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  1. Re:A fraction of what it could have been on BBC Delivered 2.8PB On Busiest Olympics Day, Reaching 700Gb/s As Wiggo Won Gold · · Score: 2

    That's down to the broadcaster in your country. Fail to see why other broadcasters could not have done the same.

  2. Re:Torrent stream? on BBC Delivered 2.8PB On Busiest Olympics Day, Reaching 700Gb/s As Wiggo Won Gold · · Score: 2

    No one wants to get the result late though.

  3. Re:Like on jQuery 2.0 Will Drop Support For IE 6, 7, 8 · · Score: 1

    IE9 is better, albeit rapidly falling behind the curve.

  4. Re:Like on jQuery 2.0 Will Drop Support For IE 6, 7, 8 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Holy moley. I might be saying what others say but please, for the love of everything good, use conditional comments.
    They've been around since IE5. You will love them.

  5. Re:Sadly, you are wrong on State Media Rushing Into Coverage Void Left By Dying Newspapers · · Score: 1

    I love voting for people who remove my rights. It makes me feel so much better. I never wanted them anyway. :)

  6. Re:Sadly, you are wrong on State Media Rushing Into Coverage Void Left By Dying Newspapers · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's nice to hear that RT even had a debate criticising Putin. The fact that he's been systematically undermining Russian democracy since he came to power probably doesn't doesn't feature too heavily on their coverage though, does it? But good on them for criticising him.

    The BBC gets people on there every single day criticising David Cameron (he's the UK Prime Minister in case you weren't sure). They gave coverage to republicans during the Queen's jubilee celebrations, and she is hardly a Putin-like figure, but she is Head of State.

    I find it a bit funny you've never watched Question Time or any other similar show. Maybe it passed you by in the decades its been running, and you think only RT has debate shows?

    But I am sure that RT news is not 100% fiction or it would never work.

  7. Re:The BBC isn't state sponsored media? I must be on State Media Rushing Into Coverage Void Left By Dying Newspapers · · Score: 2

    Sorry but this is almost all wrong. The BBC has never been government-controlled. It is state-owned and has been since 1927. It is not a private corporation at all.

    It is subject to public service broadcasting requirements (as are Channel 4 and ITV, but not sure about Sky) and of course it has to comply with stuff like DA-notices but those apply to the whole media.

    I have to agree that it isn't quite as good as it was, but IMVHO it is still ahead of the most popular traditional media in the US. There are quality US outlets though, but they're just not huge organisations.

  8. Re:Poetic Justice on Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen · · Score: 1

    You know when you want to find something out? You can check it out, or, as it is sometimes said, "make a check". That's normal, everyday, English where I live. But we also spell it "cheque" for those bits of paper you transfer money with, so I didn't think of the potential for confusion with that.

  9. Re:Poetic Justice on Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen · · Score: 2

    Rubbish. They could always make a check. That would be the professional thing to do. Just refusing point blank is ignorant and makes them look like idiots. Which they are.

  10. Re:Cambridge Math Lab, CS on The History of the CompSci Degree · · Score: 1

    Is this one of those anti-accuracy trolls? :) If so, it's brilliant. I take my hat off to you sir. I could never have done this.

  11. Re:Interesting but... on The History of the CompSci Degree · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected on that point, thank you.

  12. Interesting but... on The History of the CompSci Degree · · Score: 4, Informative

    The first taught computing course in the world was at Cambridge University, UK in 1953. Why not be a little more international in outlook?

  13. Re:You cant hear it anyway. on Dolby's TrueHD 96K Upsampling To Improve Sound On Blu-Rays · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points.

  14. Re:Let's compare this to Google's IPO on Facebook Adds 96 Million Shares, Will Privacy Get Worse After IPO? · · Score: 1

    Thing is, the real astroturfers all have accounts, do not make strange posts like the OP, and work in subtle ways to mould your thinking rather than just telling you what to think direct.
    It's a well-understood thing.

  15. Re:Peer ban hammer on Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1

    Lots of money is exactly what they will throw at it.

  16. Re:Long view on Ask Slashdot: Best Degree For a Late Career Boost? · · Score: 1

    Something involving being petrified and/or hot grits. And your pants.

  17. Re:Time for the Judges ruling? on Jury Rules Google Violated Java Copyright, Google Moves For Mistrial · · Score: 1

    How the hell is this a troll? The first line is spot on - GPL is enforced by copyright laws. The second is debatable but this post is definitely not a troll. I wish I had mod points to promote it back.

  18. Re:BMW Not the First on Running Apps From Your Car's Dashboard · · Score: 1

    I think this is screen sharing, so not the same.

  19. Re:And Still on Osama Bin Laden Didn't Encrypt His Files · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And it took 2 and a bit years for the following administration to work out that he was in fact dead and then fake his killing, an event in which Al Qaeda collaborated by also confirming that they thought he was dead?

    Did you know if you punch yourself in the face very hard someone will give you $500? Try it. I guarantee you'll get the money.

  20. Re:Security through obscurity on Osama Bin Laden Didn't Encrypt His Files · · Score: 1

    What should worry you most is that the files WERE encrypted but the US government is now able to crack all levels of encryption using quantum computing technology developed out of Area 51.

  21. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    Your sources on the ground are different to everyone else's sources on the ground then. Or what TV cameras saw. Or what rioters themselves said.

  22. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    There were race riots in Tottenham last year alongside the other riots that happened? The media did not report this! We must have been hoodwinked.

  23. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    If you do not hold an Irish passport you aren't Irish. End of story.

    I can see why the Irish get so upset about Plastic Paddies now, just as the Greeks sigh at yet another American with the surname 'Papas'.

  24. Re:They are timeless and universal on How Las Vegas Missed Out on a Life-Sized Starship Enterprise · · Score: 1

    Sorry, why would the French or Italians put money in to help Las Vegas keep their versions of the Eiffel Tower or Tower of Pisa standing?
    Seems a very random thing to do.

  25. Re:WHICH ONE?! on How Las Vegas Missed Out on a Life-Sized Starship Enterprise · · Score: 1

    Those dimensions don't tally with the movies.