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  1. Re:Anonymous Coward on The Right Robotic Stuff · · Score: 3, Funny

    It has one feature you lack. An off switch.

  2. Re:Warn the robots off .... on The Right Robotic Stuff · · Score: 1

    But the robots were the good guys in Silent Running. I wonder if this robot can do surgery?

  3. Re:Progress seems to have stalled on 10th Birthday of ASIMO · · Score: 1

    It would be fun with a saddle. Possibly a whole new sport.

  4. Re:I wonder... on 10th Birthday of ASIMO · · Score: 1

    Sorry when they put up that screen I was reminded of horse races and I imagined a guy with a shotgun loading one cartridge.

  5. Re:Don't worry all will be well. on UK Wants ISPs To Be Responsible For Third Party Content Online · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Last night on /s/ somebody called for a chubby thread but some of the girls posted were positively anemic. This has to be stopped. Can the government help?

  6. Re:Not a robot on 10th Birthday of ASIMO · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the point is that Asmio is a simple machine which follows programmed instructions. It doesn't know what a mains socket it and has not way to find one other than being programmed down to the millimeter and millisecond to recharge itself.

  7. Re:Next Generation on 10th Birthday of ASIMO · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what a wife is for?

    I doubt Asmio is capable of the things my wife used to do.

  8. Re:Fom the Sirius Cyber^H^H^H^H^H Sony Corporation on 10th Birthday of ASIMO · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't want to get lumbered with a Personality Prototype.

  9. Re:Would it be less tedious to have 10,000+ keys? on Mr. Pike, Tear Down This ASCII Wall! · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But few people really look at keyboards. Our fingers know where the button will be. I don't want to hunt and peck for special characters.

  10. Re:We've tried this before on Mr. Pike, Tear Down This ASCII Wall! · · Score: 1

    Everyone who tried to do something useful in APL, put up your hand.

    I never had access to the right keyboard.

  11. Re:The thing with ASCII on Mr. Pike, Tear Down This ASCII Wall! · · Score: 5, Informative

    Japanese is typed using a more-or-less standard QWERTY keyboard.

    Tediously.

  12. Re:Are They Really That Stupid on UK Police To Get Facebook Lessons · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe its more like How to use FB without destroying your case or How to use the special police interfaces into FB.

  13. Re:How does this work? on Cheap Metal-Insulator-Metal (MiM) Diode Created · · Score: 1

    If these kind of MIM diodes can be made cheaply then a new cost effective class of solar power device may become feasible

    Heinlein had them in several stories. The idea was to build a photovoltaic cell as a radio receiver.

  14. Re:Fundamental discovery? on Cheap Metal-Insulator-Metal (MiM) Diode Created · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But isn't a transistor just a diode with a way to control the junction? So maybe you could position a third wire and get some gain out of it.

  15. Re:Dooooood !! on Cheap Metal-Insulator-Metal (MiM) Diode Created · · Score: 1

    I once created smoke emitting LEDs and I evacuated my workshop fast. I was using a clever power supply my dad had built. It had a pot from 0-10V and a rotary switch for +0, +10, +20. Very convenient but I left it on +10 by mistake. From model airplanes and bicycles I have seen a few smoke emitting NiCD batteries. One cold morning the battery pack on my bike shorted. Years ago a friend of mine chucked his NiCDs into the bottom of his backpack and walked home. The batteries melted a hole in the pack and were unusable afterwards.

  16. Re:60GB is nothing on CRTC To Allow Usage-Based Billing · · Score: 1

    I would if I was continually attached to one pump.

  17. Re:Asians on South Korean Cartoonists Cry Foul Over Edgy Simpsons Intro · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As an Australian I thought the satire in Bart vs Australia fell on its arse as well but we can see that The Simpsons does this to everybody so it would be wrong for us to be left out.

  18. Re:What dould possibly go wrong? on USB 'Dead Drops' · · Score: 1

    Yeah come to think of it Essendon is on a variant of the southern approach. One variant comes in straight over Avondale heights. The one from the east crosses Essendon then turns right to land.

    Aircrews are supposed to study the maps, check their location against navaids, listen to ATC. Thats how they earn the big bucks.

  19. Re:60GB is nothing on CRTC To Allow Usage-Based Billing · · Score: 1, Insightful

    My cap is 20G per month and I never go near that amount. There are three of us using the connection including my wife's architectural practice and I regularly torrent and seed Linux and BSD ISO files.

    Maybe if you do a lot of commercial video streaming you would transfer a lot of data but I don't see why people who do that should not pay for the resources they use.

    I buy my fuel by the litre, do you pay a fixed monthly charge for unlimited supply?

  20. Re:What dould possibly go wrong? on USB 'Dead Drops' · · Score: 1

    Probably a good idea. The standard eastern approach for Tullamarine airport here in Melbourne goes precisely above the east west runway at Essendon airport, which was our international airport when airliners had tappets and carburettors. It doesn't even have lights but that doesn't stop the occasional 747 crew from commencing final...

  21. Re:Dead drops? on USB 'Dead Drops' · · Score: 1

    Thinking back years ago, wasn't there an exploit which could work against any USB host, assuming complete control over the firmware in the USB device?

  22. Re:Good way to get your laptop attacked on USB 'Dead Drops' · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be walking around with a system running windows, even if I intended to use one of these devices.

  23. Re:Sounds great! on USB 'Dead Drops' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A better way would be to build a simple open wifi AP. No internet connection, just storage.

  24. Re:just what the tax payer needed on UAV Helicopter Flies 12 Hours Charged By Laser · · Score: 1

    More like Iraq and Afghanistan are not useful wars.

    So, when's Baracky gonna end 'em like he promised?

    Rome wasn't burnt in a day you know.

  25. Re:I don't get it. on Manchester's Self-Described 'Internet Troll' Jailed For Offensive Web Posts · · Score: 1

    He sent pictures of himself to his neighbours after writing something on the pictures to identify himself as an "internet troll". GNAA must be cringing now. Maybe the shame will push them into paying for a hit.