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  1. From the article on Fighting Music Piracy with Glue · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I brought this discman home with me, and I found a way you could go in the back of the CD and, like, pop it open. So I got the actual disc out."

    So, they can't even use glue properly, its not wonder everything else has failed.

  2. Big Cobber? on Australia Taps More Phones Than Entire U.S. · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1984X?

  3. Re:Contradiction in Review on Programming PHP · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No contradiction:

    You're an accomplished programmer but a PHP newbie then buy it.
    Your a newbie to programming then there's prolly a "for dummies" out there.

    Or, HIBT HIL and I'm having a nice day thank-you

  4. Re:Range on Sony Presents Bluetooth Digital Camera · · Score: 2

    IIRC app'x 10 metres

  5. Thank you but. . on Keep Playing With AI · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I've already got friends to play with

    Al

  6. Flaw on Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I suspect that the squeaking of the wheelbarrow that you'll need to carry the batteries, fuel cells or magic moonbeams that'll be needed to power this thing will render any invisibility firly useless.

    But I still want one, go figure

  7. Re:Plagarism on Economy of Errors · · Score: 2

    It happens

    I contribute every so often to The Brains Trust we make little or no money but its fun.

    One of our most widly read articles was "Depressed Man diagnosed as british" published at the start of this year. Since then we've seen it as an email (Rebranded as "Depressed man diagnosed as Scottish") and on at least Three other Sites.

    Still, they say imitation is the etc etc etc

  8. Kitchen should be a geeks 2nd home on I'm Just Here for the Food · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only because of all the toys available.

  9. Re:Waiting???? on Extra Scenes in FotR Special Edition DVD · · Score: 2

    well check out signee no 2
    I think you may be right

  10. Re:This sounds good, but on More on "Good Omens" the Movie and Coraline · · Score: 2

    My BAd
    I just was "Terry" and got my Pratchetts and My Gilliams mixed up

  11. This sounds good, but on More on "Good Omens" the Movie and Coraline · · Score: 0, Redundant

    don't forget Terry is a writer

  12. A poll? Of course there's a poll on Lindows - What do Linux Users Really Think? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Look here and the winner is "Apathy" not strong "pro" or strong "hate", just plain, boring apathy.

  13. for those of us in the twentyfirst centuary on Nine Inch Nanotubes Almost · · Score: 2

    8inch app'x 200mm

    9inch app'x 230mm

  14. Re:Potential Reason on Why The X-Box Network Will Fail · · Score: 1

    or this

    Or you could just be thankful for this

  15. Re:Article & who would have thought on Can FAQs Be Copyrighted? · · Score: 2

    that getting a fake tan was so complicated.

    Now I know how Wonko the sane felt

  16. Sixth Sense? on An Alligator's Sixth Sense · · Score: 3, Funny

    I see Handbags, all the time

  17. It not the bad science so much as . . . on Impossible Movie Stunts? · · Score: 4, Funny

    the need to explain everything with fake science.
    I'd much rather the quick-and-glib-and-then-ignore it science of how spiderman or the hulk etc got their powers than, for example wait for the fourth movie and then decide that the force is a microbe.

  18. The flaw in the current stance on Reason Magazine on DRM · · Score: 3, Interesting
    From the final para
    It may even be the case that, if they were asked, most people would be willing to trade the open, robust, relatively simple tools they now have for a more constrained digital world in which they have more content choices. But for now, nobody's asking ordinary people what they want.

    Isn't this the whole problem with the stance that "hollywood" is taking? Most people will happily pay for content and the few that won't won't destroy the industry. IIRC Home taping Didn't Kill music no matter how often we were told it would.
  19. Re:mmh? on Space Tourism Mini-Boom · · Score: 3, Insightful
    IIRC, in the case of the first space tourist Dennis Tito the US initially objected, but the objections soon died down when they realised that:

    It'd help the Russians pay their way

    Public opinion liked the idea of him going

  20. What, you bought one? on Battery Packs for X-10 Cameras? · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, you're the one who makes X-10 think their pop up frenzy advertising will work.

    Burn the heretic

    only half ;-)ing

  21. Re:The Independent News? on Smart Cameras To Predict Crimes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Being American doesn't mean you are incapable of getting the name of a newspaper right, surely?

    ;-)

  22. Re:Thoughtcrime on Smart Cameras To Predict Crimes · · Score: 1

    That's a good point, in fact its not that the camera system needs to be able to recognise behaviour, just simply recognising a guilty look or someone going "Bwhahahahah someday all this will be mine" should be enough

  23. Re:If you're not a criminal, you have nothing to f on Smart Cameras To Predict Crimes · · Score: 1

    It'll only be fun until they lock you up for wasting police time.

  24. UK perspective on Gov't Wants Techies to Play Musical Chairs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Good grief, if they tried that in the UK, no-one would come back. There was a time when the government posts at least had job security, but now they don't even offer that long term.

  25. Octopuses? on Giant Octopus · · Score: 1

    I thought the plural was octopi.
    But it'd make a hell of a nice first course