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  1. Re:Question to people who donate on LokiTorrent vs. MPAA · · Score: 1

    $200 for a software?
    Well, there goes my student allowance...

    I use the university blanket license as much as I can, but I'll still have to pay those prices for some software.

  2. Re:Makes me wonder on Quake Changes Earth's Rotation, Moves Islands · · Score: 1

    Uhm.. silly, but that's not the point I tried to make. If the asteroid changes the earths speed by 3microseconds, would this have the slightest impact on the calculations on which the NASA scientist and others are trying to make. Trying to find out which path the asteroid will take. 1/41 hit probabibility anyone? Or was it 1/39 now?

    Just cause it wont or may not happen doesn't mean it's not worth investigating. "No, the earth has got less then ~2% chance of getting hit, lets just forget about scanning for asteroids.. it wont happen anyhow!".

  3. Re:Rotation on Quake Changes Earth's Rotation, Moves Islands · · Score: 1

    Since the richter scale is 10-logarithmic, 10.0 is a great deal bigger then 9.0.

  4. Makes me wonder on Quake Changes Earth's Rotation, Moves Islands · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    if this will have any affect on the asteroid 2004MN4 course, related to the earth.

  5. Can this week go any worse? on 2004 MN4 Asteroid Odds Inching Up Again · · Score: 1

    First the 1/300 hit probability.. then down to this? Not only will it be the 13th of the month, but friday the 13th if it'd hit...

    And also the damn tsunami hitting the asia?

    What next? SCO wins the case against IBM? ...

  6. Re:RTFA, Idiot - shush ye.. sssh.. calm down buddy on Caveats In Reselling DSL Bandwidth To Neighbors? · · Score: -1

    Mod me down, but it's still on topic.
    This plan is exactly the plan which I mentioned. It was a valid question by the parent. [Just to make it clear for you AC guy, I'll go with a Reduntat info post here.] Just from a short glance at http://www.speakeasy.net/netshare/learnmore/ I cannot see any pricing. But Im guessing the shared neighbourhood thingy is more expensive then normal service. Unless it's all for free and he just gets a commission.

  7. Re:Why would the cable modem company come after yo on Caveats In Reselling DSL Bandwidth To Neighbors? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How the hell is this offtopic?
    As an ISP we would not allow our customers to host or re-sell bandwidth commercially unless we specificily sold them uplink for that purpose (which is much more expensive then home-uplink).

  8. Re:For those who don't want to register: on Banks Begin To Use RSA Keys · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'll rather register then read through this unformatted text ;) thanks anyhow.

  9. Re:Trade is interesting on World of Warcraft Gamespot GOTY 2004 · · Score: 1

    Directly from eBay(TM)..
    The latest pricing for virtual money to a few games:

    (As with all games , you can always squeeze down per batch-price if you buy loads of it)
    10million in-game gold [Ultima Online] : $75
    10million ISK in-game ISK [EVE-Online] : $5
    10million credits [Anarchy Online] : 3$
    10 gold pieces [Everquest 2] : $1

  10. They want access to my Hotmail-account ? on Dead? Hope You Left Someone Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    Sure.. go ahead, my relatives can have all my spam after I'm dead!

  11. SCO and DNA on DNA For Information Processing and Data Storage · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just wait till SCO find infringing code in YOUR DNA..

  12. Normally posts with the word... on Laptops May Be Hazardous to Your Fertility · · Score: 0

    Cock and penis would get a -1 troll/offtopic attached to it. For those too lazy to RTFA, the reason why it may be hazardous is cause the optimal "sperm" production temperature is below 37 degrees. It's also the reason why the ball-sacks will change in size, to try to achieve the correct temperature. Hanging loser if it's too warm, and tightening to your body if it's too cold. Having it too warm (laptop heat) will cause a reduction in sperm quality since the body wont be able to make your ball-sacks to escape down to the floor.

  13. Just pointing out the obvious on GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Contest Revisited · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of visitors
    storming in to browse pictures sized >100kb.

    Or the simpler way of telling it:
    Slashdoted.

  14. Re:Controlling for IQ on Math Skills Survey Shows U.S. Lags Behind · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you're refeering as US as a developed country.. and the rest of the world isn't? But I dont see how most countries school systems are alike.
    Doesn't mean one school system is the right one, and another one isn't.

