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  1. Re:Running Linux not a mistake. on Panasonic Invites Gamers To the Jungle · · Score: 1

    I'd rather save $200 by not trying ;)

    But thanks anyway :)

    I think it worked decent the little I've played.

    My DS has had 90% of its active service while s(h)i[t/tt]ing on the trone.

  2. Re:Running Linux not a mistake. on Panasonic Invites Gamers To the Jungle · · Score: 1

    The DS lite isn't comfortable at all. Too small, hard edges and maybe not that awesome placement of the directional controller.

    However I haven't had any troubles at all with the touchscreen.

  3. Re:Greed on Google Patent Proposes $2 Fee To Skip Commercials · · Score: 1

    In Sweden we have five, but ours suck much more, and cost:
    2076 Swedish kronor = 308.87766 U.S. dollars

    SVT1 and SVT2 = Old nation-wide channels.
    Kunskapskanalen = Science, education, government stuff
    Barnkanalen & SVT24 at different times = Shows for children during the days and news the whole time during the late evenings and night.

    And then a few (two, TV4 and TV6) free aerial channels with commercials and not part of the obligatory fee.

    Same conditions.

    But we don't have Top Gear on those channels!

  4. Re:Non-cycle? on Japan Begins Recycling Rare Earth Metals From Electronics · · Score: 1

    I'm not American, but:

    I wonder where all the electronic scrap goes atm? We do collect it.

    I assume either it:
    * Already gets recycled as far as possible, what happens with the rest?
    * Get stored because they think it's bad for the environment.
    * Get exported to be recycled or stored and then I guess anything can happen.

    If nothing else you can just start mining old waste dumps.

  5. exactly, and hence whatcouldpossiblygowrong on Genetically Altering Trees To Sequester More Carbon · · Score: 1

    We don't want to be _WITHOUT_ green house gases.

    I'd take higher global temperature and sea levels over frozen ice ball any year of infinity.

    Also snow & ice = reflective = even colder. Good luck with that.

    "So what? Then we'd just burn and sprinkle the coal from the trees over the snow and turn it black!"

    FFS stop coming up with stupid experiments. Sure, plant more trees if you want to. Almost the whole fucking world has though it was a good idea to get rid of them so they don't have any either (and shitty soil, less water, less wood to burn, ...)

  6. Re:Not as Sharp on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 1

    I too felt they looked more greyish/less colorful.

    I have no idea if JPEG gives more color than there should be or if WebM gave less. But still less color. So I liked the JPEGs more because they wheren't so washed out.

  7. Re:Not as Sharp on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 1

    Because PNG isn't lossy.

    But I do wonder whatever size really matters nowadays.
    10-15 years ago sure, but now?

    Maybe we'd rather have large images at high quality?

  8. Re:It is all your fault on Animal Farms Are Pumping Up Superbugs · · Score: 1

    How the Swedish butter/margarine brand Bregott want you to see cattle living:
    http://www.bregott.nu/

    Quite ideal but not very uncommon cow life in Sweden (quite realistic, some may have worse grass or bigger area + more animals but still pretty normal):
    http://www.par-mikael.se/bilder/kor.jpg

    Obviously not a farm longer but still how I'm used to see them:
    http://www.arosmotorveteraner.se/foton/20061118222926.JPG

    Pretty normal interior I believe, maybe slightly smaller / dirtier at older farms:
    http://www.stjarneberg.se/DCP_0895.JPG

    Larger scale but still nothing like how I assume it's in the US and even more so in Brazil:
    http://www.womtorp.se/bilder/bilder/ladugardsbilder/ny%20ladugard%202.jpg
    http://www.womtorp.se/bilder/bilder/ladugardsbilder/Ladug%C3%A5rd%201.jpg (may look boring)
    http://www.womtorp.se/bilder/bilder/ladugardsbilder/Liggb%C3%A5s%201.jpg (clean)
    http://www.womtorp.se/bilder/bilder/ladugardsbilder/Kor%203.jpg (looks like they have it quite ok)
    http://www.womtorp.se/bilder/bilder/ladugardsbilder/Kallhall%201.jpg (cute!)

    The winters obviously lead to cattle being inside during that half+ year.

    I can understand how you need antibiotics in conditions like this:
    http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/images/hogfarm.jpg
    http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID1513/images/pig-factory-farms.jpg
    http://candobetter.org/files/pigFarm01.jpg

    And that's not much of a life ...

