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  1. Re:Dude... on Truck-Mounted Laser Guns · · Score: 4, Informative
    Because the Geneva Convention states that any country who has signed it is bound by it even if fighting others that have not:
    From http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/FULL/365?OpenDocument

    "Although one of the Powers in conflict may not be a party to the present Convention, the Powers who are parties thereto shall remain bound by it in their mutual relations."
  2. Re:no bias? on Red Hat Reaping Benefits From Novell/MSFT deal? · · Score: 1

    I would hardly call windows a science project just because I keep a knopix cd around when installing it, just in cast something goes to wrong.... Like windows messing up my boot loader.... One of these days I should play dumb an call microsoft to have em explain to me what happened there :p

  3. Re:I'll go for 56% on Safest Seat on a Plane, Or How to Survive a Crash · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would think that any one in front of the wings where most likely to be covered in fuel as the fuel is generally tossed forward if/when a plane it self stops violently in a crash.

  4. Re:Yeah, it's titled, Thou Shall Not STEAL !! on University of Kansas Adopts 'One Strike' Copyright Infringement Policy · · Score: 2, Funny

    >> EIGHT: 'Thou shall not steal.'
    >> Riiiight. Big corporations are all corporationy anyway so I am justified. Strike me dead now if you disagree.


    Gues we won't be hearing from him again :p

  5. Re:You can have my desktop on The Desktop -- Time to Start Saying Goodbye? · · Score: 1

    Er, in my desktop :(

  6. Re:You can have my desktop on The Desktop -- Time to Start Saying Goodbye? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but how much did you shell out for that one? Dont get me wrong, I have almost exactly that spec in my labtop, just alitle less ram, but it cost me under 1k$ including an 19" widescreen :p

  7. Re:Maybe I'm stating the obvious on Too Many Linux Distros Make For Open Source Mess · · Score: 1

    Or maybe even on all distros, and UNIX, and BSD, and Windows? Like, maybe Sun could come up with something we could use for that? Strange that they haven't already thought of that :p

  8. Re:Gore was obviously the better choice on Re-Vote Likely After E-Vote Data Mishandling · · Score: 1

    They have a bit more relaxed laws when it comes to family planing than they did, but forced abortion all the way up to 9th month.... That is MADNESS no mater what your stand is on the matter of abortion...

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story Id=9766870
    http://en.epochtimes.com/news/6-6-22/43051.html
    http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IE31Ad01.html

    Boikot the Beijing Olympics you say? We'll I'm for sure not buying anything from any one calling them self an official sponsor of the 2008 games....

  9. Re:Causality on Testing Einstein's 'Spooky Action at a Distance' · · Score: 1

    Sounds like free will is a rater uncertain concept, how ever, I suspect that what rely happens her is not that it can be observed b4 it happens, but that it can be observed b4 information of the change can get from point A (where the change is done) to point B(where the change is monitored), even if information of the change travels at the light of speed. Theoretically without the quantum physics part of this, information of the change should not ever be observable at point B anny sooner than the time it takes light to travel from point A to B. What I'm really interested in, dos this mean we can make rj45 jacks with quantum communication in it, send the other of the pair into outer space, and when they plug it in we can do instant streaming of alien porn?

  10. Re:sounds familiar on Identify Galaxies Using Spare Wetware Cycles · · Score: 1

    How long until someone tag a UFO? :p

  11. Re:One of the most frequently purchased items... on Are Marketers Abandoning Second Life? · · Score: 1

    >> Not known as the oldest profession for nothing. When an aple store opened in the town where I went to college, they used a slogan that went something like this(it's rought translation): Worlds oldest profession opens her in 1 month.(or something very similar, its been a while :p)

  12. Re:Protection from Sabotage forgotten? on Floating Wind Turbines · · Score: 1

    In the case of Norway, much of its economy is already based on oil, which is being pumped up on oil rigs. Thees are so vital there already are special forces in place that can, with the help of a relatively strong navy(Norway is almost more coast than land), protect these kind of installations. What would probably be a bigger threat, would be ships that loose engine power and start drifting, which is why I doubt they will make any one of these a key to the hole installation, but rather keep em separate so that if one gos down, exactly one turbine is lost. With a fleet of these, that wont mater so much. Now, they just need to convince the environmentalists that clean power is worth sacrefacing the horizon for.(This is not a joke but a real issue with environmentalist organizations...)

  13. Re:There's no reason to hunt them all down on Granny Sues RIAA Over Unlicensed Investigator · · Score: 1

    Alas, you make the very common mistake of believing it is illegal to be evil, whereas RIAA is hellbent on being the evilest lawful evil company ever!

  14. Re:Ob.. on Windows Loses Ground With Developers · · Score: 1

    Your reason for loving windows just made Steve trow a chair out the window....

  15. Re:Bombula on Deathbed Confession Says Aliens Were at Roswell · · Score: 1

    How if they travel with a Generation Ship. Maybe they have lots of interstellar training, yet have never flown in an environment with gravity and low int lifeforms they are not supposed to expose them self to?

  16. Re:You didn't read. on The Perfect Phone Storm? · · Score: 1

    I*ve never even seen safari in action, but if it, like other browsers, can run applets, I believe it is wastly different from running j2me apps as those are not made for a browser but for a phone or small device.

  17. Re:I wonder if JFK is in there on C.I.A. to Let "Skeletons" Out of its Closet · · Score: 1

    If there is something dodgy about the JFK assassination, which is not that unlikely when looking at the amount of smoke, releasing it would most surely get every one of GWB for at lest a short amount of time.

  18. Re:Drug surveys on Best Places To Work In IT · · Score: 1

    No no, you have it all wrong. You where ranked one of the safest cites in the us because high school kids where controlled with drug dogs :D

  19. Re:Are books like this relevant any more? on Practical Ruby Gems · · Score: 1

    I find that with a pdf I will almost allways skip forward to what I need ther n then even if I'm sertain the rest would be intresting to.

  20. Re:"Add to that the increaseing pace of progress" on The Impossibility of Colonizing the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    >> I wish I could agree with you. It seems like technological advances hit an apex and has been sliding downhill since then. >> Going to moon. Haven't been back since. Forget Mars. Ther hasn't been any reason to financially justify it, but maybe that will change now that china is pushing for space.... >> Supersonic air travel. Ended with the Concorde. What? Say again.... Maybe it is not used for passenger flights, as it is to expensive, it most surtenly is not something we have abandoned. And with the resent successful scram jet tests, I'll be surprised it it is back in commercial air traffic within 20 - 25 years(Which is nothing in the long run. In japan, I believe guns, as in rifles, diapered for about a 100 years after they where first introduced b4 they where reintroduced)

  21. Re:that's fascinating on Satellite Images Used to Document International Atrocities · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe so, but how can you justify that troops are being used in Irak instead of Darfur where they most likely would have, if not done the most good, they would have prevented the most bad from happening...

  22. Re:Minor problem on Data Stored in Live Neurons · · Score: 1

    How long til they can read the last thoughts of murder victims?

  23. Re:you are forgetting where the US is... on Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe · · Score: 1

    Remember that they do not plan to put nukes in Poland, merely a radar and intercepting missiles, which as posted earlier can not stop Russian missiles as they travel over the north pole.

  24. Re:Um... on Next Windows To Get Multicore Redesign · · Score: 1

    Hes saying that since Vista is an OS only sutable to play games on, and barly that, it faced the same challenges as game development dos?

  25. Re:Why? on Hardware Firewall On a USB Key · · Score: 1

    It's not mainly the fire wall in those that chugs em down....