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  1. Re:sweet!! on Single Neuron Wired To Muscle Un-Paralyzes Monkeys · · Score: 1

    Other use could be with amputation victims. Helping restore function to reattached appendages/digits, or controlling prosthesis...

    I am missing my left hand, I'm glad to see the necessary advances are being made for my planned weapon hanging off where my hand once was. Gattling gun, chainsaw, shotgun, nunchucks etc all interchangeable depending on the days expected combat.

  2. Australian law-bodies research sharks and fricken on Laser Pointers Classed as Weapons in Australia · · Score: 1

    I hear the population of sharks-with-fricken-lasers-attached-to-their-heads is quite high in Botany Bay which is on the approach to Sydney airport.

  3. Re:In other news... on ARIA Sells a Licence for DJs to Format Shift Music · · Score: 1

    I am actually a descendant of one of the convicts sent on the first fleet so it's not surprising I'm a music thief.
    Where are they going to send me next? Somewhere with even better weather I expect. (if that's possible)

  4. Re:Squid = awesome on The Squid's Beak May Revolutionize Engineering · · Score: 1

    My only question is how far up my arm do I have to chop the hand off to qualify for this? I would like to keep my elbow,

    I got what you want done, you can just get drunk and take a shortcut through a 33kV substation, not for the faint hearted though, I'd recommend against it. Damn, missed out on a Darwin Award!
  5. Re:Squid = awesome on The Squid's Beak May Revolutionize Engineering · · Score: 1

    My only question is how far up my arm do I have to chop the hand off to qualify for this? I would like to keep my elbow,

    I got what you want done, you can just get drunk and take a shortcut through a 33kV substation, not for the faint hearted though, I'd recommend against it.
  6. Code can be sexy and beautiful on The P.G. Wodehouse Method of Refactoring · · Score: 1

    quicksort [] = [] quicksort (x:xs) = quicksort less ++ [x] ++ quicksort greater where less = [ y | y = x ]

  7. Don't stand in the way of skynet on "Manhattan Project" For Prosthetic Arms · · Score: 1

    I am missing my left hand....long story. This is great, now when they are in my price range (if I'm still alive) and I get one, I can crush the skull of anyone who kept the price high in my cyborg hand.

  8. Re:It seems to be missing something on TR Picks 10 Emerging Technologies of 08 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I do not see Duke Nukem Forever on that list anywhere Nah, I hear that's coming out next year.
  9. Re:Next step: decide when staggering is a good ide on Balancing Robot Can Take a Kicking · · Score: 1

    Yes, I will pull the child towards me, but it may be enough of a shift in mass to pull myself towards the child as well. If you throw the child behind you, you will have the best chance.....especially if there is a bus coming.
  10. Redundancy on The Arctic Doomsday Seed Vault · · Score: 1

    Seeing as it's such valuable content wouldn't that call for a redundant system near the south pole. If you get too paranoid there's always the moon and Mars.

  11. Nanobots on Adding Capsaicin Improves Anesthetic Treatment · · Score: 1

    I'm picturing an army of nanobots, some clearing a path for others, some carrying the payload of capsaicin, others doing the work once the payload is at the target. Controlled by RTS AI.

  12. Re:If games aren't art... on Ebert Reclassifies Games as Sports · · Score: 1

    ...where does Mario Paint fit in?! It doesn't fit anywhere and it never will.
  13. Re:Burn victims on Self-Healing Plastic Skin · · Score: 1

    Imagine how this could be applied to burn victims.

    Or, on a more humerous note, Michael Jackson. Though I suppose there's no cure for wierdness. I immediately thought the same thing.... burn victims, not the creepy pop identity. I got severely burnt, >90%. They used artificial skin on most of my body as there was only ~10% to graft from, it had to be replaced with my own skin once the donor sites had regenerated which took 2 weeks surprisingly. I had 2 donor sites so 1-2 operations a week for months. This sounds like it could have saved me about 30 operations and I would be invincible now. I kind of already am, the way they work out percentage chance of survival came up negative for me....that was 9 years ago. I want plastic skin, I could join the X-Men, no I'm not an ex-man, that was part of the 10% thankfully. Damn it's not biological skin I hear....I was designing my costume.
  14. Re:Burn victims on Self-Healing Plastic Skin · · Score: 1

    Imagine how this could be applied to burn victims.

