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  1. Re:Why you are all wrong on QTFairUse6 Updated Hours After iTunes7 Release · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, the European Comission does consider that there is a right to purchase things free of conditions, and in the case of any transaction that looks like a sale, it is a sale, and the constraints the seller can put on the purchaser are very limited.

  2. Re:I Smell Paper Jams!!! on Xerox Reveals Transient Documents · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I was wondering why Office was having problems.

  3. Re:Depends who's pushing buttons, too. on When Can I Expect an Email Response? · · Score: 1

    So familiar.

  4. Re:Superiority of the Free Market. on Internet Connectivity Outside of the United States · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but I was getting 2Mb broadband from BT in February 2001. Well, at work I was.

  5. Re:In defense... on Internet Connectivity Outside of the United States · · Score: 1
    If you can get out of any part of a city spending most of the time on a 70mph standard road, then your city has a bad road problem.

    It's not so much the issue of grade separated dual carriageways all over the place as the amount of space wasted on junctions to make the curve radii acceptable to drive at that speed.

  6. Re:where do you think the money is coming from on Internet Connectivity Outside of the United States · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not the government.

  7. Re:32-bits? Uhhh... on A Humorous Introduction To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    I think the intention is that the reader from here laughs at the journalist, not with him.

    To be honest, I think the amount of numerical and scientific sloppiness that gets into newspapers does need a lot of ridiculing.

  8. Re:32-bits? Uhhh... on A Humorous Introduction To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    I guess that's why the article's referred to as humourous.

  9. Re:London Times? on A Humorous Introduction To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    It is the way life goes.

    Calling it The Times (London) would be a more canonical way to refer to it.

    Failing to capitalise "Times" is very poor form.

  10. Re:Why do people buy into this nonsense? on Smart Software Development on Impossible Schedules · · Score: 1

    Sampoong was definitely the management at fault, not the engineers.

  11. Re:lame on Slate Speculates on Internet Operating Systems · · Score: 1
    What kind of server stuff?

    I'd imagine setting, accessing and manipulating program state on the server. Seems pretty obvious to me.

  12. Re:The Register's List is Kind of Lame on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    Broadbean connection is actually a joke I made yesterday. Synchronicity or what?

  13. Re:Slightly OT -- other hackable fanless devices? on Linux Hackers Reclaim the WRT54G · · Score: 1

    The Linksys NSLU2 is easy to get linux on, not too pricey and has USB ports to deal with most stuff. It's got a 133MHz processor as standard, but you can make it 266 by unsoldering something. A nice easy machine for all kinds of things.

  14. Concerns over privacy at all time high? on Company Makes Inconspicuous Secure Cellphone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Really? I'm not aware of any particular events that are going on at the moment that would make people especially worrried about privacy.

  15. Hey there, don't go forcing consumerism. on Gadgets, Then & Now · · Score: 1

    The OP can walk for free.

  16. Re:Consider auto accidents... on Wildlife Defies Chernobyl Radiation · · Score: 1

    Of course, they go out the opposite window when you're talking about car crashes.

  17. Re:You Password Information is Incorrect on Why Phishing Works · · Score: 1

    That link's broken. Is there any way you can make something that works for me?

  18. Re:Supermarkets Defeating Chip & Pin on PIN Scandal 'Worst Hack Ever' · · Score: 1

    Isn't it the case that they swipe the card through the magnetic reader and at the end of the swipe it lodges in the chip reader? It certainly is in the Tescos and Sainsbury's I use. Still, no point in my spoiling a good bit of righteous anger, is it?

  19. Re:PIN Collisions on PIN Scandal 'Worst Hack Ever' · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Not because the bank only issued 3 different PINs, then.

    A truly shocking story.

  20. Re:Problem with solar power... on New Nuclear Power Plants in the next 5 years · · Score: 1

    I like proof by assertion, too.

  21. It's the World of Warcraft that teaches that? on World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things? · · Score: 0

    Funny, I thought it was the kind of thing that was universally applied.

  22. Re:Inspiron 700m Screen Scanner - Why Not? on Pen-Sized Color Scanner Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I've heard of one. There's a company called Visioneer that does them. Despite the fact that the CEO of the 12 person company I used to work at used to be their CEO, I know very little about them. On reflection, they do sound very handy.

  23. It depends on Stephen Jay Gould. on Christian Churches Celebrate Darwin's Birthday · · Score: 1

    I think that the essay that SJG's written is arguing for more than what is known as and has been known as for many centuries, a "God of the gaps", which is the straw man that you are demolishing.

  24. Re:There are Christians and there are "Christians" on Christian Churches Celebrate Darwin's Birthday · · Score: 1

    Well, of course, you have to ask whether bible worshipping Christians are really Christian at all, too.

  25. Funny, on High-tech Cars Replacing Driver Skill? · · Score: 1

    I doubt the difficulty the drivers had in the slalom could be anything to do with the fact that they were given a rear wheel drive car to us in it.