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  1. Re:Hmm, no... on Do We Need Running Shoes To Run? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    all that means is that people who walk barefoot should look where they are going a little more than others, ive herd plenty of stories about people standing on a nail and having it go through their sneakers/trainers/whatever and out the other side of their foot, does that mean i should wear iron clad boots?

  2. communications on Record-Breaking Model Rocket Launch Set For April 25 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    honest, its just a communications satellite

  3. stealing advertising revenue on Wikipedia Opts Out Of Phorm · · Score: 4, Informative

    aside from the whole invasion of privacy thing, people seem slightly less to pay attetion to the suggestion that intercepting and replacing the adverts on a page is tantamount to theft of advertising revenue, to the page owner for their share, to e.g google for their commision or however they work, and to the advertiser whom may otherwise have recieved an extra click through to their site

  4. korea does not exist, its N/S korea on YouTube Halts Uploads and Comments In Korea · · Score: 2

    in this case South korea, simply stating 'korea' is ambiguous, clarifying north/south really doenst take a moment

  5. xp does the job well on 83% of Businesses Won't Bother With Windows 7 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    why upgrade when the current software provides everything you need

  6. No thanks, im no criminal on Use apt-p2p To Improve Ubuntu 9.04 Upgrade · · Score: 5, Funny

    p2p is a method used exclusively by criminals, there's no way im going to be using this method.

  7. Re:Step 2: Add taser on "Tweenbots" Test NYC Pedestrian-Robot Relations · · Score: 1

    dont Twaze me bro

  8. Re:Cute robot on "Tweenbots" Test NYC Pedestrian-Robot Relations · · Score: 1

    very interesting point. Does anyone know what the actual wording on the message is/was? I cant see it in the article anywhere...

  9. Re:LED is a viable option in 40 Watt replacement on CFLs Causing Utility Woes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    in my experiance, LED's have had a pretty high faliure rate, i got a set of 6 about 6 months ago, 2 ive had to take back to replace because they stopped working, and of the ones which are here, some are noticeable dimmer than others

  10. Re:ISPs, bandwidth and quotas on Netscape Alums Tackle Cloud Storage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Given that alot of things seem to be headed into the cloud, all this "monthly quota" thing seems to be the wrong way to handle your bandwidth IMHO

  11. what is that as a proportion? on Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    but how much is that as a proportion of their total bandwidth usage, if they were worried about bandwidth im sure they could just compress the images a little more and save much more

  12. 24GB is not 192GB on Want a PC With 192 GB of RAM? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    having just checked, DDR3 PC10600 only comes in 2GB at th moment, and even server sticks dont easily come in 16GB modules

    I dont see 8x capacity reaching consummers anytime soon anyway. This sorta thing is just silly, if you have enough money this has been available for ages, for the consumer this is still a long way off

  13. Where do they store 4.5TB off site on Internet Archive Gets 4.5PB Data Center Upgrade · · Score: 5, Interesting

    one would assume that something like this does regular off-site back-ups, which must add up to a hell of a-lot, could someone with experiance in such matters shed a little insight into the logistics of backing up such a vast system

  14. addictive? on German Police Union Chief Wants Violent Game Ban After Shooting · · Score: 1

    who gets to make that arbitrary decision?

  15. If you know what it is on Princeton Student Finds Bug In LHC Experiment · · Score: 1

    then it goes from a bug to a systematic error, which can likly be accounted for when it comes to results

  16. All this animal testing good for vets? on Scientists Reverse Muscular Dystrophy In Dogs · · Score: 1

    does these sort of medical tests on animals end up with better treatment of animals aswell by passing the info onto vets or is it generally not considered worth it for mans best friend.

  17. Re: Guilty Upon Accusation on New Zealand Halts Internet Copyright Law Changes · · Score: 1

    yes, but when austraia has more nautral resources, its an easier mistake to make

  18. why is it OS dependant on Researchers Demo BIOS Attack That Survives Disk Wipes · · Score: 1

    "The demo ran smoothly on a Windows machine, a PC running OpenBSD and another running VMware Player." If it's an attack on the BIOS, why would it be dependant on the OS

  19. soldering together the panels wouldnt be hard on Building Your Own Solar Panel In the Garage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    for most people, im not sure that is the tricky bit, nor sticking it between some glass. I, and id suggest a fair few other people would stumble at figureing out how to connect this pannel to the grid in my home to make use of the electricity it generates. Would anyone be able to shed any light on this end of things?

  20. Pc games easier to pirate than PS3 games on Game Publishers Pressuring Sony For PS3 Price Cut · · Score: 1

    i get the feeling the title of this pose is true, i wonder if easier to pirate PS3 games would results in more PS3 sales, and as a result more legitimate game sales

  21. microsoft patent respect? on Patent Suit Against Nintendo, Microsoft Dismissed · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Nintendo has a long history of developing innovative products while respecting the intellectual property rights of others...." no-one wanted to say the same about microsoft?

  22. Re:Optical zoom on What to Fight Over After Megapixels? · · Score: 1

    Its still better than only having a handful of pixels at a lower zoom

  23. Re:SPEED SPEED SPEED SPEED on What to Fight Over After Megapixels? · · Score: 1

    In a similar vein, multiple photos in quick succession. After taking ~3 or 4 photos in quick succession, my camera backs up with the proccessiong of the pictures and needs a few moments to get through them before it can take more, this slows you down if you are tryting to take lots of shots of something, e.g for a panorama, where i see the problem, or for the parent it could contribute to missing the perfect shot by a second or two

  24. Optical zoom on What to Fight Over After Megapixels? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When i last upgraded my camera, the megapixels didnt change much, thats not what i was interested it, but it went from a 3X to a 12X optical zoom, there is alot of stuff out there that is worth taking a picture of, but is too far away to get a decent picture of, obviously if you go much higher you are going to need a tripod, or better image stabalisation, so i wonder how long before people want better zooms for their holiday and wildlife snaps, with better image stabalisation to support it

  25. Re:And in other news ... on UK ISPs Could Be Forced To Block Or Restrict P2P · · Score: 0, Troll

    now i can download the discographies of 140 artists without even a tang of guilt, shame i dont even recognise the majority of the list though.