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  1. Re:All hail GLD on British Prime Minister Promises Default On Porn Blocking · · Score: 1

    Because not having the brand on a pack of fags makes all the difference to under-age smoking habits. It's bad enough that I can queue up at some supermarket counter behind a bunch of lottery playing sheep not knowing if they even have my brand in stock because it is all hidden away. Now you're complaining because some dick move that hasn't made a sod of difference in the one country it has been tried in (Australia) hasn't been implemented here? Piss off.

  2. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 5, Funny

    You need to tenderise leather shoes properly before you eat them. Unfortunately that takes hours and who has the time these days?

  3. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 2

    There's no need to panic. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

  4. Re:No Surprises Here on When the NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was only when they popped by with the full document from the FISA court that it became "legitimate". Before then it was simply a piece of paper that cannot have provenance attached to it, so what the attorney should have said is "it is probably legitimate".

    I've got a number of emails from Nigerian princes and domain renewal documents that are just as "legitimate"...

  5. Re:OOOh IQ thread. on IQ Test Pegs ConceptNet 4 AI About As Smart As a 4-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    Yes. Vocabulary does not indicate intelligence, merely memory and language exposure and its continued use as an indicator shows how flawed IQ tests are.

  6. Re:patching on Students, Start-Up Team To Create Android 'Master Key' Patch App · · Score: 1

    Hmm. The BlueBox app is reporting that my phone isn't patched even though I'm on 10.1.2...

  7. Re:Abusive speech is not good on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    Oh, you mean the meme: "Profanity is the literary crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers"?

    This is supposedly anonymous (according to Google) but is a paraphrased post (original was "last resort of") by vj on alt.tasteless in 1994. You had to be there to see it in context, when the world was a funnier place.

  8. Re:Should be fining the contractor, not the client on NHS Fined After Computer Holding Patient Records Found On eBay · · Score: 1

    Even if there wasn't a contract to shred the data, the contractor can still be prosecuted as they broke data protection laws. Putting an unwiped machine on eBay is all on the contractor.

  9. Re:Boeing Lucky? on 787 Dreamliner On Fire Again · · Score: 1

    On the plus side, there's plenty of water available to put out a fire in the Atlantic...

  10. Re:One system to rule them all... on 787 Dreamliner On Fire Again · · Score: 1

    LHR is the busiest two runway airport in the world (Schiphol is busier but has more runways). The flights are 45s apart (not 30s) at peak times.

    As an aside, LGW is the busiest single runway airport in the world where the flights are 60s apart at peak times.

  11. Re:Sea Level Map on City-Sized Ice Shelf Breaks Free Of Antarctica · · Score: 1

    There'll be less of Zeeland, that's for sure, but the rest will carry on as normal. They've had hundreds of years of practice after all...

  12. Re:In related news... on Sent To Jail Because of a Software Bug · · Score: 1

    This has been reported for years in Private Eye. The fact that MSM has only just started (and tries to claim impartiality by stating "allegations" when there are hundreds of court cases to reference) speaks volumes.

  13. Re:the revolution on UK Government Surveillance Faces Legal Challenge.. In Secret Court · · Score: 1

    The thing is that unless you live in a constituency where a Cabinet member is your MP you never get a chance to vote for or against them.

  14. Re:The magna carta does exist, you know. on UK Government Surveillance Faces Legal Challenge.. In Secret Court · · Score: 2

    Magna Carta was for the benefit of the barons, not the general population. Perhaps you're thinking of a document from 1688.

  15. Re:Wouldn't it be ironic on UK Government Surveillance Faces Legal Challenge.. In Secret Court · · Score: 1

    O tempora! O mores!

  16. Re: If it makes you sleep well at night.... on How Old Is the Average Country? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And we returned the favour by owning more of France than the French for over 300 years. Not content with that we then had the largest empire the world had ever seen. Not bad for a little island of drizzle.

  17. Re:Good on them on New Moons of Pluto Named Kerberos and Styx; Popular Choice 'Vulcan' Snubbed · · Score: 1

    At least that was a moon...

  18. Well according to the reboot there isn't a planet Vulcan anymore, so it seems appropriate that there isn't a moon Vulcan either...

  19. Re:I find it incredibly depressing... on U.S. Army Block Access To The Guardian's Website Over NSA Leaks · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the memo was classified. You know, just because.

  20. Re:Had this in the UK for years on Automated Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records On Drivers · · Score: 1

    ANPR cameras aren't signposted.

  21. Re:Poor reliability on Is Google Voice Doomed To Be 2nd-Class Messaging System? · · Score: 1

    You've been able to use it for three years?! Seriously, Google, sort your shit out and release it to ROW already!

    By the time they do, it'll be so old no one will want to use it...

  22. Re:Scare tactics on Tennessee Official: Water Complaints Could be "Act of Terrorism" · · Score: 1

    Well, colour me sheepish. I was under the impression that it originally came from somewhere north of Bavaria *via* Old Breton...

  23. Re:Scare tactics on Tennessee Official: Water Complaints Could be "Act of Terrorism" · · Score: 2

    Ex shepherd here:
    Hoggett is a term that has fallen out of general use, certainly, but anyone who keeps sheep knows what it is, plus a whole bunch of other terms besides, like bel-wether (sometimes belweather or bell-weather). Nowadays any sheep meat that isn't classified as lamb due to its age is usually called mutton.

    Nearly all terms used for sheep (including the word sheep itself) come from Anglo-Saxon / Old English.

    Offhand, I can't think of any words from French or Romance languages.

  24. One they don't use online or is common enough that the signal gets lost in the noise. I'm fortunate to have both scenarios working for me, so even if you discover what my real name is, I don't show up in the first ten pages of search results.

  25. Re: Tough ... on Stanford, Mozilla, Opera Launch Web Privacy Initiative · · Score: 1

    The copyright terms, yes. Obviously.