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  1. Re:So? on OpenOffice Is Dying (And IBM Won't Help) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it could change its name often, like Firefox changes version numbers. In November it could be ScorpiOffice, and later change to CapricOffice

  2. Re:So? on OpenOffice Is Dying (And IBM Won't Help) · · Score: 1

    "Java.... Java... Do you mean the drink?"

    Maybe the island in Indonesia - after all there a a few large volcanoes nearby like Krakatoa

  3. Re:BING??! on NASA CTO Says Help Desks May Disappear · · Score: 1

    Not intentionally of course. but too many places have automatic Bing popups.

    Anyway, whaty a stupid name. Bing is the guy who sang White Christmas and starred in movies with Bob Hope. Whats that got to with a search engine.

    BTW what does NASA have to do with help desks? Its not like they sell products or services. Is someone going to call them up and ask how to get a picture of Uranus for their screensaver.

  4. Re:Metaphors on Table Salt Could Help Boost HDD Storage Density By a Factor of 5 · · Score: 1

    Here they use salt on other parts of the road, not just bridges. (of course by the time the plow truck has got down our end of the street its just about run out of the salt/sand mixture. - and Sodium Chloride doesnt do well when its below 0F

  5. Who needs a TV anyway on Intel Gives Up On TV · · Score: 1

    One of my computer monitors inputs is connected to the cable set-top box via HDMI
    To watch TV I just push a switch on the monitor

  6. Ice Cream Sandwich? on Nexus Prime, And Ice Cream Sandwich, Go For a Video Tour · · Score: 1

    What is the marketing department smoking?

  7. Re:In Before... on Oldest Submerged City Visualized With CGI · · Score: 1

    "Atlantis never existed."

    Next you'll be saying that Discovery and Endeavour never existed, (or Challenger and Columbia)

    Anyway one of the theories of the origin of the legend of Atlantis is that it recalls the Thera eruption which destroyed the Minoan civilistation around 1500 BC which was before 3000 years ago making that (the remnants of the Minoan city around Santorini) the oldest submerged city., or at least older than the one mentioned in the article. There are probably older sunken cities around, either that we haven't found yet or that have been found but we don't know how old.

    I still reckon Atlantis was the best of the Stargate series, mainly because of Dr Rodney Mcay

  8. Re:The Right Stuff. on Australia's Iconic Parkes Telescope Turns 50 · · Score: 1

    The Abos had to invent fire for themselves, they didn't have a (1*4*9) black monolith to teach them like the natives of africa

    anyway all the petrolheads are gathered around Mt Panorama this weekend..

    Say was this telescope named after Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (more commonly knwn by his first two names "John Wynham"

  9. I misread title on Samsung Seeking Ban of iPhone 4S in Europe · · Score: 1

    I thought it said Samsung seeks to ban iPhone 45 in europe (thats forty-five, the same caliber as the gun that Colt tamed the west with.and I wondered if Apple were doing a 'firefox version inflation thing'

  10. Re:And the Number of False Positives? on Could Electron Counts Detect Major Earthquakes? · · Score: 2

    Electrons are negative, not positive

  11. Some questions for Mozilla on Firefox Advises Users To Disable McAfee Plugin · · Score: 1

    What (Commercial) anti-malware programs do FF developers recommend

    What (free) anti-malware programs do FF developers recommend

    Does this issue affect SeaMonkey?

    Where can I get cheap 3 metre poles for not touching either norton or mcaffee with.

  12. Inadeqate on board memory on So Far, More Than 50,000 Kindle Fire Pre-Orders Per Day · · Score: 1

    * Gig may be enough for Ebooks, but its not enough for mp3's. Especially as there is no slot for a (SD or MicroSD) memory card.

    Amazon may say you store your media on their cloud, but its only got WiFi and you might not always be within a EiFi area that you have free access to.

  13. Anti Piracy PI on Anti-Piracy PI Talks About Building Cases Against File-Sharers · · Score: 1

    is that different from the normal PI (3.14156265...

  14. Kids from Yorkshire on Children Helped Decorate Prehistoric Caves of France · · Score: 1

    When I were a lad during the ice age we had to walk all the way to southwest France to go to school

    And it was uphill both ways

  15. By hot on Hot Multi-OS Switching — Why Isn't It Everywhere? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you mean a pirated copy?

  16. It goes all the way... on Citigroup Questions Whether US Spectrum Shortage Exists · · Score: 1

    There is no spectrum shortage, the frequency of electromagnetic radiation goes all the way to infinity.

    Speaking of Spectrums, is 'Uncle Clive' still alive?

  17. Gladius on Mozilla Develops Gladius 3D Game Engine · · Score: 0

    I am sure that many Firefox users would like to get the opportunity to use a Gladius on the Mozilla management team
    Until the invention of the machine gun, the roman short sword was the weapon that had killed the most people in history.

  18. Warm Earth Analogs on A Third of Sun-Like Stars May Have Warm Earth Analogs · · Score: 1

    Which proves the existance of FTL travel since without it, even those issues editted by the great John W Campbell won't have reached beyond the closest handful of stars...

  19. Re:So Metric will change..again. on Graphene and Quantum Hall Effect Could Help Redefine Metrics · · Score: 1

    'there are also multiple definitions of "meter"'

    Fortunately the System International unit of length is the metre

  20. I thought parking meters were bad for business on IBM Launches Parking Meter Analytics System · · Score: 1

    I thought parking meters were bad for business - people don't want to pay, so instead of parking and shopping downtown, they drive out to the malls and Walmarts, Targets, KMarts etc.where parking is free. This leads to shops closing in the inner city.

  21. doesn't have an embedded camera or a microphone on Amazon Kindle Fire Surfaces · · Score: 1

    That's a feature, not a bug. I don't need a built in camera.

    "comes with a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime,"

    Which any Amazon customer can get anyway. Do they take any money off for those who already subscribe to Prime?

    Most important for me, does it have memory expansion via SDHC or microSDHC ?

  22. Is there a new movie coming out? on Tokyo Subway Gets Lightsaber Handrails · · Score: 1

    WTF is it advertising?

  23. Re:Is is so new? on Cold-War Missile Launches Military Satellite · · Score: 1

    But the Shuttle was a bigger waste of money.

    And ICBM's never killed anybody, 14 people died in the 2 shuttle accidents.

  24. Atoms don't touch each other. Y on Faster-Than-Light Particle Results To Be Re-Tested · · Score: 1

    You could make it of neutronium.

    (just stand back a ways, if you did try to touch it, you would be sucked into the resulting black hole

  25. Re:Frankly, that's cool on A Few Million Virtual Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The way I remember the 'challenge' It is that
    If enough monkeys are given enough typewriters one of them will eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare.

    Of course, in this case 'enough' is probably a number that won't fit in our universe (googleplex at least.)