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Comment Re:Running Very Lean Re:Same old snake oil (Score 1) 379

by mcwidget on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @12:11PM (#31414780) Attached to: 50% Efficiency Boost From New Fuel Injection System

Yeah, I got that reference too. Funny, unobtanium's what they were looking for in Avatar as well. Those deep earth drilling rigs must've got really popular.

Comment Olympics? (Score 1) 673

by mcwidget on Thursday January 28, 2010 @07:01AM (#30931546) Attached to: Man in Court Over Simpsons Porn

I haven't been able to look at the 2012 Olympics in the same way since reading this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/29/olympic_logo_lisa_simpson/ Potentially they could be in trouble then?

Comment Dooooooooomed (Score 1) 119

by mcwidget on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @07:58AM (#29272129) Attached to: Swarms of Solar Powered Microbots On the Way

Dear God people!!! Has no-one read PREY!!!?!?!?!!?!!!

Comment Re: I do care how it works (Score 1) 176

by mcwidget on Monday July 06, 2009 @06:08AM (#28592451) Attached to: A Look At Google's Email Spam Prevention

Gotta say, I've been using Gmail for years. I still get around 1500 spam messages a month caught by Gmail. I *maybe* get 1 spam message through a month and I have never had a false positive. I really can't complain :)

Comment Re:Big Fricken Whoop De Woo (Score 1) 216

by mcwidget on Friday September 26, 2008 @12:35PM (#25167697) Attached to: UK Gov't To Require ID Cards For Some Foreign Residents

it'll be like the chip+pin cards that were 'unbreakable'.

Yeah, I get it, it's still a problem. My point though was not to solve this, it was to provide a way that your 'fingerprint hash' could be revoked and replaced with another. If your hash is based on fingerprint + password then that can be revoked and replaced with a hash based on fingerprint + newpassword, something you can't do with a fingerprint alone (or, at least limited to fingers, toes, ears etc).

Steven Hawking Considering Move To Canada 378

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @11:43AM from the oh-canada dept.

thepacketmaster learned of "...the possibility of Steven Hawking moving to Waterloo in Canada: 'A report out of Britain suggests Stephen Hawking is considering an invitation to come work at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics....But he's also being encouraged to move to Ontario by his University of Cambridge colleague Neil Turok, the mathematical physicist who will take over as Perimeter's executive director on Oct. 1. Perimeter confirmed last night that it has made a standing offer to Hawking...Turok is leaving Cambridge after failing to persuade university authorities, research councils and sponsors to spend $40 million...By comparison, Waterloo's Perimeter Institute has about $600 million in funding...The addition of Hawking to Perimeter's staff of top physicists would be a major coup for the research institute, founded in 1999 by Mike Lazaridis, founder and co-CEO of Research In Motion, which makes the BlackBerry.'"

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