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  1. Re:Oblig /. comment on Collapse of Quantum Wavefunction Captured In Slow Motion · · Score: 1

    I'm not convinced it colapsed until Netcraft confirms it?

  2. Re:First question from the kids on Teaching Fractions: The Tootsie Roll Is the New Pie · · Score: 2

    We've used to use Jaffa Cakes to teach phases of the moon in the UK.

  3. Re:How many knew that it was a global release? on Despite Global Release, Breaking Bad Heavily Pirated · · Score: 3, Informative

    It doesn't count for *any* syndication. Even in-country when they're repeated on "Dave" the music gets changed (most noticable in the 'construction' montages where the A-Team theme is conspicuous by its absence)

  4. Re:no article? on Japan Launches Talking Humanoid Robot Into Space · · Score: 1

    Dream of electric sheep?

  5. Re:The quality conrol problems... on Upside-Down Sensors Caused Proton-M Rocket Crash · · Score: 2

    That's BS.

    There's a Titanium smelting plant in Redditch. Granted, it's Russian owned, but still, it's in the UK.

  6. You've never had an ear infection have you?

  7. Re:Obligatory on Iron In Egyptian Relics Came From Space · · Score: 1

    Weren't they Peruvian?

  8. Re:What language do you write code in? on Google and NASA Snap Up D-Wave Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    Well, it's NASA, so C* (C star) surely?

  9. Re:Compare to recognizing people on Popular Android Anti-Virus Software Fooled By Trivial Techniques · · Score: 1

    Your computer has been stolen.

    The police call you into the station and show you your computer and ask: "Is this your computer?"

    You respond with: "No, it can't be, this isn't in my basement"

    You all laugh and have coffee and doughnuts.

  10. Re:Not to sound overly harsh on Pearson Vue Now On Day 5 of Massive Outage · · Score: 2

    Yeah, but good luck getting any free stuff out of Microsoft with a 15 year old MSCE certificate. That's the reason everyone takes the tests right? To get free software?

  11. Re:UK Driving License on Pearson Vue Now On Day 5 of Massive Outage · · Score: 1

    Highway code, road safety, don't put diesel in a petrol car, that kind of thing.

  12. Re:Poor Linking on Weirdest DLC Sponsorship Ever: SimCity, Brought To You By Crest · · Score: 1

    And if you're a gamer you should probably know about, if not played, StarCraft and Bioshock Infinite.

    Even if you don't know who Kerrigan or Booker are, you should atleast get by context that they have something to do with video games.

  13. Re:And it still looks like on Windows Blue 9364 Screenshots Show Feature Enhancements · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, what should we call them then? Lexicomrades?

  14. Re:FTL on Clues of Life's Origins Found In Galactic Cloud · · Score: 2

    Or #2.

    We cannot do #1 or #2... in space.

  15. Re:FTL on Clues of Life's Origins Found In Galactic Cloud · · Score: 1

    which is inexorably dependent on it's host planet for resupplying oxygen, fuel, food and crew (who get muscle fatigue from microgravity after lengthy periods there)

    We cannot do #1.

  16. Re:Exception to Betteridge's law!! on Is the Concept of 'Cyberspace' Stupid? · · Score: 1

    Maybe we need a corollory: Any headline that can be answered in one word likely heads a stupid article. Whether that be "Yes", "No" or "Bananas"

  17. Re:Exception to Betteridge's law!! on Is the Concept of 'Cyberspace' Stupid? · · Score: 1

    and what do you think happened before computers?

    Those nice banks took your money and put it in a safe with your name on it?

    No, they wrote down how much you put in on a piece of paper and filed it.

    As soon as the records of its wherabouts are destroyed, it qualifies as virtual, not physical. Even if the money you put in still physically existed, it wouldn't be yours.

  18. Re:"they" can fuck off, the binary units are the o on When 1 GB Is Really 0.9313 Gigabytes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and by the same standards, 2^10 is a KiB

    and yes, why is this geek news when anyone with either a passing interest, or who has ever done a wiki crawl, will know this?

  19. Re:Anti gravity applications? on Electricity Gives Bubbles Super Strength · · Score: 1

    Off cuts of wall paper! Oooh we'd have killed for off. cuts. of. wall. paper.

    We had to use sandpaper!

    And we didn't have rucksacks so we had to keep our jotters in our underpants!

  20. Re:Anti gravity applications? on Electricity Gives Bubbles Super Strength · · Score: 4, Funny

    Posh bastard!

    We used brown wrapping paper and had to like it.

    Oh what I would have given for some sticky back plastic to cover our books with!

  21. Re:Anti gravity applications? on Electricity Gives Bubbles Super Strength · · Score: 1

    No, Sticky-back plastic was something entirely different from Sticky-tape (which is what they called Sellotape)

    Sticky-back plastic was like a large sheet of plastic (normally A4 size) with one side sticky.

  22. Re:This is smart? on Glasgow To Be UK's First 'Smart City' · · Score: 1

    Actually, back then the Gorbals were half shit half nice. The area around the Citizens Theatre was always reasonable, and the regeneration of the shit end had already begun back in '85 (or talks of atleast) and the first tower blocks (pretty much the source of all the gang culture) came down in 1993 (which shows you how long it takes to rehouse a tower block). As of 2011, most of the Tower Blocks have been demolished, and the area's bounced back quite a bit. The article talks about it like it's still a violence fuelled shithole.

    Red Dwarf wasn't so much as a prediction as just putting their faith in Glasgow City Council... Actually, in that case it's even more amazing that it came true :)

    Disclaimer: I'm a West-end Weegie, although from the less-rich end of the West End. We never had gang violence, just running street battles on Dumbarton Road between Old Firm supporters (and even that's been gone for the last decade) :P

  23. Re:So what they're really asking for... on Better Tools For Programming Literacy · · Score: 2
  24. Re:Seriously, that's the best they could do? on Researchers Create Vomiting Robot To Analyze Contagions · · Score: 1

    Upchucking UNIVAC?

  25. Re:You don't on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 2

    The way the OP is going on about it, I imagine him writing C# code in the style of Javascript...