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  1. Re:Not my Dime! on Would You Pay 5 Cents For a Song? · · Score: 1
    I wonder if that tax would apply if you bought a system without a soundcard....


  2. Re:Leeching? OH, how terrible! on Mobile Users Plug-in Anywhere They Can · · Score: 1

    that really depends on the profit margin they make on the customer that takes your place after you...

    in other words; there are no simple answers or justifications.

    Places will complain if they dont like it.

    But does any one else recall the chap in japan that was charged with theft for doing this...

  3. Re:Leeching? OH, how terrible! on Mobile Users Plug-in Anywhere They Can · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't really count the battery's rating, as the transformation of power is not perfect.

    Take the rating of the transformer itself and it will give you a more accurate estimate, however I do agree with your point.

  4. Finally..! on Smarter Phones Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    A phone that replaces the need for full time interaction with women.

  5. Re:she/her ??? on Examining Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight · · Score: 0
    Agreed, however even more specifically in the UK we use Essex girls as the but of these jokes.


    As in:


    How does an Essex girl turn the lights on after having sex?

    She opens the car door.

  6. Re:she/her ??? on Examining Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight · · Score: 0
    Yeah, but you can always tell when a chick has been using a Mac to edit documents, because there is correction fluid all over the screen....



    (not really sexist, but the joke always makes me chuckle)

  7. Re:Bad, bad idea on Hardware That Recognizes You · · Score: 1

    Things *must* be bad over there in the states... I like living in the UK where you dont *need* a gun.

  8. Re:Let he who has not sinned, throw the first ston on Interview with a Spampire · · Score: 1

    Of *course* you can kill kittens!

    You have my express permission and support...

  9. Re:...by cheating! on 'Tit for Tat' Defeated In Prisoner's Dilemma Challenge · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not sure you read the article correctly.

    this is not cheating, what is happening is throughout the iterations the programs can experience the equivalent of morse code in the patterns of defections and co-operations in the form of the penalties.

    i.e.: 4yrs 4yrs free free 2years.

    As this is iterative, and no actual lifespan (in human terms) the pattern can become quickly evident. Kind of like a "penalty handshake".

    In this way one program can detect the intentions of what is happening, without actually communicating directly.

  10. Re:Mac on Linux on Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 Released · · Score: 2

    No, but I define "works" as "works" and "like a charm" as "better than anything else thats out there".

  11. Re:Mac on Linux on Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Unless, like me, you use PearPC, which works like a charm

  12. Re:Good use of $1 million? on Speech Recognition in Silicon · · Score: 1

    MMmmmm. Stale pretzels.

  13. Re:For people not in the know... on NIH Proposes to Open Tax-Funded Research · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing to do with knights then.....?

  14. Right. Not a geek then... on Man Stalks Ex-girlfriend With GPS · · Score: 1
    cause anyone with half a brian would


    a) Not get caught. Duh.


    b) Wite it up to a car battery


    c) Not need to have to do it in the first place


    d) If they reall, really needed to, wouldn't track the car, but track the cellphone. (easier/cheaper/harder to trace i.e swap sim, cover tracking legic tracking costs, redirect number, ask. I will tell you how.)


    e) Give up on her, beacuse clearly such a perfect specimen of manhood could have any woman he chose...
    f) Jump into the nearest river and remove himself from the gene pool.

  15. Re:Yuuummm.... on New Ad Technology Tracks Consumer Movement · · Score: 2, Funny
    Or get the urge to

    Get a free Fucking Ipod

  16. Re:I think it's an inside job on Walmart Stored Value Cards Compromised · · Score: 1
    Not used to being in this position, but sorry, I'm British...


    And no. I am not new around here. You are. (You are American,(Forgive nesting, but unless you are Indian.(feathers, not dots))(*thats*, netsting(brackets, not twigs(not that I dont like twigs)) i.e. you might be spanish, but even then thats later than many Vikings (who were here first (except for Native American Indians))), (But I divulge(with bad English, and punctuation).



    Walm*rt


    p
    SO. Please explain the astersik....


    Walmart, I am familiar with: its Asda. Pikey/chav Fortum and masons, much in the same way that burburrey is chav/essex tartan.


    Are us geek brits to assume that there is a:


    Wallm0rt


    Wallm4rt


    Wallm3rt


    Wallmirt


    C'maon.


    Play Fa*r.

  17. OK.. on New Ad Technology Tracks Consumer Movement · · Score: 2, Funny
    Conspiracy theorists can relax, however. The Human Locator can't yet identify, say, obese pedestrians and then bombard them with images of a cheeseburger and fries.


    Sooo. What fucking good is it, then???

  18. I for one... on Britain is the World's Surveillance Leader · · Score: 2, Funny
    ..welcome our comera wielding overlords.


    No, honestly!!


    Brb, someones at the doo....fds.....4.

  19. For the love of god on SCO Caps Legal Expenses At $31 Million · · Score: 1

    Do I get Karma for being repetetetetetive???

    http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=120056&cid =10122509

    Mod me down. I dare you. I double dare you. I have Karma to *burn*

  20. Re:What I'm more surprised by on Searching For Trouble With Google · · Score: 1

    Its so "neat" and surprising that Google even document it!

    http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html

    Cool!

  21. Hmm intriguing. yet predicatable on SCO's Finances, Legal Case Take Hits · · Score: 4, Funny
    Why have I seen so few arguments along these lines...?


    Any yes I *do* read slashdot. Check my ID.

    (though its the only time that might have happened that I would have been grateful for a *lower* number).


    The question being...



    How many geeks work for SCO?



    And how many moderate on Slashdot?

  22. Re:SP2 - as secure as any linux distro... on XP2 Spotted In The Wild · · Score: 1

    Actually the worst it can do is exploit a local vulnerability and get root.... Then it can do whatever it likes.

  23. Re:fsck me, highly improbably computers are the ca on Hardware That Literally Doesn't Stink? · · Score: 1

    ...and caffeine, apparently, is something it is very hard to avoid.

  24. Re:Cliche on The Spyware Inferno · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Which is nice... but did you get an Ipod...?

    Did your friends...?

  25. Re:No more /.? on It's Just the 'internet' Now? · · Score: 1
    Duh, not the same then is it...?


    Not needing to hold down shift, was kinda the point.

    Thank god enough brits read /. (yes /.)

    to understand irony otherwise I would be a total penis bird hot grits frist postin' goatse portman troll.