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  1. Re:Expert naval tactics on Superguns Helped Defeat the Spanish Armada · · Score: 4, Funny

    I blame the French for driving on the wrong side.

  2. last.fm data isn't really evidence of anything on Last.fm Shoots Down Rumors Over U2 Album Leak · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or, given the way last.fm works, 8,000 people submitted the names of the album tracks to the site. Which you could just do by re-tagging other files, or just submitting whatever you felt like to the web service.

    The fact that 8,000 have apparently listened to the album, based on their last.fm submissions, doesn't mean any of them actually have. Of course it doesn't mean they haven't either; it's just that last.fm data is hardly authoritative.

  3. Re:Vector patterns on Passwords From PHPBB Attack Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Neither do I. If anything using the numpad should be easier for a right handed person, being on the right hand side of the keyboard.

  4. Re:windows need a window per app? on Windows 7 Taskbar Not So Similar To OS X Dock After All · · Score: 1

    They still have a window; it's just hidden.

  5. Re:Funny thing is- on Valve Takes Optimistic View of Piracy · · Score: 1

    Or you can just select the option in Steam to burn the files to CD or DVD; it builds an installer and automatically does the disc spanning for you.

    Although that doesn't help if their servers disapear, you need to be logged in to play, iirc.

  6. Re:I have a life, why should I do such a thing? on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    This is what I'm thinking, for me it really wouldn't work. I already have a 13 hour day just working a normal 8/40 schedule. My daily commute runs to about five hours in total and if I end up having to stay late for some reason I don't get any overtime. Like I'm not getting any next Monday when I'm going to have to stay over night in London because I have to do some work on a server (you wouldn't think I'm a software developer).

    I can see it might work for people who live close to where they work; all they're really doing is coming close the working week for a commuter. For people who have long commutes to start off with, it would royally suck. You'd just spend that one Friday off in bed catching up on sleep.

  7. Re:News? Care? on iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info · · Score: 1

    Music bought from iTMS has always been water marked with the account details for the user who bought the track. I've never really considered it a problem, to be perfectly honest. If you're going to share music files then it's your own problem.

    If it bothers people that much, Hymn has an option to strip the meta data out of the file. I'm sure someone must have made a standalone scrubber.

  8. Re:we will NOT have flying cars on Flying Car Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1

    Really I'm glad a pilot's license is a lot harder to obtain. I just wish they weren't so expensive.

  9. First is a little misleading on Flying Car Ready To Take Off · · Score: 4, Informative

    Calling it the first flying car is a bit misleading; there are quite a few pre-existing flying cars, it's just none of them was ever a commercial success. There's still an Aerocar about with an airworthiness certificate.

    The main problem with a flying car is the number of certificates you need to get in order to be able to use it.

  10. Re:I think this is fine on UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs · · Score: 1

    Incompetence, normally.

  11. Re:iPlayer for Mac Third Party much better on iPlayer Released for Mac, Linux; Adobe Announces AIR for Linux · · Score: 1

    They don't distribute non-BBC originated material via iPlayer; the reason they restrict it to UK only, I suspect, is because of distribution rights to the material. The BBC sells the rights to show their material to overseas broadcasters; if you could just watch it via the BBC it would reduce their potential revenue stream from those rights.

    Not all of the BBC's money comes from the licence fee.

  12. Re:Calling all 'Internet Veterans' on Esther Dyson Grudgingly Defends Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    She's the daughter of Freeman Dyson, the sister of George Dyson and a journalist who writes about technology as well as being an IT orientated entrepreneur.

    I shouldn't worry, I didn't know who she was either, I had to look her up on Wiki. Well, I knew the name, I just had no idea what she actually did.

  13. Re:This is a long shot on Alien Comet May Have Infiltrated the Solar System · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm fairly sure all comets are extra-terrestrial, what with not being from Earth or its atmosphere.

  14. Re:In other news... on 18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD · · Score: 1

    If there are people who can't tell the difference between Cthulhu and an ape I'd be very worried. And highly amused when they tried to feed him a banana.

    Fhtagn!

  15. At least I get more than that on The State of UK Broadband — Not So Fast · · Score: 1

    I get 6 mbit/s out of my DSL line. Which is great, until you consider it's a 16 mbit/s line which they reckon can do 8 mbit/s. I don't think I've ever seen 8 mbit/s out of it.

    An acquaintance of mine was incredulous, to say the least, on returning to the UK after 15 years in Japan.

  16. Re:How to survie in a sue rich environment... on Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? · · Score: 3, Informative
  17. Re:Violation of ADEA from anonymous coward lawyer on Interviewing Experienced IT People? · · Score: 1

    Same for the UK, as far as I know. Also out are sexuality, family status, marriage status, union membership, political party membership and probably some more I've forgotten. There are exceptions for employers, such as the police and armed forces though (mostly for age, actually.)

  18. Re:But, what about me? on Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? · · Score: 1

    Heh, I was thinking that too. I get paid the same amount regardless of how long I'm at work. Even when the meetings overrun, which annoys me.

  19. Re:if you dropped one... on The Science of the Lightsaber · · Score: 1

    In the EU the Lightsabers can be fitted with a safety cut out which turns the blade off if the saber isn't being held for a period of time (to let you do the cool throwy thing). Because they're completely individual items, made by each user, how they handle stuff like that is down to the wielder.

  20. Re:Grammar Nazi called on Where Have All the Pagers Gone? · · Score: 1

    It's also a verb, meaning "To call, search for, or contact by means of a public address system, a radio pager, etc."

  21. Still around, just harder to find... on Where Have All the Pagers Gone? · · Score: 1

    BT discontinued their pager network years ago; there do still seem to be companies about in the UK who provide them though (such as PageOne). I'm sure you can scare some up in the US as well - my guess is its become a niche market the larger players are no longer interested in.

  22. Re:Games must be optimized on NVIDIA Makes First 4GB Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    If someone is playing games with one of those cards in their system, it's because they're killing time in their lunch break before going back to do some seriously complex computational work. That's not a gaming card.

  23. Re:why the hell on UK ISPs Near Agreement On Illegal File Sharing · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I'm aware the US has a new president elect. I'm also aware that there are a lot places outside the US and that sometimes people like to know what's going on in them.

  24. Re:How was it lost? on In UK, 12M Taxpayers Lost With USB Stick · · Score: 1

    They lose laptops too.

    Proprietary formats cost money to develop and give you interoperability problems.

  25. Re:Too Expensive these days on The IDA Pro Book · · Score: 1

    It lacks 64-bit support as well, iirc; I think only the Advanced version has that.

    Mind you IDA Pro is cheap, compared the price of the Hex-Rays Decompiler...