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  1. Re:Tyranny on Revisiting DIY HERF Guns · · Score: 1

    Interesting question: I'm not american so I'm not sure exactly how it works, but would equipment like this fall under the right to bear arms, or would it get buried by some blanket "terrorist materials" law?

    It's certainly a weapon after all, but is it more gun or bomb?

  2. Re:2 books or one book? on New Wheel of Time Book — Chapter One Online, Released Oct 27 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sanderson's said it's going to be three volumes, because Tor didn't want to print it in one large volume, and there was already an agreement to publish by the end of this year, and he hadn't finished it all anyway.

  3. Re:Oooo ya on New Wheel of Time Book — Chapter One Online, Released Oct 27 · · Score: 1

    That's really not the case here, he isn't Brian Herbert.

    Sanderson's working entirely from very comprehensive notes, and entire portions of the book had already been written by Robert Jordan and just need to be glued together.

  4. Re:I am a UK citizen, but I assumed that .... on US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal · · Score: 1

    You are allowed to work on a student visa, but there are certain restrictions such as the number of hours and overtime.

  5. Re:Can I ask.. on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 3, Informative

    Obviously, yes.

  6. Re:Why? on Inside Video Game Localization · · Score: 1

    Most countries have legislation dictating this, both to protect the minority who only speak the native language, and simply to protect the use of the language so it doesn't gradually get forced out by english.

  7. Re:Simple on Visualizing False Positives In Broad Screening · · Score: 1

    That isn't a Venn diagram; all the areas must be intersecting every other area.

    I think you call other similar diagrams Euler diagrams? I honestly can't remember.

  8. Re:Wow on UK Police Raid Party After Seeing "All-Night" Tag On Facebook · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, this story gave me a start, since I actually AM going to an all-night rave in an isolated field in Devon tonight.

  9. Re:Thank heavens ... on Scammers Target Neopets Users · · Score: 4, Funny

    You let your children play games other than nethack?

    And you call yourself a slahdotter!

  10. Re:Double edged sword on New Lithium-Air Battery Delivers 10 Times the Energy Density · · Score: 1

    Edge is clearly intended as cutting edge in this usage, otherwise the blunt side would have two edges by itself..

  11. Re:just an idea on Inflatable Tower Could Climb To the Edge of Space · · Score: 1

    That is rather the GP's point.

    The only gas lighter than helium is hydrogen.

  12. Re:Resume? on What Do You Do With a Personal Domain? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he doesn't want anyone who knows his name to be able to see the details of his life..

  13. Re:UK and Ireland first? on Xbox To Get Live TV and Massive VOD Update · · Score: 1

    And of course, you can get Netflix streaming on the Xbox in the US.

    Far more content than Sky will be providing, for a fraction of the price..

  14. Re:Hopes and dreams on Xbox To Get Live TV and Massive VOD Update · · Score: 1

    Wait, this isn't a troll! I really do love watching old Celtic matches and the GAA!

    I went up to Ruislip last weekend just to watch Galway destroy London.

  15. Hopes and dreams on Xbox To Get Live TV and Massive VOD Update · · Score: 0, Troll

    I just hope there'll be some way to get setanta sports on this.

    How can man live without old Celtic matches and the few bits of GAA they show?

  16. Re:Knowing Government "Intelligence"... on FCC Reserves the Right To Search Your Home, Any Time · · Score: 3, Funny

    Uh, he's the one that gets paid legal bills.

    He's a lawyer.

  17. Re:Nah, just varm on Hacking Our Five Senses and Building New Ones · · Score: 1

    No, GP's parent was most likely a reference to the colour of magic in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

  18. Dr Mario? on Cameron's Avatar a 3D Drug Trip? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not surprised it'd be habit forming, with the amount of pills Dr Mario throws down patients' throats.

    Damn, now I want to pull out a SNES and play Mixed Match..

  19. Re:Good news for the Royal Mail on UK Government To Monitor All Internet Use · · Score: 1

    No, but loads to Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. Taiwan, P.R.C. is a favourite too.

  20. Re:Good news for the Royal Mail on UK Government To Monitor All Internet Use · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please, as anyone who does sorting in RM will tell you, losing stuff is damned rare.

    Most mail that doesn't reach its destination is because the public is apparently too damn stupid to write a proper address.

    Hell, just last week I had two letters to Dublin, United Kingdom; three to West Germany and a couple of dozen with no town or city...

    Never mind the people who just make up post codes.

  21. Re:Free market will kill it on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are massively underestimating the size of the US. A system like one in Japan or Korea is simply impossible, the resources don't exist.

    You'd be better off copying France or something.

  22. Re:good idea but... on Use apt-p2p To Improve Ubuntu 9.04 Upgrade · · Score: 3, Informative

    This isn't how it works in the UK. If BT has phone lines going somewhere, then you have dozens of ISPs to choose from.

    They can be buying direct from BT wholesale, or own anything quite a bit further up the chain. Noone should really be touching the BT consumer ISP for any reason.

  23. Re:I have this really novel idea on US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles · · Score: 1

    Nuclear weapons need to be replaced, and you do sell quite a lot to NATO member states.

  24. Re:Nukes in WWII on US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles · · Score: 1

    Actually, the Japanese had already offered to surrender before the bombs were dropped. It was a stupid and unrealistic conditional surrender, but they'd never have fought a proper land war on home soil.

  25. Re:That Thing We Did? on US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles · · Score: 1

    Uh, GP's point was that imperial japan and nazi germany were rather different things..