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  1. Re:What's the deal... on First Hidden Electric Motor In Cycling World Championship (cxmagazine.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    She. Not only does summary mention that this is the "Women's under 23", amusingly her first name is Femke which literally means "girl" or "little woman" (see French "femme")

  2. I haven't seen this yet, but... on YouTube Reportedly Bypassing Ad Blockers On Google Chrome · · Score: 0

    Like for many other commenters, this would be enough for me to make a browser switch.

  3. As someone currently unemployed in Finland... on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 0

    ... I am not sure how much I would appreciate this, as I can only assume it would mean this would mean a ramping down of services to help educate me and integrate me into Finnish society (I am from the Netherlands originally). That said, if they would still do as much in these other areas rather than say "hey, we don't need to do any of this anymore because we've already made sure you're not dying" I would be cool with this, and I could actually work after/between school (they are starting my schooling in a few days)

  4. Could someone censor this man? on China Censors HIV/AIDS Awareness Documentary · · Score: 1, Funny

    Such foul language.

  5. Re:Hmmmm on Safe Stem Cells Produced From Adult Cells · · Score: 0

    Yeah, it's an unpredictable cancer-inducing mutation of the original variation of "safe".

  6. funny people on 15 Important Tech Concepts In 2006 · · Score: 1, Funny

    From the article:
     
      Likewise, Microsoft says metadata searches will be integrated into its Vista OS, which ships later this year.
     
    Funny people, that.

  7. trinary on U of Michigan creates first Quantum Microchip · · Score: 0

    From the article:

    The spin of the electron dictates the value of the quantum bit, or "qubit." For example, an up-spin can represent a one, or a down-spin can represent a zero -- or the qubit can occupy both states simultaneously.

    So we have a start of technology not just for quantum computers, but even for trinary quantum computers?

  8. Been there, done that on Switching to Windows, Not as Easy as You Think · · Score: 0

    Let's leave well enough alone. It's basically the same as this.

  9. Woo. even less Uranium. on Europe Warms to Nuclear Power · · Score: 0

    Last I read at the current rate of usage, we have about enough Uranium left for 50 years, now if there's going to be Nuclear plants all over Europe to, wecould probably reduce that number to 30.

    And don't start with "we can filter it from seawater", because that's not economically possible.

  10. He still isn't satisfied... on Jack Thompson Buys Stock in GTA Parent Company · · Score: 0

    ... after Take-Two's latest game?

    ( Yes, I realise The Onion's articles are a joke, which is why I'm hoping for a funny mod ;) )

  11. Right now on Games That Travel Well · · Score: 0

    I enjoy Advance Wars DS or Meteos, but the only place my portable gamestation is traveling is over to my friends to play said games against him.

  12. What surprises me most.. on The Truth About Suprnova Shutdown · · Score: 0

    Is that the police are at his house a month after he shut down the site. Sort of seems like going after a suspected murderer after giving him a month to leave town.

  13. "Windows" on Dell XPS 'Gaming' PC Review · · Score: 0

    Is anyone else wondering why this article is under "Windows", just because it happens ot run windows?
    Seems strange to me since the problems are caused by the extra software, and not windows itself.

  14. Hmm on IE And Mozz Collaborate On RSS Icon · · Score: 0

    So will IE also take over the icon for RSS in all the different themes for Mozilla? Because my rss iocn doesn't look like the default one at all.

  15. They'll need it on Competing to Work for Microsoft · · Score: 0

    Twenty finalists will receive internships with Microsoft India before one Superhero is selected to join Mr. Gates's own team."

    Lord knows Microsoft needs a Superhero to counter all the bad code they've written so far.

  16. unpatched? on Unpatched Firefox 1.5 Exploit Made Public · · Score: 0

    Heh. This story is only a few hours old and look at the latest Gentoo ebuild's changelog *mozilla-firefox-1.5-r1 (08 Dec 2005) 08 Dec 2005; Jory A. Pratt +files/1.5/mozilla-firefox-1.5-history.patch, +mozilla-firefox-1.5-r1.ebuild: patch to fix history DoS So much for unpatched.

  17. Building from source? on Review of the Squeezebox · · Score: 0

    It is open source and written in Perl, with installers for Windows and Mac OS X as well as RPMs for Linux.

    What about a configure script or makefile to build it from source? It would be perfect if I could just add an ebuild for it to my portage owerlay to install and unistall thourgh portage.

  18. Re:Do you have stairs in your house? on Robots With Square Wheels? · · Score: 0

    That reminds me
    "Real Daleks don't climb stairs, they level houses"

    (Sure sure, Offtopic, Redundant whatever)

  19. HOW?! on Online Scammers Go Spear-Phishing · · Score: 0

    From the article:
    The offer required them to respond to INFO@targetdata.biz, a site registered to Haephrati. Responding to them would unleash the Trojan, which, according to records of the investigation, was impervious to antivirus and anti-Trojan software.

    How does simply sending an email "unleash" the trojan?

  20. bunch of stuff on What Makes a Good IM Client? · · Score: 0

    I use MSN (aMSN) because all my friends do. (It's the popular protocol here) Other than that I ditched Skype for Givmo today.

  21. Most polished on VLC Media Player 0.8.4 is out · · Score: 0

    I Think it's one of the most polished player on the Linux desktop. I really don't like the way xine and MPlayer have their controls, and Totem is lacking in other departments. The only other player on Linux that has this polished look is realplayer but well... it's realplayer.

  22. Sigh on Researchers Identify Gene Involved in Regeneration · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I welcome our immortal regenerating overlords.

  23. Re:Open Source - just good name on 'Open Source Media' vs 'Open Source Media, Inc' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How about all those Gentoo Linux users that have (nearly) everything on their systems built from source? (like me)

  24. It's been done on Taking Linux On The Road With Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    There was this company who sold mp3players with a tiny (much tinier than this) linux distribution on it. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/15/025823 3

  25. Re:Clueless! on Google Searches Used in Murder Trial? · · Score: 1

    I think the parent deserves to be modded up. If we see how often it's adsense makes a critical miss on someone's interest it is clear they do not know what you're thinking.]And Then there's the fact that if I want a picture of new-born chickens I'll get all sorts of filth.