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  1. Re:Prices are what the market will bear on Aussie Parliamentary Inquiry Into Software Pricing Announced · · Score: 1

    AFAIK all lefthand drive BM Wobbleyous are made in South Africa. So the Auz Beamers are actually imported from SA.

  2. Filthy American Hotels... on Monkeypox Scare Grounds Flight In Chicago · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The interesting thing is that only country that I have ever been bitten by bugs/lice in a hotel was in America and I have been in some very backward places. American hotels are dirty. It is actually a good thing that the TSA tries to keep visitors away...

  3. Re:Not News on Pigeons May 'Hear' Magnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    Plants can hear magnetic fields? That would be news on the scale of The Day of the Triffids.

  4. Re:Inner Ear = Hearing? on Pigeons May 'Hear' Magnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many people got this MP quote?

  5. Ya want fries wizzat? on Univ. of Florida Announces Plan To Save CS Department · · Score: 1

    I hope the CS department teaches the students how to operate a burger joint, else they will be on the street as unemployable...

  6. Drill drill drilll on NASA and Astrobotic Investigating Ice Hunting Mission to the Moon · · Score: 1

    ...or they can just do like we do on earth and drill for water, oil and gas. The planets are all made of the same stuff, so it should all be there.

  7. Re:It could just be me... on Why eBook DRM Has To Go · · Score: 1

    That is impossible. You mean to say that the publieck skool system actually works and half the people on the train can read!?

  8. Re:Sure Why Not? on Why eBook DRM Has To Go · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mean like this one http://www.baen.com/library/ ?

  9. Re:Evolution on Dot-Word TLDs Further Delayed · · Score: 1

    Nope, the really bad old days were the days of gopher, archie and veronica. Altavista was already the good old days.

  10. Re:Bigger Problems Than That on Geologists Say UK Shale Deposits Hold Vast Energy Reserves · · Score: 1

    The shale gas is 7 to 8 kilometers down under solid rock. The reason it is down there, is because the rock above it is impermeable, otherwise it would have escaped millions of years ago already. Drinkable ground water is in the upper 0.1 kilometer of the crust. There is no way for the 'water and chemicals' to get into the drinking water, unless the gas well itself is faulty and needs a new sleeve.

  11. Re:goodluckwiththat on Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone · · Score: 1

    Huh, ya think? China makes planes, satellites and UAVs of their own. They don't need to copy a design from the previous century.

  12. Re:Doubtful they have "reverse-engineered" anythin on Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is possible to lead a UAV by its nose if you have GPS test set. Anyhoo, they could make a balsa wood copy and fly it RC or with an Ardupilot from DIYdrones. Journalists won't know the difference.

  13. Re:Open Source on Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone · · Score: 1

    Why would China want it? China make their own planes, UAVs, satellites... They don't need obsolete American schtuff.

  14. Re:Alternative theory on Open Source Project Licenses Trending Toward Open Rather than Free · · Score: 1

    That is why small projects are encouraged to transfer their copyright to the FSF. They will fight any legal battles on your behalf.

  15. Re:Greening of Africa on Beneath Africa, Survey Finds 'Huge' Water Reserves · · Score: 1

    Why? The earth was much warmer in the past and instead of being a desert, the Sahara was a grassland. Higher temperature means more evaporation from the oceans, which means more rain...

  16. Re:Bureacracy sucks but on Canadian Bureacracy Can't Answer Simple Question: What's This Study With NASA? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Right, now you just need to learn how to spell palindrome...

  17. Re:Gasoline-like energy density on IBM Creates 'Breathing' High-Density Lithium-Air Battery · · Score: 1

    Actually, supercaps found a niche in buses. A bus only needs to get to the next stop. So make each stop a pantograph overhead charger and you got a winner.

  18. Re:Not vital... on IBM Creates 'Breathing' High-Density Lithium-Air Battery · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I used to drive 1500 km in 12 1/2 hours. Not recommended though...

  19. Re:Yes and? You always have been on NASA Unveils Greenest Federal Building In the Nation · · Score: 1

    Disease can spread through grey water. Water spinkled in a garden can be breathed by passer's by. Therefore all water used in a city must be purified, else it is a very expensive health risk.

  20. Re:Reading between the lines on NASA Unveils Greenest Federal Building In the Nation · · Score: 1

    No, that would be reverse osmosis. With forward osmosis, you are drinking the next girl's urine.

  21. Re:Can't feed nor provide clean water for populati on India Test Fires Long-Range, Nuke-Capable Missile · · Score: 1

    Hmm, the same can be said about parts of China and the USA too...

  22. Cookie scrambler on Research To "Reveal the Unseen World of Cookies" · · Score: 1

    I would like to have a FF plug-in that messes up cookie data to make it useless to the trackers. A little bit of revenge...

  23. Centurion South Africa on Russian City Ever Watchful Against Being Sucked Into Earth · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sink holes are quite common in many places around the world. There are no mines under Centurion, yet a sink hole occurs multiple times per year in the dolomite areas.

  24. Re:more and more on Canada: Police Do Not Have Power To Wiretap Without Warrant · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, the underground railroad has always run *from* the USA *to* Canada. The US may have a big statue of Libertas in the New York harbour, but the US has never really been the land of the free. That title belongs to Canada.

  25. Re:Not as crazy as it sounds on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    You can pop an automatic into neutral, by just slamming the stick forward - whack==Neutral. The button lock will engage in the Neutral position and keep it from overshooting. Anyone who drives on icy roads knows that.