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  1. BS tuner on Sony Announces a Super Playstation 2, the "PSX" · · Score: 5, Funny

    In my line of work, I wish I had one of those.

  2. a new star? on New Star in the Neighborhood · · Score: 4, Funny

    A new star that *Pop Idol* failed to discover?? It can't be true..

  3. yes on Buddhists Really Are Happier · · Score: 1

    karma please!

  4. microsoft? on MSN Client for Mac OS X · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not having any MS software on my computer makes me feel a bit less "big-brothered". Apple provides me with useful tools for what I need to work/play. If MSN is what I think it is, I'm not sure they haven't been wasting their time as the target audience is certainly going to be a lot more clued-in than the general wintel user. I think people use apple to escape from products like MSN and .net. OS X is rapidy approaching the point where a virtual PC or MS software in general just isn't needed. Thanks, but no thanks.

  5. redundancy on IP over Firewire Updated · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ok, so it's not as fast as gigE but it makes one hell of a redundant system to daisychain round a few nodes. As a previous poster said, it will also take some bottleneck strain. There's the possibility of using it for LAN parties without half the hardware cost (if indeed it can be daisychained - and I can't see why not)The quicker this gets fully implemented, the better.

  6. why? on NASA Fiddles With Mars Rover · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Forgive my ignorance, but what does this umbilical system do? Surely it can't be to keep the batteries charged on the flight to Mars, especially as they'll be doing very little, comms with the rovers *I assume* will be via RF. I can't believe that a rigid docking system would be less practicable than a severing system. Won't a severing system be fraught with possible problems - dust getting in the mechanism could stop the guillotine action altogether rendering the whole thing useless. What point am I missing here?

  7. same deal on Is Rendezvous Sharing More Than You'd Like? · · Score: 1

    I had the same issues under 9.x.x until I got an ABS. We had 5 or 6 macs on our subnet. Don't get too paranoid about this - sure - secure your most vital files etc...then pool resources. It's like super fast P2P.

  8. recharging? on Enzyme Bio-Battery Runs on Ethanol · · Score: 1

    simply fry with bacon and eggs in the morning, leave for the rest of the day to dry out and top up again in the evening. As the cell gets older it will only be able to perform its function twice - maybe three times a week. Constant soaking, however ensures permanent power.

  9. cool on PowerSchool Software Helps School Districts · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everyone knows you don't really learn much of any value at school. Maybe they can extend this program further by modelling your first, lets say 10 years at school, attendance, results etc to predict how your life would pan out. If you would be of little value to society, then, I dunno, join the police or something similar. Sounds like a great idea ;-)

  10. water, anyway on MIT study: Diesel Beats Hydrogen For Green Car Power · · Score: 1, Troll

    A few years ago I read a lot about some guy who had his car running normally on plain old tap water, I even contacted him and got him to send me plans of how he did it (foolishly I lent these to friends). He disappeared like smoke. It all comes down to who you want to believe, be it the petroleum companies or the greens. Only an idiot would think that the gas companies are spinning that green is good and they are really helping them. In the UK, they are running deisel cars on old cooking oil in some areas, works fine! The gas companies will have you believe that only gas is good until they are good and ready to sell us something different.

  11. hidden roles on Digital Movies, Analog Oscars · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If a character is overly made up, denying the audience the ability to see facial expressions - elephant man - star wars - LOTR, etc, will big name actors shun the roles? IMO, I think not, where a role could be given to a lesser actor, I think that a 'hidden' role would be much more difficult to act in and create a bond with the audience (which really did happen in this case). I think the academy should think of a new category covering these roles. I know the awards are the most hideous form of backslapping but if the point is raised, then this is what they must surely do.

  12. light in NZ very precious on Using Visible Light for Data Transfer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As it's all black

  13. grainy? on The Physics of The Minuscule · · Score: 1

    increase resolution.

  14. recycled - refurbished! on Metech Offers to Recycle Your Mac · · Score: 1

    Maybe this announcement follows the success and high demand from the refurbished store, hmmm. http://promo.euro.apple.com/promo/refurb/uk/

  15. Virtual modelling on New Developments in Music Technology · · Score: 0

    maybe my ugly sister will now live her dream

  16. Re:One major problem on Collecting Stardust · · Score: 0

    It is this set of problems that NASA is hoping to overcome in the near future. other shortfalls are occuring in the spacesuit dept. where extra room is having to be made for extra thermals and cardigans and a flask of tea. NASA has had some success by insisting to the old dears that they "really shouldn't" and that "the grandkids can look after themselves now".

  17. Re:cleanup on Collecting Stardust · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I meant "sherry", use that preview, boy!

  18. cleanup on Collecting Stardust · · Score: 3, Funny

    This obviously points to the rumour that nasa has started training old women for the 'space cleanup' - removing all space dust and debris from the upper atmosphere. Old women have several advantages aside from being expert cleaners, they are lightwieght, require little food or sleep, their bones are brittle anyway and they have absorbed enough cherry to keep them radiation-free for months at a time.

  19. skirts on Beauty In The Eye Of The Android · · Score: 0

    The head guages the beauty of people in skirts. Why oh why did they put the thing in Scotland?

  20. shared source... on Shared Source vs. Open Source · · Score: 0, Troll

    We source it, Micro$oft shares it.

  21. New Black on Blacker Than Black · · Score: 1

    Is this black the new black? If black is the absence of light and this stuff collects light in it's tiny craters then where does all the light go? Is there an event horizon? But more importantly, is it art?

  22. Phew.. on Baked Apple · · Score: 1

    Little old lady was relieved that her Tibook was still working. It contained all her death metal MP3s and warez. My question is what she was doing with a Tibook in the first place? I reckon the oven story is a cover. More likely that she forgot to grab it when she burned out the car she'd just stolen.

  23. Scottish surnames.......... on Who Really Invented The Telegraph? · · Score: 1

    beginning with M, let me think........

  24. moon me on Where Should Space Exploration Go From Here? · · Score: 1

    For god's sake. We have to set up a moon base, with a semi-permanent population, much like the Antarctic. There would be just enough gravity to make life bearable yet not a significant gravity well for take-off. A unit set up on either pole would have good sunlight for energy and clear line comms with earth. We could learn a vast amount there for future colonists to take to Mars etc. Junk that stupid space station!

  25. burgers on Upbeat Attitude Doesn't Affect Cancer · · Score: 1

    There must be some greater force at work to make people believe that happy meals are such.