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Comment Re:Science or Religion? (Score 1) 1136

Not being a native English speaker, I tried to understand the acronym AGW.
At first I thought it meant Anti Global Warming, but it didn't make sense when I read a few more answers.

So I asked Wikipedia, and found that AGW means Actual Gold Weight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actual_gold_weight).

Now I'm really confused!

Comment Re:Stop with the drugs already (Score 1) 595

The deafness rate in Norway is about 0.1%, we have about 400 000 hearing impaired. The population is about 4.8 million.
Don't know how this compares to other countries though...

This article from a Norwegian university will give you the numbers: http://www.hib.no/aktuelt/nyheter/2005/04/om-dove.asp
(Google translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hib.no%2Faktuelt%2Fnyheter%2F2005%2F04%2Fom-dove.asp&sl=no&tl=en)

Comment Re:People definitely neglect science... (Score 1) 656

But people that believe that perpetual motion is completely legitimate and is being covered up by big oil companies and governments as some big conspiracy are fucking worthless. That isn't advanced science, that's standard high school junior year science. The people that pay absolutely no attention to that class have no idea why we should develop renewable energy because "we just need perpetual motion". Forget funding research into this area, let's waste time "overthrowing" corporations to get this magical source of limitless energy.

All you need for perpetual motion is to create negative flux using a local field of negative time. This is done by your trusty old flux capacitor:
http://4gang.wordpress.com/how-to-build-a-negative-inductance/

Of course, you'll also need a DeLorean driving at 88 mph (the speedometer shows a maximum of 85 mph, which makes this part a bit tricky) and 1.21 jigowatts of power.
Unfortunately, until you can get your hands on that sweet little Mr. Fusion, you have to make a plutonium deal with your local Libyan terrorist group.

There are some hurdles, but how can you say it can't be done?

Data Storage

What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use? 399

Life2Death writes "I've been working with computers for a long time, and every once and a while someone close to me has a drive go belly up on them. I know there are big, expensive recovery houses that specialize in mission-critical data recovery, like if your house blew up and you have millions of files you need or something, but for the local IT group, what do you guys use? Given that most people are on NTFS (Windows XP) by the numbers, what would you use? I found a ton of tools when I googled, and everyone and their brother suggests something else, so I want to know what software 'just works' on most recoveries of bad, but partially working hard drives. Free software always has a warm spot in my heart."

Comment Re:Election Fraud (Score 1) 494

I see your point, and I should have said:
"The flaw exploited would be the fact that the voter had no 'receipt' or evidence to prove that they had successfully voted. Had there been such a thing, this kind of social engineering would have been much harder."

A receipt telling *what* they had voted would be bad in so many ways.
Government

Submission + - Norwegian Government Goes Open Format

titten writes: "The Norwegian government has decided that everybody should have equal access to official documents. All information on official websites must be HTML, ODF or PDF from 2009, with a transistion period running until the end of 2013. No English information so far, here's an article describing the new legislation in Norwegian. The Norwegian UNIX User Group just gave a press release on the subject. It's so fresh, they've yet to publish it in any other way than by email."

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