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  1. Monorail! on Germany To Build New Maglev Railway · · Score: 5, Funny

    They will be like North Haverbrook.

  2. Re:Personal experience in the UK on UK Schools Will Fight Cyberbullying · · Score: 1

    There are many of us who were bullied in our school years and I commend you on the way you managed to break the cycle in your instance - I wish more stood up for themselves.
    Nowadays with mobile phones and web videos, the people involved get to relive the incident every time its rediscovered.
    In days past when anything happened it was over by the time the next big thing arrived.

    I certainly don't think it is a problem if the popular video and networking sites attempt to remove incidents of bullying or abuse towards children, it is our duty to try to help our children.

    However I don't think it should be the end of the line "look, we removed the link - what more can we do?"
    The trail must be followed and those originally doing the deed and sharing the images should be reprimanded.

    I don't think we have yet discovered a punishment big enough for the thugs roaming Britain today, but know it starts in the home.
    Perhaps if we got the grandparents or other family members involved (the parents of these louts don't seem to bother) then maybe something could change.

  3. ahem... on Embedding XML In Docs? · · Score: 1

    Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

    Not everything is instantly understandable.

    For help on the sentence, see wikipedia.

  4. Bargaining chip on First US GPL Lawsuit Heads For Quick Settlement · · Score: 3, Funny

    They did not win on technical grounds, and any sane (or insane) lawyer would have done the same.
    They backed down once they found out RMS might be called to testify.

    In reality, this means that there is still no precedent for the GPL in court which is a shame.

  5. Re:Makes me wonder... on Lair Review · · Score: 1

    Actually I would say it has the human factor as a major part of it.

    On the Wii, my GF is a whizz at the boxing meanwhile I have trouble.
    When I pick up the controllers and play my arms punch as I would but it doesn't seem to effect it, meanwhile the missus takes up a Buffy stance and knocks 10 tonnes of shit out of any opponent.

    On the inverse I can play the racing and driving games better whilst she sometimes has trouble with turning - she gets the similar "turn too far and it goes the wrong way" problem.
    If you hold the mote at about 80 degrees either way a small knock can make the sensor pick up an opposite tilt and the car flies off towards the other wall.

  6. Can the slashdot team compete? on Carnegie Mellon To Compete In Google Lunar X-Prize · · Score: 1, Funny

    How difficult would it be to build a lunar module large enough to accomodate ummmm lets say one Darl Mcbride?

  7. Re:ISBN's owned by no one on Don't Take Notes In the Bookstore · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nahhhh, an ISBN is meant to be a UNIQUE number.
    However mistakes have been made and a few books have duplicates.

    There might be multiple ISBN for different print runs etc, but I cannot find anything that the same code being reused on purpose for different books.

    Please give some more details because it seems curious.

  8. Basic hygiene on Aerosol Spray to Identify Bombing Suspects · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How many false alarms are they going to get after people don't wash their hands after visiting the bathroom?

    Maybe that is what they are looking for - poor hygiene = terrorist?

    Perhaps this chemical is the same one which makes the purple cloud of shame in the swimming pool (I know its a legend but still..)

  9. Re:Damn it! on Your Chance to be an Astronaut · · Score: 2

    I would pay myself to do it.
    Hell, I think I would give an arm and a leg willingly to do it (lower weight, more chance I can get a seat)

  10. Re:Concert, not interview! on Trent Reznor Says "Steal My Music" · · Score: 1

    But the margin cost of the recording and delivery of your $1 sliver of plastic is also greater than $1.

    There are the costs of setting up a recording studio, hiring the sound engineers the rest of the crew for the whole studio, the people who build the factory to produce the disks, the photographers who take the cover art, the trascribers who make up the hand written lyrics, the guy who moves the boxes from the machine to thelorry, the shipping container people who handle the goods overseas, the people who unload it and the people who put it on the sheleves and a whole raft of management and fixed costs along the way. Note I have not included anything for the actual artists who came up with the song in the first place.

    Personally, I think a cd is as cheap as a whole industry can make it.

    Or should each person along the way have no inflation to their salary unlike everyone else expects?

  11. Re:Kerberos on MIT Launching Kerberos Consortium · · Score: 4, Funny

    It might now have a home, but it won't be able to enter it without someone to vouch for its identity.

