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  1. Theres a local farmer here who actually went on 419 Scam Costs Britons 8.4m GBP in 2002 · · Score: 1

    to Nigeria and was held for ransom. They clened out his bank account, and he got his family to pay even more into it for the con men to take.
    He was released soon after the money ran out. He gets laughed at alot by everyone here.

  2. Was interviewed in 1995! on Microsoft: Because Bugs are Cool · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Read the damn articles before you out them up next time.

    And it seems to be about Win95 which is totally different to Win 3.11 so I can understand why Bill says most of the calls are about people not knowing how to use it properly. That wouldnt hold true today though.

  3. Re:electrostatic shielding on Traffic Cops for Space · · Score: 1

    So you stop some small debris.
    How do you stop these oppose charged items that are attracted to your shield that are travelling at a couple of hundred miles a second?
    A positively charged shield?

  4. Ghost In The Shell on Realistic Portrayals of Software Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Not Hollywood though. But still better at portraying IT people .

  5. Swordfish! on Realistic Portrayals of Software Programmers? · · Score: 1

    If I got a cent for evey time I had to crack 128 bit encryption whilst getting a blowjob and with a gun to my head I'd have almost a dollar!

  6. Re:I know it is dangerous to review a trailer but. on League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Trailer · · Score: 1

    Some of the Aliens vs Predator comic books are good. A movie however would be bad as they are unlikely to hold that Predators would be portrayed as sneering one liner bad guys.

  7. It wont end the tirade of spam on Penny Black Project Investigates Sender-Pays E-mail · · Score: 0
    M$ will undoubtably sell the list of emails as well as your personal info to 'licenced' spammers.

    And how do you flag a post saying its already being paif for? Itll only be a matter of time someone cracks the encoding for the 'already paid for' data and totally reduces the whole system to a mess.

  8. I loved this series... on Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama going Hollywood? · · Score: 1
    ..but I fear a movie adaptation will turn it into another Mission to Mars farce.

    How much you want to bet theyll add in a couple of explosions and a love interest to get bovine america to watch it.

  9. BSA contacted my company on Is the BSA "Grace Period" a Scam? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    and said directly to the IT officer that she was going to jail by the next Monday if she didnt buy their audit.

    She told them to phuck off as she gets these kinds of sales techniques all the time.

    The very next day a Mocrosoft rep called out of the blue. Our MS licences werent up for renewal and we never bought anything from them recently. Coincidence?

  10. Re:Remember this episode? Help me out here? on Rick Berman Doesn't Know Why Nemesis Tanked · · Score: 1

    Is that the one where the holodeck doohicky goes haywire and threatens to kill all inside?

  11. My 15 minute think for plots for ST11 on Rick Berman Doesn't Know Why Nemesis Tanked · · Score: 1
    Lets see how hard it is to make a couple of movie premises:

    Movie idea 1
    1. Start with Picard/Riker/Data/Troi in a federation ship attack (yes attack) a colony or another ship.
    2. Everyone goes WTF? and blames the real Picard/Riker/Troi (wait for it...)
    3. Turns out the evil others are from the mirror universe!
    4. Evil Data gets captured, wiped and uploaded with good dead Data's memories (et viola back from the dead!).
    5. Big battle crossing both the mirror universe and the ST one, Good Picard vs Evil Picard, Good Riker vs Evil Riker (maybe with some help from the transporter created Thomas Riker...3 Rikers!)
    6. Good wins, Data's back, everyone goes home happy.

    Movie Idea 2
    1. A solar system gets wiped out for some mysterious reason and the Enterprise is set to investigate.
    2. Find nothing (literally nothing) and then hear of another system being destroyed.
    3. Investigate that, runs into a war zone of.....the Q!!!!
    4. Find out the Q are warring over the right to award fledging civilisations to join the Q's once they get past a certain level. Some want it to happen to inject more variety into their humdrum continuum, some dont, and some dont care. John De Lancie Q doesnt care and gets Picard & Co to sort it out. It turns out the Q's who dont want it would rather wipe out the universe then allow the 'lower pond scum' join them. So theyve developed a universe bomb which destroys the ST one and replaces it with another one(could have some cool shots of the new universe invading the ST one with different laws of pyshics etc).
    5. Picard goes and tries to convince the bad Q's but they materialise an alien race which will be the new dominent race in the new universe and it basically turns into a fight for survival .
    6. Picard wins but doesnt destroy them, the bad Q's take pity on Picards compassion to the alien enemies and decide not to destory the ST universe and branch the new universe so they both can exist.
    7. Everyone goes home happy, Q looks at Datas retard clone, goes 'I hate closed minds' and repairs his brain to what Datas was. Hey preto Datas back!


