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  1. Re:two years on RIAA Drops Tanya Andersen Case · · Score: 1

    Nevermind that how can you even sue a 10 year old??! At that age surely community service would be a better option.

    I think the very least they can do is pay the legal fees the family has rung up, soliciters are not cheep! RIAA are so off my birthday card list.

  2. Re:Efficiency as opposed to thermoelectric? on Turning Heat Into Sound Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    (i.e. you'd get free energy from your power plant - no more having to burn coal

    Get over hee young man! In this house we obay the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!
  3. 2 RAID 5's? on RAID Vs. JBOD Vs. Standard HDDs · · Score: 1

    Go RAID 5, it's the best performance+reliability/buck (IMHO). As for replacing the drives with 1Tb ones and still ending up with only 1.5Tb why not buy a PCI SATA RAID card and build a second array? that way youd have 4.5Tb over two separate arrays.

  4. Thank goodness on Battlestar Galactica's End Officially After Season 4 · · Score: 1

    I love BSG but I would have to see a new BSG 1980.
    Still we have the whole caprica series to look forwards too.

  5. Re:4 year olds and science on What Can 4-yr-olds Understand About Science? · · Score: 1

    I think most of us here have no problem with religeon, just quite a few considerit to be a collosal waste of time and effort (like putting wheels on a tomateo). Now if it makes you happy then thats great, however I do object most strongly to the teaching of Psuedo-science in schools - If you want to teach creationism then do so in either philosophy or Relious Education as it has zero foundation in science.
    Okay that last part was not aimed directly at the parent poster, more at fundies in general.

    can't we all just get along?

  6. I used to be infavour on Spy Drones Take to the Sky in the UK · · Score: 1

    You know you feel safe when the camera can see you, should you be attacked then help is on it's way... but then the more I thought about it the more I became concerned.

    I know the old arguement of 'if you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to hide' but who defines what is wrong? Howmany commuters would like the police to know how fast and on what road your were driving? I wouldn't, I speed because it is not that dangerous (92% of accidents in the UK are NOT deu to excess speed, yet this warrents thousands of speed cameras). CCTV everywhere smacks of the former soviet union and East Germany befor the wall came down, this is not what the Constitution of the UK is about.

    Kind of glad I moved state side!

  7. little red button on Big Red Button Disasters? · · Score: 1

    My friend was busily finishing some work off on a University PC, I was bored.. I was a red switch on the back of the PSU that said 230V... I wonder what the other setting says?? [FLICK] oh 110v...!!!!!1110one [BANG!].. My friend was not ammused

  8. Re:Need Smarter Hybrids on Hybrid Cars No Better than 'Intelligent' Cars · · Score: 1

    I agree it is all down too driving sensibly. Alot of people don't seem to realise there is no point accellerating towards slow moving traffic, you'll end up waiting, also in a jam wait for a good sized gap in front of you car.

    BTW I did not know that Priuses had jump engines...

  9. But what of consistancy! on IBM's Snowflake Microchips · · Score: 2, Funny

    If intel uses snowflake technology then no 1.9999998875 chips will be the same!

  10. At this exact moment across the world on Tech Magazine Loses June Issue, No Backup · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tens of IT managers are getting Hundreds of IT minions to check Thousands of backup tapes and befor a senior manager walks in.

  11. Re:And the designation is... on Earthlike Planet Orbiting Nearby Star · · Score: 1

    Well atleast if it's a Class 'M' when the astronaughts land they should be able to survive on Rodenberries

  12. Re:How long to get there? on Earthlike Planet Orbiting Nearby Star · · Score: 1

    You'd only turn to jam if you accellerated too fast. Assuming that somehow fule is not an issue it would make sense to accellerate at arround 1G building up to 2.25G thus allowing the astronaughts to adjust to there new gravety on the way, then part the way there flip the ship round and deaccellerate at 2.25G so that they would only experience weightlessness for the time it takes to go from orbit to landing.

