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  1. Yo Dawg.. on World's Subways Share Common Mathematical Structure · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..I heard you like Subway, so why not put a Subway on the subway so you can eat your Subway while you ride the subway? Incidently, reading this post, the word Subway has lost all meaning to me..

  2. Re:Parking garage on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/may/08/marks-and-spencer-bras-facebook

    In the UK a well known clothing store tried to charge more for larger cup sizes.. Which to a point makes sense, more fabric, more cost.. except that the cost of production has almost nothing to do with the cost of sale.. you're paying for fancy shops, head offices and analysts who read slashdot in their lunchbreak.. :)

  3. Re:WoW player, and loving it on World of Warcraft Finally Loses Subscribers · · Score: 1

    I agree.. I really look forward to my weekly raid, we're 3/7 and had a pretty good shot at baleroc this week.. tbh, i can well imagine blizz not losing a second of sleep over this, heck even 2m would still be an amazing player base for a 6 year old game!

  4. Re:That's why you use fiber on Aussie National Broadband Network Will Be Gigabit · · Score: 1

    Today's optic fibers can support frightening data rates

    I'd never considered broadband speeds could induce fear. Is this why my download speed improves significantly after 9pm?

    its nice to see someone thinking about the children =)

  5. Re:The Sun on What Objects To Focus On For School Astronomy? · · Score: 1

    To be fair, i look at the sun quite often with no ill effects

  6. NASA already did.. on Scientists Create Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    Well, it all started in 1962... Utilizing advances in modern food synthesis, scientists at NASA began work on a germ hostile space meat to be used into long expeditions in deep space! Only recently has their hard work paid off. As even more advances in the field of space meat have been made and applied to what is now known as operation meat. Seeing this as a way to end their streak of being sued by angry costumers poisoned by their burgers, the Mac Meaties corporation decided to try this miraculous space meat. Not having access to that technology, we make ours out of napkins.

  7. Re:New internet on Secret UK Plan To Appoint "Pirate Finder General" · · Score: 1

    I would almost garuntee that the incoming conservative government would abolish this as an unnecessary cost, its just another quango for the bonfire

    I'd also point out that we'd struggle to do worse under cameron than we have under brown..

  8. Re:Worked-around a Long Time Ago on RAID's Days May Be Numbered · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't discourage the boy. Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals

  9. what does this do that on New Service Converts Torrents Into PNG Images · · Score: 0

    ren *.torrent *.png

    wouldnt?

    (on windows...)

  10. Re:Great, needed this as of last week.. on VirtualBox 2.1 Supports 64-Bit VM In 32-Bit Host · · Score: 0

    IIAMIG (I am an MI geek) and I can think of hundreds of uses for this over the festive period.. from reporting Santa productivity to analysing mince pie consumption..

    Quite want one myself now

  11. Re:Oblig. on Using Excel As a 3D Graphics Engine · · Score: 0

    Many thanks

  12. Re:Oblig. on Using Excel As a 3D Graphics Engine · · Score: 0

    Hi.. could you link me to the meme behind this one?

  13. Re:That's some serious backlog. on Mitt Romney Answers Tech Questions · · Score: 0

    I wonder how much the 'tech vote' actually represents...

    Either way, until voting booths appear in Ironforge I think most candidates would be better just steering clear so they dont annoy the geeks.. Speaking as a geek, the last thing you want to do is get on our bad side.

  14. Neat but... on Japan's Melody Roads Play Music as You Drive · · Score: 0

    Read somewhere that the french did this on a road near paris (can't find the link atm) but had to remove it because it gave loads of drivers really bad migraines

  15. Re:Scalability on UK Schools Warned Off Microsoft Deal · · Score: 0

    if you're needing 256TB, might be cheaper still to invest in a spam filter?

  16. Re:Linux - less of an option on UK Schools Warned Off Microsoft Deal · · Score: 0

    One of the biggest barriers is the additional programs schools want to run...

    office etc im happy you can replicate in a nice free fashion, but many of the programs schools are encouraged to use, help kids to learn (and for which there are no alternatives) such as the 2simple suite (http://www.2simple.com/) are only available for windows. Equally i know of schools who maintain windows 95 machines because of idiotic OS tests in some programs which they cannot avoid using and the manufacturer has long since abandoned.

    Thats not to mention the school data submission tools (i forget the names of these) which are only patchy in windows.. introduce the penguin and the whole thing falls apart!

    I know that its only by schools creating the demand that these companies will start to embrace linux etc, but in the here and now its far from universally practical.

  17. Re:10 years? on Most Science Studies Tainted by Sloppy Analysis · · Score: 0

    So you admit that you pulled the 10 year figure out of your arse?
    and im the troll?

    which documentary have i put my faith in?

    The flaw in your thinking is that things won't continue the way they are, and no matter how deep down the sand you stick your head we will see some rather drastic changes.
    I think you're probably wrong there.. china and the US are very happy to pump all sorts of shit into the air, so i feel no guilt

    Or would you prefer it if we forget about the nonsense you wrote previously while you add more of it in subsequent posts?
    if you dont like it, please feel free to forget about it.. luckily apathy is a very powerful thing.

  18. Re:10 years? on Most Science Studies Tainted by Sloppy Analysis · · Score: 0, Troll
    Hi Ben,

    Nice articles, you missed the word 'fashionable' from my post

    I dont think the idea that Arrhenius predictions are vaguely similar to the whole IPCC's gives me much confidence that we have progressed in the last 100 years.

    Anecdotal longevity also doesnt address the main point which is that we have not tested any of the theories (other than Arrhenius') over anything longer than the average lifetime, and that (as tfa suggests):

    Statistically speaking, science suffers from an excess of significance. Overeager researchers often tinker too much with the statistical variables of their analysis to coax any meaningful insight from their data sets.

    what faith can we have in people who's entire fields funding depends on their finding new and more horrific predictions?
  19. Re:New tactic on Most Science Studies Tainted by Sloppy Analysis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Im not sure an effect predicted with hundreds of years worth of data can be tested in the 10 years since anthropogenic global warming became fashionable.. I think this may be an excellent example of basic science tainted by obscene analysis.

    Something as chaotic as climate must be an easy target for tinkering?

    Another global warming point: who is going to turn around and admit they were wrong if they find something contradictory? Denying AGW is basically denying the holocaust these days!

  20. Re:Couldn't make it if you tried... on The History of the CD-ROM · · Score: 1

    but with a potential CD capacity of 160TB..

    DVD capacity of 2PB

    And Blu-ray capacity of 11PB

    Although the buffer under-run would definitely lead to suicide

  21. Re:That's great, when is it available in stores? on Brain Controlled Virtual World for the Disabled · · Score: 1

    And not just for the disabled.. although i would pay and arm and a leg for it, i'd rather not have to

  22. Re:That's a lot of inductance on Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Sample Preview · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, it was my first thought too :D

    closely followed by 'in soviet russia, giga hertz you!'

  23. Re:I should probably RTFM, but... on Black Hole Information Loss Paradox Solution Proposed · · Score: 1

    To what extent can the article be used as a manual?

  24. Re:I'm confused on Black Hole Information Loss Paradox Solution Proposed · · Score: 1

    Presumably we could use the non-thermal output of the CERN/BH interaction to get results from their continued experiments.

    The search for the Higgs seems to have taken forever, could that suggest CERN has already falled victim?

  25. Re:Not the first ion thruster propelled spacecraft on Riding an Ion Drive to the Asteroid Belt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps its the first science mission

    we all know deep space 1 was just a NASA trip to get more doritos that got a bit out of hand