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  1. No moon visit on Obama Outlines Bold Space Policy ... But No Moon · · Score: 1

    I wonder why... "lol guys, where's that flag from 40 years ago?" *dons flame-retardant suit*

  2. Re:Microwave oops on Power Beaming For UAVs and Space Elevators · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't want an airliner to fly through your balls?

  3. Re:Use It, Lose It on "Phone In One Hand, Ticket In the Other" · · Score: 1

    What about collisions that could have been avoided by fast evasive action? There's a very good reason why rally drivers always have two hands on the steering wheel. You have a higher degree of control and precision when you use both arms, however good your 'multitasking' skills are.

  4. What about signing & certificates? on Chinese ISP Hijacks the Internet (Again) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The ISP in question only controls 30 networks, yet other routers blindly accepted thousands. Why isn't there basic verification of such re-configurations? I'm actually very shocked, the potential for abuse is huge; and TWICE as well.

  5. Why the hell does it cost so much to reach orbit? on Russia Doubles Price For Launching US Astronauts · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seriously? $55.8 million for a single seat? And that's value for money compared to launching a shuttle?

    Hear me out for a minute... the rocket is just going straight up, what's so hard? Just strap a sealed chamber onto a grain silo of fuel, surely? Are you telling me that if I had the best part of $60 million I couldn't design, build and fly my own rocket in to space? Even a brute force solution wouldn't be that expense, surely?

  6. Re:Make a new level! on Google Gets Quake II Running In HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Stealing?... Careful...

  7. Cell phone jamming? on Will Your Car Tell You To Put Down the Phone? · · Score: 1

    People caught using a mobile when driving should have these installed into their motors, in the same vein as electronic tags. Friends can't call people when you're driving? That's your problem; maybe peer pressure will work. Driving is not a right, it is a privilege, and we take away other 'privileges' such as access to the internet and computer equipment for things that couldn't actually result in unnecessary death.

  8. Re:Its like 1000's of customers cried out on BBC Activates DRM For Its iPlayer Content · · Score: 1

    If people can receive BBC signals via their aerials they are likely residing in the UK, and thus, more than likely pay a TV license.

    The BBC has been under pressure recently to reduce its costs, I suspect subsiding non-UK free-loaders is something they are trying to eliminate. I wouldn't be surprised if they added a paid subscription to iPlayer for non-UK residents in the future.

  9. Right, so instead of ... on Iron Alloy Could Create Earthquake-Proof Buildings · · Score: 1

    the building shaking, the building will flail about in the air tossing the inhabitants around like a washing machine. There has to be some stability in the structure to allow people to safely exit.

    I'm sure this approach will protect the buildings, but falling objects and/or people are one of the main causes of injury in an earthquake. I'm not sure this is better.

  10. Re:They need to give us better motivation on FCC Asks You To Test Your Broadband Speeds · · Score: 1
    Yeah, and the title should have read

    FCC Asks You To Test Your Right-hand Speeds

  11. Just wait until they outsource it... on N.Y. Health Insurers To Offer Virtual Doc Visits · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Although this certainly sounds more sophisticated, the UK NHS offers an 'over the phone diagnosis' service, NHS Direct. Although the article mentions 'physicians' being used to monitor the network, how long will it be until they too are using unqualified staff to handle more routine cases?

    The danger for misdiagnosis is huge, although they no doubt have a clause somewhere about it - they may just end up telling patients to visit their doctor in person for a proper check-up, which kind of defeats the object.

  12. Let someone else worry about it on Long-Term Storage of Moderately Large Datasets? · · Score: 1

    Rent some decent off-site storage at an established data centre and get a leased data line.

    Don't bother messing about with tapes, it will be a full time job maintaining the library and space will be an issue after a while - I presume this is why you think it is impractical. With a proper data centre, you shouldn't have to worry about drives failing or the storage medium degrading due to age; most offer multiple site redundancy as well.

    Seriously, don't get clever; save yourself the hassle and your business' reputation if something goes wrong with your 'lockbox' method.

  13. Re:No thanks on YouTube To Allow Video Rentals · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why the hell should I use my bandwidth AND pay for the privilage? I get capped at 2mbit for 4 hours if I download more than 1GB during peak time.

    It is refreshing to see alternative business models being marketed to the movive/music industry, but these schemes really need to involve the ISP if they are to suceed, especially since as internet usuage increases, availible bandwidth decreases - and they aren't going to upgrade the networks any time soon.

    Oh yeah, and if I pay to download a duplicate that only costs the supplier a fraction of wholesale fibre-time, I better be able to keep the copy.

  14. Re:Of course... on Twitter Hackers Take Down Baidu · · Score: 1

    Well he certaintly won't now, that's for sure.

