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  1. Remember the time! on A Brief History of 'sex.com' · · Score: 1

    During that area, you could make 100M$ from nothing even WITHOUT any sexy domainname.

  2. Re:Children of lock-in. on Siemens Reaches 107 Gbps Data Transfer Record · · Score: 1

    Yo, they are the same umbrella organisation that spend all the years of effort to develope the MP3 format.
    You might know the after-the-faft knockoffs like LAME, but hey, copycats are everywhere.

  3. Re:Negative or less than one? on Material With Negative Refractive Index Created · · Score: 1

    Actually, the index of refraction IS negative, which is the whole point.

  4. Re:Felt the article was lacking. on Appliances Hog More Energy Than High-Tech Gadgets · · Score: 2, Informative

    your experience with the real world is SERIOSULY lacking.

    I personally witnessed small compact hifi systems drawing 30W while "off" compared to 35W while on without any load.

  5. Re:Such an environmental nightmare on World's Largest Wind Farm Gets Green Light · · Score: 1

    You are totally missing out the fact that these reactor:
    a) needs space on secure land, not in the see
    b) need uranium mining/element building/ect facilities, all with large space needs
    c) waste disposal are needs

    and last but not least the fact that the houses that use those GW need far more space.

  6. Re:Person of the year isnt what it used to be on Time Magazine Person of the Year — It's You · · Score: 1

    Or it went to the PC in 1982, or the women of america (forgot the year).

    Seriously, the usage of the internet by the billion of poeple currently being online, and all the side-effects, are certainly not to be neglected.

  7. Its the old story on FCC Drops Morse Code Requirement · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "_I_ had to learn it, so everybody else for all eternaty will have to learn it, too!".

    Plus the fact that you can create an aweful lot of baseless elitism by practicing a worthless and unneeded skill.

  8. Re:Do AWAY with pennies and nickles on Melting Coins Now Illegal In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    You just have to go a bit deeper to find a place to deposit the coin...

  9. Re:So what? on Melting Coins Now Illegal In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    You are the fist one to be rude, fucktard.

    Not to mention that the GP poster would have ffound it very hard NOT to be condescending towards a dimwit like you even if he had tried to.

  10. Re:"precious metals" in pennies? on Melting Coins Now Illegal In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    Yes, in the long term scale of thing.
    No, for the last decade.

    Just look at the prices of all those base metals the last few years (not only copper, but that one is extreme).

  11. Re:Too expensive - get a flatbed on Scanners for Large Negatives? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    With a flatbed scanner, you are pissing away any reason to use large format to begin with. Even the more expensive ones such at scanning film, not to mention negatives. (at least compared to dedicated film scanners. And if you are happy with mediocre quality, why not ust a digicam?)

  12. Re:Wireless peripherals mean more batteries on Ultrawideband Soon To Be Legal In Europe · · Score: 1

    Has the call of rechargeables ever reached your (undoubtedly american) home?

  13. Re:light on details...I'm a skeptic on A Terabyte of Data on a Regular DVD? · · Score: 1

    you obviously dont understand how an hologram works.

    Try getting one (a real one, for illumination with coherent light), and break it in half.
    Then look at each parts seperately and be surprised.

  14. Re:Look and calculate all you want on Big Blue Designing Chip to Decode the Big Bang · · Score: 1

    Because obviously time is a property of our universe, and has to bend its knee to our current law of physics (see all those relativistic effects).

    If there was a big bang (VERY likely), then it also started what we know as "time".

    But this doesnt exclude a bigger picture.

    ---
    And nobody says time MUST have a beginning. Its just part of a scientific process about what we observe in the universe.

    "accepting some things as being infinite", otoh, would be just that kind of dogma religious dimwits seem to like.

  15. Re:This is old news... kind of on Windows Live and Privacy · · Score: 1

    It can be pretty usefull if you want to find your way in a unknown location.

    I already noticed the hard way that from a first persion perspective, it never looks like the birds-eye view of google earth.

    With a system like that, you can exactly see where that shop is, or this hotel.

  16. Re:Be a good Windows user... on USB Drives — Recovery? · · Score: 1

    I seriously believe that the only reason linux people never feel the urge to defrag is the fact that their filesystem uses 250k files for a base system anyway, so even if files are fragmented, there is no performance difference between loading from 1000s of files or fragments, as the overhead isnt worse.

  17. Re:As someone who contributed MUCH data to cddb .. on Gracenote Founder Rewriting History At Wikipedia · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You are a proud example of the breed of people american capitalism produces.

    I wished somebody would have nuked you back when there were still comrades around to do it.

  18. Re:It was fast on Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt() · · Score: 1

    Thats notwithstanding, its still depricated.

    Telling a HUGE paragraph on how old cpus are old doesnt change it.

  19. Re:so why then use blocks ? on Pyramid Stones Were Poured, Not Quarried · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because blocks are the most practical solution?

    It isnt really viable with bronze age technology to do large scale in-place casting.

    So with blocks, they could be prepared nearby, and when cured be put in place.

    The big advantage is not that they dont have to be lifted up, but that they dont have to be fetched from distant quarries.

  20. Re:US house construction? on Top Gadget of 2006 — The HurriQuake Nail · · Score: 1

    If you compare population numbers with that building quote, it becomes a rather sore stain: You wouldnt need such a huge turnover if you werent shitting crap into the landscape.

  21. Re:How hard is it to wrap a carbon nanotube? on Nanoknives To Be Used to Cut Cells · · Score: 5, Informative

    Friction on atomar level isnt what you are used to.

    Trying to tie or wrap those nanotypes would be more than futile.

  22. Well well on Student Makes a Million Online, Gets Deported · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seeing how cutthroat the whole gold and itemfarming buisness is, to be able earn $1m+ from sales, he must have been the frontman of aa rather large gang of sweatshop farmers. Which would be perfectly fine as a violation of his status.

  23. Re:Zune will survive. on Critical Review of the Zune · · Score: 1

    The point is its an internal micropayment system.
    That way, all the transactions for the single purchases can be cheaply and quickly handled internally, without having to deal with credic card companies all the time.

  24. Re:A shortage? on The Incredible Shrinking Cosmonaut Corps · · Score: 1

    People pay for a JOYRIDE.
    The have a hard time finding people who are

    a) highly qualified to do actual work
    b) physically in top shape
    c) willingto put up with low pay

  25. Re:ethics on Steve Chen Making China's Supercomputer Grid · · Score: 1

    You mean the same Dalai Lama who used to have a middle-age style feudalism on the back of the peasents back when Tibet was still a sovereign nation?

    Well, turnabout hurts, but nobody cries when the US sucks the brains out of international academics, even though they armed slimebags like hussein, and destabilized whole continents (how many dictators own their job the cia?).

    That nothwithstanding, the guy really is a blowbag, and his claims are void of any kind of reason, or techological background.