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  1. Re:Not if they know history on Should Google Get Aggressive About Monetizing Android? · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ.

    I was amased at the difference in speed and bulk when I switched from firefox to Chrome a year or two ago. The difference was like night and day.

  2. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Can you be more arrogant?

    Some poeple are too young, too old or two weak to be immunised. Then is also a small percentage of poeple that even though they were immunised, they have lost protection or it failed somehow.

    Either way, a number of poeple in the community are at risk due to no fault of their own, and when selfish asshats decided to go un-imunsed due to some rubbish they read in a chain letter it puts people at risk.

  3. Re:from the in-10-years-he-can-try-it-legally dept on 11-Year-Old Coloradan Will Brew Beer In Space, By Proxy · · Score: 1

    Easy solution, use a hydrocyclone. This uses cenfrifugal forces to seperate particles from water.

  4. Re:Um no on 11-Year-Old Coloradan Will Brew Beer In Space, By Proxy · · Score: 1

    More than just beer, all fermented products are a staple of civilisation - for both food preserving and flavour. You mention bread and cheese, but there is also yoghurt, salami, soy sauce, tofu & black tea just to mention a few.

    Whilst I dont see our space farers making salami any time soon, fermented plant and fungus proteins would certainly be an option.

  5. Re:Missing the reality of what kids do to insects on Cyborg Cockroach Sparks Ethics Debate · · Score: 1

    Yeah, random chance.

    You might be lucky enough to have been born in a society where you can achieve a lot though hard work, but most of the world's poor arent so fortunate. The sad fact is that there are many places in the world where hard work is the bare minimum required to survive, and poeple can never get ahead no matter how much harder they work because there are no opportunities or resources or education.

  6. Re:That's what you get with duopoly on Multi-Display Gaming Artifacts Shown With AMD, 4K Affected Too · · Score: 2

    Matrox are still making some serious professional 2D video cards, my favourite at the moment is a low profile quad head card we use with our operator workstations. They are no good for 3D graphics, but in many situations that's perfectly fine.

  7. Re:Speed LIMIT is an upper bound, not a requiremen on Flies See the World In Slo-Mo, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    I disagre. Statistics show your risk of being involved in an accident increase when you are travelling significantly less thn the limit.

    The best speed to drive is the same speed as everyone else.

  8. Re:So stop using corks on Molecule In Corked Wine Plugs Up Your Nose · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can still decant the amount you'll be drinking that night (e.g. usign a fast breather) and leave the rest in the box for another day.

    Seriously, was that so hard to figure out?

  9. Re:Half-plugging has the same effect on USB "Condom" Allows You To Practice Safe Charging · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just the tip you say???

  10. Re:*yawn* these have around for years? on USB "Condom" Allows You To Practice Safe Charging · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Negotiate" is a loose term - really it's just some fixed resistances across the data pins that set USB charging mode. This can be built into the plug without any extra copper in the cable.

    That said for the portable device on the other end to recognise charging mode it also needs to see some fixed resistance, which would need to be build into the far end plug too.

  11. Re:Con CERN on Black Holes Grow By Eating Quantum Foam · · Score: 1

    It's not the total mass.... it's how tightly that mass is compressed. For a black hole it so tight that it becomes a tiny point - a sigularity. Now, since gravity depends on both mass and distance, there is a relatively small radius around that singularity where gravitational forces become extreme.

    You cant do the same thing with an active star. Even at the surface, too much of the star's material is too far away to cause enough gravity to trap light. If you go further and go tunnel inside a star, the material above you acts in the oposite direction and cances out some of the gravitational pull. You can never get those same extreme forces.

  12. Re:Because I had to look it up... on Aeroscraft Begins Flight Testing Following FAA Certification · · Score: 2

    It's more like a million per kilometer.

    - If you're building a road in the bush, it's for freight transport, so that means extensive earthworks and groud prep to make it solid enough.
    - Even dry areas have huge flash floods so you need decent drainage too.
    - Plus you have to pay the contrstruction workers big $$$ to build roads in the middle of no-where
    - Plus support infrastructure like construction camps etc.

  13. Re:Missing wires on How Africa Will 'Leapfrog' Wired Networks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I had a mate who had a few kilometers of fibre cable deployed outside of their refinery area in africa. Unsurprisingly, some enterprising bugger would come along and dig it up, hack into it only to discover it wasn't copper. That in itself wouldnt be too bad - I mean it's not the end of the world to pull a bit of slack and splice the ends together.

