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  1. Re:That any government attempt to control... on What the US Can Learn From Europe's Pollution Credit System · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, the fact is, I haven't heard a scientific THEORY about CO2, at all.
    I've seen hypotheses, sure. A properly formulated and tested theory as to the mechanics? Nope.

    You haven't looked hard enough

    Laboratory test confirms it, the function of Greenhouses confirms it, and a large scale "test" is currently being conducted on a global scale, that is also confirming it.

  2. Re:unable to pick up the device on Some Overheating 3GS iPhones Glow Pink · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, you _can_ pick it up.

    It just burns stuck in your hand so you can't let go of it. Definitely a feature!

    Plus, you smell like bacon!

  3. Re:Your Ikea dollars hard at work on Pirate Bay Retrial Denied, Judge Declared Unbiased · · Score: 1

    This is what you get for buying Ikea.

    And here I thought what you got when "buying Ikea", was a pile of cheap laminated cardboard with a stupid name.

  4. Re:Standing up on Mass Arrests of Journalists Follow Iran Elections · · Score: 1

    Well, it am trying to clarify for people who doesn't know the word. Trying to explain the relationship between Aryan and other more modern misguided racial terms like Caucasian would take take too much space.

  5. Re:How about a real open governance system on US Open Government Initiative Enters Phase Three · · Score: 1

    I don't want a democracy. I don't want a democratic republic. I want a REPUBLIC.

    Oh, like Iraq under Saddam Husain?

    Too few people know the difference.

    I think most, do. The problem is that too many doesn't know what Republic means, and you are one of them.

    Do you really want a presidential dictatorship? (a republic without democracy).

  6. Re:Standing up on Mass Arrests of Journalists Follow Iran Elections · · Score: 1

    I think you are being slightly confused. Iranians _are_ Persians. The difference between Persia and Iran is like the difference between the Netherlands and Holland. Persians are the most numerous people in Iran, and the nation was for a long time called Persia in the west. The people of Iran however has called it Iran for a long time because Iran is a more generic term encompassing all the Iranian cultures, not just Persian. (Btw. Iran means Aryan, as in white people).

    That Arabs conquered them and forced their religion on them is a fact of history, but is also a fact there Arabs are still a very small minority in Iran. You can not call the Iranians you meet slaughtered, and you certainly can not call them Arabs.

  7. Re:Yes it is on The Newspaper Isn't Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    More like radio, everybody claimed (M-)TV killed it, but somehow it is still around, even 30 years after it supposedly died.

    Don't hold your breath on newspapers, they will still be big in 50years, might be 10% or 20% of what they are now, but that is still a lot. They will whine from now on and until then, and people will proclaim them dead nonstop, but they wont die.

  8. Re:Disturbing trend on Opera Unite Web Server Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    Not so strange. If everybody is talks gay and cheerful, you can easily get dark urges. I believe Black Metal is just a PC rename of a music genre all that is all Norwegian: "Nazi Death Metal". At least the norwegian nazis spend more time singing and less time harassing minorities.

  9. Re:Bad summary on Opera Unite is a Hail Mary · · Score: 2, Informative

    As for the mobile market, it is being surpassed by iPhone.

    Maybe in Apple branded phones, but on all other brands they are way ahead ;)

    Btw, non-Apple branded phones is more than 95% of the market even in the US, more than 99% of the market outside the US.

  10. Re:Sorry, What? on IRS Now Wants To Repeal Cell Phone Tax · · Score: 1

    Why is it outdated, just because it has never been enforced?

    It makes sense that employee perks are taxed the same as income, otherwise incoming is just replaced with perks. How many really need a phone paid for by the company or are you just evading taxes? If you use it many for personal purposes I would count it tax-evasion.

  11. Re:Why would you do this? on Renowned Geneticist Analyzes Consumer DNA Tests · · Score: 1

    Why would this affect insurance? This not a condition known before signing the insurance, as such the insurance has to accept the loss and carry the costs. The entire point of health insurance is to protect from new disease, which included new discovered diseases you could not have known you had when signing the insurance. If they just raises the premium for that, the might as well raise the premium if you get HIV from infected donor blood, or any other condition that is just raises the risk of other conditions.

    Better yet: Get public health insurance, then you are covered no matter what.

  12. Re:Come on, It's Iran already on Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election · · Score: 1

    And then there is the letter that was released yesterday, from minister of interior to the ayatollah with the real election results.

    It could be a fake, but it is one more piece of evidence:

    Total votes: 42.026.078
    Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khamaneh: 19.075.623
    Mehdi Karrubi: 13.387.104
    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: 5.698.417
    Mohasen Rezaie Mir Ghaed: 3.754.218
    Invalid votes: 38.716
    Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsooli

  13. Re:Phone Viruses on Hackers Find Remote iPhone Crack · · Score: 1

    Well, Nokia is the Microsoft of the mobile industry. There was a whole range of SMS viruses for Nokia some five years back, I think they finally started to validate the SMS'es better now.