    At least in sweden the goverment doesn't make schools force the kids to study hard in-order to simply keep the grades of their kids at a certain level. In order for the school to remain open. In sweden we actually try to make our kids study to get knowledge and not for the papers to look good.

    Sorry to be sounding like a troll, but that generalisation upset me.

  15. *rubs hands together* on Doom Movie Update · · Score: 5, Funny

    Look at the possibilities. They can save lots of money without having actors on screen. But... we can take it further! If they just put this in a really dark setting or envoirment.. We'll simply pretend there's lots of pretty monsters and scenery everywhere.

  16. At least for us swedes ;) on Broadband Usage Up, TV Usage Down · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What we do less since we started using internet (according to a survey, source (in swedish): http://www.idg.se/ArticlePages/200412/03/200412031 65340_PFA/20041203165340_PFA.dbp.asp ) :
    - 34 % watch less TV.
    - 32 % spends less time reading magazines.
    - 31 % doesn't talk as often in telephone
    - 23 % spends less time reading books.
    - 19 % listens less to radio.

  17. Re:Been using this for a while on Portable Firefox and Thunderbird · · Score: 1

    Sure, it's handy to use "pure" software when the rest of the system is clogged with spyware and alike. But is it that handy when micro$oft update requires a browser which supports Active X?

    Yes, know you can download executables. But before you've found all of those, your computer has probably already frozen-over seeming like you've got the next iceage.

  18. An honest question.. on Infineon Execs Plead Guilty to Price-Fixing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If there has been a widespread "price-fixing", will there be any refund for those who has bought these overpriced memory devices?

  19. Re:What's next? on Biodegradable Cell Phones Sprout Into Flowers · · Score: 1

    Actually..
    Planting a windows PC after it's death would make it come back as a zombie.

  20. On the topic of blogging and journalism.. on Are Blogs the Future of Journalism? · · Score: 1

    Recently in sweden a journalist working at Swedish television "SVT" was forbidden to keep "blogging" privately. The reason was based upon the journalists support for John Kerry during the presidential election which was written on the blog-site. SVT however, thought the journalists should keep a neutral focus even "off-duty".

  21. I promise.. on SCO Sells First Linux Licenses in UK · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It wasn't me!

  22. Re:Health concernes.. on Futuristic 'Smart' Yarns from Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 1

    A little googling and I got this, some studies on asbestos and it's replacement. (Oh and I noticed I misspelled ceramics as cheramics.) http://agency.osha.eu.int/publications/magazine/6/ en/index_14.htm

  23. Health concernes.. on Futuristic 'Smart' Yarns from Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This may be a really stupid question. Related to a recent study concerning the replacements for asbestos. Back in the 80:ies when it was discovered that asbestos would cause lung-cancer or worse after repeated exposion to it, they replaced asbestos rather swiftly with materials like cheramic fibres. Now, recently they discovered that replacements like heat-resistant cheramics could also cause lung-cancer this. Perhaps just as dangerous as asbestos. The reason found, was because of the micro-fragments (dust) which would gather in the lungs and it's air-sacks (alveoli) and make them to swell abnormally and then risk causing cancer.
    Even building insolation materials have also been questioned.
    Now to my concern regarding carbon fibre.. has there been any studies on carbon tubes's affects on the human body? Carbon-fibre is an artificial material such as many insolations questioned. That is why I ask.
    Ten years, twenty years or more from now, will we notice the dangerious side-affects of materials we push out on the market?

  24. Swedish releaseparty for HL2.. just the same mess. on Steam Registration Servers Overloaded · · Score: 1

    At the swedish release-party for HL2. The steam servers went down, and they stood there limited with 5 clients which had Steam-activated HL2 already. Since they had promised the queuing people outside the internet-café where they held the release-party they simply let in 5 at a time.. slowly slowly decreasing the queue outside. Makes me wonder how some representatives from the swedish distributor thought. "Yeah, lets activate HL2 5 min before we're supposed to let in the queueing people! Steam probably works just fine! Them higher up got the situation under control."

  25. Re:Ob. Amazon Karma Whore Link on Knoppix Hacks · · Score: 1

    How was this offtopic? This pointed to a link at Amazon where you could 'buy' the book.