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  1. Re:Cloud? on Jolicloud 1.0 Has an HTML5 UI · · Score: 1

    I tried to but it seems down ...

    Who could had guessed?

  2. Re:Yes, but... on US Deploys 'Heat-Ray' In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    Does it stop automatically if anyone open their door?

    Anyway, can't one just bring a net in front of oneself? :D

    Better yet, hook it up to the grid / some batteries and recharge?

    Net in the walls and then harass the soldiers a lot?

  3. Re:why the obession with glider spacecraft? on Germany To Test Actively-Cooled Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Why do we need to get people back here in the first place?!!

    (Maybe we could even make a religious tweak, such as:
    1) Sign up and end your life as an astronaut, become a hero!)
    2) Shoot people up in space when we need something fixed.
    3) Let them fix it.
    4) Leave them.
    5) Profit!

    Maybe China will pick up my excellent idea?!

  4. Re:Seriously? on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? · · Score: 1

    Nonsense!

    wtf .. It can't be nonsense. If you don't show an acceptance for it and aren't comfortable using them then you most likely won't ... I was talking about the user not the society.

    If you're "scared" of whatever drug, say alcohol, and never take it, chances are you would be even less likely to take something else. But if you drink alcohol, smoke tobacco, have tried say cannabis and amphetamine and someone offer you the chance to try something else out chances are you will try that to. Because it's not like the others killed you / seemed that bad / whatever.

    And as a surprise, our drug usage is much lower than a lot of countries that have less tolerant attitudes towards it (like the US).

    What that depends on you can't know for sure atm I assume. Personally I live in Sweden, I have no idea how the Netherlands do against Sweden. But once again I wasn't talking about society.

    Also the Netherlands is a very rich country, which of course USA is to, but maybe you have a more equal society with less people living "outside" it. Which eventually could have explained how more users are lost into drugs in the US.

  5. Re:side effect on First 'Malaria-Proof' Mosquito Created · · Score: 1

    Sure they would, hanging around outside the local burger restaurant.

  6. Re:side effect on First 'Malaria-Proof' Mosquito Created · · Score: 1

    and pulling their wings off just to watch them crawl around and suffer would be much easier

    Hi, set yourself up for a session with the shrink.

    to be taken down with BBs at modest range, or "snake load" [jamescalhoon.com] handgun rounds at close range.

    Even more confirmation.

  7. Re:Unreadiness for Spills on BP Claims Gulf Well Has Been Stopped · · Score: 1

    But in what industry do we see companies/people actually investing in putting everything back?

    Carbon capture (yeah right ..)?
    Mining?
    Water dams?
    Deforestation?
    Farming?
    Nuclear power?

    Do any consumers try to?

    In the cases of surface mining but also to quite some extent farming/deforestation I think it suck balls because the ones doing it earn money and afterward everyone else is left with a useless pile of broken stones / much crappier soil.

    Preferably compost and sewage waste would get back to the areas and plenty of trees and non-straight natural ditches/creeks/rivers with less manufactured fertilizers.

  8. Re:Unreadiness for Spills on BP Claims Gulf Well Has Been Stopped · · Score: 1

    It's not the first time they make "mistakes" and most likely not the last, for instance:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=ecuador+texaco+oil

  9. Re:Picture or it didn't happen! on BP Claims Gulf Well Has Been Stopped · · Score: 1

    That's java-script and awesome web-designers at work for you! :D

    Much love to the first idiot who thought it was a good idea to not actually _LINK_ images but rather execute a java-script when you clicked them which opened a new web-page with a set size, less controls and / or above other content with non-standard controls. Because I shouldn't be the one deciding whatever I want to open an image in a new tab, window, same window or save it, oh no! The designer (programmer? yeah right ...) knows better!

  10. Re:Picture or it didn't happen! on BP Claims Gulf Well Has Been Stopped · · Score: 1

    That doesn't help him much, because:

    * He most likely don't want to rely on WMV for a reason.
    * Totem seem to just be a player front-end, using Gstreamer or Xine to handle the actual data.
    * Regardless even if he thought WMV was ok as a format your solution may not fit him (Windows, OS X, KDE, some alternative OS, ...)

    I use to hate on Flash but yeah, can't say I liked these video options either, didn't played on my OS X 10.4-hack, and I'm not _THAT_ interested. (WMV10?)

  11. Re:I do! on Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod · · Score: 1

    I believe the Nexus One can be bought all over the world, just not in a store. You have to buy it from Google.

    It can't, googled:
    http://www.google.com/phone/?hl=en&s7e=
    "Sorry, the Nexus One phone is not available in your country or region."

    So I guess the HTC phones are as close as you get.

    First moderation of my post was "overrated", I wonder why. So maybe it gets upgrades as it should, but Google still don't allow me to purchase it so ... Also is the touchscreen bug still there? Preferably I'd get the fastest version of any Android phone to. Though I don't use a phone much so paying a lot don't make much sense really =P

  12. Re:Seriously? on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? · · Score: 1

    What about snorting air?

    But seriously I think '5' is kinda overrated for that comment.

    Anyhow I think I read how the chances of people taking other drugs where 7 times higher among people who had drank alcohol and 10 times amount the people who had smoked tobacco. Just goes to show how ridiculous the "omg but cannabis is a gateway to heavier drugs!"-claim is.