  14. Re:Default installation? on Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation · · Score: 1

    Debian doesn't have a default desktop, so default installation in this case means the user actively selects and installs GNOME.

  15. Re:Great. Just amazing. on Apple Patent To Safeguard 911 Cellphone Calls · · Score: 1

    A GSM phone also increases the power on the antenna when dialing 112. I think the reasons this level of power is not normally used is not just to increase battery life, but because there are legal limits on the signal it is allowed to generate, which can be ignored in emergency situations.

  16. Re:So people not using an iPhone won't be able to on Apple Patent To Safeguard 911 Cellphone Calls · · Score: 1

    No, anyone with a GSM phone has been able to do this for more than 10 years. This patent is nothing new, they are seemingly just patenting the requirements all phone makers have to make to build a GSM phone to spec.

  17. Re:Synergy, leverage, low hanging fruit, etc.. on Are Code Reviews Worth It? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, code reviews are boring to do, but has to be done be the best and most experienced developers usually the senior or lead developer. Some places doesn't understand that and just delegates this menial task to lower developers, or a team of inexperienced developers. Other places the top developer assigned the task, just skips through the code, because he thinks he has "better things to do".

  18. Re:Why not on First Floating Wind Turbine Buoyed Off Norway · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know a sensible comparison of these cost? I tried to read one of Bjorn Lomborg's, once, and I nearly fell of the chair laughing. Now there is a man who cannot use a calculator.

    Well, what did you expect from a professor in economics?

    Sarcasm aside you should reread Bjørn Lomborgs work. Many of the conclusions and some base estimates are colored by his political convictions, but the rest of the stuff besides global warming is pretty neutral and well researched.

  19. Re:US Actions Illegal Under International Commerc on $33 Million In Poker Winnings Seized By US Govt · · Score: 1

    Thanks for you details. Your interpretation still look quite colored though.

    I hope we can agree on one thing though. It is not a matter of sovereignty. It is a matter of international contracts. I replied, because I am tired of people thinking that nations and especially the US exists in some kind of vacuum and can do what they want. Sovereign nations are still bound by the treaties they sign, the relationships they build and sometimes simply the opinion of their peers.

  20. Re:Overreaction on WHO Declares H1N1's Spread Officially a Pandemic · · Score: 1

    The WHO declaring H1N1 pandemic is not overreaction, hyperbole or scaremongering. The particular strain has reached a specified spread at which point it qualifies for that label.

    Except that somewhere around 4 other strains of influenza reaches greater spread every year. The influenza seasons are caused by global spread of influenza where the strains moves across the global as the seasons changes.

    So we have several other strains every single year with more dead and greater spread. Yet, this is the first disease in over 20 years to be declared a pandemic. It might semantically qualify but it is still a perspectiveless reaction, or in other words: and overreaction.

  21. Re:"H1N1" on WHO Declares H1N1's Spread Officially a Pandemic · · Score: 1

    Are you sure?

    I admit my information is from mainstream media, which sucks at these things, but my understanding is that this Influenza strain is the first to use a new naming scheme, and got the name "Influenza A". Thus all H1N1 are not Influenza A, only those derived from the Mexican/Swine flu strain of 2009.

  22. Re:OK republican shills on Senator Applauds Pirate Bay Trial, Chides Canada · · Score: 1

    No, that was the slogan in 2004, still failed. In 2008 the slogan was: "Change". In other words: "We are not the other guys", more general than just "We are not Bush" ;)

  23. Re:HugeOrNot on Microsoft Will Ship Windows 7 in Europe With IE Unbundled · · Score: 1

    Except such threats or kickbacks are heavily punished in the EU. Notice the recent Intel punishment for a reference noted on slashdot.org, many more local EU companies have been punished for similar behavior. It hasn't stopped this kind of business yet, but there is focus on it, and huge penalities for getting caught.

  24. Re:US Actions Illegal Under International Commerc on $33 Million In Poker Winnings Seized By US Govt · · Score: 1

    Do you know what the concept of contracts is?

    You sign a contract, and stick by the rules, and if you break the rules, you suffer the consequences outlined in the contract.

    The US signed the WTO contract, then violated them by making foreign gambling illegal, while keeping US gambling legal. The WTO used the power granted them to punish the US. Among the powers of WTO is they handle international IP (imaginary property). If the US leaves the WTO, the US loses their IP right internationally. In this case WTO is being nice, and only offers two small countries hurt by the illegal US rules to ignore US IP.

  25. Re:Another reason not to gamble online on $33 Million In Poker Winnings Seized By US Govt · · Score: 1

    You can't buy a life insurance policy on J Random Person

    For the insurance company there is no difference. It is only to you personally that an insurance bet is tied to a tragedy, and therefor called insurance instead of gambling. For the insurance company, the case is simple gambling like any other.