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  1. Re:Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Arms on Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover · · Score: 1

    No kidding. Let's see...if I'm guessing right here:

    Dido - Carthaginian (~Tunisia, so North African)
    Florian - makes me think Florence, which is in Italy
    de Bounevialle - definitely sounds French
    O'Malley - Irish
    Armstrong - pretty stereotypically a U.S. English name

    Maybe all her friends call her "Cablinasian" for short ;-)

  2. Re:Broken News... on Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover · · Score: 1

    Whoooosh. Thank you, Captain Literal.

  3. Re:Glad I don't have a smartphone on G2 Detects When Rooted and Reinstalls Stock OS · · Score: 1

    LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!

    Wow.

  4. The Ultimate Sanction on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    "It sends a robust message out to those intent on trying to mask their online criminal activities that they will be taken before the courts with the ultimate sanction, as in this case, being a custodial sentence."

    Weren't the Timelords always taking The Doctor to court over stuff, too?

  5. Re:Minecraft Tux on Minecraft Enterprise and 16-Bit ALU · · Score: 1

    Of course then I found out you can just hold down shift and walk backwards and you won't fall off

    They just added that 2 Fridays ago...and besides, you did it like a real man :)

  6. Re:Meh. Dwarf Fortress did it first. on Minecraft Enterprise and 16-Bit ALU · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I just YouTube'd Dwarf Fortress and the sudden urge to claw my eyes out overtook me. If you're into that kind of thing, more power to you, but...has anybody come up with at least a tile-based skin for it?

  7. Re:WIth all due repsect on Apple, Startup Go To Trial Over 'Pod' Trademark · · Score: 1

    IN THE ASS!

    With a donkey.

    ...redundant? :)

  8. Re:A rather small set of unit tests on Researcher Builds Machines That Daydream · · Score: 1

    Explain as in words, not holding up stuff and saying, "This. And this." Total cop-out.

  9. Re:Better idea... on CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code · · Score: 1

    taking snaps of bikini-clad neighbors. Problem solved. Patent not pending. Come as you are.

    And please put on some clean pants afterwards.

  10. Re:Wow. on CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code · · Score: 1

    They're in an Islam-majority country. What part of American culture *isn't* offensive to them?

  11. Re:Infinite loop on Is the Web Heading Toward Redirect Hell? · · Score: 1

    Set it as your homepage, add your browser to the startup folder, set your user account to auto-login, set your computer to sleep after a certain amount of time, enable wake-on-lan, and...crap, I'm stuck. Maybe setup a second computer with a script running to ping the PC every few hours?

    Now THAT's zero-click browsing.

  12. Re:How do you get offenders to stop? on Is the Web Heading Toward Redirect Hell? · · Score: 1

    Facebook's 400 character limit is much less objectionable, but you definitely bump up against them sometimes.

    Plus, facebook does a JavaScripty link-attaching thingie when you paste it in so you can delete the URL afterwards. I suppose the URL has to be 400 chars or less, but...

  13. Re:Ain't freedom a bitch? on Some Countries Want To Ban 'Information Weapons' · · Score: 1

    Are you being facetious? I have this thing against calling stuff "chilling", but...

    Pragmatism seems to lose its allure as the body count rises.

  14. Re:Ain't freedom a bitch? on Some Countries Want To Ban 'Information Weapons' · · Score: 1

    Despite what some think about my government and some of it's people, I feel so very fortunate to have been born in the US and I remind myself - and stories like this also remind me - how truly fortunate I am to live in a free society. And dumb comments about how the US isn't really a free society will fall on deaf eyes.

    Here in Europe we don't really consider America to be the Land of the Free anymore.

    Woops...

  15. Re:Just...one...more...turn... on First Reviews of Civilization V · · Score: 1

    That game is frickin' fantastic! Come join in some multiplayer if you're interested :-)

  16. Re:Just...one...more...turn... on First Reviews of Civilization V · · Score: 1

    City walls got drawn on the map in Civ II. They varied according to which architectural style you had, but there'd usually be a line around the bottom of the square. (link For comparison, Cherbourg does not have city walls; Vichy and Strasbourg do.)

    I tried FreeCiv and, while the graphics don't bother me at all, the game mechanics seemed horribly unbalanced: No matter what I tried, it seemed like every time I attacked a unit I'd inevitably lose. And this from a guy who's been playing Civ II for years.

  17. Re:DMCA Lutero on Intel Threatens DMCA Using HDCP Crack · · Score: 1

    Did the pope stopped him?

    He sure did his damnedest. The popes back then had shockingly little in the way of senses of humor.

  18. Re:Did they actually SEAL it? on BP Permanently Seals Gulf Oil Well · · Score: 1

    No one stipulated that the seal had to be alive when they threw it...

  19. Re:Killing me in my sleep? on U. Penn Super Quadcopter Learns New Tricks · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, imagine being killed by a flying army of vuvuzelas. Yech.

  20. Re:not protects on HDCP Master Key Is Legitimate; Blu-ray Is Cracked · · Score: 1

    And then they have the right---er, I mean ability---to sue you and force you to pay when you can't afford a lawyer. Wait...

  21. Re:Proof? on HDCP Master Key Revealed · · Score: 1

    380. No one manages to hack it for the next five years. They blame piracy anyway.

  22. Re:OTOH, there's jury duty... on Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen · · Score: 1

    Your ideal peer group involves women, women, and burning churches? Which of these things does not belong...

  23. Re:OTOH, there's jury duty... on Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen · · Score: 1

    Intelligence isn't really a big factor (more intelligent people, all other things being equal, may more readily see the significance of prosecution evidence, but they may also be more able to see tenable alternative explanations for the evidence presented and recognize reasonable doubt; remember that the question before the jury isn't whether they think the defendant is guilty, but whether the prosecution has proven the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt), though people who have such an inflated sense of their own cleverness that they are unlikely to listen through all the evidence and instead may be inclined to build their own mental story early based on their own biases and the parts of the testimony that confirm their own biases are probably, unless their biases seem to clearly align completely with one side (in which case, they'll certainly be unacceptable to the other) likely to be undesired by both sides.

    Ladies and gentlemen, that was one sentence. Come out and take your bow, Herr DragonWriter; your verb separation in that last sentence was of truly German proportions :-)

  24. Re:This takes a specialist? on Child Abuse Verdict Held Back By MS Word Glitch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Congratulations, you've just completely destroyed any kind of formatting more complicated than Tab and Newline. Other than that, yes, it works like a charm.

  25. Re:What the hell *is* Minecraft? on PayPal Withholding Indie Game Dev's €600,000 Account · · Score: 1

    That, and I'm surprised that nobody has pointed out that the defend part can be disabled if you just want to build.