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  1. Re:Oops. Hell freezing over? on Microsoft Agrees To License ActiveSync To Google · · Score: 2, Insightful

    RFC 666

  2. Re:Gray Hat? on Houston Courts Shut Down By Malware · · Score: 2, Funny

    But really, think about it. How did they pick the name?

    Red Hat was taken.

  3. Re:STFU... on Stanford's Quantum Hologram Sets Storage Record · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sweet... now they're just a 'T' and 'F' away from writing something useful.

    That's just cynical. Everyone knows that this is just a step towards the ultimate goal - an 16-atom-tall image of Princess Leia.

  4. Re:how is this news? on Windows 7 To Come In Multiple Versions · · Score: 2, Funny

    That, or some particularly unsubtle advertising.

  5. Re:Ring Ring! on Toward Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Technology · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even a flock of geese can put a plane in the Hudson, how hard would it be for a computer?

  6. Re:Niche operation perhaps... on Toward Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Technology · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I dunno. One of the things I quite like about playing video games is that nobody actually dies.

  7. Re:interesting idea on We're In Danger of Losing Our Memories · · Score: 1

    Coastguard

  8. Re:what are the exit policies of the army? on US Army Files Found On Second-Hand MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    I'd be less worried about petty theft in that case as I would about getting shot, to be honest.

    Two Australians were shot dead in the Netherlands by the IRA back in the early 1990's. They'd apparently been mistaken for off-duty British soldiers as they were driving the same type of car as they usually drove.

  9. Re:Yawn on Jumping To Ubuntu At Work For Non-Linux Geeks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Speak for yourself. I just learned that someone's apparently still listening to The Prodigy.

  10. Re:Spy vs. Spy on What, Me Worry? MAD Magazine Going Quarterly · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Spy vs Valerie Plame" just doesn't have the same ring to it

  11. Re:Mystery Pits on Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump · · Score: 1

    They made a desert and called it peace ...

  12. Re:"Soyuz 4/5 Made History 40 Years Ago Today" on Soyuz 4/5 Made History 40 Years Ago Today · · Score: 2, Funny

    Given that about 4/5 of the mission worked, it's reasonably accurate.

  13. Re:smithers! on In-Depth With the Windows 7 Public Beta · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your family videos won't play because of DRM - who are you, Brad Pitt?

  14. Re:but where is the cheese? on Chandrayaan Maps Apollo Missions · · Score: 1

    C'mon, it's a Wallace and Gromit reference, mods.

  15. Re:3.5 mm? o.o on Palm Announces Killer New Phone · · Score: 1

    You don't get married, you end up using a Palm. QED.

  16. Re:Matrix on Interesting Uses For a USB LED Screen? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This really needs mod points.

  17. Learn from the Russians on Start Saving To Buy Your Space Shuttle Now · · Score: 1

    Use some of that $42M to build a really, really good roof.

  18. Seriously pro-click on 2,100-Year-Old Antikythera Device Recreated In Working Form · · Score: 1

    Check out the article for the video of the model in operation. It's amazing to watch - the indicator for the Sun, Moon and planets move forwards and backwards to accurately replicate their movement, while a little ball turns to shows the phase of the Moon.

    It's a fascinating device. I've got Decoding the Heavens on order from Amazon in the UK, and can't wait to get it.

  19. Re:Look, really? on Jobs Not Giving This Year's Macworld Keynote · · Score: 5, Funny

    We know Steve is going to die, someday.

    Even if it's only for three days.

  20. Re:As someone who has never used Second Life on Microsoft Plans VR Simulation of Everything? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has just worked out how to finally outsource shop assistants to the third world.

  21. Does this mean we're getting nukes? on It's Official, Australia Needs a Space Agency · · Score: 1

    Look out New Zealand!

  22. Re:Outrage! on A Brief History of Features Apple Has Killed · · Score: 1

    I've never tried - any editing I've ever done was nonlinear, on a copy transferred from the camera. With a lot less than the 160/250Gb HD space that the new Macbooks give, incidentally.

    That may not be a practical path for people doing professional video editing, but then those are the kind of people who you'd expect to go for the MBP.

  23. Re:Outrage! on A Brief History of Features Apple Has Killed · · Score: 1

    Some MiniDV cameras can transfer video using USB or Firewire. My 2yo Panasonic does it, and it's not particularly high-end.

  24. Re:Code Names? on Microsoft Submits Windows 7 for Antitrust Review · · Score: 1

    Everyone now gets to make their own codename for Vista. Pick an adjective.

  25. Re:While You're At It on Beatles and iTunes At Last? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you go back and listen to the Anthology CDs, you realise just what a godsend they are to unauthorised mashup creators. CCC's Revolved relied heavily on Anthology samples, for example.

    As much as I'd love to hear the studio stuff, they'd have to have an eye on that sort of reuse.