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  1. Re:Government monitoring will not stop terrorism. on Hackers Release AAPT Data To Protest Aussie Policies · · Score: 0

    quidquid latine dictum, altum sonatur.

  2. Stop it with the hybrids already! on Asking Slashdot: Converting an SUV Into an Hybrid Diesel-Electric? · · Score: 1

    Yes, you need something to extend range, but it should be a small, efficient diesel generator, not a double-clutch, computer-controlled monstrosity like the Prius. The concept has been working since the early 20th century on locomotives. The Diesel in the locomotive is a generator, nothing more. WHY NOT DO IT WITH YOUR SUV?

  3. Thanks, but no thanks on MIT Creates Car Co-Pilot That Only Interferes If You're About To Crash · · Score: 2

    I miss the time when we could buy cars that put the entire responsibility of keeping the car on the road in the hands of drivers. If I want to do a maneuver that seems like a better solution (flipping the car's tail out while purposefully messing with the throttle to induce a controlled sideways skid on a wet road) to avoiding a dangerous situation, traction control already messes with it. I wonder what it will be like with systems like these being applied as mandatory safety features.

  4. Re:it's a plot. on Google Launches International Campaign For Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    See corporations are people without gender. They want to be able to marry each other.

    Then they can file a joint tax return and have children.

    Word, Inc. Excel, LLC PowerPoint, (A 501(C)3 Non-Profit dedicated to mental health. All children of Microsoft and its harem of acquisitions.

  5. Re:Friction is hell on Tidal Heating Shrinks Goldilocks Zone Around Red Dwarfs · · Score: 1

    Pure awesome

  6. Re:Great except.... on Nanoparticles Heated By Radio Waves Switch On Genes In Mice · · Score: 1

    So they basically microwaved (or induction-heated, or whatever) the genes into working. What will happen when a patient undergoing that treatment gets thrown into an MRI machine? will the nanoparticles turn into popcorn?

  7. Great Idea on Research To "Reveal the Unseen World of Cookies" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I hope implementing it in the right way (with publicly accessible statistical and analysis methods) will shed some light into how we're being tracked. Is there an equivalent of Collusion for Chrome?

  8. Re:apparently in Spain, the accused have privacy on Mariposa Botnet Beheaded · · Score: 1, Informative

    In Argentina this is the case too, when the media is present, arrested individuals have their faces covered off by the police in order to safeguard their identities

  9. Line-of-sight + Wi-Fi + 2 cantennas on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 0

    Just use a half decent router (a hacked linksys would be nice, so you can play with the xmit power settings), two can-tennas (buy for 20 bucks or make them yourself, no great skills necessary) and line-of-sight (could put the antennas on the rooftop, or up on a mast)

  10. Crazy woman on Best Presidential Candidate, Democrats · · Score: 0

    I think a woman ambitious enough to not have divorced her husband after what he did just to obtain power is a very VERY dangerous person. Plus, Obama looks like a smart, down to earth guy, at least from South America.

  11. Re:Not so much on The Agony and Ecstasy Of Becoming a Linux OEM · · Score: 0

    Here in Argentina, most Linux-Preinstalled computers come with Linspire or Mandriva, although there's a new "generation" of cheap computers coming with Kubuntu preinstalled.

  12. Not so much on The Agony and Ecstasy Of Becoming a Linux OEM · · Score: 0

    Down here in Latin America, where exchange rates make Windows licenses unfairly expensive, many stores have chosen to sell Linux preinstalled on their computers to lower the cost, so at least down here there's a large amount of people having their computer experience turned to Linux from the very beginning.

  13. Re:2nd Official GOP Response on Another 150,000 Years of CO2 Data · · Score: 0

    Actually, Steve Jobs is God, that's why he pays attention to every little inane detail, while at the same time not coming out with great products

  14. Re:obligatory on Linux-powered Robots From France? Oui! · · Score: 0

    An illegally modified American DC-10 (they used titanium instead of aluminium, which is illegal)

  15. You should respect France, you ignorant bastard! on Linux-powered Robots From France? Oui! · · Score: 0

    From wikipedia:
    Main article: American Revolutionary War
    On 10 January 1776, Thomas Paine published a political pamphlet entitled Common Sense arguing that the only solution to the problems with Britain was republicanism and independence from Great Britain.
    On 4 July 1776, the United States Declaration of Independence was ratified by the Second Continental Congress. Note that the war began in 1775, while the declaration was issued in 1776. Until this point, the colonies sought favorable peace terms; a majority did not approve of an outright push for independence.
    The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, commonly known as the Articles of Confederation, formed the first governing document of the United States of America, combining the colonies of the American Revolutionary War into a loose confederation of sovereign states. The second Continental Congress adopted the Articles on 15 November 1777.
    The British continued to blockade the American coast, but French merchants, with funding from the French government, sent in large supplies of munitions.

    British attack the South, 1779-1781

    That fleet was defeated by a French fleet, however. Trapped at Yorktown, the British surrendered their main combat army to Washington in October, 1781. Although King George III wanted to fight on, his supporters lost control of Parliament and the war effectively ended for America.

  16. Re:And what about the pilots? on NASA Finds 4-5" Crack in Shuttle Insulation · · Score: 0

    So the PHB is a manager at NASA too?

  17. Are you insane? on Microsoft's New Linux-Based Wireless Network · · Score: 0

    Xenix was the BEST unix around, MS used it as late as 1989, long after they had sold it to SCO. Xenix became SCO Unix.

  18. Re:Wake me up when it supports 64-bit on Core Duo Reaches the Desktop · · Score: 0

    And so should 640k of RAM (Bill Gates)

  19. Re:Nintendo's Wii akin to Chevrolet's Nova? on Both Sides of Wii · · Score: 0

    The only Pajeros you'll see in spanish-speaking countries are gray-market imports, since all official imports were labeled as Montero. At least where I live, the Chevy Nova was never manufactured nor sold as an import, and snopes.com reports the Nova story as an urban legend, although it would make it into a pun because nova could be read as No Va (doesn't go), therefore, it could be read as Chevrolet No Va (Chevrolet Doesn't Go). The Tiburon was effectively marketed as the Hyundai SCoupé (Sports Coupe)

  20. Re:Nintendo's Wii akin to Chevrolet's Nova? on Both Sides of Wii · · Score: 0

    Not really. Several automobile brands have had to change their model names before entering spanish speaking markets. For instance, the Mitsubishi Pajero is known as Montero in Spanish speaking markets because Pajero means "wanker", literally. There's a Nissan Laputa, which in spanish would mean "the whore" also. And the Hyundai Tiburon was simply calle S-Coupé, since Tiburon means Shark.

  21. Re:Electronic Fuel Injection? on No EFI Support for Vista · · Score: 0

    100% overrated? I thought at least i would get moderated as funny, fer chrissakes!

  22. Electronic Fuel Injection? on No EFI Support for Vista · · Score: 0

    So Macs are Injected and windows vista will use double-barrel carburetors?

  23. Re:I wonder why. on Intel Looks Beyond the Microchip · · Score: 1

    I think it is because Intel has enough market leverage to get everyone to buy "Centrino", "Viiv" or whatever their marketing jockeys come up with next, therefore making sales on some of their products (chipsets, wi-fi chips for centrino) and making some other companies happy too (for having the possibility to charge a little extra for their co-branded stuff)

  24. Re:Telling what is true and what's not on Congress Made Wikipedia Changes · · Score: 1

    Your common sense is best used well written

  25. And Jerusalem, And Michelangelo, And Ping-Pong... on 20 Years of Computer Viruses · · Score: 1

    And many more of the little bastards