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  1. I wonder how it copes with twins? on UK School Introduces Facial Recognition · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or just someone holding up someone else's photo?

  2. Re:Snow on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 4, Funny

    If your wii is yuki, you might want to see a doctor!

  3. Re:Don't Worry on White Christmas In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    From the linked report: The base only has a skeleton staff through the long winter.

    Well, looks like they'll be jumping each other's bones with gay abandon ;).

  4. This isn't about blank VHS media, folks! on Last Major Supplier Calls It Quits For VHS · · Score: 5, Informative

    I RTFA (hey, it's Christmas!) and using my advanced English comprehension skills can hereby inform you that it's about what's apparently the last major supplier of content in the VHS format in the USA giving up on VHS. It says nothing about manufacturers of VHS media (aka blank tapes) stopping production.

    I bet blank tapes will be available for a good few years yet.

  5. Re:Good Work Guys! on Researchers Test Whether Sharks Enjoy Christmas Songs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hey, that would be our tax *pounds*, thankyou very much!

  6. Re:Which station in Tokyo? on In Japan, a Billboard That Watches You · · Score: 2

    There's one of those units at Keikyu Shinagawa at the end of platform 3 just before the stairs going down. I think that's the only one at Shinagawa.

    I know I've glanced at it a few times but it strikes me as being a bit too far away from the main stream of people going past to convey much useful information.

  7. Re:Which station in Tokyo? on In Japan, a Billboard That Watches You · · Score: 1

    Oooh, it's my lucky day! I change at Keikyu Shinagawa. I'll go and wave it it when I go past in a bit.

    Thanks for the info!

  8. Which station in Tokyo? on In Japan, a Billboard That Watches You · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I RTFA (sorry!) and it doesn't say. As I live there I'd be interested in taking a look.

    (I know I won't be tracked or even just mess up their trial statistics, what with me being a foreigner and all that: "We gathered together many faces and came up with an average Japanese face, and by using pattern matching the system recognizes faces from the image.")

  9. Play several of the recordings simultaneously! on The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's almost musical. In an avant-garde sort of way.

  10. PHP mode? on (Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Anyone know a good extension for editng / managing PHP code? I currently use "php-mode.el" (http://php-mode.sourceforge.net/), while it's OK I have a feeling there could be something better out there.

  11. Re:I shudder to think on B&W TV Generation Has Monochrome Dreams · · Score: 1

    In short grainy snatches of up to 10 minutes.

  12. Re:And people wonder why my family doesn't go back on AT&T Slaps Family With a $19,370 Cell Phone Bill · · Score: 1

    Though if the European Commission wasn't there slapping them into line, the European telcos would be doing their best to screw their travelling customers.

  13. Re:And people wonder why my family doesn't go back on AT&T Slaps Family With a $19,370 Cell Phone Bill · · Score: 3, Informative

    (In fact, the one thing my boyfriend likes about T-mobile is that when he was traipsing all over Europe, you couldn't swing a charge cable around without hitting a T-mobile tower, so be enjoyed as-good-as-home data service!)

    That might have something to do with the fact that T-Mobile is a European carrier, the mobile arm of Germany's Deutsche Telekom.

  14. But I haven't got a dog... on 30 Years of the Lego Minifig · · Score: 1

    you insenstive clod!

  15. Re:Only 6.8Mbps? on East Coast Broadband Fastest In USA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Good question, I've only had it a week, and my router only does 54Mbps anyway... I can get good quality streaming video (probably not MPAA approved) from South Korea though, and there is lots of streaming content (TV, VOD) available for an extra fee (kind of like cable in reverse).

  16. Re:Only 6.8Mbps? on East Coast Broadband Fastest In USA · · Score: 1

    Well until recently I had a 1Mbps DSL which was plenty enough for my needs, but moving to a new place I found it had residential optical fiber, which costs about the same (not sure of the exact details, the first 5 months are free, but I think it works out to about US$40 a month). And if it's any consolation, trans-Pacific connections aren't exactly fast (300Kb / sec on average) so it's not like I'm maxing out the tube all the time.

  17. Only 6.8Mbps? on East Coast Broadband Fastest In USA · · Score: 5, Informative

    I live on the East Coast (of Japan) and have a 100Mbps-rated optical fibre connection. Though the fastest I've got out of it is a piddling 87Mbps.

    Muahaha.

  18. Re:Earth's surface Changes? on Moon Rocks Still In Demand After Almost 40 Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    You might want to look up "plate tectonics".

  19. Re:high security? on First Commodore 64 LAN Party · · Score: 1

    Not in my part of Tokyo it doesn't... Using OCN here.

  20. "Zero-knowledge architecture"? on RMS and Clipperz Promoting Freedom In the Cloud · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like an open-source version of MySpace (:evilgrin:).

  21. Re:co2 ice ? on Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars · · Score: 1

    Whoops, my attempt to use mod points to detroll you failed, hope this restores at least your points...

  22. Re:The best part about the TRS-80 Model 100... on Inside the TRS-80 Model 100 · · Score: 1

    Or indeed MacBook keyboards.

  23. Re:Correction on 66% Apple Market Share For Sales of High-End PCs · · Score: 1

    The extra cost for a MacBook is more than recouped by the time I don't have to spend getting Linux not just working but working *well* with cheaper PC hardware.

  24. Re:Murdering your darlings on Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork · · Score: 1

    Methinks there's a file system developer who took this a bit too literally...

  25. A different kind of file system? on The File-System Fallout of the Reiser Verdict · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will Hans suddenly develop an interest in cake-based file systems?