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  1. It claims OS X support? on Commodore 64 Primed For a Comeback In June · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you go to the company's website, on the link in the article, they claim it will run OS X. Interesting to see how quickly Apple's lawyers move in for the kill

    Oh, and I submitted this story to Slashdot a week ago. Tsk.

  2. Kids know classical music on Using Classical Music As a Form of Social Control · · Score: 2, Funny

    I heard one youth on a London bus recently, encouraging his friend to play out loud some trip-hop piece with violins and a drumbeat. "They can't tell you to turn it off, because it's Classic, innit?"

    But I don't think this is much to worry about. How many of us have instantly hated the music of our fathers when teenagers, only to discover its charms later in life?

  3. All that work for nothing on Utah Assembly Passes Resolution Denying Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Until climate change is proved conclusively, we might just be reducing our emissions and pollutants, consuming energy efficiently and decreasing our dependence upon dwindling natural resources in politically unstable regions for NOTHING.

  4. Oblig. Simpsons quote: on Hearts Actually Can Break · · Score: 1

    "You may say she died from a ruptured ventricle. But I know she died of a broken heart."

  5. But does it have wine from the USB port? on Apple Tablet Rumor Wrap Up · · Score: 1
  6. Speculating on rumour is pointless on Apple Tablet Rumor Wrap Up · · Score: 1

    OFFS.

    Whilst I'm intrigued by the rumours (half of which are Apple-generated to build up hype, the other of which are created by people who think they know what's in Steve's head), comment on them is pretty pointless, and falls into the following categories:

    [ ] No one will buy this. Epic fail.

    [ ] Missed opportunity to add technology X

    [ ] I like it, but it's too expensive

    [ ] This is going to change everything.

  7. Robin Hood airport on Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Celebrating 800 years of political violence in the Nottingham area!

  8. Been done: .tel domain on Dragging Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mean like the .tel domain?

    .tel provides all contact information: phone numbers, postal addresses, email, web addresses, etc -- all within the DNS.

  9. Profit!!!! on France Considers 'Pirate Tax' For Online Ads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1. Write a few cheesy pop tunes on my own label.

    2. Complain to the French Govt. that no-one is buying them -- no doubt because of all the pirates.

    3. Wait for cheque.

    I look forward to this as a fantastic money-making opportunity.

  10. In Socialist Italy...... on Moving Decimal Bug Loses Money · · Score: 1

    In Socialist Italy, the period separates you into groups of thousands!

  11. Re:God Bless the USA! on Moving Decimal Bug Loses Money · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you mean "God Save the Queen". We (the British) gave you the correct method for decimals before we decided to let you have the place. You've managed to pick up a few bad habits from the French, such as driving on the right.

    But apart from that, you're doing quite well.

    (For the benefit of Australians, this is humour, not flamebait.)

  12. Iz in ur brane... on IBM Takes a (Feline) Step Toward Thinking Machines · · Score: 4, Funny

    Iz in ur brane, making ur thorts. LOL!

    "The computer has 147,456 processors and 144 terabytes of main memory."

  13. Re:makes me rethink things on OS X Update Officially Kills Intel Atom Support · · Score: 1

    Oh, hang on. Sorry, had trouble reading. I see now.
    Still, either the osx86 crowd will hack the kernel, or something else will happen.

  14. Re:makes me rethink things on OS X Update Officially Kills Intel Atom Support · · Score: 1

    Why would you put osx86 on an Apple MBP....? You can run OS X 10.6.2 on it.

    I can't see how the "decision" not to support hardware for which the OS is not designed affects your setup one jot.

  15. "Officially"....? on OS X Update Officially Kills Intel Atom Support · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I RTFA, and there's no acknowledgement by Apple of what they have done or why they have done it. So the update does not "officially" break Atom support, it just breaks Atom support.

  16. Re:Do we need more languages? on Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Do we need faster computers? Cars?

    Do we need better medicines? People live too long already!

    Please explain why you associate a high number of computer languages with progress. (which is at the heart of what I originally asked.)

  17. Do we need more languages? on Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Do we really need more programming languages? Aren't there enough to do everything yet?

    Shouldn't we be trying to reduce the number of languages, rather than add to it? Or even better, create yet another layer of abstraction between us and the machines that gets us away from being slaves to syntax?

  18. Re:Justice is only available to the rich on Data Entry Errors Resulted In Improper Sentences · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are you suggesting that reading the correct cell from a spreadsheet table is a level "detailed scrutiny", which public defenders are incapable of?

    As a lawyer has posted above, it is malpractice not to check this.

    Whilst I agree that justice is what you pay for it, this isn't a great example.

  19. HP on Choosing a Personal Printer For the Long Haul · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can't go much wrong with a decent HP Laser printer. As long as you don't get the completely bargain bucket, bottom of the range ones.

    30,000 pages is nothing. I've got an 8-year-old HP5000 series that does 10,000 pages a year.

    Anything with an Ethernet socket and support for PostScript (or even PDF natively, these days) is not going to need much in the way of drivers, particularly on OS X.

  20. Re:Security Theater at its finest on High-Tech Gadgets Can Pose Problems At Mexican Border · · Score: 1

    Tried hard to let this go, but I can't. Sorry.

    This idea that Johnny Arab sits down with his friends, and says: "Grrrrr! How dare the Americans have all these freedoms. Let's bomb them!" is just nonsense.

    "They" couldn't give a toss about the freedoms that US citizens may or may not enjoy. What they actually care about, in an admittedly tragic and misguided way, is about American Foreign Policy in the Middle East, particularly the clusterfuck that is the Palestinian situation.

    The notion that "they hate us because of our freedoms" is disingenuous Orwellian propaganda. And the sooner that the American people realises this, the better.

  21. Re:Friends? on Microsoft Says Google Chrome Frame Makes IE Less Secure · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...the new developers were pushing to make IE more complaint in the future.

    Technically, they have succeeded. IE 7 and 8 are more complaint.

    Feel the delicious irony from an incorrect vowel transposition!

  22. More sandboxd ! on Snow Leopard Missed a Security Opportunity · · Score: 1

    Snow Leopard does actually improve on Leopard's security. I can't even get processes that run as admin to save files to world-writeable locations anymore.

    Sandboxd reports a "deny file-write*".

    Fecked if I can get it to work.

  23. Oblig. Simpsons quote: on A Broken Heart Really Does Hurt, Scientists Claim · · Score: 4, Funny

    "You may say she died of a ruptured ventricle; but I know she died of a broken heart."

  24. Success! on Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves · · Score: 4, Insightful

    An experiment is only a failure if you don't learn anything from it.

  25. Terrible demo on "Terminator Vision" Is Here For the iPhone · · Score: 2, Informative
    "The page features an impressive video demonstrating AR in action."

    Impressive? The demo suggests that Oxford Circus and Great Portland Street are the nearest tube stations to Piccadilly Circus. It doesn't even mention .... Piccadilly Circus.