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  1. Re:Is it really so crazy? on Marvel and DC Enforce "Superhero" Trademark · · Score: 4, Informative

    Man and Superman,
    play in four acts by George Bernard Shaw, published in 1903 and performed (without scene 2 of Act III) in 1905; the first complete performance was in 1915. The Superman of the title is derived from the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.

    http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/733_84.html

  2. Re:Should we invoke the "Do No Evil" clause here? on Nike and Google launch Joga.com · · Score: 1, Funny

    Google also releases software for Windows.

  3. Re:Please name the sport correctly on Nike and Google launch Joga.com · · Score: 1, Informative

    I think you'll find it's Association Football.

  4. Re:Looking forward to it on Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Alpha Peeking Out (Or Not) · · Score: 1

    thanks for that

    The guy seems fairly sane.

    Though, personally, I think Eugenics is intellectual elitism gone up its own arse.

  5. Re:Looking forward to it on Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Alpha Peeking Out (Or Not) · · Score: 1

    Wow, some links from the article *I* linked to.

    They still don't explain WHOSE idea the Ping attribute was, or offer a compelling reason for its inclusion, particularly as it is something you can already do with onclick, as I mentioned here

    W3 is a LOT of organisations : http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List

  6. Re:Please don't ruin tabbed browsing... on Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Alpha Peeking Out (Or Not) · · Score: 1

    I'm with you.

    I had the close on every tab through TabMix and I quickly turned it off, though with 'Undo Close Tab' the risk it mitigated.

  7. Re:Looking forward to it on Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Alpha Peeking Out (Or Not) · · Score: 1

    Who's idea do you think the Ping attribute is ?

  8. hmm on DoJ Following Porn Blocker Advances? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So does it filter out Rubens

    Would Michelangelo's David be filtered out

    How about anatomy/autopsy pictures ?

    I would RTFA but it is 404, perhaps my ISP filters out stories about filtering.

  9. Re:US needs to be more like Europe on How Great Cheap Phones Never Get to the U.S. · · Score: 1

    Middle click to get contacts
    Mark All
    Copy To Sim

    how hard is that ?

  10. Re:google results on Beware Your Online Presence · · Score: 1

    comeoncolleen sounds like a great movie

  11. Here's mine on Beware Your Online Presence · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm a drug user and been a drug dealer
    I've been involved in organised violence
    I've commited fraud
    I've driven drunk
    I've lied to get jobs
    I've commited perjury
    I occasionally steal stuff
    I've evaded tax
    I've driven my car without insurance
    I've done a DoS on a commercial rival's server via an exploit

    I guess that'll do

    Got any work for me ?

  12. Re:Vex is NOT a robot on The Mythbusters Construct a Kit Bot · · Score: 1

    You just can't trust somethign that calls itself "American Heritage"

    Try The Oxford English Dictionary :

    robot /robot/

          noun a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer.

        -- DERIVATIVES robotize (also robotise) verb.

        -- ORIGIN from Czech robota 'forced labour'; the term was coined in K. apek's play R.U.R. 'Rossum's Universal Robots' (1920).

    Perform another search of the Compact Oxford English Dictionary

  13. Re:Person Hours? on The Mythbusters Construct a Kit Bot · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the wanker is you

    btw. sentence

  14. Re:Follow up on Unusual Open Source · · Score: 1

    So, where is the innovation ?

    "People use it" is not innovation.

    GNU/Linux has set back computing 20 years.

  15. Re:Follow up on Unusual Open Source · · Score: 1

    gawk
    gmake
    gcc
    bc
    bison
    ed
    gcron
    gnome

    here's some more :

    http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/

  16. Re:Not anywhere near the success of "old" DVD... on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Coming Soon to PCs · · Score: 1

    One hour of mini-DV is 12gb (90 mins in LP mode)

    A disk that holds 1 tape's worth of raw DV is a VERY useful disk to have.

    At the moment, we have to spend ages making DVD movies of DV rushes. Duplicating tapes is much less convenient but pressing "burn now" at the end of an import would be v. useful.

  17. leech on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Coming Soon to PCs · · Score: 1

    Stop being a leech and answer your own goddam questions, it's not hard.

  18. Re:Oh, the name! on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Coming Soon to PCs · · Score: 1

    Because the W was the wrong nomenclature from the start.

    EPROM
    not
    RWPROM

    Personally I like the E, I knew straight away that it was erasable.

    Though I am presuming that Blu-Ray is E and not RW. The two are not the same.

  19. Re:wow... what a bargain on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Coming Soon to PCs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Low budget film-makers use DV these days, mini-DV tapes are $5 and you get around 12Gb of DV on one (about an hour in SP mode, 90 mins in LP).

    IEEE1394 is the biggest boon to cinema since the video camcorder.

  20. Re:good or bad it is none of their business on Google Avoids Surrendering Search Info · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Perhaps "no-one can hide anything" would be a better doctrine.

    I imagine Presedent Bush TV would be a great channel.

    Let's have 100% cctv penetration, that would really sort things out.

    Want to know what's going on in your neighbour's house, no problem :

    http://15.credibility.street.london.se1.cctv.gov.u k/room.5.mpg

    Would you go for that ?

  21. Re:Follow up on Unusual Open Source · · Score: 1

    Many people in CompSci don't take GNU seriously.

    What is there to consider ?

    The only thing they have really innovated is the GPL, the rest is (poor) knock offs of other people's ideas.

  22. Re:wow... what a bargain on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Coming Soon to PCs · · Score: 1

    Hi, could you pop your HD in the post over to me here in Europe, thanks.

  23. Re:unconstitutional? on Senators Renew Call for .XXX Domain · · Score: 1

    The bill is not about porn, it states "material harmful to minors".

    That could be anything from porn to peta depending on who's eyes you are looking through.

  24. Re:inconstitutional? WTF? on Senators Renew Call for .XXX Domain · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Pornography was originally the academic study of prostitution.
    The English, during the reign of Queen Victoria then started using the term for erotically arousing material.

    The English had regarded themselves as the civilized decendents of the classical Greeks and Romans, pure of thought and mind. The discovery at Pompey that a high proportion of Roman dwellings had sexually explicit paintings in them was a shock to the sensibilities. A particularly stunning statue of the god Pan making love to a goat which was found at Pompey, is locked away in a special room in the British Museum, along with hundreds of other sexually themed items of historical interest. One is only allowed acess to this room if one can prove some sort of academic interest in sexual themes.

    The decision that the viewing of such material was harmful to those with weak minds i.e. the uneducated and children has been pervasive in the 200 years since, but not in the 1000s of years previous.

  25. Re:.xxx domain on Senators Renew Call for .XXX Domain · · Score: 1

    > If there was a .xxx TLD, I think a lot of pornography would migrate from .com to the new TLD on its own.

    Nah, it would just be bonanza day for the .xxx registrars as hustler.com now has to buy hustler.xxx etc.etc.