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  1. Re:Challenger on Hydrogen-Powered Aircraft == Anti-Terrorist Device? · · Score: 1

    No, he watches Star Trek.

  2. What's the point? on How Feasible is a Cash-Less Society? · · Score: 2, Funny

    So basically you suggest a cash-substitute so we can have a cashless society?

  3. Re:google's toolbar on Why Google Rocks And An IPO · · Score: 1

    Mozilla might not be able to use the toolbar, but google has options for some JavaScriptBrowser Buttons which do pretty much the same job. (Although you can set moz to use google to search from the address bar already)

  4. Actually on Full-Screen Video Over 28.8k: The Claims Continue · · Score: 1

    Actually, a quantum leap is a single discrete leap, precluding the existence or possibility of a leap of anything smaller. ie an electron does not *exist* between any two neighbouring states. So a quantum leap just implies there are no intervening states (well except maybe a few discrete ones if you are taking a larger leap :)

  5. Re:JScript Alert says "Sorry, you're not allowed t on New IE Disables Netscape-style Plug-ins · · Score: 1

    Then turn off the option in acroread that integrates it as a plugin. It will then spawn happily

  6. Re:Adelphia customers, don't worry! on Don't Eat the Yellow Links · · Score: 1

    Most pr0n is copyrighted.

  7. Just think Babylon 5 on Pop Up Advertising Continues to Suck · · Score: 1

    Zoot zoot zoot (Rebo and Zooty forever) Buy a StarFury today.

  8. Where's Gauntlet or Bubble Bobble on Midway Quits Coin-Operated Business · · Score: 1

    Hyperrealism is all good and well, but why don't the arcade manufacturers work on making cheap-but-fun multiplayer games. Nothing on the new machines can beat the thrill of playing Gauntlet with 3 friends. "Blue Wizard is about to DIE"

  9. Too Late on Companies Abandon The Sinking Ship That Is SDMI · · Score: 1

    I remember seeing this on {Towards|Beyond} 2000, although the membranes werent implanted just stuck onto the eardrums, and resonated by a hefty neck collar arrangement

  10. Re:3D in RTS games... on Emperor: Battle for Dune · · Score: 1

    This game looks a lot like Dark Reign 2, hopefully it brings more to the mix than just 3-D, which IMHO was the only thing the DR2 brought to RTS, being a not-so-amazing RTS in any other way

  11. Re:Deja vu all over again on Slashback: Things, Stuff, Items · · Score: 2

    ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games/h/Hitchhiker_s_Guid e_To_The_Galaxy.Infocom.zip Whack it straight into your favourite c64 emulator, and relive the heady days.

  12. Hail Eris on Slashback: Things, Stuff, Items · · Score: 1

    What about discordianism? That's a religion based on tomfoolery where you are forbidden from believing the tenets.

  13. Re:how long do I work or how long am I AT work? on How Many Hours Do You Work in a Week? · · Score: 1

    "Posting anonymously to preserve my precious job"? :)

  14. No on Transmeta Releases Midori Linux · · Score: 1

    Alcoholics

  15. Re:Practical uses? on Bell Labs Creates Plastic Superconductor · · Score: 1

    Nope, but jupiter might have some metallic hydrogen

  16. Champagne comedy. on Alan Cox on a Chip · · Score: 1

    %%Rot13: Vg'f n "juvgr" cncre... trg vg?

    == It's a "white" paper... get it?

    very droll

  17. Better hope they don't... on Hubert's Interesting Nanoassembler · · Score: 1

    Better hope they don't go in for quantum porn; the last thing any decent citizen wants to see is a naked singularity

  18. I found one :) on First Ever Pitfall Perfection? · · Score: 1

    Ten seconds with google brought me: http://members.tripod.com/~PitfallHarry/Pitfall2Ma nual/Pitfall2Map.gif

  19. Obligatory Monty Python Reference on 'Hacking' To Be Declared Illegal · · Score: 1

    Reg, for God's sake, it's perfectly simple.
    All you've got to do is to go out of that door now, and try to stop the Romans' nailing him up!
    It's happening, Reg!
    Something's actually happening, Reg!
    Can't you understand?! Ohhh!

    --
    "There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I'd read that book by the wheelchair guy"
    -- H. Simpson

  20. Who Decides on ICANN Has Approved New TLDs · · Score: 1

    Trying to enforce all pr0n to a .xxx tld might be a good idea, but who gets to say what is worthy of a .xxx?
    Would playboy be considered xxx? Penthouse or hustler?

  21. Re:Do WHAT?. on IBM Constructs New Fastest Computer · · Score: 1

    er, a piddly nuke would do this whereas the 22 megatonne / second fusion ball that is our sun for the past ~5 billion years hasn't managed to do this?

    I suggest that the main reason for this treaty is that nobody likes the idea of nuclear weapons in orbit pointed down. Hell, a kinetic harpoon is destructive enough at 11 km/s.

    or did you miss the </sarcasm>?

  22. Re:Just one little problem with that... on Portable Desktop Computer Case HOWTO · · Score: 1

    I doubt you would be allowed near an NMR machine with that much metal, those Tesla strength fields really suck :)

  23. Useful for telepresence? on Lego Buys Paul Allen's Zowie Intertainment · · Score: 1

    So, now all I need to do is build a giant lego replica of myself, bung it down in front of the computer at 'work' (uni) and sit at home directing it's actions remotely. (Pour Coffee. Make Sexist Remark. Hide From Supervisor)

    And with the general level of caffeine dependance, nobody would be the wiser until at least 3pm.

  24. The future of Anti-Gravity on Anti-Gravity Research Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Let me first say that we don't know enough about gravity yet to even consider creating gravity shielding.

    With that in mind I thought I would mention 'exotic matter' which is the term coined for hypothetical matter with negative energy density. This term has been bandied about a lot in regards to wormholes, where it is postulated that exotic matter could be used to keep the mouth of a wormhole open for a significant time (seconds even).

    One property of exotic matter would then (AFAIK) be that it also has negative mass, and hence negative gravity (raising a lump on the rubber sheet :) )


    En Taro Adun, Executor.

  25. Re:What are hard drive limitations? on Seagate Spins 15k RPM HDs · · Score: 1

    Last year I visited the dvd.com website and there was a bit on future storage tech. They claimed that optical (holographic) storage would be feasible by at least 2010. They claimed a storage capacity of about a Terabyte per cubic centimetre! I'll be waiting for Quake 73... :)