    Or, on a more humerous note, Michael Jackson. Though I suppose there's no cure for wierdness. I immediately thought the same thing.... burn victims, not the creepy pop identity. I got severely burnt, >90%. They used artificial skin on most of my body as there was only ~10% to graft from, it had to be replaced with my own skin once the donor sites had regenerated which took 2 weeks surprisingly. I had 2 donor sites so 1-2 operations a week for months. This sounds like it could have saved me about 30 operations and I would be invincible now. I kind of already am, the way they work out percentage chance of survival came up negative for me....that was 9 years ago. I want plastic skin, I could join the X-Men, no I'm not an ex-man, that was part of the 10% thankfully.
  15. Re:Not Quite Indiana Jones on Sunken Treasure Worth $500 Million Found Off England · · Score: 1

    'They pillage and destroy with greed their soul goal, no diplomacy and guilt of the scientific data destroyed and peoples and cultures they've offended.'

    Peoples cultures offended? Maybe some pirates in south-east Asia will be upset about there predecessors on the other side of the world having their remains disturbed. The only others I can think of are Sweden's politicians the Pirate Party

    I agree about the scientific data but, I'm not sure we have to worry about the pirate culture being offended though.

  16. Homer on T. Rex Protein Analysis Supports Dinosaur-Bird Link · · Score: 1

    The tale of the T. rex began with Horner
    I haven't seen that Simpsons episode, I thought I'd seen them all.
  17. Marriage? on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: 1

    Does this mean some freak will legally be able to marry a chimp? (shudder)

  18. Re:The X86 is a pig. on Despite Aging Design, x86 Still in Charge · · Score: 1

    In this day and age of multi-core CPUs, why not have a processor with a X64 ISA core and a core with the desired architecture. Let them run in parallel like 32/64 bit compatible CPUs.

    Because that uses very valuable die real estate. These days x86 is already converted into micro-ops, which is like another instruction set altogether, which can be more easily re-ordered to be made more efficient.


    Couldn't you just have an x86 coprocessor if there was a suitable motherboard? That way it wouldn't take die real estate away from the newer processor or interfere with its I/O.

  19. Re:You don't think Firefox is bloated? on Firefox 3.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    '3/2 is a fraction.'

    The same math applied to version, 1/0..... lost carrier

  20. Re:beats using people on Cisco Develops Mobile Robots for Wireless Nets · · Score: 1

    'he had to run phone lines/communications out onto the battlefield and back'

    He ran a seperate cable each direction? That's what I call failsafe, which is probably what you need in that situation, just take different paths so you don't lose both simultaneously.

  21. Re:but does anyone have the hotline number to .... on British Military Deploys Skynet · · Score: 1

    'the california govenor'

    I think you mean the Governator of California.

  22. Geothermal heat source on MIT-Led Study Says Geothermal Energy Is Viable · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I always hear people talking about natalie portmans hot grits here, well now we've found another use for them.

  23. Prime twins on Largest Twin Prime Yet Discovered · · Score: 1

    ...that like to work as a team is what I would find more interesting.

  24. Reason for this kind of warning on 10th Annual Wacky Warning Labels Out · · Score: 5, Informative

    An under-evolved hairless ape recently put an infant in the clothes dryer in Sydney because he thought it would be fun for the child. It may have been for the few seconds before the 3rd degree burns started developing. This kind of cretin is the reason for this kind of warning.

  25. Solar surfs up! on Approaching Solar Storm Forces ISS to Take Cover · · Score: 1

    When we have recreational vehicles using solar sails that is.

    (No, you don't need to point out how that is only maybe possible for the moments before destruction when reasonaby close to a supernova.)