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  1. Re:Missed the best feature! on Emacs Hits Version 23 · · Score: 1

    And if you feel bad, it even includes a psychotherapist.
    M-x doctor

  2. Re:CDs? on EMI Only Selling CDs To Mega-Chains From Now On · · Score: 1

    I've bought one CD, ever. I like vinyl because it doesn't sound like shit.

    So you based your evaluation of CD sound on one single CD?

  3. Re:CDs? on EMI Only Selling CDs To Mega-Chains From Now On · · Score: 1

    Is there a lossless MP3 format, or did you just not see the word "lossless"?
    Of course they could also offer plain .wav instead of FLAC.

  4. Re:A bit misleading ... on MI5 Website Breached By Hacker · · Score: 2, Informative

    You mean links like this? http://www.mi5.gov.uk/

  5. Re:Consequences on MI5 Website Breached By Hacker · · Score: 1

    Nothing is anonymous.

    What about wardriving?

  6. Re:simple test on MI5 Website Breached By Hacker · · Score: 1

    Oh come on. Al Gore made a movie and a big PR tour instead of just bombing all those evil petrol-burners. The world is much more peaceful without bombing. Doesn't that deserve a Nobel Prize?

  7. Re:Not so fun on Making a Game of Hardware Design · · Score: 1

    There's a bug in many keyboards which every time you type the key sequence "[L] [O] [S] [E]" appends the key presses "[<-] [<-] [O] [->] [->]" afterwards.
    That's why many people love old (non-enhanced) versions of vi: Old vi doesn't know the arrow keys.

  8. Re:Thats not a game on Making a Game of Hardware Design · · Score: 1

    Maybe in truth it's an psychology experiment to find out how long it takes people to get bored :-)

  9. Re:SAT, really? on Making a Game of Hardware Design · · Score: 1

    Actually SAT problems are usually solved quite easily. You just have to turn your dish until you get a reasonable signal. :-)

  10. Re:Rotten Patent System on Company Awarded "The Patent For Podcasting" · · Score: 1

    Well, they can't dump the patent system because dumping the patent system is patented.

  11. Re:bad for US companies on Company Awarded "The Patent For Podcasting" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, the point is, software patents are against the law in Europe. But that doesn't hinder the EPO to grant them anyways.

  12. Re:What the hell? on EMI Only Selling CDs To Mega-Chains From Now On · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Probably more important: Why would an aspiring artist go to EMI and have a limited reach when he could as well go to some competitor and be sold also to customers of small music shops? The loss of small music shop customers may not directly hurt EMI (otherwise they wouldn't have done this), but a loss of content to sell will probably hurt them. And it will not be obvious until the current hot stars are not hot anymore, and the new hot stars are with different labels. And then it's too late.

    I personally think it's a bad business move. If I had EMI stock, now I would sell.

  13. Re:Whacked business case on EMI Only Selling CDs To Mega-Chains From Now On · · Score: 1

    So why do they sell their CDs at all? Just put the torrents on TPB and sue everyone downloading them.

  14. Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 2, Funny

    How many times have you seen cars fly across 3 lanes of traffic to get to an exit?

    Actually, the number of flying cars I've seen up to now was very low. :-)

  15. Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    At least with current technology, the number of cars moving at the same time cannot exceed the number of living people.

  16. Re:Rude Drivers on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    Excessive locking, maybe?

  17. Re:atlanta on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    OK, so how do we determine the 40% who should drive like jerks? Sell special "jerk driving licenses?"

  18. Re:Riiiight. on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, in Germany it would be against the law to change early. It has been shown that driving till the end, and then merging as "one from the left lane, one from the right lane" is the most efficient way to handle ending lanes. Therefore the law demands that. It's called "Reissverschlussverfahren" ("zipper procedure").

  19. Re:Surprise Surprise. on The Pirate Bay Is Being Sued Again · · Score: 2

    So you are saying TPB just didn't bribe^Wsupport the politicians enough?

  20. Re:Carbon credits for shuttle launches? on Noctilucent Clouds Likely Caused By Shuttle Launches · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since the water vapor brought into the atmosphere in high altitudes likely increases global warming (water vapor is a more effective greenhouse gas than CO2), I don't think they could get carbon credits.

  21. Re:Um, first observed in 1887 - well before shuttl on Noctilucent Clouds Likely Caused By Shuttle Launches · · Score: 5, Funny

    Almost a full century before the first shuttle launch by humans! Finally we have proof for UFOs! :-)

  22. Re:Mobsters, the new clinical trialists. on Dye Used In Blue M&Ms Can Lessen Spinal Injury · · Score: 1

    Do you have a better alternative?

  23. Re:Blue Eyes? Blue Vision? on Dye Used In Blue M&Ms Can Lessen Spinal Injury · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did he possibly play blues?

  24. Blue pill on Dye Used In Blue M&Ms Can Lessen Spinal Injury · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't take the red pill. Take the blue pill. It's better for your spine.

  25. Re:The US wants their tax money on EU May Allow US To Keep Snooping On European Bank Data · · Score: 1

    Maybe the SWIFT servers should be put into Switzerland. Then the EU can say to the USA: "Oh, you have complete access to all data on all SWIFT servers in the EU, just as promised. Too bad there are no SWIFT servers in the EU ..."