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  1. Re:Yeah, but ... on Four Cups of Coffee A Day Cuts Risk of Oral Cancer · · Score: 1

    Not quite as clear cut as that. Depends on your teeth which depends on your genes and environment. I love coffee but can't stomach more than one cup a day as the caffeine does me in. This puts me in a different pool of people than frequent coffee drinkers which is apparently at a higher risk of cancer. This isn't the same as saying drink more coffee and have less cancer.

  2. Re:Proof on Download-only Single Becomes UK Number One · · Score: 1
    > Hey ... with a name like Gnarls Barkley, it's gotta be good.

    If you want an download only single to succeed you have to have a unique name or customers won't find it on Google.

  3. Re:And hear the sighs...... on Google Pages Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Don't be silly. We are free to upload whatever we want using the upload function. My mum would never be able to sus out how to embed a Google Video.

  4. Re:Reader on Blue Gene/L Tops Its Own Supercomputer Record · · Score: 1

    Maybe we can use it to write large Word documents?

  5. I work internationally on Gmail Becomes Google Mail in the UK · · Score: 3, Interesting
    So I can pretend I'm not from the UK to avoid the issue? Sure I registered in the UK but I work all over the world. I'm working in Sweden this week. If I leave a proxy running out here and connect through that will I keep my gmail address?

    I didn't know Google even kept a geographical address for my gmail account. Doesn't appear when I search for it!

  6. Re:no shit on Google Responds to Authors Guild Lawsuit · · Score: 3, Insightful
    > (3) by not reproducing a substantial portion of the work

    The Google index of the book must contain the entire text. This means they have reproduced a substantial portion of the work (all of it) internally.

  7. Re:Great to hear on 100 Million Online in China · · Score: 2, Funny
    > You don't need the internets to find out how to make a bomb. You just need half a brain.

    And half a brain is what you might have after the bomb goes off.

    For those wanting to experiment you will find many delights on my site.

  8. Re:recommendations? on Writing Down Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Nice bit or PERL. It it GPL?

  9. Re:use gnutella? on Official BitTorrent Search Opens · · Score: 1

    I think this is because torrents only recently became decentralized themselves. What is the point in searching for a torrent to find the server orchestrating it is down?

  10. 1 in what? on How the Spam Industry is Sustained · · Score: 4, Funny

    But what ratio have received the $43M from an fallen African state?

  11. Re:Haha on Microsoft to Offer Patches to U.S. Govt. First · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What I find weird about this is that Microsoft write a patch to fix "serious security vulnerabilities", release to the US miliary but hold it back from the rest of the world for a month. Will this make the world a safer place?

  12. SSsshhhhh!! on Dvorak on How Microsoft Can Kill Linux · · Score: 0

    If you have found don't flipping publish it on Slashdot to advertise it!

  13. Re:Not a problem on Floaters are the New Pop-Ups · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also not a problem with lynx.

  14. First menu will be... on Cyrix Hotplate Howto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fish and chips anyone?

  15. Free? on Napster Has Been Cracked · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought all music downloaded from the internet was free?

  16. Re:What is this world coming to? on Bill Gates Claims OSS Has Poor Interoperability · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Guess they don't attempt to interoperate between three different version of Office within their organization.

    Guess they can afford the upgrade licenses!

  17. Pre-order on Amazon.co.uk on Sony Announces PSP Launch Date · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is the link. Unfortunately the UK price for the basic version is £180 or about $340. :-(

  18. Re:There can be only one... on PDA Sales Fall for Third Year in Row · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking of selling my Zire 72. I was thinking of moving to a Tungsten C to enjoy wireless web page browsing but with the new Sony PSP available soon in the UK I've decided to wait for that.

  19. 0% IE, 100% Firefox on Dutch Survey Shows IE Web Share Below 90% · · Score: 4, Funny
    0% IE, 100% Firefox on my desktop.

    58% of statistics are made up.

  20. LSB on United Linux: Two Years Later · · Score: 5, Interesting
    My big hope for United Linux was that if I created a binary it would work under all x86 versions of Linux.

    I'm now hoping Linux Standard Base 2.0 will really take off.

  21. Re:That'll suffice on Japan's Newest Linux Supercluster: 13TB RAM · · Score: 0

    Wonder how long it would take to realise you had a memory leak?

  22. The Queen on UK Government Reports Linux is 'Viable' · · Score: 4, Funny
    So will the Queen moves back to Linux now?

    Her son is a Solaris person.

  23. Re:I may get one on Smaller Networked Sony "PStwo" Officially Announced · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I was thinking of getting a PStwo until I realised you can't put the Linux kit in them as the don't have a hard drive bay. :-(

    Guess I'll have to get the chunker PS2 instead to use this unless anyone out there knows a Knoppix equivalent for the PS2/two?

    If I'm going to put a network aware console into my TV I'd prefer one that I and fire up a web browser on.

  24. Re:Most of that is probably from previous users on 1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days · · Score: 3, Informative
    > I would seriously doubt that this represents anything like 1 million new users.

    Who said it did?

    Just think about the numbers though. It must be already 10x the number of people the whole development team will meet in their entire lives.

  25. Firefox on Mozilla.org Relaunched · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I'm a big fan of Firefox. Only bit I don't like is upgrading the software where "installing over the top of an older version may cause unpredictable problems."

    Soon as that is fixed I'll recommend it to my mother.