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  1. Re:Poul-Henning Kamp got payed! on D-Link Settles Danish Time Dispute · · Score: 1

    Sweden and Denmark have been to war several times...
    Keeping track of it is as watching a tennis match.... /T

  2. Re:Coca Cola a pesticide? on MythBusters - The Lost Experiments · · Score: 1

    If u spray cc on plants u will probably get a sugar layer on the leaves. Perfect feeding ground for moulds and fungi. The sugar layer might also be harmful for plant respiration.
    cc light might work better. /T

  3. Re:Remain alive on Insect Substance Synthesized For Science · · Score: 2

    correctly made espresso contain less caffiene than normal coffe per volume due to fast extraction (20-30 sec depending on coffe bean and roasting)
    One cup of espresso is 3 cl (a REAL espresso, 1-2 cl if restritto, 4 cl if lungo)
    50 cups of espresso would be aboutish 1.5 liters not counting crema (foam)

    still a lot...

  4. Re:Shiznit on Black Hole in Search of a Home · · Score: 1

    You do know Andromeda is coming, do you not?

  5. Re:random current cmd gripes on Windows to Have Better CLI · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, I like that I can add "\.." to the end of a filename and get to its directory. That's something that seems logical to me that Unix shells don't generally do.

    why?

    cp -R `dirname somefile` ../newdir
    dirname somefile | ls

    does the thing....
    more versatile

  6. Alien on Japan Displays Prototype Robot Suit · · Score: 0, Redundant


    Bah... wake me when they have something like the exoskeleton Ripley uses to throw out the big bitch in space.

  7. Re:Water isn't conductive! on Aquarium Full of Oil For PC Cooling · · Score: 1

    Even in PURE water you have ions, the same amount of both H+ and OH- (and as you have H+ you also have H(3)O+) This is known as pH 7 (or pOH 7 for that matter). (where p is -log(conc in molar))
    The ion concentration is (theoretically)
    10^-7 (H+ and H3O+ combined) plus
    10^-7 OH-
    about 10^-6.7 molar

    Several ions... therefore conductive.

  8. Re:Censorship!! on Maureen O'Gara No Longer Welcome at LinuxWorld · · Score: 1

    No. This is not censorship. The publisher pulled her off the "air"... There are such things as bad PR.

  9. Re:Looks like no one has given you a real answer y on What UNIX Shell Config Settings Work for Newbies? · · Score: 2, Funny

    no rm should be aliased to rm -rf so they can delete directories easily

  10. Re:How is that useful? on Linux-based Bluetooth Robot · · Score: 1

    good for any situation where you want pictures from where you cant go... small spaces etc.
    pity bluetooth range is so limited.

  11. Re:In Soviet Russia on The Super Superhighway · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bah...!! our Dyson Sphere back home have 100 000 000 times the volume of your puny little sun!

  12. Re:Jst a asmall nitpick on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: 1

    Sorry iceland does not qualify..
    Occupied by the US during WW2.

  13. Re:Hello NWO on Warez Suspect To Be Extradited, After All · · Score: 1

    "I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply."

    I also hate liberals. I am a communist. May I reply?

  14. Re:Hello NWO on Warez Suspect To Be Extradited, After All · · Score: 1

    France is a member of NATO.
    arms export within NATO is not much of a problem...

  15. Re:Small scale vs. large scale. on Broadband Envy: Fixing American Broadband · · Score: 2, Funny

    ou could be in the US, ride on a train in a strait line for a full day, and never leave the country

    Thats because your trains are so slow...

  16. Re:Non terrorist users of criuse missiles? on DIY Cruise Missile Designer Turns Freelance · · Score: 1

    well... they need cruise missiles with 2000 km range at least... both are darn big countries...

  17. Re:Non terrorist users of criuse missiles? on DIY Cruise Missile Designer Turns Freelance · · Score: 2, Informative

    ehhh....., both india and pakistan already have long-range missiles capable of delivering nukes. /T

  18. Re:Probably OK on More on the Swedish Stealth Ship · · Score: 1

    probably between computers on the LAN...

  19. coins on Mandatory Banknote Detection Code? · · Score: 1

    easy... we use coins instead, harder to counterfeit.
    For bigger sums we use an electronic transfer.

    The only use of big bill money is almost always shady anyway. /Tobias

  20. Re:Insert Key on Is Caps Lock Dead? · · Score: 2, Informative

    No way... I use the insert key daily...

    mark text
    Ctrl+Ins = Copy

    Shift+ins = Paste.

    Works in most programs on both windows and linux...
    ---

  21. Re:Num Lock on Is Caps Lock Dead? · · Score: 1

    Scroll Lock.

    Often used as "shift" key for arrow keys.
    When locked, arrows move spreadsheet instead of moving cursor as an example. /T

  22. Re:Glad we're not the only ones! on Monsanto Wins Case Over Patented Canola · · Score: 1

    No the former poster is correct.. the genetic diversity in the field is way to low to get a resistant strain.. The whole field is likely composed of (almost) identical genotypes.
    As to mutation, "positive" mutations are rare, having the correct positive mutation is like one in a billion billions.
    The spray method would likely take a few decades or even millenia. (unless you are relly lucky).

    With bacteria the method might work...
    "wild" crops with big genepool, maybe..
    with selected strains of crops, almost impossible. /T

  23. Re:AMD's Cool 'n Quiet on AMD Takes Opteron To 2.4GHz · · Score: 1

    ...ite app was shoing the the CPU at 80hz and the system was totally..

    80Hz ???? ... man thats slow.

  24. Re:Trillian? And wasn't it a "googleplex"? on Google to be Sued Over Name? · · Score: 1

    Isaac Asimov wrote a book (in the sixties i belive) called, "Add a dimension", in which he talk about the googol, googolplex, and other funky numbers... Quite a funny read.... /T

  25. Re:Wrong on The Logic Behind Metric Paper Sizes · · Score: 1

    ahhhh, but the kilogram was based on the mass of 1 litre of pure water at ~4 degrees Celsius.
    giving it the density of 1.