    I think the animals would be much better threatened (but maybe "perform" worse and get worse med-care) in small family farms. Atleast then they more or less become your pet.

  9. Re:It is all your fault on Animal Farms Are Pumping Up Superbugs · · Score: 1

    All my dollar bills carries anthrax ;)

    While you probably isn't for real I somewhat agree with the not so real you :D

    I to hate to buy my goods at stores which also sell animal-derived products.

    There's not many alternatives though :)

  10. Re:It is all your fault on Animal Farms Are Pumping Up Superbugs · · Score: 2

    I'm vegan, if you drink milk you're still supporting it ;)

    Anyhow, afaik cows and such don't get antibotics for no reason over here in Sweden. Sure if they get sick (I don't know how that affect slaughter though, don't know if you sell the meat if they are on drugs.)

    So it's an american (and most likely others) thing.

    May be more needed in really small boxes where you can't move at all and everyone is closer to eachother and so on.

  11. Re:Potentially interesting, but... on Nintendo 3DS To Be Released In February/March · · Score: 1

    I can only speak for myself but regardless the only time I'd buy a console is if it's cracked wide open and in that case I buy it and don't buy any titles at all. Regardless of region or price ;)

  12. Re:Potentially interesting, but... on Nintendo 3DS To Be Released In February/March · · Score: 1

    Are they the only? The regular cartridges on the DS doesn't have it. The PSP only had region locked movies but not games if I remember things correctly?

    All of the Wii, PS3 and Xbox360 is region free?

    Back then the DSi arrived I thought it was only like if you bought some cocking title with Japanese text you could only buy it in japan.

    Wasn't there some way to transfer your DS id somehow to a new DS if you needed? Or have Nintendo fix it?

    They detection your location by IP/ISP? I've only got the DS lite so I'm not into how DSi works.

    Ok, thanks for the info. Seems like one thing which eventually is going out.

    Though maybe they want to keep it considering the price differences they may have between markets. But why not rather make a more global and single version of the game and sell it as cheap as possible for all. Though maybe everything will be delivered over the Internet at the next round.

  13. Re:Acetaminophen on Govt To Bomb Guam With Frozen Mice To Kill Snakes · · Score: 1

    I got a receipt for Alvedon Forte 1 gram, got 100 of them, normal Alvedon is everything between 60 and 500 (though I assume more or less everyone buy 500 mg since that's the strongest you can buy without receipt.)

    Anyway, fass.se says not more than 4 / day.

    Don't know how exactly I was on dosing. Every 4-6 hours open up for more than 4 I guess ..

    I'd still say really easy to go over 4 gram if that's only 4 tablets. I doubt I was like "omg teh danger!"

    Also understood cats shouldn't eat them. (And my cat has had multiple epileptic-like seizures which may have come from her eating my SSRIs/Cipralex/Esertia.)

  14. Re:Article invalid on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    for a small ISP that had clients on a NATed proprietary wireless network who wanted a public static IP

    Or in the name of Xzibit:
    We put a NAT in your NAT so you can be public while you don't!

  15. Re:Article invalid on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    had clients on a NATed proprietary wireless network who wanted a public static IP

    Say what?

    That's only if you're redirecting ICMP packets.

    Doesn't matter. I doubt it's processing power from accepting the packages which is the issue but rather network bandwidth.

    Feel free to drop the packages either on the machine in question without using NAT or at the machine running NAT. In either case they will be sent, to somewhere, and will steal your bandwidth until they are blocked at some point. If you drop them at the NAT machine then they have already taken bandwidth to that location.
    If you have say a 100 mbps connection how does dropping the packages at the NAT machine instead of whatever machine you usually have behind the NAT machine make any difference? You will still have limited traffic.

    Of course you can move the block to somewhere else between you and the machines sending the ICMPs but then the NAT or no NAT doesn't matter either.

    I assumed you weren't responding to them in either case. And if you where in one case but not the other then it's still not NAT solving anything. Not replying doesn't solve everything.

  16. Re:$300 for a handheld! on Nintendo 3DS To Be Released In February/March · · Score: 1

    Through all the UMD sales?! ;D

  17. Re:Potentially interesting, but... on Nintendo 3DS To Be Released In February/March · · Score: 1

    Isn't the DSi locked for usability only? As in not getting the wrong language applications on your DSi?

    Kinda stupid if you _WANT_ them but whatever. Care to inform us? I don't own a DSi.

