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  1. Interview with the Minister on Norwegian Minister: No More Proprietary Formats · · Score: 1

    See interview with the Norwegian Minister of Modernization at norwaylive.no. The interview is in Norwegian only, but in a proprietary format... ;)

  2. Re:Interesting... on WiFi Lifeline For Nepal's Farmers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    About a month ago I saw a very interesting documentary about camel farmers in Tibet - and yes - they used solar panels and generators to power their satellite dish.

  3. Re:Predicted on On the Trail to Atlantis · · Score: 1

    Nah! :) The real panic will emerge in Y2.048K when we'll have to add another binary digit to our counting...

  4. Of course it runs NetBSD on Diamond Age Approaching? · · Score: 1

    Each of these little nano-fellows will be twice as smart as a dog and breed like rabbits.

    Some kid will probably make a virus as well.
    Armageddon anyone?

    Nah. Bring on the electromagnetic pulse!

  5. Bandwidth per meter on Pigeons' Bandwidth Advantage Quantified · · Score: 1

    Well, anyway they say the pigeons flew 100km, but not how fast. I can toss a DVD a meter, and woops, 4,7 GB/s bandwidth.

    Is there an ISO measure for bits/meter?

  6. Beware of the termites! on Wooden Computer Accessories · · Score: 3, Funny

    Luckily, there are no wild termites in Sweden, but there are some variant of carpenter ants.

    So who do you call when your mouse got bugs?

  7. Good thing on Pop Up Ads in Space · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing he patented this now, because of two reasons:
    1. Is so adead in time that the patent will expire. Or:
    2. This will soon be a reality, but because of the patent there won't be much of it.

  8. Do the dishes on Two-Legged Home Robot, Coming Soon To Japan · · Score: 5, Informative

    It has a funny way of walking! Watch the video.

    But it won't do the dishes, though...

  9. Re:Dynebolic on Giant List Of Linux-based Live CDs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, the xbox has 64 MB of RAM, but it *felt* more like 32. The distro worked very smooth on my 800Mhz PC with 300-and-something MB RAM.

  10. Dynebolic on Giant List Of Linux-based Live CDs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've tried dyne:bolic or here for my xbox. It works, but the version I tried was sadly slow. Seems like 32MB RAM isn't what this distro calls a good time. And of course: It requires your xbox to chipped and ready.

  11. Pigs are smart? on Animal Social Complexity - Intelligence and Culture · · Score: 1

    I've heared that pigs are the smartest animals. This sounds like a good idea: They can adapt easily to their surroundings and they eat whatever they feel like. I think they can be fairly social and I belive they can do most dog tricks. Hmm. Any thoughts?

  12. Settlers of Catan on Good Online FPS Games/Servers For Beginners? · · Score: 1

    Well, this might not be FPS, but it's certainly not a disadvantage with DSL. Go to http://www.s3dconnector.net, download the (unofficial) game and play aganist rookies and veterans. This is a great port of the classical board game.

  13. Elvis Technologies on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    Id be interesting to see a list over (basically good) technologies that some people say are dead - and som say theyre not.

    - How bout the good ol Amiga?
    - What about it?
    - Is it dead?
    - Noooo... there is something happening I think...
    - Is it alive?
    - Not really...

  14. Re:Not lost on Lost Doctor Who Episode Found · · Score: 1

    Well, if there's intelligent life out there - they'll probably send us a copy some day.
    My firewall blocked me from logging in as I posted this. Too bad - I thought this comment was quite well put. Yes, yes - now I'm off topic again.

  15. Re:Norweigan Economic Crime Unit? on DeCSS: Jon Johansen Retrial Begins · · Score: 1

    Sorry. I'm member of THASKG (or the Norwegian Dyslectic Organisation). This happens all the time.

  16. Re:Programming languages on Funny Things You've Seen on Resumes? · · Score: 1

    Hmm... I'd like to say I know C backward and forwards. I guess spelling it right is a fair start.

  17. ...and USB on TunA and Socializing via MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    I use two USB WiFi nodes: one for my desktop, one for my laptop. I'm connected to the net via my neighbours wireless accesspoint. No point in laying cable as the DSL-connection is only 2Mbps anyway.

  18. Re:361MPH on Japanese Train Sets A Speed Record Of 581 kph · · Score: 1

    I can count to 1024 on my fingers and 1048576 if I add the toes! Well not really, I had to use the calc to figure it out...

  19. Re:What ever happened to style? on Robotics + Car = Hallucigenia · · Score: 1

    I think it kinda looks like a over-sized Lego...
    And I dig it!

  20. Malaysian street rules on Malaysian Police Not Roping Longhorn Rustlers · · Score: 1

    I was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2001. There was an entire level in a medium-sized mall in the middle of the city where they basically sold computer related pirated products. There is also Chinatown, of course, where the selection is even better. Pirated software is a fairly big source of tax-income in KL. The goverment has realized that spreading software will educate the people, so they don't see any point in doing much to stop this. Anyway, this is my impression from what Malaysian people told me.

    Malaysia rules!

  21. Prosecutor couldn't explain the term "algorithm" on DeCSS: Jon Johansen Retrial Begins · · Score: 3, Funny

    The prosecutor in the DVD-Jon case had to get help from an expert judge to explain what an algorithm is. Here (Norwegian only). The newspaper where I first read this (The biggest in Norway) explains that an algorithm is a "mathematical concept". They used this article to demonstrate the the case was very technically complicated...

    Sadly, not all news are for nerds... :)

  22. Re:Norweigan Economic Crime Unit? on DeCSS: Jon Johansen Retrial Begins · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Sweden have enough money to pay their own government employees?
    Not really... no. I don't know why Norway should pay anything, I just bragged the fact that they can if they felt like it.

  23. Never tried, but found guilty just in case!!!!! on DeCSS: Jon Johansen Retrial Begins · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm glad I live in Norway and don't have to defend Guantanamo base.

  24. Re:Norweigan Economic Crime Unit? on DeCSS: Jon Johansen Retrial Begins · · Score: 1

    Norway can roughly pay Swedens foreign dept tomorrow.

  25. Re:Well sweet goddamn. on Lunar Polar Ice Not Present · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm no scientist, but how come Earth's atmosphere has persisted eons in vacuum? My guess is gravity... ;)