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  1. Re:Tasers are more lethal, not less lethal on Testing the Safety of Tasers On Meth-Addled Sheep · · Score: 1

    aside from the fact that the telegraph is rabidly anti the current government (the same people who introduced the ban in 1997), and the shadow home secretary, gee he's a member of Her Majesty's Opposition, i wonder exactly why he would try and make political capital out of this statistic despite it being due to a reporting change? The 'statistics' the telegraph farmed were lifted out of context from the source, and most of the 'gun crime' was people actually being done for carrying/possessing said banned weapons, looks like thats the law enforcement agencies working to enforce the ban!

  2. Re:My best guess.... on Microsoft Lifts XP Mode Hardware Requirement · · Score: 1

    be very careful with that idea, the fact that the chipset technically allows 4gb of ram doesnt mean that the machine would run with any degree of stability, if at all, with more than 2gb. You are assuming that everything else will work with more than 2gb of ram.

  3. not really on DR Congo Ring May Be Giant Impact Crater · · Score: 1

    Not so cool for you unless your neighbour is tens of kilometres away

  4. repeat after me on Court Rules Against Vaccine-Autism Claims Again · · Score: 1

    correlation does not imply causation

  5. so the obvious avenue for attack here on AIDS Virus Can Hide In Bone Marrow · · Score: 1

    These sleepers are really challenging for the immune system to deal with, because from the outside of the cell where the white blood cells etc are milling around, the infected cell looks and behaves normally. It's only detected as a problem after it's fired up the bug factory inside, and by that time it may be too late. Unless the cell behaves abnormally, there's just no way for the immune system to identify the cell as needing to be destroyed. And from there the only thing that can kill it is itself. But again the apoptosis process is usually triggered by abnormalities within the cell - if the virus is dormant there's nothing to trigger that either. The cell doesn't know it's a carrier, nor does the immune system.

    what this suggests then, is that the obvious avenue for attack is a way to trigger cell death whenever the aids virus is present in the cell, wonder if theres some way to give the cell sensitivity in this respect with minimal side effects. isnt this similar to some cancer treatment?

  6. and on Students Build 2752 MPG Hypermiling Vehicle · · Score: 1

    is this a good time to say whooshas? :)

  7. 5 versions in 10 years???! on Ubisoft's Constant Net Connection DRM Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Sorry but no way is microsoft capable of 5 versions of windows in 10 years!

  8. more to the point on Ubisoft's Constant Net Connection DRM Confirmed · · Score: 1

    And this is the huge point that Ubisoft miss, is that the DRM makes playing the legitimate version of a game much MORE annoying than playing the cracked version. Once people are using the cracked versions of software that they have already legally bought _purely_ because the annoyance of the legit version has driven them to it (it happens rather alot already), whats the incentive for them to buy newer versions games rather than just obtain warezed versions?, a case in point would be new releases of the ubisoft games in question.

    Note that I'm not saying that no DRM is the answer here, but when will these executives learn that crippling software in this manner is NOT the answer, and their assurances on problems in using this software in the future are sounding pretty hollow. How would people get patches to reinstall the software in the future if Ubisoft no longer exists? Statements about their best intentions are just words. Are they going to put titles into some kind of trust to ensure access, or is abandonware going to mean that games are no longer playable by the people that have paid for the right to use it? How much of the current trend ignores the basic tenets of First Sale?

    Personally i do feel that the likes of Ubisoft would love to kill off pc computer gaming. Much better (and cheaper) to produce software for very limited platforms, with vastly less scope/depth (they can sell additional content via addon titles this way). Moves like this smack of an attempt to just annoy people rather than legitimate DRM measure because it's not going to slow down the speed at which their games are going to get warezed, and they know it. THeir better bet would be to actually reward people who log into their service and verify the legitimacy of their purchase wth extra content etc.

  9. feh on Google Gets US Approval To Buy and Sell Energy · · Score: 1

    Personally I wish that adblock plus would get into tv advertising.

