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  1. Re:So big asteroids become little asteroids on Engineers Working On Swarm Of Laser Wielding Satellites To Deflect Asteroids · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I agree space junk is a problem and we shouldn't try to make it worse. HOWEVER, several million nuclear bombs going off might make more mess and kill us all. I'm going to have to pick space junk.

  2. No Need to buy a TV. Not had one for over a year. Can't see a reason for me to get one either. Projector for films and PC to watch things on youtube. Not much on. Well, not in the UK. I'm out of the need a TV demographic.

  3. Re:Google Gov on Google Files Amicus Brief in Hotfile Case; MPAA Requests It Be Rejected · · Score: 1

    For shareholders and profit? That can't be right.

  4. Re:You know what's BS? on Interview With Suren Ter From 'You Have Downloaded' · · Score: 1

    No. I think it may be worth trying it and see what happens :)

  5. Re:Of course they are secure on Multiword Passwords Secure Or Not? · · Score: 2

    Hey! That's the combination to my luggage.

  6. Re:Weather forecasters on The Blistering Hot Exoplanet Where It Snows · · Score: 5, Funny

    Having waited in a pub for a Welsh bloke to turn up on a number of occasions, I'd say 63 years late was rather prompt. The amount of drinking done after they arrive is worth the wait. You'd not want to start much earlier.

  7. Re:I can just picture it on Lego Mindstorms Used To Make Artificial Bones · · Score: 1

    I take it you watch box sets back to back and see the cutter plot shape. You know it's 33 mins into the story-line because this note was hit. 42mins, ending look between actors given. If I watch box sets too much I start to see it almost like an xml file. Each plot point is a branch opening and closing and it's all reusable.
    The only thing that didn't do this, was the first Season of Dexter. Felt like the book's story playing out.

  8. $16 Billion wage bill on Google 'Wasting' $16 Billion On Projects Headed Nowhere · · Score: 1

    They wanted to get the best people. How else can they do that? They can pay more of course or give these people who are well paid, time to do other projects. Why would you leave to work else where? Every Friday is build your own stuff day! So long as there is a bit of cross over between work and play, the $16 Billion is not going to waste. ROI on staff being happy not an option anymore :(?

  9. Re:Cycles on Can Microsoft Afford To Lose With Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    There are lots of programs to find duplicate files. Even an excel macro to scan a file's data would be able to report on dupes, what are you looking for? I've got the same issue with photos; but consider them to be backed up all over the place :)

  10. Re:is this a viable business stratagy? on Can Microsoft Afford To Lose With Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    Win98(good) -> WinME(crap) ->WinXP(good) -> Vista(oh dear Lord, what on earth is going on? This is dire - What's it doing to the HDD? Yes I do want to run that? *click* I'm sure, Yes. What's this Linux I've been reading about? )
    Stuff like that. I've not had to do any business admin for Vista. Have I been lucky?

  11. Re:Everybody needs an Anti-Cyber-Threat-Center! on Sony's Plan To Tighten Security and Fight Hacktivism · · Score: 1

    :) Hi. I'm Senior IT security consultant. My rate is 450/hour rate. If your company is worth more than the competition then you should invest more.
    I used to be Mr IT security consultant. I found Senior pays better :) - * Sorry. I'd mod myself down for that one.

  12. Re:McAfee? on 30K WordPress Blogs Infected With the Latest Malware Scam · · Score: 0

    pot, meet kettle.

  13. Re:McAfee? on 30K WordPress Blogs Infected With the Latest Malware Scam · · Score: -1

    You said it is great and it is insecure? Attention seeking ungrateful little shit that it is.

  14. distribution rights :) on Hackers Nab Unreleased Michael Jackson Tracks From Sony · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sony, distribution is not a right. Well it's not now anyway.

  15. Re:Will game devs prefer common architecture? on Sony Ditching Cell Architecture For Next PlayStation? · · Score: 1

    To hold a console to a PC standard doesn't work. My graphics card cost more than my ps3, so did the graphics card before that.

  16. Re:Will game devs prefer common architecture? on Sony Ditching Cell Architecture For Next PlayStation? · · Score: 1

    I thought the reason the 360 hit the ground running was the Dev kits were good and the programmers just had to get to speed with the console. They got 90% out machine right away and took another few years to wring the rest out.
    Where as the PS3 had crap tools and was much harder to code for. The idea being the first games got about 60% out of the kit, then around the 80% it surpasses what the 360 is capable of and only the best can get the full 100%. This give the console a long life and lets products get better. I picked the percent out of the air. but the point is the ps3 has more potential in the very long run.

  17. Re:Wind, solar on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 2

    *The cathartic collective tear in every geeks eye. That's the question in all our hearts.
    You must be young. They beat that out of you. Quick! Run ... Run for the hills. Save yourself.

  18. Re:Wind, solar on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If using *foreign* oil starts the process for people sorting out energy consumption then why not use that.
    In the UK they've used HUGE prices. So solar power starts to break even very soon. when it gets to about 7-10 years I think about it. The problem now is i don't want to install stuff and 15 years later have to pay for obsolete stuff to be removed, just as it breaks even.

  19. Re:Use another service? on Google Privacy Policy Could Violate EU Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No this isn't the same. Having a person fix a broken object and getting ripped off may be ignorance but it doesn't stop a person getting a job 20 years down the line.
    If a teen wrote on facebook "first gay kiss, love that person / just tried drugs / want to vote for party X", that bit of information is there to haunt them. Being gay, trying drugs or voting x is not the issue, not being able to "un-share" it, should the need arise is.
    The enlightened in this case, should work to protect the ignorant. Being a decent engineer, being a sysadmin (xkcd style) means you are the powerful. And with great power ... Help the ignorant by default.

  20. ARghhhh on Nokia Puts 41MPixel Camera In a (Symbian) Phone · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll look forward to getting 20 of those pictures in an email. Thanks mum, the 10 gig of pictures with nothing but the food you ordered whilst on holiday are great.Oh - I can see some bugs you missed in the salad :) / fires up Photoshop - Mwwhahahhaaa.

  21. Smartphones on Facebook Denies Accessing Users' Text Messages · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wish I didn't install their app on my HTC ages ago. It's off now; but it did get the contact data from the phone! I only use the browser for FB now and no way am I installing that Malware again. - Events details locked in FB are a pain.

  22. Re:great on What Beer Can Teach Us About Emerging Technologies · · Score: 2

    I know a person that needs a drink!

  23. This is true on What Beer Can Teach Us About Emerging Technologies · · Score: 1

    Brewing is a passion and getting a "better" result for personal satisfaction or to beat a foe is well worth the wasted effort.
    Also, procrastination and putting projects off with another project gets a lot of the wrong things done too. Look how clean and tidy things become before an exam. :)

  24. Re:Cue in big brother on UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money · · Score: 1

    / thump - not thumb. I'm not too sure what thumb would be. I wouldn't do that to anyone.

  25. Re:Cue in big brother on UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money · · Score: 1

    I want to thumb you in the nose for posting ideas like that on the net. They don't have any of their own you know! This is just the sort of thing they'll do. I want to pitch in an even more ridiculous to top yours but fear in doing so I'd only be adding to it all. HELP HELP. England is a prison isle.