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  1. Re:From the No-shit-sherlock department on Oxford Scientists Say Dogs Are Smarter Than Cats · · Score: 1

    any dog who's tried to train a human can tell you that cats are far smarter at this.

  2. Re:Intended Reaction? on Witcher 2 Torrents Could Net You a Fine · · Score: 0, Troll

    why?

    property is thief.

  3. Re:Petaflops per second? on Windows Cluster Hits a Petaflop, But Linux Retains Top-5 Spot · · Score: 1

    it's a solitary pursuit,
    you'll know when I'm done.

  4. Re:Tampering! on Kinect Hacked, Adafruit Bounty Won · · Score: 1

    Kinda like owning a car, but only a license for the control software that most of them have that won't let you drive off unless you service your car at an authorised retailer every 50 miles.

    I can see it now, Apple buying municipal electric companies and sending a modulated signal down the line, after all it's important to control the quality of the power supply to make sure their products/software works properly.

    Maybe it could be a beetles track played in reverse, so they could copyright the signal and spread intelligent design through the IHaveThePower grid.

  5. Re:Tampering! on Kinect Hacked, Adafruit Bounty Won · · Score: 1

    By plugging this hardware in you agree to the terms of the license...........

  6. Re:Science Journalism on Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang' · · Score: 1

    "this is what we've been able to prove thus far".

    What that's it's all just theories?

  7. Re:How does this work? on Cheap Metal-Insulator-Metal (MiM) Diode Created · · Score: 1

    I expect the 'diode' behaviour is to tunnel or not to tunnel.

    hardly surprising you don't find an explanation, if you had have done, surely it would have been invented already.

    with all tunnels open, is that like a superconductor version of a computer? where work always equals 1 no matter how much it computes?

    I don't know tunnelling too well.

  8. Re:Fundamental discovery? on Cheap Metal-Insulator-Metal (MiM) Diode Created · · Score: 1

    well, the electrons tunnel instead of 'moving',
    one thing the article didn't touch on is that if the electrons tunnel instead of moving then entropy is good.
    so heat should be next to zero I should imagine?

    electrons tunnelling is a bit like 1+1 = 3
    the extra 1 that's missing is the work, which would create heat and slow things down.

  9. Re:No we don't. on Is Google Polluting the Internet? · · Score: 1

    1) Security?
    what are you scared of, don't be scared.

    happiness......... ummmm.........

  10. Re:No we don't. on Is Google Polluting the Internet? · · Score: 1

    but do you ever have enough?

  11. Re:No we don't. on Is Google Polluting the Internet? · · Score: 1

    I wonder what wikipedia doesn't mention about white people.

    I have a third motive
    peace.

  12. Re:Finally looking practical... on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 1

    but you need the people paying big bucks to fund the development which will lead to your tipping point.

    well under the current economic regime

  13. start WINEing on IE6 Addiction Inhibits Windows 7 Migrations · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I expect I can run IE6 via WINE on linux with little or no problems.

  14. Re:Finally looking practical... on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 1

    well our kids

  15. Re:Finally looking practical... on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    is that cost to the planet or cost to your wallet?

  16. Re:Oh, just great on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 1

    read the selfish gene

    "Dopamine is a neurotransmitter affecting brain processes"

    Yeh apparently psychosis too.

  17. Re:Whats wrong with the USA and UK? on UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    I should add I'm autistic spectrum and get 'bounced' by the police (in my local area any how, and not that I really do anything wrong, just am a bit of an 'experimenter in social etiquette' sometimes).
    no-dna, no-fingerprints etc....

    Certainly in my area the police have really improved on their public image, and don't piss people around any more like stories of not so long ago.

    The councils on the other-hand, request that kind of data all the time, to catch people 'not recycling their rubbish' or some other crap.

    Text messages are already kept for 3 months I believe.

  18. Re:Whats wrong with the USA and UK? on UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    1: The police won't be able to 'monitor' every one in real time, it would be on a per case basis and they would have to request the data and probably pay for it.
    (I'm more worried about the people keeping it than the police in all honesty)
    There's actually some reasonable reason for this.
    The RIP act prevents intercept messages and data from being read or whatever by the police.
    (Basically if it's not read in your inbox, there not allowed to read it, it's a wiretap)
    SFAIK that kind of wiretap information isn't allowed in UK courts (even wiretap info from normal phone lines isn't allowed)

    That makes for 'sloppy' police work and innocent people getting locked up and guilty people getting away with white collar crime. (or whatever)

    Think of it as DNA and witness statements, over 'big brother'

  19. people one way to Mars and I told him $10 billion on NASA Reveals Hundred Year Starship Program · · Score: 0, Troll

    Cost of sending people 1 way to Afghanistan or Iraq.

    Priceless.

  20. civil obediance. on New CCTV Site In UK Pays People To Watch · · Score: 1

    This calls for a bit of not breaking the law, but acting in a very suspicious manner in view of the cameras. So frequently that it adds too much noise to any real thought crimes that may be going on.

  21. Re:Just one atom? on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 1

    and a mechanic for when it keeps breaking down.

  22. arrogant humans on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 1

    we are already here and in communication with 'your' bacteria.

  23. Re:Just one atom? on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 1

    1 F1 should be enough for 57 people.

    what about a McLaren F1

  24. Re:Beat them to the punch on US ISP Adopts Three-Strikes Policy · · Score: 1

    class action, if it can be used in this case.

  25. Re:The Plaintiff? on In Court? Be Careful What You Post On Facebook · · Score: 1

    I think a record of my ./ posts will show I'm now bitter and twisted.