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  1. Re:How is that a test? on Is a "Net Zero" Data Center Possible? · · Score: 1

    Cheers. I've added this to my Amazon wish list!

  2. Re:How is that a test? on Is a "Net Zero" Data Center Possible? · · Score: 1

    Please can you send me a source for this! It sounds unbelievable, and if it's true, I want to read more!

  3. Re:Not so simple on Know What Time It Is? Your Medical Device Doesn't · · Score: 1

    While it may remind you of that story, it doesn't remind you of a true incident. http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

  4. Re:Misleading title, and sensationalism. on British Government To Grant Warrantless Trawl of Communications Data · · Score: 2

    Can someone mod this up please, as I was about to paste the same thing. It's a *major* error in the summary.

  5. Re:Fucking wow. on Jimmy Wales To Become UK Government Adviser · · Score: 1

    While the words have changed somewhat over the past few years, one of David Cameron's (current UK Prime minister) key stances in his early opposition was "small government". It still seems that he thinks this way, but has represented his thoughts on the matter ("big society"), and being in a coalition government obviously means his party does not have carte blanch to do as they wish there.

  6. Re:Unenforceable? on 4 UK Urban Explorers Face Orders Not To Talk With Each Other For 10 Years · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is not a ruling. A court hasn't applied this ASBO, it's just TFL requesting it.

  7. Re:Roundabouts on Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead · · Score: 1

    You just stated that roundabouts are rare in the UK. I didn't say anything about the relative numbers to "stop signaled" intersections.

  8. Re:Roundabouts on Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead · · Score: 1

    Roundabouts are rare in the EU are they? They're all over the place here in the UK...

  9. Re:Not a lot different actually on Driverless Cars Begin 8,000-Mile Trek · · Score: 1

    In all seriousness I'm looking forward to the day when I can use my commute time for productive things like homework or reviewing notes on the way to class, but I think it's going to be a while before driving AI is reliable enough to trust to deal with the idiotic driving habits of people without paying it any mind.

    You could just take the train.

  10. Re:Blackberry Enterprise Server on How IT Pros Can Avoid Legal Trouble · · Score: 1

    its company property and company servers, you really shouldn't be doing anything personal on them anyways.

    In many places I've worked (all in the UK) it's been a clear perk of the job that "reasonable" usage of a work-provided mobile phone for personal calls was acceptable.

  11. Re:Having been in a similar situation before... on How To Take a Big Vendor To Small Claims and Win · · Score: 1

    How does that work in practice? Could not the doctor you speak of say "I'm pleading the Fifth to avoid criminal prosecution"? Does the doctor have to say which criminal law he may be prosecuted of? If so, that in itself would be self incrimination surely?

  12. Re:Unsurprising on An Animal That Lives Without Oxygen · · Score: 2, Informative
    The second sentence is:

    "Although a few metazoans can survive temporarily in the absence of oxygen, it is believed that multi-cellular organisms cannot spend their entire life cycle without free oxygen."

    I did Google for a bit, and couldn't find anything to disagree with this, except the word 'temporarily'. While I'm not particularly familiar with anoxia tolerance, my quick searching suggests that certain species of turtle can have up to 3months without oxygen in cold water. There may be others out there, but this is the largest number I found. This is clearly a temporary phase in the life cycle of the organism. Are you trying to argue that they are implying that this is more than merely 'temporary' but a major chunk of the life cycle? Personally, were I reviewing the paper, I'd not have had a problem with allowing that phrase to be used (with the caveat that there is no information that I am not privy to currently, and there is no controversy in this area currently).

  13. Re:cool, just downloaded it on EFF Releases Tool For Testing ISP Interference · · Score: 1

    Try installing libpcap - I used the libpcap0.8-dev package on my Ubuntu Hardy install. (I'm getting a handshake error that I can't get around at the moment though - but that appears to be unrelated to FastCollector/libpcap)

  14. Re:In English? on Claimed Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1960.html
    I haven't studied maths in years, nor at a high level, but I was able to understand that very easily.

