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  1. Fukushima Exploded! on Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan · · Score: 1
    Huge blast at Japan nuclear power plant Fukushima just now.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219

    This could be very dangerous needless to say. I suspect that we have the next Chernobyl on our hands. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

    The Swedish government has asked all citizens to leave Japan as soon as possible.

  2. eBay sells at a great loss on EBay Sells Skype To Marc Andreessen · · Score: 4, Informative

    The interesting thing about this deal is that eBay actually bought Skype from the founders for 3.1 billion US dollars. They are now selling for 2 billion which makes you think about the huge loss and the extremely bad deal they made in buying in the first place. When eBay bought Skype it was seen by many as the worst IT business deal, ever!

  3. How much is an electronvolt? on LHC To Start Back Up In November At Half Power · · Score: 1
    In case you were wondering...

    One electron volt is equal to 1.60217653(14) x 10^19 joules.

    And they are talking about 7 and 14 Trillion eV which is a bunch of joules! Pretty nice ;)

  4. Re:Slashdot achievements on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    definitely.

  5. The Technology behind the speed on Mobile Broadband to Hit 42Mb/sec In 2009 · · Score: 3, Informative
    The technology is called Long Term Evolution (LTE) and is part of the 4th generation of mobile telephony.

    More information about it is found here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP_Long_Term_Evolution

    The article doesn't mention a lot of facts and it also fails to mention that speeds upto 100 Mbit/s is the goal for LTE. So this will be the next step in broadband services over wireless mobile networks.

  6. Not likely on Nokia Could Make Linux Top Embedded OS · · Score: 1
    It's not likely that Nokia will drop it's Symbian OS for a Linux version. The Symbian OS is designed for mobile terminals and specially for mobile telephnoy.

    On the other hand Linux would be an interesting choice for PDA's and other such devices. The problem is though that now, the mobile phone and the PDA's are merging together. This is where the battle stands, with the new genereation of phones with both PDA and mobile phone capabilities.

    Symbian has dominated so far.

  7. Tastes like... on Free Beer That's Free as in Speech · · Score: 1
    ... shite, have you tried this? The recipe isn't specific enough and therefore it's pretty useless. I failed terribly with this.

    I would like the inform all who might try this to avoid it!

  8. Windows 2000 at work on Half Of Businesses Still Use Windows 2000 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I work at Ericsson in Sweden and we use Windows 2000 on all office machines. There is ofcourse Unix, Linux and XP installations at some development centers, but for everyday work and mail Windows 2000 is used.

    XP does not give any increase in productivity and therefore there is no need to upgrade. Also at the rate Microsoft releases new operating systems the workload on the integration teams increase. Rolling out a new operating system requires a lot of testing on all the hardware found in the corporation. Because of this, it really has to be important to actually roll out a new version of Windows.

  9. Outsourcing on IBM Europe Workers Strike · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The plain truth of this is that the jobs being cut in Europe are not gone, but transfered to India and other low wage countries.

    IBM just wants to make it's profit even bigger. By employing Indian's and sacking European's, they are doing just that.

    Sad but true.

  10. Re:A Bet for all of you... on Opera CEO Prepares to Swim across the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    you don't have that much money

  11. ZZzzz on RMS Weighs in on BitKeeper Debacle · · Score: 1
    Am I the only one tired of another BitKeeper story?

    Nothing more to see here, move along everybody. And please, can we get some other news?

  12. 1st april on Steve Jobs to Become Ikea CEO · · Score: 1

    another april fools...

  13. firefox in for a spin on Mozilla Foundation in More Development Trouble · · Score: 1
    Sounds like firefox is in for a spin. I just hope that they manage to keep it on track and not argue themselves into a dead end.

    The best would be for the foundation to keep together and not slipt up.

  14. Mirror? on OpenOffice.org 2.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    Has someone managed to set up a mirror? The site seems to slashdotted already.

  15. Re:V800 does this already.. on Sony Ericsson Announces First Walkman Phone · · Score: 1

    this phone has a 2 Mpix camera as well... and ofcourse the design i very different. we need choices, how boring wouldn't it be if everyone had the same phone.

  16. Re:Bugzilla bug #253831 for Firefox on The Return Of The Pop-Up Ad · · Score: 1

    the correct link is:
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25383 1

  17. Own comparison on Browser Speed Comparisons · · Score: 1
    I made my own comparison with Internet Explorer 6.0 och Firefox 1.0 for Windows.
    I used tcpdump to measure the average time it took for Firefox compared to IE to load a couple of pages with heavy graphic and banners.

    The results all pointed to Firefox's advantage. Meaning the time it took to load the full webpage. For Firefox the average time was 1-2 seconds and for Internet Explorer the average time was 3-8 seconds for the same webpages at approximatley the same time.

    These results were achived on a PC with 512 MB RAM running Windows XP SP2 and with a AMD Athlon 1700+
    Interestingly the results are very different from that of the comparison in the article.

  18. Too expensive? on Amazon Offers 2-Day Shipping For $79/Year · · Score: 1
    All you need to do is to get a bunch of friends together and share the cost of one single subscription.

    Then order everything through that account...

    Now, thats if you are stingy. But if you are going to order a lot of stuff, it's definately worth it.

    Nice one amazaon :)

  19. Re:Indian priorities on Indian Moon Mission to Have Landing Component · · Score: 1
    I think it escapes a lot of people that the civilization that built the Taj Mahal was not Indian.

    You need to get your facts straight.

    The Taj Mahal is very Indian. By the way, did you look up Islamic in your atlas? You might have trouble finding that country there.

  20. It's allowed... on All Emulation is Illegal · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It's allowed to emulate games under Swedish law and therefore I'll continue to do it until I'm proven wrong.

    Remember there isn't any world law, therefore only the country you reside in makes the rules for you. No one else.

  21. hear who? on Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    CSS will never fix [printing]. Did you hear me? CSS will never fix it!

    No, I didn't hear you.

  22. If only... on Sir Richard takes Virgin into Space · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only Branson would take a virgin into space... what bliss.

  23. PAL neglection on UK Retailers Dumping Gamecube? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Since Nintendo has neglected the PAL market by not releasing close to the amount of titles for the gamecube, this doesn't really come as a big surprise.

    What would surprise me though, is if Nintendo just would let this pass without action.

  24. Too good offer... on Don't Click Here For A Free iPod · · Score: 1

    If an offer sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

  25. Re:It's quite simple. on Realtime Audio Conversion And Serving · · Score: 1

    Well answerd, it's the definatley the easiest solution I've read so far.
    Shouldn't be to hard to get working and it solves the problem. Provided that the Linksys WMLS11B is already bought.