Comment WITCH HUNT! (Score 1) 204
Let the witch hunts begin!
Comment Re:Death bell tolling for thee.... (Score 1) 322
and how do you know apple isn't gonna do that?
Comment Re:screw 'em, then, let them be ignorant (Score 2) 129
How exactly blocking Gmail et al. would make China become backward?
I mean, it is a fair question.
blocking google does not make them backwards... however, since they are backwards they block google... Being backwards is not the effect..is the cause.
Comment The best part (Score 1) 420
The best part is that it will soon (if not already) illegal for YOU to watch THEM.
That is.. they can watch you but you can't watch them...
Comment iPod touch (Score 2) 301
mp3 player, of course a good rom would permit FLAC and other formats... however you would probably need a good capacity SD card (if the cell supports it) ...just keep it in airplane mode to improve battery life.
Comment Re:Half of circumference? (Score 1) 332
I think "flameén" is a conjugated from of "flamear" which comes from the english "to flame" but verbalized in spanish.
Comment replace non-smoking signal (Score 1) 220
Since all flights are always non-smoking the whole flight, it's about time they replace the (now) useless non-smoking signal with a no-electronics signal.
Comment Does copyright lasts hundreds of years? (Score 1) 325
not yet, but it will once Mickey is hundreds of years old
Comment Re:THANK GOODNESS! (Score 1) 136
now that we have admitted that digital copying equates to theft it's just a matter of time before the MAFIAAs win
Submission + - Untapped Energy Below Us (yahoo.com) 1
EskimoJoe writes: "BASEL, Switzerland — When tremors started cracking walls and bathroom tiles in this Swiss city on the Rhine, the engineers knew they had a problem.
"The glass vases on the shelf rattled, and there was a loud bang," Catherine Wueest, a teashop owner, recalls. "I thought a truck had crashed into the building."
But the 3.4 magnitude tremor on the evening of Dec. 8 was no ordinary act of nature: It had been accidentally triggered by engineers drilling deep into the Earth's crust to tap its inner heat and thus break new ground — literally — in the world's search for new sources of energy.
On paper, the Basel project looks fairly straightforward: Drill down, shoot cold water into the shaft and bring it up again superheated and capable of generating enough power through a steam turbine to meet the electricity needs of 10,000 households, and heat 2,700 homes.
Scientists say this geothermal energy, clean, quiet and virtually inexhaustible, could fill the world's annual needs 250,000 times over with nearly zero impact on the climate or the environment.
A study released this year by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said if 40 percent of the heat under the United States could be tapped, it would meet demand 56,000 times over. It said an investment of $800 million to $1 billion could produce more than 100 gigawatts of electricity by 2050, equaling the combined output of all 104 nuclear power plants in the U.S."
Submission + - Automatix Activly Dangerous to Ubuntu
exeme writes: Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett has recently analysed famed Ubuntu illegal software installer Automatix and found it to be actively dangerous to Ubuntu desktop systems. In a detailed report which only took Garrett a couple of hours he found many serious, show-stopper bugs and concluded that Ubuntu could not officially support Automatix in its current state. Garrett also goes on to say that simple Debian packages could provide all of the functionality of Automatix without any of the problems it exhibits.
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