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  1. Re:can't pay hosting?! on Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? · · Score: 1

    If the employer can't afford hosting what are they doing to pay your salary?

    Oh that's apparently somehow covered by the yearly Charity Employee Voluntary Organ Donating Session where you can volunteer marrow, a kidney or a lung. They didn't give all the details though.

  2. Re:Just ask yourself this: on Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? · · Score: 1

    So you're saying we should kill the OP ? Or do you mean his boss ?
    Isn't this a little harsh ?

  3. Re:heh they should jam all the religious nuts on Blogger.com Banned In Turkey · · Score: 1

    The traditional roman religion which held society together was losing favor due to the apparent failure of the gods to protect them from the strife.

    Well they certainly did a better job of it than this newfangled christian thing. And the temples were prettier too, with proper priests and priestesses. And proper statues. And at least we knew what the gods did.

    Bah, get off my grass ! (which was greener btw)
    (waves his toga)

  4. Re:Paper and pencil on US Army Sees Twitter As Possible Terrorist "Operation Tool" · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but I get tired of these messages. Terrorists could potentially use paper and pencils to communicate too.

    Now that's just crazy talk. I've never seen anybody use those outside of historical reconstitutions.

  5. Re:Note to self: on Packs of Robots Will Hunt Down Uncooperative Humans · · Score: 1

    Toothpaste + beer + cereal = EMP...

    MCGuyver, is that you ?

  6. Re:Oblig. Robocop Quote on Packs of Robots Will Hunt Down Uncooperative Humans · · Score: 1

    They must have been rubber bullets or else the window behind the "suspect" would have shattered from the many rounds fired from the miniguns. Simply the ammo was way too loaded.

  7. Re:reputation on Is Anyone Buying T-Mobile's Googlephone? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think the average person, when they hear the expression "Google Phone", are going to think "innovative" and "creative".

    I think they're going to think "Beta".

  8. Re:Who Chooses? on First Mars-Goers Should Prepare For a One-Way Trip · · Score: 1

    The settlers were people who were so fed up with the way their government was run that they would risk everything they had to escape it.

    There also were an awful lot of settlers that their government was fed up with and that were sent there to be rid of. Folklore notwithstanding.

  9. Re:Offline patches? on Bandwidth Use In MMOs · · Score: 1

    The internet companies could eliminate this problem if they, like other utilities, provided for metered usage. Say $0.50 per gigabyte.

    So why is it that in the rest of Europe (and I won't even talk about Asia which has proper bandwidth) we still get ADSL2+ *unmetered* for a whooping 30 € per month (including TV, free IP phone to most of the world, etc.) ?

    It's not as if the UK was some kind of country where people were few and far between.

  10. Re:How can it be both effective and invisible? on Open-Source DRM Ready To Take On Big Guns · · Score: 1

    With limitations though (like no public playing, no reuse, etc.). But it's much more like owning a "limited" version than just a license that can be revoked at any time.

  11. Re:Bulletproof? on Oil-Immersion Cooled PC Goes To Retail · · Score: 1

    I concur, Scotland has to be the only place where they would even think of making deep fried risotto (although I couldn't find the elusive deep fried Mars bar despite a long search).
    And yes I tried it.

    Regarding the PC, I prefer not to do my cooking under my desk, so I'll stick with my current rig.

  12. Re:No spam for 5 days. on Spam Flood Unabated After Bust · · Score: 3, Funny

    None ? That's weird... What's your address again ?

  13. Re:This is needlessly complicated and HERE is why: on Simulation of the Mars Science Laboratory Sky Crane · · Score: 1

    Absolutely ! I'm glad somebody points this out. Not to mention the potential for sightseeing.

    Besides I really don't see why they don't just beam in down from the Enterprise.
    Stupid NASA showoffs.

  14. Re:900kg? What is that? Like...a ton? on Simulation of the Mars Science Laboratory Sky Crane · · Score: 1

    A ton would be more like... 1000 kg.

    You're welcome.

  15. Re:Afterword on Schneier on Security · · Score: 1

    Your average retailer is looking at 2% to 5% in shrinkage, every day.

    Certainly not true for average retailers. Bad laundries maybe.

  16. Re:Afterword on Schneier on Security · · Score: 1

    You're confusing The Man with The Employees. The Man is far, far away from the keypad. He has hired thousands of people to insulate him from the keypad, in order to make his decisions in isolation.

    The Man is the Sum of the Employees.

  17. Re:infuriating on New Cellphone Sized "Computer" Takes Aim at Sub-Notebooks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe you ought to move to a country with a live market instead staying in one with a five year plan...

    Just sayin.

  18. Re:WHATS WRONG WITH RIESERFS? on Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's someone who practices Atheism

    One doesn't "practice" atheism, you silly troll.

  19. Re:It's much simpler than that... on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 1

    He'll just say that he came with his laptop for a little WoW during his break (never mind that the laptop runs Linux which he's never seen before). It'll work like a charm.

  20. Re:thieves standing around on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can see up your ass?

    It's always good to have hindsight !

  21. Re:what on S3 Jumps On GPGPU Bandwagon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or you can just squint a bit, or step back a little. Cheap and fast and used to work just as well.

  22. Re:Obamaism on Schneier, Journalist Poke Holes In TSA Policies · · Score: 1

    Because in a 3oz bottle you can threaten to drown the pilot's pet gerbil to make him do your bidding, while it wouldn't fit in a 2oz bottle.

  23. Re:Call of Cthulhu on Dead Space Wants To Scare You · · Score: 2, Funny

    You don't kill your enemies in CoC - they kill you!

    So it's kind of like a Russian FPS then ?

  24. Re:Well, that depends.... on Only 4.13% of the Web Is Standards-Compliant · · Score: 1

    Actually if browsers just announced errors without failing, it would be more productive IMO.

    A little mandatory bar (like the popup blocked bar or a similar temp widget) announcing "This page contained 103 errors" on each load would probably do wonders to promote a fix.

    Just failing could be dangerous given the complexities of current parsers. No two browsers have the same feature set.

  25. Re:What's a Cyber? on FBI Warns of Sweeping Global Threat To US Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    No problem, I'll put my cyber on it right away!