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  1. HA! on Hawking Gracefully, Formally Loses Black Hole Bet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The man is reputed to have sold more books about physics than Maddona has about sex.

    A fairly impressive achivement really.

  2. Re:Wide range laser-tag on Modding Laser Tag Gear? · · Score: 1

    we have a club called KAOS on campus here
    Kaos stands for Killing As an Organsied Sport.
    the organise huge killing rounds which are similar to what you describe.

  3. Not an option at all on Should Colleges Monitor Students' PCs? · · Score: 1

    At my uni, If you lived on campus, Dialup was not an option, The Uni switchboard blocked the digital access numbers

    (telecom requires ISP's to use special numbers, to reduce network load)

    With no cable, no ADSL, and no wireless available, we were all limited to uni network. which was inherently slow, and artificially limited, also, it was prohibitively expensive to use (wonders of a monopoly). and plauged with nimda, of all things.

  4. High level genitic code on Open Source Life? · · Score: 1

    #include STDbasecode #include human.h set type=.........

  5. Re:ObNitPick on Meteorite Crashes Through New Zealand Roof · · Score: 1

    OK then, it was a meteorite the second time it holed the celing then. (after it bounced)

  6. Re:That house! on Meteorite Crashes Through New Zealand Roof · · Score: 1

    its not a very good gun, that was probably the firs shot of 1904

  7. Re:OB aussie on Australia-US Free Trade Agreement Examined · · Score: 1

    Thats not a free trade agreement, thats a contract!

  8. But it doesnt support Ascii-out on Windows Media Player 10 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    what possible innovations could outshine that?

  9. just because I dont use XP on Windows Media Player 10 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    on my wb brwsing computer doesnt mean I dont want to use it.
    Im not going to web-browse on my htpc am I??

    of couse the donload link only works in IE, on xp

  10. Re:Don't need a large ship(?) on Engineering An End to Aging · · Score: 1

    I believe you have just described Zubrin's "Mars direct" design.

  11. Re:Great... on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1

    oh, and you are aware that CVT's only have limited range, and are generally stuck on the end of an automatic gearbox anyway......

  12. Re:Great... on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1

    Its not just wierd to get used to, its bloody awefull.

    I have a feeling they programmed the computer that controlls the thing to react to the wrong inputs.
    because it takes away all feeling of relationship between pedal position, and power on road.

    That said, my little sister is learning to drive in that car, and loves the damn thing.

  13. right up until on Build Your Own Model B-52 · · Score: 1

    the b52 turned the hill you were flying the enterprise from into a widely spread pile of rubble

  14. Lying with statistics on Hubble vs. Webb - How Far Back Will They See? · · Score: 1

    I believe there is a book by this title,

    have you read it?

  15. Re:Good. on New Wave Of File-Sharing Embraces Secrecy · · Score: 1

    further, single CD's are no longer being marketed,
    or at least, not as heavily asthey used to be.

    im sure I read that here a few weeks ago

  16. Re:this isn't suprising on NASA's Finances in Disarray · · Score: 1

    well, unless you want to make a steel cable thats what, 200km thick in the middle....

  17. Re:Privitization of space is dangerous... on Rutan's SpaceshipOne Hits 200,000 Feet · · Score: 2, Informative

    sure, and how are you going to aim it?

    how many nukes is this (small) spaceship
    carrying not even a tiny fraction of the distance to this hypothetical asteroid of yours? in a pathetic attempt to deflect the asteroid

    if SS1, or its like could reach an asteroid, its allready within seconds of hitting the earth, and if it could deflect it, its too small to worry about anyway.

  18. Intentions book on Privacy in the Woods? · · Score: 2, Informative

    What on earth are you thinking?
    Where I go tramping the Department of Conservation keeps and maintains and intentions book at every hut, most campgrounds, and at major trail starts.

    the book is chained to the wall of the shelter or whatever, and a pen is chained to the book.
    you put your name, where you are going, how many people etc in the book, there is a nice big space for comments etc.
    If someone goes missing searchers just check all the books along the proposed route untill the enrties stop. neighboring huts are checkes, and the other people listed in the books before and after the missing person are consulted. A single warden can check 3-4 huts a day in a sparse area.
    A remarkably good idea of where the missing person is can be had quite quickly.

  19. Re:affordable on European Space Shuttle Prototype Lands Safely In Sweden · · Score: 1

    dont you mean the only "reusable VTHL SSTO vehicle in the world", or should that be in service,

    no, wait a second.......

  20. Re:Camaro with a WRX Engine on A Camaro That Leaves A Wake · · Score: 1

    Except boatloads of boost.

  21. Re:We need to pass laws and treaties NOW. on Diamond Age Approaching? · · Score: 1

    The fact remains that in New Zealand we have gun ownership restrictions, and we have far fewer crimes involving firearms, per capita, than the US.

    This has a minimal effect on legal gun owership because its not all that difficult to obtain a firearms liscence for rifles, shotguns etc.
    the typs of fireams used by criminals (pistols, sawn off shotguns, military style weapons) require more stringent lisencing.

  22. I disagree on VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard · · Score: 1

    If you consider the safe disposal and storage of spent nuclear fuel, the mining and prossesing of said fuel. A nuclear power plants are only economical to run if you have a domestic nuclear weapons programme, which will use the plutonium produced by your uranium fueled reactors.

    DDT I dont know about.

  23. Re:Green Goo on Nanotech or Nano-Not? · · Score: 1

    Imagine if a cloud of grey fog could damage your lungs?

    Oh wait, thats called smoke/smog, and hey - it contains nano-scale particles!!!

  24. Re:Canadian TV censorship on Academics Take On Government Net Censorship · · Score: 1

    We have a similar law in New Zealand.
    but the percentage is much lower, I think its around 10%

    However, the radio station I like to listen to, when I do listen to radio has boasted 20% NZ music, and started doing so before said laws came into effect.

    Given the quality and volume of NZ music at the moment, its a very easy target to hit.

  25. Re:Just to be clear.. on Japanese Inventor's Motor Uses 80% Less Power · · Score: 1

    If you describe an amplifier as a circuit that takes a signal, applies some sort of gain, and outputs said adjusted signal, then, assuming a fractional gain, one can construct a passive amplifier from a resistor