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  1. Re:Now is the time on WordPress.org Hacked, Plugin Repository Compromised · · Score: 1

    America / American is not a race.

  2. Re:that's one reason I post here as AC on How the Web's Relationship With Anonymity Has Changed · · Score: 2

    slashdot / gmail / bbc / youporn (and the rest) / amazon. My internet history is sad sad sad.

  3. Re:A challenge on How the Web's Relationship With Anonymity Has Changed · · Score: 1

    "Governments have capability" - Hmm, I see what you mean.

  4. Re:A challenge on How the Web's Relationship With Anonymity Has Changed · · Score: 3

    Bruce, is that you?

  5. Yeap on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's the way to do it when you've got nothing. How awful must his life have been to think that prison is a step up.
    I love the NHS.

  6. Re:Cool! Meanwhile... on Biggest Changes In C++11 (and Why You Should Care) · · Score: 0

    Well, you'll be on the losing side so I guess you have a reason to worry. Did you know they are talking about the PS4 coming out in a few years?

  7. Sorry, I only have "the pile would reach to the moon and back x amount" or number of double decker buses jumped by and or Eddie Kidd / Evel Knievel my mate Dave.

  8. Re:Creationists? on The Average Human Has 60 New Genetic Mutations · · Score: 1

    yes, but I got meta flamehooked.

  9. Re:Creationists? on The Average Human Has 60 New Genetic Mutations · · Score: 1

    There isn't a big enough flame bait mod point for this one and I've got all 15 sat waiting to be used. :)

  10. Re:Where's the "idiots" tag? on Italy Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do you think it would help if they pointed out that bean sprouts killed more people this year than the Fukushima power station "disaster"?

  11. Re:Where's the "idiots" tag? on Italy Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Yes, why not.

  12. Re:A bit of local knowledge on Experimental "Smart Town" To Be Built In Japan · · Score: 1

    It will be half the time is was going to be, put it that way. More to the point, when a crazy hits the place, every house will be covered in panels soon. Considering how dependent they are on oil imported I'm surprised it has not happened sooner. - No I'm not, they had cheap energy from nuclear.

  13. Excel on Windows 8 Previewed At D9 · · Score: 1

    I noticed he didn't use Excel or Word. He just scrolled about a bit and swapped windows via 20 different methods.
    The problem with touch screen is 100% of the time your own fat hands are in the way when you go close to poke something. Sure they can make the buttons huge but that doesn't work for complex things. I still don't think touch screen is of much use for productivity with an button UI. Better tools and gestures need to be made.

  14. Re:huh? on UK Plans Cyber Weapons Program · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying war is great. I'd like the trillions spent on good things too. But spending money on defence is a waste if you cannot stop the offence. There is a waste to keep replacing obsolescence in defence. Best idea would be for people to get along on the space ship earth. Switzerland isn't camping out. They have nothing to take.

    For an interesting take on wars and such watch Rob Newman's History of Oil.
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5267640865741878159

  15. Nexfix pass word on Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password · · Score: 1

    If I had Nexfix I would change the password to "admin".
    if it wasn't that already.

  16. Re:Hahahahaahah on Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sir, please remain where you are. A customer satisfaction response team will be with you shortly.

  17. A bit of local knowledge on Experimental "Smart Town" To Be Built In Japan · · Score: 1

    Will this work? Yes. They've done it before. For anyone who has been to the TGS and walked to Makuhari Messe you'll see they are quite able to make a whole place. They called it Mihama-ku in Chiba
    Fact 1. The Japanese cannot live without a constant flow of great places to eat in so local jobs and little shops to will be build before the houses I'm sure.
    Fact 2.There will be a train station and 1 hour on a Japanese train takes you as far as *50 hours on an English train so commuting to a job will not be a problem. (also your company pays for your ticket)
    Fact 3. They don't do terraced housing so it's all detached or a blocks of flat. Sound proofing stop murders.
    Fact 4. These places are not tiny. They have a minimum room size by law. I've seen a lot of 3 bed houses in the UK and the 3rd bedroom was big enough for just a bed and that's all. In Japan you can't make rooms that small. Once they've filled it up with all their stuff it becomes small mind you.
    Fact 5. Everyone is work work work work working class so it will not be some "ghetto for the middle class" as I read above.
    Fact 6. Now that Japan has gone solar, this tech is about to take off. We'll have 50% efficient panels soon.

    note: I didn't think Mihama-ku was very nice as a future goes. It reminded me of playing syndicate wars on the Amiga. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihama-ku,_Chiba
    *I think their train hour is 2 hours for the UK. You'll be crushed to death so time doesn't matter.

  18. Re:huh? on UK Plans Cyber Weapons Program · · Score: 1

    You've never played any game CnC game?!? Camping out never works in the long run. You need both and more of one at different times. ALSO if people are too scared to hit you, you tend not to need it. Sure the US got hit in 11/9; but all that did what open up a trillion dollar spending frenzy chest to build more ordnance and some rape guys at US airports.

    I'm sure there is some point to the wars. I can't see it. but there must be some point.

  19. Re:Decline in P2P? on World Internet Traffic To Top 966 Exabytes In 2015 · · Score: 1

    I only consider one of those things a crime!?!

  20. Re:Decline in P2P? on World Internet Traffic To Top 966 Exabytes In 2015 · · Score: 2

    but p2p is how paedophiles, terrorists and people who copy files use the internet. They are all evil and the same and and and .. . must be stopped!

  21. Re:I wish I was a Dalek on Daleks To Be Given 'A Rest' From Dr. Who · · Score: 1

    Oh maybe more camp IS needed. I must be in the uncanny valley for camp; But I'll never be able to stand Catherine Tate for more than 3mins. I'd still know it was her under a pile of fezzes.

  22. I wish I was a Dalek on Daleks To Be Given 'A Rest' From Dr. Who · · Score: 1

    After years of not being able to stand Dr Who, I've only just been able to watch this new one. Does it need to be camp? I know the BBC can't spend money; but even the The Dresden Files looked better. I wish liked it more. I would go back and watch the old ones to try and get into it; but his penchant for annoying ginger girls puts me off.

  23. Re:Wonderful! on Upscaling Retro 8-Bit Pixel Art To Vector Graphics · · Score: 1

    Well as this stage the computer doesn't know about these things, so tons of these little bit of code will come together over many years to make this work. You could compare frames of animation and then make a bone system from the moment. Make assumption about how two bits are linked and try to fill in the gaps.
    Reduce all the spline to the lowest possible number to make the lines more natural.
    This is interesting work.

  24. Re:What a load of bollocks on New Bill Pushes For Warrants To Access Cloud Data · · Score: 1

    The news doesn't give that type of perspective. They show whole towns thrown about the place and 80 dead, more expected. No point having a tornado proof house really. Just have a place to hide and keep safe and rebuild later.

  25. Re:What a load of bollocks on New Bill Pushes For Warrants To Access Cloud Data · · Score: 1

    I'd not evacuate, I'd just think really hard about living there after my house was blown away.
    Given the huge area I've just been made aware of. I am suggesting there is a market for decent looking affordable tornado proofed housing. Its a shame there isn't a government and insurance company backed tax loss subsidy scheme to research this. Japan has done it with earth quake proof it's building to help it's population.
    To gain back land and to reach new engineering heights is a good reason to do things that seem impossible, impractical and are a bit very hard.