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  1. Re:So who are the British government's suppliers? on Cisco Helps China Keep an Eye On Its Citizens · · Score: 1

    ??? non sequitor I fancy ???

  2. Money! on Cisco Helps China Keep an Eye On Its Citizens · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Stuff the ideals, stuff the responsibility, stuff the "doing the right thing", we want money & we don't care how we get it.
    Bah!

  3. Re:Eric Idle on Monty Python Members Reunite For Chapman Film · · Score: 1

    He exploits his Python past more than any of them!

    How precisely?

  4. Tick, VG on If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print · · Score: 1

    Spot on :-)

  5. Let me guess.. on If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print · · Score: 1

    talk to a lawyer and sue

    You're a septic, right?

  6. Re:Dupe? on Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers · · Score: 1

    No.

  7. Re:Can't they tie them down? on Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers · · Score: 1

    No. They float just under the surface & you can't see the buggers.
    Also, try towing a square shaped, 20T dead weight behind your average yacht.
    It's not going to happen.

  8. Re:Can't they tie them down? on Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers · · Score: 1

    Umm, they're (well the ones that do sink) actually beneficial as they form artificial reefs/protect from trawling etc.

  9. Re:Can't they tie them down? on Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I guess the good news is that they will mostly sink down into the muddy bottom and be out of the way.

    Strangely most of them float, as ocean yachtsmen will testify; they're a serious hazard.

  10. No it's not just you.. on US Funding Stealth Internets to Circumvent Repressive Regimes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What would happen if there were, just for arguments sake, dissident Americans........
    Pause..

  11. Re:And still shortsighted on Marking 125 Years Since the Great Gauge Change · · Score: 1

    We pretty much are, 4' 8 1/2" is standard in most of the world.

  12. Re:Making a profit on Groupon Deal Costs Photographer a Year's Free Work · · Score: 2

    Was your "Lost leader" a PHB and does he have a particularly bad sense of direction?

  13. It's pretty much the same here in the UK on America Losing Its Edge In Innovation · · Score: 4, Informative

    Especially among crooks^H^H^H^H^H^H politicians.

  14. Re:Diden't MS sue even have people go to jail for on Putin Orders Russian Move To GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    ?????

    What are you trying to say?

  15. Prawn on Top Reason for Facebook Unfriending Is Too Many Useless Posts · · Score: 1

    Facebemybospacebook friends aren't real friends, as they are usually violet/orange.

    You are a Prawnus Maximus.

  16. Maybe now.. on Copyright License Fees Drive Pandora Out of Canada · · Score: 1

    But when Graham Henderson hears about it, you're stuffed....

  17. Presumably on Terry Pratchett's Self-Made Meteorite Sword · · Score: 2, Funny
    As he

    the author dug up 81kg of ore and smelted it

    He'll need at least one old lady, dressed in black, to carry it for him...

  18. What you need, my man, is not iTunes! on Flawed iTunes Stands Out Among Apple's Products · · Score: 1

    If all you are doing is ripping CDs, you need to grab yourself a copy of: http://www.audiograbber.org/

    Benefits:
    1. No iTunes.
    2. No Quicktime.
    3. No iTunes.
    4. No bloatware laden PC (unless, of course, you have Norton :-( )
    5. No Quicktime.
    6. No iTunes.
    7. No Quicktime.

  19. Fixed it for you on Flawed iTunes Stands Out Among Apple's Products · · Score: 1

    rule number 1 of slashdot: ANY thread can be twisted into a bash of microsoft. no exceptions.

    Heh.

    rule number 1 of slashdot: ANY thread can be twisted into a bash of microsoft/Apple. no exceptions.

  20. Heh on Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework · · Score: 1

    Nope, irony isn't steely with less carbon..

  21. Re:5 page paper? on Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework · · Score: 1

    Umm, yes she is, as part of the "service" in Jury service; you agree not to talk about the case with anyone else, outside the court or jury room. The possible penalties are made abundantly clear.
    Guilty as charged m'lud.

  22. No shit, Sherlock! on RIAA President Says Copyright Law "Isn't Working" · · Score: 1

    The man's a genius, toss him a coin.
    On second thoughts don't, the slimy git will claim copyright on the passage of the coin through the air..

  23. Hemp eh? on Canadian Cannabis Car · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One of the most useful crops imaginable, read the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp Trouble is a variety can be smoked, so it's all but banned. Shame really.
    We need to grow more.

  24. Re:Evolution on Tool Use By Humans Pushed Back By 800,000 Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can put up a shelf. But I can't butcher a carcass. Evolution in reverse eh?.

  25. 1) on Apps For Healthy Kids — Where PC Meets PCs · · Score: 1

    No, it's accepted in this particular medium.
    2) A "Kid" is a young goat & should definitely be kept away from a PC.
    3) My youngest (just turned 10) can build a PC from components, install dual boot Windows/Linux & can touch type (I signed him up to the PICA course when he was 8). I've been in this game for 35 years, but I now get him to do the 'support'.
    4) He comes home from school complaining that in his ICT lessons they are teaching him how to create a Word document or an Excel spreadsheet.
    5) That's it!