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  1. Re:Oh great on Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Every time you go to use the word "muzzie" like that, replace "Muslim" with "Jew" and run the sentence through your head before you say it.

    Does it still sound like a clever thing to say?

  2. Re:How DARE they! on The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment · · Score: 1

    I believe there's a product available from South America that can help you out there. Take a look at this helpful information (and no, it's got nothing to do with cleaning PCs).

  3. Re:How DARE they! on The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment · · Score: 2

    Well, not really. It depends where you live. I grew up in rural Scotland, where most people have at least somewhere to work on machinery. When the nearest garage is 30 miles away, you can either spend a lot of time looking at a broken machine or learn to fix it.

  4. Re:How DARE they! on The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most children just use their bikes to ride about on. One of my friends from school saved up to buy a really good racing bike, then spent all his time taking it apart and building better bits using his dad's workshop.

    Now he builds racing bikes professionally, and you *cannot* afford one.

    You get all kinds of geeks, everywhere.

  5. Re:BEEP on Sprint To Shut Down Nextel iDEN Network Next Year · · Score: 1

    It's probably optional - on DMR equipment you can turn off the "talk permit" tone which is presumably the same thing. You still get the FAIIIILLLLL beep if it can't associate to the repeater.

  6. Re:Universal Human Rights Are Above Relativity on Another Afghan School Poisoned — 160 Girls Hospitalized · · Score: 1

    "Thousands" of Scots

    You're right, of course. Make that "Hundreds". The rest are too busy saving American lives in Afghanistan.

  7. Re:Universal Human Rights Are Above Relativity on Another Afghan School Poisoned — 160 Girls Hospitalized · · Score: 0, Troll

    These weren't a people who go upset, laid down their arms and walked away. They fought to the bitter ends of it all.

    Okay, let's say you disagree with everything your government is doing. Imagine you hate that the government isn't just standing back and letting the medical industry force you to buy the managers new Jaguars, and imagine that you hate that the government is letting women go around with their heads uncovered and own property and stuff and even think they have the same rights as men, and allowing schools to teach that evolution is fact and creation is not. Imagine, in short, that you're a pretty typical right-wing "Christian" American.

    Now we invade you. Fucking thousands of deeply warlike Scots, and we are going to take your damn country apart - and you know we could. Once we win, we'll let you shape your government any way you damn well please, but we are taking your country now.

    Are you going to fight, or lie down?

  8. Re:Why would it need studies? on TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    For a while I lived in a 17-storey tower block that had four postcodes. Each postcode covered four floors, or five for the top floors.

  9. Re:It "might", but it doesn't. on UK "No Tracking Law" Now In Effect · · Score: 1

    Oh, it's on Wikipedia so it must be true, eh? If there were as many cameras as that then you'd think I'd have actually seen some about.

    Really the right-wing are the anti-privacy lot - the previous right-wing government brought in all the really nasty shit about monitoring phones and emails, and the current load of right-wing extremists are just making it worse. But that's what they're all about - high taxes and big government, with lots of expensive public-funded "jobs for the boys" projects.

  10. Not barbecue weather on Grilling For Geeks · · Score: 2

    For those of us in the northern hemisphere, it's summer. It's far too hot and sunny to have a barbecue.

    I mean really, who in their right mind wants to go and stand outside on a hot day, cooking hot food on a pile of hot burning charcoal? It's stupid.

    Have your barbecue in the winter, when you can stand round a big hot pile of burning charcoal eating hot things and there are no annoying midgies or mosquitos.

  11. It "might", but it doesn't. on UK "No Tracking Law" Now In Effect · · Score: 5, Informative

    The British Gov might have more cameras up on street corners than just about anywhere else in the world

    It doesn't, though. The whole "eleventy billion cameras in the UK" thing was made up by one of the screaming right-wing tabloids a few years ago, by counting all the CCTV cameras in about a half-mile stretch of the main street of a fairly scummy part of London, and multiplying by the total length of all the roads in the UK. So, the figure is probably accurate *if* you assume that every single road in the UK has lots of off-licenses, bookmakers, cheque cashing centres, "we buy scrap gold" shops the like - but, it isn't. For the figures to be correct, you'd have to have something like one camera every 60 metres or so on *every single road* right down to farm tracks.

    Most cities in the UK have no more CCTV than cities in the US - and if you think US cities don't have CCTV then I wonder what you think CCTV cameras look like...