  15. Re:Shouldn't be surprising on Average Budget For Major, Multi-Platform Games Is $18-28 Million · · Score: 1

    Three figure quantities of staff on average salary takes up a large percentage of that. Then you have equipment, motion capture, voice capture, software licenses, general overheads. It makes me wonder how any new companys get into the business... well... I guess they don't really unless they are holding hands with a large publisher.

  16. Re:IT is now a Clerical, not Professional job on IT Workers To Get Fewer Perks, No Free Coffee · · Score: 1

    From the business' perspective, IT is just another resource.

    When times are good, you get free coffee.
    When time are bad, you get your genitals squeezed.

    Reading the article, the statements made apply to all employees, not just IT workers. If you hadn't already realised that the global financial situation was going to be used as an excuse to bust your balls, then welcome to 2007.

  17. What a great humanitarian on Bono Hopes Content Tracking Will Help Media Moguls · · Score: 1

    we know from America's noble effort to stop child pornography, not to mention China's ignoble effort to suppress online dissent

    Clever use of analogies there, make out that "protecting artist's rights" is akin to preventing the abuse of children, but then yank the reins by saying it is wrong to censor content. What exactly are you trying to say? Or are you just babbling so people get used to the idea of having their online privary infringed upon.

    it's perfectly possible to track content

    Yes, it is, but let's forget about artist's 'rights', what about mine? As a so called 'humanitarian' I am quite suprised at his ignorant and narrow-minded comments.

    Not to mention the fact he falls into the media-hyped trap that downloads = losses.

    What a tool.

  18. Re:Heat dissipation on Building Complex Circuits With Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 1
    From the article (first paragraph), and the summary

    Stacked circuits cram more processing power in a given area, and also do a better job dissipating waste heat.

  19. In reality, comments are secondary... on Myths About Code Comments · · Score: 1

    ... to the primary objective of getting the program working. Okay, okay, perhaps not... However, trying to construct coherent descriptions and code analysis during a 2am coffee-fuelled session usually results in the babble people complain about. I don't think I've ever opened up source code to see everything perfectly explained, and to be honest, it doesn't need to be.

    To me, the most useful comments are usually the ones that give a brief explanation of the objective (of that section of code). Any developer worth his salt can figure out what has been hacked together to achieve said objective. Having text blocks littering the page is just useless unless the original developer was a world class author.

  20. Re:Point & Click programming on Has a Decade of .NET Delivered On Microsoft's Promises? · · Score: 1

    This means more people can do it

    Good! Not every application needs to be perfectly optimised or debugged, and there are lots of situations where it is important to get something working quickly albeit not as elegantly as possible; LabVIEW and Matlab also facilitate this.

    There's no reason to employ someone who is just going to reinvent the wheel every time they write an app; IDE's that simplify the most basic of operations are a godsend.

  21. Re:OS X got curl, however... on EU Accepts Microsoft's Browser Choice Promise · · Score: 1

    A Mac user cannot 'choose' Windows; it's either Mac + MacOS, or PC.

    What incentive is there to develop IE for Mac? To tempt Mac users to Windows? Theres no reason to spend development time and resources developing software for an unobtainable customer base.

    The same could be said about Apple by the way; there are software restrictions that disable installing MacOS on anything other than a Mac (without lots of tinkering and potential lawsuits), that's punishment for not buying a Mac I take it?

  22. Re:What about copper? on Silicon As the New Lithium · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, look at it this way, when we've eventually all switched to renewable energy, we can finally clear those pesky stockpiles of coal and oil.

  23. Re:EA is a pirate! on Pirates as a Marketplace · · Score: 0

    EA uses a store/download app akin to iTunes and Steam.

    It is called EA Download Manager, formerly known as EA Link, formerly known as EA Downloader

    The activation key included with your BF2142 purchase has most likely been attached to your EA account. I would suggest downloading EA Download Manger and attempting to recover your log in details. Another benefit of this service is that you can also download any purchased games digitally, again, like iTunes and Steam. Good luck.

  24. Haha on CRIA Faces $60 Billion Lawsuit · · Score: 2

    .... I think that sums up my thoughts quite nicely.

  25. Re:Different intelligence: on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Erm, in my experience, the people least likely to remain objective in an emotional crisis is a female.

    Another problem is that any measurement scale just isn't broad enough to correctly capture intelligence differences on a wide range of subjects. For example, my wife will spend hours watching reality TV and she 'hates' the news, yet, she will spend whole weekends engrossed in period drama, reading books, or researching history on the internet.

    It all depends on how you measure intelligence, and, like TFA said, the IQ of both sexes is roughly equal, it's just that perhaps more men put it to noticable uses - for all I know, my hairdresser could be calculating the exact follical trajectory for a perfect styling or integrating my hair line to calculate the total (h)area.