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  1. Build Your Own A-Bomb on The War on Public Knowledge · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps they are already searching out and destroying copies of Analog Science Fiction, April 1979, which included George W. Harper's fine article "Build Your Own A-Bomb and Wake Up the Neighborhood". It had useful information on how to convert a small house to a nuclear facility for building your own nuclear devices.

  2. Re:Accuracy on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 1

    Social democracy has nothing to do with communism. Social democrat party is a slightly left wing political party and communists usually hate it even greater than they hate the right wing parties.

  3. Re:I have said it before, and I will say it again on Taking My Freedom With Me to China? · · Score: 1

    In China you are guilty until proven innocent. Good luck

  4. Re:What a good question on Where Did Affordable OCR Go? · · Score: 3, Informative
    There are places where serious OCR is necessary and in the industrial scale. Some examples:

    ELJonline: Linux-Based USPS Mail Sorting System

    NEC Postal Automation

  5. They are out to get us! on Scientists Study The Scream Of The Squirrel · · Score: 1
  6. Question on Hotel Being Sued for Using the Dewey Decimal System · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Does this mean that I'll have to pay if organise my book collection according to Dewey system?

  7. Re:square cube law on Giant Raptor Terrorizes Alaskan Village · · Score: 1

    He said Otter , not Twin Otter. Otter is somewhat smaller plane, altough not that much (winspan 58 feet).

  8. Re:In homage to Lovecraft... on New Frozen World Found Beyond Pluto · · Score: 2, Interesting

    H.P. Lovecraft writing about the discovery of Pluto in a letter dated April 1st 1930:

    One wonders what it is like, & what dim-litten fungi may sprout coldly on its frozen surface! I think I shall suggest its being named Yuggoth!

    Selected Letters III (p. 136)

  9. Re:Try a keyboard dog! on Household Pets for the Common Geek? · · Score: 1

    (I can't believe I'm voluntarily subjecting that server to the slashdot effect..)

    Sounds scary but I'll do the same, for the good cause. Please meet Arska, young chihuahua in a geeky household in Finland.