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  1. Re:Lithium Ion Batteries on Apple Faces Inquiries In the EU On iPhone Accidents · · Score: 1

    Slim? iPod Touch maye, but the iPhone G3 is exactly as thick as my HTC Touch HD which has got an interchangeable battery and a detachable back cover and there is another plastic cover and the mainboard between the battery and the screen.

  2. Re:And... on Spotify Wins iPhone App Store Approval · · Score: 1

    It does, in a way. The default homepage of Firefox is a special Google page, the default page of Internet Explorer is the MSN portal. It is about ad revenue.

  3. Re:And... on Spotify Wins iPhone App Store Approval · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Firefox was a good enough example since it directly competes with Microsoft Internet Explorer.

  4. Re:Wasted fruit? on Watermelon Juice Makes Great Biofuel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pickled watermelons are quite popular in Russia

  5. Re:it makes sense on Depression May Provide Cognitive Advantages · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Outer alloy
    Inner void
    Marvin

    Happiness has been destroyed

  6. They forgot an important thing. on Depression May Provide Cognitive Advantages · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While depressive people tend to consider a problem very intensely and break it into lots of sub-problems and try to analyze what could have happened if some options were different, all those - ruminations (as the summary states) - still lead to nothing because the all the shit has already hit the fan and there is nothing that can undone that. so the thoughts go round and round and round again.

  7. Re:Why so little outcry vs Israel? on China Admits Use of Death-Row Organs · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Irresponsible waste of nonrenewable resources on High-Tech Blimps Earning Their Wings · · Score: 1

    Because all those free market crazies constantly tell us that if a solution is needed, then a free market will automagically provide one.

  9. Re:The guys with Tin Foil Hats maybe? on Time Denies Issuing DMCA Over Obama Joker Image · · Score: 1

    Yep. Even their green party would be considered pretty centrist by European standards.

  10. Re:These morally chiding "correlation" studies on Obesity May Accelerate Brain Aging · · Score: 1

    Second that. Hiking through the woods is fun, harvesting berries and mushrooms on the way is even more fun.

  11. Re:what about this on Banks Urge Businesses To Lock Down Online Banking · · Score: 1

    It can be optional. For example, my bank has an option on limiting withdrawals from ATMs abroad to a certain sum per week. You can as well set it to zero as long as you stay home.

  12. American banks seem to be too lazy on Banks Urge Businesses To Lock Down Online Banking · · Score: 1

    iTAN/iTANplus is a very safe method to do online banking and it is widely used in Europe. Why can't American banks just implement the same solution?

  13. Re:Many problems... on Why the Google Android Phone Isn't Taking Off · · Score: 1

    USA is not the main T-Mobile market.

  14. Re:Rough user interface on Why the Google Android Phone Isn't Taking Off · · Score: 1

    No, you don't.

  15. Re:Software is great, Hardware not so much on Why the Google Android Phone Isn't Taking Off · · Score: 1

    That's why I wonder why HTC doesn't just port Android to one of their better devices (like Touch HD). Would even save them money because of the economy of scale.

  16. Re:talk about not understanding the industry! on Why the Google Android Phone Isn't Taking Off · · Score: 1

    Your comparison is completely wrong. You start talking about style and end talking about functionality. If you want functionality then a Windows Mobile phone is the right one.

    The iPhone is for the same people who prefer a "hip" coctail bar over a Chinese restaurant, "Legally blonde" over "Hot Fuzz" and a Dodge Caliber over Toyota Camry

  17. Re:HDMI without VGA? on Nokia Unveils Its First Netbook · · Score: 1

    Because VGA sucks on LCD - you've got to convert the signal to analogue and then convert it back to digital again. That doesn't make sense.

  18. Re:Start small? on Fully Functional Bioengineered Tooth Grown In a Mouse · · Score: 1

    That's okay. She's a bogeyman anyway.

  19. Re:News for nerds? on Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession · · Score: 1

    As a fellow nerd I have to tell you that some critical parts of our computer technology these days was built with the help of these 'drugs', or more clearly psychedelics and more precisely LSD.

    Yeah. Probably the gate A20 and the 640 kilobytes memory barrier.

  20. Re:Close the borders on Developing World's Parasites, Diseases Enter US · · Score: 2, Informative

    When counting by percentage of population, Sweden would actually be pretty much on par with the USA (12.3% and 12.81% respectively). Germany's immigrants are 12.31% of the whole population, in Austria there are 14.9%, in Canada 18.76% and in Switzerland 22.89%.

    All of the countries I have listed do have socialized medicine.

  21. Re:Painkillers? on A Broken Heart Really Does Hurt, Scientists Claim · · Score: 1

    That crap about men being wired for sex is just an excuse to continue perpetuating male privilege at the expense of a woman's self-esteem.

    That is not entirely correct. There is a huge gradient of people (both men and women) of how much do they "listen" to their instincts. For those who behave more instinctively GP is absolutely right. There are (and especially in modern times) more and more men who listen to their sense more than to their instincts. They suffer much more after a break-up and the advice of fucking around to stop hurting won't work for them.

  22. Re:Why is it... on Switzerland's Data Protection Watchdog Wants Street View Disabled · · Score: 1

    Both do, but the difference is that private corporations have no direct authority over you.

    Indirect authority is even worse because you never know when it comes at you. At least the government is more or less limited by the constitution and also predictable, a corporation is only limited by what the execs think they can get away with. And yes, it is better when individual liberty is sacrificed for some resemblance of greater good than to a pocket of some modern noble-wannabe.

  23. Re:Why is it... on Switzerland's Data Protection Watchdog Wants Street View Disabled · · Score: 1

    Because too many of those neo-feudalists are convinced that private companies would never do something evil, only government does. Even when you show them some proof of the contrary.

  24. Painkillers? on A Broken Heart Really Does Hurt, Scientists Claim · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does it mean that painkillers like Ibuprofen would help to lessen the pain of being dumped? That is a kind of an acute issue for me right now.

  25. Re:Mini-computers on Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones · · Score: 1