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  1. Re:Easy grammar on Ask Slashdot: What Would a Constructed Language Have To Be To Replace English? · · Score: 1

    I vote for Indo-European.

  2. Re:I wouldn't be so sure... on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    I am about 2.04 meter and let me assure you that length does matter.

  3. Re: Not France vs US on The Least They Could Do: Amazon Charges 1 Cent To Meet French Free Shipping Ban · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If Google wants tot do business in France they should obey the laws of France, not frustrate the lawmakers. That is just not professional.

  4. Re:Poor example on Four Weeks Without Soap Or Shampoo · · Score: 5, Informative

    4 weeks= 1 ovary cycle. Think about it.

  5. Re:Hmmm... on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    A couple of thousand Dropbox accounts.

  6. Re:Hmmm .... on Alleged Secret Google Antitrust Proposals Leaked · · Score: 2

    The information in the documents could be considered trade secrets. Google has a right to keep them sectret.

  7. Re:Muslims on NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale" · · Score: 1

    Oh, is that the reason you are eavesdropping on my conversations?

  8. Re:nerd life on Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance? · · Score: 1

    That's what average people usually think. But it's not that hard, really.

  9. Re:Well, Yeah on Windows Phone 8 Having Trouble Attracting Developers · · Score: 1

    It looks like you are trying to make a joke. Do you want help with that?

  10. Re:Learn to spin news like this... on Pennsylvania Fracking Law Opens Up Drilling On College Campuses · · Score: 0

    Well, at least it is a good way to destroy science.

  11. Re:Oh, wow. on GPL Kerfuffle Takes Xbian For Raspberry Pi Offline · · Score: 1

    And it's back: http://www.xbian.org/

  12. Re:first post module on Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship? · · Score: 1

    http://freetechnics.nl/

    Disclaimer: I used to work there.

  13. Re:Timeline is off on Birthplace of Indoeuropean Languages Found · · Score: 1

    Or they were using Babelfishes. Seems logical, if you think about it.

  14. Re:Contractor wear on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code? · · Score: 1

    Have you tried growing a ponytail? It's a good substitute for the beard.

  15. Re:Mobile computing! on Ask Slashdot - Careers In Computer Science That Keep You Physically Active? · · Score: 1

    Use a sneakernet.

  16. Re:Uh... on Ask Slashdot: How To Evacuate a Network · · Score: 2

    Your'e looking at the wrong scale. The company needs a complete contingency plan for all kinds of threats. The OP's question is just a small part of his problem.

    I've seen buildings burn down. I've talked to the guy who went into a burning building to rescue the backup tapes. Do you want that to be in your job description?Planning for failure is not fun, but it's part of the job.

  17. Re:Over hyped on Did Neandertals Paint Early Cave Art? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The oldest evidence of modern humans in Europe is over 43.000, not 36.000 years old. There is no evidence that the Neandertal was responsible for the Aurigniac, but a lot of evidence that connects the Aurigniac with modern humans.

    http://dienekes.blogspot.nl/2012/05/43000-year-old-aurignacian-in-swabian.html

  18. Oh well. on Microsoft: Macs 'Not Safe From Malware, Attacks Will Increase' · · Score: 0

    Isn't it ironic...

  19. Re:Wow, quite the article... on No Windows 8 Plot To Lock Out Linux · · Score: 1

    It's not up to the U.S. market to decide whether all pc's should be running SecureBoot. Would China go along with Secure Boot, or would they just design and build their own PC's?

  20. Re:Dreamweaver on Ask Slashdot: Web Site Editing Software For the Long Haul? · · Score: 1

    Arachnophilia supports Unicode as of 03/31/2011. Can someone tell the Slashdot Designers that they should update their wysiwyg editor?

  21. Re:The Surface has revenue to shuffle? on Did Microsoft Alter Windows Sales Figures? · · Score: 1

    WP7 is version 7, not version 1. It's unfair to compare a 7.0 release to the 1.0 releases of other companies. But, in this case, if one would compare a WP7 phone with an iPhone 1.0, WP7 loses.

  22. innovation? on World of Goo Dev Wants Big Publishers To Build Indie Teams · · Score: 2, Insightful

    EA just reinvented the R&D department.

  23. Re:I'm shocked. on Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Microsoft is just one of many who sell office suites. There is no 'ripping of Microsoft's branding'.

  24. Re:Birds themselves could be creating new viruses on Songbird Fossil Virus May Help Predict Pandemics · · Score: 1

    [i]This would be like asking a word processing program written for CP/M then transferred by paper tape to a TRS 80, then transferred by modem a computer running OS X to start decoding video streams. [/i][br]
    You are talking about Emacs, right?

  25. Re:For what purpose? on EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've skimmed through the first pdf. It looks like they are trying to build an Event Control system. Designed to control and identify people at large events, like soccer games. Some countries in Europe have a real problem with soccer hooligans. Or just plain riots, like the ones in France last year. It's the cops who want a system to identify the rioters. Seems logical to me, Jim.

    But the government could mis-use it for anything they want. And that scares me, as a E.U. citizen.