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  1. Re:Meaning? on Negative Refractivity for Optical Computing · · Score: 2

    It happens when the light goes backwards.... :-)

    cmed < 0

  2. Re:It's not that bad: read the actual patent on E-Mail Forwarding Patented, PTO Sued · · Score: 2
    ... charge us for breathing H2O ...

    You breathe WATER? Wow!

  3. Re:Ouch on Electric Armor · · Score: 2

    If the outer plate is charged and the inner plate is ground, what is to prevent something else beiing ground? As long as it is conductive, it should work.

  4. Re:Pie menu advantages on Pie-Menus in Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Damn! I got "View Source"

  5. Re:Cost of Servers... on USA Today says "Linux waddles from obscurity" · · Score: 2

    Might it be that they upgraded the servers and cut the cost by choosing linux servers in the upgraded system rather than some more expensive unix-variety? that would be a reason not to run the linux on the old servers and the explanation of the speed increase. It would also point out how cheap you can do a upgrade as long as you use linux...

  6. Tax Dollars on Linux Games WIth Guns · · Score: 2
    When you consider the fact that it was paid for with our tax dollars

    Nope. Your tax dollars. My taxes are in Euros.

  7. Star wars/Star trek on Spielberg Denied Crack at Star Wars · · Score: 2

    What about 7 of 9?

  8. Re:Finally!! on Yamaha CD-RW Drive Writes Images In Substrate · · Score: 1

    sharpies are circumventiondevices under the DMCA. You can not own those...

  9. Look at the verdict! on Dutch Judge Cracks Down on Hyperlinks · · Score: 5, Informative

    The verdict mentions the sites as well and should therefore be illegal!

  10. Writable? on Philips Blue Laser Itty Bitty Disc Drive · · Score: 2

    The article seems to suggest that the CD's will be writable, but it does not specifically state that they are. They talk about camara's and replacement for flash cards, but that only holds if these babies are Blu-CD-R's, not if they are just Blu-CD's

  11. honeymoon on Disney Switches To Linux For Animation · · Score: 2
    Let me get this straight:

    - You go on a honeymoon, take your bride to Disney World (OK, so far), and then you talk about software ?????? -

    That must have been a turn-on for her...

  12. Re:Prick on Iowa Court May Order Microsoft Refunds · · Score: 1
    ...i chose overrated

    And then lost the moderation by posting in this thread...

  13. Re:Tax dollars should not buy Microsoft products on Countries Ponder: GNU/Linux vs. Microsoft · · Score: 1
    hire a third party to hire problems

    Let's not hire any problems. We've got enough of them already...

  14. Re:FIRST ILLEGAL POST on DeCSS' Continuing Saga · · Score: 1

    So.... where is the licence mentioned? Weren't you supposed to distribute it with the post? This post is more illegal than you even thought!

  15. Re:How appropriate... on World's First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Island · · Score: 2
    Add a drop of water to Laphroiag (Just ONE drop!!) and kill the "over the top" exerience and release a more subtle experience.

    Lagavullin is my other favorite as well, but Laphroiag is very well this way and for me even outranks Lagavullin

  16. Re:Waste of energy! on World's First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Island · · Score: 2
    what you say is only true if you are only using the electricity soemwhere where there is a powergrid.

    Say you want to drive a clean car. You have an electrical engine. You have to store your energy somewhere, since draging an extensioncord along the road is not a viable solution

    You can charge inefficient, mostly very heavy bateries at home, or use the electrical energy to create hydrogen, a light substance that can easily be used to generate electricity for your car again.

    The last option is certainly viable.

  17. Re:Altnet... a hackers paradise. on More on Kazaa and Brilliant Digital Spyware · · Score: 1

    that would be 99.999999 % secure. to reach 100% you have to take a boat out afterwards, sink it, kill yourself in the water and be eaten by sharks, without anybody finding out about all that either.

  18. Obvious on Net Phones Taking Off in the Third World · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It is cheap, so who's going to use it first? People with little money! When I was a student, I always knew where to get my bargains as well (now my time is worth more than the discount I recieve), and most of these people have a lot less to spend!

    I am not particulary surprised at this.

  19. Re:Faster connections possible with same equipment on 64kbps @ 40,000 ft. · · Score: 1

    An airplane traveling at 50% of the speed of light would not give the average suit enough time to boot his Windows to even start downloading or whatever before it reaches its destination.

  20. Re:Proud on Kazaa Is Legal, Dutch Appeals Court Rules · · Score: 1

    te lang! Zonde!

  21. Re:HIV treatment on Gene Therapy Cures "Bubble Boy" · · Score: 2
    It most probably would be problematic, to say the least. The good receptors woukld still be there, ready for infection. Unless you knock them out, your solution is useless. to knock them out you would have to insert a stretch of DNA into them, or delete a part.

    You would have to use a recombinant vector, i.e. a vector which has the start and end of the gene for the correct receptor with it, and some deletion or garbage in between. It _could_ recombine, but would not work for a multi-cellular organism, since only part of the cells would become immune.

    The idea of dual complex treatment is just a bit to much at this moment if you'd ask me.

    and yes, I'm a Molecular Geneticist

  22. Re:Playing God? on Gene Therapy Cures "Bubble Boy" · · Score: 2

    In my opinion, having a death penalty is closer to playing God than gene therapy, since you accomplish a transition (living-dead) that only GOd was traditionally allowed to make, while genetherapy does not change your state (when you're alive, you're alive, when you're dead, you're dead).

  23. Re:Can it be appealed again? on Kazaa Is Legal, Dutch Appeals Court Rules · · Score: 2

    It can be brought to supreme court (Hoge Raad der Nederlanden), but they can only judge procedures, not set a sentence themselves.

  24. Re:Machine Translations on Kazaa Is Legal, Dutch Appeals Court Rules · · Score: 2

    Great way to piss of a judge: translate his name into "the Castrate"

  25. Re:Dutch on Kazaa Is Legal, Dutch Appeals Court Rules · · Score: 2

    maar wel terecht...