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  1. No grammar checker doesn't sound bad on AbiWord vs. MS Word, For Now · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The download is 5MB. 5MB!!! This is what I want in a document editor.

  2. Re:Happy B-Day! on Happy 13th Birthday Linux! · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Here, here.

    But why only have one birthday a year. Later this year we have 7,000,000 minutes old and next year there is 5,000 days old to celebrate.

    More useless date facts available here.

  3. Re:Just wait on Privacy vs. Security: Biometric E-Passports · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But why do this with RFID as a unique tag? Surely our faces or speech or irises are unique enough. Hold a database of those rather than implant another unique key?

  4. Controversial suggestion on Attracting Women Into Computer Science · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Do we want to be attracting more women or do we want to be attracting the best people?

    I've never been comfortable with the social engineering of equivalising M/F ratios in any given discipline.

  5. Might have to buy an Intel for a change on EM64T Xeon vs. Athlon 64 under Linux (AMD64) · · Score: 3, Interesting
    There is a memory test using Ubench in the review here and Intel wins again.

    So should I save up for an Intel processor or buy 2 AMD machines?

  6. Re:Women on long-term space flights? on ESA To Study Human Hibernation · · Score: 1

    So that apple was spiked with a sex-gene eh?

  7. Don't answer the phone... on ESA To Study Human Hibernation · · Score: 0

    A phone call from Derren Brown may be a good start for this research.

  8. MS Bob on A Taste Of Computer Security · · Score: 1

    I'd never heard of MS Bob until I read this article. Wonder why it wasn't called MS Bill?

  9. Re:My cup-holder stopped working months ago... on Abused, But Working Hardware Stories? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You have a box? This guy doesn't.

  10. TCP on Open Source a National Security Threat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Better replace that open source nasty TCP ASAP then.

  11. Peter Gabriel on Peter Gabriel: Digital Music Downloading's Future · · Score: 1

    When I was younger I was sooo much a fan of Peter Gabriel I'd tape his songs off the radio.

  12. Re:Bluetooth and wireless on Fiat Joins Microsoft in a Wireless Partnership · · Score: 5, Funny
    If we hack it can we remote control it with "Remote Assistance"?

    I can imagine the phone call from my girlfriend already... "Dan, I'm trying to parallel park but can't do it in these shoes. Can you remote connect? My IP address is..."

  13. Re:Registration required... on Searching for The New York Times · · Score: 2, Informative
    Maybe it does as an 87 year old Albanian?

    I use BugMeNot via the FireFox plug-in to save registering myself.

  14. Re:200 years??? on Dan Bricklin on Software That Lasts 200 Years · · Score: 1

    Yes is should. I made a most embosing typo.

  15. 200 years??? on Dan Bricklin on Software That Lasts 200 Years · · Score: 2, Funny
    Any presidents set for this to show 200 years is a good target to aim for?

    Must have had one hell of a beta test phase.

  16. No interest in doing on Advice for Developers: Make Common Usage Easy · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "... zillion options to do things you have no interest in doing."

    Like clicking on any of the advert around this article!

  17. Re:hmmm on Microsoft Expects 1 Billion Windows Users by 2010 · · Score: 5, Funny
    > Maybe they should get one of those signs like McDonalds used to have: "over 1 billion served!"

    Are you saying Microsoft likes fat clients too?

  18. Users or installations on Microsoft Expects 1 Billion Windows Users by 2010 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    So is that 1 billion users or installations?

    If users how many of those users will also be Linux/Mac users?

    Maybe someone familiar with set theory can comment here?

  19. Missing pun on GIF Slips Away From Unisys; Your Move, IBM · · Score: 0

    Go on IBM GIFt it to us.

  20. Re:For those wondering this isnt Region 1.... on Ten-disc 'Matrix' DVD Box Set Planned · · Score: 5, Funny

    No-one can tell you what the region 1 price is, you have to see it for yourself.

  21. I just got back from holiday... on USA, UK, Australia Sign Anti-Spam Memorandum · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I just got back from a week long holiday to find 226 e-mails of which 170 were spam. I used to get far less but now my out-of-office (as enforced by company policy) replies automatically to spam stating I'm away thus reenforcing the fact that my e-mail address is a real and active one therefore even more spam gets directed at it. :-(

  22. I'm a fan on POV-Ray 3.6 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm a big fan of POV-Ray. I've been using it for years to illustrate chemistry through on-line animations.

  23. Serve them to fat clients on McDonald's Germany Moves to SuSE Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Guess they'll be doing a complete install at every McDonald's as they love fat clients.

  24. Re:Kind of ironic on Open Access To Scientific Literature: Can It Work? · · Score: 5, Interesting
    To make it worse you don't get paid to get papers published there. The money goes to the journal not the paper submitters. You actually have to surrender your copyright to the journal on submission of the paper. Most journals actually expect academics to submit their papers for free, expect fellow academics to referee the papers for free and then charge the academics to view both other peoples papers and their own papers.

    I've got a bit of experience of this having a publication list of my own.

    Perversely after I've had papers accepted in journals I can't leave the PDFs of the papers on my web site as I don't own them anymore, the journals do.

  25. Re:Reverse on SCO Says No Way To a GPL Solaris, Moves Trial Back · · Score: 5, Funny
    So in summary...

    Sun goes up
    Sun goes down
    Sun goes up
    Sun goes down

    Just doing what the name calls for.