The Mayan calendar ends on December 21st, and drilling is due to resume into the Ellsworth sub-Antartic lake on the 21st?

http://www.ellsworth.org.uk/

I for one welcome our tiny little waterborn underlords.

You like this.

A little slashdot virtual facebook machine humour for you there ;)

Good flip. I work by the mantra "be nice to people on the way up, so that they will be nice to you when you're on the way down". This was not observed by a couple of bosses of mine (the ones that wave you off with a dismissive hand gesture or consider themselves superior to all other humans) and they've been bitten on the way back down.

Karma can definitely been seen in action in business. Makes me happy to be a human.

Nah screw that, set fire to the waste bins on the way out, at least they'll remember you! ;)

Made my own fuel from waste veg oil since 2008 so largely immune to crude oil prices. Get some funny looks from co-workers, and, increasingly, questions on how to make it.

It started as a hobby, became an economic necessity (which naturally sucked all the fun out of it). I'm such a skinflint that my homebuilt plant includes a still to recover the excess Methanol for re-use in the next batch, which one of my friends refers to as "skinning a fart".

However, the final product is so cheap that even when everyone is on leccy cars I suspect I'll still be trundling about in my old oil burner.

P = V * I

For the purpose of illustration, lets make:

P = pain
V = hardness of slap
I = number of slaps

I'm happy to keep V fixed but increase I until it starts to matter to you too.

This is based on the premise that the announcement is of the board's availability for purchase, and not something more mundane.

I guess we'll all find out at 6am GMT.

Anything that adds cost to PCBs is bit of a no-no - I can't see how the "self-healing" benefit can factor into any PCB design (especially motherboards, which have the least layers possible to reduce cost) unless it is for some specialist application, where using such tech would warrant the extra cost involved.

Cool, but, lets face it - not going to be every day.

It's Lake Nyos and there is a webcam on the plume which updates twice a day over satellite so the team can keep an eye on its height. The carbon dioxide is from magma below the lake, and this is not the only lake affected in this way.

I'd settle for just 'screen' so that in those long boring meetings I can leave myself sitting and nodding the right responses, while actually I'm disconnected off somewhere else having fun.

And was that measurement the surface curvature or line of site through the crust?

I can't imagine that's been overlooked but you never know, maybe something a little more subtle and less obvious - which is why peer review is good.

We definitely don't want our PS3 to do Wii-like things.

Downstairs we have a Wii, which is great for the kids and dance games and the like. They have a great time when their friends are over, and we enjoy playing it with them as a family (that Super Monkey Ball mini-game where you have to land a rocket by holding the Wii remote upright and pressing A for thrust is pure genius - but it is a novelty and nothing more). The Wii is a little unsatisfying to the serious gamer; SD resolution is looking really dated these days. The hardware limits are showing.

In our bedroom we have a PS3 (+ HDTV mounted on the wall). Sitting in bed of an evening playing LBP2 with the missus, or Portal 2 while only having to move thumbs is a win for us, aside from the obvious point that physical exertion to control a games console in the bedroom is clearly getting some priorities wrong. ;) We like that it doesn't expect this of us in order to have fun.

Come the next generation and having to choose between a console expecting us to wave arms about, or one that lets us just play... that will be tough.

I'm taking my daughter powerboating thanks to a good Groupon deal. We don't normally do that kind a thing, but a good deal caught my eye and it sounded a blast. There is no way could anyone have seen that coming from my purchase history. This isn't the first time Groupon has appealed to the random in me either, and from what I gather from talking to other people this isn't uncommon.

Pertinent to the story, just spotted this in the news:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/367885/acs-law-solicitor-is-bankrupt

Blackmailing filesharers didn't turn out to be the money-spinner he anticipated it to be...

Well thank god you logged in long enough to register your disgust. How else would we have know to be appropriately sad for being deprived of your magnificent presence ?

You make a fair point. But also; welcome to the internet ;)