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  1. Re:No shit on Facebook Is Wrong, Text Is Deathless (kottke.org) · · Score: 2

    It's also quicker to create text than video.

  2. Re:Can someone please explain this fetish? on Bison To Become First National Mammal Of The US (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    We Belgians can use your national mammal with our national dish, carbonade flamande.

  3. Re:Name-dropping on Computer Created A 'New Rembrandt' After Analyzing Paintings (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Good News, Good Use of Public Funding on Mapping The Brain To Build Better Machines (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    50 years even. I have at home an issue of an old electronics magazine. It is from 1965, because it iintroduces the compact cassette.

    In this magazine is also a schematic from an electronic neuron, built around a single transistor.

  5. Re:Keep saying there's no Islamic terrorist proble on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In Europe we have Catholics, Lutheran protestants, a small amount of Calvinists, and then the Orthodox church in Eastern Europe. Those can all be denominated under the name of Christians, but as far as I know we do not have any of them running around killing people under the guise of pro-life. That really seems to be a US-only problem.

  6. Re:Keep saying there's no Islamic terrorist proble on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Only certain 'Christian' factions in the USA.

  7. Maybe Anonymous should do a campaign against king.com, so that their games do not need Flash any more.

  8. Re:Training? on A New Reality For IT: the 18-Month Org Chart · · Score: 1

    A business relationship? They are the first to try to convince you to stay with emotional arguments!

  9. Re:Then who do you recommend? on Reports Coming In Of Mass IBM Layoffs Underway In The US (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    So Trump is more like Mussolini, then?

  10. Re:This is ... not so good news on Released: First PC Based On Russia's Homegrown "Baikal" Processor (t-platforms.ru) · · Score: 0

    Paranoia, good old Slavic paranoia, nothing more, nothing less.

  11. Time for an old US ritual? on DoJ Wants Apple To Decrypt 12 More iPhones (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Pitch and feathers!

  12. Pantera already sung about this on Wearable Third Arm Gives Drummers Extra Robotic Rhythm (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It was called "Use my Third Arm"!

  13. A Taste of Armaggeddon? on High-Speed Firms Now Oversee Almost All Stocks At NYSE Floor (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If computers do trade stocks, isn't that than the same as computers which go to war?

  14. Failed experiment on How Melinda Gates Got Her Daughters Excited About Science (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3

    What does she have as proof that, if she had not done this, then they would not have been interested in science and maths?

  15. Re:Seems like freedom of speech to me on German Court: "Sharing" Your Amazon Purchases Is Spamming (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Bill Gates' philanthropy is for sure conspicuous compassion.

  16. Re:Jah booty on A Small Secret Airstrip In Africa Is the Future of America's Way of War · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they kept shooting because none of the belligerent parties leaders wanted such observances to be the case in the following years, so they made sure that it was not to be repeated.

  17. Re:There's no "groundswell" on Belgium's Aging Nuclear Plants Worry Neighbors (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    The main thing playing here is that originally the reactors were owned by the state, since a couple of years they are owned by the Groupe Suez, a holding which of course wants to do "money first, safety last".

  18. Belgians worry about France and Holland reactors on Belgium's Aging Nuclear Plants Worry Neighbors (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    The reactor in Borssele is 3 years older than the ones in Tihange, and is built on the northern border (on the Schelde), the ones in Gravelines are not that old, but are built on the south border of Belgium.

  19. Re: Those who would give up essential Liberty... on Majority of Americans OK With Warrantless Internet Surveillance (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that seems to be the case. However, me and my brother found out while we were doing our military service that the people from Wallonia were just as nice as us.

    The main problem is that around Brussels there are some language problems. But I have always found that it is the politicians and the press which magnify the problems. And the longer I look I definitely see (and the last years even more, around the world) that it is always politicians which make matters worse.

  20. Re:Climatology on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Conflating hypothesis with theory

  21. Re:This has been known for a long time on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that epicycles worked for a large part. But what happened is that they were an incomplete model, that was always more and more incorrect due to more precise observations. It would be like trying to compute a sine wave by simple algebraic functions. It works up to a certain precision, but then it breaks down.

  22. Re:There is no string theory. on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Is string theory really a theory? I would submit that after more than thirty years it is still a hypothesis.

  23. Re:Why do people still bother? on US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they could have gone to Disneyland Paris.

  24. Re:Where old tech trumps new on B-52s: The Plane That Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    And you know what: that is exactly what one of my teachers (electronics) said already 25 years ago!

  25. Re:Killled by wet roads? on Deep Learning Identifies Wet Road Hazards From Sound Input (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    My experience with other drivers is that they choose a certain way of driving under normal circumstances, and then do this also when it is wet, raining, pouring or foggy.