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  1. NOT 200 feet/sec on US Navy Breaks Laser Record · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    20 feet of steel per second....Please check facts.. especially the ones from FOX...

  2. After the backlash on Aussie Retailers Lobby For Tax On Online Purchases · · Score: 1

    http://www.smh.com.au/business/gerry-harvey-in-difficult-position-over-gst-crusade-20110107-19i3u.html
    Gerry Harvey decided it wasn't the best idea to piss of his own customers..

  3. From the US Article on Aussie Gov't Won't Help Fight Cyber Attacks · · Score: 1

    Lynn said the Pentagon strategy has identified "five pillars" to cyber security

    Does this sound like a blatent religious ripoff to anyone else ?

  4. Re:can't resist on Khan Academy Delivers 100,000 Lectures Daily · · Score: 0, Troll

    KAHHHHHHN !!!!!1!

    Resistance is futile.

  5. Re:Antelope museum on English Shell Code Could Make Security Harder · · Score: 1

    Two Words. Google Translate Clearly I have been receiving infestation after infestation for years, now I FINALLY know what's going on here.. So much for Don't be Evil !!!!

  6. Re:100 years from now... on Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damn, having seen this same joke on 2 other sites that posted this story days ago... it just proves that no one can come up with an original thought anymore.

    It just goes to show, this joke is circular.

  7. Re:But is this person the same as that person? on Security Certificate Warnings Don't Work · · Score: 1

    Thats more to do with the way the Private/Public key Infrastructure is based.

  8. Re:That's because security warnings are stupid. on Security Certificate Warnings Don't Work · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Certs never guarantee who you're talking to, they only provide encrypted communication.

    Actually, certificates do guarentee that the person you are talking to is the same as the time the certificate was first issued.

  9. Buzz Buzz! on World's Biggest Alarm Clock Shakes You Out of Bed · · Score: 1

    It will sure help getting off to work in the morning!!

  10. News at 11 on Human Sperm Produced In the Laboratory · · Score: 1

    Just in..Religious nuts against second cumming

  11. Re:Way Cool on Can Urine Rescue Hydrogen-Powered Cars? · · Score: 1

    moreso the car itself.. Humans are actually quite efficient in comparison...

  12. Autoimmune Diseases on New Discovery May End Transplant Rejection · · Score: 2, Interesting

    by providing some sort of prevention, could this research help with autoimmune diseases like type 1 diabeties?

  13. Re:Seems to Me on Fonera 2 To Launch With Extended Functionality · · Score: 1

    /agreed. If you have a home DSL Service then you are probably not allowed to be sharing it out.
    Most ISP's (here is AUS anyway) have in their contract some clause that prohibits this.

  14. Grand Theft Auto... on Strange Glitches In Games · · Score: 5, Funny

    There was once this minigame...er..um glitch

  15. Re:Already here for some of us on Body 2.0 — Continuous Monitoring of the Human Body · · Score: 1

    How does it work? I'm curious because I'd expect any sensor to be subject to fouling by body proteins and fats.

    Bert

    These devices need the sensor part replaced around every three days or so... But yes, they dont measure the actual Blood Sugar level, but the level within the fats etc.. which can lag behind by a couple of hours...

  16. My Girlfriend... on The Men Who Fix the Internet · · Score: 2, Funny

    Makes me Fix the internet twice a week.

  17. Romulans. on Romanians Find Cure For Conficker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, usually the Romulans keep to themselves instead of sharing all this information, for all we know, it could be them that started it!

    Something must be up in the Star Empire.

    *Appends To Trek Journal*

  18. Social Engineering. on Australian Gov't May Employ a Homegrown Quantum Key System · · Score: 1

    However great this system may/will be, there is no doubt that it's weakness will be the human factor on either end.

  19. Sat Feb 14 10:31:30 2009 on February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890 · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend JUST told me about this article!!!

    BEST valentines day ever..

  20. Re:Apparently odd naming often has a purpose on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    ...and logically, Cats 5 and 6 would be very similar in appearance, but Cat 6 would end up able to chase mice ten times faster.

    We also tried this approach, for a discount leather retailer, apparently the Cat 9 was a big hit!

  21. Re:Killing Fields... on Smart Robot Capable of Hunting For Its Own "Food" · · Score: 1

    geek points revoked for NOT recognizing a quote from THE MATRIX!

  22. Killing Fields... on Smart Robot Capable of Hunting For Its Own "Food" · · Score: 1

    After all, the human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120V battery, and more than 25000 BTU's of body heat. Let's never block out the light...

  23. My IT Dept on Return of the '70s Microsoft Weirdos · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's odd.. my very own IT department looks much more like that 70's photo than the current one..

  24. Re:Take advantage of IP Multicasting on IP Traffic To 'Double' Every Two Years · · Score: 1

    Multicasting has been around for a long time, however need and adoption of the tech didn't catch on (look at how the 'M-bone' died simply because it was "opt in") Ipv6 multicasting will hopefully adopted more swiftly and become more successful than its predecessor.

  25. Take advantage of IP Multicasting on IP Traffic To 'Double' Every Two Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To combat the increase of traffic why cant businesses/ISP's work more towards multicasting? for at least some part of the webs streaming sources (internet radio.. etc) this would alleviate some of the load surely..