    Acceptance and feeling comfortable with using drugs lead to an increase in drug usage!! News at eleven!

    Either you fix that by banning/not consuming them or you accept that people will get curious and want to expand their horizons even further.

  13. Re:I do! on Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod · · Score: 1

    I live in Sweden and can buy pre-paid cards for the low volume I use or sign up for any "plan" if I have my own phone.

    For the "subsidized" phone purchases they mention the additional fee you pay (if any, but there most likely is one) for the plan for taking the phone and also the total cost for sign up fee if any, monthly fees for the regular plan and the additional fee for the phone. Which most likely end up being more than the phone with no plan.

  14. Re:I do! on Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about the Nexus One?

    I don't know if it's open for future OS versions (or even whatever normal people can get access to and build the code, but I guess we can?)

    Also I live in Sweden, Europe and I don't know if we can order it or if it was US only?

    I won't go through too many loops to get one. If they don't want to sell me a phone: Fine! Don't ...

  15. Re:iPhone Evil, Android Good on Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apple evil, Google good.

    And it still holds.

    Google can't be responsible for everyone else though.

    (But they for sure could restrict usage for more open phones by pushing whatever demands they wanted. The risk for them of course would be that phone companies may decide to pick another product and hence Google would lose the data of their consumers. In a perfect world I would had preferred a "open" phone as far as the OS goes directly from Google, which is sure to run future versions. Stock everything would be fine. I trust them much more than any third-party provider.)

  16. I do! on Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I do!

    As I've said before the time I'll buy(*) an Android phone is the time when the OS is easily replaceable, preferably with a vanilla version of Android. So I can get the latest version and don't have to buy a new phone which is ridiculous and which also would open it up for all sorts of tweaks and hacks from the community.

    I don't need a specialized version if the company behind the Phone don't want to share their code with everyone else in the Android community. However I would expect them to share the drivers atleast ..

    A phone which actively try to predict this from happening and just don't cooperate is even much less likely to be bought by me.

    I understand I may be one of a small crowd but phones made for me and others like me would offer so much more and be way better than everything else out there. Not letting it happen with an open-source OS is just as stupid as releasing the iPhone with no SDK/third-party applications was.

    * I'm not in a hurry but if it will take forever then eventually I will have to get another phone.

  17. Re:1200 times safe level? on Infants Ingest 77 Times the Safe Level of Dioxin · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you don't mean the opposite?

    Normally some of the injected testosterone will convert to estrogen, the body will notice the increased amounts of sex hormones though and when you stop injecting your own production will be lower. You can throw in aromatase inhibitors or SERMs in the mix though to try to improve the results.

    I don't know whatever estrogen would have a positive effect though, since I don't think the body convert the hormones backwards, and maybe the higher amounts of estrogen make the body produce less LH/testosterone to.

  18. Re:JägerMonkey on Mozilla's New JavaScript Engine Coming September 1 · · Score: 1

    Especially now than Afghanistan has tried patenting it .. (Though it's been tried before (in USSR by Stalin, or who was it?))

  19. Re:This assumes... on Toyota Sudden Acceleration Is Driver Error · · Score: 1

    If they where poorly designed I may have noticed that while using them. And if I failed at using them correctly I sure as hell wouldn't claim the car rushed even though I tried to break due to a fault of the car (I may have said it rushed because I must have accidentally pushed the wrong paddle in the rush though.)

    So they are still idiots, regardless.

  20. Re:This assumes... on Toyota Sudden Acceleration Is Driver Error · · Score: 1

    I could had done my own "investigation" if they brought me photos and background information of the people who claim to have been in this situation. Videos / real life knowledge of them would had helped more ..

    I doubt it's the brightest of people ..

  21. Re:This assumes... on Toyota Sudden Acceleration Is Driver Error · · Score: 1

    Who cares?

    What's most likely?

    Mysterious faults in the programming of the throttle and brake of the car, only turning up in a limited amount of the cars.

    Or some idiot pressing the wrong lever who's read an article about some other idiot doing the same thing and then become SOOO sure they can never have done wrong and that the same thing must have happened to them!

    I doubt it was common before the first article hit the news ..

  22. Re:So BP is SAVING crustaceans? on Antidepressants In the Water Are Making Shrimp Suicidal · · Score: 1

    Humanity don't need more good things happening to it. We're already plenty and take over the planet as is. I doubt the oil spill will affect humanity much to ...

    Nuclear warfare killing of all humans and life forms of the same level would most likely reset the arena and let other progress for a while.

    Though of course I guess someone always ends up on top, and maybe there's nothing wrong with that/us.

    In any case giving the sea life in the area a rest from human fishing may benefit them more than the negative impact of it from the oil spill.

  23. Re:1200 times safe level? on Infants Ingest 77 Times the Safe Level of Dioxin · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your skepticism was right.

    The risk seem to be waay higher already!

  24. Re:1200 times safe level? on Infants Ingest 77 Times the Safe Level of Dioxin · · Score: 1

    I up my odds by consuming artificial sweeteners and banned azo dyes! Don't wanna slack behind the meat-eaters!

  25. Re:1200 times safe level? on Infants Ingest 77 Times the Safe Level of Dioxin · · Score: 0

    and accumulate in epic proportions in apex predators (like humans...)

    Talk for yourself. I'm vegan!