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  1. Re:Or in real money on Treadmill Workstation · · Score: 1

    How does this machine work? Will it cut my arms and legs off, before draining me of blood?

    Even though I'm 1.83m and well-built, it's still just a couple of kilos away from half my bodymass.

  2. Re:Gotta love Linus on Linus Responds To Microsoft Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more in the lines of 'yiff, yiff, yiff'.

  3. Re:Mobility over quality on Landline Holders Increasingly Older, More Affluent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't know what 3rd world country you live in, but here we have excellent coverage and quality. In a blind-test I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between a landline and a mobile phone, and the landlines are really good.

    On second thought... I think many 3rd world countries would be in an uproar if they had the kind of service you describe.

  4. Re:And during the next elections... on Norway Moves Towards Mandatory Use of ODF and PDF · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah... You have no idea how envious Norwegians get of people who make more than themselves, especially if it is not deserved. Not long ago there was a huge uproar over one of the politicians getting a personal trainer covered by her party. And socialism here isn't a fringe group, they pretty much _are_ the government. It's only the shade that differs.

    Also note that we have a history of implementing pretty radical IT related legislature, like the data protection laws which puts great restrictions on what companies can keep of (especially unrelated) information, privacy, requirements on how studies are performed, notification when data is accessed, etc.

  5. Re:The more accurate the better on Does Wikipedia Suck on Science Stories? · · Score: 2, Informative

    And it goes on to say:

    * Irreducibility in this case means that the polynomial cannot be divided by any polynomial except itself and 1 with zero remainder.
    * Reducible polynomials can still be used, but their error correcting and detecting capabilities will be less effective. Some applications may choose to use reducible polynomials under certain conditions.

    So what is your complain? It's part of the very technical section on how to design an CRC algorithm, and it explains the term.

  6. Re:More paid-for "research" from special interests on Could Global Warming Make Life on Earth Better? · · Score: 1

    Except we've advanced quite a bit since the days of Galileo, and you'd be laughed at if in an astronomy discussion pulled out something he had written. Not that it would necessarily be wrong, but we do have some more up-to-date predictions and theories.

    Same goes for this physicist, he did after all die in 1927 or so, as global warming theories were still just mad men's ramblings.

  7. Re:Could Global Warming Make Life Better? on Could Global Warming Make Life on Earth Better? · · Score: 1

    But, he argued, "by the influence of the increasing percentage of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, we may hope to enjoy ages with more equable and better climates," potentially making poor harvests and famine a thing of the past.

    Little wonder he held that belief... Even the UN climate panel agrees, global warming will be beneficial to us living in Scandinavia. Sucks to be the rest of the world, but... In some ways, I'm looking forward to the next 30 years's warming... And this must have especially true back 100 years ago, when winters _really_ sucked due to poverty, etc.

  8. Re:Defamatory on Electronic Frontier Foundation Sues Uri Geller · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn... Fingerprint on my LCD screen.

  9. Re:So lemme get this straight.... on The Human Mutation · · Score: 1

    Yes they must, how else do you think we will get the weekly earth-shaking, paradigm shifting scientific article on /.?

  10. Re:Wormhole? on Mathematicians Design Invisible Tunnel · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought quotes were to separate the 'wormholes' that connect two points in space, etc, from holes containing actual worms.

  11. Re:Poor choice of name on Prosecutor Announces Charges Against Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    I think they were... Asking for lawsuits, that is.

    They probably want a crushing victory in a court, except no one has yet thought they had a chance.

  12. Re:Next up: Ontology spam on Super-Fast RDF Search Engine Developed · · Score: 1

    Why do I suddenly get this mental image of spam on increasing the plumage size of birds...?

  13. Re:Make sure you follow through on Writing Open Source Documentation? · · Score: 1

    I was going to write something similar to this. My project is pretty much a one-man-show and over the past year has become somewhat popular. Getting tons of user-support mails, bad and duplicate bug reports, etc, has conditioned me into just ignoring/close anything that doesn't look like a useful question/report.

    If someone were to offer to help write documentation, they should started writing something and ask questions not easily found in what is available of documentation. This would show that the person really is willing to try, and it gives an opportunity to comment on the format of the document.

  14. Re:It's not a bug... on Apple iBook G4 Design Flaw Proven · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hey, did you know that when you buy a laptop in Norway, you're by law guaranteed for 5 years?

    It won't cover parts that are normally considered to have a somewhat short lifespan, like batteries. But in other regards it is held to the same standard as other household items that are meant to last, like fridges, etc.

  15. Re: Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Port on Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable · · Score: 1

    I maintain, and develop for, windows systems all day...

    The antecedent poster was referring to people who _don't_ use windows, not people who _do_.

  16. Re:This is (now) a famous number-theory integer! on Censoring a Number · · Score: 1

    "He who laughs last laughs best."

    Anyone who says something like that obviously needs a few lessons in the theory of induction.

  17. Re:Hello Microsoft on Microsoft Says Other OSes Should Imitate UAC · · Score: 1

    I believe we're talking about the late 1960's actually...

  18. Re:Key Exchange? on Italian Phone Taps Spur Encryption Use · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of public key encryption? Err... wait... this seems to be going in a loop...

    You do know that if you have their public key stored, a man can't place himself in the middle? It would require tapping at the endpoints, where the encryption/decryption is being done.

  19. Re:Competition for emusic on Apple To Grant All Labels DRM-Free Distribution · · Score: 1

    And here I was, in the middle of connecting a really long TP cable to my car to power it. I hadn't thought about the routers themselves would be using fossil fuels... Thanks, you saved me hours that would have been wasted on hacking the router into providing enough power.

  20. Re:Not a bad idea on More Than 1500 Schools To Deploy DDR By 2010 · · Score: 1

    Run/cycle to/from work.
    done.

    Errr... Perhaps that actually requires effort, I forgot. Sorry.

  21. Re:I'm just waiting... on $100 Laptop Repriced at $175 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, we europeans shold be fucking worried for having actual _money to spend_ compared to USians. Well, what did _you_ think rising exchange rates really meant?

  22. Re:Article III: Rattling Sabers at the Iranians on Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted · · Score: 1

    Let us start a war against translators and hipocrits!

  23. Re:Article III: Rattling Sabers at the Iranians on Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but not being on friendly terms does not usually mean that the international community will look favorably on threats of war being issued.

  24. Re:Wrong on AT&T to Target iPhone to Enterprise · · Score: 1

    Errr... $500 is considered too high but for the elite business user? You must be living in a country where the mobile phone is _not_ a status symbol.

  25. Re:Soap on The Germs' Drummer Arrested For Carrying Soap · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, but one of the easiest ways of synthesizing GHB is with GBL, which is used as an industrial cleaner. If you've ever taken any significant quantities of GHB in concentrated form, you'll get that sickly feeling in your stomach whenever you pass someone cleaning off graffiti, etc.

    So no doubt the test being used reacts to both GHB and GBL.