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  1. Insurance on Rovers May Survive Martian Winter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are they fully comp, or third-party only? If the latter, do NASA know something we don't!?

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  2. -30px and the LI Tag on Opera Settles $12.75m Lawsuit, But with Whom? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Further, anyone who has ever done anything with style sheets would never feed that -30px declaration and expect anything productive to be done with it

    Not quite true... LI tags automatically indent horribly (to my eyes), so feeding it a negative left-margin is quite sensible to shove it leftwards, so that it lines up with the normal paragraph text...

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  3. Re:illegal porn on Life-Ruining Browser Hijackers · · Score: 1

    >"perveyor"

    Best. Typo. Ever.

    We can even abbreviate it to "perve"

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  4. Star Trek TOS on Star Trek TOS DVD Box Sets Forthcoming · · Score: 1, Funny

    "TOSS", it's spelt "TOSS"

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  5. Re:Is Learnt a word? on Can Communications Be Learned From Chimps? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Britian spread English throughout the world during it's rampant...

    Obviously we didn't spread it well enough...

  6. Re:Train My Replacement? on Train Your Own Replacement · · Score: 1

    Unions also use the threat of violence

    And so did "the bosses", don't forget, and often they went a lot further than threatening

  7. Hyponatremia on Death by Coffee? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Indeed.

    A British girl Leah Betts died from Hyponatremia a few years ago. The official story, and the way it was hysterically presented in the press, was that she died from taking a single Ecstasy pill, whereas actually she basically drank so much water her brain swelled up and killed her.

    Even sadder, most people still believe she was killed by Ecstacy...

    Never let the facts get in the way of a good anti-drug hysteria whuppin' up. Remember the people on acid supposedly jumping out of windows in the '60s?

  8. Re:Lame entries really... on Chatterbox Challenge Contest Underway · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The "fella" is Jim Wightman. Given what his "bot" does, the name of his company is rather "unfortunate" (says The Guardian) - it's Neverland Systems!

    Anyway, no one is allowed to see his paedo-catcher bot working and he recently reneged on an agreed interview with The Guardian's Bad Science column (all this info is online at www.guardian.co.uk)

    >Now there must be some sophistication behind that

    Or trickery... That's a simpler explanation!

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  9. 'internationalized'? on The Worst Development Job You've Ever Had? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You'd be better off internationalising it... ;-)

  10. Re:What? on CSS for the LDP? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps "most Linux users are Slashdot readers" would be closer

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  11. Come on! on Chainsaw-wielding Robotic Submarine · · Score: 1

    "I for one welcome our chainsaw-wielding robotic submarine overlords"

    Sigh

  12. Re:Loyalty cards are your choice on RFID Coming 'Whether You Like It Or Not' · · Score: 1

    Can someone please mod parent up as "insightful"?

    As for me, I'm lucky enough to afford to keep my privacy - and I do. I pay cash (there are cashpoints outside all the supermarkets where I live) and don't have a Nectar card.

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  13. Re:Of course this is a good idea on 100-Year Domain Renewals? · · Score: 1

    > the property is given back to the Queen

    Or to the owner of the land, which is not necessarily the crown (though it does own quite a lot, including the lease on my house!)

    So people can actually "buy up all the expensive real-estate and keep it"

  14. Obligatory Foster Wallace Onion Link on Everything and More · · Score: 2, Funny
  15. Re:Nice synopsis for Earthsea Trilogy newbies on Sci Fi Channel Plans 'Earthsea' Miniseries · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "The hero, Ged, born with the name Duny, learns magic tricks from his aunt, the town witch, who sees in him the possibility of great power. When his home island of Gont is attacked by the vicious Kargs, Duny casts a simple fog spell which enshrouds the village, hiding the villagers from the enemies and saving the village from certain massacre. Word of this deed spreads to Ogion, the great mage of Re Albi"

    Lordy! What a bucket of absolute toss.

  16. Uber-cool?? Uber-nerd more like on Borg Cube Case · · Score: 1

    >A person nick-named Xor'Arch at the CaseJunkies forums has made an uber-cool case mod. A Borg cube...

    I'm sorry, but NOTHING about that is uber-cool. It's hardly even tepid.

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  17. Re:Alert the media... on Microsoft Sits on Security Flaw for Six Months · · Score: 1

    >F**king c**ts

    Er, I thought he said "Fucking Cunts"?

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  18. Re:Money... on Computer Engineering Degree Most Valuable · · Score: 1

    >what about the people who have a love for computing

    The love that dare not 'peek' its name?

    Sorry, I truly am sorry.

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  19. Is this some kind of troll?? on Bad Spelling Pays on eBay · · Score: 1

    >which I guess that term isn't right if you are from Northern Ireland

    >Brittish are acknowledging this month that they are a part of Europe, right?

    I'm not even going to bother correcting these...

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  20. Dude! Paragraphs! on UK Music Industry Stomps on Imported CD Seller · · Score: 1
    Looks like there's a severe shortage of

    tags in the UK too!

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  21. Re:theme song on Star Trek: Enterprise in Danger of Being Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Am I the only person who had to mute the TV until the theme song ended? Awful MOR rock if I remember correctly - and believe me I'm trying to forget...

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  22. Re:I inquired with my county about testing my wate on Measuring Pollution In Humans · · Score: 1

    >Remember that before the invention of tap water, people drank out of rivers and streams that ran over lead and mercury deposits and had animals (and people) shitting in them

    And their life expectancy was...?

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  23. Re:I inquired with my county about testing my wate on Measuring Pollution In Humans · · Score: 1

    >Remember that before the invention of tap water, people drank out of rivers and streams that ran over lead and mercury deposits and had animals (and people) shitting in them

    And their average life expectancy was...?

  24. Look Out For The New York Version on Fingers Crossed for Beagle · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Bagel 2"

    Ouch!

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  25. Re:Wow! A comprehensive survey of British engineer on Fingers Crossed for Beagle · · Score: 1

    >"Wall of Hadrian"??

    Hadrian's Wall was a Roman project, surely??

    And it's "analysed", you under-educated fop! :-)