    Unfortunately the same would-be copper thief would then travel along the cable a few more metres and try again... and again. Just in case it changed you know?

  14. Re:Fight it if you want to. on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 3, Informative

    At least in Australia, the majority of the strict border security is for a tangible reason - biological quarantine. The Customs officers are not dumb security grunts, but generally polite and intelligent poeple who want to protect our country from a large number of ignorant and selfish travellers.

    We have a regular TV show highlighting some of the more interesting events and the number of poeple who claim "it's not food, it's ingredient" when illegally importing pickled bug larve or something equally ridiculous is just staggering. It's not like we make it difficult to be informed either - there are signs and pamplets in 17 different languages, a questionaire enrey card, and amnesty bins as you arrive.

  15. Re:Fight it if you want to. on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1

    hahahaha, that is one of the most naieve plans I have every heard.

    Do you think they will believe the "belongs to someone else" excuse? At the very least they will ask you to name that family member and contact them for the password, keeping you in detention for several hours (or days) until it happens.

  16. Re:The biggest an only logical reason we should no on Scottish Academic: Mining the Moon For Helium 3 Is Evil · · Score: 1

    I think you're forgetting that solar insolation currently dwarfs any human energy generation by several orders of magnitude. Just the changes in the solar cycle cause more of an impact than the energy/heat we produce.

  17. Re:And this is the link to the review... on Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs · · Score: 2

    I was mauled by bed bugs once - every part of my body below my neck was covered in ictchy red bite marks - hundreds of them - and they didnt go away for weeks. It was both painful and embarasing, luckily I could get away with business attire and no-one could see them.

    After that experience I'd be a bit upset / obsessed if was posting a review too.

  18. Re:Well... on Why the NSA Can't Replace 90% of Its System Administrators · · Score: 1

    That's one of the most naieve things I've ever read.

    Plenty of high intelligent and professional people do the bare minimum / take shortcuts it comes to getting their application to work. Good and secure system administration is about as far as you can get from "bare minimum".

  19. Re:In the absence of glyphosate on GM Rice Passes Unexpected Benefits To Weeds · · Score: 1

    I would think it's just hybrid vigor

  20. Re:Ah, the circle of technology on MS Researchers Develop Acoustic Data Transfer System For Phones · · Score: 1

    As much as I agre with you, the problem has always been that almost no technology has had 100% penetration. IrDA was pretty good but not complete, Bluetooth has been better but the pairing can be tedious, and NFC is pretty poor so far.

    As shitty as it may be, the goreat thing about using acoustic transfer is that by definition, *every* phone has a speaker and microphone. That's pretty handy for low speed data requirements.

  21. Re:Obtain GPS Jammer on Next Up: the Jamming Wars · · Score: 1

    Jamming GPS is selfish and foolish - you'll also jame other people's GPS tens or even hundreds of metres away.

    GPS is such a weak signal that you'll get better results sticking some tinfoil (or better yet, lead sheet) over the antenna.

  22. Re:Great country you have over there on Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't · · Score: 1

    If you follow mining/resources you should be good.

    Until recently Australia would have been good - apparently Perth has something like 2/3 or the worlds mining/oil & gas software development. Plus all those mines need enviros too.

    With the gold price drop it has weakened a bit and people are nervous, but it will recover and settle down again soon.

  23. Re:Religion? on Russian Church of Kopimizma Rallies For Battle Against New Piracy Laws · · Score: 1

    but a religion implies some organization

    No.... organised religion implies some organisation. Plenty of people have beliefs and dont follow an organised religion.

    Regardless, the fact that they are registering churches implies it is an organised religion anyway.

  24. Re:Please explain this to me on The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet · · Score: 1

    Yeah I was thinking the same thing, something still has to initiate a pairing process.....unless there's another backdoor for that

  25. Re:What is a 100Mbit connection good for? on Rupert Murdoch Wants To Destroy Australia's National Broadband Network · · Score: 1

    You wont be getting ADSL at $30 per month without including line rental, that makes it more like $60 per month. Even Naked DSL has higher fees to cover the line.

    $50 per month to get a comparable NBN plan sounds like a saving to me.