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  1. Re:First... on Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who" · · Score: 4, Informative

    How much would he have cost me? ;)

    A bag of Jelly Babies

  2. Re:And of course Apple has to have their version on Wired Writer Imagines Google Island · · Score: 3, Informative

    You could take a look here

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Store

    it does drop to 20% after a certain point

  3. Re:A: Answering a question on LHCb Experiment Observes New Matter-Antimatter Difference · · Score: 1

    before it's asked is even worse

  4. Re:The distinctive look and attitude.. on Doctor Who's Dalek Designer Dies At 84 · · Score: 4, Informative

    A while ago I was researching every episode and story line the Daleks have appeared in. It's a bit of a tangle. However, the greatest source of Dalek trivia has to be

    http://www.dalek6388.co.uk/

    I've no idea who put that site together, but the depth of detail (every Dalek ever made and when they appeared) is bordering on the obsessive. I read all of it...

  5. Re:sounds like a great mythbusters episode... on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Don’t be a terrorist.
    2. If you are a terrorist, hide behind some civilians.
    3. ????
    4. Prophet!

  6. Re:Danger! Danger Will Robinson! on IE Standardization Fading Fast · · Score: 4, Informative
  7. Re:McDonalds! on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Try the meatballs, they're the dogs bollocks

  8. Re: Not for the first time on Bug Sends Lost-Phone Seekers To Same Wrong Address · · Score: 4, Funny

    I skimmed the submission, it rang a bell, I searched it, submission on front page, I pasted and Wham! Instant tit head!

    Thems the breaks

  9. Not for the first time on Bug Sends Lost-Phone Seekers To Same Wrong Address · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Sprint made a similar goof last year

    http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/03/28/45101.htm

  10. Re:Market manipulation? on The Strange Math of Apple's Alleged Massive iPhone 5 Order Cuts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's an interesting read. Perhaps they've spotted a pattern. This story is very similar one that was reported last year regarding the 4S

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2011/11/09/apple-reportedly-tells-iphone-parts-makers-to-delay-shipments/

    I wonder what we'll see this time next year.

  11. Market manipulation? on The Strange Math of Apple's Alleged Massive iPhone 5 Order Cuts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Someone is getting rich out of this

  12. Re:Switzerland on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    Well there was one about 11 years ago, but it was around 100 years since a politician was murdered and the biggest mass killing (14) in Switzerlands history

    http://www.economist.com/node/807801

  13. Re:Invent? on Australia Is On So Much Fire, You Can See It From Orbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    They had to invent a new colour, Australia wasn't visible from space before

  14. Re:Why? Why why why? on Rejection of Reality: Apple Denies Endgame:Syria · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why are people still stupid enough to trust Apple enough to sink money and development time into their silly, arbitrary little prison-platform?

    Why are people still stupid enough not to read the terms of the market their trying to enter? Beats me.

  15. Re:MSM Strikes Again on Boeing Dreamliner Catches Fire In Boston · · Score: 5, Informative

    From TFA

    "The fire started after a battery in the jet's auxiliary power system overheated."

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20942484

  16. Re:SSDs? on Jury Hits Marvell With $1 Billion+ Fine Over CMU Patents · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Well, that's sad news on Gerry Anderson, Co-Creator of Thunderbirds, Dies · · Score: 1

    It'll slide down a ramp and turn around part way through, so that it enters the grave feet first.

    Just as if you were boarding Thunderbird 2

  18. Re:Buy plain bricks.... on Has Lego Sold Out? · · Score: 1

    Even the themes are a relatively new thing in my mind. When I saw 'Lego Space', I immediately thought of the kit I had as a child

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3484/3763177988_97c0d70d6a.jpg

    I think there's some merit in the article, to me, Lego Space was too specialised, particularly compared to the model I had that had very few if any specialised bricks.

    “When I was a kid, you got a big box of bricks and that was it,” said Tracy Bagatelle-Black, 45, a public relations consultant in Santa Clarita, Calif., north of Los Angeles. “What stinks about Lego sets now is that they’re not imaginative at all.”

    I tend to agree with the above quote, I'm 45 as well. If you're younger it's likely that you would never know of the less sophisticated Lego. What's normal for one age is not normal for another. Who'd of thought?

  19. Re:Behind the times on UK Gov't Plans To Give 'Greater Freedom To Use Copyright Works' · · Score: 1

    What the summary doesn't mention is that in some European countries this is already because consumers are forced to pay an extra tax on blank CDs and digital music players which goes to the music companies (note I don't mention the artists)

    This will probably come to the UK at some point I'd imagine as laws across states are harmonised

  20. Re:Dear Apple on Apple Kills a Kickstarter Project - Updated · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It was a scam all along.

    1. Start a new website, competing with Kickstarter
    2. think up a way to generate some media attention by creating an Apple-related product that's never intended for release.
    3. Then tell everyone how Apple screwed you over.

    Why not just supply multiple USB ports so people can use their own cables? Why not just make an alteration to BYO cables and offer a refund to any who didn’t want it like that?

    No headlines and publicity for the site - that's why

  21. Re: Wait, what?? on Raspberry Pi Team Launches Pi Store · · Score: 1

    That's true of the App Store for the phone, not so of the desktop/portable machines. You can still install from anywhere like the developers web site, open source mac repositories and physical meadia

  22. Re:That email is suspect on Nokia Abruptly Closes Application Store In China For N9 · · Score: 1

    The only link I could find (3.00 pm UK) was back to this on /. There is no mention of it on Nokias web site or any press releases

    http://press.nokia.com/category/press-release/?tpage=100

  23. Re:Well, that's your problem... on Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You · · Score: 1
  24. Re: And Yet on Google Sync Clobbers Chrome Browsers · · Score: 2

    You're right and my mistake. The URL showed correctly, but the page didn't load.

    The front page was definitely visible at around 8.30am UK. How else was i able to attempt to log in and get a 503?

  25. Re: And Yet on Google Sync Clobbers Chrome Browsers · · Score: 1

    It was mentioned in another thread today and was modded 'off topic' which to be fair it was. /. Wasn't 'down' though. Th front page was visible, the ads were loading, but, all clicks were ignored except the log in window which you could fill in then a 503 error this morning around 8.30 uk time. /. Was up, but unresponsive. Just like me at 8.30 in the morning in the office