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  1. Extremely annoying sound on G20 Protesters Blasted By "Sound Cannon" · · Score: 1

    "The device projects a narrow beam of extremely annoying sound..."

    Ah, I was wondering what had happened to Daphne and Celeste.

  2. I'm astonished on The First Geek Wedding At a LinuxFest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone at LinuxFest had a girlfriend???

  3. Re:Leave Murdoch alone. on James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News" · · Score: 1

    There's nothing wrong with competition. What Murdoch has patently failed to do is to provide any. That's why he is whining.

    Oh and your tfh is starting to show.

  4. Re:Calling the waaaahmbulance... on James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News" · · Score: 1

    oooh call a doctor, my heart is bleeding.

  5. Sky TV - entirely missable. on James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News" · · Score: 1

    Well I pay my taxes and my TV licence fee and I'm really delighted in what the BBC does and the high quality with which it does it. I tried your offering Mr Murdoch and it was overpriced shit.

    What next: BUPA complains that the NHS is unfair competition?

  6. Re:Llamatron! on A History of Robotron · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Llamatron was the only game which was better than Robotron. I used to play it on my Atari STE. I managed to get through all 100 levels with the droid helper but never solo.

    I can still play it now on my XBox via an Amiga emulator. But ageing eyes and arthritic fingers make it much more of a challenge these days.

  7. Re:I know this guy... on Goodbye Apple, Hello Music Production On Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Hi,

    apologies for the spoddy question but aside from Linux what equipment (PC, Soundcard etc) are you using? I ask because I've been experimenting with Ubuntu Studio on an oldish Dell laptop and the results thus far have been rubbish.

    TIA,
    H.

  8. Re:Whisky on Power In Scotland From Tides and Whiskey · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dunno about Spanish whisk(e)y but Welsh whisk(e)y is 'wisgi'.

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

  9. Re:No worries on iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info · · Score: 1

    Certainly HMV.com and Play.com don't charge for shipping. Amazon only charges for orders =£5 (in the UK at any rate.)

    Yes you can easily copy CDs using a computer.

    Does iTunes require no knowledge of computers? I would say that the number of help and support requests on Apple's forums and elsewhere would suggest otherwise.

  10. Re:No worries on iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info · · Score: 1

    If only there were a way to buy high-quality, DRM-free music. Even better, what if that music came on some sort of 'disk' (it could be a fairly compact disk) which meant that you had a backup?

  11. Oh ffs on Palm Announces Killer New Phone · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can I mod down the original summary? 'Finally'? I've got an Android G1 and it beats the pants off the iPhone.

  12. Re:Too Many Traps on New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps · · Score: 2, Funny

    From the many feature films I've seen, the small-town cops in the Deep South don't actually collect any money from travellers. Rather they prefer to kidnap/rape/bugger/squeal/play banjos at/murder the travellers.

  13. Re:doh on AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File · · Score: 1

    I think these people are the type who could care less about their grammar.

  14. Re:Lightbulb on the internet? on World's Smallest IPv6 Stack By Cisco, Atmel, SICS · · Score: 1

    If SNMP were also implemented then you could get notification when the lightbulb had failed.

  15. Re:It's galaxies all the way down ... on 6.7 Meter Telescope To Capture 30 Terabytes Per Night · · Score: 1

    I'm no astronomer or physicist but isn't the fact that there is so much dark sky, even with powerful telescopes, suggestive of the presence of dark matter?

    How bright would the night sky be if there were no dark space visible to the naked eye?

  16. Any colour you like so long... on 6.7 Meter Telescope To Capture 30 Terabytes Per Night · · Score: 4, Funny

    30 Terabytes, consisting mainly of #000000.

  17. Re:Big Fricken Whoop De Woo on UK Gov't To Require ID Cards For Some Foreign Residents · · Score: 1

    If someone gets hold of my finger prints, what do I do then?

    I have a soldering iron you can borrow.

  18. Re:Anyone prefer this to the stock firmware? on After 3 Years, Rockbox 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    The chief advantage over the iPod OS is that it plays flac and ogg vorbis files, as well as many formats of video if your player's CPU is fast enough.

    Indeed. I was able to play mpeg movies on a 1st Gen iPod Nano. It isn't exactly hi-def but it works.

  19. Re:Looks Legit on Graduate Student Defends Right To Own Chicago2016.com · · Score: 1

    The Olympics I'm looking forward to is Robotron2084. Unfortunately the domain is taken.

  20. Re:Stop the presses! on Users Report Faulty WPA In 2nd-Gen IPod Touch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But this is from a closed-source company that had the arrogance to claim that its products 'just work'.

    This is WPA, ffs. It's not rocket science to get this to work properly.

    Apple has failed to test its product properly before releasing it. That is worthy of comment and condemnation.

  21. Re:This one since 1884 on Spectacular Fossil Forests Found In US Coalmine · · Score: 1

    Where's the oxygen coming from? I would have thought that the fire would suffocate itself very quickly.

  22. Re:Apparently... on "Perfect" Mirrors Cast For LSST · · Score: 1

    Chuck Norris did the casting.

  23. Re:Hmmm - clicking favorites crashes IE8.. on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 1

    Yep, mine too. Just got all kind of API errors resulting in a trip to the Task Manager to get rid of it all. I know this is a beta but isn't it supposed to work a little bit?

  24. The pedants are revolting on UK Gov't Lost Personal Data On 4M People In One Year · · Score: 1

    The government haven't 'lost' the data; to have done that they would have to be in a situation where they did not have the data anymore. What they have done is lost media carrying copies of the data meaning that the data is potentially in the public domain or in the hands of someone who will misuse it.

    I actually find it reassuring that all this data is apparently so freely available. It would be much more sinister if it were only available to a secret, select few. Publish the lot I say.

  25. Late adopter on Apple's IPhone 3G Firmware Update Bombs · · Score: 1

    I never buy Apple products until Service Pack 4 comes out. Oh... wait... that's Microsoft... or is it?

    *confused*