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  1. Re:What the hell? on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 2, Informative
  2. Re:Wikileaks on INDECT on EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    Terrorist or freedom fighter? Could be both at the same time - Schrodinger's Sniper!

  3. Re:Crud on Microsoft Suspends Gamer For Being From Fort Gay · · Score: 1
  4. Re:This kind of pap on Twitter Says Americans Are Happier In the Morning · · Score: 1
  5. Re:and it never holds a stock for longer on Quant AI Picks Stocks Better Than Humans · · Score: 1

    When a farmer invests in seed, he could have a crop failure, but he probably won't. When a farmer takes that money down the casino instead, either he makes a loss, or the house does. In gambling there is always a loser, but not in investing.

  6. Re:Bullshit on Quant AI Picks Stocks Better Than Humans · · Score: 1

    And just where do you think those salaries come from?

  7. Who to video call on Why Video Calling Is a Wasted Feature In the UK · · Score: 1

    I can video call, so can my brother, sister and parents. We don't video call each other. My sister's year old kid, though, we all video call him and make silly noises and pull faces. He loves it. (And tries to eat the laptop, ah well!)

  8. Re:Yeah, right. on Quantifying, and Dealing With, the Deepwater Spill · · Score: 1

    We'll run out of beer? Homebrew.

  9. Re:It helps to be honest, as well on Microsoft Lost Search War By Ignoring the Long Tail · · Score: 1

    Yep, same for me. #1 Why are Macs So Expensive? from Yahoo! Answers.

  10. Re:As as light colorblind... on Could Colorblindness Cure Be Morally Wrong? · · Score: 1

    I bought brown Levis from an end of line store. Wore them for the evening out. Turns out the reason they were cheap is there isn't much call for jeans my size in pink...

  11. Re:So the government is forcing me to buy somethin on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    Yep, there's been lots of civilizations without states. Like, um, well, er... ?

  12. Re:Fuck exceptions for religion on Jobcentre Apologizes For Anti-Jedi Discrimination · · Score: 1

    Well AIG sure didn't make a profit!

  13. Re:This would be big on China To Connect Its High-Speed Rail To Europe · · Score: 1

    250 billion, that's what, about 2.5 banks?

  14. Just remember... on Funeral Being Held Today For IE6 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Decapitate, stake through the heart, and bury underneath a crossroads, just to make sure it won't come back.

  15. Re:News on the BBC is not free (if you live in UK) on BBC To Make Deep Cuts In Internet Services · · Score: 1

    I just junked the letters (about 6 a year inviting me to explain why I felt I didn't have to pay). Eventually (~3years) I got a rep round. Conversation went something like: "Why don't you have a TV license?" "Don't have a TV!" "Oh, OK bye!" End of story. (Until I moved!)

  16. Re:Latvia explained in pictures and comments on Latvian "Robin Hood" Hacker Leaks Bank Details · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that!

  17. After Learning Java Syntax, What Next? on After Learning Java Syntax, What Next? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Therapy.

  18. Re:Real solutions to foreign energy dependence on US To Build Nuclear Power Plants · · Score: 1

    export AOL_MODE=true ; echo 'Me too!!!' ; stty sane

  19. Re:So they should on Apple Bans Jailbreakers From the App Store · · Score: 1

    I jailbroke my iPhone so I could use a bluetooth keyboard...

  20. Re:Customer of Size? on Southwest Declares Kevin Smith Too Fat To Fly · · Score: 1

    If their ass is fat, they are a fatass. What's the problem with that???

  21. Re:Entirely unreasonable on Appeals Court Rules On Internet Obscenity Standards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It also assumes that two different communities don't have laws that flat out contradict.

  22. Re:Another reason on Can You Trust Chinese Computer Equipment? · · Score: 1

    Readymade transistors? Wuss!

  23. Re:A stupid question... on Facebook's HipHop Also a PHP Webserver · · Score: 1

    PHP, like duct tape. Handy for a quick'n dirty fix, but slightly worrying when used as the main structural element in a skyscraper...

  24. Re:GUI applications on Facebook's HipHop Also a PHP Webserver · · Score: 1

    Cloaca, kinda the goatse of technical terms.

  25. Re:Typical Customer Service Department attitude on Woz Cites "Scary" Prius Acceleration Software Problem · · Score: 1

    It would save time. I had a Netgear DG834G router/modem. Typical embedded linux, busybox, uclibc, and an outdated, buggy, udhcpd. The bug (from memory, a problem of reassigning the same address to a given hardware) I found was fixed in the latest version of udhcpd. So all I wanted was a new firmware image, or failing that the source so I could do it myself. Tried the 'phone support. Wouldn't deviate from the script AT ALL. And wouldn't escalate until he'd run through the script. I couldn't get to the end, because one of the steps was to try their Windows only software. (I was in front of a Mac). Fortunately it seems someone else hated that POS as much as I did, 'coz a couple of months later that router got hit by lightning...