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  1. Re:The world needs this.... on Scientists Build a Smarter Rat · · Score: 1

    Don't be daft. They used rats because they're a standard experimental animal not because they want to make some kind of super rodents. Research it rats is often applicable in other species; like humans.

  2. This is good on Why the FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While being an idiot he's obviously not so stupid that he doesn't realise that he's an idiot. Hence the self restriction. If more of the worlds idiots followed his example the internet would be a better place.

  3. Re:Really? on Shadowed Lunar Craters May Be Coldest Spot In the Solar System · · Score: 1

    We use superconductors for energy storage on earth. The refrigeration is not the limiting factor nor is it the most expensive part of the whole design. I don't see why they'd be any more useful on the moon really.

  4. Good job this guys an asshole on The Outing of Pranknet · · Score: 1

    It's lucky in one sense that this guy was just an immature asshole. He's obviously pretty good at manipulating people over the phone. He could probably have got away with some more high impact crimes. Luckily now he's just going to go to jail for some relatively minor stuff.

  5. What a stupid article on 20 Years of MS Word and Why It Should Die a Swift Death · · Score: -1, Troll

    The purpose of word processors is not to ready a document for printing. This article fails.

  6. Re:No cash. on Scammer Plants a Fake ATM At Defcon 17 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A card plus PIN goes for couple of dollars. They're worth less than you think.

  7. Re:ALREADY ONLINE FOR FREE on Bill Gates Puts Classic Feynman Lectures Online · · Score: 1

    Those are different lectures.

  8. Re:Its a matter of preference... on Tomorrow's Science Heroes? · · Score: 1

    I'm a physicist. Darwin's a hero to me. Not as much as Feynman admittedly but he's still a hero.

  9. Re:The Breakdown on The Dilemma of Level vs. Skill In MMOs · · Score: 1

    Your post was funny but it fairly neatly shoots a hole in their argument against FPS skill. All of the good players know the maps. The reason that Thresh would own us is not because he knows where the rocketlauncher is.

  10. Re:BILLY MAYS HERE... on Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel · · Score: 1

    Anti drug campaigns are always ridiculous. Anyone remember "Winners don't use drugs"? I guess Michael Phelps never played arcade games.

  11. Re:Down to 95% of the world's arsenals! on US, Russia Reach Nuclear Arsenal Agreement · · Score: 1

    Your damage estimates are flat out wrong. 200-300 meters of infrastructure destruction for a 10 megaton nuke? Are you on crack?

    Watch some of the nuclear weapons documentaries - like 'Trinity and Beyond'. Look at the aftermath at ground zero after some of the blasts. Bikini atoll after Castle Bravo is a good one.

  12. I am not a morning person on Railway Workers Get Daily Smile Scans · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the smile auditing machine told me I didn't look happy enough, prior to my first work coffee of the day, there's be a serious danger that I'd attack it with a fire axe.

  13. Re:The arena ceiling!? on 400 Battle Bots Fight, Toss Enemies At RoboGames Competition · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It was boring because, like the UK Robot Wars, they made the program entirely wrong. Nobody cares about the teams back story. The commentators knew nothing about it and added nothing. In a half hour program there was about 5 minutes of actual robots fighting.

    There was potential there. Some battles were entertaining. It's also not true to say that there was ever any massive destruction (in the UK one at least). The 'spinners' with 30kg+ flywheels occasionally totally annihilated an opponent. 'Razer' in the UK also finished of a number of opponents with a hydraulically powered crushing weapon in a fairly permanent way.

  14. I'm not convinced on Cells May Communicate Through Light · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If this is the case the photons should be detectable. We can design experiments sensitive to the level of a single photon so this is not too much to ask.

  15. Has anyone managed to do anything useful with it? on Wolfram|Alpha's Surprising Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    Beyond their examples and a few symbolic calculus examples I haven't actually got it to return anything other than "I'm not sure what to do with your input"

  16. Re:Unreported marijuana pollen levels on Study Shows Cocaine And Other Drugs In Spanish Air · · Score: 1

    None of the commercial growers would be producing any pollen. Female plants are grown exclusively; either from female only seeds or by killing off the male plants long before they produce pollen.

  17. Re:I lol'd on MS Releases Open Source Alternative To BigTable · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rubbish

    emacs is clearly superior

  18. Re:If Capcom makes it too easy to suck on Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 Confirmed For the PS3, 360 · · Score: 1

    While smash brothers is a fun game it is not in the same league of complexity as the good fighting games.
    Capcom put a 'noob mode' in a few of it's 2D fighters. 'Streetfighter vs Marvel Super Heroes' being one I remember. In that mode special moves like a dragon punch or even the supers could be triggered by direction+2 buttons. There was still incentives to learn the moves as someone who could do them 'properly' could vary the strength (and consequently speed, range) of them depending on which of the 3 strength buttons they used whereas 'noob mode' was limited to just fierce strength versions.

    Unfortunately S Vs MSH was too broken to find out how well this let new players fight experienced people.

  19. Re:This could work. on A Look At the Wolfram Alpha "Search Engine" · · Score: 1

    Google essentially already does this. Type "what is the melting point of iron" into google.

  20. $55? on Blackwell Launches Print-On-Demand Trial In the UK · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's a crazy price. My uni's print shop will do it for less than that, hardback, and they have an actual human gluing it together. I know because I've done it with an out of print text book that the author was kind enough to provide me with a pdf of.

  21. I spent about a day trying to get it to work on What Did You Do First With Linux? · · Score: 1

    1998, spent an age trying to get some random distro (old Red Hat?) to play nice with my graphics card. Never did succeed. I'm glad that such fruitless struggles are (mostly!) a thing of the past...

  22. Re:French to the rescue... on New Data Center Will Heat Homes In London · · Score: 1

    We actually get ~5% of our electricity from France via the HVDC Cross-Channel link. It runs at full capacity most of the time

    The 7.30 demand spike is nothing compared to the spikes accompanying ad breaks in highly watched TV programs.

  23. Re:Cool, it practically pays for itself on Tesla Roadster Runs For 241 Miles In E-Rally · · Score: 1

    Good plan. I'm sticking with my '85 944!

  24. Re:Cool, it practically pays for itself on Tesla Roadster Runs For 241 Miles In E-Rally · · Score: 1

    How many of those 0-60 full power starts can it do per charge?

  25. Re:The free Internet was fun, its over on Last.fm To Start Charging International Users · · Score: 1

    If the dot com bubble taught us anything it was that 'having a lot of users' doesn't necessarily translate to 'going to make money.'