  12. Re:midnight on Germany Sets New Solar Power Record · · Score: 1

    Midnight isn't the problem; power consumption is quite low then, and only drops more as the clock continues, only to start climbing well after dawn.

    I bet winter is a problem, although maybe not quite so far south as Germany. Power demand is pretty heavy from sunset to sunrise with a big spike in the morning that doesn't tail off until well after 9am, long before the sun is up.

  13. Re:USA should have some experience from Asia on Sound Increases the Efficiency of Boiling · · Score: 1

    I don't really like the "New York style" pizzas so much. I prefer the authentic Glasgow style pizza (per capita there are more people of Italian descent living in Glasgow than there is in New York, but there's not much in it) which has a really thick and fluffy pizza base almost like a bloody great big ciabatta.

  14. Re:USA should have some experience from Asia on Sound Increases the Efficiency of Boiling · · Score: 3, Funny

    Grandparent poster appears to be American. They don't have anything that people from the rest of the world would even recognise as food. Americans can only detect two tastes - high fructose corn syrup, and hot sauce.

    American bacon is bad enough even before they slice it to molecular thickness and fry it in cheap crappy oil until it's quite thoroughly burnt.

  15. Re:Party afiliation not important on New Jersey Mayor and Son Arrested For Nuking Recall Website · · Score: 3, Funny

    You left out the bit about how lefties are all godless blasphemers who want to destroy the natural order of the world by allowing women to go around with their heads uncovered or even drive cars.

  16. Re:Common Sense on SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme · · Score: 1

    bring the cost per pound to a standard weight.

    So since one of the cheapest things in the supermarket (5l bottles of generic mineral water) is also the heaviest, does this mean that we can look forward to depleted uranium flavour crisps?

  17. Idiotic Bumbling Morons on Worried About Information Leaks, IBM Bans Siri · · Score: 1

    This would be the same IBM that banned *all* cameras from its Greenock site - not even allowed to be left in your car while you're at work. The ban also included forward-looking CCTV and reversing cameras in lorries, like the dozens of lorries that came to site every day.

    Then they bought all the managers smartphones, with cameras.

  18. Re:Steeling an old Jobs line. on Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android · · Score: 4, Informative

    As documented here...

  19. Re:Yay it's a lose-lose! on Jaguar and Land Rover Angle For Production In China · · Score: 1

    I've driven an American car, in fact I've driven a couple of them. It gets pretty tedious trying to keep up with normal UK motorway traffic with that 6.5 litre engine banging off the rev limiter at 80mph.

  20. Re:Yay it's a lose-lose! on Jaguar and Land Rover Angle For Production In China · · Score: 1

    I guess if you can't work out how high your vehicle is, how a doorlock works, or how to change gear then you're going to run into some sort of problems...

  21. Re:Yay it's a lose-lose! on Jaguar and Land Rover Angle For Production In China · · Score: 0

    Yeaahh.... That probably sounded a lot better inside your head, didn't it? Maybe it should have stayed there.

  22. Re:Yay it's a lose-lose! on Jaguar and Land Rover Angle For Production In China · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have you ever driven an American car?
    You get the high maintenance *and* the shit fuel economy - but not only that, you get poor braking and handling, lacklustre performance *and* poor ergonomics and aesthetics!
    Now how's that for a package?

  23. Re:Yeah, because... on UK Police Roll Out On-the-Spot Mobile Data Extraction System · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bear in mind that the UK consists of four different countries and a bunch of principalities, and at least one country - Scotland - has entirely different laws and indeed an entirely different legal system to all the rest. About the only thing we share with the rest of the UK is our currency and our mains voltage.

  24. Re:Either pay or ads on Broadcast Industry Wades In On Dish Network's Hopper · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Here in the UK, the BBC channels are ad-free, iPlayer is ad-free and the rest of the FTA channels have about half as many adverts as the US. Sky TV is pretty ad-heavy, but then it's the same group of companies as Fox.

    Don't want to pay *at all*? Don't get a TV licence (which is a bit selfish, since that pays for the ad-free BBC radio and TV, and is about £12 per month), and don't watch off-air TV or "live" iPlayer.

    Of course bittorrent is *always* ad-free...

  25. It's not "the UK". on UK Police Roll Out On-the-Spot Mobile Data Extraction System · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Metropolitan Police are in London. That's one city. It's the capital city, and it's a pretty big city, so there is a police force that deal with pretty much just that. They don't even deal with the outlying parts of the Greater London area.

    If the police in Washington DC rolled this out, would you say "US Police"? No, because that would be stupid. It's one city, not the whole country.