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  1. Qwality Maths in this review.... on How Does Gmail Stack Up In The Webmail World? · · Score: 4, Funny

    "For £3.50/month or $6.50 US you get 1 GB of email space, virus scanning, and spam filtering. Calculating this amount into a yearly term, that's about $195 US per year; which is about 10 times what you would pay for a SpyMac Mail Pro account and six times as much as RunBox."

    Duuuh $6.50x12=$78.

    Or are they beta testing some calculators too there?

  2. I said yes.... on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    ... when someone dialed into my computer and asked if I wanted to play a game of thermonuclear war.

    But nothing worse than that.

  3. Re:yeah, look at all the forks of perl/python, etc on How Much Java in the Linux World? · · Score: 1

    Um, and SWT. You forgot SWT.

    And Swing is built on AWT, so you don't need to double count em.

  4. Re:It will be beneficial to Java in the long term. on Sun will Open Java's Source · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So you've gone and confused generics with autoboxing. And we're supposed to listen to you demand someone does templates. Uhuh.

  5. Re:20 years? on Sun & Fujitsu Team On SPARC Chips & System · · Score: 3, Informative

    And you seem to not do your research.

    http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Fujitsu

    The company was established in 1935 under the name Fuji Tsshinki Seiz, a spinoff of the Fuji Electric company, this in turn being a joint venture between the Furukawa mining company and German conglomerate Siemens.

    Or how about more obviously....

    http://pr.fujitsu.com/en/profile/profile.html

    Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused information technology and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Since Fujitsu's establishment in 1935, we have maintained a commitment to cutting-edge technological innovation and uncompromising product quality.

    So only 50 years out there old chap. :)

  6. Re:Documentary? on Cannes' Palme d'Or goes to Michael Moore · · Score: 1

    Oh you mean the Hutton whitewash. The government came up all lovely and shiny....

  7. I rather enjoy Codeguide's..... on New & Revolutionary Debugging Techniques? · · Score: 1

    I rathe enjoy Codeguide's back in time debugger, because it lets you step backwards, through the statements (not the call stack).... then hot fix code and then you let it rip again. And you are always running the debugger. Lovely stuff.

  8. Re:Great for warez... on Port Knocking in Action · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well with a little work, you could knock an open sequence, and then knock a sequence which had a port number, and then we open the requested port and start the server app up on that port. Tada! Secret knock port requesting. Now you can pick any port and spread the traffic over different ports over time.

  9. What Y will need... on Y Window System Project Started · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The essential program for Y which will let it get anywhere has to be an X server. Then people can migrate to it without being disconnected from their X applications. Something nice with a rootless mode, like X runs on MacOSX.

  10. Re:Complain on BBC Links Linux To MyDoom · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except that the PCC is for newspapers and magazines and doesn't cover the BBC.

  11. So what's the court case then? on FFII vs. Amazon Gift Ordering Patent · · Score: 1

    There seems to be a lack of mention of any court case on the FFII site. It just seems to be a complaint by the FFII about their own overwide reading of a patent from Amazon which allows gifts to be given without revealing the address of the recipient to the sender and their associated misrepresentations.

  12. Re:Patches.... on Microsoft: Patches, Patches Everywhere! · · Score: 1

    Splitters.

  13. Patches.... on Microsoft: Patches, Patches Everywhere! · · Score: 4, Funny

    Patches want to be free!

    This is the first action of the Patch Liberation Front!

  14. Re:not suprising on Adobe Makes Products Harder to Use, More Expensive · · Score: 1

    And for many people using it, they'd be just fine and dandy with Photoshop Elements for $99....

  15. Re:Excellent! on Eddie Izzard As ... Doctor Who? · · Score: 1

    When I say dropped, I mean as a major element of the act itself. I mean, if you listened to that element of the act, the major point of it was "So I like to wear a frock, it doesn't make any difference does it"...

  16. Re:Excellent! on Eddie Izzard As ... Doctor Who? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ah, well, us folks in the UK actually know what Izzard has done in the acting department; he was fantastic in 40 and his Imdb entry seems to miss the play screened on BBC4 with Eddie as the father of a special needs child which was just heart breaking.

    And the transvestite stuff? Well, Eddie Izzard dropped that from the act years ago. And anyone who can do five minutes on jam and make it hilarious is fine by me. Oh yes, and if you've ever seen him go bilingual in a set, well, then you're lucky to have seen a master of international comedy (who takes the international bit seriously).

    If all you can see is a frock on stage, that says more about you than it does of Eddie Izzard.

    And, for the record, I think he'll be a superb Doctor.

  17. Re:So if someone is pissing through our letterbox. on How to Kill Spam Without the State · · Score: 1

    "Call the police"... So the police aren't government? And what happens when the police tell you they can't do anything because pissing throught the letterbox isn't illegal?

  18. Re:So if someone is pissing through our letterbox. on How to Kill Spam Without the State · · Score: 1

    But that is exactly what it is. You use the "initiation of force" argument as if the only thing that matters is stopping other people resorting to violence. Somewhere down the line, the fraud and theft involved in spamming gets ignored.

    Unfortunately, your argument is entirely based on the libertarian simplism that your are either fighting or cooperating and there's nothing in between.

    And more unfortunately still, your reply is nothing else but the smug self satisfied name calling one expects from the self superiorising libertarian camp. Thanks for confirming the stereotype.

  19. So if someone is pissing through our letterbox.... on How to Kill Spam Without the State · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So if someone is pissing through our letterbox, the libertarian response is "Get a bucket", rather than stop the person pissing through the letterbox. My that's brilliant! And the way to reduce gun deaths is for people to learn how to dodge bullets matrix-stylee.

  20. In Other News on Beatles Bite Apple · · Score: 1

    In other news, Rutle Corps stated today that they are still waiting for someone to make a Rutle computer so they can sue. In a personal statement, Barry Wom said "What are you doing in my hairdressing salon?".

  21. Re:Tutorial. on Recommend Apple, Lose Your Job? · · Score: 1
    9: Download iTerm and put that in the dock instead.

    Tabbed terminal goodness with transparancy topping.

  22. Re:Sad.. on One Last New Episode of Futurama · · Score: 1

    Case in point, Clerks The Animated Series. What was that, two/three episodes aired tops?

  23. So that's a "cube" is it? on MSI's Home Theatre PC Reviewed · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other news, world found to be flat, balls no longer spheres, /. duplicate postings declared square.

  24. Re:Nonsense. on Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM · · Score: 1

    And at that point you can't do anything because there's nothing at all connected to the server. Which is why xinit is there as the *functional* way of booting an X server, and xterm is there so you can *do* something and get those keypresses to go somewhere.

    (Now, I wait for someone to go "Oh but you could just flip to a virtual console" at which point I will dent them with a Sun framebuffer)

  25. Re:Nonsense. on Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM · · Score: 1

    Are you really saying X comes "out of the box" less xinit and xterm? Go build the MIT source some time. The big bag o'tar that is X11 comes with, builds and installs both xinit and xterm.

    And you tell young people that and they don't believe you.