks Cannot Be Fixed · · Score: 1

    One successful lawsuit equals one blocked website. Very simple.

  13. Re:Fight...for your right.... on Worst Censorware Blocks Cannot Be Fixed · · Score: 1

    Why does SF get lumped in with SciFi? If there's no science, it's not Science Fiction.

  14. Re:Videos? on Best Easter Eggs and Other Software Surprises · · Score: 1

    Exactly. People shouldn't have to install MacOSX just to play with emacs tetris.

  15. Re:Relax! It's just google's standard boilerplate. on Chrome EULA Reserves the Right To Filter Your Web · · Score: 1

    If that doesn't make it clear that Google only plans to filter Google services, I don't know what will.

    So, you're saying that Google Chrome is a Google Service, and as a Google Service, it may be filtered. Thanks. You've cleared up a great mystery.

  16. Re:To hell with "achievements" on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1
  18. It's the right thing to do on The Guardian Shifts To Twitter After 188 Years of Ink · · Score: 1

    and it solves GMG's dispute with Google News

  19. Re:Grinding reputation on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    How do you grind reputation with CmdrTaco anyway?

    I'm not sure. Hot grits may help.

  20. Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Excellent.

  21. Re:The real question here is... on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Comedians are Funny. Be funny, and you can be a comedian.

  22. Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought we were capped at Level 50.

  23. Re:Sesame Street & the Importance of Bilingual on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    And I was all set to computer translate my JavaDocs into dutch. Guess I'll have to learn the language. Phooey.

  24. Re:Sesame Street & the Importance of Bilingual on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    Google Translate writes in a language that is close to, but not quite the same as the requested language. Were I to engage in your proposed exercise, I would still need a native dutch speaker to evaluate Google Translate's output before making any conclusions about the readability of Dutch.

    Is

    Het enige wat in het algemeen is het Latijnse alfabet, dat de Finnen gebruiken veel beter dan het Engels luidsprekers sinds hun taal is veel makkelijker te spellen

    good dutch?

    Translating it back results in this:

    The only thing in general, the Latin alphabet, which the Finns use a lot better than English speakers in their language is much easier to spell

    Not inspiring. The words are the same, but the meaning is clouded. I'm not sure if I could trust code that was commented via Google Translate.

  25. Re:Our old business model is no longer making us.. on Should Google Be Forced To Pay For News? · · Score: 1

    In this particular case, the shareholder doesn't care about profits. It cares abut keeping the newspaper around.