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  1. Re:Breasts must be kept secret! on More Oblivion Re-Rating Fallout · · Score: 1

    In Denmark nudity is legal. You would have to have to sex in public to get arrested. Then again if you actually tried to conceal your lovemaking it would still be legal and the police would only arrest you if you were gay (becaue the police is not as liberal as the law).

  2. Re:Please enumerate the missing market preconditio on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    Condition number one: That the consumer has a choice. If you are run over by a car and are bleeding to death, do you shop around to find the cheapest surplier of health-care?
    Condition number two: That health is a commodety that only has value for the individual consumer. Since disease are contaguous other people has vested interest in keeping people around them healthy. The free market fails to address this.
    Condition number three: That the service is evaluable. Can you tell who good a service you get in a hospital? Or are you more likely to look at how nice it looks, forcing hospitals to waste money one other things that their primary service?
    Conditions.... Well, I am just getting started, please continue yourself. Like highways and other infrastructure, healthcare just doesn't fit a free market model in any way.

  3. Re:Well... on Microsoft/Yahoo Merger to Take on Google? · · Score: 1

    I always figured Microsoft was the Bork, but now they have made an unholy alliance with a sworn enemy to divide neatral Poland...

    What does that make them??

  4. Re:Sure beats ARTS, anyway on Awesome Multimedia Technology Heads for KDE · · Score: 1

    This problem was fixed a half decade ago.. Use ALSA + dmix or freeBSD

  5. Re:Absurd on U.S. Government Developed the iPod · · Score: 2, Informative

    The sentence is nonsense. First he talks about one specific reason, then it changes to accidental "it turned out". Something is missing, Bush just read the speech wrong, or the speech was nonsense to start with.

  6. Re:No news is good news on New Blow for Microsoft in EU Row · · Score: 1

    You can't jail a company, and the fines are already pretty big.

    I can only assume that Microsoft is gambling that it can get out of the fines when they are so high that the US intervenes.

  7. Re:Succession of arguments: on Microsoft To Appeal EU Decision · · Score: 1

    EU can always cease whatever assets they need to cover the fine. They can even ask the US to cease assets for them if there are not enough Microsoft assets inside the EU.

  8. Re:atomic? on The Tenth Planet Shrinks Under Hubble's Gaze · · Score: 1

    Which does not fit this case because a pixel can have many colors, by which you can estimate how much of the source is providing light to the pixel.

  9. Re:Can we, and should we? on Americans Gearing up to Fight Global Warming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's kinda like adopting a new ocean in your backyard, and loosing half your house to an earthslide. Sure! you would survive and could pay to repair some of the damages, but it would kinda suck!
    And the money spend to repair the damages, might have been better spend to cure your cancer or to a nice trip to hawaii.

  10. Re:It's time.... on Microsoft Says Recovery From Malware Becoming Impossible · · Score: 1

    Or because government contracts is one of the primary ways to conduct embezzlement, and thereby move government money to the companies you own shares in or who supported your campain.

  11. Re:Don't they know anything about SHARING? on On Apple vs Apple · · Score: 1

    Then Apple Computers will lose. They have already sold off a bite of theirs.

  12. Re:Coral Cache Slashdotted on OMG!!! OMG OMG!!! LINUS LIKES PINKDOT!!! LOL!!! · · Score: 1

    Slashdot has been fucking up the internet ever since it begun.

  13. Re:"spring back from the brink of nonexistence?" on The Oblivion of Western RPGs · · Score: 1

    Bioware RPGs are not massively open-ended like Elder Scrolls or the old Ultima games. Its more of a hybrid, where you have small amounts of open play in different chapters.

  14. Re:Know your genes Or... on Coffee Maybe Not a Health Drink! · · Score: 1

    Most decaffs like instant coffee is not meant for coffee affectionaries. They are more or less all crap, undrinkable without adding sugar and milk.

  15. Re:Civilisation vs Evolution on Human Genes Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    Actually the first world has the superior disease resistance. This comes from centuries of urban life where diseases spread rapidly. For instance 25% of europeans are more or less immune to AIDS because the genes that fought the plague help defeat immune deficencies.

  16. Re:Koffice only has one disadvantage on KOffice GUI Competition Winner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ofcourse it supports exporting to PDF; all KDE applications does. You just press print and use the PDF printer.

    Importing .doc is however notiously difficult, and KWord only does so in limited ways.

  17. Re:Silly question..... on Why Won't Dell Promote Its Linux Desktops? · · Score: 1

    That's what you get for buying cheap.. Dell originally started as an online supplier to be the cheapest of the cheap. They have gotten more expensive since then but still sell the same service and hardware quality.

  18. Re:DVD Players a prime example on Rise of the Small Brands · · Score: 1

    The decoding chips are the same. There only few producers of decoding chips. So any quality degradation should be in the signal-noice, and here the speakers and TV quality is much more important.

  19. Re:Too bad on Rise of the Small Brands · · Score: 1

    Not even close. When it comes to electronics the cost have never had anything to do with the cost of components. The price you pay is what they think you are willing to pay.

    The more expensive brands just have bigger margins.

  20. Re:3D positional audio on Why 7.1 Surround Sound is Overkill For Most Homes · · Score: 1

    I've "seen" turn-off-your-mobile-clips that worked like that. The ringing is placed somewhere in the middle of the theator and everyone is looking that direction.

  21. Re:MP3 is dead, long live MP3? on The Future of MP3 and Surround · · Score: 1

    Vorbis only in theory supports more channels. It is not optimized at all. In that way 4 channels is encoded as 2xstereo and not as a whole. Which means the file will end up as twice as large and not 10-20% larger as it would if done correctly.

  22. Re:Support to open formats on The Future of MP3 and Surround · · Score: 1

    Also remember that 20kHz is the 20000 full amplitutes. This means both up and down curves. To represent this _at_ all you need at least twice as many samples.

    So the standard 44.100 samples per second can encode sounds up to 22050Hz.

  23. Re:Jesus Christ! on Yahoo! Bans "Allah" in Screen Names · · Score: 1

    No it's not abbreviated.

    Hebrew is a semetic language like arabic and semetic languages does not traditionally use vowels in written form. (Y is pronounced as the consonant J in the case)

  24. Re:No malicious intent? on Sony Rootkit may Lead to Regulation · · Score: 1

    It would be illegal even without the security problem. They compromised computers, and installed software without permission or notification of the owners, and deliberately hided the software to make it harder to remove. The last part is the clear sign that they knew the users would not like it, and want to remove it, but they did it anyway and without asking.

    It is like infection a number of houses with mice, and then claim it is not illegal because they did not intend the mice to do any harm. They had no authorization to infect the houses in the first place even if the owners had bought sony products.

  25. Re:Fitting? on Internet Suicide Pacts Surge in Japan · · Score: 1

    No its a really bad example. If natural selection actually worked on this, suicidal behavior would have been wiped out a long time ago. The fact is suicidal behaviour has increased from social changes, and does not appear to be related much if anything to genetical heritage.