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Comment Re:No appreciation for subtlety in China (Score 1) 213

by capo_dei_capi on Thursday December 09, 2010 @02:41PM (#34504458) Attached to: China Blocks News Websites In Protest of Nobel

I'm pretty sure most Chinese citizens care neither about CNN, nor BBC, nor NRK.

Comment Re:Don't buy it (Score 1) 614

by capo_dei_capi on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @03:34PM (#34491360) Attached to: US To Host World Press Freedom Day

I don't see your point. It's not like WikiLeaks invented anything, they just published government documents, and in the light of repeated calls by US officials to have WikiLeaks and Assange in particular silenced, the sentence

At the same time, we are concerned about the determination of some governments to censor and silence individuals, and to restrict the free flow of information.

is indeed quite ironic.

Comment Re:-blink- (Score 0) 200

by capo_dei_capi on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @03:18PM (#34491098) Attached to: SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon Make It To Orbit

Jesus Diaz of Gizmodo

Comment Re:They don't pollute simply because they are ship (Score 0) 595

by capo_dei_capi on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @06:30PM (#34324310) Attached to: One Giant Cargo Ship Pollutes As Much As 50M Cars

You could always prohibit ships that don't obey your emission rules from using your harbors, like many countries do with single-hull oil tankers.

Comment Re:Why Still Pursuing This? (Score 0) 250

by capo_dei_capi on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @06:23PM (#33669580) Attached to: First Human-Powered Ornithopter

C'mon, it was a project done by grad students, not by some post-doctoral research fellows.

Comment Re:Another overblown bit of hype (Score 0) 324

by capo_dei_capi on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @04:50PM (#33668352) Attached to: 2011, Year of the Tablet?

If I remember right it was primarily marketed as a:

web surfing device
PMP (video, music playback)
e-book reader

You might find serious applications for all of these features (e.g. reading textbooks), but they are mostly associated with entertainment.
Also, while it does sport all the necessary capabilities, the iphone doesn't exactly shine in any of the above applications, mainly due to the small screen.

Comment Re:Another overblown bit of hype (Score 0) 324

by capo_dei_capi on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @03:21PM (#33667104) Attached to: 2011, Year of the Tablet?

A toy, as opposed to what? A serious business appliance?
AFAIK, it was supposed never supposed to be anything other than an entertainment device. And believe you me, there's a big market for entertainment devices...

Comment Re:OSR (Obligitory Simpson's Reference) (Score 0) 177

by capo_dei_capi on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @12:19PM (#33651708) Attached to: The Real Truth About Oracle's 'New' Kernel

Malabu Stacy? Is that a Nigerian Malibu Stacy clone?

Comment Sexually violent? (Score 0) 478

by capo_dei_capi on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @10:18AM (#33586602) Attached to: 72% of US Adults Support Violent-Game Ban For Minors

Do they mean Japanese rape simulators?

Comment Re:Why? (Score 0) 101

by capo_dei_capi on Thursday August 26, 2010 @09:19AM (#33380166) Attached to: Google Testing Instant Search Feature

Image results are filtered by default. So no, there probably wouldn't be any unpleasant surprises.

Comment Re:Does that make sense ? (Score 0) 426

by capo_dei_capi on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @03:42PM (#33372858) Attached to: 'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines

And the same thing couldn't have been achieved at home with an emulator?
Besides, these are high school students, not some university students taking classes in programming for embedded systems.

Comment Re:Wouldn't be very useful by itself (Score 0) 76

by capo_dei_capi on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @09:28AM (#33354070) Attached to: Skeletal Identification

You can't visualize bone with MRI (it's invisible in MR images). What you're looking for is probably CT (3D X-ray), the problem with this though is that you cannot expose the general public to the radiation levels that come with a CT scan without their explicit consent.

Comment Re:Rather stupid... (Score 0) 183

by capo_dei_capi on Monday August 23, 2010 @06:23AM (#33338716) Attached to: North Korea Looking For Friends On Facebook

servers owned by governments hostile

Uh, last time I checked facebook wasn't a socialist state enterprise.

Comment lol engadget (Score 0) 622

by capo_dei_capi on Sunday August 22, 2010 @03:16PM (#33333590) Attached to: Smart Trash Carts Tell If You Haven't Been Recycling

Looks like engadget got it backwards.

Comment Re:It's just (Score 2, Funny) 116

by capo_dei_capi on Friday August 20, 2010 @01:57PM (#33316544) Attached to: The Moon Is Shrinking Like a Wrinkled Apple

And here I thought there are no women on the internet...

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