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  1. Re:*sigh* on Jolla: Ex-Nokia Employees Launch Smartphone (MeeGo Resurrected) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From Jolla's website:

    GSM/3G/4G LTE* (Works on 6 continents).

    Which doesn't answer your question, but should mean that it works unless you're living in Antarctica :)

    GSM Arena says:

    2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
    3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
    4G Network LTE

    yeah, probably not trustworthy, but one would hope they have a (semi-)official source for it.

    Disclaimer: Mine is in the mail... :)

  2. Re:Oh, the irony... on International Space Station Infected With Malware Carried By Russian Astronauts · · Score: 1

    You're saying there are a lot of Hollywood blondes in Russia? Interesting...

  3. Re:Oh, the irony... on International Space Station Infected With Malware Carried By Russian Astronauts · · Score: 1

    Am thinking there are certain systems, where I'd look to make a physical block preventing certain situations.

    Example, if the air-lock is not pressurized, dont allow opening inner door, unless a person physically apply pressure to a sensor.

    Sure that there are other cases, where physical "rules"/controls could be use to prevent computer "accidents".

  4. Re:Is anyone giving money to Sony? on A Playstation 4 Teardown · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Did you notice Sony will only let you watch streamed Video and Music sold to you by them?
    No DLNA support
    No USB support
    No using a PS4 for home media

    I've been called a paid Sony Shill on these forums, and I'm now saying that the XBox is the best all-round device for the next generation.

  5. Re:Nexus 5: Can it run linux? on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 1

    Or, buy a Jolla?

  6. Re:the other 40% on 30% of Americans Get News From Facebook According To Pew Research Poll · · Score: 1

    Need to get a balanced news-diet:
    * John Stewart
    * Steven Colbert
    * Bill Maher
    * Wall Street Journal

  7. Re:Odd timing on Do Is Done · · Score: 1

    We went from version 1.5 to v6.1 to 20xx.y in a decade... I think the next release will be version 9.

  8. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 2

    mount the weapons such that they cannot miss?

  9. Re:statistically, cyclists don't hit pedestrians on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 0

    Get a Triathlon bar on your bike, and don't swerve to avoid people - After someone has been impaled once or twice from not looking before stepping out in front of a bike, they'll stop doing that...

  10. Re:Moo on Gravity: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right? · · Score: 1

    Observation: They might benefit from the Overview Effect.

    linky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect

  11. Re:Not surprised on What's Lost When a Meeting Goes Virtual · · Score: 2

    I think I can confirm this.

    We have some team-members, who can collaborate quite well via text, exchange ideas and make suggestions, but we also have 1 team-member who cannot work via text at all, and 1 who has issues when working via phone/concalls. Personally, I prefer face-2-face, but also painfully aware that I fail at interacting socially at these types of events.
    It is very much about the people's ability to use the medium, whether that medium is IRC/Chat, Phone, webcams or in-person attendance.

  12. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Very!
    If they don't hit a vein properly, but start to "hunt" for one inside your arm (or other bodypart), it will hurt...

  13. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    I've had a pile of blodtests done, and have donated blood - every time, the statement from the nurse/lab-assistant has been, "this will hurt a little bit".

  14. Re:Overrated? on Why Julian Assange Should Embrace 'The Fifth Estate' · · Score: 0

    If I understood Swedish law (based on what I've read related to the case), the Swedish prosecutor(s) need him to be in Sweden to press charges and bring him in for questioning. They have no use for questioning him at a separate location.

    As for guaranteeing not sending him off to Gitmo or anywhere else, the Swedish government has shown a few times that they are willing to bend their own rules quite a bit, if asked to do so by the USA.

  15. Re:F also stands for on How DirecTV Overhauled Its 800-Person IT Group With a Game · · Score: 1

    Soo... F12 = We're going to fired 12 people, participate, or have your named added to the short-list ... ?

  16. Re:None use intel or amd for graphics? on Steam Machine Prototypes Use Intel CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't know who performs better, but after seeing (admittedly a decade ago) the shit-fest that were ATi drivers, I'm just going to avoid their products.

  17. Re:Predators? Which predators?! on New Threat To Seaside Nuclear Plants, Datacenters: Jellyfish · · Score: 1

    Solution: We need to make more jellyfish predators!

  18. Re:Rampant Jellyfish on New Threat To Seaside Nuclear Plants, Datacenters: Jellyfish · · Score: 2

    Shouldn't we then see an increase in those species, that eat jellyfish?

    Some of the most common and important jellyfish predators include tuna, shark, swordfish, and at least one species of Pacific salmon, as well as sea turtles, also known as leatherback turtle.

    http://www.jellyfishfacts.net/jellyfish-predators.html

  19. Re:Or, another option on 3mm Inexpensive Chip Revolutionizes Electron Accelerators · · Score: 1

    you misspelled "jigga"

  20. Re:Natural selection on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're missing something ...

    Krokodil is NOT for those wanting to get high/stoned/whatever for cheaps.

    It is a drug for when everything else is just not cutting it anymore.
    It is a drug for when nothing in life really matter, besides the next fix.
    It is a drug for when you've accepted that you're going to die from drugs.

    Krokodil is the thing users turn to when everything else has been tried, when all there is left is the pain and the high and when you're beyond the regular kind of drug-addict-gone-fucked-up.

    "Dumb" has nothing, what-so-ever, to do with it.

  21. Re: One for one on The Most WTF-y Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Tests show that programming in C++ while ingesting not-insignificant quantities of whiskey, works fine
    (disclaimer: next day, could not determine WHY the code worked as it should)

  22. Re:Totally Unworkable on France Proposes Consideration of Tax On Data Taken Out of EU · · Score: 1

    If you're in the US handling HR and Legal aspects for employees, there is a 99% chance you're messing up anyways*

    *: Based on my experience

  23. Re:LPMUD! on Learning To Code: Are We Having Fun Yet? · · Score: 1

    Actually a good idea - am thinking I'll try to use it some day.

  24. Re:NSA and cable taps on Trans-Pacific Cable Plans Mired In US-China Geopolitical Rivalry · · Score: 1

    When I was in Mississippi some years ago, I got the impression they already considered the French an enemy.

    Their War-On-Frenchfries was already well under way.

  25. Re:Consequences? on Snowden Docs: Brits Hacked Accounts of Belgian IT Admins · · Score: 1

    What I'm curious about is whether the recent treaties and agreements about electronic warfare covers this as an act of war, and whether Belgium can request NATO and US support in said war with the UK...