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  1. After the X-prize on After the X Prize · · Score: 1

    The Y-prize!

  2. Hooray! on Smaller Networked Sony "PStwo" Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    120 new version of the PStwo! and a 75% smaller game all before Crimbo.
    No RTFA, no clue

  3. Re:You mean... on MPAA Sends Linux Australia Dubious Takedown Notice · · Score: 1

    Like the Judges in 2000AD, the MPAA are there simply to assertain the level of guilt.

  4. An expensive demonstration on Genesis Capsule Crashes; Chutes Blamed · · Score: 1

    Of what could have been the final moments of Beagle II.

  5. Re:Lucky British... on Digital Radio With Removable Flash Storage · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, according to up-to-the-minute intelligence just released by the Department of Homeland Security, the British are coming! This time don't fight, just turn on your radios.

  6. It's the one sport EA doesn't do yet on Life After Doom · · Score: 1

    It's got blood, gore, speed and, this is whats lifts it above the likes of American Football, it has cheese. Yes folks it's cheese rolling, as with doom, injury is virtually guranteed. Med-packs are available (St Johns Ambulance and the local hospital A&E department) plus real power ups (beer and cheese). Come on ID, you know it makes sence!

  7. Not just in the hospitals on Fed-Up Hospitals Defy Windows Patching Rules · · Score: 1

    I work for a company that produces software for family doctors, nothing dramatic, not even a machine that goes ping, we will still be testing a re-testing our software on SP-2 for the next couple of weeks before we do any upgrades on any machine in the field, or even the surgery.

  8. It's gone what? on Windows XP SP2 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    It think you mean Iron Pyrite

  9. More in the series on The PHP Anthology - Volume I, 'Foundations' · · Score: 3, Funny

    The PHP Anthology - Volume 3 'Return of the Ping'

  10. Brute force on Intel Plans A Common Socket For Xeon, Itanium · · Score: 1

    With a hammer all sockets are common.

  11. Re:chips on baby's brains on The Internet Meets the Neural Net · · Score: 1

    I don't think so, from what I can recall of brain stuff I did at uni $years ago a child's brain is very 'plastic' (it's easy for nerve cells to make/break connections) a lot is already wired up from the get-go. A lot of tuning has to be done within certain critical time windows (the pathways for stereo vision for example). Babies are not 'blank slates'; research on neonates' shows that they can not only recognise faces, but also mimic facial gestures (see How babies think for some background).

  12. Transistors, Pah! on Quantum Computing Using Traditional Transistors · · Score: 1

    You want valves for a warmer sounding quantum computing experience.

  13. Re:Question on No 2.7 Linux Kernel Branch Due Soon · · Score: 1

    Well that's what my daughter said. True you don't need one, but I would agree with you.
    I use the following classic home-brew method
    [1] Take one small child
    [2] Leave [1] in the proximity of dry earth and a supply of water.

  14. Question on No 2.7 Linux Kernel Branch Due Soon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As "final stabilization will be left up to the companies that provide Linux distributions." does this not introduce the risk that the final versions will begin to diverge and over time a RedHat OS, a SuSe OS etc will emerge? Will we have a VHS vs Betamax style battle in Linux?

  15. That's gonna hurt in the morning on SCO's claims Against Daimler-Chrysler Thrown Out · · Score: 1

    The share price I hope.

  16. Its easy on Cheap Cell-Phone Detector · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just listen for somebody shouting "I'M ON THE TRAIN!". As if we didn't know already.

  17. The Liberty Alliance on The Liberty Alliance Grows Again · · Score: 2, Funny

    Coming to a Marvel comic book near you soon

  18. Many years ago on LivingCreatures- The Beginning Of 'I, Robot?' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I did an AI Masters degree, part of the background reading was the history of AI. It seemed that every 20 years or so some AI researcher pops up and says "we will have it all cracked in the next 10-20 years", rinse, lather, repeat...

    Still, this does sound quite intersting, the only worry is will it go through the "terrible two's"

  19. Re:Windows in 2010 on Microsoft Expects 1 Billion Windows Users by 2010 · · Score: 1

    No, thats when SP2 for XP comes out.

  20. He's wrong on Alan Kay Decries the State of Computing · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Nearly everyday I think of many new and interesting ways to kill those who wrote Windows, and the muppets who run our network, not forgetting the in-house support, and....

  21. I just did on Who Wrote Linux? · · Score: 1

    [1] Took crayon
    [2] Got paper
    [3] Wrote "LINUX"
    [4] Drew picture of penguin and coloured it in

    Easy!

  22. Old news in a new setting on iPod: Your Portable Corporate Hellraiser · · Score: 1

    About 6 years ago a software manager I worked with recounted a visit to GCHQ. After the meeting they even took his notes away so they could check on what he had written. Now that's security.

    Many of the places I visited whilst working in the defence industry you had to leave your mobile phone etc at the door. A friend of mine had to get permission before he was allowed to bring his minidisk player his building where he worked (info sec classified it as a recording device).

    At a previous job, most of the virus infections on the company network were via managers PDA's. As long as the policy is applied properly, there should not be a problem.

  23. Re:Cybermen? on Daleks Exterminated From New Dr. Who · · Score: 1

    Well as the cybermen where there before the Borg were a twinkle in a Star Terk plot device writers eye, I would guess that the BBC is safe on this one.
    As long as they have corridors and wobbly sets we will all feel at home.

  24. A dual-use acronym on Mobile Cell Phone Towers For Disaster Relief · · Score: 1

    MMORPG
    M - Massive
    M - Mobile
    O - On-site
    R - Radio
    P - Propagation
    G - Gear

    It's no worse than the bovine related ones they came up with.

  25. Re:0.9 Unstable on Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    I migrated the famlies browsing to Netscape 7.1 and Firefox (IIRC 0.9) just before Micrsofts little trouble last weekend. So far Firefox has withstood my daughters browsing of Barbie, Cbeebies and Cartoon Network (including watching the web shows and playing the games) and successfully worked with my on-line grocers site. If any bit of software can survive prolonged contact with a small child, it has to be good.