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  1. My dad always said... on NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice · · Score: 1

    My Dad always said "If you aim for the moon, you'll probably miss."

    Shows you what he knew...

    Assuming they didn't mess up on the metric>feet>metric conversions.

  2. Re:Aren't we in the milkyway? on One Fifth of World's Population Can't See Milky Way At Night · · Score: 4, Informative

    Galaxy is greek for Milky. But then again everything is all greek to me.

    Much like planet is greek for wonderer.

    Go on mod me funny and informative.

  3. Re:Dude... you have so not imagined it.. on Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447? · · Score: 1

    In England, castles are carefully placed around 20 miles apart so that the peasants who needed help could have received help on foot in half a day from any troups, or in a couple of hours on horseback.

    It also allowed fast access to a fresh horse for messengers.

  4. I think it is quite simple... on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 1

    We pander too much to the politically correct...

    Lets look at the last pandemics...

    Asiatic (Russian) Flu 1889
    Spanish Flu 1918
    Asian Flu 1957
    Hong Kong Flu 1968

    The precident has already been created in using the name of the first case/s to name the flu pandemic virus.

    No one should be able to object to the name Mexican Flu 2009.

  5. Re:Swine Flu on WHO Raises Swine Flu Threat Level · · Score: 1

    You mean hamageddon

  6. New twist on an old rhyme on WHO Raises Swine Flu Threat Level · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ring a ring of nachos
    A pocket full of tissues
    Arriba Arriba
    We all fall down.

  7. Re:nah. on Could the Internet Be Taken Down In 30 Minutes? · · Score: 1

    I'm saving my copy of windows ME just for the cylon revolt.

    I've got a Mac book to interface with alien technology in case this sort of thing happens, so between us we should be ok.

  8. Totals Totals and Totals on Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox · · Score: 1

    Having whacked the figures into excel and totalled them up.

    The results are...
    IE8 88.3 Secs
    Chrome 88.32 Secs
    Firefox 95.62 Secs

    Way to go IE8 you are 2 hundredths of a second faster than Chrome overall...

    Nothing to see here move along...

  9. Network Location Awareness on How To Diagnose a Suddenly Slow Windows Computer? · · Score: 1

    Call it a hunch.

    Network Location Awareness (NLA) can cause such problems.

    Disable and stop the service in services.msc

    It's not needed unless you are changing networks a lot, and even then it can get by without it.

    It took me a while to figure out when I was getting exactly the same results. Typically the s

  10. Re:The line is fine on Where To Draw the Line When Punishing Email Snooping? · · Score: 1

    I think that there is a more interesting point.

    Who paid for the stamp?

    If the company did, then the letter is from the company to the recipient, therefore, the company would be entitled to look inside the letter.

  11. Re:Golden Age of Trolling on NYT Explores the World of Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    That was until the billy goats gruff came to town.
    They closed that business down faster than the monopolies and mergers commission.

  12. The internet done right? on GENI To Replace Internet, Gets $12M Funding · · Score: 1

    I for one would like to see a complete overhaul of domain names, and the URL format.

    http://www.domainnname.type.country/directory1/Subdirectory2/page1.html

    Should become

    http://www/country/type/domainname/directory1/subdirectory2/page1.html

    In my opinion. Not that my opinion has ever been regarded as important.

    Russian Proverb "Better is the enemy of good enough"

  13. Knock of Nigel on Big Six UK ISPs Capitulate To Music Industry · · Score: 1

    I wonder what knock of Nigel thinks about all this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlhdK5Yl8u0

  14. Re:Unbelievable on Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista · · Score: 1

    How can this be informative? Please mod it interesting at least!

  15. Re:Why not more of this? on Making the Switch To Windows "Workstation" 2008 · · Score: 1

    Server 2003 wasn't really any more stable than XP.

    I started in my job in 2004, the business had 2 servers, an NT4 and 2003 server, they both argued over who should run the network, consequently they crashed and took the network down with it every 5 days.
    I took the NT4 server out and replaced with another 2003 server and this uptime went up to 60-70 days between reboots.
    After installing SP1 onto the 2003 servers, now we have 6 of them, I have today an uptime of 604 days, on the main file store. (the last reboot was to install SP1)
    Other servers running exchange have a lower uptime of around 60-70 days, and SQL 120-180 days.
    You cannot say 2003 server is as stable as XP, it just doesn't work as an analogy.
    It either that or I'm setting some new records here for uptime, on Server 2003. Its so stable I don't even want to install SP2 for 2003.

  16. Re:Okay there you go on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    I mean, he knew where the body was buried.

    He had the location of it stored in his Journal.

  17. New Signage Ideas on UK Prosecutors Say 'Cult' Acceptable · · Score: 2, Funny

    That means we can hold up signs in 144 point fonts. F*&!ING* CULT

    and in 12 point. * "FOOLING"

  18. Re:Bad Title on ISP Sued By Irish RIAA · · Score: 1

    The organisation is IRMA, the Irish Recorded Music Association http://www.irma.ie/index2.htm Their website mentions other legal actions taken against file sharers. So IT Crowd "Aunt IRMA visits" is appropriate then?
  19. I have Karma to burn... on GPS Used To Find Graves In Eco-Burial Sites · · Score: 1

    Wait for it...

    So by using GPS they can find the "dead" centre.

    sheesh... felt like a pun was in order...
    thank you I'm here all week... Unless modded -5, GET OFF SLASHDOT...

  20. Re:Is this really necessary? on Fujitsu HDD with AES 256-bit Encryption · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why have encryption at the hardware level when you can use e.g. Linux's crypto device-mapper tool? That also allows you to keep certain partition encrypted for privacy and other partitions unencrypted for performance. There is certain ring of truth to what you say...
    However disk encryption on the whole can and will slow computers down, not significantly on modern computers but it does.
    By transferring the overhead from the CPU to the processor built into the hard drive there is no slow down to the overall performance of the computer
    I don't know if any of you linux fans out there have performance/overhead stats on using the device-mapper tool, but for someone who is trying to get the best out of their processor, moving this process from software to hardware is the ideal solution.
  21. Re:Alternatives? on Network Solutions Advertises On Your Sub-Domains · · Score: 0

    I was wondering if anyone had any alternatives to recommend for anyone looking for a decent registrar? I use webhost4life, Some people have run into tech support issues with them, and I've had a few run ins also on those lines, especially when you work in the UK, and they are based on the pacific coast, but on the whole they are not that bad.
  22. The simplist way to deal with this problem... on Network Solutions Advertises On Your Sub-Domains · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Switch to another provider. Vote with your feet.

    The only problem with geeky nerds is they are probably very smelly ones.
    I know mine are...

  23. Re:Upgrade? Not Worth It on Sony Thinks Blu-ray Will Sell Like DVDs by Year End · · Score: 0

    It's like getting a Quad-Core processor to use Word. So you've used Vista with Office 2007 then?
  24. An old Russian proverb comes to mind here.. on Late Adopters Prefer the Tried and True · · Score: 0

    Better is the enemy of good enough.

  25. Someone has to get this out of the way early... on NASA Plans to Smash Spacecraft into the Moon · · Score: 0, Troll

    They'll probably miss...