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  1. Re:Bring on the sheep... on MPAA Infiltrating Campus Nets with Software · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Where these things piss me off is when I create an .avi file of some of the class dancing like pricks in a club. I share it with everyone. *AA software flags the traffic and me as the originator. I DID NOTHING WRONG. I get auto blocked and have to prove that I DID NOTHING WRONG to get unblocked.

    WTF

    Shouldnt that be the other way around - they prove me wrong THEN punish me... Or is that whacked out hippy speak these days??

  2. Re:G5 Laptops on PowerBooks & iBooks Get Speed Bumped · · Score: 5, Funny

    It will be announced the day after they charge your Visa - no sooner, no later!

  3. Re:True Lounge on Videogame Lounges Take LAN Centers Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    social hotspot is probably optimistic - but a popular bar/cafe with larger than normal booths incorporating flat screens, controllers, hidden hardware and a waitressing service would, in my opinion, kick ass.

    I'd happily while away a weekend playing, chatting, eating and drinking. Don't charge me for the games - but charge me higher prices for the drinks - kick me out if Im not drinking/ eating enough when your busy.

    A 'topless chicks eat free' door policy wouldn't hurt either!

  4. Re:Home enforcement? on Florida Ponders Communication Tax on LANs · · Score: 1

    This is how tax works. My company pays tax on MY TIME when its sold to clients. Then it pays tax on MY PAY for selling them MY TIME. I then pay tax on THE PLUMBERS TIME who then pays tax on HIS TIME and HIS SALARY before buying some CHEESE.

    The taxman is a cunt. If he choses to tax windows and doors he can, if he choses to tax lans, he can, if he chose to tax fucking he could! (10% rebate if the lady doesn't 'get there' too).

  5. Re:Internet often breeds individuation and solipsi on The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth · · Score: 1

    Um. Who said I thought I was better. I just don't like hanging out with the same pricks who used to give me wedgies in basketball class. If thats their thing then good on 'em.

  6. Re:What about using this for video game play? on Implant a Chip in Your Head · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    (not her fault, btw).

    Thanks for the parenthesis - I know MY first thought was "I bet she deserved it though! - fucking women drivers!!! shouldn't be allowed on the road!!"

  7. Re:Internet often breeds individuation and solipsi on The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Rather than being integrated into society by being forced to take people as they come, the internet allows you to preselect whom you choose to fraternise with, based upon whether or not they share your specific interests."

    This is one of the most annoying things to me, about some of my old friends. I grew up in a relatively small community, school of about 1000 students, near a city of a quarter of a million.

    The VAST majority of my old schoolmates still hang out together and shag each other and bitch about each other and steal each others partners and generally stay in the same old pond.

    They put up with the same shit from the same shits for year after year because they dont want to get out there and find people with common interests.

    Geeks, nerdy boys and the like are oft criticised for being anti-social / a-social but from my experience are WAY more adventurous in building social circles which, while relativly small are created from a very wide geographical pool.

    Long live the geek for spreading what genes they CAN exchange with further flung chicks that your average small town wanker obsessed with tribalism and football.

    Ok - rant over - Im off for a coffee!

  8. Re:Very interesting hypotehsis... on Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying · · Score: 1

    While I don't particularly listen in on others' conversations,

    i DO!!! It's probably my most reliable source of entertainment. I've been in the middle of divorce acrimonies, tactics meetings for Quakefests, last week I even heard a 250 drug deal 'going down'. At one point the taller druggy actually said to me "stop listenin in or I'll fuckin' stab ye" and then started laughing and asked if I wanted to buy any!

    Earlier in the year I overheard a kid telling his aunt about how the DVD his cousin (her son) had under his bed had ' a really cool bit where this big dog actually eats a ladies boob'. She seemed kinda stoned and just threatened the kid that if he told him mum about this she'd kill him.

    Public transport is a dangerous place folks!!!! Educational tho!

  9. Re:Artistic? on Auto-Censoring DVD Player · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd agree with you but for one element. I let my son john watch "Inspector Gadget 4" on this equipment - to take out the 'questionable' parts which I assume to be a couple of instances of 'shit' being said by the baddy.

    Then little john goes off to school saying "Inspector Gadget 4 is great" to his chums. They tell their parents that 'johns dad let HIM watch it' - so they get the DVD out.

    Johns friends dad then phones ME up saying "... so you think its appropriate to watch inspector gadget fucking his arch-nemesis's girlfriend in the ass to 25 minutes do you??? ..."

    Come to think of it - the film DID seem pretty short and disjointed!

  10. Re:nerdylove. on Mozilla 1.7 to Become New Long-Lived Branch · · Score: 1

    have fun building nerdylove.com then - just promise to send me all the hot nekkid chick nerdylover photos you get in the process! Call it my %age fee for finding the name for you!

  11. Re:Hardwood veneers on sheet metal? on Exotic Wood Computer Cases · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My thoughts precisely - and another thing veneers dont enjoy is temperature fluctuations - or localised heat which will both cause bowing and general loss of adhesion.

    I almost want to buy one just to see how bad it looks a year later - but hey - if your spending that kinda cash on a case something funkier will come along in the next 12 months to catch your eye and this thing will be in the basement anyway!

  12. Re:Its not the Episode, It's You! on Star Wars Episode 3 Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    wow - you feel pretty strongly about this. As a matter of interest - should I bother going to see the double showing of the Kill Bills after Easter?

    I mean - I enjoyed 'Dogs and 'Fiction so much when I was 13 I'm scared that these new films may suck! I hear theres CGI blood instead of ketchup in it!

