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  1. Re: much quieter? on Boston Dynamics Unveils AlphaDog Quadruped Robot · · Score: 3, Informative
    this one's not powered by the 2-stroke either, but it hangs from cables on the ceiling. The outdoor version would have to have some sort of engine, for BigDog that was a 2-stroke which is of course completely peerless for power-to-weight ratio, for the engine itself, and energy-to-weight ratio, because of the high energy density of petroleum fuel. Pity the damn things are noisy, and dirty.

    Let's call it GammaDog.

  2. Zeiss on GPU-Powered Planetarium Renders 64MP Projection · · Score: 1

    OK so scores of Nvidia chips are cool but a Zeiss Mark VI is wayyyy more cool...

  3. Re:Ubuntu Vista defies expectations on Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM · · Score: 1

    I, too, think that's an excellent idea. I'm sure Mark Shuttleworth reads this thread, so please Mark, listen. We want this. Maybe the /. community still is slightly biased towards the "power user".

  4. bad spelling on Getting L33t Into the Oxford English Dictionary · · Score: 2
    I thought it's spelt 1337.

    OED, get it right

  5. as long as they don't make ice-cream.. on Chinese Scientists Make Cow Producing Human-Like Milk · · Score: 1
  6. gizmag /. on Gadgets For the Ghosthunter · · Score: 1

    Lots of "gizmag" stories on /. recently. Is there a business relationship between the two? I think we should be told.

  7. Re:my prediction on LOFAR, the World's Biggest Telescope, Is Up and Running · · Score: 2, Funny

    LOFAR will find a stream of information from an extraterrestrial source. When we decode it, we'll find that it's archives of extraterrestrial warez.

    at which point the MPAA will be sueing the whole galaxy...

  8. pah! on Julia Meets HTML5 · · Score: 1

    htm5 schmaTML5. I wrote a fractal viewer in TeX, in 1995. How's that for useless? http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=mandel

  9. Re:solving Soduku on Google Goggles Solves Sudoku · · Score: 5, Insightful

    go get your coat and hand in your geek card at the door. The fun is in writing the program that solves the puzzle

  10. Re:Already done? on US Says Plane Finder App Threatens Security · · Score: 1

    No,we need to ban Thursdays! Both 11 Sept 2003 and 7 Jul 2005 were Thursdays. Cue various conspiracy theories...

  11. Re:Holographic movies on Inside the Lab of One of the World's Last Holographers · · Score: 1

    Let me clarify before you start posting links to open source hologram generation software.

    can someone please post some of those links anyway? I'm very interested and our company prints stuff with extremely high resolution and spatial accuracy - it would be cool to "make up" a hologram rather than have one that is an image of a real object.

  12. Re:Phone home? on Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations · · Score: 2, Informative

    it does, but it's not good for collecting stats because organisations have their own private repositories (to save bandwidth, for one). You could set it up at home too if you have two or three Ubuntu machines, only one needs to fetch the packages from t'internet.

  13. Re:Seriously? on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ..., if we suddenly found ourselves low on money, she isn't going to sell our DVD player just so she can go to Starbucks.

    that just proves that TV addiction is worse than the coffee addiction

  14. Thorium on Nuclear Power Could See a Revival · · Score: 1

    What's with the LFTR design, is that just some crackpot idea or is is the canine testicles?

  15. waita minute on George Lucas C&Ds 'Lightsaber Laser' · · Score: 1

    does anyone here think that SW _isnt_ made for kids? Possibly with the added "enjoyable by their parents being dragged along to the movies also" bonus? it's a fairy tale for Christ's sake

  16. Re:Foam lattice on Price Shocks May Be Coming For Helium Supply · · Score: 1

    If we replace the atmosphere with SF6, airships will float with all sorts of gases!

  17. Re:Oops on Sending Data In Bursts of SMS Messages · · Score: 1

    Completely idiotic it may be, but it's the obvious answer to the question that was asked on some mobile provider's billboard ads here in the UK (i think it was T-Mobile):

    "What would you do with unlimited texts for life?"

    At the time i thought the obvious answer would be "implement a TCP-over-SMS protocol, doh". Now someone's gone and actually done it. I should really transfer some geek points to their account.

  18. Re:Has Boris thought.... on London's Mayor Promises London-Wide Wireless For 2012 Olympics · · Score: 1
    he is a buffoon but he is not well-meaning.

    rather, he is well mean!

  19. Re:What about xroach on Using Augmented Reality To Treat Cockroach Phobia · · Score: 1

    yes it was a fun program, i wonder whether it still compiles with modern X11 versions. I tried to write a version vor NeXTstep in the late 80s but failed miserably...

  20. Re:A word to the wise: on Ultrasound As a Male Contraceptive · · Score: 1

    Plan ahead and put an extra $500 (or whatever your out-of-pocket expense might be)

    or have it done on the NHS. (err, sorry you might not live in the UK. Or the new govt. might cut that part of the service.)

    Put an icepack on your nuts and watch some movies and sports for the weekend.

    | went back to work on a bike after it. It's not about having steel balls, but it can be more or less painful, just pot luck basically according to what the practitioner told me. It wasn't a doctor either, "just" a nurse. And a good one at that. Oh and it was a bloke, all 300lb of him.

  21. Microsoft Office 2010, Dissected on Microsoft Office 2010, Dissected · · Score: 3, Funny

    yes but is it dead yet... Otherwise that would be too cruel, even considering it's only a MS product and not some sentient GNU software

  22. Schmid on Google Street View Logs Wi-Fi Networks, MAC Addresses · · Score: 5, Informative

    Schmidt recently said internet users shouldn't worry about privacy unless they have something to hide.'"

    No, actually, he said that if you have $SOMETHING to hide then doing stuff concerned with $SOMETHING on t'internet is not a smart idea.

  23. Re:How is this news? on StarCraft Cheating Scandal Rocks Korea · · Score: 3, Interesting

    it would be like finding out the players were rigging our baseball and football games to win bets in Vegas

    you mean, like, they don't actually do that?

  24. huxley on Haptic Gaming Vest Simulates Punches, Shots, Stabbing · · Score: 4, Insightful
    this is old hat... check out the feelies

    "Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry?" enquired the Assistant Predestinator. "I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first-rate. There's a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it's marvellous. Every hair of the bear reproduced. The most amazing tactual effects."

  25. infringing content on Dueling Summary Judgment Motions In Viacom v. YouTube · · Score: 5, Funny

    hey, your kitten walking on the piano keyboard was playing a song owned by SonyWarnerEMI. We'll sue the whiskers off him!