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  1. Re:Hire him on Amateur Records the "Sound" of Mars Express · · Score: 1, Insightful

    actually he will probably be charged with copyright infringment.

  2. Re:Ad networks geotarget their ads on Web Copyright Crackdown On the Way · · Score: 1

    You log on to the advertisers site and submit your ad along with your credit card number. And you do it from a country that is not subject to US or US like control. Remember with the internet you do not need a brick and mortar or even a flesh and blood presence anyway to do business.

  3. Re:Ad networks geotarget their ads on Web Copyright Crackdown On the Way · · Score: 1

    So .. when the ad is placed the customer selects the target country / region. Using IP addresses takes care of the rest. Yes there will be some missdirection but on the whole it works.

  4. Big govenment even back then on Earliest "Writing" On 60,000-Year-Old Eggshells · · Score: 1

    They are most likely mandated 'best before' dates.

  5. Re:Leak the email on A Public Funded "Microsoft Shop?" · · Score: 1

    Just make sure that the email you leak is the same one that everybody else got.

  6. Bonus!!! on German Data Retention Law Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Soon all social networking networks will be based in Germany providing new jobs and revenue.

  7. Re:Not really the point on Appeals Court Knocks Out "Innocent Infringement" · · Score: 1

    Actuall we, Canadians, already pay a 'tax' on blank media to cover music downloads. This money is distributed to the copyright holders.

  8. Homeopathy does work. on NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee · · Score: 2, Funny

    The only reason that established science is not able to get homeopathy to work is because when they create their test samples they do not use un-tritiated water. As a result, when the tritium atom decays the released neutron disturbs the water memory via collisions rendering the sample useless.

  9. Re:WOW! on Creating Electric Power From Light Using Gold Nanoparticles · · Score: 1

    This could be in refrence to a theoretical vs. actual maximum.

  10. Re:TFA uses Bad Math! on Creating Electric Power From Light Using Gold Nanoparticles · · Score: 1

    Could be theoretical vs. actual maximum.

  11. Canadian Copyright Law on IOC Orders Blogger To Take Down Video · · Score: 1

    Isn't it just great.

    Not only do we get to make copies of our own stuff, even if it means bypassing DRM, but we get fair use too.

  12. Re:Easy on Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World? · · Score: 3, Informative

    And earlier this month Rep. John Murtha of Pa., while in the care of the best health care system in the world, died after a simple gallbladder operation was botched.

  13. Re:Step 1. on Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World? · · Score: 1

    I find that the people who complain most about the Canadain system have never needed it in a real emergency.

  14. Re:Step 1. on Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World? · · Score: 1

    Because

    • The doctor who did the surgery was the 'Go to Guy' for that type of operation.
    • Speedy recovery required lots of walking as exercise, too much snow in Newfoundland.
    • He was independantly wealthy so he could afford it.

    Now as to only treating the healthy. If you give 'free' low tech preventative health care you avoid the need for expensive high tech health care. If it is 'free' to go to a doctor about possible pneumonia you can be treated with inexpensive antibiotics rather than go to the emerge and taking up a bed in ICU a few weeks later.

    P.S. Rationing does not exist for older people. If it did I would be dead.

  15. Re:When I became self-employed on Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World? · · Score: 1

    If your wife has develops another type of cancer will the plan still cover it or is it, cancer, a pre-existing condition at that point?

  16. Re:WW-2 experiments gave soldiers infrared vision on The Blind Shall See Again, But When? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately one has to take anything coming out of WW2 research that is not supported by peer review with a good deal of skepticism. The article quoted seems very similar to the following.

    During WW2 the British promoted a dis-information campaign about their night fighters increasing their night vision using vitamin A compounds extracted from carrots. This was done to hide the capabilities of the radars fitted to their night fighters. Although it was pure bunk, a cousin of my Mum was a night fighter pilot in the RAF and related this fact to her after the war, the deception and disinformation campaign worked so well that it did enter into non peer reviewed scientific and medical literature both at the time and after the war as 'fact'.

  17. Re:WW-2 experiments gave soldiers infrared vision on The Blind Shall See Again, But When? · · Score: 1

    Will see if I can track down the refrenced book.

    Unfortunately one has to take anything coming out of WW2 research that is not supported by peer review with a good deal of skepticism. The article quoted seems very similar to the following.

    During WW2 the British promoted a dis-information campaign about their night fighters increasing their night vision using vitamin A compounds extracted from carrots. This was done to hide the capabilities of the radars fitted to their night fighters. Although it was pure bunk, a cousin of my Mum was a night fighter pilot in the RAF and related this fact to her after the war, the deception and disinformation campaign worked so well that it did enter into non peer reviewed scientific and medical literature both at the time and after the war as 'fact'.

  18. Re:WW-2 experiments gave soldiers infrared vision on The Blind Shall See Again, But When? · · Score: 1

    Please provide citation in regards to the ww2 tests. It will be an interesting read.

  19. Re:WW-2 experiments gave soldiers infrared vision on The Blind Shall See Again, But When? · · Score: 1

    Urban Myth.

  20. Re:PETA ... on Directed Energy Weapon Downs Mosquitos · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean a high pitched hissy fit.

  21. Soon a new US law on EU Overturns Agreement With US On Banking Data · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It will soon be illegal for an American or any entity operating in the United States to use the SWIFT money transfer service.

  22. Re:totally safe on Tritium Leak At Vermont Nuclear Plant Grows · · Score: 1

    The human body contains about 2 table spoons of heavy water.

  23. Re:oh, mdsolar submitted this story on Tritium Leak At Vermont Nuclear Plant Grows · · Score: 1

    Then he would not approve of what this chap says he did. Do it yourself Heavy Water Reactor

  24. Instatanious Digital Communication on Physicists Discover How To Teleport Energy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Using time sequencing you can now transfer binary data. Energy at this time code (i) no energy at this time code (0).

    So you can now have real time control of distant space craft and rovers.

  25. Re:Rather a sad, sad contrast... on India Moves To Put Its First Man In Space By 2016 · · Score: 1

    only because there are no voters in space, on the moon or any of the other planets.