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  1. Re:Hmmmm... on Something in Your Food is Moving · · Score: 1

    Is that supposed to be some sort of sustenance ?

    Let me guess, fat pig ?

  2. Re:Let's not make this a "craze" for marketing's s on Something in Your Food is Moving · · Score: 2, Informative

    Perhaps you should shut your yapping and do some reading.

    The Soil Association.

    Organic standards are the rules and regulations that define how an organic product must be made. Organic standards are laid down in European Union (EU) law. Anything labelled 'organic' that is for human consumption must meet these standards as a minimum. The standards cover all aspects of food production, for example, animal welfare and wildlife conservation, and banning unnecessary and harmful food additives in organic processed foods.

    Organic farming and processing are legally defined. Any product sold as organic must comply with strict rules set at UK, European and international levels. These rules ensure that consumers can be certain that they are buying a genuine organic product. Imported organic foods must have been produced and inspected to equivalent standards. There must also be full traceabiliy of organic ingredients back to the farmer.

    There a number of different certification bodies in the UK, which carry out the inspections and paperwork to ensure that the standards are being met. Soil Association Certification Limited (SA Certification) is one of only a very few of these bodies that have chosen to set standards higher than the EU minimum in areas of animal welfare and nature conservation.

  3. Re:Trouble stomachs on Something in Your Food is Moving · · Score: 1

    50% of people are below average at wise choice making, they entrust those with more wisdom to use theirs for the benefit of all.
    Too bad that the bad choice makers are also bad at choosing good choice makers.

  4. Re:What is funny is ... on Sun Joins Apple in the Intel Camp for x86 Chips · · Score: 1

    No it was single cpu before anything other, but yes it was AMD then Intel.

  5. You idiot on Ubuntu Studio Announced · · Score: 1

    Please talk about image processing techniques when you know some, until then "shush".

    XP hahahaha

  6. I switched our Office on Is it Time for Open Office? · · Score: 1

    I just installed it, set it to use Word & Excel Format by default and hung around while my un-super user colleague asked me a few questions and moaned about the toolbars a bit but after a week the questions stopped and that was that, never a problem.

  7. Re:email designers? on New Outlook Won't Use IE To Render HTML · · Score: 1

    Making HTML the de facto rich text environment became a poor choice when the HTML renderer turned into an execution environment.

    Decoupling the two and making email more passive would make plenty of sense.

    The need to write a fully featured HTML renderer to build an email client is a serious barrier to development.

    You'd probably have liked troff for instance but we're stuck now until come the revolution.

  8. Re:Article summary wrong (surprise) on Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case · · Score: 1

    It aint what you do, it's the way that you do it.

    McVey didn't stop anyone being able to buy a truck.

  9. Re:hehe British food on Chip & PIN terminal playing Tetris · · Score: 1

    I don't have a Hummer, I have a Renault Laguna RT

    The nearest McDonalds is over 100 yards away but I prefer to say 200m.

    I'm not fat, nor fucktarded.

    Perhaps you are trying to stereotype an American. Your humour failed in two distinct ways, well done.

  10. Re:Are British banks that clueless? on Chip & PIN terminal playing Tetris · · Score: 1

    > If hackers were to set up a Chip and PIN terminal of their own, they'd have to do it at a checkout of a major store, which as you can imagine would be tricky.

    Funny, I use the bluetooth one at my local bar, the one at my local manager owned pretrol station, various restaurants and independent trader shops.

    That seems a low barrier of entry to dishonest merchants and criminal gangs.

  11. hehe British food on Chip & PIN terminal playing Tetris · · Score: 1

    I was in Madrid for the IWP and while we were out in an international group looking for somewhere nice to eat I asked our native resident "if there were any good English restaurants in town?". Much to the guffawing of the others and myself.

    Though that did get me thinking about what would that even be serving if such a thing existed.

    As Naomi Campbell said "I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta."

  12. oops, you're right on Acer May Be Bugging Computers · · Score: 1

    http://allabout.co.jp/computer/notepc/closeup/CU20 060202B/1543l.jpg

    Hmm, perhaps it's the Lenovo own brands I'm confusing with, or perhaps the new button layout

    either way I was wrong

  13. Re:Wrong era for this technology on Wireless Power Gets A Boost · · Score: 1

    where does the other 60% go when your device is 40% efficient ?

  14. Re:Wrong. on Test, Test and Test Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    welcome to the brave new world of 'anything will do' user driven content

  15. Re:Phew! on Acer May Be Bugging Computers · · Score: 1

    That was when IBM shipped them.
    They don't have 3 button mouse pads now, that should be enough of a hint they don't give a panda's any more.

  16. Re:Pricing Comparison on RIAA Admits 70 Cent Price is 'In the Range' · · Score: 1

    There is no WE in /.

  17. Re:Plan 9 has some answers, even for Linux boxes on Which Text-Based UI Do You Code With? · · Score: 1

    You could also use a 9p enabled Linux kernel like Ubuntu and import the remote file system into your local file tree using v9fs

  18. Plan 9 has some answers, even for Linux boxes on Which Text-Based UI Do You Code With? · · Score: 1


    You could use Sam - written with remote editing across slow serial lines in mind.

    Or import the remote file system in using srvssh in plan9 or p9 in p9port and use Acme

    Plan9port is a port of the Plan 9 userland to Linux / BSD / OSX

  19. Argue ? on Cameras Help Cops Catch a Killer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You have a guy in prison.

    He'll tell you where the bomb is if you let him fuck your daughter.

    So he fucks her and the bomb doesn't go off at the Lakers game.

    With results like that, is there really a good basis for argument against pimping your daughter?

  20. Bell Labs did that a long time ago on An Overview of Virtualization · · Score: 1

    And sold it on : http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/

    It's great and you can learn Denis Ritchie's favourite language : Limbo

  21. Re:Virtually Here on An Overview of Virtualization · · Score: 1

    IBM's 64,000 node blade cluster running plan9 is pretty sweet

  22. I guess I forgot something on DieHard, the Software · · Score: 1

    % sarcasm = `{hget 'http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=214522&cid=17 431396' | grep comment_body_17431396 | sed -E 's/<[^>]+>//g'}
    % cat /env/sarcasm
            and I thought Perl was the king of write only code
    %

  23. Re:Please don't do this on Council of the EU Says "We Cannot Support Linux" · · Score: 1

    The worls is bigger than Windows, Mac & Linux x86 you know

  24. Re:Please don't do this on Council of the EU Says "We Cannot Support Linux" · · Score: 1

    say after me EM PEG ONE

  25. Re:Forget it on Council of the EU Says "We Cannot Support Linux" · · Score: 1

    Study the subject properly and you will see why.

    I'll throw in a few pointers :

    PAL/SECAM/NTSC/film

    60Hz/50Hz AC power

    YUV/RGB

    Tape cassette transports / tape speed

    Error correction / dropout protection