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  1. Re:How to do a much shorter article next time on In Praise of the Sci-fi Corridor · · Score: 1

    I might watch it if Ken Loach directed it

  2. Re:I'm all for it... on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why send scientists & astronauts when we have politicians and we can send more of them because they are full of hot air :)

  3. Re:Function before form on Firefox 4.0 Goes Chrome, New UI In Q4 2010 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have to agree but today sadly no mod points

  4. Did anyone actually RTFA?? on Space Shuttle To Be Replaced By SpaceX For ISS Resupply · · Score: 1

    ISS Resupply is mentioned once and even then it's more like a statement of what it can do and no reference to any contract from NASA. Also if they have been awarded the contract how come it's not all over space.com????

    Really it's just a waste of a frontpage

  5. Re:Flying Car on Has the Rate of Technical Progress Slowed? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It should be relatively easy to establish "rules of the sky" where the northern/eastern most plane can take either up or North/East and the southern/western most plane can take either down or South/West to avoid a collision much like (in the US) a driver should steer right to avoid one.

    In effect this is already in place as planes on a collision course will invariably be at slightly different altitudes the higher one climbs whilst the lower dives. This is already standard practice in civil aviation and happens an awful lot more than the stats say as the stats don't include near misses that resulted from aborted landings (At least here in the UK).

  6. Re:Reverse Engineered Microsoft DOS??? on Space Shuttle To Be Replaced By SpaceX For ISS Resupply · · Score: 1

    +1 Funny please

  7. Re:They will sell it. on UK Plans To Link Criminal Records To ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Why do you keep voting the same two parties over and over again?

    We don't all vote the same that's what bullshit democracy is about sadly most people only think their vote counts if they vote for one of the 2 main parties.

  8. Re:They will sell it. on UK Plans To Link Criminal Records To ID Cards · · Score: 1

    and every business that can pay will know your criminal history.

    Hmm could come in handy for vetting the short list for that bank job I'm planning :)

  9. Re:New grey goo milestone on Swarms of Solar-Powered Microbots On the Way · · Score: 1

    Actually if the sequels taught us anything it's that good CGI do not a great movie make /yoda

  10. They have been banned here in the UK on FTC Rules Outlawing Robocalls Go Into Effect Next Week · · Score: 1

    for years but it doesn't stop calls coming in from the rest of the world. Sadly there's not much you can do about that

  11. Re:Encryption != Security on Sun Plans Security Coprocessor For New Ultrasparc · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it make more security sense to make a proper random number generator chip than this as one of the main holes in PKI is lack of secure access to a proper random number generator and a reliance on pseudo random number generators.

  12. Re:Wow am I the only one in here on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info. I actually got out of most of this cycle (All the systems were basically in ways very similar and in other ways radically different) by developing my own IDE (Which took a long time but work here varies seasonally) which for the majority (99.5%) of systems got dev times down from months to hours sadly that's just made the salesmen expect instant turn around which I have to keep pointing out if it won't fit in my IDE we are back to 3 months which they find hard to swallow.

  13. Re:Know your market. on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 1

    +5 Informative.

    +5 Funny :)

  14. Wow am I the only one in here on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 3, Insightful

    who just aims to get what is functionally absolutely needed finished & tested by the deadline? Bear in mind that most of my deadlines get set by clueless salesmen who even if they consult me generally tend to ignore what I say and tell the client what the client wants to hear.
    I haven't implemented a fully finished system by the deadline in years simply because I can't squeeze 3 months work into 1 month.

  15. Re:When I multitask... on Habitual Multitaskers Do It Badly · · Score: 1

    Even more importantly don't text whilst listening to queen :)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QggEvJAlV1s

  16. Re:Correction on Pirate Bay Archive Goes Online · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Good according to this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8217800.stm they were taken down at lunch time

  17. Re:Sure, but... on One Crime Solved Per 1,000 London CCTV Cameras · · Score: 1

    This article is absolute rubbish anyway I know people who are pounding the streets who use CCTV on a daily basis to capture suspects. It's turning into a vital tool in law enforcement in the capital. 1 per 1000 in a year give me a break more like 3 or 4 arrests per day in Camden alone.

  18. Re:Well... on Wikipedia To Require Editing Approval · · Score: 1

    No everyone has the right to amend and then see the article reverted within minutes as soon as the Wikiot who has adopted the page spots it's been changed. The only way to edit it is to make a change the Wikiot likes which is normally counter to why I'd like to edit a page.
    I've given up on Wiki I can see to many glaring inaccuracies and am unable to fix them because the mods think the inaccurate stuff is correct.

  19. Re:Ethical question on Air Force & NASA Fire Off Green Rocket · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Actually what made my jaw drop about this article is that they are touting this as environmentally friendly? Do they know how much energy it takes to Mine then ship then smelt then ship again then grind to dust all that Aluminium? Give me a break!

  20. Re:Not a US Nuclear Submarine incident on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 1

    Whilst it is true you can have more than one check digit. In the vast majority of cases only one is used which means approx %10 of errors are not detected by the check digit as they generate the same digit. If you have 2 check digits that reduces the error margin to %1.

  21. Re:Not a US Nuclear Submarine incident on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check digits only catch %90 of typo's the other %10 still calculate to the same check digit.

  22. Re:From the license... on Behind Menuet, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly · · Score: 1

    Did you think they wrote it in hex?

    Why not it's how I started writing Machine Code

  23. Re:Step 1 on URL Shortener tr.im To Go Community-Owned, Open Source · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damn that blows out the Cook Islands then [Insert Inuendo].co.ck

  24. Re:.im Isle of Man on URL Shortener tr.im To Go Community-Owned, Open Source · · Score: 4, Informative

    I used to live there it is a Protectorate of The Crown pretty much like Jersey, Guernsey & Gibraltar except the weather is not as good

  25. Re:What about future authors? on Opting Out of the Google Books Settlement, Pro & Con · · Score: 1

    Forgive me if I'm getting this wrong but surely if we were talking about music rather than books we'd be having a very different argument.