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  1. Re:Guns don't kill people... on Congress May Outlaw 'Attempted Piracy' · · Score: 1

    That sounds a bit like the run in I had with the guy down the pub the other night.

    He looked at me funny, I thought 'he's going to kill me' so I shot him in self defence.

  2. Piracy costs businesses money on Congress May Outlaw 'Attempted Piracy' · · Score: 1

    Piracy save a huge amount more businesses money that the number of businesses it cost money

  3. PGP is your friend on Botnet Mafia in Online Turf War · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If people actually started using the tools that have been available for years and signed their emails it would be a lot easier to spot the ones sent out by spam bots.

    It's amazing how hard it is to get a company to send you a signed email to prove who they are and even harder to send an encrypted email containing personal information to them even though everyone knows how insecure email it.

    Lazy Government,
    Lazy Companies,
    Lazy Consumers.
    The tools are there for free and have been for years.

  4. Re:Let's get this out of the way on Hubble Space Telescope Detects Ring of Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    that's Sheryl Clean Drop Crow to you

  5. Re:Responsibility on Harvard Prof Says Computers Need to Forget · · Score: 1

    Perhaps people should be more tollorant, accept people make mistakes and change their minds from time to time.

    Though looking at the divorce figures it seems the opposite is happening.

  6. Re:Don't worry... on Earth Bacteria May Hitch A Ride To The Stars · · Score: 4, Informative

    urine is sterile, unless you have some kind of abnormal infection up there in which case it's not (obviously)
    "What are the causes of UTI?

    Normally, urine is sterile. It is usually free of bacteria, viruses, and fungi but does contain fluids, salts, and waste products. An infection occurs when tiny organisms, usually bacteria from the digestive tract, cling to the opening of the urethra and begin to multiply. The urethra is the tube that carries urine from the bladder to outside the body. Most infections arise from one type of bacteria, Escherichia coli (E. coli), which normally lives in the colon."

  7. Re:Don't worry... on Earth Bacteria May Hitch A Ride To The Stars · · Score: 1, Informative

    urine is sterile. I should hope everyone washes their hands after taking a dump.

  8. How much do these things cost? on PS3 Price Cut To Follow End of Blu-ray Laser Shortage? · · Score: 1

    I've had a quick google(TM) and couldn't find any prices for blu-violet laser diodes, do they really cost that much that sony could chop $100 off of the price of the PS3?

  9. Re:Java on Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable · · Score: 1

    so you allow put's to all your pages, very secure.

  10. Re:Earlier death on Longevity Gene Found · · Score: 1

    but fructose has less calories than the equivalent sweetness of sugar, and I think it doesn't cause tooth decay (though I may be wrong on that one)

    The best answer would be to put a bit of speed in with sweet drinks so that you don't feel so hungry.

  11. Re:Java on Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable · · Score: 1

    To me performance and the amount of code you have to write comes second to stability, knowing what your apps doing and knowing you can fix it if there's a problem (even if that means there's a bug in Tomcat you have to fix).

    I've never had problems (that I couldn't fix) on Java/Tomcat/Apache/Linux so long as the hardware has Linux support. I frequently run into random problems that there's no apparent way of fixing without putting in some hideous hack and crossing my fingers on Visual Studio/.NET/IIS/Windows

  12. Re:Java on Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable · · Score: 1

    OK, you must have come across this one then.

    What verbs should you set for asp/aspx pages?

    Answer, Generally Head, Post and Get.

    Well unless the page randomly doesn't work then you have to set the verbs to all verbs. (Sometimes IIS works when you set them back to Head, Post and Get but it doesn't usually take too long before it starts to fail again and you have to set the verbs back to all verbs)

  13. Re:Java on Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable · · Score: 1

    You've been lucky then.

  14. Re:even easier on NASA Tackles Ethics of Deep-Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    I've spent many an hour hacking away whilst my girlfriend is begging me to come to bed.

    I'm guess I'm just sad, but if it gets me into space then you could only call be happy.

  15. Re:Answer without a question on Why Apple Should Acquire AMD · · Score: 1

    ITunes only works with IPods.
    IPods don't work with non-apple drm infested crap.
    MacOSX only runs on 'apple' hardware
    Apple killed of the attack of the clones.
    and many more

  16. Re:Java on Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's a simple example.
    When creating a virtual directory under IIS for apsx pages do you set the application up for Scripts or Scripts and Executables?

    Answer.
    You setup for scripts, well unless that fails in which case you have to setup for scripts + executables for no apparent reason leaving IIS vulnerable to a hacker dropping a cgi into the directory.

    I've never had similar problems with Apache/Tomcat.

  17. Re:Java on Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable · · Score: 1

    If you keep having 'problems' then maybe the issue is not with the technology.
    Your either deluded or you've never used Windows/IIS/.NET

  18. Re:Revenge of the Nerds says different on NASA Tackles Ethics of Deep-Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    Thinking about and actually getting round to doing are two completely different things

  19. Re:Java on Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable · · Score: 1, Troll

    .Net is Java without portability and with bugs. and don't even get me started on ASPX vs JSP.

    Unfortunately we have too much code to shift from .NET/asp to Java and most of our developers only know .net otherwise we would be a Java on Unix with Apache house instead of a .NET on Windows with IIS house that keeps having 'problems' with practically everything we try to do with the technologies.

  20. Re:Answer without a question on Why Apple Should Acquire AMD · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    especially when you consider how Apple likes lock-in

  21. Re:Excellent work but... on Ext3cow Versioning File System Released For 2.6 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your wrong, it also hurts those people who write drivers that aren't accepted into the kernel. And it also hurts end users or haven't you noticed the lack of Linux drivers for a lot of hardware.

  22. Re:Excellent work but... on Ext3cow Versioning File System Released For 2.6 · · Score: 1

    troll
    It would be better if the kernel has a stable ABI/API then the patch would work for any 2.6 kernel. /troll

  23. Pron on Videogames Really Are Linked to Violence · · Score: 1

    studies (I'm sure google will help you out) show that more liberal porn laws result in less sexual assaults.

    Why should video games / movies be any different.

  24. even easier on NASA Tackles Ethics of Deep-Space Exploration · · Score: 5, Funny

    Send geeks into space, everyone knows geeks are too interested in other things to bother about having sex.

  25. Re:maybe violent people like violent video games on Videogames Really Are Linked to Violence · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and maybe violent video games let them vent their frustration in a virtual world instead of going out in the the real word and venting it.