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  1. Re:Not a story on Google Claims User Content In Multiple Products · · Score: 1

    A simple "fud" tag would probably suffice. Please tag story "fud" :)

  2. Re:Not supposed to be dooms day yet. on LHC Flips On Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    The last history entry:
    (cur) (last) 22:27, 9 September 2008 129.2.164.149 (Talk) (33,014 bytes) (Changed "Big Mistake of '38" to "Big Mistake of '08" which actually appears in the novels.) (undo)

    Who am I to trust? ;)

  3. Re:Isn't that logically impossible? on World's First "Unclonable" RFID Chip · · Score: 1

    If it makes it necessary to listen to many conversations between a reader and the RFID chip, that'll atleast make it impossible for someone to clone my chip by passing me on the street...

  4. Re:Press release and marketing hype. 1st paragraph on World's First "Unclonable" RFID Chip · · Score: 1

    But he'll refuse to pay out when it has been cloned!

  5. Re:A kinda-related question on Which Vendors Do You Trust For PC Parts? · · Score: 1

    Home basic maxes out at 4gb, home premium at 8gb, the rest has a 128gb limit.
    (Starter doesn't even have a 64bit version)

  6. Re:Hey, Mozilla: Learn what "Never" means on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, google "users" are a product. The advertisers are the customers of google.

  7. Re:A kinda-related question on Which Vendors Do You Trust For PC Parts? · · Score: 1

    Well, I would kinda notice that it only uses 4gb ram. I've got 8gb ram that I'd like to use ;)
    Thanks for the info though, sounds like vista improved the driver issues (incredibly enough...)

  8. A kinda-related question on Which Vendors Do You Trust For PC Parts? · · Score: 1

    I'm building myself a quad-core AMD machine, and I'm wondering whether or not to go with the 64-bit version of Vista. I know I "should avoid windows like the plague" and all that crap. I'm running ubuntu on my laptop, htcp and routers, but this PC has to be Windows. So... is the 64-bit version of Vista "good enough", or do I have to stick with the 32-bit version? I tried 64-bit XP a few years, but nothing really worked. Has this improved?

    Pointers on experiences and such is welcome, pro-linux rants are wasted.

  9. Re:Deja News on Google Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    One interesting sidenote is that AllTheWeb had hardware search which was ~20x the speed of Google per server. Unfortunately, AllTheWeb had only a couple servers and Google had dozens. That, combined with different algorithms and a verbable name was probably the reason ATW lost for Google ;)

  10. Re:What Will Firefox Fanboys Do Now? on Google Updates Chrome's Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like there is *any other* browser that has working flash on Linux x64. I'm writing this in FF on x64, and flash "works" once or twice before it just dies and I have to restart the browser.

  11. Re:What Will Firefox Fanboys Do Now? on Google Updates Chrome's Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, there's nothing "common" about "common sense".

  12. Re:Well that sounds reasonable. on Google Updates Chrome's Terms of Service · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, if you're only talking to stupids...
    The more intricate and hard-to-discover humor is, the funnier it is for the persons who actually get it. Dumbing it down to reach a wider audience lessens the impact. If you don't get it, accept it.

  13. Re:I just summoned some 'memories' on Brain Cells Observed Summoning a Memory · · Score: 4, Informative

    a) A soul has a weight, a mass that can be measured when someone passes away. Often referred to as the weight of the soul.

    Yes, a couple of grams. Of the exhaled air...

    b) When someone passes, the light or spark that you see in their eyes seems to disappear - not sure of a way to quantify that.

    Yeah, kind of like when you take a photo. After a little while, the eyes start drying out too, removing any sparks left.

    c) There have been multiple instances where enough facts (in some cases hundreds of years old) have been researched and IMO past lives verified. The cases I find most interesting are the ones where young children have mentioned facts that were later verified as being true. The one where a young boy

    Now hold on there, sheriff. There's no way to prove that they didn't have the information long before they told you. Hoaxes like that gain the involved lots of publicity and possibly money. Don't you think some people are willing to do it?
    If you want to see, you will see.

  14. Re:Chrome iPhone on Chrome Vs. IE 8 · · Score: 1

    NetBSD supports 54 hardware platforms. Linux has *far* wider support than that.

  15. Re:Cameras at every toll booth on California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable · · Score: 1

    Those are perfectly sane ideas, but how do you propose to enforce them?

  16. Re:www.zerba.com on Unsolicited Offer For My Personal Domain Name? · · Score: 1

    You can't be much of a brunette... Do you think it could possibly be related to Batzerba, who wrote the article that kdawson approved?

  17. Re:What? on Zebras Get Less Spam Than Aardvarks · · Score: 1

    Sign up to the LKML, and presto! Most of your mailbox is now non-spam ;)

  18. Re:What? on Zebras Get Less Spam Than Aardvarks · · Score: 1, Funny

    Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead.

  19. Some stats on Nvidia 55nm Parts Are Bad Too · · Score: 1

    The CDC says 1.4 million americans are infected every year.
    Deaths caused by salmonella in persons per million:

    US: 0.0946797, which places #39
    Norway is at 0.217723, #33
    Luxemburg has more than 4 ppm (!) and gets first place ;)
    Denmark 1.4
    Germany 0.8
    Oh, and South Africa has 0.090. Slightly less than the US.

    So it would seem that salmonella is more prevalent in Europe than in the US.
    Stats from CDC/NationMaster

  20. Re:Trolls.. on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Nah, Morissette doesn't point it out. Morissette just incorrectly uses it repeatedly.

  21. Re:Old tactics on Hit Man Email Scammer Back With a Vengeance · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that what is known as a "Hostile Take-over"?

  22. Re:Cameras at every toll booth on California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable · · Score: 1

    Here in Norway we have stickers we put on our licence plates that "prove" that we have paid the taxes required. A colored sticker would be enough, and the police could "sample" to see if anyone has faked it.

  23. Re:Serious issue! on What To Do With All of My Gadget Chargers? · · Score: 1

    Scandinavian kbd? That's Å

  24. Re:Cameras at every toll booth on California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable · · Score: 1

    That is very mature of you.
    If driving was a right, it would be "impossible" to revoke it. It isn't.
    Also, if it was a right, you wouldn't have to qualify (ie, get a drivers licence) to do it.

  25. Re:Cameras at every toll booth on California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable · · Score: 1

    Driving is a regulated activity. Everyone has the right to try and conform to the regulations, if you don't then your are not issued (given) a license.

    A right is inherent, a privilege is given/gained.