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  1. Re:acceleration? on Photonic Laser Thruster Promises Earth to Mars in a Week · · Score: 1

    Yep vacuum, but you still need to connect the 2 parts somehow :P

  2. Re:acceleration? on Photonic Laser Thruster Promises Earth to Mars in a Week · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more of having them joined but with a highly insulating structure between them, and maybe also an aluminium spaceframe to add distance

  3. Re:acceleration? on Photonic Laser Thruster Promises Earth to Mars in a Week · · Score: 2, Funny

    Market the trip as a nice hot sauna vacation. Half of the ship is toasty and humid, the other half can have a nice cool pool. You could also separate the main drive from the living quarters of course?

  4. Re:I have a watch. on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah they just made up weird standards to confuse us after they'd sorted out the whole year thing. The people who invented time - the french - actually have watches that go up to a nice round 100, and have 1000 days every year. That's why a lot of europeans can be caught napping in our afternoons, or having more than 3 meals per 'day'. I can't say any more at this juncture.

  5. Re:The metre must be shrinking then... on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The meter has a long history"

    Your posting privileges have been revoked for 2 months, or until such time as you show the adequate remorse necessary to prove that you are sorry for such a shameless pun.

  6. Re:More seriously, though on Electric Motorcycle Inventor Crashes at Wired Conference · · Score: 1

    Yep, when cars warm up their tyres before races don't they normally do it on a little wet patch where they have less grip? The tires on that bike are massive, so and the ground was dry.. he was being ever so slightly stupid......... so lucky to be alive!

  7. Re:0-60 in less than a second on Electric Motorcycle Inventor Crashes at Wired Conference · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Remember aerodynamics too, 60-120 won't be as fast as 0-60 even with the same torque being applied. It does sounds awesome though, even if the inventor can't ride it

  8. Re:The State of Science Journalism on Scientists Create Di-positronium Molecules · · Score: 1

    I tend to find that my baths don't work well for flushing.. wouldn't a toilet flush have been a better analogy? The plug hole in a bath doesn't drain much faster than the taps fill. Meh.

  9. Re:Not fair! on Scientists Create Di-positronium Molecules · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, electron is anti-particle of positron!

  10. Re:Um, no. on Does 802.11n Spell the 'End of Ethernet'? · · Score: 1

    Still, I doubt you steal anything worth stealing.. mwuhahaha

  11. Re:Um, no. on Does 802.11n Spell the 'End of Ethernet'? · · Score: 1

    Ah I get defensive too easily. I also somehow spelled sight wrong. Stupid autofingers.

  12. Re:itsatrap? on Microsoft and Novell Open Interoperability Lab · · Score: 1

    Is that what "identity federation" is? Or is that a clever name for Team Fortress matches between Microsoft and Novell? Hehe.

  13. Re:Um, no. on Does 802.11n Spell the 'End of Ethernet'? · · Score: 1

    I doubt anyone that sits at home all day is going to have a network anyway (unless they telecommute?), or at least have any data worth stealing :p

  14. Re:Um, no. on Does 802.11n Spell the 'End of Ethernet'? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say it doesn't apply to businesses at all. The workers over in our fabrication shop are all computer illiterate, and I reckon anyone could plug in some monitoring equipment into their computer and they'd be none the wiser.

    Anyone know some good network monitoring software for monitoring new devices that show up on the network etc? I've never really looked seriously into network security, I think our biggest problem here would be social engineering or people just leaving their machines unattended/unlocked and someone walking in off the street or in the evenings (we've had people walk into the fabrication shop before in the evenings with nobody trying to stop them at all).

  15. Re:Um, no. on Does 802.11n Spell the 'End of Ethernet'? · · Score: 1

    1) Wait till they leave

    2) Drill a hole in their wall or go into the foundations, possibly after digging a half mile long tunnel using a toothbrush and a teaspoon (part of this can be done before 1 if necessary). 3) Drill a hole and find the cable with your handy little fibre-optic camera.

    4) Splice the cable with repeater/switch/whatever.

    There's a script right there!

