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  1. Re:It's worked for other people in the past on Would You Pay For YouTube Videos? · · Score: 1

    It was an audio 'acquisition' network where you ran a bittorrent like client on a PC somewhere. You could then search for audio on their web site and the client started downloading. I had it running at home and send it a queue while travelling around. By the time I got back it was all done.

    There was also a massive community attached to the site.

    They were more or less taken apart and forced to work along with the RIAA. They attempted to make it into a pay service with little luck. The site is still around, but they've disabled the satellite application in favour of Rhapsody.

  2. It's worked for other people in the past on Would You Pay For YouTube Videos? · · Score: 1

    Take Audiogalaxy for example...

  3. Very useful on Elderly To Get Satellite Navigation To Find Their Way Around Supermarkets · · Score: 1

    Now they can find all the dog food and hair nets...

  4. Instructions on doing something similar at home... on Using Light's Handedness To Find Alien Life · · Score: 1

    By using a combination of rice paper and domestic household bleach you can detect if a planet is either Regular or Goofy footed...

  5. OpenBank on Academics To Predict Next Twitter and Its Pitfalls · · Score: 1, Troll

    Rather than keeping your bank account a secret, make it available to the online community. Part of the Free, Unlimited Community Knowledge and Education Department.

  6. I view myself on Are Human Beings Organisms Or Living Ecosystems? · · Score: 3, Funny

    As a series of tubes.

  7. Stuff rock stars on Chimpanzees Exchange Meat For Sex · · Score: 2, Funny

    Butchers get all the chicks.

  8. Lucky it was a clean break on Antarctic Ice Bridge Finally Breaks Off · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The last thing we needed was a pinch at the end, then we'll be wiping for the next 100 years.

  9. Poor North Korea on Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World · · Score: 1

    Always playing at the wrong end of the bell curve

  10. If birds are made of beer on What Bird Feathers and Beer Foam Have In Common · · Score: 1

    Then a woodpecker must be a bird on tap!

    Sweet jesus, why can't I stop.

  11. Glaciologist on Large Ice Shelf Expected To Break From Antarctica · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a pretty cool job.

    ah, that's better.

  12. That's nothing on Baby Chicks Have Innate Mathematical Skills · · Score: 4, Funny

    We have duck called Mersenne that quacks in primes.

  13. It helped me on Violent Video Games Can Improve Vision · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can see all the Grues now.

  14. He could assist in international relations on Microsoft Executive Tapped For Top DHS Cyber Post · · Score: 1

    You know, with countries like Iceland. They sure need an insight from a Microsoft exec right now...

  15. MCP Glamour on Microsoft Shoots Own Foot In Iceland · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I bet they're proud of that Microsoft partner banner at reception...

  16. There's a FAR more effective way on UK Government Ads Link Games With "Early Death" · · Score: 1

    It's called conscription. Hooray for government! That'll save lives!

    oh, wait...

  17. GMail, Picasa Web Albums and Android contacts on Face Recognition — Clever Or Just Plain Creepy? · · Score: 1

    I found out recently that when you tag a face in Picasa Web it appears as a contact on my G1. Weird scrolling through my contact list and seeing dead relatives and famous scientists...

  18. Dance recognition on Researchers Hack Biometric Faces · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you're in a coffee shop, then the best type of authentication is dance recognition. You place the laptop on a table, push the chair to one side and dance like you're selling nails. As most people are terrible dancers it should be a fairly unique identifier. Especially for Apple owners, who will have to dance like Leonard Cohen because they all wear polo neck sweaters.

  19. DTV Shopping list on DTV Converters In Short Supply · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Campaign to promote DTV - Check
    2. DTV Transmission 'stuff' - Check
    3. 250 million DTV receivers - FAIL

  20. They've just accused me of hosting a phishing site on Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful · · Score: 1

    Libel!

    I'm rich! Hooray!

  21. Video games don't incite violence on Researcher Finds No Link Between Violent Games and School Shootings · · Score: 1

    Monopoly is the closest thing to domestic violence between siblings you can get.
    Totopoly just makes you want to throw the game board at the wall out of sheer fucking boredom.
    Then we have the game of Whack-a-mole played with people with absolutely no hand-eye co-ordination.
    Golf involves swinging metal clubs in a wide swiping motion.
    Tennis requires the constant violence against a small furry ball which PETA could easily say represents a small mammal.
    Cricket is self inflicted pain, there is a *wrong* way to catch that damn hard ball.
    And they're all non-contact sports, don't get me started on Rugby.

  22. What would be awesome on Nano-motors For Microbots · · Score: 5, Funny

    "tiny motors the size of a grain of salt which could power surgical Microbots"

    Or, they could power grains of salt. Hours of fun at the dinner table.

  23. Coffee, Alzheimers and HSV? on Coffee Can Reduce the Risk of Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    I'm just wildly speculating here, but could the coffee and the Herpes Simplex virus be mixed into the Alzheimers pot here? Could the intake of caffeine reduce the effects of HSV-1 and HSV-2? Maybe Alzheimers could be treated by Lysine?

  24. Re:I guess that... on Black Hole At Center of Milky Way Confirmed · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've seen Black Perl, it was ALL regular expressions. So many that there was a regular expression event horizon, with only preceding elements escaping and at the center was a nondeterministic finite automata. Quite a sight.

  25. My suggestion to PETA on PETA Using Games To Spread Its Message · · Score: 1

    Is that if they don't want us killing the animals, they should kill them first before we get to them.