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  1. What happened to freedom of information? on The Great Firewall of China, Continued · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Unfortunately, civil liberties and a "free" market are at odds.

    Even more unfortunate is a mostly non-free Chinese market and a country that denies its citizen freedom to information, while a mostly free USA aids them in closing off information access.

    It's a companies perogative to decide what it wants to do. But it's also a duty of a government to protect while not oppressing its people.

    Limiting circulation of governmental data to strengthen security is one thing. To prevent a people from accessing information so they can't learn about other forms of government is unforgivable.

  2. But can I drink it? on Martian Methane May Come From Rocks · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one that read
    Geologists calculated that a global, 50-centimetre-thick layer of ovaltine could account for the methane.
    ?

  3. Re:Units on NASA's Deep Impact · · Score: 1

    one ton = 2000lbs = 8896.44323 Newtons
    Since pounds are the english unit of weight/force, the conversion works out nicely. The English unit of mass is a slug, IICR.

  4. Heres the scoop on Is Firefox 1.0 Less Stable than Firefox PR1.0? · · Score: 1

    Whatever is happening, the problem is NOT Firefox. Your computer is unstable, there is a maliscious program attacking Firefox, its extensions. Anything but Firefox. Everyone knows that open source software is an order of magnitude better than anything Microsoft could ever make.

  5. Re:Warning Label on Humans in America 25,000 Years Ago? · · Score: 1

    Conversely, Creationism is neither scientific law nor theory.

  6. ceramic on New Ceramic Lensed Exilim Ex-S100 · · Score: 2

    Ceramics==Transparent?

  7. uhh... on What's The Linux Kernel Worth? · · Score: 1
    afx.h line 205: #define NULL 0
    _null.h line 20: # define NULL 0
    fci.h line 74: #define NULL 0
    fdi.h line 74: #define NULL 0
    lmcons.h line 191: #define NULL 0
    snados.h line 52: #define NULL 0
    windef.h line 56: #define NULL 0
  8. eh? on NYT On Flying Cars · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Frist Piost?!

  9. Also on Playing God in The Sims 2 · · Score: 1

    "If you could play God, would you be kind, cruel or just careless? The answer can reveal itself by the way you play "The Sims 2,"

    The answer can also, and more accurately be revealed through playing Black and White.

  10. Gmail backups on Cringely's P2P Backup Idea · · Score: 1

    I've been using Gmail as a repository for backedup source files. Simply rar, self-email and forget. 1GB offsite storage is perfect for a smalltime developer in search of a cheap backup solution.

  11. Re:Practical use? on Epson's 12 Gram Flying Robot · · Score: 1

    But what good is reducing everyone's wrinkles?

  12. Re:1GB = 1024MB so... on Kevin Rose Load Tests Gmail · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually 1GiB is equal to 1024MiB while 1GB is equal to 1000MB

  13. All hail our overlords! on The Internet Meets the Neural Net · · Score: 1

    Assimilate me!

  14. Re:At what point... on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 3, Funny

    Like this?

  15. Re:Size doesn't matters on Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles · · Score: 1

    checked over by ... theoretically an infinite number of people
    But there is only a finite ammount of bandwidth. Therefore only a finite number of people can check the articles (in a finite ammount of time).

  16. and.. on Large User Groups Cause Spontaneous Greying · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, Linux gives you a bigger penis.

  17. converter on How Many TV Channels Will There Be In The Future? · · Score: 1

    Now I just need to build a channel-to-girlfriend converter and I'll be set!

  18. Re:another way on Building A Homebrew Robotic Lawnmower? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or perhaps your neighbor's robotic kids

  19. Re:I've always found those stats suspect on New Evidence About 'The Great Dying' 250 Million Years Ago · · Score: 1

    that's a whole lotta evolution if you ask me.
    Not to mention a whole lot of inbreeding.

  20. Re:Drugs teach American kids the metric system. on The Logic Behind Metric Paper Sizes · · Score: 1

    My car gets forty rods to the hogshead
    1.10229*10^-4 miles/gallon?
    You must be driving an SUV.

  21. Re:Sigh on MIT's Stata Center Dedicated · · Score: 1

    I have a girlfriend that goes to CSU Fresno. They use magnetic-strip cards to enter the dorms. It is extremely easy to gain access. Access to the boys bathroom is a little harder though ;) since girls' cards don't work on the boys' bathroom. Its nearly impossible to gain access to individual rooms, unless you follow someone in, or they accidently leave their door open; both rare.

  22. Can't stop it. on Microsoft Allows Pirates to Install XP SP2 · · Score: 1

    They're going to do it. They might as well do it protected.

  23. Re:isotope vs isomer on The Controversy of a Potential Hafnium Bomb · · Score: 1

    You don't control the spins, that would be opressive. A simple please would work nicely.

  24. Last years C++ exam on First Java AP Computer Science Exam Complete · · Score: 1

    I took the last C++ AP exam offered. I chose the A section not AB. I started learning C++ my sophmore year in highschool to practice for my school's ScienceBowl team. I immediatly got hooked and continued casually programming on my own. I took the C++ AP exam my senior year and passed with a 3! Ya!

    There was only one other person that took it with me, who didn't do so well. :-/ It's too bad my school didn't offer a C++ class.

    Overall, I found the test to be pretty easy. At that time I wasn't too comfortable with classes, let alone inheritance, but aparently it didn't affect my grade too much. The hardest part (and the most fun) was Definatly the free response. English free responses are boring compared to writing a free response in C++. It was interesting because we had no way to check our cod e(yeah I reply on compiler errors Way too much).

    Over all it was a good expirence. It gave me more confidence in coding, and hopefully it will get me some cheap units in the future. :)
    I'm so glad I took it when I did. I don'd trust Java's garbage collection ;) gimme new AND delete anyday ;)

  25. GigaBytes? on NetBSD Sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record · · Score: 1

    All the cool scientists are using Gibibytes ;)