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  1. Re:great on Australia's Bizarre Classification System For Internet Censorship · · Score: 2, Funny

    New South F%&$^$ Walse has nothing to do with this It's a Federal thing.

  2. Re:An Easy Apology on Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown · · Score: 1

    But that's the point. They haven't apology for stealing his work. Only the means they used to get it. The underlying motive here was to get they hands on his work to get control of it. They didn't care one bit about his or many other peoples sexuality regardless of importance. They didn't care before the war, they didn't care during, they didn't care after until.... Someone realized the importance of what he had done.

  3. Re:Duh! on Digital Schwarzenegger Set For New 'Terminator' · · Score: 1

    Exactly the digital version is going to have better acting skills. That is to say it may have some instead of none.

  4. Re:Actually, it would take 6 windmills on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So the Skystream at 3.7m and 5 Euro/kWh produced enough energy to power 2/3 of an average house. So how close does that come to powering a full remote house who are use to being careful about power. So remote farmhouse in Australia where the neighbour aren't close enough to share a single tower it sounds like this might be an ideal product. Add say gas or good old plain timber burning to cover demand load like cooking and heating a small generator to cover shortfall or emergencies and you have a solution this product suits. Yes wind in built up areas isn't a solution. Yes small turbines when you have distribution density to work with ins't a solution. But doesn't mean these products are useless.

  5. Re:Apple(+Sony+Lonovo+HP) and Microsoft on Ballmer Scorns Apple As a $500 Logo · · Score: 1

    Well not just Apple all the point apply just as well to the premium Windows OEMs They are all charging extra for a brand name or the point of difference attached to the brand name.

  6. Re:WOW on MacBook's "Unremovable" Battery Easy To Remove · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well if the company ain't paying for you to fly business they can't expect you to do business on the plane. Or you could buy the 15" with the one latch removable battery if that is important to you, which is going to fit on that cattle class tray table so much better anyway.

  7. Re:Unbalanced? on Next Pwn2Own Contest Targets IE8, Firefox, iPhone · · Score: 1

    As of Leopard you don't need to replace the U with *.

  8. Re:June... on Steve Jobs Takes Leave of Absence From Apple · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well news like this an easy chance for investors to sell short for a bit of profit taking. So will be seeing ups and down as the another 10% gets priced in.

  9. Re:Australia? on As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland · · Score: 1

    Well yes now. But last time the caps melted it was a vast salt water sea turning the country into a big U-shape. Not good for South Australia. Adelaide might become a small island nation in it's own right. The Maldivians could live on the inland coast. Although it might be a few years between their current home going under and the sea lapping at the door of their new home. Just have to be careful they don't buy too low or this future history may repeat it self.

  10. Re:WTF: Hyper-realistic? on Simulation of the Mars Science Laboratory Sky Crane · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think it's to cover all the storytelling camera movements and focus effects, that go above and beyond the simulation of the concept itself. More fun to watch that way. Like news is more interesting with handheld cameras and fast cuts.

  11. Re:Cool Movie - but bad idea! on Simulation of the Mars Science Laboratory Sky Crane · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My first thought on why the space crane works is the rocket don't need to change speed. They can keep blasting out the same pressure slowing the craft with the right acceleration the crane has near zero vertical speed at the right height. From then it starts to accelerate upwards. I figure the crane cables are to give enough of a time window between slowly falling and slowly rising to cut the cables. Should massively reduce the control systems needed in the crane.

  12. Re:Labels only on Support Grows For Blanket Music Licensing · · Score: 1

    well not really you don't think the ISP's are rubbing there hands in glee just waiting. The minute they see all that cash in the revenue they will be looking for ways to stop it going out the door. The easy way is to hire there own A&R guy start their own label, so for every dollar they pay out the Artist door they get to keep one or two or more likely Nine. Still sees and end to major labels, hoist on their own petard. Still doesn't do much to make artists better feed or consumers better watered.

  13. Re:Serious flaw on Solar Power From Home Curtains · · Score: 1

    Other than being invited around for drinks, I'm not sure.

  14. Re:Serious flaw on Solar Power From Home Curtains · · Score: 1

    The sun moves during the day so open the curtains as the sun moves higher. Or use the tech in Venetian Blinds that can track to suit conditions. Or Do like the euorpeans two layers of glass with the blinds between. Is not an all or nothing situation. People can have good daylight without tonnes of Air Conditioning. You just need to thing about the first meter.