  15. Re:That's not a transparent fish... on See-Through Fish Help Cancer Research · · Score: 1

    There is in fact quite a good reason. The zebra fish is a very commonly used organism when it comes to developmental biology and genetics (two of the major disciplines involved in 'basic' cancer research). Because so many advanced experiments have been done on it, the fish is well understood. There are assays, experimental models, and much other research that has already been done in the zebrafish. The catfish has the advantage of being transparent already, but comes second in favour to the zebrafish by nearly all other metrics.

  16. Re:flying needles on Engineered Mosquitoes Could Wipe Out Dengue Fever · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately it's not really a starter (though there was about 5s where I was mentally drafting a proposal). Each year the vaccinations are made against particular strains of the influenza virus. How do scientists know which strains are going to be popular though? The short answer is that they don't, they look at the prevalent strains etc and try to predict what strains are likely to be around when it gets to "flu season". I'm always amazed at how effective this seems to be, as the influenza virus has some amazingly nifty gene shuffling tactics to make sure that it's always a case of trying to hit a moving target. So we'd need to release either a new mosquito into the environment each year, develop a totally novel vaccine, or breed mosquitoes that are capable of either "predicting" future virus mutations.

    Further, as for using mosquitoes as a vector for drugs, it's likely that it would be cheaper to just use a good old-fashioned needle. Still, it's a nice idea.
  17. Re:Looks Nice, but UK buyers get stiffed again on Review of Ergonomic Evoluent VerticalMouse 3 · · Score: 1

    Well, ok, not that sane, seems to be just shy of $100, which is still over £50 for a mouse.

  18. Re:Looks Nice, but UK buyers get stiffed again on Review of Ergonomic Evoluent VerticalMouse 3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I haven't searched in detail, but this company from the USA seems to be shipping it to the UK at a sane price: http://store.ergocube.com/evsu.html

  19. Re:Dell charges $0, and they're still cheap on Texas Makes Green Computing Mandatory · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be "TINSTAAFL"? Or am I wrong to feel proud of myself for deciphering that acronym as "there is no such thing as a free lunch"?

  20. Re:Not the Blender game engine? on Blender Foundation to Create Open Movie, Open Game · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps he was giving advantages and disadvantages of a system in an attempt to give an informative picture, rather than just spouting biased fanboisms.

  21. Re:At least, insescurity works for the little guy on Classified US Intel Budget Revealed Via Powerpoint · · Score: 1

    I'm not from the USA, so obviously don't have my finger on the pulse of your affairs too closely, but I was shocked by how low the figure was, not how high.

  22. Re:How on Man Sues Gateway Because He Can't Read EULA · · Score: 1

    The GPL isn't a EULA in any way - it's a distribution licence. If you were to not accept it, you wouldn't lose your right to run the software - it could easily be replaced by the entire works of Shakespeare and not make any difference. I'm not sure how tacking on a first-born son clause would affect it though, I guess that would, from a legal perspective, be the entire EULA, just hidden after the GPL (in effect, random non-required text).

  23. Re:The Film Would Be Even Longer If Made In The US on British Civil Liberties Film Released · · Score: 1

    Even better. Here in Birmingham (central England) we have Policeman and Traffic Wardens equipped with cameras in their hats/ helmets. Seriously. Surely that is less worrisome that other kinds of cameras? The camera just records what the policeman is watching normally as they walk down the street - I'm sure someone will probably try and say it's a good thing as it will discourage them to start at the hot girl walking past as that will be recorded on the camera and have to be explained later.
  24. Re:Really hard to make a good case for lobbying. on Congress Members Who Took RIAA Cash · · Score: 1

    If you feel that way, get lobbying for the laws to be passed...

  25. Re:Synopsis on Music Listeners Test 128kbps vs. 256kbps AAC · · Score: 1

    Not trying to be a troll here, but why when talking about the difference in *hardware* would the operating system be a factor? Or is my brain just screwing up at 3am?