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  1. Law of Cosines on Divine Proportions · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else read that as "Law Of Cosiness"?

    Aw, bless.

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  2. Re:unrequited humour - channelling Tommy Cooper... on How to Become Invisible · · Score: 1

    "I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn't find any..."

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  3. Partygaming on U.S. House to Vote on Anti-Online Gambling Act · · Score: 1

    If they pass this bill, it pretty much puts the kibosh on partygaming.com (who floated in London in 2005) and the like. From this article, 87% of their $350m odd revenue comes from US customers... Sell those shares!

  4. Re:Sad on Creative Sues Apple · · Score: 2, Interesting

    >all consumer cars have four wheels

    Not necessarily!

    How about the Reliant Robin?

  5. www.openadaptor.org on Community Calls For OSS Contributions by Banks · · Score: 4, Informative

    Openadaptor was open-sourced by investment bank DrKW in 2001

    "openadaptor is a Java/XML-based software platform which allows for rapid business system integration with little or no custom programming.

    openadaptor can be loosely classified as EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) software. It is highly extensible and provides many ready-built interface components for JMS, LDAP, Mail, MQ Series, Oracle, Sybase and MSSQL Server as well as data exchange formats such as XML. New components are regularly added."

    See also this story from slashdot in 2001.

    Disclaimer (not that it matters): I was involved in the launch in 2001

  6. Re:"Trials" is a noun (are a noun, if you're Briti on Porn Industry Trials Burnable DVDs · · Score: 1, Funny

    This joke

    My head

  7. Re:"Trials" is a noun (are a noun, if you're Briti on Porn Industry Trials Burnable DVDs · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm British and it's still "is a noun", sorry!

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  8. Re:A not An on I, Woz · · Score: 1

    Or, better, this link...

  9. Re:A not An on I, Woz · · Score: 1, Informative

    Actually, it's "An aitch-pee computer", not "An haitch-pee computer". See the wikipedia. What are they teaching in schools nowadays? .

  10. Re:Edge seems quite good about this on Game Previews Just Game Marketing? · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but they often give games very poor reviews - I've seen some 2/10s, and 4/10 is not uncommon. Their reviewing policy is that 8/10 is a good score, and I think that they have only given 2 or 3 10/10s out in their (fairly long) history.

    Also, it's chock-full of articles about games development, adverts for games jobs and articles looking back at classic games and development houses.

    Highly recommended if you can get it - I buy it and I'm not even in the games industry.

    (I am not affiliated in any way with Edge Magazine)

  11. Re:There was a similar study. on Words Affect Our Reality - On The Right · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Conversion on UK Has First Verdict in P2P Case · · Score: 1

    1-2 kilometers = 0.621-1.242 miles

  13. Re:Not a lot, in the UK on Spammer Sued Under EU Law · · Score: 1

    >I think it currently costs about 80UKP

    It currently costs 30GBP for amounts claimed up to 300GBP. Mr Roberts deliberately kept the damages claimed at 300GBP so that he could pay the cheapest fees, as I heard him explain on the radio the other day.

    The maximum costs for the small claims court is 120GBP, which would allow you to claim up to the maximum claim amount of 5,000GBP.

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  14. The Guardian on Why Haven't Online Newspapers Gotten it Right? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Huh. Try The Guardian, especially the ball-by-ball and minute-by-minute cricket commentary.

  15. Trading typos are hardly that rare... on The 3 Billion Dollar Typo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A Lehmann Brothers trader keyed in a £300m sell instead of £3m in 2001 and cost the company £20,000 (in fines, cos he moved the FTSE downwards with such a large sell order).

    And a Bear Stearns employee typed in $4bn instead of $4m in 2002, again moving the index (thsi time the Dow Jones) down.

    Mostly though these positions are unwound by agreement between the parties. I don't understand why that didn't apply here.

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  16. Let him do it... on Australian Senator Wants to Censor the Net · · Score: 1

    ... and see how he feels when he gets "unelected" the next time the voters have their say!

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  17. No offense, but... on Edubuntu - Linux For Young Human Beings! · · Score: 1

    > Are you a Linux user? Are you a parent?

    Way to catch that tiny demographic! You go, Edubuntu!

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  18. Re:They just never quit on BellSouth Wants to Rig the Internet · · Score: 1

    First/business class always get off before cattle class, on every flight I've been on.

    Coming back from Sri Lanka once in business class, I was dithering around getting my stuff together and looked up to see a rather hostile group in economy, who weren't being allowed by the crew to get off until I had... Oops.

  19. Re:Email filters... on How Darwin Managed His Inbox · · Score: 1

    >spam was a common household dinner

    Not for Darwin, I'm afraid. Spam was invented in 1937; Darwin died in 1882

  20. Re:Risk to burn karma but... on Rootkit Creators Turn Professional · · Score: 1

    He uses the sunblock on the ball. Quite legally, I should add (even though I'm English).

    Oh, and for any perplexed readers, the Telstra Dome has a roof.

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  21. I hope he does a better job than on The Onion on Designer on Slashdot Overhaul Plans · · Score: 1

    It's far more cluttered than it used to be. Not every online paper needs to look like USA Today (or whatever).

    Also, does anyone like the Salon.com re-design? Almost exactly the same problem...

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  22. Re:Damn three paragraph pages on 20th Anniversary of Windows · · Score: 1

    Damned "Print" button ;-)

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  23. Re:Why Europe? on Creators of Massive Botnet Arrested · · Score: 1

    Look at it the other way round... perhaps it's because law enforcement is better?

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  24. Re:What? on Jamming Cellphones with Text Messages · · Score: 1

    And yet, during the hours after the 7th July attacks in London, txt msgs were getting through when calls were not...?

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  25. Guildford Four on Fast, Accurate Detection of Explosives · · Score: 1

    You'd better hope that it's as accurate as they claim. May I point the honourable gentlemen at the evidence provided against the Guildford Four and the victims of Bloody Sunday. The "explosive traces" could easily have come from a pack of playing cards!

    http://www.answers.com/topic/bloody-sunday

    Disclaimer: I am neither Irish, nor an Irish Republican supporter