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  1. Re:Link to the manufacturer on Second Google Android Phone Revealed · · Score: 1

    Those prices include 10% tax, which international orders should not be paying.

  2. Re:When will it become *our* phones? on Second Google Android Phone Revealed · · Score: 1

    So how do you type?

    It has a USB port, right?

  3. Texas on Talk-Powered Cell Phones Won't Need Batteries · · Score: 2, Funny
    Its not a coincidence that this story is from Texas. Other locales may lack sufficient vocal power.

    However Olivetti is working on a cellphone powered like a self-winding watch, by arm-motion.

  4. Re:fairness on Bittorrent To Cause Internet Meltdown · · Score: 1

    UDP senders don't know when they're flooding the connection

    Nonsense. All UDP app's have flow control - its just done at the application level instead of in the OS. Which is often the whole point of using UDP.

  5. African rumours on Men Warned About Knockout Boob Bandits · · Score: 1
    If you want to start talking about the stupid rumours that go around Africa, it will never end.

    my favourite recurring one is the penis thieves: http://www.google.com.au/search?q=penis+thieves

    Interesting BBC story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4105613.stm

  6. Re:Best use of the Kindle on An Ethical Question Regarding Ebooks · · Score: 1

    It's theft. There's no further quibble about the ethics.

    I see you are at stage 4 of Kohlberg's stages of moral development

  7. Re:Try living in Australia on Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station · · Score: 1

    We have numerous potentially deadly spiders, many of which can be found in and around ordinary homes,

    Oh nonsense. Sydney has the funnelweb, but when was the last time it killed anyone? The redback (= black widow) is very common, but nobody died since they developed the anti-venom 50 years ago.

    You are infinitely more likely to be killed by a dog or bee.

  8. Re:N810 Bullshit on Ubuntu Ports To ARM · · Score: 2, Informative

    3) if you want to stay connected with the net (IM presence, mail moniroring), battery life is 6-7 hours max. Just looking at it eats battery.

    One of your apps is badly behaved then. I get days with email and VoIP (SIP) running on the N800. And the N810 is supposed to be better. Do you use the bundled mail and IM clients?

  9. Re:OP should be shot; N800 idle time on Ubuntu Ports To ARM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    WiFi gives me only a few hours

    Nonsense. Wifi in the n800 can stay connected for days. It does some very clever power management. When i ssh to it, it can take a few seconds (and packet retransmissions) to get through.

    Bluetooth is good too. If I keep an internet connection via my Nokia phone, the phone battery dies in less than a day, but the N800 is still strong.

  10. Re:Think CITY?? on Dean Kamen Combines Stirling Engine With Electric Car · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I doubt any large enough city will have traffic that is forgiving enough to allow a small electric car to reach 30 (either kph or mph) in 6.5 seconds.

    There are plenty or large cites, from London to Bankok, where drivers are grateful to reach 30mph ever.

  11. Re:I've noticed the same thing... on How to Search Today's Usenet For Programming Information? · · Score: 1

    A lot of it comes down to the great unwashed being allowed on my lovely, geeky Internet.

    Internet? Lovely? Usenet was working perfectly well over UUCP, until the Internet came along and ruined it.

  12. Re:Unfortunately... on How to Search Today's Usenet For Programming Information? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am so not going to a site called expert sex change.com :o

    They are the best. You should avoid http://www.discountgenderreassignment.com/ .

  13. Core 17? on Intel Core I7 Launched, Nehalem and X58 Tested · · Score: 1

    Did I miss cores 3 through 16? ... Damn, I gotta change that default font.

  14. Xubuntu requirements on Asus To Phase Out Sub-10" Eee PCs · · Score: 3, Informative
    "Once installed, Xubuntu can run with 192 MB RAM, but it is strongly recommended to have at least 256 MB RAM."

    http://www.xubuntu.org/get

    ie wrong distro. Xubuntu is a medium-weight desktop. Not quite as bloated as gnome/KDE/Vista. Try DSL?

  15. Re:Solution on Silencing a Hard Drive Using Household Items · · Score: 1

    Even better, buy a laptop hard-drive and a $5 cable adapter. A 2.5" drive may be a suitable compromise between 3.5" drives and SSD - for price, capacity and noise.

  16. Re:anything truly valuable on Can the US Stop the Illegal Export of Its Technology? · · Score: 1

    such as aluminum cylinders for refining uranium hexafluoride,

    You mean like these ones, that the White House claimed were for Iraq's nukular program?

  17. Stop giving the traitors presidential pardons on Can the US Stop the Illegal Export of Its Technology? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    That might help.

    Which was the last US government that didn't illegally export arms?

  18. Re:Intelligent Design? on The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? · · Score: 1

    But if you know you have no evidence and choose to believe anyway, you are deceiving both self and other. Is it a lie? It certainly ain't honest.

  19. Re:Intelligent Design? on The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? · · Score: 1

    That is true, but then science is not provable either (so far). It's just backed by evidence of whatever model you have,

    You seem to be confusing science proof with mathematical proof. Mathematical proofs are based on axioms, and exist within precisely defined formal systems.
    Science is not so precise, but based on agreed real-world observations. So scientific "truths" are provable and absolute, but to limited accuracy. Newtons laws are still true to the extent they always were, even though we have a better model now.

    Perhaps you might say that science will never be "perfect and pure", like maths?

  20. Re:Intelligent Design? on The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? · · Score: 1, Troll

    The folks promoting Intelligent Design believe it to be true. They're not lying... they're merely mistaken.

    Then they are lying about having proof? A flimsy distinction, a bit like the WMDs.
    Were the neocons not lying because they believed their own BS?

  21. Re:Rice? on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 1
    Whats the story with that? I heard the reason a lot of American beer taste so bad, is the use of rice and corn in it, instead of barley. Is that common?

    Pity the Australians visiting the US who think it tastes weak, so must be weak. They drink a couple of your enormous pitchers (twice the size of our jugs), and unexpectedly fall over drunk.

  22. Making love in a canoe on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Why is American beer like making love in a canoe?

    .

    .

    They're both fucking close to water.

    - the Bruces, Woolloomooloo university
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_WRFJwGsbY

  23. Re:Food for Thought on Wikipedia's New Definition of Truth · · Score: 1

    The bottom 50% of taxpayers by income pay just 3.3% of the tax revenues

    But how many of those low-tax payers are multi-millionaires? Its the high salary earners who pay the most tax, not the real rich with their offshore funds and trust accounts.

    BTW, I think those numbers imply the richer half of the US get 87% of the income, or SEVEN TIMES on average the income of the poorer half. I find it a bit hard to believe that the US has become so divided.

  24. Re:infuriating on New Cellphone Sized "Computer" Takes Aim at Sub-Notebooks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nokia N810 connecting to the internet via WLAN running Joikuspot on my N95

    Thats a little Rube Goldberg. Can I ask why you don't just use bluetooth as God and Nokia intended? You'll get better battery life on the phone, for one thing.

  25. Re:A modest proposal on "BlueTrack" Mouse More Advanced Than Laser, Optical · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pinnacle!? You aint seen nothing yet. They have the next 5 years of releases planned, starting with a UV-LED mouse.
    In 2011 we will see the "Ultra-Trak Quattro" - five ultraviolet lasers, three gyroscopes, a GPS, and a spring-loaded lubricating strip.