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  1. Re:Ultra-thin? on Ultra-Thin Laptops To Be Next Intel-AMD Battleground · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And one inch isn't that thin. My Tiger era MacBook is only very slightly more than an inch thick. I'm pretty certain it wasn't the thinest laptop available at the time, and the MacBook Air has been released since then.

  2. Re:And? on SSN Required To Buy Palm Pre · · Score: 1

    By going abroad and running up data charges at 0.02 Verizon cents per kb.

  3. Re:A Benevolent Cat-Herder-for-Life is good for Li on Does the Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much? · · Score: 1

    If you are looking for a Steve Jobs equivalent in the Free Software or Open Source worlds, I think that is more Theo de Raadt than Mark Shuttleworth.

  4. Re:Eyes wide shut on Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video · · Score: 1

    What about <img src="animated.gif"> ?

  5. Re:Purpose of open software on Oracle Kills Virtual Iron · · Score: 1

    One of the problems VI customers are facing at the moment is that they won't be able to deploy the system on new machines or extend the licence numbers etc. That would not be a problem with free or open source software.

  6. Re:Oracle is not IBM. on Oracle Kills Virtual Iron · · Score: 1

    And you can still get OS/2 even now.
    http://www.ecomstation.com/

  7. Re:Waste of time? on Newspaper Crowdsources 700,000-Page Investigation of MP Expenses · · Score: 1

    It looks to me very much like the pdfs are 2 colour bitmap images, so there is no scope for getting behind the boxes.

  8. Re:Duck Islands on Newspaper Crowdsources 700,000-Page Investigation of MP Expenses · · Score: 1

    We are allowed £12 per day for overnight stays away from home. MPs get a lot more than that.

  9. Re:Why TF doesn't it happen in US? on Newspaper Crowdsources 700,000-Page Investigation of MP Expenses · · Score: 1

    You forgot the Daily Express

    A wannabe Daily Mail which is obsessed with House Prices, Princess Diana and Madeline McCann.

  10. Re:But will it work? on Newspaper Crowdsources 700,000-Page Investigation of MP Expenses · · Score: 1

    That's just over 1000 per MP. 50 people from each constituency can do 20 sheets each. Mostly they are till receipts which don't take long to look at.

  11. Re:I dont understand. on Univ. of Wisconsin's 30-Year-Old Payroll System Needs a $40 Million Fix · · Score: 1

    Is there any reason why they couldn't use the US equivalent of http://shop.sage.co.uk/payrollprofessional.aspx ?

  12. Re:Really a Shame on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 1

    Immigrants can create jobs for themselves. They buy stuff, eat food, live in houses, require health care etc. That is all employment opportunities for someone, possibly the immigrants themselves.

  13. Re:Cor! on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 1

    In a lot of places in England, like where I live, they only collect rubbish once every two weeks.

  14. Re:Nothing good can come of this... on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 1

    I have looked. You can buy a heap of rubble that vaguely resembles a house for $100, and a building plot for $1. For something habitable, you are looking at about $6000. I could buy a few of those for cash, but I don't intend to.

  15. Re:Nothing good can come of this... on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 1

    The number of homicides has been falling, pretty much for that reason.

  16. Re:Acid 3 test on Opera 10.0 Released, With Integrated Web Server Functionality · · Score: 1

    Firefox was in beta back then, and definitely wasn't supported. I remember it was a long time after its release on 9/11/2004 before they started supporting it. I had some user agent addon that spoofed it as Netscape to allow me access to the site.

  17. Re:Old news on Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved? · · Score: 1

    Well it is still pretty warm despite the lack of sunspots, so when sunspot activity picks up again, as it will at some point, expect things to get even warmer still.

  18. Re:Understatement on Why a Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than an SSD · · Score: 1

    Hard drives are fast enough for me, and a small SSD drive would take up a SATA socket that could otherwise be used for another hard drive.

  19. Re:lame? vampiring other people oil? on English Market Produces Energy With Kinetic Plates · · Score: 1

    No, because you have to drive upwards onto the plate, or alternatively drive upwards when you leave the plate, and this uses more energy than driving on a flat surface.

    Some, but not necessary all of this additional energy is what is being used to generate electricity.

  20. Re:There is more to it than meets the eye on FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell · · Score: 1

    Next question,

    Did it really improve his sleep, or did it just make his parents think it improved his sleep?

    You get that sort of placebo effect with fuel additives, engine cleaners and supposedly more powerful fuels.

  21. Re:There is more to it than meets the eye on FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell · · Score: 1

    Did you try a few drops of sugared water and see if that still worked? I expect it would have, and it would be much cheaper than back's remedies.

  22. Re:The skunk test on FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell · · Score: 1

    Annoying you is good. It protects you from dangerous situations.

  23. Re:I always wondered about this one. on Gold Sold From Vending Machines In Germany · · Score: 1

    lead and sand are both less dense than gold. Things that are more dense than gold are generally more expensive.

  24. Re:The machines charge 30% MORE than trading price on Gold Sold From Vending Machines In Germany · · Score: 1

    It isn't possible to say until it crashes, and it isn't possible to know in advance when this is going to happen.

    I do know that it is way over its fair value at the moment. The main real market for gold is Indian jewellery, and Indians are mostly not buying now as it is too expensive. It may well inflate to even more than its fair value before it pops, but I don't know by how much it will be.

  25. Re:Interesting but inherently flawed! on Gold Sold From Vending Machines In Germany · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The purity issues are easy to deal with. They are standardised coins such as Kruggerands (South Africa), Maples (Canada), Eagles (US), Sovreigns (UK) etc. People can weigh the coins and get the volume very easily. If the density is correct, it is made of gold.

    A lot of gold ETFs, particularly the ones that don't charge you for storage, don't actually hold any physical gold to back up your investment. Instead they match your investment with people who are short selling gold. It is very similar to the way spread betting works, except it is taxed as an investment rather than a gambling transaction. These funds can and do go bust, and investors have lost money as a result.