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  1. Not for North America on PS3-Compatible Phone Coming In October · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is for the UK only.

  2. Re:Too simple to be able to do much on Swarms of Solar-Powered Microbots On the Way · · Score: 1

    I would at least like enough on board memory to be able to program instructions on how to create more swarm robots...

  3. Re:Umm .... on Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    It's not. ;)

    But it wouldn't do any good, since it searches against your history. Unless you constantly clear your history, that is...

  4. Re:I Thought We'd Been Through This? on Who Will Fix the Internet? No One, Apparently · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's nothing wrong with the internet. It works just fi

  5. The people that created this must not be engineers on Intel's Roadmap Includes 4nm Fab in 2022 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is obviously pie-in-the-sky speak from the marketing dweebs, who don't understand the physical limitations that come with a die shrink.

  6. Two words: on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Driving test.

  7. Re:Congratulations! on Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah. Either that, or it's from New Jersey.

  8. Re:So, on Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nope, we can't use the UK version. The mouse buttons are reversed from the way they are here in the States.

  9. I'm committed to Windows 7. on XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why? Because XP came pre-installed on my last computer, and Windows 7 will come pre-installed on my next one.

  10. As long as everybody Twitters, it'll be OK on No Social Media In These College Stadiums · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As long as everybody at the game just goes ahead and Tweets, it'll be OK. There's no way that the SEC can control thousands of people doing this at will. It will illustrate the ridiculousness of the whole policy.

  11. Re:Engine on NASA Developing Nuclear Reactor For Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    Well, what if it was made from .925 pure silver?

  12. Re:Business as usual on Major Carriers Shun Broadband Stimulus · · Score: 1

    I believe that there are restrictions built into the stimulus package that prohibit doing exactly that. I haven't read it myself, but my boss has been assigned the task of deciphering the fine print in order to decide whether we wanted to go after money or not and he mentioned this to me.

    FWIW, we're applying. (Small-ish regional cable company)

  13. Re:Nielson boxes? on Sensor To Monitor TV Watchers Demoed At Cable Labs · · Score: 1

    Something like this could very possibly put Nielsen right out of business.

  14. Attention span issue here. on Charlie Stross, Paul Krugman Discuss the Future · · Score: 0

    You can't honestly expect that anyone on /. is going to read this thing??? It's more than a few paragraphs. We need sound bites and information nuggets. Find me an RSS feed.

  15. Neat video, but not very accurate on Nearby, Recent Interplanetary Collision Inferred · · Score: 5, Interesting

    the guy posting the blog states: "the shock wave ring travels around the planet as shown, but when the ring converges on the point opposite the collision point, there would be a huge explosion and a vast plume of material launched into space. No one ever puts that in their animations"

    I thought the same thing when I watched the video - there would be a godawful explosion at the antipode

  16. They own this signal. They can do what they want. on Shaw Cable Again Blocks Firewire On Canadian Set-Top Boxes · · Score: -1, Troll

    So shut the fuck up. Shaw is not obligated to you to provide a certain type of signal at a particular time. You will take it, or not.

  17. Re:I don't give a shit about any of that. on Sony Producing New PS3 Hardware, Slim Appears Likely · · Score: 1

    I agree completely. And, I run Linux on mine. www.psubuntu.com

  18. Re:Optimization on AMD's OpenCL Allows GPU Code To Run On X86 CPUs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Welcome back to the days of the math coprocessor....

  19. Re:Too Many Free Variables on Fewer Than 10 ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy? · · Score: 1

    Wait for it....they're just getting ready to switch on their LHC....wait for it.... Ratings gold!

  20. A Spam Filter is like DRM on Stopping Spam Before It Hits the Mail Server · · Score: 1

    Regardless of how complex you make it, someone will always eventually figure out a way around it.

  21. Re:Had This Problem Myself on AVG Update Breaks iTunes · · Score: 1

    Avira is good, and is the software that I use on one of my machines. However, it does have an annoying nag screen showing an advertisement that pops up everytime it does a definition update. I never had that with AVG Free.

  22. Re:This is a common stack in wifi APs on Critical Flaw Discovered In DD-WRT · · Score: 1

    Software bugs happen. You don't need to get all philosophical about it. And besides, this is no more dangerous than the much larger number of people probably still using the default password on their router, and probably only slightly more dangerous than the huge number of people who don't have any kind of security. Relax.

    ummm...proximity???

  23. Only backup essential data, not programs. on Best Home Backup Strategy Now? · · Score: 1

    I store and backup all my "couldn't live without" files in a particular place, and back it up regularly to a

  24. Assign them numbers. on India To Issue Over a Billion Biometric ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Every single person in India should be assigned a 30-bit identification number. Problem solved!

  25. Greenhouse cataclysm on New Map Hints At Venus' Wet, Volcanic Past · · Score: 2, Funny

    The new map hints that our neighbouring world may once have been more Earth-like, with a plate tectonics system and an ocean of water.

    Yep. Until the Venusians burned all those fossil fuels and released all that CO2....