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  1. Re:Poor choice of a name on OpenSUSE To Offer a Rolling Release Repository · · Score: 1

    I was going to ask the same question, but read TFA and realised this isn't quite the same as "OpenSUSE Factory", it's more like a kind of "OpenSUSE Factory Stable".

  2. Re:Interesting on 8pen Reinvents the Keyboard For Mobile Devices · · Score: 1
    I don't need to. You need to read the small-print, then you need to stop drinking the kool-aid. It's not the "fastest texting", it's the Guinness World Record for the fastest text message on a touchscreen phone.

    I equalled the Swype record on my first try on my BlackBerry Bold despite the tricky latin words in the message you're supposed to type. By my 3rd or 4th try I was beating it by a huge margin... And again, I'm not going to pretend to be a particularly amazing typist, I'm just an average BlackBerry typist.

  3. Re:Interesting on 8pen Reinvents the Keyboard For Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    You're honestly kidding yourself. I don't pretend to be a particularly amazing typist, but I can still trivially beat the Swype "world record" on my BlackBerry keyboard. Swype is not crazy fast, it's just quite a lot faster than typing on glass.

  4. Re:What about logging in over public WiFi? on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    Have KeePass or KeePassX type it, identically, for both of you?

  5. Re:But... the playlists! on BlackBerry's Encryption Hacked; Backups Now a Risk · · Score: 1

    x-1 in base x is 1

    Only for x=2 :-p
    10-1 in base 10 is 9, for example.

  6. Re:Adobe PDF zero day saved me on New Email Worm Squirming Through Windows Users' Inboxes · · Score: 1

    never mind the fact that is was a windows exe hiding as a .scr hiding as a pdf.

  7. Re:Politically prompted? on Dubai's Police Chief Calls BlackBerry a Spy Tool · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  8. Re:Great... on Man Patents Self-Burying Coffin · · Score: 1

    I wonder... what's the carbon footprint of sending someone up the chimney?

  9. Re:blah on Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic · · Score: 1

    If you believe in god, why would the existence of aliens prove that god doesn't exist?

    No, no, you misunderstand. This would destroy one's belief in the church. It was clearly a flying church, which is not a very easy thing to believe, therefore endangering one's belief in it ;-)

  10. Re:The lesser known Zen Coding koans on Zen Coding · · Score: 1

    Do, or do not, there is no try.

  11. Re:I'm not saying it can't be promoted. on Major ISPs Help Fund BitTorrent User Tracking Research · · Score: 1

    That's not BitTorrent. You might be thinking of Gnutella or Napster or something.

  12. Re:Part 3, please read on Anti Terror Honor System · · Score: 1

    I had to do something similar for Canadian permanent residency, and I included several boy scouts units, several amateur radio clubs, cross country running teams, swim club, the EFF, Slashdot, and a bungy-jumping club. I did, indeed, have to continue on another sheet... And for some reason they still let me into the country :-D

  13. Re:unpossible on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine was trying to explain the Scouts to another friend who genuinely didn't know what they were. He started by saying "have you heard of an organisation called the Hitler Youth?" :-D

  14. Re:I disagree on Adding Up the Explanations For ACTA's "Shameful Secret" · · Score: 1

    I used to drink in a pub that had a sign on the door of the gent's loo that started something like: "For recycling purposes, could beer and stout drinkers please use the left-hand urinal, cider and perry drinkers, please use..."

  15. Re:Bugzilla and Wiki on What Does Everyone Use For Task/Project Tracking? · · Score: 1

    I've seen excellent PHP code.

    [citation needed]

    :-)

  16. Re:Whodathunk on Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShipTwo · · Score: 1

    Virgin Music, Virgin Radio, Virgin Trains, Virgin Cola, Virgin Internet, and don't forget MATES Condoms - what with the change of brand? ;-)

  17. Re:Actaully, it seems pretty accurate on Inside England and Wales' DNA Regime · · Score: 1

    some form of criminal conviction or caution at any point in their life, which could be for a large array of fairly minor things

    Hey, you can get a caution for having noisy sex!

    (Erm, not speaking from experience, you understand! ;-)

  18. Re:No. on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but a Brit 4-way is about a foot long, and a US 4-way is slightly larger than your thumb. I hate the pathetic 110v (well, OK, except my kids have played with it and lived) but I like the multi-way splitters, they're so sweeet!

  19. Re:So... on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and Fate · · Score: 1

    ... with a mistake. #define DoIFaster DoItFaster

  20. Re:scary thing on US Agency Blocked Cellphone / Driving Safety Study · · Score: 1

    I find my wife's "directions" to be FANTASTICALLY distracting and dangerous. I forever found myself saying "too late!" by the time she said "Oh! sorry, turn right here, no, I mean left, no, that one". TeleNav has helped enormously, because now my wife can get on with arguing with TeleNav whilst I ignore both of them and get on with driving ;-)

  21. Re:Scare tatics on Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel · · Score: 1

    ... but hospitals across the world still give it as a pre-op before many operations.

  22. Re:Learn to dance on Where Does a Geek Find a Social Life? · · Score: 1

    I have to confirm that this is a really good idea. As the very least you will learn to be comfortable around girls

    Thus speaks "SolitaryMan" ;-)

  23. The Perimeter Institute recently gave a lecture... on Measuring the Hubble Constant Better · · Score: 1

    The Perimeter Institute recently gave a lecture on this, by Brian Schmidt, Australian National University - "The Universe From Beginning to End". I understand they will EVENTUALLY make these lectures available on their website, after they've made a bit of money by showing them on Discovery etc: https://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/en/Outreach/Public_Lectures/Public_Lectures/

  24. Santa? on Database of All UK Children Launched · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Santa already have this database, for every naughty or nice child in the entire world? Nobody ever complained that that might fall into the wrong hands! He does have somewhat less than 390,000 elves though, admittedly.

  25. Re:THERE IS ANOTHER SYSTEM on Wolfram Alpha Launches Tonight, On Camera · · Score: 1

    ... for sufficiently large values of 2.