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  1. I have found there enough people with common interests, more that I have met outside Mensa.

    And since moste Mensans I know are quite curious, those people without common interests are even more interesting.

  2. Re:Number of Reciients? on The Ig Nobel Awards Celebrate Their 26th First Annual Awards Ceremony (improbable.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    With such a restriction we would have lost the the 1993 Ig Nobel Literature Prize: http://www.improbable.com/ig/1993/1993-lit.html

    which was awarded to E. Topol, R. Califf, F. Van de Werf, P.W. Armstrong, and their 972 co-authors,
    for publishing a medical research paper which has one hundred times as many authors as pages.

  3. Battlestar Galactica on Music and Movies Could Trigger Mobile Malware · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the way the Cylons deactivated the Colonial ships in the BSG miniseries? Already installed malware activated when the sensors picked up a certain signal from the Cylons?

  4. Does anybody remember GURPS Y2K? on Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys · · Score: 2, Informative

    In October 1999 Steve Jackson Games published GURPS Y2K which included an article named "Plastics Ate My Baby's WHAT" about the effects of phthalates. That was 10 years ago!

    How is it possible that these things are known for such a long time and nobody cares?

  5. Re:50 % direct / 50 % proportional. on German Member of Parliament Joins Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    And if he has a direct seat that it stays which him even when he changes party.

    He doesn't have a direct seat, but it still stays with him. His old party will demand that he should return it like they always do when someone changes party, but as usual he will keep it.

  6. Re:Gigaton Fail - on A Black Day For Internet Freedom In Germany · · Score: 1

    Um, East Germany?

    Hello?

    Berlin wall? Iron curtain? Ringing any bells?

    Yes, but even that was 20 years ago and those from east germany tend to ignore the bad parts of it.

    http://www.france24.com/en/20081003-wave-nostalgia-former-east-germany-berlin-gdr-stasi

  7. Re:Gigaton Fail - on A Black Day For Internet Freedom In Germany · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh, most people here would agree that police states are bad. But on the other hand they would say that there are exceptions (child pornography, terrorism etc.). And of course "our politicians would never do something really wrong!!!"

    People in Germany live in a rich land which has last experienced war 64 years ago - so most people see it for granted that they will always live in a democracy, where their freedom is guaranteed.
    Intellectually they know that in other countries this isn't so, but if you personally never experienced something else, then it is hard to imagine that this might change. And because they fail to grasp the fact that their freedom and their rights could be endangered they see no reason to defend it.

  8. Re:Other names on New Object Found at Edge of Solar System · · Score: 1

    The planet Neptune got its name in the year 1846.
    Do you really believe that there were still many Neptune worshippers around?

  9. Re:Disagree on Is A Catch-All Address Worth The Spam? · · Score: 1

    In my experience the real problem is not targetted spam or wildcard spam send to you, but spammer sending wildcard spam using your domain for the sender address.
    Since most of these addresses don't exit the mailserver will send a notification back to the apparent sender for all of these emails.

    I once had an catchall account until a spammer used addresses from my domain. 30 minutes later I had this account disabled, but in this short time I had got about 600 returned spam emails. And I think it could have been much more, but the mailbox was already full.

  10. Re:DEBS on GNU Emacs 21 · · Score: 1

    So I've checked incoming.debian.org, and the new debs aren't there yet. I WANT IT NOW!

    Takuo Kitame has already created some packages.


    http://people.debian.org/~kitame/emacs21/

    (Currently the Packages file points to an old version of emacs21, so you should download them manually.)

  11. Re:Is it not a waste? on SETI@Home to Crunch More Data · · Score: 1

    Imagine we did read some meaningful data. I guess we can assume that the civilization is already extinct. Ok, so we know that there's chances of life out there - what else is new?

    What kind of data would be received? If it's something like Radio and TV, then we might get scientific broadcastings, so we could learn from them even if they are extinct.

    Of course, it's probably very hard to decode those signals.

  12. Re:Klingon appearance on Star Trek: Enterprise Reactions? · · Score: 1

    it's conceivable that some of these dialects might be related to diverse "races" of Klingons. Some are wussy Klingons who wear chain mail, some are mean ones with big ridges and lots of sharp bladed weapons.

    Wasn't one of Jadzia Dax old "ridged" Klingon friends identical to one of Kirks "smooth" Klingon enemies? There had to be some kind of transformation then, instead of several races.