  13. Re:Oh no, not a sequel! on Linux Based HD DDR used on Starship Troopers 2 · · Score: 1

    SHITE.

    The movie was a relatively entertaining way to piss away a couple of hours of ones life while drinkin a couple of beers and eating too many salty potato/corn based snackfoods.

    The book - well... its a ... Book... so its clearly Better and moraly Superior!! Even shit books are better than movies!

  14. Re:Its not the Episode, It's You! on Star Wars Episode 3 Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    Yep. Your anecdote about a single instance where an under 10 didnt enjoy the film DOES dismiss my comment as incorrect!

    Could it be that he was bored because of the row of cocks sitting behind him making farty noises and commenting on how shit the film was all the way through. Well - half of the way through - considering he left then!

  15. Re:Its not the Episode, It's You! on Star Wars Episode 3 Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    the viewer needs to be 25 or younger

    Just to correct your typo I think you meant:

    the viewer needs to be 10 or younger

  16. Re:Oh glorious day! on Mozilla 1.7 to Become New Long-Lived Branch · · Score: 2, Funny

    I suspect that it would actually go this way...

    Cool Moz Dude: <thinks>I WISH I could ask that hot chick what browser she runs so I can improve her life in some small way by removing pop ups when she visits 'nerdylove.com' - maybe she has a penguin tattooed on her ass.</thinks>

    Hot Chick: Whats that fucking smell??? EEEeeeeeewwwww - get away from me FREAK!

  17. Re:Usability on Why We Need a Second Moore's Law · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thats a Uk cash Sterling Pound to a genuine pinch of shit (poo, crap, jobbies, turd).

    Its a quality old North East England expression meaning 'a surefire bet'. i.e. you are inviting bets of a pinch of shit - for which you are willing to pay out a . Which is a bet I'd take - if it werent for the fact that in the act of pinching the shit I'd get shit in my fingernails. That said - a is worth about 1.9 of your american $s these days - so it might be an attractive deal to some of you unemployed /.ers

  18. Re:Usability on Why We Need a Second Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    A couple of things - I'm a lazy bastard and my machine gets clogged up with crap as I go along. So it feels slower over time.

    The trackpad is bust and the battery is a big shagged aswell. Also - the shift key no longer says SHIFT - it says S t which is just embarrassing.

    I dont REALLY need a new machine - but its easier than trying to clean this one up enough to be quick enough to be fun in the short term. Lazy lazy lazy!

  19. Usability on Why We Need a Second Moore's Law · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This makes sense - and is something Ive been known to have a drunken rant about from time to time.

    My laptop is in need of renewal - its a 1Ghz Dell. The replacement will be a 3Ghz-ish of similar style - with more HD, more RAM etc...

    I can bet you a pound to a pinch of shit that within a couple of weeks it'll be pissing me off as much as this piece of crap I'm typing on.

    Usability is the key - I for one welcome the new Moore's Law

  20. Re:keeping beer cool on Inventor of Low Tech Fridge Wins Award · · Score: 0, Informative

    Im pretty sure this award news is nonsense - in that this technique has been used for a Very Long Time. I certainly recall being shown the principle at work in a 'water powered fridge' during a tour of a 14th century Scottish castle when I was at school.

    Water evaporates - it makes stuff cold. Like when I spray my back when I get too hot cycling.

    Simple technology is important - but this is neither news nor does it matter.

  21. Re:What I would like him to say on George Lucas DVD Audio Commentary Leaked · · Score: 1

    Hey - it may just be a gear lever to you my friend - to me it was the controls of my space bike! No other bike out there had the secret alignment of controls that led it to be a slug munching space bike!

    Its now a spoiled bloody stupid bike design. Wheres the danger!

  22. Re:What I would like him to say on George Lucas DVD Audio Commentary Leaked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I do. I used to live near a guy who polished his car nightly and took photos of himself with his car. I told HIM to get councilling

    I knew a guy at Uni who thought training shoes were the next thing to religious salvation. He needed it too.

    I know a lass who wouldnt wear a paid of shoes costing under 250 - holey shit!!!

    Obsessions are obsessions. I used to love my old Chopper - the new Chopper looks shit - but it doesnt deminish the fun I had with my old chopper. I can still have fond memories of splatting through snails with it and chasing down sea gulls.

    I'm glad your over your star wars thing - they were shit films anyway.

  23. Re:What I would like him to say on George Lucas DVD Audio Commentary Leaked · · Score: 1

    As a few others have put - "ruined childhood??" - wtf are you smoking?

    I truly have no comprehension of someone being emotionally tied to something that can be rightly described as a FRANCHISE. Its the same as getting depressed because BK changed their relish recipe from when you were a kid so now its too sweet.

    I'm guessing you already have the Video and Laserdics in all formats and versions anyway. Save your money. Go out and buy some councelling.

  24. Re:2004-03-11? He's going to need lots of luck. on 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop · · Score: 1

    YYYY-MM-DD may well be a WRITTEN standard, but in spoken language to actually say two thousand and four April second is hopeless.

    Reading the date I would say either "The second of April two thousand and four" or, possibly, "April the second two thousand and four".

    Note the presence of "the" in both.

  25. Re:2004-03-11? He's going to need lots of luck. on 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop · · Score: 1, Interesting

    WE dont switch em around - its the damn US that gets it wrong.

    The most annoying thing about September 11th is that even British newsreaders are using the hateful expression 'nine-eleven' which to every self respecting EU inhabitant used to mean either a sportscar from Porche or '11 minutes past 9' or, at a push, 'the ninth of November' although this would have to have been with a year attached to be appropriate 'nine-eleven-two thousand'.

    Why you would reverse a perfectly logical ordering to put the month before the date I have no idea!