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  1. Re:Higgs Bussom? on One of the Coolest Places In the Universe · · Score: 5, Funny

    We built the LHC to look for tits?

    What do you think a large hardon collider is for?

  2. Re:Surprised? on Cuba Getting Internet Upstream Via Venezuela · · Score: 1

    50% income tax, 25% sales tax, but free healthcare that's correct and free universities etc.

  3. Re:Louisiana a land of believers? on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, I wouldn't call the Black Sea a small inland lake.

  4. Re:Hilarious on Australian Ban On Fallout 3 – Why? · · Score: 1

    It is not inter-cultural just Anglo-Saxon. Probably some residual victorianism.

  5. Re:In other news on Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015 · · Score: 1

    I don't think there is a big desire to live and work far apart. I think the real problem is that American local politicians have played waaay too much SimCity and have divided all cities into segments, so that there are no homes available near work and no work available near homes. Not even shopping facilities are placed conveniently, but in small islands that are only accessable by car.

  6. Re:The electric car you want is ready now: on Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015 · · Score: 1

    Actually the bike is usually faster if you have bike-lanes and are riding during rushhour. Of course the weather have to be ideal, which means it is limited to temperate areas without too much rain.

  7. Re:There is a reason on Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy · · Score: 1

    Apple is not using a BSD kernel. They are using the Mach-kernel. They are only BSD in the console applications, and there are not a lot of those on Mac.

  8. Re:Good Stuff! on AVG Backs Down From Flooding the Internet · · Score: 1

    That's not how antivirus should work. It should not BE in the background, and it should not be in the tray. It should a right click option for scanning files or an auto-scan for downloaded files only.

  9. Re:For fuck's sake on France Seeks To Push 3-Strikes Law Across Europe · · Score: 2

    And there is no way that lobbyists could get around this by lobbying the opinion formers (eg, the press) rather than by directly funding the political campaigns, is there?

    Of course there is, but they don't; maybe because they haven't got the idea, because their morale is too high, or because they are afraid it would backlash their candidate.

    I think the main difference between elections in the US and Europe is not the amount of regulation, but the amount of shit the electors tolerate.

  10. Re:Good article.. BUT... on Are SSDs Really More Power Efficient? · · Score: 1

    No neither a harddisk nor a SSD use any power at all when powered down. Idling means turned on but not reading, so the harddisk is still spinning, it is just not moving the heads.

  11. Re:Obviously that cannot be! on Are SSDs Really More Power Efficient? · · Score: 1

    Ehm no. Current generations of SSD are slower than ordinary hard-disk for regular use. SSDs are only faster than HDD when testing random access. So if you are testing; let us say MP3 playing, then the regular hard-disk would be both faster and more energy efficient, not to say cheaper.

  12. Re:how can a text editor boycott the olympics? on Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fascism is also totalitarian, so that is no objection.

  13. Re:This just in... on Lack of Sunlight Could Lead To Early Death · · Score: 1

    The problem is that a healthy life in a northern countries includes consuming animal fat to compensate for lack of sunlight. So if you don't drink milk or eat bacon; you are screwed.

    I blame rising cases of D-vitamin deficiency on vegans.

  14. Re:Logic on Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World · · Score: 1

    Logic and statistics are two completely separate fields. That fact that old prominent physicists denounce modern physics(*), is just a 'Grumpy Old Man'-Syndrome. *(Maxwell denouncing Airplanes, Einstein quantum physics, and Bohr the Nuclear bomb).

  15. Sounds impossible on Fastest-Ever Flashgun Captures Image of Light Wave · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Using light to take pictures of light in motion?

    This is either a hoax, or the the article is skipping some really important part.

  16. Re:Lawyer: This, boys and girls, is why . . . on Man Fired When Laptop Malware Downloaded Porn · · Score: 1

    Actually people did have rights are had to be proven guilty in most classic witch trials. The only issue was that the evidence was usually confessions extracted through torture. So it was not the legal system that was broken, but just that any information extracted from torture is completely useless. Unfortunately the new world seems bend on rediscovering that fact.

  17. Re:Garage Nukes on Nuclear Warhead Blueprints On Smugglers' Computers · · Score: 1

    No, they do not exists, and the small nuke you link to can not level even a small city. You are overestimating nukes.

  18. Re:South Park defense on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nonsense. China banned science and innovation more than 500 years ago, and science and technology has not since been more accepted and applied than recently under the so-called communist regime.

  19. Re:An everyone game? on A Veteran GM's First Impressions of D&D 4th Edition · · Score: 1

    Okay, I saw it in an earlier preview. I am glad if it has been removed or turned out to be false.

  20. Re:This just in... on Google Earth Beaten By Autorendering From Photos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cheap? It is 4 times more expensive than the F16, which is only a half generation behind Grippen, and twice as expense as the F16 2nd edition which is similar in technology to Grippen but bigger, faster and more powerfull.

    Sorry, butSweden is cheating themselves by insisting on using inferior local technology.

  21. Re:An everyone game? on A Veteran GM's First Impressions of D&D 4th Edition · · Score: 1

    Well, I think many of the new MMORPG like features are extremely silly, like aggro??? This smells like a rule set for D&D online, not for a pen'n'paper RPG.

  22. Gravitons on Does Antimatter Fall Up Or Down? · · Score: 1

    I guess it depends on the existence of gravitons. Does the universe really bend or is that just a description of the gravitational force, or is gravitons exerting the force, and in that case does anti-gravitons exists, and what happens when gravitons collide with anti-matter?

  23. Re:The blinking red light on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 1

    I am obviously talking about Denmark and north europe in general. Used cars with automatic transmissions are sold cheaped than used cars without, despite cars with automatic being more expensive when new. I am just trying to explain why that might be.

  24. Re:Ah, I remember Windows XP on Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' · · Score: 1

    No Windows 2000 could play games, Windows NT4 could not. It was the first and last secure windows desktop operating system.

  25. Re:The blinking red light on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, cars with automatic transmissions are cheaper used than cars without, because no one wants a car with worse performance and worse fuel economy, when the only benefit is that you don't have to change gears. Cars with automatic transmissions are only for the stupid and lazy.