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  1. Re:Nightblade on Valve Releases Updated Alien Swarm For Free With Code Base · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes Nightblade has been cancelled.

  2. Works with popular batteries? on MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want · · Score: 1

    What's a CR123 battery and if it's so popular why have I never heard of it?

  3. Re:Who? on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Is knowing the who's who of programming essential to programming itself? Didn't think so.

  4. Sounds like hogwash on Sending Data In Bursts of SMS Messages · · Score: 1

    Summary states the students think it could be the only reliable form of communication in rural areas..what, transmitting data via SMS which is a (relative to 20bytes per second) high speed data protocol anyway. Interlacing their text data between Voice and other SMS -- sure, this sounds like worthy research *sarcasm*.

  5. Where's the google innovation? on Google Stops Selling Its Own Phone · · Score: 1

    This totally confuses me with Google, they come up with a world class search engine technology and yet constantly fail to dominate other market sectors and in the end, resort to buying out their competitors. Surely with all the talented staff at Google they could have realised early on that consumers would want a hands on trial, and customisable service plan options -- why not just offer these instead of giving up altogether?

  6. Re:pico/mega/terra on Photonic Switching to Boost Internet Speeds · · Score: 1

    if 1mb is 1,000,000bp/s then a pico by your own definition is 1,000,000,000,000,000bp/s or 1,000,000,000mbp/s which is one billion mega bits per-second. One thousand mbp/s would be giga-bit, a million mbp/s would be a terra-bit, and one billion I believe would be peta-bit; 1pbp/s. So yes, sounds like they are off by an order or so.

  7. Uh on New X-Prize for Fuel Efficient Cars Announced · · Score: 1

    Is something missing, what's the point in this? Doesn't just about every car in existance cover this criteria? I'll just debadge my Fiat Punto take it along and say I invented it.

  8. Re:For the Record on BBC Micro Creators Reunite In London · · Score: 1

    I never heard anyone ever call them Beebs, they were just called BBCs.

  9. Bad article summary on Intel Wi-Fi Provides 6 Mbps Over 100 km · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is poorly summed up, the point of this is not the range or the speed, its the fact that it only uses 6Watts firing data at that range and speed and could use stand alone, solar powered units to maintain data links.

  10. News just in! on Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP · · Score: 5, Funny

    Crowds were shocked to discover that multi-threaded software runs faster on a multi-core system, it was hard to contain the excitement over the discovery which could revolutionise software development!

  11. Up a bit, down a bit... on Origami Plane to Fly From the Int. Space Station · · Score: 1

    Since it's unpowered flight, maybe they should christen it BAW038 and keep their fingers crossed it turns up on the threshold of 27L at healthrow.

  12. Future? on Future AMD GPUs To Be More 'Open-Source Friendly' · · Score: 1

    Oh c'mon, you make it sound like AMD actually has a future.

  13. Re:Is this needed? on Electricity Over Glass · · Score: 1

    I've never known an automobile fuel pump to be located inside the tank. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but at least on European cars, I've never seen it.

  14. Sidewalks? on British Village Requests Removal From GPS Maps · · Score: 1

    I didn't think roads in the UK featured 'sidewalks', no matter the width, I thought we called them footpaths.

  15. GPS used as defence in UK speeding incident on GPS Used As Defence In Radar Speeding Case · · Score: 1

    When this went to trial under similar circumstances in the UK, the case was acquited and the fine revoked, even though the media had a frenzy claiming this was due to the GPS data logger -- which the owner likened its accuracy to that of an aircraft's black box (yeah right) -- and the GPS data was submitted as evidence, the case was overturned not due to this, but due to the fact that the prosecuting officer had since left the force and so could not be called upon to persue the case. Otherwise, it would as many have stated, be taking the word of an average citizen over the word of a police constable.

  16. Steve Fosset? on Help Find Steve Fossett · · Score: 0, Troll

    More like Steve Fossil! I thought the search for this man was a cover for the US Govt to search the desert their recent missing nuke from that B-52?

  17. Crikey, the brainstorming which must have gone in on New Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Welcome to Windows 95!

  18. Sign me up on DNA Vaccine May Treat Multiple Sclerosis · · Score: 1

    I'd take a cure for eczema any day, I think people don't appreciate the kind of pain n eczema sufferers go through on a daily basis, just showering each morning is agony, and they still expect you to get into work all bright and cheery! Last I read, 1 in 4 people suffer from eczema with varying theories on its cause ranging from poor regulation of body temperature to diet, to genetics. It's all horse, frankly it showed me from an early age how weak our medicine arsenal is when I am explained on every visit to the docs that the continued use of steroids is the only way to abait the eczema induced pain.

  19. and the best part is... on Harvesting Energy from the Human Body · · Score: 1

    the additional energy taken from and stress placed on your heart only reduces your lifespan by an average 5 years!

  20. I guess on openMosix Is Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    I guess we really will have to start imagining a beowulf cluster of those!

  21. Re:my 1.9432534656 cents worth... on Flaws In Intel Processors Quietly Patched · · Score: 0

    microcodes are stored in ROM, they're only ever stored in RAM EEPROM or Flash on development hardware, i.e. not a personal computer processor.

    Furthermore SRAM is volatile memory, so could not be used for this purpose.

  22. Re:Well, admittedly, the image is interesting... on "Puddles" of Water Sighted on Mars · · Score: 1

    http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/pds/257/1P153927090RA D37MIP2273L257C1.JPG same image with a different colour filter applied, looks more like sand or dust!

  23. See this coming a mile away on Internet Tax Imminent? · · Score: 1

    realistically, it's the only way the media companies can ever solve their copyright problems, by applying a tax at the source.

  24. Re:PS3 Advantage on Elite Won't Replace Premium or Core Skus · · Score: 1

    It might be a games console but it's as much an entertainment centre as well these days, therefore blue ray is a requirement since most future high definition movie formats will be available in it.

    It's good for the consumer, not only the developer.

  25. Re:Government Propping Up Companies on Spaceport America Takes Off · · Score: 0

    Why will it grow past a joyride for the rich?

    Where will people go, what will they do?