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  1. Flare? on Large Solar Flare To Glance Off Earth · · Score: 1

    It's a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) heading our way, not a flare. A CME is a result of this flare.

  2. Re:Godwin'd right out the gate on Spanish Company Tests 'Right To Be Forgotten' Against Google · · Score: 1

    History is written by the winning side, not the losing one.

  3. Re:Highway lights??? on UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money · · Score: 1

    I concur.

  4. Re:Highway lights??? on UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money · · Score: 1

    Are you implying there are no traffic jams on the Autobahn? And motor cycles are forbidden to drive on them?

  5. Re:sensible on UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money · · Score: 0

    What cars? The light are dimmed if there is less traffic, not more...

  6. Re:Highway lights??? on UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Belgium (notorious for lighting every square meter of higway, it looks like you're driving in broad daylight) decided to turn of every other light a couple of years ago. After the number of accidents rose some 25% they quickly turned the lights back on!

  7. Re:Misleading title on Protecting Your Tablet From a Fall From Space · · Score: 1

    I don't see the word 'balloon' in the title, so how can this be funny?

  8. How about... on Periodic Table To Welcome Two New Elements · · Score: 1

    "the element that cannot be named" ?

  9. But... on E-Mail Can Reveal Your Friend Hierarchy · · Score: 2

    why would you let somebody else peek at your email? It's not strange they found relationships if they examined *all* the email data of some firm. I hope they had permission to do so... Okay, the email you send as an employee is property of the employer, but still...

  10. Re:VS on Drug-Resistant Superbugs Sweeping Across Europe · · Score: 1

    I pay over 100 euros per month for medical insurance in the Netherlands. Yes, that covers 1000's of euros of possible prescription drugs or other medical treatment. But still, I'm paying. Oh, and the first 170 euros I have to pay myself.

  11. Re:VS on Drug-Resistant Superbugs Sweeping Across Europe · · Score: 2

    Excuse me? Are you saying Europeans don't pay for their medicine?

  12. Re:Missing element.... on Gadget Allows You to Keep Bees In Your Apartment · · Score: 2

    eehhhmm... bees don't make honey from pollen. But you knew that already, didn't you?

  13. Re:Next on the list on BT Ordered To Block Usenet Binaries Index · · Score: 1
  14. Censored? on Libraries Release Most-Censored Books List · · Score: 3, Informative

    The list is about "challenged" books, not about them being censored. Please RTFA!

  15. The Borg have come... on Satellite Captures Burning Man From Space · · Score: 1

    Have you seen that satellite?

  16. Re:My guess - on NASA Briefing on New Mars Finding This Afternoon · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, it is indicative of the presence of methane.

  17. Re:The difference is size on Getting the Latest Rover To Mars · · Score: 1

    (Hey nasa, if you want to make things understandable how about instead of adding sounds in space, maybe project a human next to thing so we get a sense of scale)

    It's about the size of a mini cooper.

  18. 1,000 meters high on Sheikh Carves His Name In Desert So It's Visible From Space · · Score: 1

    I sure hope there are warning lights mounted on top, to warn the airplanes...

  19. panning and zooming on Space Station To Get HD Streaming Video Camera · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And how are they going to handle multiple viewers wanting to operate the camera at the same time?

  20. Hit song? on Is There a Formula For a Hit Song? · · Score: 1

    All music currently in the hit parades are (at least partially) copied from songs popular years ago. So the fact that they have commonalities isn't that strange. You don't need to do a study to reach that conclusion.

  21. Re:11000m for the other 95% of the world. on Submarine Tech Reaches For Deep Ocean Record · · Score: 1

    You saw me bitching about converting feet to meters? Strange, I thought I was talking about people thinking there are borders on the internet...

  22. Re:11000m for the other 95% of the world. on Submarine Tech Reaches For Deep Ocean Record · · Score: -1, Troll

    And here I thought it was called the WORLD Wide Web...

  23. Re:Only Power Users will notice on Linux Kernel Suffering Power Management Regression? · · Score: 1

    Which insensitive sod has modded parent down?

  24. Re:It's about the penis size. on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    20 cm sounds a lot better then 8 inches... even though it is somewhat less ;)

  25. Petrol? on Europe Plans To Ban Petrol Cars From Cities By 2050 · · Score: 1

    I thought the world would run out of oil long before 2050?