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  1. I have the alternative on Brain Disease Found In NFL Players · · Score: 1

    Maybe we should all just start playing sarcastaball. That will be much safer.

  2. history repeating itself? on John McAfee Accused of Murder, Wanted By Belize Police · · Score: 5, Funny

    So is his company then going the way of ReiserFS?

  3. Let's say it's all publicity on Nature Lover Vladimir Putin Flies With the Cranes · · Score: 2

    Even if it were all publicity, I must say, that I am impressed. Look what every other politician would do for some PR like that. Everybody can go around kissing babies. Doesn't matter what you think of him, but you have to commend his commitment.

  4. Re:Right is better than fast on Election Tech: In Canada, They Actually Count the Votes · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, there is this one voting district in Bavaria with about 80 elegible voters who are usually done counting about 20 minutes after polls closed (the smallest voting district has 12 people but usually they are about 2000) and they get the record for fastest tally every time. Don't know how the 12-people-district manages to screw that up, but anyways

  5. Re:Worse? on Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy · · Score: 1

    You do know that most of our electronic devices rely on electrons colliding with stuff?!

  6. Re:Mini-PC and pulseaudio on Ask Slashdot: Recording Business Meeting Audio On an Intranet? · · Score: 1

    Would have suggested that right away but didn't know whether it packs enough bang.

  7. Mini-PC and pulseaudio on Ask Slashdot: Recording Business Meeting Audio On an Intranet? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As far as I know, you could put a linux-box there with pulseaudio and make the input device network-available. You could record then with any pulseaudio-system anywhere.

  8. Right Step! Right Guys? on Motorola Releases an Official Bootloader Unlocker · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We've seen companies opening up in the past and often they started closing down again after time. Let us hope they stay open and even more, let us hope it works for them from a business perspective, so that other companies may follow.
    As long as the guys in the suits think they make more money by closing down, we still have a problem.

  9. Re:Deutsche Post's far ahead on Amazon Expanding Delivery Locker Service · · Score: 3, Informative

    I live in Leipzig (500.000ppl in Eastern Germany) and we have 18 Packstationen. I think they are pretty well placed and I would hazard a guess that about 80 to 90% of the population would be within 10 bike minutes of one. But since you decide where you want it send, you are usually near one.
    I always let them send packages to the Packstation near my university. So I can get my package during break. Lots of people let their packages being sent to a Packstation near work or on the way between work and home.

  10. Deutsche Post's far ahead on Amazon Expanding Delivery Locker Service · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In Germany we have a similar but general system called "Packstation" (package station). Everybody can get an access code and everybody and every company can send a package to any Packstation in the country (there's one for every 50.000 to 100.000 people). You can get automated round-the-clock access via electronic card and a pin-code.
    You can also drop off packages. You get an email and sms when a package for you arrived. All in all, pretty nifty system.

    And it doesn't cost a cent more than having it delivered to your house.

  11. But Guns are easy on Neuroscience May Cure Videogames Industry's Obsession With Guns · · Score: 1

    The mouse and the gamepad are very good to simulate 3D-Dimensional motion, as are the Graphics Cards. Having a game that works with space is easy because it is modelled after reality.
    So having a game around the notion of moving things through space at a specific target is an easy concept. Acquiring control over said space through excertion of force is easy to grasp as well.

    I think there was an article on RPS some time ago that talked about how the video game controls are specifically suited to manipulate a world physically instead of emotionally or through dialogue. And what better physical interaction is there than punching?

  12. Re:What a Surprise on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I meant the baltic sea. In Germany, North Sea is literally "North Sea". I thought same would apply for the baltic sea, which in German, again, literally translates to "East Sea".

  13. Re:What a Surprise on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    It's like I said globals warming doesn't exist. I just said that it could be considered common knowledge, with what temperatures the romans had to deal with. And because of that, the content of the article came as no surprise to me.

    And to say "they did so because they were there" is no good evidence. The Vikings lived on Greenland, as long as they were able to grow their crops. One could argue that the Romans left Britain (or did not expend more energy on holding it) because they stopped being able to make vine and transport over those distances was unfeasible.

    How's that for a Reality-check? ;)

  14. What a Surprise on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, you can ask anybody who studied antique history. We all know that the romans grew wine in England. How do people think they managed to do that? Of course it was warmer back then than nowadays.
    And then in the 1750's we had a very cold period where we can deduce from paintings that the East Sea was often frozen shut in the winter.


    Is this really news to anybody?

  15. Scooped on Cat Parasite May Increase Risk of Suicide In Humans · · Score: 1

    I was sure I have read that on Cracked.com years ago. Can't seem to find it now :(

  16. Magnets in your body? That's nice. on Subdermal Magnets Allow You To Wear an IPod Like a Watch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is nice but I rather be augmented sensewise than fashionwise by these magnets. I'd love one in my fingertip that induces a current whenever I am very near alternating current. Would give us the ability to feel electric energy or magnetic fields in general.
    Regarding the iPod: Actually, my pocket works very good, Thank you!

  17. Re:Ugh on German Pirate Party Enters 2nd State Parliament · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Funnily enough, this is almost exactly how it works in Germany. There is a pre-ordered and published list but we have a mixed system where you can vote for your district's candidate directly and the guy or girl who wins a district overrides his position (if placed) in the list. But the list/party-vote guarantees that the party is at least that represented.
    And if there are more candidates that won directly than the percentage would allow for (in terms of representation), we add seats to the parliament in order for every directly elected representative to have his place.

  18. Re:Ugh on German Pirate Party Enters 2nd State Parliament · · Score: 2

    This is why, in Germany, we don't actually vote for a party but for a list supplied by the party. This list has to be openly available and 5 or 6 candidates are named on the ballot as an example.
    Don't like the guy? Don't vote for the list he is on. If you still like the politics of his list/party, then why do you care if he is an a-hole?

  19. Re:Slahdot in UK ? on How the Year Looked On Slashdot · · Score: 1

    in Winter.
    GMT conforms to DST

  20. 2012 on How the Year Looked On Slashdot · · Score: 4, Funny

    2012 will be the year, Linux finally comes to the desktop, I heared

  21. With help from ESA on NASA May Send Landers To Europa In 2020 · · Score: 1

    Why don't they ask ESA? I am pretty sure they already have landers there

  22. Re:We Can Find Water on MARS, But NO Nukes in Iran on NASA's Gypsum Find Clear Evidence There Was Water On Mars · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because they, contrary to the martians, shoot down unmanned probes.

  23. Natural selection on Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As many said before me: just fail them and let natural selection take its course.

  24. Here in Germany on Hard Drive Prices Up 150% In Less Than Two Months · · Score: 5, Informative

    prices are up 300%. I work at a B2B-reseller and the 1TB Western Digital Caviar Green which was 0.05€/GB in September is now up to 0.16€/GB. Other drives are similar. Some drives have even seen 400%.

  25. DOM-Interface for byte code on JavaScript JVM Runs Java · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For years I've been saying that we need a DOM-Interface for byte code in Browsers and everytime I get downvoted. Nice to see people exploring in these directions now.

    "we do need DOM-Bindings for Bytecode now more than ever. It would be so great to write code in a language of my choice and compile it to Browser-Bytecode with DOM-Bindings. This would make it possible to deliver more proprietary code without making browser-plugins or something similar."

    "What we really need are DOM-Bindings for Bytecode. So you can use every language you want that is capable of compiling to bytecode and send it to a browser. This would make it easier for the developer and bytecode is easier and faster for the browser to execute."