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  1. Unused cables on Ask Slashdot: Clever Cable Management? · · Score: 1

    For unused cables that you keep in a drawer, use zip-lock plastic bags to keep them separated.

  2. Not a big topic in Norway on The Oslo Massacre and Violent Video Games: the Facts · · Score: 3, Informative

    It has been mentioned in the media here in Norway, but it's really not part of the discussion about why he did this. His political beliefs (anti-Islam, anti-Labour Party, etc) is the focus now. In addition to how much of a lunatic this guy really is.

    The manifesto is full of details about just about everything, so it's easy to pick one small thing and focus on just that. Remember that this document is something he put together and published before the bomb and shooting, knowing that it would be read trying to find an explanation for what he did. If he expected to die, this was to be his legacy, I guess. So who knows how much of it is true and how much is how he wanted us to look at things.

  3. Re:Also shootings. on Terror Attack On Norwegian Government · · Score: 1

    ... where the youth organisation of prime minister Jens Stoltenberg's Labour Party are having their annual youth camp fight now. 700 people there, Stoltenberg was to speak there tomorrow.

  4. Re:Not clear, yet, that it's terrorism. on Terror Attack On Norwegian Government · · Score: 1

    The police and explosives experts are saying that this was a bomb. And we do not have gas lines (for stoves etc).

  5. Possible use on iPhone and Location: Don't Panic · · Score: 1

    With the data retention directive in the EU, the government is already tracking your phone's location. Maybe you should do the same if you at some point need to prove the government wrong?

    On are more serious note, could this file be a fallback for apps that use location based services in iOS? Say an app uses the API to find the current position. iOS tries to fetch the current position using GPS or cell tower position, and if that somehow fails or takes time, it checks this file as a last resort. The file contains historical information as I understand it, so obviously it contains more info than it should.

  6. Damn mobile versions on Spacecraft Sends First Image From Mercury's Orbit · · Score: 0

    Reading this on an iPhone gives you an article about a photo, without the photo.

  7. Re:played with the beta on How Mac OS X, 10 Today, Changed Apple's World · · Score: 2

    Lion Server will be a part of regular Mac OS X Lion and not a separate product. So it'll still exist, but not like before. http://www.9to5mac.com/53759/apple-announced-lion-server-comes-integrated-into-mac-os-x-lion/

  8. Re:Question? on Light Painting Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I saw this on tv the other day, they were talking about how the signal went down and then up as they moved between areas with different wireless networks. So it must be the strength of all networks.

  9. Great! on Egypt Coming Back On the 'net · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they appreciate a link on ./ so everyone here can check that their hosts are reachable.

  10. Outlook not so good on Norwegian Police, Seeking Info On 2 Bloggers, Take Data From 7,000 Accounts · · Score: 1

    It's nice to see that our police force already wants to protect law-abiding citizens' rights in the search for criminals, now that the data retention directive will most likely be implemented in Norway as well.

  11. Re:Lutefisk on Swedish Firm Proposes City Buildings On Rails · · Score: 1

    Now if I could only remember the name of the fish that they put into the cans, where the fermentation turns the cans into a hand grenade form . . .

    You're thinking of Surströmming. I'd link to Wikipedia but ./ did not like the umlaut o in the URL.

  12. Re:He's Michal Zalewski on Make Your Own DHS Threat Level Display At Home · · Score: 4, Funny

    And he looks just like Jimmy Wales!

  13. Re:I think I see what the problem was on Swiss Canton Abandons Linux Migration · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally, the year of Linux on the dinner table!

  14. Re:The best, easily-accessable pinball setup I saw on What Pinball Looks Like When the Stakes Are High · · Score: 1

    If you ever visit Oslo, Norway, check out the place Tilt (pictures). They have 15 machines, selected from the owners' collection of 230.

  15. Re:Figures on Last Roll of Kodachrome Processed · · Score: 1

    Actually, exposed Kodachrome films can be processed into positive colour frames or negative black and white.

  16. Re:Goatse Security on AT&T Leaks Emails Addresses of 114,000 iPad Users · · Score: 1

    Both are great security experts, but in my opinion they should reconsider their stance on government back doors.

  17. Re:iAds on Apple Announces iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    What would be interesting is Adblock Plus for the iPhone.

    I hear Flashblock works great on it!

  18. Re:And nothing of value is lost on UK Newspaper Websites To Become Nearly Invisible · · Score: 1

    You will have paid for newspapers, like the financial times, that contain news worth paying a premium for, which they won't publish online.

    There was an article 2 days ago about how FT "sees a five-year trajectory for having exited print in substantial part."

    However, in another article yesterday another spokesperson say they have no plans to scale back printing and go all digital.

  19. Re:This will be a success! on Google Launches a Data Prediction API · · Score: 1
  20. Art is art on Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyone who knows art will tell you that something is art if people who know art say it is.

    Seriously, there's nothing more to it.

  21. Re:Why? on Why Computer Science Students Cheat · · Score: 1

    Is this why I've only found sex change questions on that site, and never any answers?

  22. Re:hi neighbor! on Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Speaking of fucking, there's one here that's called "I can hear you having sex".

  23. Re:Won't someone PLEASE think of the cabbies! on GPS Log Analysis Uncovers Millions In NYC Taxi Overcharges · · Score: 1

    I took a cab from Manhattan to JFK yesterday. There was one sticker in the cab stating that there's a flat fare from JFK to Manhattan, and another saying it's a flat fare either directon. Both stickers looked official to me as an out-of-towner.

    The doorman at the hotel was sure it was a flat fare in one direction only. So what do you have to show for it if the taxi driver insists it isn't a flat fare?

    The taxi driver kept the meter on until we reached Queens, then turned it off and complained about how he was losing money because of the heavy traffic and the flat fare, i.e. he could have been making more money if he had sticked to Manhattan rides during rush hour. I think he was just trying to score more tips. And it worked, poor guy.

  24. Re:Decline of the Prize on Internet Nominated For 2010 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 2, Informative

    There have been controversial winners throughout the peace prize's history. Sometimes the prize goes to people who have waged war at some point, other times to people who have done something that most people don't think of as peace related.

    No need to discuss if Obama actually deserved the prize, but I think a lot of people here in Norway believe he was awarded the prize because the leader of the comittee, Torbjørn Jagland, wanted to bring about a lot of attention to himself (and Norway).

  25. Re:not a bargain on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's no way that a pigment can cost thousands of dollars per liter.

    That's simply not true.

    The cyan cartridge is filled with pigments gathered from the beak of the endangered Taiwula bird, only found in altitudes of around 7.000 meters in the Nepalese mountains.

    And that "photo grey" cartridge is made with moon dust. Not that moon, but one of Pluto's.