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  1. Bring back the Frost fairs. on Scientists Reconstruct Millennium's Coldest Winter · · Score: 4, Interesting
  2. Brent Spiner on Who Owns Application Delivery Meta-Data In the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    As meta data is derived from data does this mean that Brent Spiner it or just that in the Cloud, the Quadrant or the whole universe?

  3. Re:159357 popular with lefties? on Passwords From PHPBB Attack Analyzed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing too sinister about being left handed.

  4. Re:Proprietary OSs need a unified updater. on Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy · · Score: 1

    Authorities sometimes don't like companies cooperating.

  5. Re:Is lying to Congress illegal? on RIAA Lied To Congress About New Filesharing Suits · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, just par for the course.

  6. Re:Yeah, yeah, heard it all before on Washington State Wants DNA From All Arrestees · · Score: 4, Informative
  7. Re:Guessing how this is going to turn out... on Google Privacy Counsel Facing Criminal Charges · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So far Francesco Cajani has 5,150 citations when searched for via Google. How many he will have by the time this thread ends?

  8. Yum, yum. Recycled, recycled Kopi Luwak on RITI Printer Uses Your Coffee Grounds For Eco Ink · · Score: 1, Funny

    Make the best brown pigment but is a bit pricey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

  9. NYPD Wants to Jam Cell Phones During Terror Attack on Local Police Want To Jam Wireless Signals · · Score: 3, Informative

    As the attackers in Mumbai made use of phones and other mobile devices the NYPD wants top have the ability to cut mobile phone access as and when needed. As reported in Danger Room a short while ago http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/nypd-eyes-disru.html

  10. Ibex 8.10 Cloned on Extinct Pyrenean Ibex Cloned · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does Mark Shuttleworth know about this?

  11. Open the flood gates on US Dept. of Defense Creates Its Own Sourceforge · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Open source code, Open Government http://www.whitehouse.gov/ and Open Source Intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_intelligence all good ideas that may well speed things along and save the tax payers some cash.

  12. Not broken just bent by google. on Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful · · Score: 1

    I used http://us.ixquick.com/eng/privacy-policy.html with no problems at all and no retention of data problems.

  13. Re:erase my mortgage on Fannie Mae Worker Indicted For Malicious Script · · Score: 1

    Return you to Year Zero? Be careful what you wish for.

  14. Re:engrish on Radio Controlled Cyborg Insects At MEMS 2009 · · Score: 3, Informative
  15. David Lammy MP on UK Government Abandons Piracy Legislation · · Score: 2, Informative
  16. Some footballers do this with thir childs cord on Umbilical Cord Blood Banking? · · Score: 1

    The Times reports that "They are freezing the cells taken from the umbilical cord blood of their babies as a possible future cure for cartilage and ligament problems. Stem cells can be used to regenerate damaged organs and tissue because they are the earliest form of cells." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article620835.ece

  17. Green Caviar? on WD's Monster 2TB Caviar Green Drive, Preview Test · · Score: 5, Funny

    No thanks, looks and smells a bit fishy to me.

  18. A Flock Of Seagulls? on Jumping To Ubuntu At Work For Non-Linux Geeks · · Score: 3, Informative

    Submit an article. Get people to view your hair style. Profit ??

  19. Re:I don't understand... on Solution Against Cold Boot Attack In the Making · · Score: 1

    It looks like DRM is the first possible application of trusted computing and the first criticism of trusted computing but the what does http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing#Digital_rights_management know?

  20. Re:You wanna see civil unrest... on China Makes Arrests To Stop Internet Porn · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Devil finds work for idle hands.

  21. Re:Not exactly. on Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer? · · Score: 1

    Galena is already making plans for one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galena_Nuclear_Power_Plant and I can vouch for it being rather isolated.

  22. Re:One word on Browser Privacy Test · · Score: 1

    Although it stops half the web from working the half that does work is the half that is worth viewing or so I have been told.

  23. Re: Dropping Anchor on Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again · · Score: 1, Offtopic
  24. Windows for Warships nears frontline service on British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows · · Score: 1

    A reported last year HMS Windows also in use on warships http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/26/windows_boxes_at_sea/

  25. Re:Kudos for the improvements, but... on Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Adds Private Browsing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The acid test is will it now pass the http://acid3.acidtests.org/ ?