Comment Re:Uh (Score 1) 127
Did it too! - always fun to watch people react to hearing the sound again
Comment i prefer my etc (Score 1) 236
i only read military fiction that stars Cowboy Neal!
Comment what about (Score 1) 334
I only read sheet music, You insensitive clod!
Comment Re:Cowboy Neal Option (Score 1) 502
I borrow CowboyNeal's shoes!
Comment I remember this (Score 1) 1
I was just posting the same link too
Who else was online that day?
Comment the obligitory joke... (Score 1) 404
...I only listen to the wireless, You insensitive clod!
Comment they should what? (Score 2, Funny) 596
Toe the line?
Surely you mean tow!
something strange is afoot...
Comment What To Do With a 1,000 Foot Wrecked Cruise Ship? (Score 1) 416
OH, what shall we do with a 1000ft cruise ship
what shall we do with a 1000ft cruise ship
what shall we do with a 1000ft cruise ship
Early in the morning!
- joking aside:
1: refloat
2: unload/empty
3: dismantle or;
4: tow to wrecking yard
Same thing they did for the Napoli in 2007 off the coast of south Devon see this article
Submission + - Web's dad scolds US over SOPA (smh.com.au)
natecochrane writes: "Father of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee called for Americans to protest SOPA and PIPA, laws he says violate human rights and unfit for a democratic country. Sir Tim's condemnation came on the day an editorial in Australia's leading broadsheet newspapers pointed out that although the laws ostensibly applied to US interests they could overreach to impact those in other countries."
Submission + - World's Largest Garment Made of Golden Spider Silk (ecouterre.com)
fangmcgee writes: Before anyone asks, no, it’s not bulletproof. But that doesn’t mean that the glistening yellow cape—the world’s largest garment made entirely from spider silk—isn’t a massive feat of engineering to be marveled. Now on public display for the first time at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the textile gets its unearthly gleam from the undyed filaments of the golden orb spider, a species of arachnid commonly found in Madagascar.
Submission + - Supercomputer Cools Off Using Groundwater (informationweek.com)
gManZboy writes: "The Department of Energy is no stranger to supercomputers, and its Pacific Northwest National Lab has proven that it can continue to be an innovator in the field by using what the lab calls a unique groundwater-fed cooling system in the lab's newest supercomputer, Olympus.
The novel cooling system translates normal groundwater into big savings for the new 162 teraflop supercomputer, which is being used in energy, chemical, and fluid dynamics research.
The setup translates into 70% less energy use than traditionally cooled systems."
The novel cooling system translates normal groundwater into big savings for the new 162 teraflop supercomputer, which is being used in energy, chemical, and fluid dynamics research.
The setup translates into 70% less energy use than traditionally cooled systems."
Submission + - Printing a Home: The Case for Contour Crafting (txchnologist.com) 1
ambermichelle writes: It can take anywhere from six weeks to six months to build a 2,800-square-foot, two-story house in the U.S., mostly because human beings do all the work. Within the next five years, chances are that 3D printing (also known by the less catchy but more inclusive term additive manufacturing) will have become so advanced that we will be able to upload design specifications to a massive robot, press print, and watch as it spits out a concrete house in less than a day. Plenty of humans will be there, but just to ogle.
Minimizing the time and cost that goes into creating shelters will enable aid workers to address the needs of people in desperate situations. This, at least, is what Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of engineering and director of the Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies, or CRAFT, at the University of Southern California, hopes will come of his inventions.
Minimizing the time and cost that goes into creating shelters will enable aid workers to address the needs of people in desperate situations. This, at least, is what Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of engineering and director of the Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies, or CRAFT, at the University of Southern California, hopes will come of his inventions.
Journal Journal: The 'SOPA Blackout', and the 300 domains that have already gone 3
Today is SOPA Blackout Day (and
belatedly, PIPA too). In rough order of importance, Google, Boingboing,
Arstechnica, 4Chan, ThePirateBay, Identi.ca, Craig's List, Mozilla,
Wordpress and Wikipedia are drawing attention to the SOPA bill
by either blacking out their whole sites or displaying banners.
Wikipedia's blackout got the most press but their effort was a rather
Comment I use a.. (Score 5, Funny) 106
I have a smelloscope, you insensitive clod!
(it had to be done really.)
Submission + - China Internet users hit half a billion (techworld.com.au)
angry tapir writes: "China's Internet population passed the half billion mark at the end of 2011 after the country added 28 million new users during the second half of the year. At the end of December, the country had 513 million Internet users, according to a report issued Monday by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). The number of users accessing the Internet from their mobile phones has also grown, reaching 355 million — or more than the entire population of the U.S."
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