    Anyway, there's still no simple method for cracking WPA yet..

  16. Re:Um, no. on Does 802.11n Spell the 'End of Ethernet'? · · Score: 1

    Yep, but you could also plug some kind of wireless device into a local switch (if it's not in plain site. Wireless in this case is allowed for the attackers. I was thinking of a one off raid on data anyway rather than a long term sneaky monitoring basis, which is obviously more difficult.

    IA(obviously)NABH

  17. Re:That's cool on QNX "Opens" Source Code · · Score: 1

    Yep this was the first *nix I ever used, from a single floppy on my Amiga :D

  18. Re:Um, no. on Does 802.11n Spell the 'End of Ethernet'? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they really want in, they're going to get in. Most people's houses are going to be pretty easily accessible compared to trying to crack WPA wireless encryption.

  19. Re:Um, no. on Does 802.11n Spell the 'End of Ethernet'? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Although once you have physical access to any ethernet ports, it's a lot easier to get onto an ethernet than it is to get onto secured wireless. Just plug in and away you go..

  20. Re:So it has gore... on The Differences Between the AO and M Versions of Manhunt 2 · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Manhunt 1 was extremely boring..

  21. Re:Winning friends and influencing people... on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    WOW! He looks like a Wookiee/bigfoot!! I retract all negative statements and implications I have just made about the man and his ideologies, just for having such an awesome beard.

  22. Re:Winning friends and influencing people... on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the creators of the hundreds of distros out there... anyway it's so sad how everyone is always on about 'freedom' all the time, freedom is *not* everything. Without getting too political, america is always on about freedom, but they can have them taken away at any time with the patriot act etc. I don't need my software to be free to enjoy it and make good use of it. I'm happy to comply with certain licenses as long as they are fair. I'm happy to pay money money for software if it is of use to me and either provides me enjoyment, or saves me time somehow etc. I'm fed up of idealistic morons screaming FREEEEDOOOOOM!!! without really thinking about it. Maybe I'm on the completely wrong track here, I'll go have a look at TFA :P

  23. Re:Haha had us all fooled! on Is China's "Great Firewall" a Fraud? · · Score: 1

    Well what's bigger? Canada, Russia, China, India (in terms of population at least).. anything else? I don't really mean it to be a flame, but being in the top 10 biggest countries really can't make you a small country when there are hundreds, that's just silly :P I consider the US a pretty big place compared to the UK, so I can forgive Americans a little of being unaware of anything happening outside (there's enough going on inside america to keep up with), though it still gets on my nerves when I hear things like Americans mistaking a mobile phone tower for the Eiffel Tower. And they were in Edinburgh at the time - thousands of miles away, in a different country to the Eiffel Tower (this from one of my friends who used to work at Edinburgh castle, and no she's not the type to make that kind of thing up). I know some people are just dumb, no matter what country they come from, and I've met a lot of intelligent Americans who have come over here to study (the dumb ones tend to be tourists), but for an educated democratic country, americans tend to not really know what's going on out in the rest of the world (as I said before because there's plenty to keep up with there, and to be honest I myself don't try to keep up with international news, but know that the Eiffel tower is in freaking France..)

  24. Re:Haha had us all fooled! on Is China's "Great Firewall" a Fraud? · · Score: 1

    "it seems much freer outside of the US than in." - That's because it is? Since 9/11 your government is pretty much the most invasive and controlling in the 'free' world.

    "So long as a small country like the US" - wha? Was that Sarcasm? Ever heard of Luxembourg? Belgium? The US is not 'small'.. maybe has a low population density compared to China, but so does everywhere else.

    And as for the last part.. it doesn't really make sense, because you're talking about giving insane benefits to those who 'pay more taxes than benefits they recieve', so in the end they will end up with way more benefits?

    Sorry for being so argumentative but seeing someone call America a 'small country' just pisses me off for some reason.. seems that Americans just have no concept of how things are outside the US..

  25. Re:Phoning home on What's the Right Amount of Copy Protection? · · Score: 1

    Others yes, everyone no.. lots of people use Microsoft Office