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  1. GAME on Konami Cuts and Runs From Iraq War Game · · Score: 1

    Problem was, they called it a 'video game'. They should have angled on it being an interactive educational simulation. Even anti-war ppls would have gotten on board with that idea, but it probably wouldn't have got past censors (at least in Australia). I think we have missed an opportunity to learn about the reality of the situation, although I'm sure the developed content will turn up in one of those history channel one-off's.

  2. Re:Radiata Communications, an Australian wireless on CSIRO Settles With Tech Giants Over WiFi Patent Spat · · Score: 1
    Notice that Cisco isn't part of the settlement! That is because they brought out the company that was setup to

    first establish design, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and logistics channels to sell the retail product(s)

    http://www.anu.edu.au/mail-archives/link/link0011/0366.html for more info...

  3. Re:Fiber in gas pipes? on Why Is Connectivity So Cheap In Stockholm? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I believe its safer to use the sewer line.

  4. Re:Eh? BBC can't export? on Red Dwarf Returns In a 3-Part Showing · · Score: 1

    The office?! Extra!?(to a lesser extent) I enjoy both US&UK tv. Although they are very different, with British comedy I find that I could easily sit down and read the script and still find it just as funny. Red Dwarf is an example of this, the novels are simply outstanding.

  5. Best Google Street View ever! on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 1

    Man I wish they didn't cancel the Google Plane over Sydney ...

  6. oh no!` on French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    My ICONS ?!

  7. Re:$5M won't even keep the lawyers on retainer... on New Startup Hopes to Push Open Source Pharmaceuticals · · Score: 1

    I'll work for peanuts!

    ahhh... so how's that biology degree working out for you? :)

  8. Sue the ***t** on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? · · Score: 1

    I don't know about econ but I refer back to my med sci notes. Sometimes you learn something in first year, and don't use it for another 2/3 years. I prefer to use my own notes, instead of reading up on it again. As I would have only noted what I generally don't know much about, or insights to the system at hand.

  9. porn+ubuntu on Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry? · · Score: 1

    If you really want ubuntu to win the os popularity contest, all you need to do is market it with free porn. No multinational will be able to compete with you, and you'll widen the demographic whilst connecting with those already hooked on linux.

  10. Re:remote learning + real uni on MIT Moves Away From Massive Lecture Halls · · Score: 1

    Personally I find MIT open courseware kicks my uni's lectures butt a billion times over. As a supplement to a face2face course, it really excels.

  11. Emails still equals data usage. on Internet Communications While At Sea? · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find that even if you do get an email to web gateway working, you'll get caught due to higher than average data usage. Bare this in mind, and try to make friends with what ever passes for a sys admin at sea. As I'm sure you'll have to sign some crazy internet usage form. On another note if they've opened a port for email, there's probably a way to get around the firewall. I doubt it'd be very advanced. But as every one else says, it probably better to concern yourself with getting laid.

  12. win on Apple Says Macs Are Safe, No Antivirus Needed · · Score: 1

    So what Windows is safer left in the box!

  13. Re:Only in C? Oh dear. on NVIDIA's $10K Tesla GPU-Based Personal Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Absolutely, that's what Fortran is for !

    Fortress ftw! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language)

  14. Re:What a disappointment on NVIDIA's $10K Tesla GPU-Based Personal Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    wtb computer w/Tesla coils as cpu cores.
    must be internet capable

  15. Re:MVP !!!! on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 1

    Akira Iritani, who is chairman of the genetic engineering department at Kinki University in Japan and a member of the Mammoth Creation Project seems to have no problem with his ethics board.

    I don't know much about the "Mammoth Creation Project". But its a big leap between studying mammoth genomes/genetics, and techniques to resurrecting them ... and actually trying it/doing it. I think you'll find its the trying that'll piss off alot of ppl, and I'm sure a few of them would have to be on a university ethics board and fox news.

  16. Re:$10,000,000, eh? on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 1

    it's quite possible to have 2 individuals (which can be clones of eachother).

    From my understanding, this would have nearly nill genetic variability. So your pretty much bringing back a species that can't have offspring, seems a bit slack to me.

  17. Re:looks like chinese propaganda on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 1

    Functionally extinct in the wild, most likely.
    But there is hope, as there seems to be an active breeding program!

  18. Re:well yeah on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 1

    Baiji, ain't gone yet :)
    http://www.baiji.org/

  19. MVP !!!! on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There is a huge moral issue here, and the idea of 'resurrecting any species' especially a mammal would not pass an ethics board. In Australia a few years back there was talk of doing resurrecting Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine), where there is a great deal of information and dna material as the creature became extinct in 1936.

    This is a basic 1st yr uni idea. Whilst it might be possible (or at least someday it might be), to 'create' a viable population would be stupidly expensive unless the animal shit gold and pissed oil.

  20. Re:Consumer GPGPU Will Happen, Just Not On ATI Car on AMD Banks On Flood of Stream Apps · · Score: 1

    I've read at a few sites, that the ATI Stream SDK will be fully OpenCL compliant.

  21. 1st gen GPGPU on AMD Banks On Flood of Stream Apps · · Score: 1

    I very much doubt that AMD/ATI will release the first generation of drivers for GPGPU via open source. As I don't think they'd want you to see what a mess they are!

    Nvidia on the other hand doesn't have this excuse.
    What's more exciting and no one has seemed to mention is that AMD/ATI will have full support for openCL.
    With the mass consumer industry pushing allowing for such crazy! amount of computing power, its a good time to have an IT fetish.

  22. (trick) How to make them bounce on (Useful) Stupid BlackBerry Tricks? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The trick is to drop them from at least the 3rd store of a building w/concrete pavement. The 2nd store just isn't always high enough, unless you purposely peg them at the ground.
    Entertainment the whole family can enjoy.

  23. Re:Does anyone use this? on Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS · · Score: 1

    Microsoft now has a complete vendor trap solution, "from the cloud to the datacenter, to PCs, the Web, and phones".

  24. Re:Insurance threat is real. on Scientists To Post Individuals' DNA Sequences To Web · · Score: 1

    Human genetics still a pretty young field, and my guess is by-and-large the majority of people's health insurance should go down if they know their own genetics. As most people are generally quite healthy (gene-wise), and genetics can be a style of preventive medicine. Of course that'll never happen, as insurance companies are allied with cubic satanism.

    In any case this isn't a major issue - yet. As sequencing is still currently too expensive, but the price is in rapid decline. Our only hope against DNA insurance is that governments will legislate against such ideas, but I think an alien overlord invasion is more likely.

  25. WoW noobs? on Tax Write-Offs For Free (As In Speech) Work? · · Score: 1

    Does help people level in WoW count?
    How about teaching noobs, lessons?....