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Comment All problems have solutions (Score 2, Funny) 217

by pimpinmonk on Wednesday March 26, 2008 @05:59PM (#22874788) Attached to: Cell Phones To Be Allowed On UK Planes

The cost of making a mobile phone call from a plane will be higher than making one from the ground

The cost of punching annoying cell-phone blabbing passenger on the phone next to you in the face, however, will remain constant

Comment Re:Look. (Score 1) 308

by mattyohe on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @11:50AM (#18690081) Attached to: Details of Next Gen Zune Surface

"look like amateur hour"

Like... Digg?

Patient Revives After 19 Years By Rewiring Brain 419

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday July 04, 2006 @09:57AM from the my-favorite-organ dept.

dylanduck writes "A study of the recovery of a man who spent 19 years in a minimally conscious state has revealed the likely cause of his regained consciousness - his brain rewired itself around the injured areas into totally novel structures. It suggests the human brain shows far greater potential for recovery and regeneration then ever suspected." From the article: "There were ... significant changes between scans taken just two months after the recovery, and the most recent, at 18 months. Some of the new pathways had receded again, while others seem to have strengthened and taken over as Wallis continued to improve."

Ballmer Beaten by Spyware 501

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 06, 2006 @10:44AM from the don't-tell-anecdotes-at-a-public-event dept.

Devil's BSD writes "At a Windows Vista reviewers conference, Microsoft platform president Jim Allchin told a rather amusing story about Steve Ballmer. Apparently, a friend asked him to rid his computer of the spyware and malware that had accumulated over the years. As the story goes, neither Ballmer nor Microsoft's top engineers could fix the infested computer. The article goes on to discuss and compare Microsoft's new security offering, Windows Live OneCare."

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