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  1. Apple obvious done a stock take on parts and realised that they have parts on the shelves for vintage products. Think on a plan to make money on all those parts destined for the bin....yeah, sell 'em at high profits. Trebles all round.

    I bet they won't sell the parts to third party repair shops.

  2. must be bust... on Washington DC's Public Library Will Teach People How To Avoid the NSA · · Score: 2

    NSA must have cracked Tor...

  3. Next? on Sinclair ZX81 Made Out of Lego · · Score: 3, Funny

    RAM Pack?

  4. Final way out... on Simulated Mars Mission 'Returns' After 520 Days · · Score: 1

    If is was psychological experiment did they have the ability to kill each other or press the air door and stop the whole mission by killing everyone? I mean it's not very realistic if there isn't a final 'way out'.

    There is at least one recorded event on a Soviet Antarctic based of one guy killing another with an ice pick over a game of chess.

  5. Wonderful news... on U.S. Army's Future Combat System Will Run Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As someone who works on a large comms/IT based MoD project and who has been pushing linux and open source within the project (watch out a very large Open Source project), this just adds more fuel to the fire.

  6. Re:Not very inconvenient - on The Demise of Model Rocketry? · · Score: 1

    Then use these hybrid motors http://www.mars.org.uk/bkflamer.html or http://www.mars.org.uk/static.html

  7. Re:Why? on Car Cellphone Bans Driving Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    'Cos it's dangerous...Jeezz, is it that hard.

    I flash my work's pass at them, it looks a little like a police identifictaion badge.

    Shame I have a pony tail, doesn't quite fit that 'police' look. Gives 'em a shock, just for a sec :)

  8. Re:AmaLthea, not ALmathea on Galileo's Flyby of Almathea · · Score: 1

    And I'll have to rename mine to Sun :)

  9. Re:Reminds me of Packet Radio on Email Over High-Frequency Radio in West Africa · · Score: 1

    Well, it's sort of packet radio but the processing is done off the radio and there's no peer to peer, layer 2 stuff in the radios...

  10. Re:Want all of them... on Fritz's Hit List · · Score: 1

    You see I have this vision of computing power buried in the home. It's coming with digital tv set top boxes. They've a fair grunt of processing power behind that black plastic skin.

    This beastie would be accessable from all over the home via touch screen flat panels. It'd be wired into anything that could talk sense, so not the dishwasher, oh long story.

    Oh, did I not mention the cat 5 sockets I had installed in places where I would want to put these displays?

    Damn, I need some links..

  11. Re:Want all of them... on Fritz's Hit List · · Score: 1

    Am I the only person with cat 5 socket behind my cooker, fridge, boiler and even installed in the loo?

    Surely not...

    Ah the wonders of having a recently re-wired house!

  12. Want all of them... on Fritz's Hit List · · Score: 1

    Christmas is coming....

    I want all of these and more...

  13. Re:Lexmark inkjets and Epson inkjets on Printer Makers' Ploys · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Lexmark do support linux, after a fashion.

    Sadly, I had numerous problems getting a windows 98 client, with the offical Lexmark driver, to print to a samba (linux) server, wired up to a Lexmark Z52. Talk about the windows printer driver sending samba in to a complete rage.

    Never again...now it works after I fiddled with the lexmark driver on the windows machine.

    I mean who needs windows printer drivers that talk to you?

  14. Oh dear... on Crushing Experience · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is this want it has come to? Some conception of unclever modern art making the grade on /.

    I come here for fun not to be swayed by the 'Arty' types..

    Oh dear..

  15. Is there... on Sigma Designs Accused of Copyright Infringement · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...a lawyer in the house...

  16. Now there's an idea... on Next-Generation Chip Fabs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How about a community CPU? All interested parties to gather around IBM's fab plant, as people hack through the wireless network they get to add their own designed parts of the CPU...

    Hours later the wafer pops out...

  17. Re:And the reason is...? on Amateur Quest For Lychrel Numbers · · Score: 1

    Oh I have...mathematics is a beautiful art, don't get me wrong. I just can't understand the use of these numbers other than their single propertie.

    Now control theory, p and s plane...oh joy :))

  18. Re:And the reason is...? on Amateur Quest For Lychrel Numbers · · Score: 1

    Takes all sorts I suppose..:)

  19. And the reason is...? on Amateur Quest For Lychrel Numbers · · Score: 1

    So why search for these numbers?

    Confused...I am...

  20. Re:old news.... on Gone Fission · · Score: 1

    Jeez, even the past can be funny :)

  21. Re:A cultural problem, not a technological problem on Another Reason to be Annoyed by Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Gee, spread spectrum. Well just raise the noise floor a litte, a wide band jammer and bob's your uncle, no 'phones at all, and you wouldn't be hurting anybody either. :)

  22. Re:Huh ? on Another Reason to be Annoyed by Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    That depends on what type of jammer it is. Passive or active, i.e one that blats the RF or one that tries to disrupt the on air protocol. The first is just a high power RF amp, the second would still have to have a high power to over come the target being closer to the receiver than the jammer. Though an active jammer should use less time on air than a passive one, then again it depends on how many transmitters are around you and the traffic generated.

    Roll on parasitic(?) networks, then you can inject traffic into the stream, oh the joy of nasty code to come :)

  23. Re:Shrinkage = Bad on The Incredible Shrinking Antenna · · Score: 1

    Try having your head shrinked to fit the 'phone better.

    Don't be stuck with the pre-condition of your condition, change it. I have a list of good butchers if your want :)

  24. Re:put on the fire suit... on GNOME 2.0 Desktop Alpha · · Score: 1

    Agreed, it's all chunky...

    H&Ks
    garf

  25. Re:The New PR Spin on Microsoft to Focus on Security · · Score: 1

    "Typically, the way that I imagine Bill to handle this is to redifine security according to Microsoft Specs. I am reminded of the old joke of MS defining "Dark" as the new standard when the lightbulb goes out."

    Huh? Damn, M$ could enter this 'Dark' state into some arty competition...maybe they'd win?