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  1. Belgium 50%?!? on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    "adoption rates vary from 50% in Belgium"

    Really? Belgacom/Proximus, whom I understand is the largest ISP, says that they don't support IPv6 (also, said they don't do home-routers with 11n, 5GHz, or non-butt-ugly-casing)

  2. Re:But can it be easily forged? on US Bombs ISIS Command Center After Terrorist Posts Selfie Online · · Score: 1

    Alter EXIF data to show coordinates in Washington, DC?

  3. Re:Metric Guns. on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Let's be honest here, going metric is just like banning guns: regardless of how you feel about the subject, the cost of changing the way it has been for hundreds of years is just too great. From road signs to revamping of labels to changing all hardware (like tools/bolts/etc) to just changing how people think about measurements.

    or, don't change the roadsigns?

  4. Re:Yes, but can it launch Waze on Siri, Cortana and Google Have Nothing On SoundHound's Speech Recognition · · Score: 0

    But a native English speaker (are you?) is almost certainly going to pronounce "waze" identically to "ways".

    Clearly I'm not natively English, since I think it should, based on spelling, be pronounced similar to "vase" - (/vz/, /ves/, or /vez/)

  5. Re:"This plugin is vulnerable" on Indicted Ex-FIFA Executive Cites Onion Article In Rant Slamming US · · Score: 1

    You're using a plugin to watch Youtube?!? Why would you want to do that?

  6. Re:it's not "slow and calculated torture" on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    Greece's current agreements with the EU and IMF are such that they actually CAN choose to not pay it back, take a lot of pain right now, and come out "OK'ish" on the other side. All other situations, yeah, bancruptcy is not normally on the table for nations.

  7. Re:32MB? on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    Started writing my own IoT library, to access various IoT-things in a generic, abstracted manner - one thing I haven't even bothered with, is cloud-based stuff.
    LAN works just fine, as does VPN'ing into your home to read stuff.

  8. Re: Meh... on California Votes To Ban Microbeads · · Score: 1

    Sounds like someone needs to produce a line of McMicroBead burger, with extra PE.

  9. Re:Paging Tech Seargent Chen ... on Protons Collide At 13 TeV For the First Time At the LHC · · Score: 1

    Next, they are planning on only releasing a single proton, then have a guy run in the opposite direction at Mach 2, and finally having the two collide.

  10. Re:Love it on The Body Cam Hacker Who Schooled the Police · · Score: 1

    in this particular case, it would seem to be a not-so-stupid stunt... but still a stunt.

  11. Re:Sudden? on ESA Satellite Shows Sudden Ice Loss In Southern Antarctic Peninsula · · Score: 1

    Democracy does not give you the government you want, or the government you need - it gives you the government you deserve.

  12. Re:Arab? on Arab Mars Probe Planned For 2020 · · Score: 1

    don't worry, I have about 15 mod points currently

  13. Re:Mac/Linux support removed... mildly surprised on Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter - in the home-segment, most Macs are laptops or tablets, and the best GPU there is the GTX750m, which is below the minimum-specs of the Oculus Rift.
    Mac users may be willing to spend lavishly, but there's (currently) nothing effectively available that is usable with "Foculus".

  14. Re:simpler solution on Researchers Make Spiders Produce Silk Strengthened With Graphene · · Score: 1

    Breed them in containers with much higher levels of oxygen...

  15. Re:intentional on No, NASA Did Not Accidentally Invent Warp Drive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Must have been really annoying making sure you still had money identical to what was used several decades ago - down to the correct signatures, date-of-issue, stamping etc :)

  16. Re:Big deal on Second Ever Super-rare Pocket Shark Discovered · · Score: 1

    How does it fly?

    Circular

  17. Re:It's finally time on Feds Say It's Time To Cut Back On Fluoride In Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    Head to Mexico - just across the border dental care seems quite cheap, and often pretty capable.

  18. Re:Here's to hoping they don't find oil on Yellowstone Supervolcano Even Bigger Than We Realized · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Having said that, one might be able to drill from a decent angle to maintain structure integrity as I've shown here.

    I fully expected goatse or rickroll or something - very disappointed!

  19. Re:Dell, HP, Panasonic on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    I've only used Dell in enterprises, and I've only seen Dell in enterprises (customers).
    Servers were generally fairly good, monitors excellent, but ALL laptops were consumer-level crap.
    (Don't recall having seen a Dell desktop - seems companies want everyone to use laptops these days)

  20. Re:America! Fuck yeah! on Gyrocopter Pilot Appears In Court; Judge Bans Him From D.C. · · Score: 1

    To be fair, those obese people could simply be Germans...

    Germany - the America of Europe!

  21. Re:Losing Your Computer on The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers · · Score: 1

    So now I can expect to lose my entire computer because it dropped and I might have vacuumed it up with the dust bunnies?

    Now we know where Skylink will actually start - in the waste and landfills, full of vacuumed-up micro-computers.

  22. Re:Mystery Solved on The Solar System Is Awash In Water · · Score: 1

    California doesn't have a drought; if they did, they'd have done something about the stupid laws and excessive waste of water.

  23. Re:Wow, these ads must be AWFUL on Consumer Groups Bemoan Google's "Deceptive" Ads for Kids In FTC Complaint · · Score: 2

    Oh, definitely - I'd also seen my first "dirty magazine" by the time I was 11.

    But there's a difference between that, and a 5-yr old being subjected her favorite cartoon figure engaging in various acts, or hearing her talk about exterminating the native population while being a "potty-mouth".

    I'm kinda conscious of my kids learning the differences between nudity, affection and sexuality, and some of the stuff people are uploading on YouTube would undermine my efforts in that area.

  24. Re:Wow, these ads must be AWFUL on Consumer Groups Bemoan Google's "Deceptive" Ads for Kids In FTC Complaint · · Score: 1

    There is some content on YouTube, that many parents (me included) find inappropriate for children.

    Example was that my kid had found some Dora the Explorer cartoons on it, and afterwards YouTube suggested "related videos" that included very explicit adult content in non-official Dora cartoons.

  25. Re:Not in the US on The Democratization of Medical Diagnosis and Discovery · · Score: 1

    Note: I'm from Denmark, now living in Belgium.

    I like the fact that I can get a CD/DVD with my scans - sure it is in a proprietary format, and comes with a limited windows-application, so the whole thing is useless to me, but besides that, it is cool.

    What I DON'T like is that I go have a scan, then have to get a CD/DVD, take that to my doctor, who then interprets it while I wait ....
    Why the funk not just send the damn data to the doctor immediately, and let him/her spend any downtime ("there's always patients cancelling") to review the data?

    Back home, I've had an MRI done, data sent to Copenhagen, answer from some expert came back (it was a complex fracture) and everything was dealt with easily and fast - no need for me to run around with stuff.