Comment Extra server? (Score 2, Funny) 153
If only they had added a second server inside it too...
Comment Re:xbox live has terrible terms of service (Score 1) 1182
That's why on the internet, you should never let anybody know you're a dog.
Comment Re:Hmm... (Score 1) 209
I wonder how long it'll take us to invent genetic memory. Let's think of what it'd really require.
You seem to have skipped this step. There is no indication right now that there is any way of encoding memories into genes. We don't even know how memory works, or how to manipulate memories in already existing humans, let alone unborn ones.
Comment Re:Sounds fine to me (Score 1) 1246
I know plenty of people who didn't want to go to school, so maybe they shouldn't have been forced to. And once there, the teacher shouldn't have tried to make them pay attention if they weren't interested. Of course, it was Grade One, but still, the Government shouldn't have been infringing on their right to not want to learn.
Europa Selected As Target of Next Flagship Mission 168
volcanopele writes "NASA and the European Space Agency announced today that they have selected the Europa/Jupiter System Mission as the next large mission to the outer solar system. For the last year, the Europa mission has been in competition with a proposal to send a mission to Saturn's moon Titan, as reported on Slashdot earlier. The Europa Mission includes two orbiters: one developed by NASA to orbit the icy moon Europa and another developed by ESA to orbit the solar system's largest moon, Ganymede. Both orbiters would spend up to 2.5 years in orbit around Jupiter before settling into orbit around their respective targets, studying Jupiter's satellites, rings, and of course the planet itself. The mission is scheduled to launch in 2020 and arrive at Jupiter in 2025 and 2026."
Comment Re:We already know the outcome... (Score 2, Funny) 183
It's too bad Europa's atmosphere is so tenuous, or we could all hear the WHOOSH.
Comment Re:Outside the US? (Score 5, Funny) 276
yah, but if the CBS execs went warp 10
They could "hyper-evolve" into salamanders and have gross salamander sex?
Comment Re:Who has a Wikipedia account with editing rights (Score 1) 579
Did you miss the part where Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit?
Comment Re:Failed to Finnish (Score 1) 159
Dunno why parent is being modded Funny!
98% taxation for a 98% change of being represented...
Comment I hope they checked... (Score 1) 280
I hope they made sure he was dead, so that he won't end up... buried alive... buried alive...
Comment Re:Now we need to find a way to loop the video fee (Score 1) 280
And this is why we will still need Firewire for use with video cameras!
Comment Terrible misinformation (Score 1) 527
Note that the Great Zero Challenge remains unanswered. Overwriting a hard drive with zeroes will erase all data on it irretrievably (I agree totally that ordinary delete methods would not do so).
Yes, there have been lots of articles about how overwritten data can be retrieved with various vaporware methods, but no commercial data recovery companies has implemented these. So unless you are paranoid about the NSA using their super secret data recovery methods to find out your hotmail password after buying your hard drive off eBay, it is not necessary to physically destroy a perfectly good hard drive.
Yes, there have been lots of articles about how overwritten data can be retrieved with various vaporware methods, but no commercial data recovery companies has implemented these. So unless you are paranoid about the NSA using their super secret data recovery methods to find out your hotmail password after buying your hard drive off eBay, it is not necessary to physically destroy a perfectly good hard drive.
Comment Re:Going rate... (Score 1) 289
Two dollars? Be careful how high you go...
Comment Re:Remember, remember the 5th of January (2009)... (Score 1) 117
Nah, this is the BitTorrent era! You need $125 to send each floppy to 50 different people!
