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  1. Re:Very Interesting... on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 1

    Actually by the same argument some of the File, Edit, View, Bookmarks, Tools and Help menu of Firefox belong with the page. Along with the forward and back buttons.

  2. Re:Stupid for several reasons on Using Face Recognition Instead of a PIN Number · · Score: 1

    Apart from you could be that woman's husband borrowing the card and there are plenty of faces that you can't be sure of the gender of. People wouldn't like that invasion of privacy anyway. What might be allowable though would be the option to get ATMs to photograph each user of your card, and the software would have to check that a real face was shown. Then you would have in your account a record of who exactly used the card and help in prosecutions.

  3. Re:Nanny state on UK Copyright Extension in Exchange for Censorship? · · Score: 1

    Would now be a good time to experiment allowing bars and pubs to allow smoking again. Now that people know which way they prefer we'll see the market handle it. Before it could be argued the advantages couldn't be seen. But now they should allow if an area had enough demand for instance a pub to allow smoking again.

  4. Re:Is Halo really that great? on Bungie Vs. Miyamoto - Fight! · · Score: 1

    There was an option to use two controllers and use the analogue stick on each to control it I believe. It meant reaching A and B was a bit of a problem but the extra control was there. Plus it used an amount of auto-aiming to stop it being too fiddly. I admit I prefer using analogue sticks to mice because with a mouse its all too easy to hit something by clicking on it. It might matter if you're trying to be competitive though.

  5. Re:Robot laws on New Laws of Robotics Proposed for US Kill-Bots · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's important to have the laws before the AI, otherwise the AI won't care so much for the laws. Although whether anything truly intelligent would strictly obey laws is debatable.

  6. Re:Just so I get this right... on UK Teachers Say Censor The Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So if this follows a similar pattern, after realising they can't regulate the Internet, it'll instead be a criminal offence for UK citizens to view or possess images of schoolkids breaking windows. This could be good, all those cctv cameras would have to vanish
  7. Re:Great... on Do Electric Sheep Dream of Civil Rights? · · Score: 1

    The exercise would do it good

  8. Re:New Name on Microsoft/Yahoo Merger to Take on Google? · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Ya'soft, Micro?" would (pardon the expression) enlarge the pills they could sell further

  9. Re:Logo Program on Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions · · Score: 1

    Nvidia - NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 Nvidia Corporation - Video - NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 Download size: 12.2 MB, 13 minutes NVIDIA display software update released on July 28 2003. Details... Hide this update I've upgraded my driver from the NVIDIA site not long ago so perhaps they're still doing this but it persists in trying to downgrade me.

  10. Re:britney on 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist · · Score: 1

    I realise now it's because one is from new searches and one is from plain normal searches.

  11. britney on 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Popular Queries
    2004

    1. britney spears

    2. paris hilton

    Top Public Figures
    2004

    1. george w bush

    2. janet jackson

    3. john kerry

    4. britney spears

    Shouldn't britney spears be the top of every list she qualifies for in the zeitgeist if her name is the most popular term overall?

  12. Things are warming up on Cold Fusion Back From The Dead · · Score: 1

    "Things are warming up" ...considering its meant to be cold fusion isn't that cheating?

  13. at bath university on Turn Real Life Into A Cartoon · · Score: 1

    at bath university a similar thing is being done: http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~vision/cartoon/

  14. Re:Has anyone seen one of these... on 3D Linux Laptop Available · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They're like anything only as good as the programs that utilise them. The ones I've seen didnt give much sense of depth from what I remember. Because it only ever gives one perspective the 3d nature of what I saw cant offer much more than simulated 3d on normal displays, moving your head still doesnt do anything, other than stopping the 3d working.

  15. talx on Mobile Phone for the Blind · · Score: 2, Interesting

    my blind friend was given tha tlink the other day and didnt quite like it. obviously the competitions good but the best solution at the moment is a nokia 3650 and a program called talx, thuogh its more expensive at the moment it wont be when the phone drops in price. he only got it recently and it made a big difference over having to give the phone to friends to read his smses.

  16. Re:Unfortunately on iTunes for Windows Reviews · · Score: 1

    surely thats because she hasn't got around to you yet, you're not the only one asking her

  17. Re:Why are version numbers so uneven on Netscape 7.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Don't forget winamp 2 --> winamp 3 --> winamp 2 --> winamp 5

  18. Re:concentration of power worrisome? censorship? on NYT On Google's Role In Internet Advertising · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think recently this happened with an article on the register, where they coined the phrase googlewashing. Almost all the sites that subsequently used the term linked to the registers article but its place on googles rankings fell very quickly defying logic. The register mentions it at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30195.html

  19. Re:Unfortunate on NASA: Evidence Favors Infinitely Expanding Universe · · Score: 1

    It's still possible seeing as the centre of the universe could be constantly spewing out matter. I might be wrong but I dont tihnk anyones seen so far as the centre of the universe yet. The other alternative maybe that due to some unforeseen symmetry or reversal of time the universe ends up colliding with itself but then you get into the whole real unreal numbers thing.

  20. Re:Oldest working code... on Immortal Code · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Space war has been running since the 60s I think, on a website somewhere there is an emulation of the original machne running in java using the complete original code. I may be wrong though.

  21. Re:Drug Legalization on P2P File Sharing Could Cost You A Bundle · · Score: 1

    From what I can tell from UK figures (where there is a very abismal national health service) alcohol is far more costly to the national health service than cannabis. But I'm not all too sure, seems a bit off-topic anyway.

  22. No change on Droning On · · Score: 1

    Judging by some of the pilots of met this shouldn't change much. People will site them as being hackable though.

  23. Re:M.A.V.V. is a parody right? on The Joystick Is The Root of All Evil · · Score: 1

    Surely the website isn't too obviously a parody so as not to give itself away and not have everyone talking about it.

  24. Re:already have it on Redesigning The "Back" Button · · Score: 1

    The cunning plan would be to have both a "back" and an "up" button. Google already has an up button but they should build that into browsers and put it next to a nice shiny redesigned "back" button as described by the researchers, the no one needs to learn about it because there is always the alternative old style button there for them.

  25. I agree on Do People Really Use Their PDAs? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seems people are trying ot find reasons to use their pdas once theyve got them. Realising they aren't as useful or as easy to use as they thought. My dad picked up one a few months ago and a lot of the price of the ipaq that he got seems to come in afterwards with memory expansions and interfacing wires etc. He doesn't need to interface it to everything, it jsut seems he needs to justify why hes got it and having gps and camera photos on their is really a status symbol.