Comment Don't buy it. (Score 1) 272
My Asus A6VA had ~2 hours of battery with win 2003 Server or XP. Two months after I installed Win 7 all I get is roughly 20~30 minutes.
Bastards!
Comment Re:My battery died (Score 1) 206
Same thing here on my Asus A6Va. The battery now holds ~37%.
Comment Don't Call Me... (Score 2, Funny) 160
Shirley!
Sorry. I am so sorry. I'll leave now. So sorry.
Comment Re:This is good science (Score 1) 154
Are implying M&M's are Mars droppings?
That was totally uncalled for.
Comment Pffft (Score 1) 103
They do close to nothing.
I...I am so... sorry. I'll leave now.
Comment Re:Just to get it out of the way ... (Score 1) 172
And it took you 1200 parsecs to figure that out?
*sigh*
Comment Re:Don't blame me, (Score 1) 894
To the non Portuguese-speaking:
Parent made a typo on the "how much money" link. Correct link is: here
Aussie Minister Backs Down on Internet Censorship 211
gballard writes "After the constant furore raised by rights groups, ISPs and concerned citizens over the Australian Government's planned 'internet filter,' it seems that Australia Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is finally backing down. In a recent interview, the Minister conceded that many of the sites blocked by the filter were legitimate businesses (including, in one case, a Queensland dentist's homepage) and changed his story on whether the planned filter would restrict 'Refused Classification' websites or use the broader (and more vague) criterion of 'prohibited.'
It's a positive step, but as the article above suggests, at the moment it's only one crack in the defenses of a censorship plan with broad ramifications for Australian internet users."
Comment Re:Live Blogging from the North Pole (Score 1) 137
Bookmarked!
godspeed!
Comment Re:Original (Score 1) 197
I wasn't aware of this kind of open real time satellite tracking. (I'll promptly forfeit my geek privileges on my way out).
Assuming it's dependable and that it is a comprehensible and complete Database, how did the recent satellite collision was allowed to take place in the...er... first place? IANARS but I'm guessing you could code some kind of early-warning-collision-system with that kind of data.
OR... the cutty sark is has me done me wrong after dinner without ice no ice? the pain.
Comment Ok, so it saves trees. (Score 1) 133
But does it give a report on the rare metals mined in deep Africa needed to build it?
The geek-factor on one of these is huge and I'd be all over it like a prussian woodpecker over a Louis XIII Antique Chair, but all this greenness only makes sense to those willing to ignore the un-greenness of the whole manufacturing process.
Bah. Why don't they just strap a mini gas turbine?
Comment Re:One reason... (Score 1) 352
I hear you...
Comment Re:Let's land on it. (Score 1) 157
I propose one of these!
Submission + - China Takes A Stab At Universal Health Care
balbord writes: "China is planning to set up an universal health care system at a cost of more than $100 Billion.
I bet even Michael Moore didn't see that coming!"
Comment Re:The unofficial diary of a Mars rover driver (Score 1) 147
Saw you yesterday on National Geographic!
