Comment Re:Naah... Fuel would be very cheap. (Score 1) 14
Or $20 a g if you roll a fat one :)
Comment Point of order.. (Score 1) 81
Kids have off switches too they just come with a whole load of legal complications.
Comment Re:Impossible (Score 1) 520
And what happens to water in a vacuum?
Comment Re:The new aristocracy (Score 2) 299
As you title implies that's how it's always been. This is nothing new it's just a group of artificial persons (corporations) legally required to embody the worst virtues of humanity rather than a single person. A lot harder to get rid of a corporation then a despot.
Comment Re:So, to be clear... (Score 1) 611
It comes down to one thing, tax. The casinos winnings are taxable not the players.
Comment Oh no's (Score 2) 338
This is going to be really bad for biodiversity.
Submission + - Windows Phone 7 Marketplace possibly hacked (neowin.net)
broggyr writes: "Seems it didn't take long to hack the Windows Phone 7 marketplace..."
Submission + - Most New Phones in Europe Will Charge with USB
Hugh Pickens writes: "Dvice reports that as of next year, almost every new cellphone in Europe will have to be able to charge via micro-USB as the result of a voluntary plan agreed to by a whole host of cellphone manufacturers back in 2009, including most of the big names like Apple, Nokia, Qualcomm, RIM, LG, Motorola, and Samsung making more than 90% of the smartphones sold in the European Union. "Charger standardization is great for consumers, because we won't have to keep buying new chargers at ridiculous markups, and it's great for the environment, because we won't have to keep throwing those same chargers away whenever we get a new phone," writes Evan Ackerman. It's also worth noting that one of the first companies to agree to this standard was Apple, who has a history of making everything as proprietary as possible so maybe there will be a micro-USB on the iPhone 5."
Comment Bad news for the West (Score 1) 97
a model under development, is about the size of a large duck and has flapping wings
Any army with robotic Ducks of Death, is guaranteed to win!
Comment Why is it always Apple? (Score 1) 97
You would hope he at least did a Google search for tablet pc before choosing iPads. It seams that been first to market is the key these days.
Comment News really? (Score 1) 96
How is Microsoft not fixing a vulnerability news? I say let the Windows users rot in their crapware infested systems!
Comment I can't be the only one who wants to know... (Score 2, Insightful) 13
...did the croc make it?
The Bomb Squad Olympiad Starts Today 43
The bomb suit relay and the robot obstacle course are just two of the events you can enjoy at the Bomb Squad Olympiad. Over the next three days squads from across South Carolina will compete and showcase their bomb defusing capabilities for the public. I hear the deep fried dynamite is especially good.
Comment Well it was a good thing for me (Score 1) 551
This is why I started using Ubuntu and have never looked back.
Submission + - Pacific Vortex to become habitable island? 4
thefickler writes: The Pacific Ocean trash dump is twice the size of Texas, or the size of Spain combined with France. The Pacific Vortex as it is sometimes called, is made up of four million tons of Plastic. Now there's a proposal to turn this dump into "Recycled Island". The Netherlands Architecture Fund has provided the grant money for the project, and the WHIM architecture firm is conducting the research and design of Recycled Island. One of the three major aims of the project is to clean up the floating trash by recycling it on site. Two, the project would create new land for sustainable habitation complete with its own food sources and energy sources. Lastly, Recycled Island is to be a sea worthy island. While at the moment the project is still more or less a pipe dream, it's great that someone is trying to work out what to do with one of humanity's most bizarre environmental slip ups.
