Recent content by Insomniac55

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    Google's "Smart" Contact Lens Is a HUD For Diabetics

    Yeah, but those ions have got to migrate to and from electrodes, which will corrode. If I was engineering this, I would investigate NFC technology, or something similar. NFC clearly can provide enough power to RFID chips at short range, so it seems plausible one day diabetics will hold...
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    European Researchers Turn Water Into Fire

    These things have been around for ages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyhydrogen#Water_torch) and electrolysis of water is NOTHING new. Water is not a fuel or an energy source, it's just a convenient way of generating combustible gas and oxygen, given another power source. So yeah, unlike...
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    Poll: Is Not Dating a Certain Race Racist?

    If you find someone of race X physically attractive, but won't date them because they are of race X... Then yes, you are racist. If you find the physical features typical of race X to be unattractive and thus aren't attracted to people of race X, then you are not being racist...
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    Sony Says PS4 is "First and Foremost" a Game Console

    I'm hoping all this stuff from Sony isn't just PR spin... I mean, if they're true to their word, they're basically doing everything right. I won't be buying a console, but I will enjoy watching Sony reap the rewards of Microsoft's failures.
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    Microsoft Exec on Always Online Consoles: "Deal With it"

    I wish I could drag him on over to my Uni accommodation, where the following are true; 1) WiFi does not reach my room well enough to connect. 2)While I am provided with excellent wired internet, I am NOT permitted to connect a router or network switch to the cable. If more IPs are detected...
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    Drones Create Glowing Star Trek Logo Over London

    With the amount of lens flare in the latter section of that video, I can't see Star Trek going 'Into Darkness' any time soon. Cool use of quadcopters though.
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    Poll: Your child is born without a brain. Would you raise it regardless?

    Question: If this child has nothing but a rudimentary brain stem, and can not and WILL not ever be anything more than a living, breathing, shell in the shape of a child... What are your thoughts on the morality of keeping it (a futile cause) alive, when its organs may save the lives of...
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    SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Takes Off

    I think your article is a bit misleading... You make it sound like this will be a single stage going to orbit and back, in one go. That's just not gonna happen. The Grasshopper's just a technology testing platform. And the reusable Falcon rocket is planned to have at least two stages, with...
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    Sony's Stoppin' GTA: Vice City

    According to Wikipedia, in 2006 Vice City held the title of best selling PS2 game of all time... And was one of Sony's big timed exclusives until it was later released on PC and XBOX. For a game that probably generated them a ton of money, they're being pretty pedantic.
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    Kansas may halt cursive education

    I have the most atrocious handwriting known to man... Regardless of how many teachers tried to fix me, it never worked. When I write with cursive, I find it incredibly difficult, tedious and make a million mistakes. Interestingly, I'm generally pretty good with stuff that requires fine...
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    The Political Compass test!

    I'm not American, but thought I'd stick to the pattern. :P
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    Muslim Complaints Get Modern Warfare 2 Map Pulled

    Does anyone think that the Muslims may get a degree of special treatment when it comes to things that offend them, due to the riots and such which were sparked off by that stupid video a few weeks back? And I'm not suggesting that Muslims are generally violent, just commenting on what the public...
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    Poll: Lack of basic mathmatical skills

    I had a good one the other night... Was doing my homework at 3 in the morning and got the answer right on my second attempt (out of three allowed attempts). Got the marks, showed up in the total at the top... But I noticed the 'submit' button was still present. Curious, I typed a random value in...
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    Poll: Lack of basic mathmatical skills

    While you are correct, the fact remains that everyone should arrive at the same answer with these 'puzzles'. Regardless of the confusing, braindead stupid way that they've been written, they are not ambiguous, and those that claim otherwise are showing a fundamental misunderstanding of how the...
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    Ubisoft Unveils Far Cry 3 PC Requirements

    This, 1000x this. I've got a midrange multimedia/gaming laptop from a year or so ago (Asus N55SF) and it has a Nvidia GT555m with 2GB of video memory. ...But the GT555m is only roughly on par with a desktop 8800GT from five years ago, in fact I think the GT555m is a bit slower. Video memory...