Volvos in Space

My new band name.

Re: At last

I suspect the explanation for the Big Dumb One involves some form of (possibly alien) brain parasite. Though more traditional types of zombiefication can't be ruled out.

Not just van Vogt

That murmuring you can hear is a thousand golden age SF writers whispering "I told you so" from beyond the grave".

While I understand the reason for it swastika avoidance does irritate me. Blood Rayne, for example ,used a three-armed pseudo-swastika. If was as if in the game's weird alternative reality Hitler was Manx.

Re: Cold War

The Russians never got Scotty into space so there's that.

Re: Who are we protecting here?

Education and awareness perhaps that sex is actually a mutually enjoyable activity to be conducted with a partner as well as, a fantasy object? FTFY.

Or do you propose to outlaw fantasy?

Well according to Google

Pornhub features "Free porn sex videos & pussy movies" so maybe yes.

That's what I got from it as well

Any sort of gene manipulation can be viewed as a process of encoding data. What they've done here is to make the write process more user friendly.

Re: Doubt it

Dammit, we need a zombie icon!

Also "alot"

Let's not forget my favourite.

"First generation Atom netbooks"

Luxury! In my day we had to make do with Celerons.

Re: Space Chickens

Not just space chickens. Rubber Chickens from Beyonf the Stratosphere. Where's Ed Wood when you need him.

Re: A ways to go? More like several continents away

WUWT? It's still in the laboratory. There's no reason to make it small until you need to make it small. That would just be making life difficult for yourself.

Good point

I'd forgotten about the iTelegraph.

I really can't tell you

how terrified I would be at the sight of the word idiot painted on a chimmney.

Built the aqueducts

then privatised them. That was Romans wasn't it? My British history's a bit vague.

Re: abandon the imperial and metric...

For extra points I suggest using the Australian beer system(s). Makes el Reg units look positively sane.

Re: BTO

Bacon, tomato and onion? OK I get that CCS is probably carbon capture something but BTO genuinely has me flummoxed.

On the other hand

there's those of us who have been waiting for the Arduino Leonardo (the real one, not a clone) since something like September so it pretty much balances out. Of course sales numbers are meaningless here. For example, no one really knows what percentage of Atmegas end up as de facto Arduinos. These aren't commercial projects folks. They aren't competing projects. I wish people (who should know better) would stop talking as if they were.

Re: Oh look...

So its not pointless - just crap design.

Re: @ blofse

If there is rigid online censorship in Australia I have yet to come up against it. The reality is that there have been persistent failed attempts at online censorship. Failed, because no one supports them except a few unrepresentative lobby groups which unfortunately have the main political parties running scared.

"Robot Politician"

Only if it were fitted with a speaker.

Re: Ill make this quick. Title "how to stop viruses"

Called Keith?

Re: Erm...

Boffins!

Re: You get a point for missing...

Darts must really confuse you then.

Unfortunately

there are several. I suppose that, in some obscure way, it balances out all the fart apps.

Re: Well bugger me sideways

According to that logic I should be able to fly a 747, drive a Formula One car, and pilot the Space Shuttle.

Re: Google's magic wand waving

Yeah, but he had a lousy sense of timing.

It's all in the timing.

Re: any other accelerator built by humanity

You should see the one Slartibartfast used to cut out the crinkly bits in the fjords.

Or to put it another way

would you trust a coder who thought that bothering to use the static keyword was "splitting hairs". like programming the law is about getting the rules right at the start so everyone can follow them without getting any nasty surprises.

Re: Ye Gods, how many ways can a hair be split

You may call it splitting hairs. I call it the precise application of the law. It's what judges are paid to do. And in the end it protects us all.

Re: If only they could make a decent website

That's just tradition. Baen covers are notorious for their crappiness so the website has a lot to live down to.

Re: Unbreakable

Any security system that relies on users acting like machines rather than humans is inherently flawed.

I thought

that was taxi drivers.

Re: And still no built in GPS

A camera adds nothing to the function of a navigation device while a GPS device adds to the function of a camera. It's why some of use carry GPS data loggers around with us when we're ou taking photos.

Re: Great News

Edison's problem was not that DC is inefficient but that given the absence of DC transformers he had no way to distribute it at high voltage.

Call me a philistine

but I prefer Faboy Slim's up tempo three minute twenty-two remix

Re: Indeed

I'm even older than that and I still can't remember when Tracey Ullman was funny.

Re: Mass of everything

The clue's in the name. Since WIMPS interact with ordinary matter only weakly you can't weigh them. (They'd pass right through any scale). Indeed so far we can't measure them in any way. Ergo they can't affect any measurements of mass. The only way we know of their existence is through their contribution to gravitational effects at very large scales. As to why their gravitational effect is not apparent at smaller scales - well you have to remember that that matter in the universe is near to non-existent. O.K. maybe not non-existent, but on average the universe approximates a pretty good vacuum. Assuming dark matter is not clumpy like ordinary matter (i.e. that WIMPS don't strongly interact with anything including themselves) space with WIMPS in it is effectively just space but very slightly less tenuous. It's net effect on anything on a human scale is going to be zero.

Of course, anything that anyone says about dark matter is ,of necessity, highly speculative but the basic idea is actually pretty straightforward.