  12. Re:Concert, not interview! on Trent Reznor Says "Steal My Music" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Thats the exact quote referenced and includes the full reaction from the crowd.
    My only question is did the concert tickets also get cheaper since his last visit?
    Would he recommend people break into the stadium?

  13. Standing on the shoulders of giants on Gates Successor Says Microsoft Laid Foundation for Google · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, what microsoft are saying is google is standing on the shoulders of giants.

    Well, I suppose they have to; there are no seats left to sit on ;)

  14. Re:The metre must be shrinking then... on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually, that might be possible.
    Light speed is not constant in a gravitational field, if some of the other posters are correct and the kilogram has changed because of a localised gravitational shift, then its possible that the definition of a metre could also have changed..

  15. Someone get Wheaton in here on Scientists Create Di-positronium Molecules · · Score: 5, Funny

    If ever there was a topic which he could explain it would be this.

  16. Cannot read the article on EU Commissioner Calls For Censorship of Web Search · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I tried following the link but it was invalid on my machine, so I did a search for
    bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism

    It got me the intended results, but if this is implemented how will I find the article in the future?

    If I cannot search for terrorism, how will I know if I am safe?

    Addition to this, note that they think we should not be able to useor search the words, so if something does unfortunately happen, how can we warn others?
    "Theres a man in the back with a skimask on holding a complex exothermic chemical compound over there, run for your lives" ???

  17. Re:Huh? What's wrong with this? on Music Industry Set To Introduce the "Ringle" · · Score: 1

    I'm not worldly nor different, I just live in the UK where the general text tariff is at or over 10p a time.

    as an example, my current price list:
    http://www.o2.co.uk/mobilestariffs/tariffs/paygo/talkalot

  18. Re:Huh? What's wrong with this? on Music Industry Set To Introduce the "Ringle" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wasn't it us lot that said SMS messaging would never take off, I mean 160characters for 10p or so?

    Giving the consumer a product which gives them what they think they need will be an amazing moneyspinner.

  19. Hang on... on Vista Pirates To Get "Black Screen of Darkness" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    from the article:
    the advertisement indicates nongenuine copies of Windows Vista will lose access to key features, have limited access to updates, and thus risk attack from viruses, malware and spyware.

    Does this mean that whilst the USER experience stops, the virus running in the background gets to continue running?

  20. 933245789124398 on Ultra-low-cost True Randomness · · Score: 1, Funny

    234 234838372 234 29723432891023478343589435892?

  21. Re:How many articles do other encyclopedias have? on English Wikipedia Gets Two Millionth Article · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, wikipedia can answer that (though I don't know how accurate it is):

    The size of the Britannica has remained roughly constant over the past 70 years, with about 40 million words on half a million topics.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Bri tannica

  22. Re:Turn off the "terrain" on Help Find Steve Fossett · · Score: 1

    I thought the same at first, but it does catch up.
    The image streams down and even though the usual terrain percentage view indicates 100% downloaded the KML for that section might not have finished and will continue to download.

    Its quite a high resolution image and cars and other small details are visible, so a plane should be feasible.

  23. Re:Reporting arbitrary coordinates? on Help Find Steve Fossett · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter, I found it: 383613N, 1190011W
    information available from the Steve Fossett Wikipedia entry.

    Looking at this however, the new strip we are searching comes about 15 miles NE (at its closest) from this airstrip.

    Anything is better than nothing but if he was on a round trip, there is every chance that we could not spot him from this dataset.

    This will not prevent me (and others) from at least looking.

    Thank you whoever managed to get this dataset together.

  24. Re:Reporting arbitrary coordinates? on Help Find Steve Fossett · · Score: 1

    Speaking of coordinates, who knows the location of the strip he launched from?

  25. Re:Gabe Newell is poisoning his own well on Valve's Orange Box For PS3 Delayed, Not Console Related · · Score: 1

    The age of a game is not important.
    We still play chess and that is 500 years old, football originated over 2000 years ago and other games and sports have been around for as long.
    As for computer games, I still find games like pacman and asteroids and things like lemmings or worms fun to play.

    At the moment I am working my way through original half life (with the original GOTY edition from 1999) after I installed it for my son had an afternoon to kill. Whilst showing him how to play and getting him through the tough bits I remembered how much fun it was to play.

    The difference with games like half life are they are like movies, after you have played through once you don't feel like playing again for a while. I am glad I am playing again because it is such a good game.