  13. Gas-fuel-cell on X Prize For a 100-MPG Car · · Score: 1

    Well if the energy stored in petrol could be directly converted to electricity I would say we were in with a shot. Burning fuel is inefficiant as alot of energy is wasted as heat & engine friction.

    Another upshot of an electric motor is the high electrial->mechanical coversion effeciency, re-generative breaking and High Low-end tourque with blisteringly fast top speeds.

  14. Flashing before my Eyes.. on Recording Your Entire Life · · Score: 1

    It's all very well storing 1.1GB of my life, however you are going to need a monster amount of bandwidth to play the whole thing back to me in the time it takes a bus to hit me.

  15. Overclock it on Water Logic Gates Built at MIT · · Score: 1

    by using a liquid with a lower visocity.

  16. Suit : Bad, Mars : good on Power Generating Spacesuits · · Score: 1

    Although this would inhibit an astronaught if it was used in his/her suit if would be great as a low-maintance power source on mars as unlike solar pannels the marsian dust would not effect power production.

  17. My only thoughts are on A New Twist On Skywriting · · Score: 2, Funny

    It looks a bit wobbly and crap, also couldn't they have spelt out more than 2 letters? I mean they had the entier US air space!

    Howlong befor a wealthy geek writes All You Base Are Belong to Us?

  18. Re:90% of what? on Purdue Makes Trash To Electricity Generator · · Score: 1

    Well it is the prototype so hopefuly future versions will be much smaller and lighter, however even if they were to stay as 5->10 tonne beasts they would still be good for civilian use where they don't need to move.

  19. Sorry whats the big deal? on Why Does Skype Read the BIOS? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Read my bios settings, I have no problem with this. There is no information on my BIOS that I would consider sensitive, maybe a touch of chargin if if turns out I have my RAM config set wrong(?) but thats it.

    Writing to my BIOS.... now thats a different matter and one I would take exception to.

  20. Vista's okay on OS Comparisons From the BBC · · Score: 1

    But I stil prefere Amiga Workbench 3.0 running on an A4000, if it was good enough to run a 3 mile space station (Babylon 5) it good enough for me!

  21. Re:Fantastic! Until... on The Replacement For the Battery? · · Score: 1

    I think if anyone is gong to kill this off it will be the GMC and Fords of the world. Car Companies make a killing on servicing an replacement parts on combustion engines as part need regular replacements (spark plugs, oil filters, air filters ect) but the electric car needs virtualy no love, when was the last time sony needed to service your DVD player?. It was one of the reasons (according to the documentary who killed the electric car) that GM killed off the EV.

  22. Re:I hope they last long on The Replacement For the Battery? · · Score: 1

    I don't think we should use any, over exposure to ubercaos causes CAPS LOCK AND MAKES YOU SHOUT

  23. I'd be more impressed if on RFID Tattoo for Tracking Cattle and Humans · · Score: 1

    They could use the RFID Ink technology to pickup FM radio stations so I might have easy listening jazz stations where ever I go, yeh, cool man.

  24. Violent games and stats on 'Over 30' Section For Games Stores? · · Score: 1

    This is what happens when minority intrest groups are allowed to use spreadsheets to make up statistics.
    Right now I can safely say that most school shootings/stabbings/bullyings are carried out by children who play over 5 hours a week on violent/moraly questionable video games, however I can also say that well over 50% or the remaining pupils also play said games without finding the need to re-enact Quake with live rounds.

    Unfortunately it seems for the majority of the public one only needs to show proof that a theory can be vaild and ignor overwhelming contradictory evidence
    After all 99.9% of all crimes in the US/Europe are committed by people who watched TV with in 6 hourse of consuming a berad based product... what does that tell you.

  25. Re:Featuring the new EA Title on 'Over 30' Section For Games Stores? · · Score: 1

    Or the video game Peter Griffin played at the chuck-e-cheeze-alike.
    Stuck behind a bus simulator