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  1. Re:what is a steroscope? on WW2 Aerial Photographs Go Online · · Score: 1

    It's also a great way to get a headache. After working all day long for a week with those, I know I don't want to do a job that requires photointerpretation anytime soon.

  2. Re:Should I answer the truth ? on What Was the Very First MP3 You Downloaded? · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering whether I did. The name certainly rings a bell.

  3. If you have enough room... on Building The Ideal Geek Gaming Center? · · Score: 1

    A ten meter air weapons range, four or five point. Quite fun, though it probably wouldn't attract geeks only. Not necessarily a bad thing for a business.

  4. Not much of a change actually. on Kodak To Stop Selling Film Cameras In U.S. · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The editor here reeks of technogeek bigotry. Kodak hasn't produced a really noteworthy film camera since the then omnipresent brownie, anyway.
    They still make film, though, and that's what they do best. I don't see Kodak abandoning film anytime soon. Discontinuing classic films like Tri-X, Technical Pan or Kodachrome would only earn them a worldwide boycott from professional photographers. I think they learned their lesson when they discontinued Kodachrome 25 a while back.

  5. Here is one: on Your Favorite Net.Art? · · Score: 1
  6. www.culture.gouv.fr on Your Favorite Net.Art? · · Score: 1

    The french ministry of culture has been commissioning works of "multimedia" art for years. Several are available on their website.
    This one is a little old (1999), but was the first significant one.
    And here is a collection of government sponsored screensavers.

  7. Re:Leftist Republican? on 'Hunt for WMD' Game Launched Using Public Documents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From countries where a real left wing exists, USian democrats certainly look right-wing.

  8. There once were... on SimCandidate - Why Aren't There More Political Sims? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But look at the development costs for a game today. Given that a political game will mainly, if not only, sell in the country which politics it's based upon and that games are a worldwide market (except the very peculiar and specific japanese market), do you think it's a risk worth taking for any large game publishing house? Maybe it could work as shareware or open source. But except a handful of gems, most shareware sims in the past have been quite poor, either in ui and polish (from bothersome to downright horrible) or in simulation depth (which is much more annoying.)

  9. Re:third world countries? on New Bacterium Could Herald Bio-Batteries · · Score: 1

    Don't forget not everyone here comes from anglo countries. France still mainly buys from Canada, and I'm pretty sure you know of the COGEMA. But the commercial relationship with Australia in the field has been strained in the last years. Since Gabon will shortly be out of the picture, this leaves the most interesting partner for us, politically speaking: Niger, not exactly a "first world" country. Yes, unlike Irak, we do import from Niger. ps. IANAME (passed the entrance exam, but forgone for a better school).

  10. Re:Evolution on New Bacterium Could Herald Bio-Batteries · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, there are quite a few species of bacteria who use this kind of cycle to get their energy. Not a bad thing to colonize layers where respiration won't help. And the ability to specifically reduce heavy metal ions probably comes, as the article implies, from mutations on cytochrome reductases genes.

  11. Who cares... on New Bacterium Could Herald Bio-Batteries · · Score: 3, Insightful

    about directly producing electricity when you could probably extract uranium straight from sea water with the help of these babies? Probably even cheaper than buying it from third world countries in the long run.

  12. Re:Changing markets, stale business on Pharmacists Convince Search Engines To Self-Censor · · Score: 1

    Calling the current USian government communist is utterly moronic. No, actually, it's beyond words. And this comes from a real communist (party card and all). What could define US politics better than "democratic" isn't "communist" but actually "fascist", if that word hadn't been overused and its meaning distorted over the years. Original fascism (Italy, right after the first World War) was all about gearing all the power of the state towards the private industry needs (with a preference for the military industry), supposedly to strengthen the country, more realistically to fill the deep pockets of the local capitalists. I don't see any major difference with what Bush and al. are doing now.

  13. Great... on Cow Manure --> Electricity · · Score: 1

    How is this news? Oh, yes, now I see, the USA soon will be as developped as China where it's been done on a large scale for years.

  14. Nope. on Back to the Trees · · Score: 1

    Doesn't excite me at all. My freaking job is all about trees. Why would I ever want to live in a treehouse? I'll leave that kind of fantasy to the moronic city-dwelling tree huggers.

  15. Interesting on Mutant Gene Responsible for Speech? · · Score: 1

    Anything that can help to understand how the forkhead genes work is worth exploring. FYI, they are genes coding for proteines that are supposed to regulate the expression of other genes during embryogenesis, so the value of studyning this mutation isn't only about language, imho.
    And to give into the silliness of the first comments, a chimp with the ability to produce more sounds may be able to show rudimentary speech and would be a great test subject for animal "intelligence". And one day, maybe , we'll have those fabled eight-legged chicken...

  16. Re:I'm longing for the day... on India Plans Its Own Moon Shot · · Score: 1

    Well, there's only one language in Belgium. Well, only one *real* language. Sacrés flamoutches! ;)

  17. Re:My experiences in India on India Plans Its Own Moon Shot · · Score: 1

    Wow, now you seem like a real stereotypical ugly American... I thought those only existed in movies. Are you for real?

  18. Re:Why?? on India Plans Its Own Moon Shot · · Score: 1

    Like? Launching their warheads onto Redmond?

  19. I'm longing for the day... on India Plans Its Own Moon Shot · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...when Belgium sends a manned mission to Venus. So long, Dirk!

  20. Re:Too Late on Godzilla Getting Ready to Stomp Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    Yup, but there was a possible confusion between WWF and WWF as everything coming out of either one is completely bogus. Mozilla and Godzilla is a completely different matter.

  21. I'm disappointed... on Toilet Paper Algorithms · · Score: 1

    From the header, I believed this was a news about Lisp...

  22. Re:planes farting affects the weather on Study: Jet Exhaust Affects Weather · · Score: 1

    Not weather, climate. And silly as it may sound, they're close to be the main contributors to the excess greenhouse effect that is supposed to lead towards global warming.

  23. Re:This sort of thing wouldn't work well on humans on Rat Mind Control · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't work either. As tolerance to pain builds, it wouldn't stand for long, even in rats. Plus you could get better results by applying the stimulus known as a good whacking.

  24. Re:Small Statistical Sample on Study: Jet Exhaust Affects Weather · · Score: 1

    When it comes to study global warming on the long time scale, there are very useful indicators, like chorological studies based upon palynology, that effectively replace temperature records. The abovementioned study is, of course, dubious from a statistical point of view, even if it involves measurements, as several years without air traffic on the sept., 11th-14th window would be needed.

  25. Four days? on Study: Jet Exhaust Affects Weather · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How can you derive significant results from 4 days of data? Silly...