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  1. Re:best quote on The Year of the E-Bicycle · · Score: 1

    You can carry a girl on the horizontal bar. (and on the bagage rack and if you're really skillful you can add one on the steer)

  2. Re:Why not just buy a motorcycle? on The Year of the E-Bicycle · · Score: 1

    A high-end bicycle costs you around E1000,-. This including baggage rack, lighting, locks and in-hub for the gears and dynamo. Adding some batteries to it, it becomes a bit more expensive (E1500,- I think). They've been around for years and replaced the bicycle with combustion engine.

  3. Re:No problem on Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers · · Score: 4, Informative

    Linux IP Firewalling Chains, normally called ipchains, is free software to control the packet filter/firewall capabilities in the 2.2 series of Linux kernels. It superseded ipfwadm, but was replaced by iptables in the 2.4 series.

    You're a few kernels behind.

  4. Re:Hmm, this seems illogical. on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was an overstatement but I've seen some movies where they move some retinal pigment to other locations in the eye. The big problem was that the grafts curl while handling, so that's was the reason mechanical engineering was involved.

    Abstract of a paper about the subject:
    http://www.ophsource.org/periodicals/ophtha/article/S0002-9394(03)00384-2/abstract

  5. Re:Hmm, this seems illogical. on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    Can't you get a retina transplantation? Like moving some of the retina from the outside to the center?

  6. Re:Old people on Surgeon Makes Tutorial DVD For Conscious Open-Heart Surgery · · Score: 1

    Putting in implants is unpleasant (makes a lot of noise when they are splitting your jaw bone to make it wider) but not really painful (needed about 20 injections against pain). Rode back home on my bike after which the injections wore out. After that I wanted to die for about 2 days before the pain become a lot less.

  7. Re:Truly Open? on USA Has More Open Wi-Fi Hotspots Than EU · · Score: 1

    I think most are WEP encrypted but are not advertising that fact. (This is called open authentication and is fact more secure then shared key). For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy

  8. Spamassassin on Y2.01K · · Score: 3, Informative

    Spamassassin in Kerio Mailserver has a bug that flags all messages dated 2010 as spam. I think it affects the normal spamassassin as well.

  9. Re:3d and tv on Avatar Soars Into $1-Billion Territory · · Score: 1

    The projection technology (MasterImage) used at the theatre I saw it at used a spinning wheel with polarisation filters in front of the projector. Switching around 144Hz. Most theatres use 1 projector (is cheaper). Dolby 3D uses some fancy colour shifting and a lot of filters in the glasses to make it normal again (making the glasses really expensive), and XpanD uses active switching glasses controlled by an IR source. The advantage of the later is that you don't need a reflecting (silver) screen and can use a refractive (normal white) screen. At least, this is what my small research before seeing the film showed.

    Polarisation is mostly circular, so you can move your head around.

  10. Re:What a nightmare. on Carriers, Manufacturers Are Strangling Android · · Score: 1

    If you enable GPS in the same location as you disabled it (as you would with your TomTom) then it's really fast. If you take a TomTom 400km away from its last know location it needs to search as well.

    I usually get a fix within 10 minutes (seemed to improved lately) with my Nokia N85. After that it works quite well.

  11. Re:Issues I've had. on Multiple-Display Power Tools For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Sorry my bad, read OpenSuSE and thought KDE.

  12. KDE 4.2 has shortcuts to move screen on Multiple-Display Power Tools For Linux? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Settings -> Keyboard and Mouse -> Global shortcuts -> Kwin

    Window to screen \d

    Kwin has a lot of shortcuts you can define.

    I don't know what the post is all about, but it is defiantly not true.

  13. Re:Issues I've had. on Multiple-Display Power Tools For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Why do you run compiz if Kwin has compositing support as well and is a much better windowing manager for KDE?

  14. Re:Prison Sentences on "Accidental" Download Sending 22-Year-Old Man To Prison · · Score: 1

    And the drunk husband doesn't somehow get hold of the gun first. The drunk husband would never get a gun because it's illegal. But if they get i legally, I wonder how many drunk husbands will have access to a gun.

  15. NetGear RangeMax WNDR3700 on Home Router For High-Speed Connection? · · Score: 1

    I'm looking at the NetGear RangeMax WNDR3700 Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router. Haven't tested it yet and like to know how it performs. I got 50mbits at home as well, going up to 80mbits this year and I want Wireless-N at high speeds (2 meters distance, ethernet ports WILL break if you plug it in daily).

  16. Re:Sure on What's Coming In KDE 4.4 · · Score: 1

    There is a button in the menu bar that makes it like a list mode. You can then zoom out and it's just a normal list mode. You can also remove the places pane. It's 4 clicks or so to make it look like you say.

  17. Re:Labelling. on What's Coming In KDE 4.4 · · Score: 1

    I switched back to OpenSuse with the 10.3 release (after they removed the horrible .net package manager), The KDE build service is really nice and polished. Everything just works.

  18. Re:Put the damn thing in neutral! on Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms · · Score: 1

    Just press the clutch and brake. Like in most cases when you want to slow down (OK, normally you will release gas first and brake till the engine almost stalls so you have less wear on your break pads, but your foot will be very near a clutch anyway).

  19. Re:Try Debian on Installing Linux On Old Hardware? · · Score: 1

    You can also make a TFTP/BootP boot floppy that pulls the install media from the network. It isn't that hard.

  20. Re:Joystick control on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    No ABS (if you have it), hardly any breaking force, only breaking on the rear wheels and a total upset brake balance. Way to go! I've started, reversed and driven away a car once with the emergency brake fully on. It was the car of my driving instructor and a diesel. There is a reason it's called a parking brake.

  21. Re:For professionals? on Best Developer's Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I would also advise the professional lines. They are much better built. I just got a HP EliteBook 8530W and it's awesome! It runs Linux really well (it even says it supports suse), only the fingerprint reader doesn't work because of the TPM chip.
    It has a swappable dvd player (you can put a HD in it), but you can also buy a extra battery that covers the whole bottom of the laptop and gives around 10 hours of usage time. Screen estate is 1680x1050 or 1920x1280. And it is FAST! The only downside is, that it is really expensive normally (got a good deal from the University).

  22. Re:Electronic Noses ... on Schneier On Un-Authentication · · Score: 1

    I set my screensaver to appear after 5 minutes, and then lock after 10 seconds. If I see the screensaver starting I just touch the mouse and I can snoozy another 5 minutes. Don't know if it works with Windows, but I like the (KDE) option very much.

  23. Re:And yet they do nothing to discourage the car on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    Ever seen earodynamic bikes on the road? Beside SUV'? It's suicide. And you cannot take a case of beer and groceries with you in those death-traps. Also I expect my bike to be outside in the rain/cold/hot 365 years a day (no place inside) so a need a though gear cluster, not a precision made thing.

  24. Re:And yet they do nothing to discourage the car on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    Helmets on the bike are for foreign people anyway. And using a cellphone at 20km/h plain sucks.

  25. Re:How much is Apple patented? on Apple Behind Intel's USB Competitor? · · Score: 1

    I think you can use patented processes/things for educational use no problem