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  1. Re:It's on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    So, please, shut your face. And don't bring up that shitty movie.

    Well I liked it and honestly the only common theme through the HHTG books is stringing a few good jokes together with a story which DNA pretty much made up as he went along. If you think the movie was shitty then thats probably because the producers did it that way to fit in with the books.

  2. Re:42nd birthdays? on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    1 in 365.25 I suppose. I turned 45 two days ago (thats why I have started to refer to everbody else as "son" and "youngster"). I kept an eye out for special events when I was 42 but nothing came up.

    Now the rest of you: get off my lawn!

  3. Re:Wow! on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am impressed by his aim.

  4. Re:It's 52 on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not "42." 52. As in 0o52. Don't any of you speak octal/i> anymore?

    Or even html...

  5. Re:Wrong date on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    But I don't have 2010 fingers!

  6. Re:But on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    Famous last words.

  7. Re:Just thought I would point out... on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    10/10/1010 would have been pretty good though.

  8. Re:Please correct me if I'm wrong.... on Ridley Scott Returns to PKD · · Score: 1

    Ian Fleming seems to be missing from that list, and I suspect others as well.

    Perhaps Michael Crichton?

  9. Re:Power on FAA Reports Heat In Cargo Holds Can Ignite Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1

    I can see your point. My uncle used to fly for various airlines. In one country where some people routinely carried guns there was a special box on board for weapons. The captain had the key. Maybe there should be special storage for certain types of energy storage devices. Not just batteries. OF course if that box goes up...

  10. Re:Lemming database design on US Monitoring Database Reaches Limit, Quits Tracking Felons and Parolees · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And maybe they don't need every GPS position in the database. It could be there just to cover for legal requirements in which case they could append it to a binary file and open a new file every day. Compress the old files with bz2 and archive all data more than a year old.

  11. Re:Inventory on Interactive Text Adventures Come To the Kindle · · Score: 1

    And I can smell a wumpus.

  12. Power on FAA Reports Heat In Cargo Holds Can Ignite Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If airlines provided power to every seat (not just business class) then fewer people would need batteries, and flying might be safer over all.

  13. Re:Theory only on FAA Reports Heat In Cargo Holds Can Ignite Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1

    Thats generally true here too, but Adelaide is a small place. When you wait at the gate you can see the plane right there through the windows and you walk out to it rather than using an air bridge.

  14. Re:Lithium got you down? on FAA Reports Heat In Cargo Holds Can Ignite Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1

    Police should be told not to tase you. It could end badly.

  15. Re:Theory only on FAA Reports Heat In Cargo Holds Can Ignite Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1

    Funnily enough mine did in Adelaide about four years ago. Waiting for the plane the airline announced a hold. They had to change a wheel apparently but I watched the plane and no wheels where touched. On arrival in Melbourne the laptop was warm and the battery was totally flat. My guess is that security left it running because they didn't know how to shut down mandrake.

  16. Re:Respect on Watch the 1st American Newsreel of Sputnik Launch · · Score: 0, Troll

    Many would argue that going to the moon is a waste of resources

    Humans are a waste of resources

    Thinking is a waste of resources

    Moving is a waste of resources

    Reproducing is definitely is a waste of resources

    I suggest you do us a favour and consider that last point carefully.

  17. Re:IBM 650 on Watch the 1st American Newsreel of Sputnik Launch · · Score: 1

    They were talking about recieving the signal so I suppose the computer represented the tracking systems in the west. It means don't worry, Uncle Sam and Big Blue are keeping an eye on the situation.

  18. Re:Impossible on Collision of Two Asteroids Spotted For the First Time · · Score: 1

    The possibility of successfully spotting an asteroid collision is approximately 3,720 to 1!

    That's no problem. Just get a big cup of really hot tea....

    I don't want to run the risk of picking up hitch hikers.

  19. Re:PDAsteroids on Collision of Two Asteroids Spotted For the First Time · · Score: 3, Funny

    And reproducing. Look at all the little asteroids out of that one.

  20. Re:didn't spot collision on Collision of Two Asteroids Spotted For the First Time · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll bet she was on her cellphone and didn't even notice the damage.

    No, my sister was definitely in the UK at the time.

  21. Re:I like paper books on Negroponte On OLPC's New Path, Plans For XO 3 · · Score: 1

    The thing is, my house is full of books which my wife, son and I want to keep. There isn't space for more but we still buy good books from time to time. So what do we do, stop buying books? My old paperbacks are falling apart anyway. I would gladly digitise them if it meant I could read them on a tablet or ebook.

  22. Re:Haha on Reuters Ends Anonymous Comments · · Score: 1

    Or how about this: spring load moderation so it falls back to the initial score over a couple of hours. A different moderator can repeat the moderation if they want.

  23. Re:What happens if you destroy it? on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 1

    I have been following this on reddit and I can't decide between him being a joke poster (like those on yahoo answers) or a complete moron. If you know the cops are after you don't post a question to the reddit equivalent of ask slashdot asking what to do about it. Its a public forum and the police read it too. Obviously if you know the FBI are tracking you and you know a relative of yours has been making public statements about bombs you should keep your head down when you find yourself being tracked.

  24. Re:solar hot water on Solar Power On the White House · · Score: 1

    I don't think it is really a night rate issue. We have a complicated system of energy resellers here and niche customers seem to get a bad deal:

    The average non-solar home is charged between 17 and 19 per kilowatt hour of electricity used due to a Victorian government moratorium on price increases while a new ''smart'' metering system is rolled out.

    But in what is described as an oversight, the moratorium does not apply to households that sign a contract to receive a premium rate for excess power generated on their roof and fed into the grid.

    Instead, energy companies are charging people with photovoltaic solar panels up to double the standard rate during peak hours.

    In Mr Rayner's case, AGL charges him 32 per kilowatt hour during the evening - the time he is most likely to need the power grid to run his home in McKinnon.

    ''If I had known, I would not have put panels on my roof - it's not worth it,'' he told The Age.

    ''I reckon I could just about set up a business explaining to people what they need to look out for if they are thinking of putting solar on, because it's become a very complicated exercise.''

  25. They each have an OS on Against Apple, Ballmer Floats Microsoft Merger With Adobe · · Score: 1

    So will adobe reader be rebadged as windows 8?