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  1. Re:Security through obscurity on Court Allows Arkansas To Hide Wikipedia Edits · · Score: 1

    Big guns

  2. Re:LEDs are excellent idea. on New York City Street Lights To Go LED · · Score: 1

    $200,- is not much if you save one trip to switch a $1 light bulb. The cost of having someone to go fix it is enormous, at least in the Netherlands.

  3. Re:I hope this is better than SuSE 11. on openSUSE Launches 11.1 · · Score: 1

    Taskbar autohide for KDE4.1 is backported in OpenSuse 11.1

  4. Re:Secure erase on Will 2009 Be the Turning Point For SSDs? · · Score: 1

    In laptops you should encrypt everything anyway. With my puny 1.86Mhz Centrino it only uses around 30% CPU when copying large files. When my laptop is stolen, I don't want people to be able to go to amazon.com, where they will be logged in and amazon knows my creditcard number as well. But maybe there are far more useful things on my laptop

  5. Re:Hold your horses on Left 4 Dead Demo Includes Linux Steam Client Libraries · · Score: 1

    OpenSuse 11.0 with Ati X300 mobile and when I ran it I think wine 1.0 was just out. I installed it using Steam (bought the orange box but my DVD player was so crappy I could only use the serial).

  6. Re:Hold your horses on Left 4 Dead Demo Includes Linux Steam Client Libraries · · Score: 1

    Worked perfect for me (with Ati hardware!)

  7. Re:Evolution on Should We Clone a Neanderthal? · · Score: 1

    We already have Rugby

  8. Re:Patents patents patents on Startup Seeks To Preempt Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    Val dood

  9. Re:Okay on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    People don't keep their voice down. Just feed them peppers instead of blcoking the signal

  10. Re:So inefficient it's useless on Machine Condenses Drinking Water Out of Thin Air · · Score: 1

    My lamps are 25-40 watts each. 65-100 watt that's assumed here is a really big lamp

  11. Re:Slashvertisement on Wolfram Research Releases Mathematica 7 · · Score: 1

    Which is so much slower

  12. Re:Unfortunately, probably a niche product at best on Secure OS Gets Highest NSA Rating, Goes Commercial · · Score: 1

    Because nobody cares if they crash. Hell even the video systems in the hospital run some sort of Windows. (The only completely embedded/failsafe system is probably the anaesthetic). It doesn't matter that much to let someone lie a few more minutes most of the time (otherwise the changes of survival where pretty low to begin with). Anyway, the Windows system only controls where the output go, not the output itself. It failed less times then the power as far as I heard.

  13. Re:It's AD 320 on Google Earth Recreates Ancient Rome · · Score: 1

    Maybe we should use bue and aue (before/after UNIX epoch) from now on

  14. Re:I wonder how much of this project... on Setbacks Cast Doubt On NASA's Ares Project · · Score: 1

    Not invented here/by our team syndrome

  15. Re:Canada Does It Better... on Early Voting Problems, Open Source Alternative · · Score: -1, Troll
  16. Re:Python, eh? on Early Voting Problems, Open Source Alternative · · Score: 2

    The country I live in (The Netherlands) retracted voting machines because it was shown that your vote could be listened to. One party had a special character in it's name (CDA) and that made a different signal which they could record. That was the reason to retract it. The machines worked well, but who would've thought of that. (An A2 sized ballot is not funny to fill in by the way)

  17. Re:What if something goes wrong? on Robotic Surgery On a Beating Heart · · Score: 1

    Mostly gauzes.You can't tell them apart from blood/tissue.

  18. Re:Yeah on "BlueTrack" Mouse More Advanced Than Laser, Optical · · Score: 1

    I love the shape of the Logitech MX5xx line, but my old MX510 broke, so had to buy an expensive MX518. I hate small laptop mouses, so this mouse is to carry around and I got a trackball at home.

  19. Re:We Can Only Hope the Same Happens to Obama on McCain Campaign Protests YouTube's DMCA Policy · · Score: 1

    Where can I get a $5000,- pacemaker? Been at operations a few times and some tools used that are to be used once cost around E1500,- (You need more then one tool). Without the machine that is needed to power them (which is usually on "try").

  20. Re:Someone tell the European on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 1

    The Netherlands, mean is around 40 hours of driving on all kinds of roads and an practical en theoretical exam. Oh and manual gear most of the times as well (except if you're an idiot)

  21. Re:in north dakota... on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 1

    What you don't have to take 30+ lessons by a professional (costing 35 euro/hour because of insurance an gas prices), theory exam and do a really strict practical exam?

  22. Re:Ouch! on Sanyo Invents 12X High-Speed Blu-ray Laser · · Score: 1

    Does a mechenical engineer get +1 karma if it runs without transistors?

  23. Re:But on Venezuela Purchases a Million Intel Classmates · · Score: 1

    I need Matlab for the Simulink toolbox as well, but it runs quite well on new systems. Maybe because there are 2 releases a year.

    I mean more the CPU power, not the OS

  24. But on Venezuela Purchases a Million Intel Classmates · · Score: 1

    Does it run MATLAB?

  25. Re:Beer on 10 Percent of Colleges Check Applicants' Social Profiles · · Score: 1

    Nope, on college you drink stronger alcoholics. You might take some beer because you have to drink some non-alcoholic beverages for some stupid reason I cannot remember now