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  1. Re:Six months from now on Virgin Media To Trial Filesharing Monitoring In UK · · Score: 1

    Talktalk seem to be the lesser of 3 evils though, unless I understand nothing. can you tell me what other ISPs are out there please? I shall be from virginmedia soon.

  2. Re:Six months from now on Virgin Media To Trial Filesharing Monitoring In UK · · Score: 1

    Even if they don't like it, changing your ISP is too cumbersome for most.

    Actually, in the UK, you just go to the ISP you want and subscribe, they handle everything for you, unless they have to ask you to ask your old ISP for your MAC code. then there's a few hours of downtime on the day of the switch. not cumbersome at all. I shall be going from virgin to talktalk very soon, and emailing them telling them why.

  3. Re:Does anyone really believe the scores ? on Review Scores the "Least Important Factor" When Buying Games · · Score: 1

    Daikatana?

  4. Re:Does anyone really believe the scores ? on Review Scores the "Least Important Factor" When Buying Games · · Score: 1

    I haven't finished reading your post, I just want to disagree with you. I think games should be marked down for being overhyped, as the gamer will be disappointed when they get the game and it's not the holy grail of gaming the adverts promised. reviews are for the _gamer_ not the publisher, and overhype kinda ruins the gamers experience.

  5. Re:I can prove you wrong on Ants That Can Count · · Score: 1

    perhaps in an egg-timer like way. release a chemical at a fixed rate. then on the way back, release the same amount of chemical at the same rate.

    then travel would also be at a fixed rate. hmm, they should test by delaying ants somehow, since the rate of travel would change, they would get to the wrong destination at the right time.

  6. Re:I Seem to Have Misplaced Them ... on Where Are Your Contact Lens Displays? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the population grows, the flying car has to happen one day

    is that to facilitate transportation, or to solve the population problem? Because flat roads are beyond the abilities of most of the ass-nuggets behind the wheel already.

  7. Re:The ultimate adware on Where Are Your Contact Lens Displays? · · Score: 1

    and just to be a bastard, make people pay for time without ads by the hour, for important events they don't want interrupted, like strippers, the footy, and sleep.

  8. Re:Hiding from the government is different. on Shedding Your Identity In the Digital Age · · Score: 2, Interesting

    posting what sounds like a lot of experience of being on the run is also not advisable ;)

  9. Something to consider with the laptop... on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    ...is returning to america. don't you have some seriously mental border protection at airports and what not? don't worry about it at heathrow, it's a cake walk taking anything through there the twice i've flown from/to heathrow recently. then again, I've a UK passport, but noone else seemed to have any problems walking through either.

  10. Re:That's for the fake transactions exploit. on Bing Cashback Can Cost You Money · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    well, looks like you got what you were expecting. :)

    and to stay on topic

    Is it legal/possible to use the cashback and wipe the cookie? I haven't RTFA or anything, but it sounds like they're profiting purely from users not knowing about cookies, and they have no legal recourse if someone edits/deletes a cookie on their own machine?

  11. Re:"sculpture-props simulating virtual reality" on William Gibson's Neuromancer Staged With Porn Star · · Score: 2, Funny

    maybe they're too busy grasping something else?

  12. Re:Its to do with people with the wrong keyboard . on ICANN Approves Non-Latin ccTLDs · · Score: 1

    how is that a problem? if you can't get to the website because it's in a funny language, what makes you think you can read the contents?

  13. Re:Argh! on Chinese To Supply 600 MW Wind Farm In Texas · · Score: 1

    ban chinese goods, or raise import taxes on chinese goods until it's a level playing field? i'm sure this would have consequences, but it's all I can think of right now.

  14. Re:tired of this "control the internet for the kid on FCC Mulling More Control For Electronic Media · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Firearms are just another means of killing people, Ideas could instill hundreds, thousands or millions with the desire to kill(hence the revolutions of the past) and they'll achieve it with/without firearms if motivated enough. I imagine many governments see ideas as far more dangerous than guns.

  15. Re:Cloud? on Los Angeles Goes Google Apps With Microsoft Cash · · Score: 1

    yes.

  16. Re:To the UK (and other) governments on New UK Wireless Network Tax May Hamper Internet Rollout · · Score: 1

    A lot, but who will you vote for? Lib dems? Toris? who is going to do better? I'm not convinced, I reckon they're all crooked.

  17. Re:Saving lives?? on Android Goes To the Battlefield · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's more patriotic. people like feeling good about themselves, and "Killing foreigners" isn't as patriotic of soldiers as "saving lives".

  18. Re:I blame the Irish on EU Paves the Way For Three-Strikes Cut-Off Policy · · Score: 1

    I think a significant part of the problem stems from the fact that fishing net sizes need > 637 pages. :) If it was a one-liner "no bigger than a small pony" then they wouldn't have anywhere to try and hide these things.

  19. Re:Why wait? on Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users · · Score: 1

    While everyone else is telling you how unfeasible your solution is, I would just like to thank you for the phrase "Abragofuckyourself". It has reduced me to giggling.

  20. Re:140 chars - the holder of so much info on Google Partners With Twitter For Search · · Score: 1

    Who goes to page 2 these days? I'm sure I read something somewhere about how most people would refine their search term rather than venture to the second page. They'll just keep doing that until they get the results they want. I know i'm guilty of this..

  21. Re:Go censorship! on AU Classification Board To Censor Mobile Apps · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My thoughts exactly. I wonder if they will just trust Apples review process? probably not... they don't trust ESRB ratings do they?

  22. Re:What about the player? on Google To Take On iTunes? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I just visited mpd.wikia.org in opera and it redirected to some zroalert.com site "Initializing virus scanner" with a little alert saying my computer was at high risk and should be scanned thoroughly. I disabled scripts and quickly closed the tab, then visited again in firefox with adblock plus and it's fine, no redirects. some malicious advertising there, maybe? anyways, just warning people.

    Also, googling zroalert.com didn't find anything much, except that the domain had been registered...

  23. Re:Please People, You're Spreading Misinformation on AT&T Suggests To 300K Employees To Lobby the FCC · · Score: 1

    You, good sir, are an artist!

  24. Re:you're wrong. on Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    10pm in somerset for local too :)

  25. Re:Do not want on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be a good reason to let their immune system deal with it? I see medicine as a helping hand, not a cure. doctors/nurses should(and probably do, given how many sick people they come into contact with) have much stronger immune systems. giving them mooty when not strictly needed seems counter-productive really.