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  1. Re:+1 Vote for Mexican Flu by moderatorrater · · Score: 2, Informative · on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu"

    What about those who entered legally and are US citizens?

  2. thailand too! by Evoluder · · Score: 1 · on Men Warned About Knockout Boob Bandits

    http://www.cdnn.info/news/travel/t051115.html second to last paragraph

  3. I cant wait for the video release by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny · on Giant Squid Caught on Film

    This will user in a whole new era of porn
    http://www.cdnn.info/news/eco/e050925.html

  4. It's just too damn profitable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Anti-Phishing Tools

    look at this guy. He made 8000 UK pounds just from fishing!
    This guy right here is a kingpin of these fishing scams!

  5. Re:Reminds me of that old movie Top Secret! by thaigan · · Score: 1 · on Surfing on a Surfboard

    There are some interesting electronic shark repellents already on the market.
    cdnn
    sharkshield
    siliconchip
    sport-fish-info

  6. Re:Predicted by be951 · · Score: 3, Interesting · on On the Trail to Atlantis
    If Antartica was ice-free (or mostly so) a few hundred years ago, why wasn't sea level dozens or hundreds of feet higher? Some Antarctica facts. That water/ice had to be somewhere. Another relevant fact, "Antarctica represents about 9 percent of Earth's continental crust and has been in a near-polar position for more than 100 million years".

    Near cyprus makes more sense to me. Even the theory that Cuba is the remains of Atlantis sounds more plausible than Antarctica.

  7. not new- tiki bob by Jafa · · Score: 2, Informative · on Scuba-Doo Underwater Scooter

    These look exactly like Tiki BOBs. I'm guessing it's the same company and everything, they're just hopping on the segway bandwagon. Didn't look around a lot, but here's a link or two:
    http://www.cdnn.info/industry/i031220/i031220.html
    http://www.aquatica-dive.com/actibob_us.htm

    It sounds like this scubadoo is limited, like the tiki bob, to only a few meters of depth.

    J

  8. Re:Diving Computers by SuperBanana · · Score: 1 · on When Bad Software Can Kill
    Proper diving procedures recommend using two different computers, and always relying on the more conservative unit for your decompression limits.

    Actually, for recreational, non-decompression diving(which represents the vast majority of recreational diving- technical diving is a whole other beast), PADI tells you to use the tables they give you on a waterproof card. You're supposed to plan your dive AHEAD OF TIME using the tables, and stick to the plan. You're not supposed to just grab a dive computer and jump in the water, for EXACTLY this reason- the computer could malfunction. Further, I'm pretty sure my PADI manual specifically said you should never use a dive computer to push the limits of no-decompression diving to get maximum bottom time, although it has been a LONG time since I went on a dive(and hence did a refresher course or studied my manual, both of which you should do after being inactive for a while).

    Interstingly, I just found a google cache of a this page about a recall(or lack thereof) for the PADI dive table cards, while trying to find PADI's DAN(Diver Alert Network) site.

    Ah- found it. There's another article here about it, including which tables(for concerned divers, seems to be tables printed in 2002-Jan 2003, check the site).