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  1. Yeah, right . . . on Opera Unite Web Server Benchmarked · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and most of my friends are in their 20s. Some of them never check their emails

    I'm guessing none of your friends either work or are at college. Try telling your boss or University sysadmin that you don't want customer emails or system notices because you won't read them unless they are sent via mySpace . . . No job/Slap around the face will quickly ensue!

  2. Alchemy on Why a Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than an SSD · · Score: 3, Funny

    "A little more speed" ? how a bout a lot more speed ?

    No matter what I do with my Bunsen Burner and Alchemy cookbook I can still only turn my SSD's into a molten pile of useless debris. Which smells.

    Tips for speed production using only harddrive technology would be most welcome.

  3. Re:useful energy is not free on English Market Produces Energy With Kinetic Plates · · Score: 4, Funny

    Say your car weighs 2 tons

    Say that as loud as you want sunshine but the average car weight over here (Europe) is 1175 Kg, compared to 2000 Kg in the US. Of course this only adds weight to your argument . . .

    Sometimes I even crack myself up.

  4. Aristocratic inbreeding all over again? on Fertility Clinic Bows To Pressure, Nixes Eye- and Hair-Color Screening · · Score: 1

    Once our society begins selecting and/or rejecting offspring based on their genes, or we begin manipulating our genetic codes, evolution stops.

    Well if 'your society' means the whole world then granted you're on the right track. But this kind of technology is so far away from being offered to anyone outside the richest few within the richest societies it's a niche market at best. Do you think the majority of Africa, China and India (combined population of over 3 billion, i.e. half the current population of the globe) are getting access to fertility treatment let alone trait selection? Maybe it happens soon, but I doubt it will happen soon enough for any problems of genetic homogeniety to go under the radar . . . And lets be honest the rich have always had a problem with genetic diversity so I personally have no issues with the process speeding up ;)

  5. Death knell on Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I certainly hope this isn't the first foot in the grave for ZFS on OSX.

    More like the last nail in the coffin . . .

  6. Re:Well on Security Flaw Hits VAserv; Head of LxLabs Found Hanged · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A lot of stuff was going on in this guys life which suggests his demise wasn't simply down to exploits found in his software - from the article it appears that both his mother and sister committed suicide a few months ago, he also recently lost a large contract. That being said I can't imagine the news of VAserv (which relied on Ligesh's HyperVM, the exploited software) losing data on upto 10,000 virtual servers helping much.

  7. Re:HACKING on Paris Hosts the Second Hacker Space Festival · · Score: 1

    running a diagnostic such as NMAP or metasploit

    . . . if only all system borks were network related. For me these are amongst the easiest to track down and fix, it's the weird hardware faults, software incompatabilities, driver issues, badly written shell scripts firing twice a day etc., etc., which take the time. Obviously it would take a drive failure combined with an untested backup routine which really causes face slapping incredulity but that's rare around here . . .

  8. Re:Two Year Associate's Degree of Liberal Arts on 11-Year-Old Graduates With Degree In Astrophysics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Appreciating others' skills doesn't make it impossible to recognise your own . . .

  9. Re:Two Year Associate's Degree of Liberal Arts on 11-Year-Old Graduates With Degree In Astrophysics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I could barely tie my shoe laces when I was 11 let alone come out with: "I don't consider myself a genius because there are 6.5 billion people in this world and each one is smart in his or her own way." That's a very special comment right there.

  10. Indeed not really! on Has Bing Already Overtaken Yahoo? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bing may or may not have a big impact

    Well a quick straw poll in my building suggests Bing hasn't even surpassed yelling down the corridor so it's got a looong way to go!

  11. Hey! on Pirate Party Wins At Least One European Parliament Seat · · Score: 2, Funny

    people like to talk about "stupid Americans" or British.

    Im outa britern an i ain't stoopid. You Germans with your efficient cars and rather wonderful scenery. Oops, can anyone see where I went wrong!?

