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  1. OLD on Wikipedia's New Archnemesis · · Score: 1

    can you spell OLD!?

    Why not post something about NASA returning to the moon in 15 years *heh*

  2. Re:That would make you on New Twist on Power Walking · · Score: 1

    Actually, he didn't run at all, but was followed onto the train by undercover officers, and sat down calmly on a seat just like anyone else. Until the armed police officers turned up afterwards and shot him, he wasn't behaving suspiciously at all.

    From the linked page:

    CCTV footage is said to show the man walking at normal pace into the station, picking up a copy of a free newspaper and apparently passing through the barriers before descending the escalator to the platform and running to a train.

  3. Useful on Making Ice Without Electricity · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they could do with this in LA

  4. Re:The Beeb on BBC Opens TV Archive to Remixers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Despite this I have to pay the mandatory BBC-tax every year, just because I own a television.

    No you dont. Detune your TV, unplug your aeriel, and you dont need to pay. You do need to pay if your watch Corronation Street.

    Sure I'm listening to their radio station, and watching their website

    You don't need a TV license for either of those things.

    with things like the BBC World Service) who don't have to pay this tax.

    The World Service (radio) is funded by the foreign office, not the TV license. World TV is funded by advertisers and is not available in the UK (theoretically).

  5. Re:That would make you on New Twist on Power Walking · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except they were wearing plain clothes, did not shout "police, stop!", he didn't run until after he'd picked up a newspaper, walked through the ticket bararier, and saw a train about to leave, same as any other london commuter

  6. Re:OMFG on Help Beta Test Slashdot CSS · · Score: 1

    I'd answer, but I'm too busy trying to catch these damn flying pigs!

    I assume that the pig's haven't porouted wings, but that they're in flying cars.

  7. Re:Please read the decision before freaking out on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1

    So lexmark are idiots. Surely it would make much more sense to give the $30 rebate after the cartrige is returned?

  8. Re:halfway, yea, right on Phoenix Mars Lander Hits Halfway Point · · Score: 1

    It's hit it's halfway point? It hasn't even launched yet!

    It's the Phoenix Mars Lander. It's currently Landed in Phoenix, so that's 2/3 the way there!

  9. Re:Wrong Way on Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox · · Score: 1

    But I won't do that on my workstation. Screwing with dependencies sucks.

    Hell yeah, but I live in the 21st century where we have package managers which automatically grab dependencies. I never compile stuff on my workstation (laptop), hell I've got a stock kernel. I just installed the distro and it worked. Same with my mythtv box, took 2 hours to set up, takes 10 seconds a day of preventative maintenence.

    I use linux because it just works.

  10. Re:Severance as long as non-disclosure? on Legal Arguments Can Hurt Tech Job Mobility · · Score: 1

    Don't sign a non-compete agreement. If it means you don't get the job, tough. Renegotiate your contract, or work for someone else.

  11. Re:not dead yet? on Walter Koenig Reprises His Role as Chekov · · Score: 4, Informative

    Whaa? You crazy. Kirk may have died (twice, IIRC) but William Shatner is doing pretty well with Boston Legal.

    And All Bran adverts in the UK..

  12. Re:The risk? on Fly To Mars In A Plastic Ship · · Score: 1

    (I know this to be true because I would raise my hand for the chance).

    I would cut off my hand for the chance!

  13. Re:Uh oh! on Report Claims Men More Intelligent Than Women · · Score: 1

    (Will this post survive the political-correctness police? Lets watch...)

    Yes, but it won't survive the crap jokes police.

  14. Re:Movie Theaters are Obsolete on Piracy Not To Blame In Decline of Moviegoers · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Thus begins the Chinese Revolution on Chinese Government to Put a Time Limit on Gaming · · Score: 1

    The moment my government tries to prevent me from gaming more than three hours is the moment I start guerilla warfare.

    Well, you wont be playing games and you'll need something else to do...

  16. Re:Great... on Bluetooth Ads Beamed from Billboards · · Score: 1

    These are billboards at railway stations.
    Funny how many comments got this wrong....


    1) Most posters are American
    2) Most Americans have never even *seen* a train station

  17. So, geeks in space on A Podcast from Network Administrators · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So it's basically geeks in space, with an RSS feed? Wow, isn't 2005 such an amazing year!

    When the world is full of metrosexual bloggers podcasting over a skinny latte with their blackberrys, you know there's no hope left.

  18. Re:Linux on New Online MD5 Hash Database · · Score: 2, Interesting

    princess

  19. Re:Linux on New Online MD5 Hash Database · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Linux distros these days use MD5 by default -- but they use it in a way that's not so horribly stupid as to be broken by this attack.

    In an "intro to linux" course I had to take a while back as part of a general engineer course, I noticed that one of the test machines wasn't using /etc/shadow. A few lines of perl, /usr/share/dict and 30 seconds later and I had the root password, the same password as other more important machines. Naturally I mentioned this to the tutors (aftre some subtle brainfucking)

  20. Re:oh, i get it! on New Online MD5 Hash Database · · Score: 2, Insightful

    8acb583ce572bbdd4d8cd3375fba65f9

  21. Re:Oh boy! on Super Door of the Future · · Score: 1

    In other news a women from Ohio

    GRahh! This really annoys me when people mistake women and woman. Remember

    Woman - property of a man
    Women - property of men

  22. Amazing on New Technique for Creating Nanotube Sheets · · Score: 1

    2 new methods in as many days? We can't be far from a space elevator now!

  23. Re:woman driver lands shuttle safely on Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely · · Score: 1

    > > Yeah, just look at the female presidents we've had!
    > Hillarry in '08

    Surely you mean Hilary '92-2000?

  24. Re:One Hundred Years of E=MC2 on One Hundred Years of E=MC2 · · Score: 1

    Or are we being case-sensitive?

    Yes you insensitive clod!

  25. Re:My dream job... on Panel Challenges NASA Over Shuttle Safety · · Score: 1

    is to sit on a panel and bitch and complain and nitpick and attack people who actually do work.

    You want to be a manager?