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  1. Phew! on Ball And Chain To Force Children To Study · · Score: 4, Funny

    For a moment there I thought you were talking about the old trouble and strife!

  2. Sounds like a good business plan to me on WHO Investigates Claims That Swine Flu Resulted From Human Error · · Score: 1

    1. Create Virus
    2. Create Vaccine
    3. Release Virus ...
    4. Profit

  3. This means you punish an entire household... on French Assembly Adopts 3-Strikes Bill · · Score: 1

    ..for one member's transgression. If little Fabien is downloading stuff in his room then the punishment is meted out to everyone in the household who is sharing that connection. Doesn't seem right to me. Does this mean if Sarkozy's family does the crime, he should do the time also?

  4. Re:Question on Court Sets Rules For RIAA Hard Drive Inspection · · Score: 1

    ..and not only that, wouldn't it be germane to any litigation to have to prove that you obtained a file illegally rather than you having to explain where you got it from?

  5. They're doing it wrong! on External Airbag Designed to Protect Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    The pedestrians should be the ones fitted with airbags.

  6. You're gonna need this airbag... on External Airbag Designed to Protect Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    because when you're driving through town you won't want to slow down enough that the sneaky pedestrians can bounce off your car just to set off the air bag.

    Seriously, if anyone sees this on a car they'll be trying to set it off all the time. Especially if it costs the driver a thousand bucks just to get it reset.

  7. ZOMG on LKML Summary Podcast · · Score: 1

    ...and I thought that the Shipping Forecast was boring...

  8. Time to invade the Cayman Islands on Battle Lines Being Drawn As Obama Plans To Curb Tax Avoidance · · Score: 1

    Then they'll need a defense budget as large as the USA and maybe have to increase taxes just to pay for it.

  9. Re:And some just don't understand. on WHO Raises Swine Flu Threat Level · · Score: 1

    I'd be all for calling it "Politician Flu" if it meant they'd cull all the politicians, purely as a precaution, you understand.

  10. Re:Consider things carefully on Should Network Cables Be Replaced? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Soon, that drip will become bigger and you will have bytes dropping out

    then you'll soon be up to your asses in raging torrents.

  11. I'm sorry but on What the Pirate Bay Verdict Could Mean For Google · · Score: 1

    I couldn't give a crap about the *IAA lawsuit against TPB other than as a source of amusement. This debacle is going to drag on for years, as I type this the website is still up - business as usual.

    Now if they managed to shut down torsky I'd really be up shit creek.

  12. Be happy to on Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just as soon as they release it on Pirate Bay.

  13. From the article on Ad Block Plus Filter Maintainer "rick752" Dies At 56 · · Score: 1

    Just imagine, they argue, what television programs would be available if there were no commercials to fund their production.

    I imagine fewer and better programs.

  14. Re:There is a way to beat the HIV virus on HIV Transmission Captured On Video · · Score: 1

    They _might_ have already tried this. HIV could be the failed result of their first try, escaping into the wild.

  15. Let the Chinese compromise it on Vast Electronic Spying Operation Discovered · · Score: 1

    Then set up another more secure network, but keep using the compromised version to disseminate false notices, making the Chinese Gov't respond to false information...

  16. Re:Isn't Cloud computing simply 70s-era technology on Red Hat CEO Questions Relevance of Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    I don't really mind the "cloud" as it gives me options, alternatives...

    What I really want to avoid is the storm

  17. Wikipedia on Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch Provokes Bomb Scare · · Score: 0

    I can't believe that Wikipedia already has the blurb about the bomb scare in London. Do they have _nothing_ else to do?

  18. Run and shoot? Mouse control? on Review: Resident Evil 5 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Didn't think so, I'm leaving it on the shelf. Don't care squat about the plot/graphics - those two are deal breakers for me.

  19. Why not simply blur out the whole USA on Clear Public Satellite Imagery Tantamount to Yelling Fire · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that the "free" part of the "Land of the free" is getting blurrier by the minute.

  20. He got the wrong thing... on Finnish Guy Gets Prosthetic USB Finger Storage · · Score: 1

    I would have put a wireless video camera in there.

  21. Re:47% on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 2, Funny

    The best mis-spelling I saw of "count" was "ocunt".

  22. Re:It's true.. in my experience IE is much faster on Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox · · Score: 1

    My criterion is that I only ever use IE on sites that I have built myself. That and MS pages where they force you to use it.

  23. Re:No, that's not what they did on French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    I think this is the key to moving away from Windows. Once users are happy with Open Office, Firefox, Gimp for Windows etc, then the next step to migrate totally to Linux becomes a much smaller one to take.

  24. They're taxing the wrong thing! on UK To Mull High Video Game Taxes — To Fight Knife Crime · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Stabbings occur with knives! Not Video Games. It's the knives that they should be taxing!!!

  25. Translation for Americans on Barbara Liskov Wins Turing Award · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That stuff she's talking about - "Toilet Paper", it's the same stuff you guys, for some weird reason, call "Bathroom Tissue".