  12. Re:Bravo! on Pirate Party Wins At Least One European Parliament Seat · · Score: 1

    But without copyrights, there would never had been either Casablanca nor the Beatles.

    I have no view on your general point but to back it up with the above simply underminds what you are trying to say. You can't just throw in value judegements and pretend they're fact simply to give your opnion a veneer of authority. Well you can, but it doesn't work. Well it might, but . . . o forget it!

  13. Bravo! on Pirate Party Wins At Least One European Parliament Seat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A fantastic result. It seems that democratic representation means something even to filesharers! Who would have thought that they're not all teenage hoodies checking out of society!

  14. Scamtastic!? on Hackers Claim To Hit T-Mobile Hard · · Score: 0

    Liquid Matrix has a link to the same story but they say as of 22 hours ago it has not been confirmed by T-Mobile . . .

  15. Be warned! on Hackers Claim To Hit T-Mobile Hard · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Funny - I get an fraud warning from the link disclosing the breach . . . Opera being over-sensitive I think. "This site is known to distribute malicious software" - NMap has got such a bad name!!

  16. Not Guilty! on How Do You Greet an Extraterrestrial? · · Score: 1

    err, dude, we were joking!

  17. Jumping the gun . . . on ARM-Powered Linux Laptops Unveiled At Computex · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree with the sentiment but this a a trade show and the designs on offer are by "industrial designers from the Savannah College of Art and Design". I am not saying they won't come to market . . . well, to chuck in a gratuitous car reference - how many of those concept cars that we see at motor shows actually make it to mass production?

  18. Price? on ARM-Powered Linux Laptops Unveiled At Computex · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nowhere in the article does it mention $99. The quote is "Some of the ARM-based systems will sell for as little as $199." Now $199 is pretty cheap but that is a starting price and will unlikely be the mean let alone allowing for $99 units. The summary is misleading.

  19. Re:Oh, really? on Lies, Damned Lies, and the UK Copyright Industry · · Score: 5, Informative

    Classic coup de grâce in the article: "Like I said: as far as I'm concerned, everything from this industry is false, until proven otherwise." Why are industry statistics still endlessly repeated in the media? It makes you wonder what market the newspapers using these fabricated stats are aiming for, because the majority of filesharers would laugh into their porridge at the thought of buying every film, track and OS they downloaded!

  20. Come again? on The Perils of DRM — When Content Providers Die · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just Say No, it's that easy.

    We live in a society where the value of man has been reduced to the products he owns and consumes. This is a mantra which has been instilled since childhood and thus we have all been buying consumer products as an extension of our personality since we had money to burn. This is NOT an easy habit to break.

  21. Re:More change for the US on Hacker Jeff Moss Sworn Into Homeland Security Advisory Council · · Score: 1

    I think it's the fact that he's not been walking on water yet that has upset some people.

    It's true we're pretty tight over here in the UK but even we can stretch to a plane ticket . . .

  22. Re:reversal on New Display Keeps an Eye On the Viewer · · Score: 1

    Fraunhofer IPMS is in Dresden, I wanted to link to Soviet Russia but my Time Travelling Portal is still in prototype and it only takes me back to the time when missing meme's was funny!

  23. Analogy? on How Software Engineering Differs From Computer Science · · Score: 2, Funny

    Think aeronautics. The science of aeronautics ponders the laws of aerodynamics and the laws of flight.
    Engineering aeronautics is all about building the damn aircraft.

    I'm struggling to see how aeronautics and aircraft have anything to do with cars.

  24. Re:Experience on How Software Engineering Differs From Computer Science · · Score: 1

    Me? I just started writing games on my Vic 20,

  25. Re:Amazing insight from Mr Genius on Apple To Face Challenge At WWDC · · Score: 1

    along with easily accessible stores for the small programs known as applications, or apps, that run on those devices

    Do these run on those hand held thingamygigs? Called 'Phones'?