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  1. Re:Now explain triple-slashes on Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Everybody knows that the parent of C:\ in windows is Desktop. Which is located somewhere in C:\ making Desktop its own great grand parent. What kind of sick twisted incestuous OS are they pushing on the world?

  2. Re:VAT on Books in Europe Trending Towards 0%-5% on Kindle Finally Ready For Global Distribution · · Score: 1

    $1 = 1.5 € (roughly)

    I think you mean "$1.5 = 1 € (roughly)"

    Although, your way of converting may be closer to the way Amazon does it. It is almost always cheaper to import books from the US version of Amazon and pay for international shipping than to get them from the European Amazon stores.

  3. Re:Or to put that in other words on Left 4 Dead 2 Approved In Australia After Edits · · Score: 1

    The most realistic version of the game would be the one without zombies because, and I hate to break the news to you, they don't actually exist.

  4. Re:More information on Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Anyway someone is going to want 2,097,152 terabytes of RAM before too long

    Coincidentally that is about the projected amount RAM needed to run Windows 8.

  5. Reminds me of Elite on Hyperdrive Propulsion Could Be Tested At the LHC · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Where hyperspeed was possible unless there were ships or asteroids nearby. In that case you became "mass locked" So it turns out that more than just a gimmick to skip the boring bits of the game, mass does indeed interfere with fast moving objects.

  6. Easily compromised... on How Dangerous Could a Hacked Robot Possibly Be? · · Score: 4, Funny

    'We were shocked at how easy it was to actually compromise some of these robots,'

    So I take it that they have pictures of a Robosapien getting nekkid with a couple of Roombas?

  7. Re:Bricked Consoles? on Sony Sued Over Bricked PS3s · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's why the Xbox360 is the superior console.

    It bricks itself out of the box. No updates needed.

  8. Re:Racism on How Video Games Reflect Ideology · · Score: 1

    Beethoven was an ardent proponent of Enlightenment ideals, a Freemason and probably a member of the Bavarian Illuminati (at a time when they definitely did exist) so if his works were political you'd expect them to be be anti-monarchy, and anti-Catholic.

  9. Re:Perfectly understandable on Apple Takes Action Over Australian Logos · · Score: 1

    Godd thing you posted anonymously.
    I suspect you've just offended the entire nation of New Zealand.

  10. Re:L.C.D on Apple Takes Action Over Australian Logos · · Score: 5, Funny

    MATH FIGHT!!!

  11. Re:Old news on OLPC and the "Innovator's Opportunity" · · Score: 1

    Well we haven't seen it but if this is as old as Your Highness seems to imply, then we would like to know when the video was made.

    Now off with your head!

  12. Re:Argh, time-wasting videos on OLPC and the "Innovator's Opportunity" · · Score: 1

    I think it's a learning process. Just because people now don't know how to edit a snappy video doesn't mean that video is a dead end. Back in 1996 people didn't know how to design readable website, now those people are banned to myspace and the rest has either taken an active interest in web design or learned to work within standard web page conventions that have emerged since. Add to that things like an outline on the progress bar like in the TED videos, and most of the problems are solved.

    Add closed captions (accessible to search engines please) so you can do without sound and you're on your way to video articles that are as useful as text.

    There's an innovator's opportunity for you.

  13. Re:Rock Rainbows? on Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles · · Score: 1

    That goes for any planet.

    Unless you're on the side of the terminator where it's always sunrise, on which side you are would be difficult to determine on a planet in tidal lock however.

  14. Re:2 Years on Electric Car Nano-Batteries Aim For 500-Mile Range · · Score: 1

    Screw the ecology. I'll be happy if all those cars stop producing smog. We might need a few extra nuclear reactors in the short term to fill up all those batteries while keeping the air clean but so be it.

  15. Re:It's not news on Electric Car Nano-Batteries Aim For 500-Mile Range · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There doesn't have to be. There is enough in seawater to make up the difference.

  16. Re:Waste MORE time!? on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 1

    I think half of the plotlines of Seinfeld were about apartments and doing your best to get a decent affordable apartment.

    I'm shocked to hear that Seinfeld's apartment is considered good in New York, because it looked positively tiny to me. (although it was oddly "folded out" because it wasn't an apartment but a set in front of an audience)

  17. Re:Ignorant twats on Scientists Decry "Horrifying" UK Border Test Plan · · Score: 1

    It's almost as annoying as those fucking church bells.

    By the way, why do most of the racist twats post anonymously? If you're so proud of yourself show yourself to the world.

  18. Re:Why do we sleep? on Alzheimer's Disease Possibly Linked To Sleep Deprivation · · Score: 1

    Not really, but for me the financial benefits of keeping my job outweigh the health concerns of waking up at a reasonable time.

  19. Re:Great idea! on Google To Offer Micropayments To News Sites · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Even worse: Most magazines are pay and ads.

  20. Re:damn! on AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30 Displays · · Score: 1

    5:6 according to this thing called high-school maths.

  21. Re:ext3 on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 1

    Can Windows even recognize a non-M$ file system? No it cannot. At least not with0out third party software installed. So don't blame Linux for M$ mistakes.....

    I prefer to think of them as design choices rather than mistakes. Unfortunate, evil design choices.

  22. That claim on Facebook Ordered To Turn Over Source Code · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of "associating a piece of data with multiple categories" sounds suspiciously like tags.

    They'll come for slashcode next!

  23. Re:Uh? on Lichtblick and Volkswagen To Build 'Swarm' Power Plants · · Score: 1

    No because all bureaucrats (who are by definition incompetent) will intentionally try to push the power plants under their control beyond their intended use. It saves money.

  24. Re:Uh? on Lichtblick and Volkswagen To Build 'Swarm' Power Plants · · Score: 1

    And one party (CSU) tries to pressure the other parties to allow the plants to run a few years longer.

    Which illustrates nicely why I'm opposed to nuclear plants. Politicians will always try to run equipment beyond the specified safe limits to save money. The Chernobyl reactor was a perfectly safe design when operated within specifications, but people being who they are tend to want to go beyond petty things like safety regulations. Note that Japan has had a major leak nearly every year in recent history, and there have been mostly unsuccessful attempts to cover up all of them.

  25. Re:9V != 18W on Teenager Invents Cheap Solar Panel From Human Hair · · Score: 1

    Yeah but even if those hairs were replaced by copper wire, sending 2 Amps through them would heat them up to the point of melting. Unless you have hundreds of hairs in parallel, to be replaced every month or so...

    Not practical.