    Not bad for 15 minutes. Jeez Bergmann how can you not think creatively?

  12. So have NVidia and the rest of the companies... on Xbox Losses Double, Xbox Shrinks · · Score: 1

    agreed to share technology so they can combine chips and therefore minimise the insides as well as costs?
    From what I recall one of the issues the XBox had was it was big and costly because the different companies refused to share info on their components. Whereas the PS2 was cheaper and smaller because they could combine manufacturing processes and reduce costs.

  13. Re:Hopefully this will stop them.. on AOL Reports Its First Drop In Subscribers · · Score: 1

    Its 100 where I come from in the UK.

  14. Hopefully this will stop them.. on AOL Reports Its First Drop In Subscribers · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...carpet bombing the world with their '100 HOURS FREE TRIAL!!!' CD

  15. How come the Japanese knows English leet speek? on Engrish LOTR: The Two Towers Captions · · Score: 1
    Badly translating english is one thing, but then translating it into l33t sp3ak is another.

    Obviously a hoax.

  16. Why is this in the lawsuit? on Attorney Sues eBay over Negative Feedback · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "The lawsuit also demands that buyers and sellers, who use aliases in eBay transactions, register their screen names with the state of California as fictitious business names, and that eBay be forced to collect state sales tax."

    Is this an underhanded way of getting ebay to pay tax? And the rest of it a smoke screen?

  17. I can make 16 million games in an hour! on Phantom Game Console · · Score: 1

    If your definition of a 'game' is a 1980's platformer with a rotating color palette.

  18. Re:Terry Pratchet on Top 10 New Sci-Fi/SF Authors? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    He has almost 30 books. And there are better ones than the Thief of Time.

    I wouldnt recommend which ones to read, as although most can be read without reading any previous ones, its better to read them in order of they were made. Theres some jokes that you will only get if you read them in a previous book first

  19. Wil Mc Carthy on Top 10 New Sci-Fi/SF Authors? · · Score: 1
    Only read two of his books but they are very good. I dont think its a series as they were totally different SF eras.

    One is called Bloom and is about people living on some moon around Jupiter or Saturn after Earth was 'consumed' by nanomite weapon and is spitting out nanomites which occasionally hits them.

    Coliseium is another and is about the harnessing of blackholes to form 'space highways' that all quick travel.

  20. One day an ISP gets a phone call.... on Rosen Floats ISP Fee Idea -- Charge Everybody! · · Score: 1

    RIAA: Hello ISP.
    ISP: How can I help you?
    RIAA: We would like you to pay us $200,000,000.
    ISP: What? Why?
    RIAA: Because people use your networks. And seeing people are criminals and steal the lovely and original music we make.
    ISP: Why $200,000,000?
    RIAA: Well as seeing you wont give us access to your networks logs, user lists, and other information we decided to guessimate with some dice and a random number generator.
    So when can we expect payment?
    ISP: FUCK OFF! *click*
    RIAA: Wow, third time today.

  21. I cant wait for all the ISPs on Rosen Floats ISP Fee Idea -- Charge Everybody! · · Score: 1
    to tell her to fuck off.

    I'd kill a geek to be in the room when she gets told where to go.

    And thanks /. , this made my weekend. Im laughing my fat ass off hear over it.

  22. Simple workaround to the stupid EULA line on Network Associates Loses Battle to Silence Reviewers · · Score: 1, Interesting
    You buy the product and let someone else review it. Then they write the review of it. As they didnt buy it they are not bound by the the EULA.

    And what stops someone who bought it telling another that its good/bad so they could review it for you.

  23. Surely it depends if the game is playable on Can Independent Game Developers Survive? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and not by how big you are.

  24. Id like to buy the RIAA/MPAA a clue please Bob on Judge Rules that Kazaa can be Sued · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You shut down one, its replaced by more.

  25. Re:Anyone thought of this when trying to crack.. on Slashback: Embed, Dougal, FireWire · · Score: 2
    Forgot to add after 'How many primes are there that can produce a 2048 bit key after all':

    Surely it must be on the scale of billions time less then other methods like brute force.