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  1. WTF for? on UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours · · Score: 1

    In a modern world Daylight saving doesn't save anything. If you want to save power for lighting just mandate the end of incandescent bulbs.

    Its also really annoying having the time change in the middle of March when it would affect meal times.

      I have lived in both hemispheres

  2. BBC is Dead? on The Death of BCC · · Score: 1

    Especially since there was another frontpage story that said "Science Channel buys Firefly" and the BBC (america) is the main channel that shows SF* these days since the renaming and demise of the ScIFi channel

    BBCA has ST:TNG and X-Files in addition to their own SF shows like DR Who, Torchwood, Primevil, and Being Human...

    Anyway back to the intended subject, I don't use FaceBook, and I do use Thunderbird, and It still hac BCC

  3. Re:78 million on Milky Way Stuffed With an Estimated 50 Billion Alien Worlds · · Score: 1

    Maybe many of those worls have simple forms of life, like this planet had handreds of million years ago, but haven't evolved into more complex forms yet. It took a long time for intelligent tool users to evolve here on earth, and we have only had radio transmissions for a bit more than a century. The aliens could have started to explore space, found it too expensive, and gave it up. Maybe they had a religious conversion, and gave up nearly all technology (except fireplaces)

    Who knows

  4. Re:Serious range disadvantage for naval warfare. on US Navy Breaks Laser Record · · Score: 2

    But naval warfare is well suited to the sharks that you mount your lasers on

  5. Re:Nuke it from orbit on Confidential Data Not Safe On Solid State Disks · · Score: 1

    That may be a little expensive, what about nuking it in a microwave oven?

  6. Re:£149? on TiVo To Brick All Remaining UK PVRs On June 1 · · Score: 1

    "the Virgin V+ HD box is free (well, a once off £50 activation charge) for new customers"

    If 50 pounds is now virtually free, then the value of sterling must have dropped quite a bit. Tell you what, you send me a 50 pound note, and I will send you $10US back to cover the cost of postage.

  7. Re:Bullshit on Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization · · Score: 2

    Cleaning up afterward may not be so great

  8. Please tell us on File Organization — How Do You Do It In 2011? · · Score: 1

    Where you keep all your valuable data, so if we ever hack into your computer, we know where to steal (or at least make copies of) your pron collection

  9. I thought on Court Says California Stores Can't Ask Customers For ZIP Codes · · Score: 1

    I thought the reason retailers ask for your zip code is so they know what rate of sales tax to charge you, and which state gets said tax.

    Do you get asked for zip code if you pay by cash?

  10. Why not just... on Mozilla Aims To Release Four Firefox Versions In 2011 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why not just express version numbers in binary?

    Thus version 4 would be released as version 100, and version 5 would be 101

    That should be enough for this year , and jump way ahead of the opposition.

  11. Shrinks antenna not tower on Alcatel-Lucent Shrinks Mobile Cell Tower To Small Cube · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the reason they have cellphone 'towers' is to get the antenna up high so it covers a wider area and is less affected by buildings and stuff blocking the signal. They are still going to need towers unless they find some way of elevating those cubes above the surroundings. Maybe tethered balloons would work in some areas which don't have wind.

  12. Harrison Schmitt on New Mexico Bill To Protect Anti-Science Education · · Score: 1

    That name sounds familiar, is that the same guy that went to the moon (Apollo 17)?

  13. Trade marking names on Sarah Palin Seeks To Trademark Her Name · · Score: 1

    What does Michael Palin say about this? - He has been around as an entertainer for a long time.

    Sarah is a common womans name - I am sure there was one in the Bible.

  14. Crystals of Dihydrogen monoxide on 'Invisibility Cloak' Created Using Crystals · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Around here at this time of year naturally occuring crystals can cause objects to disappear., especially in high winds. In some cases even after the wind has subsided, things can remain hidden by being covered with a layer of these 6 sided crystals. There are 2 solutions, wait until the temperature increases and the crystals melt, or to use a shovel....

  15. Re:In the Himalayas... on 19-Year-Old Makes Homemade Solar Death Ray · · Score: 1

    Exactly - I think Ed Hillary and his crew said you couldn't make a decent cup of tea on Mt Everest because of the low boiling point.

  16. Re:Technological independence on Russia Launches, Loses, Finds Military Satellite · · Score: 1

    Yeah about 4 billion years ago

  17. Oh No on Egypt Goes Dark As Last ISP Pulls Plug · · Score: 1

    Without the Internet they can't have a revolution - o dear...

    I guess the american and french revolutions in the late 18th century never happened then, they didn't even have telegraph or telephone, much less internet wifi and cable or satellite TV

  18. Re:Wrong, wrong, wrong! on Ski Lifts Can Could Help Get Cargo Traffic Off the Road · · Score: 1

    Buses may work in dense population centers, but not in small and medium sized towns like you find in the midwest states of the USA.

  19. Wolfram on Google Would Beat Bing At Jeopardy, Says Wolfram · · Score: 2

    I thought Wolfram was called Tungsten in America?

  20. Re:Ahh LEGO... on A Lego Replica of the Antikythera Mechanism · · Score: 1

    I think high loads in general would be out. I don't think it would be possible for instance to have a full size model of the golden gate bridge and expect it to stay up.

    If you tried to make a solid sphere a light year across out of legos I think it would collapse into a black hole. (And the galaxies financial system would collapse trying to pay for it.)

  21. Re:Plug In Cars on White House Wants 1M Electric Cars By 2015 · · Score: 0

    With the situation in Egypt, the price of oil is gonna skyrocket .

  22. Whats the big deal? on Today Is EPOCH Day 15000 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Whats so special about the number 15000 ? I could understand if it was 10000 or 100000 or, for more binary based folks 16383 or 16384, but 15000?

  23. Daedalus class on Sizing Up the Daedalus Interstellar Spacecraft · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought the Daedalus incorporated a lot of Asgard technology, including Hyperdrive and site to site beaming ability. It would be very useful to have since it can go to other nearby galaxies (Like Pegasus)
    Heres some info: http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Daedalus

  24. Re:You mean 10G downloads? on Apple App Store Hits 10B App Download Mark · · Score: 1

    Yeah, 10B would be 267 in decimal

  25. Warming trend on Greenland Ice Sheet Melts At Record Rate In 2010 · · Score: 1

    I just checked the local forecast and the temperature is predicted to rise 25 celcius (45 F) over the next week. It won't melt all the ice though as it will still be below freezing...