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  1. Re:MythTV on Ask Slashdot: IPTV Service In the UK? · · Score: 1

    As he mentioned the cable company has to move it I'd think he doesn't have an antenna.

  2. Re:Online Advertising Response on Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies · · Score: 1

    It's the blanket block that annoys me; an app my company makes doesn't set permanent cookies, only session ones so it knows where in a process flow it is. Oh, well, Firefox users can get a pop-up like Safari so first party session cookies can work. Just as well our traffic has Firefox around the same usage as IE6.

  3. Re:How have patents helped the world lately? on The Patents That Threaten 3-D Printing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cyberdyne are due to make a consumer killer product real soon now...

  4. Re:Vista 2 on Windows 7 Still Being Sold On Up To 93% of British PCs · · Score: 1

    Even GEM was better than Windows Exec. However it was rubbish if you had a EGA (or even Hercules) graphics card. I knocked up a basic replacement in Turbo Pascal simply because I was fed up with it. Could probably have made tons if Microsoft hadn't come along with Win 3 at about the same time...

  5. Re:apple is still evil on UK Apple Shop Forced To Change Its Name · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you've never been to cider producing counties. Yeovil by night is... an experience.

  6. Re:But would they be ... on California Professors Unveil Proposal To Attack Asteroids With Lasers · · Score: 1

    Sharks are endangered. Even if they are to be used in a way that benefits the entire ecosystem of the planet there will be enough clamour from the hippies to prevent it. That's why Dr Evil has ill-tempered mutant sea bass.

  7. Re:Define "real name" on Facebook Can Keep Real Name Policy, German Court Rules · · Score: 1

    Your "real name" is whatever you decide to call yourself. You cab have more than one depending on the circumstances in which you use it.

    What Facebook wants is your "official name", as in what your tax office / passport agency knows you as. This, however, is a legal fiction purely for officialdom and has nothing to do with any site that functions as a social environment without connection to records of citizenship. So they can sod off.

  8. Re:Still overdue on Russian Meteor Largest In a Century · · Score: 2

    And immediately I spot the spelling mistake. A cardinal error for which I apologise.

  9. Re:Still overdue on Russian Meteor Largest In a Century · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm glad that no one was puceillalimous enough to post these puns as AC...

  10. Re:Left-Handed Dvorak on Ask Slashdot: Keyboard Layout To Reduce Right Pinky/Ring Finger Usage? · · Score: 1

    (Rick Allen) The drummer from Def Leopard's only got one arm. Bloodhound Gang notwithstanding, if you didn't know you probably couldn't tell.

  11. Re:I hope they paid him a bajillion dollars.... on Han Solo To Reportedly Return For Star Wars VII · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When as old as Han Solo you get, look as good you will not.

  12. Re:Doubtful on Alcoholism Vaccine Makes Alcohol Intolerable To Drinkers · · Score: 1

    Old joke: when asked if he wanted water in his whisky, the old sot barked "Water?! Fish fuck in water!"

  13. Re:Join the legion on Heavy Metal and Emergent Behavior · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I'd like to be in the middle of a 100,000 strong mosh. I can hold my own with the best of them but the potential for serious injury is too high.

  14. Re:This is blatantly illegal on Retail Copies of Office 2013 Are Tied To a Single Computer Forever · · Score: 1

    Which makes them in breach of consumer laws in UK. You buy a new PC, install Office on it and then the hard drive dies because of a faulty batch. You get a new hard drive from warranty (if you don't just demand a complete replacement which is your right) and you can't reinstall Office? Not fit for purpose.

  15. Re:Hopefully we can narrow this down to ONE on Opera Picks Up Webkit Engine · · Score: 1

    Where if Hixie don't like it, it ain't happening.

  16. Re:It's just "Ukraine" on Alleged Operator of Demonoid Released From Jail · · Score: 1

    This is like BBC radio DJs in the 70s / 80s always referring to bands like Sweet, Pink Floyd and Buggles by putting "The" in front, even when there were other bands they didn't, like Art of Noise and Brotherhood of Man which almost cry out for the definite article.

    I swear I heard "The Depeche Mode" once. Made me cringe.

  17. Re:find him, prosecute him on Local Emergency Alert System Hacked, Warns Dead Rising From Graves · · Score: 1

    But what's to be done when the man from Mars stops eating cars and eating bars and now he only eats guitars (get up)? He already shot you dead and ate your head after all.

  18. Re:GiB on When 1 GB Is Really 0.9313 Gigabytes · · Score: 1

    The proble is that a KB, where it equals 1024 bytes and sometimes erroneously portrayed as kB, is a compound unit, as it should be because a byte is not a SI unit, derived or otherwise. It was "defined" first and those who used it knew exactly what it meant.

    Contrast with a kB that equals 1000 bytes (usually portrayed erroneously as KB) which is a SI multiplier prefixed non-SI unit.

    Basically it comes down to the case of the first letter.

    The IEC had to paper over the cracks the hard drive manufactures created. They should have just demanded the manufacturers correct their marketing bullshit instead.

  19. Re:GiB on When 1 GB Is Really 0.9313 Gigabytes · · Score: 1

    It's 14 times 9.80665/2.2024 N at sea level. Obviously.

  20. Re:What's with the name, dude? on Rapiscan's Backscatter Machines May End Up In US Federal Buildings · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Given its function Rapey-scan is just as valid.

  21. Re:tap to share sucks on Woz Says iPhone Features Are 'Behind' · · Score: 1

    The problem with Exchange support is that it normally comes with a "allow remote data wiping" permission. iPhone users are used to syncing all their content with iTunes (even the Windows crapfest version) with one click as that is the default out of the box. As such they don't care about a wipe as it is easy to restore. Content and apps on Android are disparate and localised to the phone unless you jump through some hoops first so a remote wipe *destroys* your content.

  22. Re:Google undermining itself! on Woz Says iPhone Features Are 'Behind' · · Score: 1

    That's what you get when your product is made by a different manufacturer each time. Nexus S was a Samsung, based on the Galaxy with its Corning glass which is tougher than the bezel surrounding it. Nexus 4 is a LG and unnecessarily fragile.

  23. Re:Ok on Amazon Patents the Milkman · · Score: 1

    I'll have to double check but I'm sure all the major supermarkets in UK have had a recurring order facility for years. You get to pick a time slot as well.

  24. Re:Passwords are shit. on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 2

    Verified by Visa is like this with the added hassle of asking for three specific letters from the password. This is bloody annoying as it means having to tick off letters on your fingers / some mental map to pick the right ones. Even if you have an eight letter word as the complete password who keeps it stored as a byte array in their head? It only adds security by irritation to the one person who is actually authorised to use the damned thing.

  25. Re:Took me a second to see the logic... on UK Court: MPAA Not Entitled To Profits From Piracy · · Score: 2

    Unlike US, trespass in UK applies *only* to physical locations. Criminal trespass is applied to places like infrastructure (railways, electricity substations, etc.) and restricted areas like Downing St, royal residences and military bases.

    You cannot trespass on digital media.