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  1. Fended off sharks? on Swimming Robot Reaches Australia After Record-Breaking Trip · · Score: 1

    How do it do this?

  2. All your spam on Australia Passes 'Lite' Data Retention Laws · · Score: 0

    are belong to us.

  3. Re:"But it might be possible... on A Planet That Orbits Its Star the Wrong Way · · Score: 1

    Isn't it more likey that influence of the star in this solar system captured the planet from a neighboring system?

  4. Re:Use subversion either hosted or your own server on Collaborative Software For Pair Programming? · · Score: 1

    Bazaar http://bazaar-vcs.org/ does not require a dedicated server.. maybe this would be better than svn?

  5. Re:Please note... on Patient Revives After 19 Years By Rewiring Brain · · Score: 1

    Your link doesn't say that for a variety of different tasks, you use all of it.. just most of it. If you used all of it, "re-wiring" couldn't occur, but it does.

  6. Re:Skill? on Design Software Weakens Classic Drawing Skills · · Score: 1

    ...but your skills with the calculator have excelled!

    Learn what you want (or need) to learn. Why waste time on things you don't?

  7. Re:Looks a lot like a Fossa on New Mammal Species Found in Borneo · · Score: 1

    It looks like a red tree kangaroo known as Bennett's Tree Kangaroo. Try googling the latin name "Dendrolagus bennettianus" for some good pics.

    It's a mammal, dark red, long fat tail, noctural and very shy. It's also a herbivore so there wouldn't be too many pictures of it trying meat. Maybe this is the only one?

  8. Re:Energy crisis on Chinese Eco-Cities · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "but only when a country is rich and the people have decent quality of life will it have the means to stop polluting."

    Do you know any countries like this? Me neither. Great theory.

  9. Re:Turn off your monitors and the lights... on Company Incentives for Going Green? · · Score: 1

    We encourage our employees to switch off their monitor when the go to lunch, meetings, or home.

    Our office lights have their own sensors at each light. They switch themselves off when they detect no motion. And no, they never turn off while you're still there.

    The lights also detect the amount of light they emit and adjust accordingly (each light can be programmed as well). eg. Lights near the window will dim (or turn off completely) when the sun comes out.

  10. Re:IANAL on Owning Your Own IP at a Company? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't bother. If you were the only 'computer guy' writing 'code' for a web page, you are probably not doing anything too ground breaking. Certainly nothing any other 'computer guy' could do.

  11. Re:Umm on How has the USA PATRIOT Act Affected You? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It has affected me.. I'm a foreigner. The patriot act has essentially revoked the visa-waiver program and now requires me to be finger-printed (and photographed) the next time I enter the US. I'm not going to be going there anymore. I'll spend my vacation dollars somewhere else.

    The last time I was there (earlier this year), my wife and I had to undergo additional security screening at every single airport we used. I don't want to be treated like a criminal everywhere I go and I will avoid going there on business as well.

    But who cares?

  12. Re:Getting them up is the easy part on After the X Prize · · Score: 1

    Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic might win it now they have signed with Mojave Aerospace Ventures LLC.

  13. Re:The Sum Of All Fears on Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia Coast? · · Score: 1

    Well I think this one is above average then.

    The location was only a mile offshore and in only 12 feet of water.

  14. Re:decrease? on Hurricanes Affecting Spammers? · · Score: 1

    Maybe Lower Trestles will get some decent swell if it stays off the coast a little longer.

  15. Re:Where's Frink? on Muppets Named Top Scientists · · Score: 1

    But what could he expect when he doesn't even get a mention on the official Simpsons website. Glaven!

  16. Re:Physics on Japanese Deploy Solar Sail · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't it be meaningful acceleration?
    If the resistance in space is less than the force exerted on the sail, it should result in positive acceleration.

    Remembering that the ship is already moving pretty quickly when it enters space, its velocity will continue to increase until the force exerted on the sail equals the resistance of space (a long time).

  17. Re:Vastly important on Is Typing a Necessary Skill? · · Score: 1

    I just wish the keyboards were the same.. I use a Mac and a PC everyday at work and the keyspacings are just enough to get me hitting adjacent characters when I switch from one to the other. Thankfully, software companies don't measure kLoCs per day (or week) anymore. Or do they? Mine doesn't.

  18. Re:Very misleading and uninformed on Cell Phones Becoming Profitless · · Score: 1

    Ericsson haven't made phones for more than three years. It wasn't sustainable.

  19. Re:One for all... on Cell Phones Becoming Profitless · · Score: 1

    Sure.. but when I pay for the phone, don't expect me to pay extra for a crappy inbuilt camera.

  20. Re:It's not that much different on Doom 3 Web Site Now Operational · · Score: 1

    And cheat codes..! We will need cheat codes!

  21. Re:commodore's hardware was fantastic on Commodore - Back In The Hardware Biz At Last? · · Score: 1

    Yeah! Right on!.. Commodores ruled! You could program your own tunes fairly easily with them. My dad still has the machine code key equivalents scribbled onto each key of his old piano.

  22. Re:Best joke I've heard in weeks... on Mac OS X "Tiger" Server Previewed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kinda reminds me of the old joke: Good, cheap and fast, pick any two.

    So that would be:
    Good, Fast = Mac
    Cheap, Fast = Linux
    Good *cough*, Cheap = MS.

  23. Re:THIS IS NOT FUNNY 1.0 inch = 2.540000cm on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    Yeah.. so 1 meter = 5000/127 inches.

    Try being a mechanic in Australia. My dad has wrenches/spanners in metric, US imperial, and British imperial.

  24. Re:I wonder how many stars this hotel is gonna be. on Hotel Tycoon Pushes Inflatable Space Stations · · Score: 1

    Space debris could be very catastrophic, but the chances of being hit by it are still miniscule

    Yeah!.. But it wouldn't even need to be the size of a house to cause a problem.

  25. Re:its all about the accessories on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    1st rule - "Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight" Hide it or lose it. 2nd rule - "Fight Or Flee" Use the flee part when considering whether to "fight or flee". Don't try to defend yourself. You're a nerd, remember. If they chase, they draw attention to you and themselves.