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  1. Re:Who reboots? on Quick Boot Linux Hopes To Win Over Windows Users · · Score: 1

    Then you wait 5 minutes or so for it to finish loading everything

    I like the way it tells you it's loading "your" settings. Like, if you didn't have so many settings I'd be through loading much quicker but it's all "your" fault. Same thing when shutting down, saving "your" settings seems to take ages. How can I remove some settings so it doesn't take so long? Doesn't having them in memory like that chew up all my available RAM?

  2. Street View? on Google Earth Uncovers Secret UK Nuke Base · · Score: 1

    Man you should check out the "Street View" of the base, too! ;)

  3. Re:Yes, but... on Dinosaurs Could Hold Basketballs, But Not Dribble · · Score: 1

    Depends if they were able to make the baskets.

    This would seem to be evidence that they could...

  4. Re:Wasn't it just a couple of years ago... on High Performance Linux Kernel Project — LinuxDNA · · Score: 1

    It's not designed to do that. It's designed to suck up as much money as possible whilst simply threatening to down a missile.

  5. That's brave of them on Music-Swapping Sites To Be Blocked By Irish ISPs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clearly, now the ISPs are responsible for any music-swapping that occurs since they've taken it upon themselves to determine what is or isn't legal.

  6. Hey, is that a clamshell in your pants? on Student Arrested For Classroom Texting · · Score: 1

    Or are you just pleased to see me?

  7. This is the Analogy Police. on Half the Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped · · Score: 1

    Enough already!

  8. Re:Looking forward to Windows 8 on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Probably not, and you'll need to have Microsoft(tm) eyeballs fitted before being able to view it's screens to prevent you from remembering them and describing them to someone else who hasn't paid for the "experience".

  9. Re:A Strawman for the Symptom on Pirate Bay P2P Trial Begins In Sweden · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not to mention that the DVD often _forces_ you to watch 23 trailers before getting to the main feature. Every single damn time you load the disc.

  10. Re:Call sign... on Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras · · Score: 1

    So who was the bright spark that thought up the idea of representing "east" with a "W"?

    Now what can we use for "west" - dammit "W" is taken!!

  11. Re:This was bound to happen. on Satellites Collide In Orbit · · Score: 1

    Even worse, the collision took place over Siberia. The Iridium had no right to be there in the first place.

  12. Re:have you guys heard about this? on Vim 7.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Forget it. It'll never catch on. Get back to your 8-Track.

  13. Re:What is really wrong with trains? on Two Big Tests For Personal Rapid Transportation · · Score: 2, Informative

    Some trains don't need any drivers at all. The "Skytrain" system in Vancouver is driverless.

  14. Re:All free, no upgrade no limts on MS Confirms Six Different Versions of Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Also...all the versions of Ubuntu are the same price.

  15. There...fixed it for ya on Microsoft Brings Back DRM · · Score: 1

    If I buy these songs on your service - and they're locked to my phone - what happens when I upgrade my phone in six months' time?

    "Well, I think you know the answer to that."

    Doesn't he mean: "Fuck 'em."?

  16. Re:Fencing on An FBI Agent's 3 Years Undercover With Identity Thieves · · Score: 1

    I read that corrupt retailers and waiters use portable card readers to steal all mag data on the card. How would you protect yourself against that kind of attack?

    Er, pay with cash?

  17. I must need new contacts on Google Challenging Proposition 8 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I read that as Google Challenging Preparation H

  18. Re:Steps to creating life often missed by nerds on Researchers One Step Closer To Creating Life · · Score: 1

    Yeah right! I see there's no

    5. .....
    6. Profit!!!

    so that's probably why the nerds aren't into this one.

  19. Re:Andrew Crosse on Researchers One Step Closer To Creating Life · · Score: 1

    Man, that Wikipedia image of Andrew Crosse sure does look like the young Eric Idle of Monty Python fame...

  20. Re:Hopefully... on Researchers One Step Closer To Creating Life · · Score: 3, Funny

    In an experiment they recently created enzymes that can replicate and evolve.

    If there's a chance it can evolve into Natalie Portman we're on the right track at least...

  21. Re:I got an Orgone Accumulator on Hippies Say WiFi Network Is Harming Their Chakras · · Score: 1

    ...do not panic...

  22. I got an Orgone Accumulator on Hippies Say WiFi Network Is Harming Their Chakras · · Score: 1

    ...and it makes me feel greater.
    I'll see you sometime later
    When I'm through with my Accumulator.

  23. Summary is 100% wrong on Playing Tetris Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    If you actually RTFA

    We are not saying that people with PTSD should play Tetris

    Now how did that get turned around to "Playing Tetris is good for you"?

    Only on /.

  24. Re:From Cool Tools - URL on Home Generators (or How DTE Energy Ruined My Holidays) · · Score: 1

    Answered my own post - the link is here.
    There was a typo in the original.

  25. Re:From Cool Tools - URL on Home Generators (or How DTE Energy Ruined My Holidays) · · Score: 1

    OK, I need someone smarter than me to tell me why the link doesn't work, but if I cut'n'paste the same URL into a new tab it works fine. Maybe they don't allow deep linking...