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  1. Re:Not all dead on UK Rejects Extending Music Copyright · · Score: 1

    Calculating it from the death of the artist is nice and all, but the usual suggestions like the death of the artist plus 20 years all sound too long to me. Why can't we make it the death of the artist minus 20 years?

  2. Re:It "effects" it's neighbors... on Magnetic Wobbles Cause Hard Drive Failure · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean "its" there, not "it's." Certain possessives don't have apostrophes in ou'r language.

  3. Takeshi's Challenge? on There Are No Games So Bad They're Funny · · Score: 1

    I hear that Takeshi's Challenge was so bad that it was funny.

  4. Re:As they say... on Perpetual Energy Machine Getting Lots of Attention · · Score: 1

    Is it like generating electricity from aluminium?

  5. Re:Nice name... on Dell To Sell Advanced Server Cooling Systems · · Score: 1

    Are they taking inspiration from Microsoft?

  6. Re:Confidence: Low on Supercomputer On-a-Chip Prototype Unveiled · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or you could add in a temperature joke and call it the Vaporizer.

  7. PETA flops on IBM's Blue Gene Runs Continuously At 1 Petaflop · · Score: 1

    Did someone say PETA flopped? Wait, what? Never mind.

  8. Re:My current phone is so crap on When Does Technolust Become An Addiction? · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you are unable to discard the phone of your own will, it may be cursed. Look for a potion of holy water or a scroll of remove curse. Prayer may also work if you are in good standing with your god. If that fails, you should be able to get someone to steal it from you.

  9. Re:Nah on Shutting Down Annoying Recruiters? · · Score: 1

    Indefinite hold queue? I'd suggest the Telecrapper 2000 instead.

  10. Re:Oblig xkcd reference: on Visualizing the Wikipedia Power Struggle · · Score: 1

    http://xkcd.com/c214.html -- the problem with Wikipedia

  11. Re:[offtopic] Lisp on Blogger Threatened For Publishing JS Hack · · Score: 1

    I think he was referring to the language called "Lisp" from 1958. You're talking about Common Lisp, which is much more recent.

  12. Re:This idea is stupid (tld goldrush?) on A Foolproof Way To End Bank Account Phishing? · · Score: 1

    While we're at it:
    q.com
    x.com
    x.org
    z.com

  13. Optimised for English or code? on Is DVORAK Gaining Traction Among Coders? · · Score: 1

    I use Dvorak, but I find it a bit odd that I'm typing code in a keyboard optimised for English. Are there any layouts optimised for any programming languages? I can imagine what the Common Lisp and Perl keyboards would look like ...

  14. and the response on 70% of Sites Hackable? $1,000 Says "No Way" · · Score: 1

    "I do concede sounding apocalyptic with my comment and, for this I apologize. The fact remains, however, that 70% out of the people that we checked were seriously vulnerable to murder during the time we checked them them. Others believe that these figures are much greater. We are willing to accept the challenge. However we feel that the subject of the challenge should be Mr. Doe rather then - as Mr. Doe suggested - an innocent third party victim. After all, making a wager with someone else's life would be unfair, and furthermore illegal. So we will accept the wager and perform a check on Mr. Doe and attempt to breach any vulnerabilities found. This should be a fair substitute, since we are assuming that considering Mr. Doe's comments, he is confident that he is secure."

  15. Re:The article is full of wrong crap on Quantum Computer To Launch Next Week · · Score: 1

    Too bad that we have yet to invent an encryption algorithm that can be applied iteratively in one order, and un-applied in a different order.

    How about XOR encryption? :-)