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  1. False on Linux's Difficulty with Names · · Score: 1

    Qwghlm is not a member country of WIPO.

  2. Glonass on Europe Building Their Own GPS · · Score: 1

    What about buying the Glonass system from Russia?

  3. The thing on Superman 'Too Big' for the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    What is this thing between my legs then, which must be perpetually denied and hidden from view?

    A bottle of booze?

  4. RoR on A New TCP/IP Classic · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was mounted on rails

    From what I have read around, the Ruby manual is so hefty that lots of people have Ruby on rails.

  5. Re:The key question on The Register Takes Aim at Wikipedia Again · · Score: 2, Funny
    Wikipedia is a veritable goldmine of useful information.

    Gold mining requires panning tons of mud, explosives or cyanide spraying.
    Economic gold extraction can be achieved from ore grades as little as 0.5 g/1000 kg (0.5 ppm) on average in large easily mined deposits, typical ore grades in open-pit mines are 1-5 g/1000 kg (1-5 ppm), ore grades in underground or hard rock mines are usually at least 3 g/1000 kg (3 ppm) on average
  6. GPG? Wikinfo on Wikipedia Hoax Author Confesses · · Score: 1

    Why GPG? It's against the low-barriers philosophy of wikis. You could go the Nupedia way and it would be more open.

    About the branching, meet Wikinfo

  7. .cat on .eu Opens for Registration · · Score: 1

    Catalunya is a semi-autonomous state with its own government independent of the Spanish government. There's an argument that it almost qualifies as a country, therefore a country code may be useful for it.

    At least officially, the domain is not for Catalonia entities, but for Catalan-language entities, either from Catalonia, Valencia, Balearic Islands, Andorra, French Catalonia or even Italian Alghero.

  8. how the management thinks of the company on Google's Ten Golden Rules · · Score: 1

    It gives some idea of how the management thinks of the company,

    Make that "how the management wants you to think of the company".

  9. A proposal on ICANN Considers Single Letter Domains · · Score: 1

    www.cocacola ?

  10. Perverse effects on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    You may be summarizing details away, but doesn't that penalize people with large families? They may have a lower consumption/person but be considered as a high-consumption household.

  11. Harm in the middle on The Economics of P2P File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere (in Slashdot?) that P2P promotes the best sellers that can make money on other kinds of sponsoring. It also promotes the little guys who would get 0 otherwise. But it will harm the middle-sellers that can't get promoted enugh to jump to professionalism.

    Can somebody point to an ellaboration along these lines?

  12. Think in French on Computer Translator Ready for Testing in Iraq · · Score: 1

    You must think in French to steal one of those secret mind-controlled Mirages.

  13. Not just for viruses on Army Develops New Chewing Gum · · Score: 1

    "Vaccines may be living, weakened strains of viruses or bacteria which intentionally give rise to inapparent-to-trivial infections."

  14. Vaccine on Army Develops New Chewing Gum · · Score: 1

    I wonder why there is not yet a vaccine for the bacteria that causes cavities?

  15. Nice signature on Yahoo's Geek Statue · · Score: 1

    I liked your signature.

  16. Patents on IBM Training Employees To Leave IBM? · · Score: 1

    IBM has software patents.

  17. Inspiration and transpiration on Did Microsoft Invent The iPod? · · Score: 1

    a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

    This sounds lika a reference to the Edison quote of "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% transpiration."

  18. Fish hat on Can a Customer Loyalty Database Change a Society? · · Score: 1

    He he.
    First I laugh at the mere bizarre image. Then I realized it was a Nigerian scammer and it became better.
    Thanks for linking.

  19. At Tesco on Can a Customer Loyalty Database Change a Society? · · Score: 1

    When we shopped at Tesco, we received some cards from friends that were to leave Britain. So we kept the meager points and Tesco found a sudden change in buying behaviour after the "address change".

  20. Really? on The Case for Free WiFi? · · Score: 1

    Around here, bar owners are liable if the premises are used to sell (illegal) drugs.

  21. Ungood on Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered · · Score: 1

    The in-vogue usage is North and South.

  22. Russian defenses on Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered · · Score: 1

    Do they play cricket, there, or what?

    Chess. Probably a big rook.

  23. Patents by Google on EU Software Patent Directive Getting Hot · · Score: 1

    Google has seven patents.

  24. Numbers station on Apple Making a Spreadsheet? · · Score: 1

    A not ver related story: Numbers station:
    Numbers stations are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin that broadcast streams of numbers, letters (using a phonetic alphabet), or words. It is not known publicly with certainty where these signals originate nor what purpose they serve. The voices that can be heard on these stations are often mysterious: mechanically generated; spoken in a wide variety of languages; usually female, but sometimes male or those of children. Numbers stations appear and disappear continuously, although some stick to regular schedules, and their overall activity has increased slightly since the early 1990s.

  25. Bank notes on U.S. to Digitize All Tangible Gov't. Publications · · Score: 1

    Are bank notes "government publications"?