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  1. Re:Additional story tag on Study Finds Alcohol, Not Marijuana, Is the Biggest Gateway Drug For Teens · · Score: 1

    "Alcohol and tobacco are easier to control because production of a high quality finished product is much more difficult."

    True, look at Budweiser/Anheuser Busch for example.

  2. Re:Wal-Mart doesn't outsource their IT on General Motors To Slash Outsourcing In IT Overhaul · · Score: 1

    I heard this when I was working in BT's data mining group back in 1997 or something. It turns out to be not true I think: http://web.onetel.net.uk/~hibou/Beer%20and%20Nappies.html (plus other cites off snopes)

  3. Re:I don't want this. on British Airways Plans To Google Passengers · · Score: 2

    bonus points; if my bags come out at the carousel the destination airport, that would be nice too.

  4. Re:Meanwhile in Scotland... on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    But how are you coping with the almost unprecedented high of 16 degrees Celsius?

    (pissing it down in Bristol, at least we haven't got an amber weather warning like in the Midlands/Yorkshire way.)

  5. Re:"Microsoft's Downfall" on Microsoft's 'Cannibalistic Culture' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "The first optical mouse."
    Bollocks. I was using a SUN optical mouse way before MS came out with anything.

  6. Re:I admit, I was wrong ! on Home Office To Ignore Wikipedia Founder's Petition Against O'Dwyer Extradition · · Score: 1

    "- a place where the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of round table"

    That's horseshit we feed to tourists I'm afraid.

  7. Re:I admit, I was wrong ! on Home Office To Ignore Wikipedia Founder's Petition Against O'Dwyer Extradition · · Score: 1

    Sad that this is modded informative, but accurate enough. The last lot wouldn't have been any better in this case either I suspect.

  8. Re:EU bailout on EU Court Upholds Microsoft Antitrust Fines · · Score: 2

    ARGH! We get this blatant lie every FUCKING time this subject comes up. Would it kill you to google? Because you're very, very wrong.

  9. Re:Well, duh on On Orbitz, Mac Users Offered Pricier Hotels First · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not doing the same damn thing - read the fine summary at least. It's showing different more expensive hotels, not adding a 30% Mac mark up!

  10. Re:Too many idiots are pissing in the pool. on The NTP Pool Needs More Servers — Yours, If Available · · Score: 1

    ooh, me too! i had a complaint to abuse@university.nz along similar lines.

    We were stratum 2 for New Zealand. They had somehow configured their crappy Windows box to be stratum 1, and then wondered why they got a whole load of queries. Feckin eejits.

  11. Re:Mensch vs. Occupy on 2 New Social Networks With Very Different Political Twists · · Score: 1

    Yeah; time was - pre-2000 or so - you needed to find some cafe with an Italian with a proper coffee machine - nowadays we have Costa and Nero though, who for my money, make better coffee.

    Nice cake in Starbucks though, can't deny it.

  12. Re:Attractive female politician + coder?! on 2 New Social Networks With Very Different Political Twists · · Score: 1

    No, she's not - was nice to see her to stand up to Murdoch though.

    But she also said on TV that the Occupy protesters couldn't complain about anything if they bought Starbucks coffees, as that was the capitalistic system in action and it's all the same, isn't it? Buy a Starbucks coffee, endorse the military-industrial complex and the banking sector, apparently. (wtf?)

  13. Re:Framerate, baby! on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1


    1. In Wellington, NZ, it's winter. No heatstroke possible, trust me.
    2. The rest of your comment makes even less sense, because no-one is claiming that the framerate is going the best thing or only good thing about this film - you've just made that up inside your own head.

  14. Re:Back to 1654 on Proposed UK Communications Law Could Be Used To Spy On Physical Mail · · Score: 1

    It's "Plus ça change plus c'est la même chose" - or as they say in Thailand, "same same, but different".

  15. Re:Wow on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1
  16. Re:He's mostly right on Intel Dismisses 'x86 Tax', Sees No Future For ARM · · Score: 1

    AAAARRGH! The whole damn point of RISC is that there's no microcode. Small number of FIXED width instructions, that do one thing and do it well.

  17. Re:Speed versus complexity on Intel Dismisses 'x86 Tax', Sees No Future For ARM · · Score: 0

    On which version of ARM is this? because I used to quite happily use r0 through r12 and frankly, r14 if I put it back to it's correct value before it was needed.

  18. Re:I thought water evaporated on Why Groundwater Use May Not Explain Half of Sea-Level Rise · · Score: 1

    THANK YOU!

    Please, someone tell the British Meteorological Office that water evaporates, forms clouds and this can lead to occlusion of the sun at times. I'm sure they'll be EXTREMELY GLAD that someone bothered to mention it to them.

  19. Re:Troll is in the eye of the beholder on House of Commons Could Force Social Networks To Identify Trolls · · Score: 1

    Well played sir!

  20. Re:Not Everybody Worships Turing, Sorry on Honoring Alan Turing, "Father of Computer Science" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What? A UTM is a mathematical model of a computer; yes, even your beloved parallel computers can't do anything fundamentally different to a UTM. The guy wasn't suggesting it as a programming paradigm, he was using it to prove things about Computability.

  21. Re:Father of the computer science ? on Honoring Alan Turing, "Father of Computer Science" · · Score: 1

    "[Computer science] is not really about computers -- and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes...and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments. Now the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments: when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use."

    E.W Dijksra.

  22. Re:Distrust on Google Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft, Nokia · · Score: 1

    What the actual fuck?
    DNS servers? Plenty of others.
    Email? Plenty of other providers
    ISP? No.
    Search? Yes, there are other search providers. You can configure you web browser to use different ones.

    How is it hard not to use google?

  23. Re:I may be wrong ... on FCC Boss Backs Metering the Internet · · Score: 1

    Bush; least bad? I'll take ineffective over stupid any day. Kerry wouldn't have got hundreds of thousands of people killed.

  24. Re:Why delete the recordings? on US Justice Dept Defends Right To Record Police · · Score: 1

    Fuck you.

  25. Re:Really??? on NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death · · Score: 1
    Didja not even read the fine summary? I can see your accident thing, kind of. But it's a half dozen risk factors, only cancer doesn't change.

    You would expect diabetes to be higher in sedentary occupations, because Bob knows that a lot of office workers are fat bastards.

    "Coffee drinkers were less likely to die from heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, injuries and accidents, diabetes, and infections, although the association was not seen for cancer. "