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  1. Re:A few questions... on Nano Subs in your Blood · · Score: 1

    They'll be fitted with GPS, obviously.

  2. How strong can these motors be? on Nano Subs in your Blood · · Score: 1

    What force does it take to resist the force of the blood flow in an artery?

  3. That's why on Nano Subs in your Blood · · Score: 1
    the Enigma machine was 'borrowed' from Bletchley Park.

    Now they've worked out how to build a miniaturized version to fit in these subs.

  4. Re:praise the lord... on Gutenberg Bibles Online · · Score: 1
    I've looked at those pages, and they've got something on them that could easily be described as icons.

    How do the hypertext links work?

  5. Re:what DjVu may mean ? on A New Web Image Format · · Score: 2
    Wasn't that already posted?

    Wait - I get it ;,)

  6. It's not just in the UK on Playstation 2 Basic? · · Score: 2

    It's the whole of Europe.

  7. Gates delusional? on Bill Gates on Freedom · · Score: 3

    Now he's referring to himself as the Bill of Rights

  8. Nothing wrong with running Outlook/Exchange on When Is Exchange Inappropriate For The Enterprise? · · Score: 2

    Between sacrificing goats and dancing naked in the moonlight.

  9. No on Intel Says No SMP Support For Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    You can't imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!

  10. What it does on Two For The Sky: Satellites For HAM And You · · Score: 2
    It orbits the earth, and relays radio comms from the surface, back down to the surface.

    Simple.

    Next?

  11. Re:Vice versa on Give That Monkey Brain A Robotic Arm! · · Score: 2

    If only they'd rigged it up in your polling booths.
    Monkeys would have decided Florida's vote instead of lawyers. Oh, sorry, what am I saying?

  12. What's this research for? on Monkey Think, Robot Do · · Score: 2

    Can these robot arms punch ballot papers?

  13. Technology Impact Statements? on The Net As New Jerusalem, Part Two · · Score: 2
    This wasn't ever necessary before, was it?

    Ok, maybe someone shouted Fire! a long time ago, but we are part-way through an information revolution.

    Besides, who really knows the tru status quo at any given time?

  14. Re:Why is this under 'privacy'? on Internet Usage Records Accessible Under FOI Laws · · Score: 4
    I don't expect a camera somewhere spying everything I do

    Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

    Try looking up a bit more often. You're going to be shocked at how often you are on camera these days.

  15. Re:Location Authenticator? on Authentication Via Geographical Location? · · Score: 3
    How about having to provide a DNA sample?

    Extremely easy when surfing pr0n.

  16. Trust Scientists on Tutankhamun's DNA To Be Tested · · Score: 5

    Trying to prove that a Mummy is a Daddy.

  17. You may say I'm a dreamer... on What If There Was No Copyright Law? · · Score: 2
    If John Lennon were here today, he'd be singing

    No, dead people can't sing.

    They do tend to hum, though.

  18. Confused math? on Prove The Riemann Hypothesis And Make.Money.Fast · · Score: 2
    complex numbers--numbers made from a real part (an ordinary number) and a so-called imaginary part (a multiple of i, the square root of 1).

    When I went to school, i was the square root of -1.

  19. Microsoft have been doing this for years on Keyless Keyboard · · Score: 2

    Windows: the OS-less OS.

  20. Say that again on The LEP Collider Will Be Closed Down · · Score: 4
    The collider has been used to confirm the existence of the Higgs particle unsuccessfully.

    Is that like the Presidential election was used to confirm the new President unsuccessfully?

  21. Re:Republicans then. on What NT Web Hosts Are Good Web Hosts? · · Score: 1

    They're all installing G dubya Basic.

  22. No problem... on Election-Day's Effect on the Net · · Score: 4

    Al Gore's got a fix for it already.

  23. Re:"Stable" on MS 'Whistler' Looks Solid To ZDNET · · Score: 1

    Or stable as in full of horse-shit?

  24. Ozone layer hole? on Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Runs Out Of Time · · Score: 1

    Is it becoming feasible to collect enough EUV from inside Earth's atmosphere (ie ground-based telscopes) now there is less ozone filtration?

  25. Re: whippersnapper? on Kasparov King No More · · Score: 1

    Hey, he ain't no Rookie.
    It's been a hard day's Knight.
    Now he can get on the net, download some Pw4n and bash the Bishop like everyone else.