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  1. What if... on Eye-based Navigation Research From IBM · · Score: 2
    For example, a BlueEyes-enabled television could become active when the user makes eye contact, at which point the user could then tell the television to "turn on CNN". The television would respond to the user's request by changing the channel to CNN. If the television then "sees" the user smile or nod, it would know that it had satisfied the request. If the television "sees" the user frown and complain, it would explain that it didn't understand the request and ask for clarification in which you could explain you meant CNN Headline News.

    What would happen if the whole family sits down to watch TV with papa wanting football and mama a popular soap and junior cartoon?

  2. OK so what? on Top UK Cable Firms Scrapping DSL · · Score: 1
    Moron:The lesser the number of companies lesser the hard choice we have to make.

    Intelligent: Oh suck now less freebies to sign up.

    Entrepreneur:Good maybe I could try my hand, there sure is less competition.

  3. We are Human! on Fugu May Be Key To Human Genome · · Score: 1
    "Why the Junk?
    Of course, the use of the fugu as a comparative tool begs a fundamental question: Why does its genome have so much less junk than ours? And what's all the junk doing in genomes anyway?"

    We humans have so much of junk along with some wonderful things; that's what makes us human and not Fugus.

  4. But it could be 100% on NASA's Odds For Iridium De-Orbit Casualties · · Score: 2

    Ok fine the chances are 1:250, but when it hits you the chances are 100% isn,t it? So we can't just let it go quoting some silly ratios.

  5. Donate for the cause on id On Linux: Bad News · · Score: 1
    Unless they start seeing some dollars here, they're going to abandon the platform entirely.

    Whats a few dollars wasted on buying a worthless game, we keep doing it anyway buying other waste, if it can help. And remember "drops make an ocean".

  6. Re:Wow. Nice potential on Digital Camera With Wireless Browser · · Score: 1

    Ya, that's what my first thoughts were: instant reporting is here; but In a flash I realised that perhaps the speeds involved may not be so instant. And you could still be caught in the process of transmitting that "sizzling page or picture" and then perhaps there will be a "Transmiision aborted" or such snazzy bit of message blinking at you if the camera is still in front of you..

  7. Yes things don't seem so rosy anymore on Is The Wireless Internet Not Ready For Prime Time? · · Score: 1

    Wap doesn't work and here's detail of why it doesn't.

  8. Re:But, but, but... on Intel's Itanium Processor Explained · · Score: 1

    Well don't be cattle and come to our web site we do the cattle job for you.

  9. Well that's what games are meant for on Very Cool, Very Vaporous 1-Handed Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Games wouldn't be games if we took them so seriously and started concentrating fully on them. We go to play games so we can get off serious work and relax.

  10. Bah! on Phone Numbers Instead of URLs? · · Score: 1

    These guys seem to sound very much like those "Culture guys" who would make people keep doing ancient tedious and irrelevant stuff in the name of keeping our cultures alive.

  11. But that doesn't solve my problem on New Device Could Overcome Low Vision · · Score: 1

    But I can't see the faces of people accross the room and read what's going on in their mind and I hate using glasses/lenses.

  12. Just a minute on When Worlds Collide: The New Dot-Biz And The Old · · Score: 1

    "Only a minuscule portion of computers connected to the Internet are configured to recognize dot-biz names, and unless you're using one, you'll get one of those irksome can't-find-that-site errors." If people are taking the trouble to use such machines fine they have enough energy to take in some more trouble and find ways to differentiate between the old and new ".biz". For the rest of us it hardly concerns us.

  13. Thanks on You Track Me, I Sue You · · Score: 1

    Thanks a ton for pointing out our mistake. We are indebted to you and hope for further cooperation from you. The change will appear soon.

  14. Go ahead on You Track Me, I Sue You · · Score: 1

    Track me and I won't sue you I'll spam you instead. Confused?

  15. All the best on Kahn Overhauling the Internet · · Score: 1

    You do the hard work and we shall relax and shall "slash you up" on slash.

  16. Re:Old Joke on Top Ten Intel Slipups · · Score: 1

    Don't they say you learn through your mistakes? Therefore the bigger the mistakes and more numerous, the more you learn from them, and the more you learn the more you earn right?

  17. Re:Welcome to Utopia on Creating The UniServer · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with dreaming of Utopia? Isn't fact strander than fiction and haven't we overachieved more than utopian dreams at many instances.

  18. I don't agree on Sleeplessness Impairs Memory · · Score: 1

    Here is a case just reverse. I just sleep and sleep and have the least bit of memeory to show for that. Maybe too much of sleep too hampers memory.

  19. We are doing that! Didn't you notice? on Web Site For Debian Newbies · · Score: 1

    Check out our web site at the given link and that should answer your quetion and quest also please put in your comments on the site through our discussion forum.

  20. Hey how about newbies at business? on Web Site For Debian Newbies · · Score: 1

    Our website deals with newbies in business and aims to guide their decisions based on the latest industry news and some resources on how to run their companies better. Could you guys contribute and help? Me too a founder of a new startup.

  21. Super brains Auctioned! on Living-Donor Nerve Transplant · · Score: 1

    Soon we could have brains of people like Kasporov and even Bill Gates on the block at Southby's website available for transplant. Wonder how much they'd fetch.

  22. where's the conclusion? on Are Fingerprints Unique? · · Score: 1

    Facsinating details, but nothing conclusive.

  23. We should have guessed! on China Snubs Verisign In Domain Tussle · · Score: 3
    Here is an extract from an article "Fred Baker, chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force, said representatives from China recently told him they were apprehensive about the test being conducted by Herndon, Virginia-based VeriSign. "They are concerned, offended might be the better word, that people who don't speak Chinese as their first language are trying to go off and make money on this," Baker said."

    This should have warned us.

  24. Isn't it a wow? on 3-Dimensional Holographic Projector · · Score: 1

    Perhaps investors have just found something new. Imagine what all can be done if customers of various products could be made to see those images any and everywhere. This could provide the solution to the lack of interest in internet buying because the customer is put off with "can't see for real" attitude. Maybe that will take some time but certain industries could make immediate use of this. Like the housing and interiors industry.

  25. Free is better than cheap on GNU Hardware Cooperative · · Score: 1

    No matter how cheap you get things at the flee market, free stuff is always more attractive plus you don't have to rack your already tired brain to make sure you are not being cheated.