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  1. Re:One word.. J... on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    There is an assumption that code is always meant for humans to read.

  2. Re:Expectation of anonymity? on Model Drops Lawsuit After Outing Anonymous Blogger · · Score: 1

    --shakes head--

  3. Re:Why does it matter what the BIOS supports? on No Windows 7 XP Mode For Sony Vaio Z Owners · · Score: 1

    Yep I did it but it isn't simple for everybody, even people who are used to changing settings in the BIOS whom I imagine are maybe 5 or 10% of computer users, so maybe 1% of Vaio owners are able to carry out this.

  4. Re:Perhaps, but another reason on GM Gets To Dump Its Polluted Sites · · Score: 1

    No, it concerns me too to see someone stooping so low as to emphasise Hussein as an obvious attempt to somehow imply he is related to Saddam. Haven't you worked it out yet? You're committing suicide.

  5. Re:Here is a Reason Why the Free Market Works Best on GM Gets To Dump Its Polluted Sites · · Score: 1

    You're a fucking disgrace to your nation.

  6. Re:Nissan on Tesla Motors Turns a Profit For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Yep Portugal is signed up too now, and they've also built a battery factory here in Sines, cars are due next year :)

  7. Re:EU is still not grown up on EU May Allow US To Keep Snooping On European Bank Data · · Score: 1

    Problems for the US or problems for the EU?

  8. Re:Sounds about right on How They Built the Software of Apollo 11 · · Score: 1

    I loved peeking and poking hex and then using the ridiculous command "Randomize" to run the Machine code.Not quite a Tardis tbh.

  9. Re:Proper Old Skool on How They Built the Software of Apollo 11 · · Score: 1

    Young uns never coded with chained together relays then?

  10. Re:59 Sq Miles for 1500 MW. Nuke Plant Better. on A Server Farm Powered By a Wind Farm · · Score: 1

    Ah that was just genius.

  11. Re:59 Sq Miles for 1500 MW. Nuke Plant Better. on A Server Farm Powered By a Wind Farm · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or have various windfarms in various locales around the country/planet. Then link them together with Buckminster Fullers idea for a world electricity grid. Just saying.

  12. Re:wake up folks need more nuclear power! on A Server Farm Powered By a Wind Farm · · Score: 1

    The statistic "only a single true melt down has occurred" does not reflect the fact that this this single meltdown made a huge tract of the Ukraine uninhabitable. Just one mistake ONE.

  13. Re:in all do respect on Security Threats 3 Levels Beyond Kernel Rootkits · · Score: 1

    ^^^butthead and beavis type snigger^^^

  14. Re:Wow on UK Police Raid Party After Seeing "All-Night" Tag On Facebook · · Score: 1

    40 something and left the UK to carry on.

  15. Re:Windows on Windows 7 Clean Install Only In Europe · · Score: 1

    I am using the Windows 7 RC. My wifi connects almosts instantly. When I dual boot back into the exact same install under XP it takes longer. When i come out of sleep I can use the system straight away, no waiting for the hard drive light to stop grinding. I don't have to organise the programs in my start menu into categories anymore as I can just hit the windows key and type the first few letters of a program name and then enter and it runs. Libraries, yes it's not WinFS but it's no half bad. When I have to reboot I can use the system much faster as many services and start up processes are delayed. All those little tweaks that we all wished MS had implimented earlier. I'm not saying it's perfect, but XP feels clunky and slow (yet familiar) when I go back there.

  16. Re:OOh on Windows 7 Clean Install Only In Europe · · Score: 1

    Agreed, Ccleaner cleans out Gigs.

  17. Re:OOh on Windows 7 Clean Install Only In Europe · · Score: 1

    I honestly ran Windows Millenium from 1998 til 2004 with no bluescreens and the system remained snappy till the end when I installed XP on another partition. I kept the harddrive ( a 20gb Maxtor ) and in 2007 dropped it in a dual core Acer box for fun and it booted fine, installed what it needed and made me go all tingly with nostalgia.

  18. Re:Me too, and I tried... on Most Companies Won't Deploy Windows 7 — Survey · · Score: 1

    I too tried both the beta and build 7048 before moving on to the RC and the 7048 was the most stable for me. I'm getting BSODs with the RC but I am going to stick with it for now because when I dual boot back into XP it seems so slow and clunky.

  19. Re:I'll deploy Win7 on Most Companies Won't Deploy Windows 7 — Survey · · Score: 1

    I think you can really call this Vista SP3 anyway and many of us find it faster and more stable than XP, although i did find the builds before the RC more solid.

  20. Re:ten thousand years on Hawking Says Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution · · Score: 1

    a titter from me too

  21. Re:Too many anaologies in the summary on Open Source Facing a Difficult Battle For Cloud Relevance · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I was.

  22. Re:DOOOOOOPED! on Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years · · Score: 1

    What are charites and unions doing investing in this sort of shit? Playing big man that's what.

  23. The great firewall of America on Judge Thinks Linking To Copyrighted Material Should Be Illegal · · Score: 1

    I do find it mildly amusing that in a time when we hear of wholesale meesing with the news in other "regimes" it seems quite acceptable for the current ruling junta of the US, the great corporations, are allowed to mess with freedom, free speech in such a way. You call it copyright, I call it censorship.

  24. Re:Militarism and the market. on The Battle Between Google and Facebook · · Score: 1

    Finally

  25. Re:Should get the same attention as fighter planes on Sequoia Disclosing Voting System Source To DC · · Score: 1

    A voting machine is the ONLY machine you have to comprimise. The rest follow without a whimper.