  18. Re:Come on out ye naysayers on Nintendo 3DS To Be Released In February/March · · Score: 1

    Or is it great because it's nintendo?

    You mean the opposite?

    The DS was crap and no-one would want to move around and play silly child games in low-def on the Wii.

    Still they owned all (not only of their generation but of ALL generations ;D)

    So surely the 3D display will be crap and a gimmick.

    And the leaders of Nintendo and their stock holders will still be very happy with their new crappy game gimmick.

  19. Re:Are these hackable? on Nintendo 3DS To Be Released In February/March · · Score: 1

    ... and I think AKAIO for the Acekard 2 is supposed to be open-source. Regardless it's one of the cheaper but high quality cards. The supercard developer has been awesome as far as upgrading his products goes aswell. I don't remember if it was the xtreme card or whatever it was named which was the most advanced one (back then atleast) but it ws much more expensive and they didn't let sites like deal-extremes sell it for the low price they had.

  20. Re:3DS screen on cell phone? on Nintendo 3DS To Be Released In February/March · · Score: 1

    Movies?

    It could turn your mobile phone into a more interesting device for viewing them.

    Under normal circumstances it's just "the same but at a much smaller screen."

    Not too exciting :)

    That is as far as the same technology couldn't be used at a reasonable cost at a normal sized TV screen. Then it would just be the same but smaller again :D

    If I've understood it right the Nokia Siemens Network stuff is about being able to bridge your TV-shows from the TV to your phone and such. Haven't read up about it, don't really care much, can't see how such a project could succeed unless standardized and available on more or less all devices.

  21. Re:Right now? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    It will be like this as well for oil and clean water and air.

    Off-topic:
    I discussed politics/what party and old man at the gym had voted for last time I saw him.

    Useless information:
    He voted for Moderaterna and talk about how we couldn't do without nuclear power, needed it and how good it was nowadays. Which was rather ok (I don't know much about modern technologies but as far as my own reasoning goes running the power plant and storing the waste is kinda ok, but I think we need to accept mining our own raw material if we are ok with nuclear power instead of having someone else do it, and do we want to? Haven't read up on Thorium and don't know much about newer reactor designs but it doesn't matter much atm.)

    Point:
    But then he started talking about global warming and how obviously they where so wrong because the last winter was so cold! ...

  22. Re:Article invalid on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Yeah but the OS was intrusion free when it got nicked, wasn't it?

    Yeah, lucky me! ;D

    Kinda like everyone claiming OS X and Linux is so secure because you don't use them as root.

    Never mind someone can wipe all your data. Atleast your OS is safe! ;D

    I'd rather host a DDoS zombie than have my data ruined :)

    And still I don't do backups ;D

    Hurray for me!

  23. Re:Next bubble? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    (But everyone claim gold is secure in any situation you can think of. Afraid of inflation? Buy gold! Afraid of deflation? Buy gold! Want to instead in raw materials? Buy gold! Think the stock market will crash but still want to invest in something? Buy gold!)

    I wonder how it will work in the case of starvation =P

    So, anyone want to buy tulips?!

  24. Re:Next bubble? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Gold?

    Maybe one could say the dollar is bursting right now? Euro to follow? =P

    Anyhow I think real estate and stocks in general burst more often than that =P, at least nowadays :)

    Over here in Sweden we haven't had our housing burst yet. People have already taken loans of 8.8% more than the same month last year, probably since rates are very low thanks to the global economical situation and "real estate always increase in value!". Loans are up to 2600 billion SEK atm. They are even complaining that you can only get a house loan of 85% of the value of the house (since they lack the first 15%, but sure they can pay more than 100% later!!) and not more as you used to. But that doesn't matter because they just take a blanco loan instead. They also sort their short-term economic situations by taking SMS loans with thousands of percents of rate.

    Some US (?, I have the video in a tab but I'm too lazy to check it up) guy claimed Dow Jones would fall to 1000, it's at around 10800 now. Some article speculated in that it would raise to 14000 since there was a presidential election and it usually raised by 50% during those. So between those 1000 and 14000 I guess we could say: We don't know. But oh well, analysis like that doesn't make you a lot of money :D

  25. Re:Article invalid on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    NAT is insecure only if the machine operating the NAT is insecure.

    I locked my NAT machine inside a bunker and hooked up my Macbook Pro through WIFI outside and now it's stolen.