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  1. Zenithink rubish on Details Emerge About Spark Linux-Based Tablet · · Score: 1

    I have used 2 different zenithink tablets (7 and 10 inches) before and they are rubish. Both of them provide less than 2 hours of battery, the WiFi does not work at even 6 meters distance, display quality is rubbish and tablet back becomes hot (specially the WiFi section). Wife reception becomes even worse if you "do not hold it right", i.e. put your hand on the antenna section.

  2. Re:Which was always obvious. on Apple Clarifies iBooks Author Licensing · · Score: 1

    Thumbs up for those who screamed (weblogs, media, news) until Apple was forced to clarify the license. However it is still not acceptable.

  3. Re:Dart Maybe? on Self-Guided Bullet Can Hit Targets a Mile Away · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    This uses almost the same technology as Laser guided artillery. Examples are Russian Krasnopol. Even Iran has produced a similar weapon this week.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH0FeGwR1uM

    Iranian version:

    http://www.irandefence.net/showpost.php?p=1022207

  4. Re:His brain is better than mine on UCLA Professor Says Conventional Wisdom on Study Habits Is All Washed Up · · Score: 1

    I fall asleep if I do not force myself to take notes in lectures. Even if it is small notes.

  5. Re:Is your parting line supposed to be a critisism on North Korean Nuclear Facilities, From 30,000 Feet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, and the US government has been very much better. The track record of at least 50 wars in less than half a century, Nuking civilian cities and killing or causing the death of millions in those wars is a very good record for your so called democracy.

    If there is one country which should not have the right of having nukes, that's the US. The US has used it before.... will use it again ... possibly

  6. Re:Just install the big grand-daddy of them all on Shareholder Fight Threatens Mandriva SA · · Score: 1

    Exactly! slackware was released at 1993 (but almost the same time as RedHat). But it was more geeky.

  7. Re:You're Troll-a-riffic! on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    They have tens of different drone models and they already work on a stealth one. It has been photographed.

  8. Re:Iran? Nope, China and Russia... on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    They already work on their own stealth drone and its prototypes have been photographed (with similarities to existing stealth fighters). And also see the link I posted about recent drone building competition (for university students) which had 65 participant teams.

    By the way enjoy this video from 4 years ago. Iranian drone taking video over US carrier ship : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERn75VRlc-o

  9. Re:Iran? Nope, China and Russia... on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the recent drone competition in Iran which had 65 participants: http://www.suasnews.com/2011/09/8080/iranian-national-uav-competition/

  10. Re:...But he said Please! on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    Your only problem is that you think people of the 9th nation which sent satellite to orbit and has 10 million university graduates are stupid and don't understand shit.

    In a recent drone competition in Iran 65 teams participated: http://www.suasnews.com/2011/09/8080/iranian-national-uav-competition/

  11. Re:Now these guys have some balls on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    So you become happy if you find the toy you received as a gift, has been spying on you?

  12. Re:Now these guys have some balls on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    Do you spy with your balls?

  13. Re:Now these guys have some balls on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    Depends on why you drive the car into neighbors home. If it is for stealing information or something, then you deserve whatever you get.

  14. Re:Attention Muslims on Microsoft Just Can't Quit Yahoo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who started what? Iraq war was started on the false report of WMDs. And as a result hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have suffered and the whole infrastructure of the Muslim country has been lost.

    And by the way let me remind you that Taliban was created by Christian US to stop USSR communism. If you breed snakes, you should not complain when they beat you. Also if you bother bees you will not be safe even inside your run away to your home.

    Leave Muslim countries and be safe (if you can ever ignore their oil).

  15. Re:APPLE should buy them on Microsoft Just Can't Quit Yahoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Those who make it the 4th high traffic website of the world: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yahoo.com

    And from the same website, the highest share of traffic comes from:

    mail.yahoo.com 46.68%
    search.yahoo.com 23.99%
    yahoo.com 23.55%
    login.yahoo.com 26.03%
    news.yahoo.com 14.11%
    answers.yahoo.com 14.15%
    finance.yahoo.com 6.40%
    fantasysports.yahoo.com 1.90%
    sports.yahoo.com 5.82%
    cn.yahoo.com 1.74%

  16. Re:Yay on Microsoft To Back Kinect-Based Startups · · Score: 1

    What kind of sport are you interested in?

  17. Re:How could he have been stopped? on Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Can you give a damn reference for what you claim? You like to invent beliefs for Muslims?

  18. Re:How could he have been stopped? on Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge · · Score: 1

    How if US decides to bomb a few more civilian cities?

    Iranians are Shite Muslim and do not believe into your 72 virgin joke.

    Of course. No one even assumed Bush et al. were sane.

  19. Re:How could he have been stopped? on Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge · · Score: 2

    Islam, Christianity and Judaism are all Abrahamic religions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions) and they are QUITE compatible and have more similarities than you think.

    Abrahamic religions are too different from eastern religions (Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism) and also those of Latin America.

  20. Re:How could he have been stopped? on Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Quite correct. At best, Iran will have 1/10th nukes and will not ever dare to start a nuclear war. Tehran (and suburbs) alone has 15 million inhabitants while the whole Israel does not have half that much.

  21. Re:How could he have been stopped? on Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge · · Score: 2

    If you are that good in going back (i.e. more than a thousand years), then you perhaps know how many humans were killed by religious Christians (in the name of religion) because they would not become Christians or would not like to accept whatever Church would say.

  22. Re:How could he have been stopped? on Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Do you have any statistics or clue of how many each side (Muslims and non-Muslims) have killed from the other side? I bet more Muslims have been killed.

    What is your definition of Evil?

    Does it cover the thing which pushes a country to start/engage in at least 50 wars in 70 years and nuke civilian cities? Or just covers Muslims which fight occupiers in their lands?

  23. Re:Everybody should have the weapons on Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Suicide bombers did not exist before Israel, US and some other countries effectively occupied middle east. Islamic extremism came to existence after Islamic countries got raped. Some of their people could not bear it and reached a state that they would explode themselves to force occupiers out.

  24. Re:Good thing on Facebook Agrees To Make New Privacy Changes Opt-In · · Score: 0

    In real life information is transferred by mouth and sometimes is forgotten. On the internet millions potentially have access to it and most of the time, the information is preserved for 10s of years.

  25. Re:Good thing on Facebook Agrees To Make New Privacy Changes Opt-In · · Score: 2, Informative

    Facebook is a socializing website and "socializing is basically the opposite of privacy."

    When people put some information on social networks and internet, they should assume it is POTENTIALLY accessible to everyone on the internet (due to bugs, hackers, abuse of the website itself, law enforcement, intelligence agencies, ....)