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  1. video games, the next designer drug on Body and Brains of Gamers Probed · · Score: 0

    it's true: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000CDC3 4-D80E-10FA-89FB83414B7F0000

  2. Re:hypodermic? on Building A Homemade Chess Supercomputer · · Score: 0
    >>Before attaching the heatsink you should squirt some thermal compound on top of the Xeon. Intel thoughtfully provides a hypodermic with the Xeon for precisely this purpose.

    Why the hell would you want to inject thermal compound under the skin?

    ...should always preview...

  3. hypodermic? on Building A Homemade Chess Supercomputer · · Score: 0

    >>Before attaching the heatsink you should squirt some thermal compound on top of the Xeon. Intel thoughtfully provides a hypodermic with the Xeon for precisely this purpose. Why the hell would you want to inject thermal compound under the skin?

  4. Re:Version for humans on Chicken Run · · Score: 0
    Starting in the early 1980s, Britain's Silsoe Research Institute received about $200,000 a year from the government to design a humane harvesting machine.

    At first glance I actually thought it said human harvisting machine!

  5. Re:Why did it work? on Apple Sells A Million Songs in Debut Week · · Score: 0
    >>This is the kind of thing which Apple's control over hardware, software, and consumer applications together permits it to excel at. What is astonishing is that Microsoft has proved so poor at this kind of coordination.

    This is the very reason why Microsoft has excelled so far beyond Apple.

  6. IDE degradation on Preserving VHS Recordings For Another 20 Years? · · Score: 0
    >>VHS direct to cheap IDE drives. Good quality with no degradation

    No degradation until the cheap drives crash.

  7. Re:aussie law on Aussies Face Jail Over MP3s · · Score: 0

    Now I'm confused. I remember there being 4 signs leading up to this speed trap... and it was more permanent-like. It had the speed detector on one post, and a camera on the next. It was on some kinda highway.

  8. Re:Only in NSW... on Aussies Face Jail Over MP3s · · Score: 0

    In the US the tickets are a bit more expensive (mine was US$100), but you would never get one for going 4k's over. That really sucks about the hidden cameras :(

  9. Re:aussie law on Aussies Face Jail Over MP3s · · Score: 0

    Could have been Cairns. Not sure. I DO remember seeing the signs, though.

  10. Re:aussie law on Aussies Face Jail Over MP3s · · Score: 0

    An aussie told me that when I was in Sydney last summer, and I saw the signs myself. Sometimes there's even 4. :)

  11. aussie law on Aussies Face Jail Over MP3s · · Score: 0

    In Australia, all automated photo speed traps by law are required to have at least three warning signs leading up to them... and yet they make millions of dollars per year off of them.

    I bet these guys will just get the boot (remember the simpsons episode?)

  12. Re:Don't worry about either on What's Worse for Hard Drives: Heat or Vibration? · · Score: 1

    (Can't wait for solid state hdd's :) )

    Then they wouldn't be called disk drives, now would they?

  13. Re:song = movie? on Shutting down Kazaa · · Score: 1

    I just downloaded a song using kazaa... I just cost the recording industry $150,000? I know they have alot of money, but a bunch more of these should dry them out.

  14. Re:Choose another ISP on Shutting down Kazaa · · Score: 1

    Many people don't really have a choice when it comes to ISP. There is only one non-dialup ISP in my town, and they get away with much more than just very slow upload speeds. They try to charge you an extra five bucks per month for each computer you have connected, and they try to prevent you from running a router. Thats just the start of it, too.

  15. Re:Not the first on Tom's Hardware Reviews First Player for DivX Video · · Score: 1

    My Archos Multimedia Jukebox 20 plays mp4 divx. You can hook it up to a tv, too.