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  1. Re:Infallible? on Pope To Resign Citing Advanced Age · · Score: 1

    Can we at least always refer to him as "GNU/RMS"?

    Did the GNOLD one resign?

  2. I see.. on How Not To Launch a Gadget · · Score: 2

    you've met my wife!

  3. Re:Did someone think this was a good idea? on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    Chock Norris strafes highways with a roundhouse kick.

  4. Re:London University International Program on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree While Working Full Time? · · Score: 1

    Yes the open uni is great and they provide much more support and interaction with tutors but it is also considerably more expensive than london uni if you are outside the uk.

    London Uni has actually been offering distance learning degrees for far longer than the open uni (or any other) but you are more or less on your own after they send you the course notes and reading lists although some courses/colleges in london uni also offer summer schools and such things, for an additional fee.

  5. London University International Program on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree While Working Full Time? · · Score: 1

    You can do a BSc entirely by distance learning through London Uni (apart from the exams which you sit at a British Council office anywhere in the world) and it is also relatively cheap.

    http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/goldsmiths/bsc-computing-information-systems-bsc-diploma-work-entry-route

    They have many other undergrad & postgrad courses too.

  6. Re:More interested in organs cloning on Human Cloning Possible Within 50 Years, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Claims · · Score: 1

    For creating an offspring better try sex. Much funier expierence.

    Dude, this is slashdot.. ;)

  7. Re:Video on Ask Slashdot: Which OSS Database Project To Help? · · Score: 1

    It's a matter of using the right tool for the job.. to use a car analogy - you could drive a Fiat Panda in a Formula 1 race and chances are you would still get to the finish line eventually but it's not really the best car for that particular job, however it is fine for getting around town and you'd look a bit silly going to the supermarket with an F1 car! (no room the shopping)

    There are many storage engines available for mysql these days and each have their good and bad points so choose one based on your expected usage.

  8. Re:Video on Ask Slashdot: Which OSS Database Project To Help? · · Score: 1

    Me too.. its many many years since I had any such problems with mysql and back then it was only when using the myisam storage engine and shitty hardware. Using innodb "just works" and it has never failed at recovering itself in the event of a hardware/server crash. I use it with truckloads of data and it does the job just fine as long as it is configured reasonably well.

  9. Pumice? on Sandy Island, the Undiscovered Country · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps it was just a floating pumice island.. http://blogs.smh.com.au/science/archives/2006/12/post_3.html

  10. Monsters be here on Sandy Island, the Undiscovered Country · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was actually just a really really big whale.

  11. Re:Patriot Missile Propaganda All Over Again? on Why Iron Dome Might Only Work For Israel · · Score: 2

    Well rocket launches and subsequent interceptions are very public and half the worlds media were there watching it all happen right in front of them so the figures can't be too far off. In fact the IDF says today that overall the success rate was 84%

    Looks quite successful here anyway.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxwCYZ6Zhew

  12. Re:Common Sense Really on EU Working On Most Powerful Laser Ever Built · · Score: 1

    As long as it's not a mirror..

  13. Netbooks are too good on Bungled Mobile Bet Will Be Ballmer's Swan Song · · Score: 1

    I've been using my eeepc now for over 2 years and it is my full time work & play machine. It does everything I need - it runs apache and mysql for dev, plays vids with vlc, runs browsers with a silly number of tabs open (and loads of other apps), I plug in a big screen and spread my desktop across the two screens and I connect a small mouse.. it runs ubuntu netbook remix (10.04) and gets a reboot once every couple of months if it's lucky.

    I can't see myself needing any other computer these days as long as this one holds out. It's the dogs bollocks.

  14. Stick it to the man on PayPal, Symantec Hacked In Anonymous November 5 Hacking Spree · · Score: 3, Insightful

    by releasing user and employee data from paypal and others? So only us regular people actually suffer the consequences.. good move!

  15. oblig.. on Titan Supercomputer Debuts for Open Scientific Research · · Score: 0

    imagine a beowulf cluster of those!

  16. Re:Why use a missile? on Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs · · Score: 1

    white vans don't fly through the air.

    You haven't seen the way the typical 'white van man' drives around here!

  17. Some aquaponics with arduino.. on Prefab Greenhouse + Ardunio Controls = Automated Agriculture (Video) · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Won't "private registrations" still continue? on US and EU Clash Over Whois Data · · Score: 1

    often for a significant fee

    Actually these days it is often provided free with the domain registration. See namecheap.com and internetbs.net for example.

  19. It's a smeggin garbage pod! on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 1

    .. had to be said - Red Dwarf is back after all!

  20. And so begins.. on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 2

    The Martian Goldrush of 2012 (+travel time)

  21. Re:Find a technical solution, not a legal "solutio on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic · · Score: 1

    Yes exactly - the simplest solution that works best.

    Also last I heard pilots are trained to fly on instruments alone so even if the 'e-windows' went down they wont be so shocked or helpless.

  22. Re:Foreign critters on Why Worms In the Toilet Might Be a Good Idea · · Score: 2

    Yes exactly, compost toilets have been a fairly common choice amongst boaters for a while now and not much more expensive than the usual boaty alternatives plus they require less holes in the hull which is always a bonus on a boat. Of course you still need somewhere to dump the compost as marinas are not generally very green and tend to frown upon compost heaps springing up around the pontoons.

    http://www.natureshead.net/information.html

  23. Re:Flawed assumptions. on Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    Science also fails to explain unicorns. And don't get me started on Santa Claus. How does he deliver toys to over a billion homes in one night? Science offers no plausible explanation for that.

    Schroedinger's Reindeer.

  24. Too much dependence on Google on Google Blocks Author's Ads For Offering Torrent Of His Own Book · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's what happens when Google is the income source, traffic source, video host, blog host, stats/analytics provider etc etc etc. You inadvertently break one of their rules and you lose your business or a substantial part of it with no recourse or at best a long wait for an appeal to be considered with no guarantees. The result is people jumping through hoops to get around such issues such as by having multiple accounts with fake details (or real details but using multiple registered companies) .

    People really need to break their dependence on Google (and any other almost monopoly) even if it initially means making a bit less money or having to do a bit more work, ie. install piwik for stats (or use statcounter) , install wordpress on your own server for blogs (or use wordpress.com), use other ad networks (there are many or you could even sell your own ads) and optimize everything as much as you can (test test test!), get traffic from other sources - amazingly it is possible!

    In other words - don't be lazy! Google is not the only game in town, they just want you to think that.

  25. Re:Food? on Richard Branson 'Determined To Start a Population On Mars' · · Score: 1

    some plants would be easy to grow in a hydroponics system - lots of sprouts, and roots/ tubers(potatos, ginger, carrots, ect)

    Make it aquaponics and you'd have fish as well.. and as everyone knows - with 5 fish you'd be rich! ;)