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* Posts by ed 22

12 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Dec 2009

Anyone want an International Space Station? Slightly used

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Pint

All ur bases belong...

Why can't and I'm being fairly ridiculous here they just fling it to the Moon,. So many nicely processed raw materials for something else that he wouldn't have to send back up the gravity well. Shouldn't LaGrange point 4 maybe be a designated garbage heap?

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Neuroscientist used brainhack. It's super effective! Oh, and disturbingly easy

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Re: Let them dopamine themselves to death

This may be a major step in evolution (biologicial vice AI) At least as a social organism, we may have to control this to maintain our society.

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Speaking in Tech: Rock your body now, Java's back...All Right!

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Java - the popularity of it, may be partly dependent upon the Oracle upkeep and their slowness in releasing new updates.

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Hurrah! Windfarms produce whopping one per cent of EU energy

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electric cars - not possible

(Man was not meant to fly)

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Windows 8: Thrown into a multi-tasking mosh pit

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Mushroom

Re: "multitasker," "power user," or "content creator"

Parental Units++

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New patent will give iPhone screen interactive 3D

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Alien

so f'in correct

but freakin cool nonetheless

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HP to 'spinoff PC biz'

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FAIL

Un-Fioniazed?

So HP has finally undone all the injuries of the past 10 years? Oy DEC I still miss the Alpha's. Fail - M&A is just money for lawyers and bankers.

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Interview: Jailbroken iPhones a vector rather than a vulnerability

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FAIL

OH NOES! An EVIL LINUX COMPUTER is on our network!

Yeah in 90% of the 'corporate' environments no one could install a min factor or even smaller in to the network and set up their own open wireless access point.

/snark, for those new to the real world.

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Epic fails

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Hear Hear.

The less the management knows, the more they like to cut what they don't/can't understand. "If I don't understand why a firewall/documentation/change mgmt/ is important, it can't be important.

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Microsoft wants pacemaker password tattoos

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Boffin

Blue face of death

obviously

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Drought effect on rainforests is negligible

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Up is Down, Brown is Green (with apologies to Orwell)

A study in 2007 showed that the forest gets greener when it rains less. A new study, by Samanta et al. in Geophysical Research Letters shows that the earlier work was flawed.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/03/up-is-down-brown-is-green-with-apologies-to-orwell/

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Plough gives birth to sextuplets

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"The City and the Stars"

Arthur Clark, depicted a six star system. WoW, that'll drive a supercomputer crazy figuring out orbits/periodicity.

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