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  1. Books would provide most benefit on Most Useful OS For High-School Science Education? · · Score: 1

    Books are Instant On technology and they seldom get viruses and other infestations. If however you don't really care too much about the students and is dead set on getting computers, whether it really makes sense or not, then a low maintenance setup would probably be best, given the small size of your IT support team. Therefore Apple Mac or Linux would be much better than anything made by Microsoft.

  2. Re:Chicxulub on Vast Asteroid Crater Found In Timor Sea · · Score: 1

    There is a 500km diameter crater in South Africa (the Bushveld Complex):
    http://www.ersdac.or.jp/ASTERimage/Image/011_Bushveld.jpg .

    It is so big that there are multiple cities and smaller craters inside it (Vredefort Dome):
    http://www.greatarchaeology.com/Archaeological_Places/Vredefort_Dome.jpg

  3. Re:Email... on Bill Gates's The Road Ahead, 15 Years Later · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, I currently work at such a place. One old fart hates Email and so no-one ever sends him any. The rest of us however, are normal.

  4. Microsoft best innovation: Clippy! on Bill Gates's The Road Ahead, 15 Years Later · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, Clippy of course! How else would people ever have figured out how to write a letter?

  5. Re:Honda Clarity? on Toyota Partners With Tesla To Make Electric Cars · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is easy to store hydrogen. You just have to combine it with carbon so that you get a room temperature liquid, which can be distributed and utilized by existing infrastructure...

  6. Re:I can't wait. on Toyota Partners With Tesla To Make Electric Cars · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are out of luck, they will only build ten.

  7. Same difference... on Vast Asteroid Crater Found In Timor Sea · · Score: 1

    "coincided with a time of heavy asteroid bombardment globally"

    So, if many other asteroids were impacting, then the effect of this particular one would have been negligible.

  8. Re:International Android Market Yet? on Google Outlines Feature Set For Android 2.2 · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you identified a market. Start your own Android app store for 'several countries'.

  9. Re:Has Boris thought.... on London's Mayor Promises London-Wide Wireless For 2012 Olympics · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cool, so I take it that pretty soon one can do Video VOIP conference calls around a lamp post...

  10. Re:Note to self on Australia Air Travelers' Laptops To Be Searched For Porn · · Score: 1

    Make sure that the Live CD is a BartPE Windows XP disc so that the customs officials will know how to search it.

  11. Re:Damn it. Be scientific on New Estimates Say Earth's Oceans Smaller Than Once Believed · · Score: 1

    "Never mind the fact that SI units actually work in a sane, base 10 oriented way..."

    Yeah, but that only matters to sane people...

  12. How much? on New Estimates Say Earth's Oceans Smaller Than Once Believed · · Score: 1

    5.59297599 × 10^18 hogsheads 3.52357487 × 10^20 US gallons 1.33381818 × 10^21 litres

  13. Re:GUI is still there for remote desktop and it's on Microsoft Warns of Windows 7 Graphics Flaw · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, that is the point where Microsoft copied X Windows wrongly. There is no need to run the windowing GUI on the remote machine if the local machine is already running a windowing GUI.

  14. Re:Really? on NASA Finds Cause of Voyager 2 Glitch · · Score: 1

    No difference. The test loop just executes more times.

  15. Alphabetical contact list on MS To Share Early Flaw Data With Governments · · Score: 1

    Nice. Chinese hackers are cracking their knuckles in anticipation.

    Using Microsoft's alphabetical contact list in Outlook, the information will reach the People's Republic of China, before it will reach the USA government.

  16. Re:Rarity score on Doctors Seeing a Rise In "Google-itis" · · Score: 0

    When something is infinitely unlikely to ever occur, it will occur almost immediately. So the more unlikely the disease, the more likely that a hypochondriac will want to have it.

  17. Re:What's so bad about swearing, anyway? on ACLU Sues To Protect Your Right To Swear · · Score: 1

    Fine the fucker a fucking Pound!

  18. More viruses than songs on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 1

    Good riddance. Limewire caused much pain and suffering to clueless Windows users the world over.

  19. They forgot about the turtle... on Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History · · Score: 1

    The Texas school board forgot to add that the earth is a flat dish shape with the USA comprising the bulk of it and that it is at the centre of the universe, carried on the back of a giant turtle. Children should stay away from the edge of the world, because they will fall off. Always think of the children.

  20. They don't really want to stop the flow on Obama Sends Nuclear Experts To Tackle BP Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    The problem until now was that they didn't really want to stop the flow. They wanted to continue production. The government is now forcing them to stop the flow and abandon production.

  21. Re:Hydrostatics... on Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission · · Score: 1

    From the show/movie Grease:
    It's Automic!
    It's Hyyyyyyyyyyyyyydromatic!
    It's Greased Lightning!

  22. Burn the Libraries on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions · · Score: 1

    Hmm, it is time to burn all the high school and university libraries, since they contain physics and chemistry books.

  23. Re:Dang... on Avatars Used For Australian Online Sex Appeal Study · · Score: 1

    Perv scanners of course! Apparently my tin foil underwear works.

  24. Dang... on Avatars Used For Australian Online Sex Appeal Study · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where did they get those pics of me???

  25. Cell phones are more useful on Taiwanese Researchers Plug RFIDs As Disaster Recovery Aids · · Score: 1

    We already all have cell phones in a purse or pocket and these are more useful than a tag. Phones will continue to get smaller and smaller and eventually it will be a Comm Badge, stuck inside the ear like a babel fish, or implanted in a tooth.