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Perhaps another use

On: 'Brain Pacemakers' Being Tested

Rather than stimulate the brain, they should use this sort of technology for Spinal Cord injury patients. The brain would be wired with sensors and the stimulators will be placed at key locations below the injury.

Re:Insightful my ass.

On: Spyware on One in Twenty Computers?

Personally, if someone is going to own a computer, they have the responsibility to learn about the system. I have no problem teaching someone how to use Ad-Aware, but I have no remorse for people who must call a certified technician whenever they need to save a file to a floppy.

Re:What can one expect?

On: Spyware on One in Twenty Computers?

Um, the Average Joe User begins to really care when they boot up and their computer can't do anything.

I have come to be known on campus to kill spyware.

One in Twenty????

On: Spyware on One in Twenty Computers?

LOL! That's an understatement. I see spyware on everyone's computer

Good spyware tool

On: Microsoft Gadget Keeps Record of Your Life

Until someone uses it while having, god forbid, SEX!

Re:The no-channel-change flag

On: Losing Control of Your TV

solution: Disengage the power cord from the power source

Postulate

On: Legislators Looking At Peer to Peer Monitor

If such a technology will reject unfamiliar file formats, do you think it would be possible to embed an MP3 File into a Microsoft Word document?

That way, you would be throwing a legitamite file format at the P2P scanner, and it has an MP3 embedded in it.

Re:Sony?

On: MPAA Prevails Against 321 Studios' DVD X Copy

The media companies will not relinquish their monopoly on 19th-century distribution methods

I didn't realize CDs and DVDs have been around that long.

Re:Is this different than CD's?

On: MPAA Prevails Against 321 Studios' DVD X Copy

the RIAA "allows" is that people can make copies of CD's

Of course, we know that if they truely had their way, the *.AA would charge you everytime you watched a movie/listened to a track.

Re:Radiation from Monitors

On: Electric Shavers Rot Your Brain

a metal screw to the side of your monitor

Are you referring to the CRT? 'Cause I tend to think coming in contact with a hot CRT may tend to provide you with a bit of shocking info.

Re:sweet.

On: Electric Shavers Rot Your Brain

C : When was the last time you have seen a clean-shaven computer geek anyway?

Re:Possible defense?

On: RIAA Countersued Under Racketeering Laws

...as not to piss every single person in the US off

Uh, too late.

The LAST thing we need

On: Brits Still Working on Stinky Email

Next thing we know, people will start sending prank farts through email!

LOL

On: Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions

"...the Bush administration of distorting scientific fact and supressing findings to fit administration policy decisions..."

And this is news?

Re:Not good

On: Cell-Phone Wars

I don't think he was trying to pass himself off as an all-important executive. When you play HYPOTHETICAL games, you must break some rules of logic.

Re:Telemetry

On: Cell-Phone Wars

So, the next call you might jam could be some heart paitent's ECG telling his cardiologist that he's having a heart attack

That would bring on a minimum of MANSLAUGHTER charges, right?

Re:Tools alone dont assume guilt

On: FBI on the Windows Source Code Theft

If you were a horny pervert, would you mess with a (very angry looking) chick that's got a blade?

Forget about being a horny perv. All you need to be is a man standing in front of a stark raving feminist wielding a blade.

Re:Why worry about Wine???

On: Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks

I know what Wine is. You apparantly failed to see the pun that was intended here.

Why worry about Wine???

On: Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks

The US Government tried banning Wine in the twenties and it failed miserably!

How about......

On: What to Get My Geek for Valentine's Day?

Portable 3.5" IDE to USB/Firewire HDD Enclosure? TV Tuner Card? Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker System?

Re:Analogue = Current Time and Reference Points

On: Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die

Try teaching a child to read a digital and analog clock and see which they learn first. For most, it'll be the digital one.

It's more like teaching the kid how to read off the numbers on a digital watch.

But if you teach a kid how to read an analog clock, (s)he is more likely to understand the concept of time instead of some 3 or for digits.

Has anyone mentioned........

On: Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die

Compass and straightedge?

Re:Why only that combination?

On: Ctrl-Alt-Del Inventor To Retire From IBM

CTRL+Break was used to abort the execution of Autoexec.bat back in the days of Win3.1

Re:Now that we know who he is...

On: Seth Schoen Reveals Himself Author of DeCSS Haiku

Prosecutors don't sentence people - judges and juries do.

Waiiiiiit a minute.....

I thought that was the RIAA's job.

But is it MIDI compatible?

On: Yamaha Releases Singing Synthesis Software

I would hope this can be implemented in the MIDI format.

Also, it would be cool to create a voice by taking your own vocal samples.