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  1. DAREnet on Dutch Academics Declare Research Free-For-All · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seems like they should've thought twice taking the dare with /. (already down)

  2. Lasertag on Tracking Sex Offenders via GPS for Life · · Score: 1

    It's for a next-generation game where you aim your space-laser to destroy the dots on the surface of a dominately blue sphere. While still in beta it is believed prisons will become less crowded as a positive side-effect, certainly once GPS-tagging of a broader array of offenders gets more acceptable.

    Future plans include 3D dots.

  3. I hope Belgium doesn't pick this up. on Dutch Pass iPod Tax · · Score: 1

    I bought my MP3 player cause I needed a Memory-stick. The added ability to play MP3's and WMA files just was a neato added value.

    Being taxed for pure the "ability to store" is a bit disturbing. I don't want visualize the evolution of such an idea resulting in the payment of 1024*tax_value when I get a TB-HD cause it can store all sorts of media (music, movies, games, ...)

  4. Re:Just in time for Lonhorn!!! on Tiny Holes Advance Quantum Computing · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you get a quantum 3D-accelerated graphicscard.

  5. Re:Duh! on AMD's New Venice Core Shows Overclocking Potential · · Score: 1

    Performance is how much work you do each cycle. If you assume the amount of work done each cycle is a constant and for all fabricants is equal then your statement works.

    If you do less each cycle, you'll reach higher clockspeeds, but your performance isn't "higher".(AMD is known to do "more work" each cycle)

    Hence therer have been proposition for a system to indicated performance not based on clockspeed (either from intel itself, AMD has their "+2400" etc naming, and I thought there has been proposition for a general indication which could compare between the two producers).

  6. Re:Just because... on Homemade Mecha Walks in Japan · · Score: 1

    Just because in this day and age people can sue other people for just about any reason

    The only country having such a legal "culture" where you sue others for even futile things seems to be the US though.

  7. Re:It's actually sorta important! on Metafor: Translating Natural Language to Code · · Score: 1

    It's almost like tv, where they air popular TV-shows until you really get tired sick of them and know each episode word after word, in at least 3 languages.

  8. OT: MS innovation on Microsoft Tries to Patent the Internet Again · · Score: 1
  9. Taking Blood on Needle Free Injections With Microjets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I never minded a needle being popped in emptied and being subtracted. As mentioned here it seems a good thing to eliminate the need of needles for that. But as the "recipient" it doesn't make much of a difference it seems.

    Now, when they bypass the need sticking a needle in one's vein to tap off blood for analys I'll be cheering! That is just so uncomfortable.

  10. Re:The Pacebo effect is controversial on 13 Things That Do Not Make Sense · · Score: 2, Interesting
    How can pot make you have antisocial behavior?

    It really depends from person to person. You might've felt more social and relaxed smoking pot. There are others however who react differently to pot where it amplifies certain emotions or at least puts more focus on it.

    Imagine someone who's a bit shy, slightly sociophobic, or being socially rather inept, that person wouldn't suddenly buddy up. Au contraire.

    As well, you have these people who withdraw themselves alot while being stoned for a whole array of reasons. Main for being in their "own world" while stoned.

  11. "Screenshots" on AMD and Intel CPUs Supported On Same Motherboard · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one to find it quite amusing how he appearantly couldn't find the print-screen button?

  12. For some it's a reassurance on Aus. Gov't Considers Fines for Online Suicide Info · · Score: 1

    For some people who are suffering emotionally it can be however a reassurance to have a method at hand they can "live with" (no phun intended) as a backup; "If my suffering exceeds my ability to cope I *can* decide to step out". Which actually results in being able to get on with their lives, and find new courage again cause they have found some sort of control over their life and situation.

    I imagine this wouldn't the case for everyone who's feeling suicidal.

  13. Re:Tits on NSA Announces New Crypto Standards · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm not sure if it's the elyptic curve <-> titties relation that this got modded "insightful"

  14. Re:And before you know it... on Utah Considers Forcing ISPs to Filter Content · · Score: 1

    But yet the US is spreading this love and that mytical being, 'freedom'.
    Something isn't right here...

    *there is no emoticon for what I'm feeling*

  15. And before you know it... on Utah Considers Forcing ISPs to Filter Content · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They start filter political content as well.

    Freedom indeed.
    *points and laughs at the irony*

  16. Re:The Code Is The Design on The Code Is The Design · · Score: 4, Funny

    You haven't seen my code. Nothing designed about it.

    I assume you work for Microsoft?

  17. 1L of water == 1kg? on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Even though the kilogram cylinder is housed in a special vault under controlled conditions at the BIPM, its mass can drift slightly over the years and it is subject to changes in mass because of contamination, material loss from surface cleaning, or other effects.

    I always thought, that the mass of 1 Liter of water could fill a cube of 1dm, being 1kg. Or am I wrong with assuming that?

    Or rather, would changing the globally agreed "Kilo" change as well what we consider as a "Liter"?

  18. Re:Damaged data rarely occurs on Microsoft Will Pay If Its Bugs Damage Your Data · · Score: 1

    Incidently...

    When I tried their Spyware remover it as well removed my FTP server (servU) which I used to access my backup files at home from the office.

    The program however decided (even when I choose to not do anything with the file when I was notified it was an evil backdoorvirus) to be as kindly to remove the executable which was my ftp server.

    I think not only users suffer under this, but as well companies whose software gets identified as "evil hacker virus backdoor! Ooh delete delete!"

    (I must say, ServU gets detected by several antivirus programs as well, cause appearantly it's used in the wild as a trojan. Doesn't mean you should automagically remove a commercial product as if it were a virus.)

  19. Re:You should always... on Optimizations - Programmer vs. Compiler? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget stripping all tabs, linefeeds and spaces where possible.

  20. Re:can't stereoview on Stereoscopic images of Titan's surface constructed · · Score: 1

    Not completely blind in one eye, but near blind.
    My other eye has taken over full domination cause the vision in the other is and always has been worthless... :-\
    No depthperception or stereovisions and likes for me..

  21. This sounds good, but on The Cure for Cancer Might be: HIV · · Score: 1

    just as long it's not to be administered in suppository form.

  22. Grammar bots? on Are Often-Changed Long Passwords Really Secure? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I really wonder, when crackers are trying to hack passphrases, wherever generators with language-rulesets will arrise trying to construct valid "likely used" sentences.

    Once you get that, you'll have the same problem once again... (but perhaps some nice grammar-tech out of it coded up by kiddies)

    (Or ofcourse databases with silly but catchy punchlines.)

  23. Re:bicameral legislature, NOT two party system on Dutch Say No to Software Patent Directive · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the insight.

  24. Re:I hate EU on Dutch Say No to Software Patent Directive · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and moved to a US style two house system

    How does a *two-system* allow diversity and a whole array of views and oppinions?

    I always have found it odd how the US has just the dominating "Rebuplicans", and "Democrats". We have +7 Parties, with all some simular and more diverse agenda's. It'd be a nightmare to just be in the mercy of *two* parties....

  25. Re:Why graphics? on Making CAPTCHAs Even Harder With 3-D Models · · Score: 1

    You must be one of these legendary people who are actually productive online and isn't distracted by porn.