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  1. Re:Even if they pull this off... on US Army To Develop "Thought Helmets" · · Score: 1

    Maybe they could get a few speech synthesisers and the soldiers could choose their voice. I doubt that it would be hard to custom-make a voice for every troop, when you're dealing with reading thoughts..

  2. Nukes, anyone? on Inside the DARPA-esque Singapore Military Bot Contest · · Score: 1

    Guess why every small country wants to get their hands on nuclear weapons? No one cares about these robots. Once you've got a nuke, you can threaten everyone that you'll use it, and you've got your independence. Of course the whole MAD thing keeps everyone from using nukes, so once you have a nuke, you can be a little more certain you won't get attacked.

  3. Re:Wait a second... on Gamers Are Fitter (and Sadder) Than You Think · · Score: 1

    There's probably a secret /drugs command which delivers them to your basement.

  4. Re:It's not over for Mozilla after all on Examining Chrome's Source Code · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If a large enough subgroup of "the blue e takes me to the internet" group starts thinking that google=internet, then a convenient "Download chrome! Make your google experience even better." link on every search page can easily convert them.

  5. Re:Simple: on San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network · · Score: 1

    Tell me about it. I got a +3 Insightful for saying that the google chrome icon looks like a pokeball.

  6. Re:Ahoy there matey! on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Don't be silly.
    These ships will be so expensive, that pirates will start to appear and take them over. So in the end, the scientist will say that the ships solved global warming, but in reality the increase in pirate numbers will save the day.

  7. Re:Banner ad's, dynamic content. on Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow? · · Score: 1

    Of course this assumes the P2P application is coded in a way that it can prioritize peers on the same network or geographically closer to one another. I don't know if this is currently implemented in any P2P applications but if not it could be.

    From what I know, most torrent clients already do this.

  8. Re:Not so slow on Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow? · · Score: 1

    When did Amsterdam become a country?

  9. Re:Naming? on CIA, FBI Push Social Networking for Spies · · Score: 1

    A -> Analyst

    Or just Anal for short.

  10. Re:Give me a practical use... on Brain Cells Observed Summoning a Memory · · Score: 1

    The keys are a lie. They never existed.

  11. Re:Google Chrome on Google Updates Chrome's Terms of Service · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More like a pokeball to me...

  12. Re:Non-Tech Percent of Web Traffic from Chrome on Google Chrome, Day 2 · · Score: 1

    Well then. Great. I didn't know that. Searching in google only gave me a brief explanation of the shortcuts, not how to reassign them.
    How about an option to auto accept file transfers from IRC? I've been searching to no avail.

  13. Re:Non-Tech Percent of Web Traffic from Chrome on Google Chrome, Day 2 · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info. It's way more complex than the simple mousegestures setup in firefox, though.

  14. Re:Non-Tech Percent of Web Traffic from Chrome on Google Chrome, Day 2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I find firefox's plugin download statusbar better than opera's seperate tab.
    And I was baffled at the opera mouse gestures since you can't customise them. Add-ons aren't that bad or troublesome, really.

  15. Re:This is why... on How HP Could Turn a Novelty Into a Revolution · · Score: 1

    mount pc?

  16. Re:Where's the fire? on China Sets Sights On Rail Record · · Score: 1

    Isn't something like this done with the underwater train connecting France with Great Britain? It was shown on TopGear once.

  17. Re:Slow news day? on To Boldly Go Where No Mento Has Gone Before · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yet I'm still curious why didn't they just use a glass filled with coke?
    Or a tiny scrap of plastic wrapped around the coke, which they could unwind and then add the mentos using their stick.

  18. Re:Next, Effort to Duplicate the EYE. on Paralyzed Man Walks Again Using Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately if you want to harvest the power generated by the blood moving in our veins, it's minuscule at best. And if you want to harvest the energy of our bodies, we'd have to invent some way of the mechanism knowing we're running low on energy. That's no little feat, considering even we ourselves can't tell that except for some vague "I'm hungry." or "I'm getting dizzy of hunger." which won't necessarily occur.

  19. Re:I'll upgrade when... on Firefox To Get a Nag Screen For Upgrades · · Score: 1

    Ummm... There are addons which enable this functionality.
    They were mentioned a few articles back, but I can't remember their names.
    Can some kind soul name them?

  20. Re:USB1 and 2 (and now3) = bad connector design on Hands-on Look At USB 3.0, Spec Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    I concur. I forgot about the back of the PC. Though I usually turn the cable clockwise (I think..) and it fits.

  21. Re:USB1 and 2 (and now3) = bad connector design on Hands-on Look At USB 3.0, Spec Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    Every USB connector has the USB logo on it's top side. That's how you know which side is up.

  22. Re:I'm just going to wait... on Hands-on Look At USB 3.0, Spec Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    USB speed names from UT. How cool is that?

  23. Re:GeForce 6800 GT on New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached · · Score: 1

    Then again. If you are buying a new PC now, a 8800GT, a C2D and 2GB of RAM are cheap enough to buy and powerful enough to run anything you throw at them without much problems.

  24. Lost in translation. on IBM and AMD Create First 22nm SRAM Cell · · Score: 1

    I just love these new technology names.
    First CUDA ("wonders" in Polish), now SRAM which means "I shit" in Polish.

  25. Re:Discrimination on Lenovo Intros the Monstrous ThinkPad W700 · · Score: 1

    The funniest part is, that most of the best known artistic people were left handed. Something to do with the fact that the right part of the brain is responsible for artistic skills.