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  1. Amiga A1200 on The Death of Booting Up · · Score: 1

    These times do not really impress me. Why? I owned an A1200 with a hard disk. My Amiga A1200 booting from a hard disk boots to Workbench in under 10 seconds. The machine was manufactured in 1992, has a 68020 CPU running at 12.5MHz with 2MB RAM.

  2. Re:That's Quite Interesting... on Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons · · Score: 1

    Yep I saw that when it was on TV and was about to post a similar comment.

  3. Re:Seriously? on Ripping CDs Set To Be Legalized In UK · · Score: 1

    Yep that's my understanding of it :)

  4. Re:Seriously? on Ripping CDs Set To Be Legalized In UK · · Score: 2

    IIRC It's not illegal to tape something from the TV. It is illegal to keep that recording for more than 14 days after the original broadcast.

  5. Re:The UK on Will Capped Data Plans Kill the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    The article cited consumer data connections, such as your home broadband and mobile internet services. I was saying that regardless of the caps that we are subject to here in the UK, people still manage to watch all their youtube videos, use gmail, and download movies just fine. Even with all the stuff my phone syncs I never get through more than 500MB of data per month on my mobile phone, even though my cap is 2GB, for example.

  6. The UK on Will Capped Data Plans Kill the Cloud? · · Score: 2

    No, it won't kill the cloud. Nearly every Internet service here is capped in some way.

  7. Hmm on Apple Patents Tech to Stop iPhones Filming in Venues · · Score: 1

    I can't see this being as popular with Venus as Apple will hope. Market exclusivity = high cost of installation, and then you're only targeting Apple devices that have this system. That means small venus are not going to bother, and everyone will just get another device to record or take photos. The system is just not workable.

  8. Re:Regarding question 1 on SSL Cert Weaknesses Exposed By Comodo Breach · · Score: 2
  9. Re:Regarding question 1 on SSL Cert Weaknesses Exposed By Comodo Breach · · Score: 1

    Isn't Iran on the US Blacklist for crypto exports? It's not racist, the US do impose such bans on countries they don't like.

  10. Re:ipv6 support on Cisco/Linksys routers on Cisco Linksys Routers Still Don't Support IPv6 · · Score: 1

    I know the feeling. I do however now have ip6tables and even dhcpv6. I had to compile them myself though. And because I'm using ISC DHCP that setup takes an extra 100MB on an external drive.

  11. Re:Destroy the planet! on Thunderstorms Proven To Create Antimatter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Change the names and it's basically the new Star Trek film...

  12. Re:He's right on Rushkoff Proposes We Fork the Internet · · Score: 1

    I've joked about this with friends before, but with the values the Internet started with being rapidly eroded, we definately need this. Unfortunately I can't see us as the minority here seriously being able to fund it. Sure, we connect a street with Cat6, but what about between cities, countries and continents? Someone will have to foot the bill.

  13. "Adult Only" on Microsoft Puts the Kibosh On Kinect Sex Game Plans · · Score: 1

    Isn't that effectively what a game rated 18 (UK rating) is?

  14. What's wrong with the current system? on Periodic Table of Elements To Get an Update · · Score: 1

    Current atomic weights are based upon the weighted average of the atomic weight of the isotope against it's abundance. Everyone who knows anything about the periodic table knows that these numbers are not absolute.

  15. The UK on Level 3 Shaken Down By Comcast Over Video Streaming · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You guys have it better than we do at the moment. Ed Vaizley (Communications Minister) has supported the idea of paying extra for access to certain content on the internet. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11773574 As you can imagine I'm not too pleased about this, you guys are still looking to your government to help you, ours has already said they'll do the opposite.

  16. Re:No science? on Shadow Scholar Details Student Cheating · · Score: 1

    I earned my Computer Science degree the old fashioned way. Hard Work. This is why the World is full of people who cannot do their own job properly, because someone else did the learning for their qualification.

  17. Pirates? on Will Netflix Destroy the Internet? · · Score: 1

    This makes the "Piracy is destroying the Movie industry" argument null and void if you ask me, as it is evident that more people will stream movies legally than download them illegally...

  18. Keep up... on New Programming Language Weaves Security Into Code · · Score: 2, Informative

    Come on Java guys, .NET has had a policy framework for years! It's called Code Access Security, It's what prevents WPF browser applications accessing most of your pc. applications run from internet zones are denied access to environment variables even.

  19. One of many... on Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave · · Score: 1

    Personally I see this being just one incident of many of this kind. They seem to have gone mad with power with the new IP they think they own... The Conflict of Interest being that the OO.O council are not out to make money, and Oracle have proven that that's all they really care about. There was a similar story regarding the use of Java in Android.