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  1. Re:Its a good thing that passengers never make cal on Software Holds Cell Phone Calls While Driving · · Score: 1

    That would be easy. Phone shave a built-in clock. Just have an option to set it to "QUIET MODE" for a set time - say three hours - before it reverts to normal mode - unless you manually switch it back on first...

    Hmmm... should I have patented that?

  2. Re:This is different from the OFF button how? on Software Holds Cell Phone Calls While Driving · · Score: 1

    They might also wnat to remove those "Do not talk to the driver while the bus is in motion" signs.... after all, he should be able to chat with his passengers just like any other driver if he wants to...

    This is interesting :http://books.google.de/books?id=toLGsiUMM_EC&hl=en

  3. Look at the study group... on People Prefer Angry-Faced Cars · · Score: 1

    In Germany and Austria, cars are a status symbol - more so than in many other countries. You must have a large, powerful car to reflect your large, powerful place in society.

    Is it any wonder that these people went for the cars that looked "angriest" and more "powerful" as these were also the most expensive and therefore came with the higher prestige value.

  4. Re:Yes you're right on People Prefer Angry-Faced Cars · · Score: 1

    I don't know about 'roo bars, but a certain Austrian would probably have preferred a car with better roll bars....

  5. Re:Take the opposite approach. on Give Up the Fight For Personal Privacy? · · Score: 3, Funny

    My friend created a false online persona for himself to use for these types of sites - Ethel Murgatroyd, an 80 year old, extreme sport fanatic, , gangsta-rap-performing, Barry Manilow-loving single grandmother supporting 25 dependents with a penchant for kittens, X-Boxes and Ak-47s.

    You should see the confusion this causes in the directed spam that arrives at her email account!

  6. Re:The best part.... on Linux-Based E-Voting In Brazil · · Score: 1

    she's on the demo version though :-)

  7. Re:Science Fiction! on Linux-Based E-Voting In Brazil · · Score: 1

    So what?

    There are lots of countries that know the election results the day before voting!

    Beat that for efficiency!

  8. The best part.... on Linux-Based E-Voting In Brazil · · Score: 1

    You can vote for Carmen Miranda for president!

    Hurray for the party of music and fruity hats!

  9. Re:Obligatory on Hackers Clone Elvis' Passport · · Score: 1

    Surely it should be "Elvis has left the country"

  10. Re:A revised CAPTCHA? on Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How about a randonmly generated grid of say 5 x 5 icons of different every day objects (also randomly selected to display in the grid from a database of 1000s of icons) and a question that says click the following sequence.... cat/kettle/cloud

    To get it right, you'd need some good image recognition that can recognise a wide variety of objects, and to prevent random clicking attacks, make the list longer...

  11. Re:I have never been more proud to be a republican on US House Limits Constituent Emails · · Score: 1

    I agree. Sure they screwed up the economy for 8 years and should shoulder a large portion of the blame for the mess. But, on the night, they finally said no! (Reportedly because Pelosi hurt their feelings by pointing out how they screwed up the economy for the past 8 years).

    Gives ya a lump right here in the throat, doesn't it...

  12. Famous? You keep using that word... on Becoming a Famous Programmer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Famous?

    You keep using that word.

    I do not think it means what you think it means.

  13. Re:It's the... on Becoming a Famous Programmer · · Score: 5, Funny

    clever dick!

  14. Re:Put another way... on How Close Were US Presidential Elections? · · Score: 1

    which just shows that McAfee anti-virus software is useless at protecting against nasty infections that leave the system screwed up behind recovery....

  15. Re:So What's Next? on RIAA Loses $222K Verdict · · Score: 1

    article physicists have already identified a number of exotic articles like "le", "un", "der", "die", "das", "lo" and many others...

    Now these same article physicists are trying to break these down into their sub-article components...

    They've constructed an article accelerator that will crash the articles together at high speed... it's basically two opposed rings of megaphones and a pair of Swiss guys shout down the end of either megaphone

  16. Re:huh? on SDK Shoot Out, Android Vs. IPhone · · Score: 1

    Guess my Classic II is out then...

  17. Re:I prefer the old definitions: on Has Google Redefined Beta? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Software Development Lifecycle

    Alpha- short for "It's alpha-lly crap"

    Beta - short for "It's still alpha-ally crap, but it's beta than it was"

    Release - short for "it still release-tinks, but we've gotta publish"

    Gold - Short for "it's gold-arn awful, but at least it's out the door"

  18. It's more annoying if subject and post don't... on China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pease porridge hot
    Pease porride cold
    Pease porridge in the pot
    Nine days old!

  19. Re:!Bricked on OpenSUSE Beta Can Brick Intel e1000e Network Cards · · Score: 4, Funny

    I also hate it when people call these things bricked incorrectly.

    Bricked XBOXen, bricked PSPs, bricked iPhones and now bricked network cards.

    People, these things are not bricked! Believe me. I've tried building houses and garden walls out of them and they are absolutely fecking useless as bricks!

    Please use the correct term in future. These items are not bricked, they are just FUBI (fecked up by incompetence)

    Thank you...

  20. Re:Pussies on Defusing the Threat of Disgruntled IT Workers · · Score: 1

    Sarah Palin... is that you?

  21. The announcement shoulda said... on Microsoft To Announce Jerry Seinfeld Ads Cancelled · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft says Vista is over â" In a phone call, Steve Ballmer, confirms that Microsoft is not going on with Vista, and echoes his underlings' spin that the move was planned. There is the "potential to do other things" with Windows, which Ballmer says is still "possible." He adds: "People would have been happier if everyone loved Vista, but this was not unexpected.""

  22. Re:Who is Douglas Adam? on Colfer Asked To Write Sixth HHGTTG Book · · Score: 1

    Darn - I was too busy trying not to put too many vowels in Eoin to notice that I'd transposed the apostrophe and the s. (I would've got away with Adams' wouldn't I?)

  23. Venn diagrams... on Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings For Websites · · Score: 1

    This is just another example to add to my thesis.

    Namely, if you draw a Venn diagram of "cleverness"
      and "common sense", the region of intersection is amazingly small...

  24. This article is true. on Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings For Websites · · Score: 1

    The statement in the title is a lie.

    There. Now you're confused ;-)

  25. Digital Newspapers are great... on Google To Digitize Millions of Old Newspaper Pages · · Score: 1

    ... from wrapping up your Fission Chips.