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  1. Re:Sigh... on SCO Zombie McBride's New Plan For World Litigation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Calling it a "loan" is disingenuous. Yarrow's puppet-masters are buying SCO's assets - and none of the debts - once they inevitably go into Chapter 7.

  2. Let's use units we all understand, please. 600 million metrics tons is about 829 milliOprahs, or a 4.2 on the Candy scale.

  3. Re:It's a start on NASA Estimates 600 Million Metric Tons of Water Ice At Moon's North Pole · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ah, the old "Let's finish colonising the earth before we try anywhere harder" argument? Logic... logic is the beginning of wisdom.

  4. Re:Habitable Moon on NASA Estimates 600 Million Metric Tons of Water Ice At Moon's North Pole · · Score: 1

    Sunshine, x rays, cosmic rays. I guess the answer depends on if you want to have kids or not.

  5. Re:Send up some miners on NASA Estimates 600 Million Metric Tons of Water Ice At Moon's North Pole · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins went to the moon for no better reason - and there is no better reason - than because it was hard.

  6. Re:NEVER talk to the police. on UK Police Promise Not To Retain DNA Data, But Do Anyway · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    I'd write more, but I have a real job.

  7. Re:NEVER talk to the police. on UK Police Promise Not To Retain DNA Data, But Do Anyway · · Score: 1

    Correction: it exists if you believe in it hard enough. If you don't believe in it, children, then President Peter can't even wipe his arse with it.

  8. Re:NEVER talk to the police. on UK Police Promise Not To Retain DNA Data, But Do Anyway · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's the 1994 Act, and the evidence cannot be "disregarded"; all that it allows is that the court "may draw such inferences from the failure [to disclose it] as appear proper."

    Your law tutor certainly sounds like a kind chap or chapette.

  9. Re:NEVER talk to the police. on UK Police Promise Not To Retain DNA Data, But Do Anyway · · Score: 1

    How curious; you say to ignore the advice in the video, and then repeat it word for word.

    If you actually want to add something, how about citing Nightjack's Survival Guide for Decent Folk which adds some counter-strategies?

  10. Re:Not the first on UK Police Promise Not To Retain DNA Data, But Do Anyway · · Score: 1

    We'll decide what you did after we find you guilty.

  11. Waste of time. on How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do yourself a favour and produce a one-click tool that collects all the info that you need (logfiles, version numbers, registry listings) and sends it to you. If you can make it 0-click, even better.

  12. Re:And the people in southern Latitudes? on An Exercise To Model a "Solar Radiation Katrina" · · Score: -1

    Two words: zombie asses.

  13. The exercise was a waste of money on An Exercise To Model a "Solar Radiation Katrina" · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because there's damn all that we'll do to prepare. Point at a dozen brown skinned people who managed to kill fewer Americans than are eaten by bats every day(*), and you can get as much funding and as many wars as you want just by saying "boogy boogy boo".

    Point at the sky and say "asteroid" or "solar storm" and you're a fruitcake Pointdexter Chicken Little. It won't happen until it happens, and hey, don't worry, good old 'Merkin Know How will fix it.

    Will it? It took FEMA 4 days to get water to New Orleans. If the power goes out across the whole country for half that time, there'll be nothing left to fix.

    (*) Rounding.

  14. Re:Defense? on Defending Against Drones · · Score: 1

    Yerrrrs. You should probably have watched the video before responding.

  15. Re:Defense? on Defending Against Drones · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did you forget? September 11th was a declaration of war on us. We were forced to retaliate. There's a comprehensive 10 second video explanation here.

  16. Re:Color me skeptical on Secret Service Runs At "Six Sixes" Availability · · Score: 1

    It's Lieberman (really, it is). If he told you that the sky was blue, you should go outside to double check.

    Don't be so quick to assume that it's just pork for Connecticut - Holy Joe may have some Israeli contractors ready to no-bid.

  17. Re:Follow the money on Europe To Block ACTA Disconnect Provisions · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'd heard the British educational system wasn't what it used to be. Apparently you missed the significance of what I wrote, even when you stumbled over the same point half way through your verbose tirade: the EU has a large economy, but it's primarily in tangible goods and services, not the Imaginary Property that ACTA seeks to lock down - like Microsoft licenses. ACTA protects US interests, not EU interests, and that's why the EU is playing the coquette over it.

    Don't fret though: the EU will accept penetration from ACTA, it'll just require dinner and a show (and some trade concessions) first.

  18. Re:Follow the money on Europe To Block ACTA Disconnect Provisions · · Score: 1

    We're talking about free market EU countries, not the remaining communist dictatorships.

  19. Re:The case of Gears of War on When PC Ports of Console Games Go Wrong · · Score: 1

    What am I, Rockstar Public Relations? It was such a pile of steaming dog vomit on PC that it wasn't even worth pirating - why would I have followed its progress?

  20. Follow the money on Europe To Block ACTA Disconnect Provisions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most imaginary piracy is of US imaginary products. The EU has far less to lose in terms of jobs and tax revenue - i.e. swill for the Brussels trough - than the US.

  21. Re:GTA IV! on When PC Ports of Console Games Go Wrong · · Score: 3, Funny

    All that, and crappy DRM as well. It's like they punched you in the nuts, then whined that you hurt their fist.

  22. Re:The case of Gears of War on When PC Ports of Console Games Go Wrong · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uh, GTA IV is a perfect example of an utter clusterfuck of a PC port; buggy, slow and it attempted to assrape you with DRM, without even taking you to dinner and a show first. If Rockstar is better, who's worse?

  23. Re: 'very close' to what's advertised on Virgin Promises 100Mbps Connections To UK Homes · · Score: 1

    To be fair, Virgin do seem to be pretty good about meaning unlimited. They do throttle (aka "traffic shape") at busy periods if you've been slurping big time, but I'm not aware of them imposing bandwidth caps or disconnecting anyone.

  24. Re:Availability... on Virgin Promises 100Mbps Connections To UK Homes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ding. I work in a 90's era business park that can only get crappy ADSL. The NTL/Telewest/Virgin cable runs end just across the road, and they are adamant that they have no plans to extend it. This is business custom they're turning down here, and what's amazing is that their attitude is quite openly "Nope, not interested. Go with BT."

    Given that their residential service is much more expensive than a BT/Sky package, and that their only USP, content on demand, hasn't been meaningfully refreshed in months, I guess they've decided to just turtle up and squeeeeze their existing customer base as much as possible, rather than invest in getting any new custom.

  25. Re:We can battle Al Quaida on Mars! on Senators Blast NASA For Lacking Vision · · Score: 1

    Plus, I hear that's where Saddam hid the Weapons of Mars Destruction.