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  1. Re:News For Nerds??!! on UK National Archives Divulge Secrets · · Score: 1

    ...and has been a killing ground since the birth of history and longer.

    You mean humans were living there? :-/

  2. Re:BBC headline worthy of The Onion on UK National Archives Divulge Secrets · · Score: 1

    Lord Lambton resigned in May 1973 as minister for the RAF after he was photographed naked in bed with two women and smoking cannabis.

    Priceless.

  3. Re:The SCO Case is NOT Collapsing on SCO Investor Changing the Deal · · Score: 1

    God doesn't need a spell checker. If he says that's how it's spelt, then that's how it's spelt.

  4. Re:What will the bad guys have won ? on SCO Investor Changing the Deal · · Score: 1

    Who's gone to jail from Enron? Anyone?

  5. Re:Viruses and weapons on First Reproducing Artificial Virus Created · · Score: 1

    5. Any country in Africa/South America? You must be joking, right?

    Why, because they might decide to turn the tables on the people who have historically exploited African people and then allowed them to be ruled by whichever regime was most convenient during the cold war?

    I wouldn't want to see WMD in the hands of many African governments either, but don't just dismiss them as a bunch of nutters, the white man hasn't exactly gone out of his way to help the place get sorted out (me included).

  6. Re:Chilling on First Reproducing Artificial Virus Created · · Score: 1

    If existing viruses can be altered to exhibit different effects, then the creation of completely novel viruses doesn't really make things any worse.

  7. Re:Scared now on First Reproducing Artificial Virus Created · · Score: 1

    A parasite taken away from its host can survive for some time, however short. A virion outside a cell is just some RNA and proteins, incapable of any life processes.

  8. Re:It's "viruses" on First Reproducing Artificial Virus Created · · Score: 1

    Depends where you are. Go into a hardware store here in the UK and ask for a 'R-ow-ter' (as in 'ow, that hurt'), the man behind the counter is going to look at you funny. So it depends for whom the dictionary was written.

    The 'ou' sound is a can of worms anyway, consider:

    plough, rough, thought, through.

  9. (OT) Re:I can't on Defense and Detection Against Internet Worms · · Score: 1

    You clearly don't read The Register. They are forever forgetting to close anchor tags, resulting in many a bright blue, underlined page of text.

  10. Re:Finally.... on New Hitchhiker's Guide Radio Series Announced · · Score: 1

    Here is a little titbit from last year about the department who provided those streams:

    http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?b=02002-06-14&l=5 0#l

  11. Re:Stupidity or Insanity? on Terahertz Scanners See Inside Sealed Packages · · Score: 1

    There is no law against suicide, why should there be a law against me smoking pot?

  12. Re:Stupidity or Insanity? on Terahertz Scanners See Inside Sealed Packages · · Score: 1

    The first few times someone uses it.

  13. Re:The United States of America is also a Democrac on RIAA Threatens More Music-Lovers · · Score: 1

    35 years old myself, wtf am I doing posting on a Saturday night? :)

  14. Re:Uptime on Bill Gates: Windows Patched Faster than Linux · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right, I don't get paid to stay after hours. In fact, I don't get paid to patch the server either, but if I didn't, nobody else would.

  15. Re:The United States of America is also a Democrac on RIAA Threatens More Music-Lovers · · Score: 1

    'Yes Minister'? Hah, you're showing your age there ;-)

  16. Re:Why can't you people get it through your heads? on RIAA Threatens More Music-Lovers · · Score: 1

    We give you forgeries, you give us cover. Bah, they make me sick.

  17. Re:Lots of patches lately on Bill Gates: Windows Patched Faster than Linux · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or do all the recent patches seem to have been released on a Wednesday?

  18. Re:Uptime on Bill Gates: Windows Patched Faster than Linux · · Score: 1

    That's my main complaint with Windows, the damn reboots for most critical updates. My users must think I'm an idiot, since I'm forever telling them to save their work and log out while I reboot the office server.

  19. Re:They have a right .. on Schools to Avoid: University of Florida · · Score: 1

    But they can leave whenever they like, at least in theory. Slavery would involve the servant giving property rights in their person. The contract would be void.

  20. Re:Ummm... on ICANN Gives VeriSign 36 Hours to Pull Sitefinder · · Score: 1

    Just flip a coin, it's easier. When the coin falls on its edge, the answer might even be right.

  21. (OT) Re:Ummm... on ICANN Gives VeriSign 36 Hours to Pull Sitefinder · · Score: 1

    His people? Stalin had no more right to kill a Russian than he had to kill anyone else.

  22. Re:3mbps is still better on Cable Companies Reject Tiered Pricing Model · · Score: 1

    Maybe he meant symmetric.

  23. Re:Fear of new technologies on MSN Cuts Unmonitored Chatrooms Around the Globe · · Score: 1

    Nah, young ladies should not be allowed to use the telephone for more than a few minutes because otherwise they stay on the thing for bloody ages.

    (Actually, I probably spend more time than my wife on the phone, but let's not spoil a good stereotype).

  24. Re:How did that get mod'ed "insightful"? on Microsoft "Swen" Worm Squiggles Into Sight · · Score: 1

    You'd probably be better off pressing -- and then --.

  25. Re:install base on New ssh Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 1

    Would that be Itanic then?