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  1. Re:Go on, rub it in why don't you? on Kepler Spacecraft Finds System With Multiple Planets Transiting the Star · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stop anthropomorphizing the Trans-Neptunian objects.

  2. Re:Political entity required to comply? on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    The Pirate party isn't a part of the Swedish government. They are not even a party in the parliament.

    I would be very interesting to see an American military assault on Sweden however. Would you bomb Stockholm or make an amphibious landing? How would that look? The only remaining superpower beats up a democratic country with 9 million citizens.... Should the Swedish Afghanistan force start firing on their US allies as retaliation?

    So you're saying it's OK for Sweden to publish classified US government information - something which could be considered an act of aggression and NOT OK for the US government to protect its interests?

    Perhaps the US government should bug some Swedish government offices and broadcast all of Sweden's classified information too, instead. Maybe a nice game of tit for tat.

    As a Swedish citizen, I'm fine with that. Governments should not keep secrets.

  3. Re:details details on BFG Tech Sending Out RMA Denial Letters, 'Winding Down Business' · · Score: 0, Troll

    The summary needed to be sent in for repairs. For example, it doesn't elaborate as to what "RMA" means. But timothy was winding down business, so all Slashdot gets is this post instead.

    It means "Rubber Manufacturers Association".

  4. Re:Phone home? on Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations · · Score: 1

    This package installs a daily cron job for surveying how many original OEM
    installs are running in the world. Note that this does not send any
    user specific data; it only transmits the operating system version
    (/var/lib/ubuntu_dist_channel), the machine product name, and a counter how
    many pings were sent
    .

    Just how is this "spying on you"?

  5. Re:"Don't be evil." on Google and Verizon In Talks To Prioritize Traffic (Updated) · · Score: 3, Funny

    What about your atss?

  6. Re:So was Heisenberg right or wrong? on Defeating Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is still a fundamental cornerstone in quantum physics. Incompatible observables remain incompatible. What the article says isn't that the principle is wrong, but that there is a work-around for a technical problem which the principle was causing. Much the same way the invention of airplanes did not imply gravity is wrong.

    That's all I can say without seeing some math.

  7. Re:And yet- on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 1

    The peace isn't really an academic achievement either.

  8. Re:And yet- on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But then there's typically a good 30-40 year delay between actual achievement and Nobel prize. Add to that some 10 years worth of doing unnoticed stuff, and then 10- years worth of education, and we can conclude that American universities were awesome in the '50s-'70s.

  9. Re:And yet- on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah, but the difference between traveling to other countries and traveling to the US is that you have to go through American airport security. You have to really want to enter the country to voluntarily do that.

  10. Re:Well that's it... on Oracle's Java Company Change Breaks Eclipse · · Score: 1

    Where did you get such a notion from?

  11. Re:Well that's it... on Oracle's Java Company Change Breaks Eclipse · · Score: 1

    I thought that was what COBOL was for.

  12. Re:Someone didn't get the memo on Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Achieved · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, silver isn't -that- expensive. Especially when we're just speaking of a layer of the stuff.

  13. You call that simple yet cluttered? on The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design · · Score: 1

    If you call that cluttered, you have obviously never seen the web sites of Swedish tabloids.

  14. Re:Bullocks! on Cell Phone Group Sues San Francisco Over Radiation Law · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the effects of radiation depends heavily on wavelength. The biological effect of this much visible light is not equivalent to that much X-ray or gamma radiation.

  15. Re:retire it on What To Do With an Old G5 Tower? · · Score: 1

    Electric heating is a terrible waste of energy. I'd suggest using it as a door stop, or an anchor for a small boat instead.

  16. Re:umm... on Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ · · Score: 1

    There are exceptions.

    Perl is both too complex and too inefficient.

  17. Re:We can detect tiny, molecules... on Buckyballs Detected In Space · · Score: 1

    Well, the universe is only 6000 years old, and light did not exist before "let there be light". So it's blasphemy to acknowledge anything farther away than 6000 lightyears.

  18. Re:Not an RPG on Spore-Inspired Action RPG Darkspore Announced · · Score: 1

    The problem is that while most RPGs have "upgradeable stats", and they're indeed almost required to have an RPG, it does not go the other way around. Just because something has "upgradeable stats" doesn't make it a RPG. The same way having wheels doesn't make something a car, even though all cars have wheels.

  19. Re:Horrible on US Deploys 'Heat-Ray' In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    As a means of subduing criminals? Definitely.

  20. Re:Horrible on US Deploys 'Heat-Ray' In Afghanistan · · Score: 2, Informative

    Instances like this really paint a nice picture of how ridiculous the use of "non-lethal" weapons have gotten.

  21. Re:Very troubling on US Deploys 'Heat-Ray' In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    Actually, no. International law is funny that way.

  22. Re:You mean besides using default admin/password.. on Millions of Home Routers Are Hackable · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's no worry, I changed mine to 12345.

  23. Re:Shame the ground game sucks. on 'Weekly Episodes' Coming To Star Trek Online · · Score: 1

    I feel much the same. Besides being very repetitive, ground combat does -not- deal with high-ping connections well (which means that it's going to suck unless you live in the US). It requires you to quickly respond to combat events . Except, the quickest you could possibly hope to respond is in 150ms, and that is if you guessed what was going to happen and responded before you saw it on screen.

  24. Re:Only thats not really true. on Familial DNA Testing Nabs Alleged Serial Killer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The leap from "we have found certain genes that affected certain traits" to "it is possible to find a gene that makes a person a serial killer" is quite big. Furthermore, will that gene make everyone who has it a serial killer? What if it's partly genetics, partly environmental? Should we treat people with the gene who have not killed anyone as criminals?

  25. Re:I can see it now... on Zynga Investment May Herald Google Games · · Score: 1

    And nothing of value was lost.