  15. Re:Serious flaw on Solar Power From Home Curtains · · Score: 1

    Once the light enters your house you have the heat. It's just a matter of where. With it tapped between the drape and the window you could just leave the window open a touch to let the heat out. The sun is also really bright so if your working ,like in an office, you have lights on to counteract the glare. So use curtains to reduce sun glare and power the lights. Win/Win

  16. Re:Sadly wont help me .... on iPhone App Enables GSM To WiFi/VoIP Switching · · Score: 1

    If it's based on an Apple API then here's hoping an Asterisk App isn't far behind opening day of App store

  17. Re:How do you handle the following issues? on Should IT Shops Let Users Manage Their Own PCs? · · Score: 1

    How to deal with all those cases...
    Fire the employee.

    Just because they get to choose their own tools doesn't mean by any way shape or form they can choose not to play well with others.

    You'd still have a office standards that the employee and their system would need to work within.
    Oh and warn the it guy as well for not having the monitoring in place to ensure you know about such things before they get bad.

    It's really a set up issue.
    CVS for files if you want.
    IMAP for email
    any number of other choices.

  18. Re:One can only hope... on Apple Sued Over Fundamental iTunes Model · · Score: 1

    Ok so the filing lists an Apple Princple place of Business in Texas.
    Is that needed to in order to file in Texas Court.

    If so simple answer.
    Stop selling stuff in Texas.
    That'll teach them Texans.

  19. Re:Simple yes, cheap no on Ericsson Predicts Swift End For Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    This guys company makes cell phones and he thinks carriers will work together.
    So clearly he is not one of the people making the phones
    or dealing with the carriers

  20. Re:Not even close on Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster · · Score: 1

    Hey that's a cool idea.
    Something resembling SpaceShipOne and no issues with highjacking as cabin is completely isolated.

    The carrier module wouldn't even need to taxi back the terminal.
    Unload the cabin after turning off the runway. refuel, crew change and pick up next cabin by the time it's back down the other end of runway to take off.

  21. Re:Is it a bad thing? on Can Architects Save Libraries from the Internet? · · Score: 1

    I would have thought the most important role of the library is to provide a base reference.
    A place or store house of information that can be used and trusted in critical examination of other, new or debatable material. This is the reason the library become a reality in the first place.

    With the internet being so transient and flexible to so many views surely the library is more important not less important.
    Sure we can now google a subject and get a every piece every uploaded. Or consult Wikipeadia for what is mostly a good overview. But how do we learn the skill of critical reading without a good base reference that can be trusted.

    This is where a physical library really excels. Or least it should.
    If it doesn't something will come and replace it to meet the need.
    The Old physical form o fthe library seems important to this role in terms of having books arranged in stacks that you can walk up to and pick at random if needs be.

    Maybe the work that needs to be done is the sort of work we are doing elsewhere as well. That of how the Virtual world overlays on the real world?
    Once we have sorted then changes to the architecture will follow.

  22. Re:$19,462 on Geek Wins Copyright Lawsuit Against Corporation · · Score: 1

    Also could have been out doing fee paying work for significant period of the trail period.

  23. Re:Hydrogen? Carbon? on Hydrogen-Powered cars with Zero-Carbon-Emission? · · Score: 1

    To be honest it is the water coming down that worries me.
    or it staying up a bit longer and not coming down where it use to.
    Or staying up longer and coming down much harder than it use to.
    Or just coming down much more forcefully than it use to.

    Ok Water is feedback.
    It is feedback to the total energy trapped by the system.

    So reducing CO2 might reducing some trapping energy, but unless we think about the energy used the water will still go and come down.

    Energy is the driver, made worse by most of energy harvesting being via carbon deposits.

  24. Re:Hydrogen? Carbon? on Hydrogen-Powered cars with Zero-Carbon-Emission? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Water is the one of the best green house gases.
    It's absorption of IR is a lot higher then CO2.
    Water vapour carries a lot of energy as well to drive extrem weather effects.

    On the plus side clouds do help reflect sunlight.

    handy link
    http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/vibrat.html

  25. Re:Cellulosic ethanol on Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse · · Score: 1

    So if we considered the production of Biofuels as part of an overall framing system, such as using algee beds, reed beds and the like as a way of slowing down water flow improving absorption in to the soil structures and reducing the flow of farm chemicals in to the river systems, where they tend to trigger other problems.

    Then we be all good.
    While we look at in isolation we are just as stuffed as we where before.