  10. Well the name is wrong but on Google Gets US Approval To Buy and Sell Energy · · Score: 1

    They picked Google because Cyberdyne Systems is a bit too long to say when you want to tell someone to search: "Cyberdyne Systems for ". Doesn't work so well does it? :D

  11. feh on Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All · · Score: 2, Insightful
  12. Re:How fast? on Sound Generator Lethal From 10 Meters · · Score: 1

    A jet fighter going at mach 2 carries with it a sonic boom traveling at 6 times the speed of sound. When it passes overhead at an altitude of 6k feet, you see it pass and you hear it 6 seconds later. The sonic boom travels at mach 2 only because the fighter goes at mach 2, the sound propagates perpendicular to the fighter only at the speed of sound.

    Odd that you mention one of the other preferred methods of crowd control of the IDF

  13. you're missing one point on Google Hacked, May Pull Out of China · · Score: 1

    The chinese government can assert complete control over dns. with that they can do all they need to override the protection ssl offers.

  14. well on Surgeon Makes Tutorial DVD For Conscious Open-Heart Surgery · · Score: 1

    not really, unless said patient has some kind of advanced central nervous system that puts a readout in his vision of whats going on for example Blood Pressure Heart Rate Time since last dump etc etc

  15. cobblers on Hot Or Not — 3D TV · · Score: 1

    The short answer is "because we can".

    and the short reply to that is no, we cant properly yet. 3dtv is not 'there' yet

  16. Re:Developed != Civilised on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    The Tube is pretty big. There could easily be 300 stabbings a day without you ever encountering one. (Also, I think "in a week" implies it may not have happened every week for the past 15 years.)

    what? during 'bring a knife on the train week' or something? was there a circus knife thrower's megaconvention i wasn't aware of? maybe there was something in the water that week?

  17. Re:How about a not-suck mode? on Windows 7 Has Lots of "God Modes" · · Score: 1

    but they added their copyright to the code surely? :)

  18. mediums? on Bono Hopes Content Tracking Will Help Media Moguls · · Score: 1

    >

    (PS captcha should be media and not mediums)

    unless they mean psychics?

  19. Re:On Which Planet? on At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    The key is NAT works by creating a (LOCAL):(lport) => (GLOBAL):(glport) entry, when a host on the LAN sends a packet to WAN.

    For example, if the print server having IP 192.168.1.1 sends a packet sourced from port 139 to outside IP 192.0.32.10 on some port (destination port is irrelevent)

    The NAT device will generate some random local port and make a NAT table entry local-ip lport glport 192.168.1.1 139 1234

    If someone on the internet happens to probe "port 1234". What will they be connected to? 192.168.1.1 port 139, of course!

    but hang on a minute, my understanding of nat is that it also records the outbound ip address, and only allows any connection back the other way from that ip, everything else just gets filed in the bitbucket, or sends a rst packet?

  20. Re:No chance of meltdown? Don't believe it. on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 1

    Anytime there's a chain reaction, there's a chance for it becoming uncontrolled, however miniscule. You just need to find the right idiot to flip the wrong switches.

    i think you need to reread the article and some of the posts again. Decent design of failsafes requires no switch flipping, and cannot be overridden by a switch

  21. Re:Why not build a "not that bad"-technology? on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 1

    thorium is not an extremely limited resource, and if you rtfa you'd note the fact that the hl wastes from this degrade way faster than uranium reactions.

  22. thankyou on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 1

    now tell me again what this moralising and evangelising has to do with the subject at hand?

  23. Evaporating? on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 1

    they do not want their power base to evaporate

    Metaphorically, or indeed actually :D

  24. Re:Immoral is what it is on What Would Have Entered the Public Domain Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    you don't download from piratebay tho, you download a file that tells you about other people who would be willing to let you connect to their clients so that you may or may not be able to trade pieces of the files that may or may not make up these works

  25. tl dr (nt) on Apple Censors Dalai Lama iPhone Apps In China · · Score: 0, Redundant

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