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  1. What build ? on First Look At Windows 7 On an Entry-Level Netbook · · Score: 1

    This is the 7100 build so for all us leechers: nothing for you to see here, please move along.

  2. Mexican Flu on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 1

    In The Netherlands, it's officially called "Mexican Flu / Mexicaanse Griep". The meat industry indeed made an official statement that eating pig's meat is still safe, and the government backed that statement by finding a new name.

  3. Why not ? on IPv6 Over Social Networks · · Score: 1

    Maybe, in the far future, we can have ipv12 where all trees will be interconnected to combat infestations and maybe even our own imune system hooked to ipv2^n so we can finally deal with food poisoning.

  4. FOOL on Opera Launches Facial Gesture Capability · · Score: 5, Informative

    Face Observation Opera Language == FOOL. quite obvious but a pitty, i'd like this feature !

  5. Undetectable... on A Device to Grab Data From Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I do have to object to the term 'undetectable', it's not wireless or something so as long as you keep your phone in your pocket nothing happens. That being said, i'd like to have such device for ehr... dunno, i want one !

  6. Re:Um, well... on Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes · · Score: 1

    nothing on topic, i just wanted to vomit on your sig

  7. Not concrete ar asphalt but bricks on Dutch Town Lays Air-Purifying Concrete · · Score: 1

    Minor error i know, but i just read it in my daily paper (het parool); researchers said asphalt and concrete (unless highly polished) wouldn't do the job.

  8. some details on Dutch Teen Arrested for Virtual Property Theft · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It's a coverstory in the Dutch newspaper "Het parool". De guys are accused of *Data destruction and *pc-burglary, both are punible. The main hacker is 17 years old, his companions are 15 years old (4 of them). The boys ar prosecuted by the department of justice, seven reports were filed at the police. I doubt those guys will really get nailed for the theft, but there's a considereable amount of work done to get those fishing techniques and hacking. I think those boys do deserve some penalty. But then again, if it's clear that no-one gets damaged by some online crime, i don't think you deserve any more than a reprimande. After all, we all try to get better from the erros others make...

  9. What a terrible app ! on Miro Turns 1.0 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Oh god, i just installed it and was really enthousiastic. The welcome session is quite good, but when you start to use it :(. It takes over your processor (i had to set the priority on 3), uses all your bandwidth, your memory and your nerves. Had it running for 5 minutes before i decided to uninstall it, what a deception !

  10. Energy efficiency on Cooling Challenges an Issue In Rackspace Outage · · Score: 0

    Concerning the energy efficincy questions in the post, i wonder how the cooling systems are inplemented out there in the US of A. Here in the Netherlands, it's common to build a datacenter near highways. Vast amounts of pipings, through which the coolant flows, are laid out under the higway and can easily lose their heat via the roads. As a bonus, you don't have to counter any slipping dangers in winter because the road is kept on a nice 15 centigrade all through the winter. Of course, in summertime it's useless, but than again; we don't have summer here for more than two weeks per year ;)

  11. And that from an olive tree.. on Compound From Olive-Pomace Oil Inhibits HIV Spread · · Score: 0

    Imagine the great wealth of medicines and knowledge we could extract from plants, not even know yet, from the vast rainforests and jungles around the world. Oh wait, we're cutting those down for cheap wood, grain and soja. Too bad...

  12. Old news in The Netherlands on Google Blurring Sensitive Map Information · · Score: 1, Informative

    This is old news for dutchmen; when the latest satellite image update swept over holland last may, newspapers were full of reports with government buidlings being pixelated (uitgesmeerd ;) ). All military terrain is censored, the royal palaces, nuclear facilities and even some corporate chemical plants. They're all nicely placemarked in Google Earth if youn want to inspect for yourself.

  13. It's not that we're too smart on Alternative Browsers Impede Investigations · · Score: 0

    They're just too plane dumb. I remember a case in the Netherlands where the police only took the monitors in a child-porn case, and left the harddrivers untouched. Three years ago, Wim Kok (our former prime minister) even aimed the mouse at a monitor like a remote to officially open a website, come on ! Digital law enforcement officers just need proper training; it's just as stupid saying you frustrate police efforts when your door opens inwards instead of outwards...

  14. Yeah, well... on Acquittal in Drunken Homicide via GTA · · Score: 0

    Just be carefull where to do it. I live in a place full of forest and trees and stuff, and it's allright to make a handbrake-turn out there. But don't whipe out pedestrians, you can't tell me you didn't notice it 'd be illegal, not to mention that you have some consciousness to worry about...

  15. Quite nice, on Real Language In Jade Empire · · Score: 1, Funny

    But i wonder why chinese won't do, or some of the dozen almost extincted languages out there ?

  16. Re:Is this true? on LED Evolution Could Spell The End For Bulbs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Excuse me, but iirc you are wrong about this.

    LED's use the fact that at the P/N junction (that's what LED's actually are), electrons flow into a lower energy state, emitting the excessive energy as light. Since there hardly is any resistance in a ligt (typically less than 10^-14 Ohm), almost all electric energy is converted into ligt. You can also feel for yourself; led's won't get hot even after long operating times.

    Gas ionisation tubes, however, are quite primitive. It's just accellerating some gas in an electric field, much of the energy dissipated by the field becoming kinetic energy of the gas ions, but there is also some energy needed to ionize the atoms.
    When the ion strikes the fluorescent wall, most of it's kinetic energy indeed becomes ligt, but then again, some of it is lost just because the particle isn't massles. Not mentioned that starting up a tube costs significant amounts of energy.

  17. Boring on Behind the Scenes At Google · · Score: 1

    :/
    I study physics, and even a college advanced vector algebra isn't as boring as this.
    Can't they didge the speaker & employ someone with passion ?
    Are all colleges in the USA as boring as this one (since it's the washington university, with quite some prestige...) ????

  18. Re:Hey this could be fun! on Local Internet TV Takes Off In Austria · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but if it's really local... You could just walk to your neighbor and ask burn a copy... Costs you five minutes and maybe he'll give u a beer ;)

  19. Remember that toothbrush you use everyday ? on 3D Games Patent Threatens Industry? · · Score: 1

    Yes, that patent's mine. Now behold the satanic fumes, rising from planet Earth !~ Muahahahhaha