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  1. Re:Write to the manufacturer on Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 1

    > The average worker jumps ship in 18 months to get a much, much higher salary.

    The average worker jumps out of the window in 18 months

  2. Re:Write to the manufacturer on Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 1

    CEOs sell them to shareholders in return for massive remuneration and stock options

  3. Re:As I recall on Palin E-Mail Snoop Gets Year In Prison · · Score: 1

    The door was unlocked is a valid defence in the UK.

  4. Re:My experiences of Fallout: New Vegas bugs on Bethesda Criticized Over Buggy Releases · · Score: 1

    me and my technically correct bullshit huh

  5. unbreakable on Hackers Blamed For MessageLabs Spam Blunder · · Score: 1

    > it has systems in place to prevent such incidents from happening again

    care to put a bounty on that ?

  6. Re:Okay... on UK Games Retailers Threaten Boycott of Steam Games · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And yet I have all my Steam games sat wherever I have a connection. I have NO IDEA where my Half-Life CD is but I can play it whenever I feel like it.

    yeah, that sucks!

  7. Re:What is the appropriate system, then? on Security App For the New German Personal ID Hacked · · Score: 1

    You say unforgeable is impossible but suggest it is still worth trying. The harder something is to forge, the more faith will be placed in it making it more valuable to forge it, ergo more resources will be placed on trying to forge it.

  8. from your wishlist on Amazon Patents Bad Gift Protection · · Score: 0, Troll

    not

    off your wishlist

    you fucking r-tards with your "off of"s fuck off

  9. Re:My experiences of Fallout: New Vegas bugs on Bethesda Criticized Over Buggy Releases · · Score: 1

    80s 90s 00s 10s is 4

  10. Re:ie sucks on IE Flaw Exploit In Hacker Kit 'Raises the Stakes' · · Score: 1

    What if (s)he's still using Netscape 4 ?

  11. Re:Anyone got a summary of the summary? on The Linux Programming Interface · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you're not sophisticated enough to realise that a link to Amazon is going to have a referal perhaps it's time to hand in your badge and gun.

  12. They are prepared to use flamethrowers.

  13. Re:Social games on FarmVille Now Worth More Than EA · · Score: 1
  14. Re:I abstain on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 1

    The US doesn't have an official language, so how would you choose ?

  15. Re:Unenforceable, not to mention ridiculous on Bicycle Thief Barred From Using Encryption · · Score: 1
  16. My Walkman mp3 is awesome on Sony Discontinues the Walkman · · Score: 1

    I had a waterproof walkman, brilliant

    then I had a solar one, fantastic

    now I have a two MP3 Walkman - the best mp3 players I ever used. and beautiful.

    I have an NWZ-A818 and a X Series - lovely. I just enjoy holding them

  17. Re:How programmable though. on Programmable Magnets · · Score: 1

    I like those, nice work. I wouldn't be so quick to downplay the quality :)

  18. Re:Unenforceable, not to mention ridiculous on Bicycle Thief Barred From Using Encryption · · Score: 1

    Login is a design fault

  19. Re:Motorcycle on Bicycle Thief Barred From Using Encryption · · Score: 1

    Only two wheeled motorcycles have two wheels.

  20. Re:need more input on Bicycle Thief Barred From Using Encryption · · Score: 1

    He'll have to use an OS that doesn't store passwords.

    Time to get out the C64

  21. Re:need more input on Bicycle Thief Barred From Using Encryption · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Error checking? on Meg Whitman Campaign Shows How Not To Use Twitter · · Score: 1

    you mean something like "I'll click on the link once it's Tweeted to make sure it is good"

  23. Re:WHAT vendors? on Red Hat CEO Says Software Vendor Model Is Broken · · Score: 1

    your improvements suck

    10/20 should be a perfectly valid data entry. Your interface to the database should deal with it accordingly.

    The reason you don't do software dev is your attitude to your customers.

  24. Re:At Last! on Adobe Reader X With Sandbox Due In November · · Score: 1

    Or these days :

    All software expands until it reaches Twitter.

    which includes hardware :

    http://www.reghardware.com/2010/10/15/lexmark_twitter_printer/

  25. Re:Spoofable as hell on Unspoofable Device Identity Using Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    1d107