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  1. Re:Ancient egyptians had bad data preservation too on Data Preservation and How Ancient Egypt Got It Right · · Score: 0

    Apparently, the least biodegradable substance is silicone. So our most enduring mark on the sands of eternity will be "breast enhancements".

  2. Ancient egyptians had bad data preservation too. on Data Preservation and How Ancient Egypt Got It Right · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd show you some examples, but they kinda fell to pieces sometime around 200BC. What we have left is the stuff that preserves well.

  3. Re:Possession? on ACLU Sues Penn Prosecutor For Empty Threat of Child Porn · · Score: 1

    That's the problem, right their. Their "own will". Best to legislate and monitor *that* out of existence, it's for the Sake Of The Children!

  4. Re:Oh they'll crash all right on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    If you want something without giving anything in return, what you are talking about isn't capitalism.

    Oh yeah? Take a look along Wall street.

  5. Re:charging on New Electrode Lets Batteries Charge In 10 Seconds · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the fuse draw of a local college electronics lab I found a length of 6inch nail lovingly cut to length with cleaned ends, painted round the middle with the designation "10000A, slow-blow" (Apparently one of the techs had a dead scope that couldn't be powered up - it just blew the fuse. Hence the nail. Bung it in and now you know where the hard short *was*. It's the melted patch with the smoke coming out...)

  6. Re:Why? on UK Government Wants To Kill Net Neutrality In EU · · Score: 1

    The last time a monarch witheld "royal assent" (i.e. didn't just sign) was Queen Anne, in 1708.

  7. Freeloader. on Solar Power Pre-Deployment To Afghanistan? · · Score: 1

    I got a freeloader. Just long weekends at festivals for me, but so far so good.

  8. Re:Misleading title. on The Real Reason For Microsoft's TomTom Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    You are not a *real* sysadmin until you have hand edited sendmail.cf. Corollary: you are not sane if you have done this more than once.

  9. Re:"Freedom of Information Act" on UK Politician Criticised For Using Hotmail · · Score: 1

    The Freedom of Information act gives you the right to access all public information.*
    *Unless it costs too much. Or is exempt. Or is an official secret. Or is the subject of ongoing legal proceedings. Or is deemed "personal". Or we don't like the look of you. Or we just plain can't be bothered. Face it, if we want you to know it, we'll tell you.

  10. Re:That's not okay. on EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What? · · Score: 1

    Rip it out. All of it. Every last DLL. 95 didn't have any of that. And 98 could run fine without (check 98 lite). It was only bundled and mixed in this deep precisely to make it hard to unbundle. And to those third party apps that now depend on the IE rendering engine? Goodbye and good riddance. Maybe the replacements will be available for Linux and OSX.

  11. Re: Dropping Anchor on Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again · · Score: 1

    Since when has US policy been rational? That's what scares me...

  12. Previously the wipe wasn't what you wanted. on Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Adds Private Browsing · · Score: 1

    Wipe private data doesn't always work, see bug:- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462831
    So how about fixing it before adding to it?

  13. I'm not surprised. on Oldest Nuclear Family Found Murdered In Germany · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For the family to be identifiable as a family and not a bunch of adult graves miles and years apart, they'll have all had to die at the same time. Doesn't mean it was necessarily common back then, though.

  14. Re:Politics on Mind Control Delusions and the Web · · Score: 1

    Back in the day, we put them on boats and sent them to America.

  15. Re:Microsoft bashing? on IE8 Beta 2 Fatter Than Firefox and XP · · Score: 1

    Can I have some indication of which tab has a flash app that's decided to chew all my cpu, fire up the fan and attempt to cook my crotch???

  16. Re:In Soviet Russia. on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    There is a joke you can make: "America, land of the free"...

  17. Digital beer goggles. on Some Eye-Popping Research From Siggraph · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now she can look as good the morning after as she did the night before!

  18. Re:Canary Islands on The Largest Recorded Tsunami Was 50 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    How about a bit north of Scotland, maybe?

  19. Re:Interesting line on Anatomy of a Runaway Project · · Score: 1

    PalmOS? Dedicated CPU??? (Not sure if the idea of a perl CPU should even be mentioned...)

  20. Re:Amusing, but a problem for one in ten men? on Multicolored Keyless Entry System · · Score: 1

    I'm colorblind. At a guess I'd say that means that 90% of my ability to tell red from green (or brown, or grey, or pink...) is missing. Put two colors next to each other and I can usually get it. Telling if that indicator LED is red or green? Unlikely.

  21. Re:...Brought to you by Carl's Jr. on 35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush · · Score: 1

    It's pretty damn hard to provide evidence that WMDs are being destroyed when THERE ARE NO WMDs

  22. Re:...Brought to you by Carl's Jr. on 35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush · · Score: 1

    Unless it involves interns...

  23. Re:ideas != property on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: 1

    Correction: The author of a work has been granted the temporary right to profit from that work in order that the public domain is eventually enriched.

  24. Re:Don't let the door hit you on the way out... on Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools · · Score: 1

    Sure, and I always tell the mechanic "only socket spanners, never use the monkey wrench" and "solder, don't weld". Micromanaging PHBs. If you don't trust my choice of tools to do the job, why do you trust me to do the job??? May your boss mandate Microsoft Edlin...

  25. Re:Not embrace and extend, but embrace and squeeze on Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF - But Not OOXML · · Score: 1

    LaTeX ???