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  1. Re:The UK has crown copyright. on Tim Berners-Lee Unveils UK Government Data Project · · Score: 1

    Are you sure about that copyright? I was under the impression that they distributed their works for free on USB sticks.

  2. Re:Marketshare gains misleading... on Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? · · Score: 1

    That doesn't help for me: google tells me the history is switched off, but the link that shows 'www.bing.com' on the first mouse-over still copies as a link to a google server.

  3. Re:Wise or not, what choice do they really have? on Why Firefox's Future Lies In Google's Hands · · Score: 1

    Yes, thank slashdot for that: 'A>B' does show as A>B, but you don't get A
    I did mean that most people don't understand source code any better than they understand compiled code (i.e. not at all in either case)

  4. Re:Microsoft a pawn? on Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is synonymous with "cheap"
    I think you may have misinterpreted their low TCO campaigns.

  5. Re:Marketshare gains misleading... on Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? · · Score: 1

    That's odd, I still get those. They're rubbish links running through the Google spyware-system, but they are there.
    For instance my first hit for Bing is: '....google.../url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F&ei=8xRYS-yCOsfx-QbzpImJBA&usg=AFQjCNH_kUbuWB-3hS1tAW84OLUSYqT8MQ'

  6. Re:What SHE doesn't need? Really now! on Python Essential Reference 4th Ed. · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I generally refer to code monkeys as 'it'.
    As in 'Look it has messed up that trivial bit of Python as well'.

    Donning my asbestos underpants.

  7. Re:Wise or not, what choice do they really have? on Why Firefox's Future Lies In Google's Hands · · Score: 1

    !(A>B) != AB

  8. Re:Editors and Debuggers on What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Clippy

  9. Re:Why? on 100% Free Software Compatible PC Launches · · Score: 1

    Isn't it obvious? Removing Windows 7 clearly costs $50. A fair price IMO.

  10. Re:Wise or not, what choice do they really have? on Why Firefox's Future Lies In Google's Hands · · Score: 1

    Well google seems to disagree with that. I just checked the chrome download page and still got this:
    Not Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora/openSUSE? There may be a community-supported version for your distribution here
    Apparently this fast moving and well funded commercial operation is waiting for volunteers to port its code?

  11. Re:Wise or not, what choice do they really have? on Why Firefox's Future Lies In Google's Hands · · Score: 1

    Only for people who read the source more easily than the compiled code.

  12. Re:Just a thought..... on Nano-Scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accuracy · · Score: 1

    Yes, the system in question is know as 'plant'. Runs on solar power as well.

  13. Re:Channeling BadAnalogyGuy on Microsoft Says Upgrade To IE8, Even Though It's Vulnerable · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your comment is outrageous. The submission consists of a factual statement and some literal quotes from Microsoft.
    If this is FUD about explorer it is Microsoft FUD about explorer and not the submitters.

  14. Re:Probably just a bug. on Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers · · Score: 1

    Good thing there's a google-cache. Now if we only need a Bing-cache where Googles whitewashing is archived...

  15. Re:Probably just a bug. on Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers · · Score: 1

    Sort of:
    I'm saying that the assumption that these flaws persist through incompetence is not a less complex explanation.
    The fact that issues were not solved in one of their later releases may very well be a deliberate commercial decision, which would make it indeed malicious rather than incompetent from the end-user perspective.

  16. Re:Probably just a bug. on Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem is, there is no evidence that:
    Never ascribe to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice.
    Is invoking more entities.
    In fact, claiming that the commercially most successfull software company got there through stupidity rather than malice sounds extremely implausible to me.

  17. Re:What part of "use a proxy" can't he understand? on Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter · · Score: 1

    The felony was making a threat.
    It's not the DA (or in this case the CP) who has gone mad, it's the law-makers.

  18. Re:Pencil and Paper on Programming With Proportional Fonts? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Goose feathers make better quills than those from birds of prey.
    And yes, I do program in fortran.

  19. Re:You mean... on Dragging Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    you're still missing 7,700,000,000 people out of 8,000,000,000

  20. Re:Hat's off to the French. on Tech NGOs Working In Haiti · · Score: 1

    reinforcing the human rights as a species
    I think this should count: make it apply to everybody, not just citizens

  21. Re:Why would you want to keep the telephone number on Dragging Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I prefer a mobile with just 10 data entry keys.
    The user-friendliness of having to select something from a 150 entry drop-down or having to press every key (a different) multiple times is vastly overrated.

  22. Re:You mean... on Dragging Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    You are aware that social security numbers only work for your tribe?

  23. Re:If its just JS break it. on Tynt Insight Is Watching You Cut and Paste · · Score: 1

    That's nothing; I often deliberately leave the mouse pointer up a nostril or in an eye of a picture on the page while I read.
    I know. It's pathetic, but it amuses me.

  24. Re:I've used it on Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Slam your head into the keyboard.

  25. Re:Misleading summary... on Human Males Evolve At a Faster Pace Than Females · · Score: 1

    OK, so people differ 5% from chimps but men differ 33% from male chimps?
    I get the feeling there may be a joke in there somewhere.