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  1. Re:It's particulate matter that matters on NASA Confirms Rainy Cities · · Score: 1

    You are right, but it's both: When moist air is forced to rise (for instance in the north of spain, air comes from the atlantic and has to rise over the mountains. The weather there is _very_ wet.) Particles act as condensation starters, perhaps similar to impurities starting cristal growth in saturated solutions. Try this at home: Just before you take a shower, smoke a sigarette in the bathroom. Notice how much more steam forms now when you let the hot shower run? That's the cigarette smoke acting as condensation nuclei, I think. All this was in my geography class that I took 16 years ago. Hardly news. Nasa is in need of money again, I guess.

  2. Fur on Fire Extinguisher Balls · · Score: 1

    Throwable Extinguisher Balls sure beats Coughable Fur Balls. I should install this on my cat.

  3. Re:Idiotic on Another Reason to be Annoyed by Cell Phones · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And also, I'd like to add that the idea that cancer can be caused by just a single mutation caused by a single hit (yes, that's called 'the single hit hypothesis') is not very popular anymore. Most people agree there has to be some acumulation of damage before things go bad enough to produce cancer. That would explain why your risk of getting cancer increases as you get older, for instance. Have look here for some concepts.

  4. Okay. But as long as on Another Reason to be Annoyed by Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    The radiation is not strong enough to physically cook my brain or other internal organs. Evidence for the induction of cancer by this sort of radiation is not too strong I think. Anyone has a good link to a decent study about that? I believe most studies prove that we are not sure if there is such an effect.

  5. Re:Sounds cool ... on Sea Gliders for Other Worlds · · Score: 1

    Hmmm.... So I wasn't the only one that thought that especially the pink one (with the stimulation rims) looked awfully like something you'd normally find in your average alt.binaries group....

  6. Re:Oh yeah. on WinInformant Says Windows More Secure Than Linux · · Score: 1

    Well, I get tons of Nimda and the occasional CodeRed on my webserver too. I did the hard drive mapping thingie to C$ as well (using MacOs I have to use Virtual PC for that, from MacOsX its done with smbutil or from within finder). More than just a "bad" webserver / OS combination, I think that its the users that cause this. I ask you: would _you_ be unaware of your machine making hundreds of http connections all the time? Right. And we all know the amount of publicity Nimda has gotten. You must have been living under _two_ rocks not to know about it. So my point would be: these people would end up having compromised machines no matter _what_ OS they choose. They'd just be running stuff as root _all_the_time. Script kiddies are so damn smart these days....

  7. Kernels on Should Aunt Tillie Build Her Own Kernels? · · Score: 1

    I dont even know what a kernel is. Why do I need to compile my own? Because otherwise my printer won't work? I'd say that an OS needing that sort of work is not fit for the masses yet. Maybe great for those who do understand (and have spare time to spare)

  8. Re:iPod, iPod, iPod.... on iPod Dissection and Review · · Score: 1

    Guys that can dance like that usually don't really go for chicks, I always thought.

  9. Re:Trademark dilution? Really? on SuSE No Longer Barred From Selling · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.crayon.de/produkte.html They make software, not crayons :)

  10. Re:Mirror on Time Canada Shows New iMac · · Score: 1

    Thanks!! That was just what I needed. Too bad I had to wade through 500 posts about wether or not imacs are cool. They are. Way Cool. Even if you do not like them.

  11. So we would call them Flaptops ? on Swaying CPU Fans · · Score: 1

    :)