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  1. Re:How much is it worth it to you? on The World's Longest Tunnel · · Score: 1

    Well.. Except they of course provide cheap US oil. If Alaska was independent they would be richer, as they could pocket all the oil money themselves.

  2. Re:The numbers for the Britain are not either on Firefox Usage Near 25% In Europe · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the Slashdot article where Denmark was number one IT country in the world? You are talking about the single most productive IT country in the world per capita..

  3. Re:Engineering building on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    No. Why do you think the American military emphasizes discipline and following orders without questions?

  4. Re:The numbers for the Britain are not either on Firefox Usage Near 25% In Europe · · Score: 1

    Nope. I don't see that.

    Denmark and Netherlands are two of the most high IT countries in Europe, and they are both in the bottom. It seems more random really.

  5. Re:IE States: More Useful? on Firefox Usage Near 25% In Europe · · Score: 1

    More Europeans probably use Opera than Americans, but for Safari I am sure it's the other way. Apple is mostly an American phenomena, Macs are very rare in most of Europe.

  6. Re:Go go Jack Thompson on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1, Informative

    Jack Thompson will blame video games, Jerry Falwell will blame gay marriage, Rosie O'Donnel will say it is the proliferation of guns, Rush Limbaugh will tell us that this is the inevitable result of a a Democrat majority. This is how these people get their faces on TV.

    And the gun nuts will blame the lack of more guns: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=231053&cid=187 56159

  7. Re:Strange link on Intel's Single Thread Acceleration · · Score: 1

    It might also be a fancy keyword for shared cache, where one core can use all the cache if the other one is sleeping or not very active. Intel has previously jumped a few fences and not implemented fully shared cache unlike AMD.

    Btw. robson? Rubs on, Rubs off..

  8. Re:tyranny of the majority on Norway Liberal Party Wants Legal File Sharing · · Score: 1

    Hey, That's less than what you spend on invading Iraq..

  9. Re:What? on Norway Liberal Party Wants Legal File Sharing · · Score: 1

    Yes. Voting yourself out of the world, can't keep the world from getting to you.

    Norway was no choice but to follow EU rules because they in Europa, and most of their import is from Europe and most of their export goes to Europe.

  10. Re:Re-use of old term on Gary Kasparov Arrested Over Political Fight · · Score: 1

    Americans didn't exists in the 19th century. You were some british guy or some german guy..

  11. Re:Re-use of old term on Gary Kasparov Arrested Over Political Fight · · Score: 4, Interesting

    US didn't respect European patents. This was a major dispute in the 19th century. England had patented many new industrial machines, and the US was the one place where these machines could be used without paying royalties.

    Giving concrete examples would be silly, since it is more or less everything: Machines, factory designs, steam engines, locomotives, etc.

  12. Re:Even more amazing... on Photosynthesis May Rely On Quantum Effect · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, except gravity.

  13. Re:And why does it matter that they are 'terrorist on Sri Lankan Terrorists Hack Satellite · · Score: 1

    Anti-American riots flared in the 1960s and 1970s in much of Western Europe, especially in the era of the Vietnam War. Throughout the 1990s many popular books appeared in France deploring American culture. No, there was not any absence of anti-Americanism until spring of 2003.

    You also see anti-globalization riots, and riots against animal cruilty, that does not mean most people support these movements. There is a difference between having a small anti-american minority in 1970-2000 and the dominating anti-american or anti-bush attitude common today.

    Trust me Europe was very pro-US in the 1980s

    It was one of the reasons companies like McDonalds grew so fast in the 80s. They marketed themselves as American with capital A, and profited from people wanting to more American(tm). It's also why they are so unpopular today.

  14. Re:be nice if HTML was deprecated on Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if
      is empty or not. It will render exactly the same ;)

    And no, that is not accidental.

  15. Re:I'd settle for some taking away on Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Except styling replaced elements with CSS is not covered by the CSS standard, and is optional at best.

    So no it is not a standard, but a pretty good idea that works is most if not all modern browsers.

  16. Re:MP3 on Apple's Move May Make AAC Music Industry Standard · · Score: 1

    Because there is a world outside the US?

  17. Re:How about human rights for humans? on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: 1

    Empathy applies to other humans. When you apply the same to animals you are anthropomorphic. This is actually a very odd treat that appears in many humans, especially after Disney started making cartoons.
    So just because other people don't share this trait with you, doesn't mean they are selfish, they just better able to distinguish between animals and humans, than you are.

  18. Re:EU Fines on EU Launches Antitrust Probe Into iTunes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The current laws are sufficient, and if you Apple eye-glasses wasn't so narrow you have noticed that the new antitrust case is not against Apple, but against Apple and 3 music cartels.

    Apple has the spin angle of claiming to work with the EU to force the music cartels to open up.

  19. Re:History Channel on Architect Claims to Solve Pyramid Secret · · Score: 4, Informative

    Of course recent research shows that the workers probably wasn't slaves. They were treated much better, had good homes, received health treatment, etc. They were probably professional craftsmen.

  20. Re:It's Blackboard's problem on Vista Failing "Blackboard" College Courses · · Score: 1

    At Copenhagen University they evaluated Blackboard and found it inadequate. Instead they replaced it with the result of a 3 week student assignment at the Computer Science department DIKU. The result is much more stable and useable (Allthough the basic purpose and idea of this type of software still makes it useless.)

  21. Re:Just wandering... on John McCain's MySpace Page "Pranked" · · Score: 5, Funny

    In fact making intentionally deceiving people illegal could have catastrophic consequences on Christmas and Easter as we know it.

  22. Re:This could majorly backfire on John McCain's MySpace Page "Pranked" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Huh? From the fine summary: "the McCain page was pulling an image from Davidson's site" - how can it be illegal to change the contents of your own website? How could this even be called 'hacking'? If you pull graphics from other websites, prepare to get what you deserve! It says "Pranked" instead of "Hacked" in the summary title for a reason.


    Since when have common sense had anything to do with american law?
  23. Re:Mod parent up on Voters Vote Yes, County Says No · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except "coups" as you call them are done by the military not by armed citizens.

    If the citizens try to overthrow the government it is not a coup. It is either:
    a) Terrorism
    b) Insurgency
    c) A rebellion

    Depending on how well it turns out and who writes the press-releases.

  24. Re:Prosecuting children on RIAA Going After a 10-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's in the international human rights convention (I think, or an extension dealing with childrens rights).

    Of course USA is the only western country that hasn't signed the human rights convention.

  25. Re:Towards a Multi-Dimensional Morality on Morality — Biological or Philosophical? · · Score: 1

    Why will a cat or dog or pig or any number of other animals accept another species to nurse at its teats, even when, as in many of these cases, said species is considered natural prey or predator?
    Dogs and pigs will because they have anthropomophic behaviour. Cats wont, so keep them out of the comparison.


      Why will cats in particular, highly independent creatures who are extremely good at providing for themselves, go into a burning building to attempt to wake and save their owners, sometimes at the cost of their own lives? I understand the argument for saving one's kittens is that of propagating the gene (though cats could always make more kittens, and that is certainly a more effective strategy both at the personal and genetic levels) but why save some human? Cats don't generally need humans for survival. It is just one of several strategies available to them - and they do it. Many convert from one to the other, sometimes more than once. Cognition? Or wiring?

    Urban legend or accident. A dog would do that for that exact purpose, a cat wouldn't. Cats have no concept of humans and don't care for them. Affection from a cat to a human is purely a human mis-perception.