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  1. Re:Sorry dude, it's fake on What You Get When You Buy a $40 iPhone In a Bar · · Score: 1

    Not to mention a brief discussion of horses heads, and offers that cant be refused.

  2. Re:Where? on 2010 — the Year AACS and HDMI Kill Off HD Component Video · · Score: 1
    If you want to include HDMI connectors on your TV, then you must follow the rules specified by the HDMI licensing companies.

    Or sell unlicenced product manufactured in a jurisdiction where no one cares.
    Anyone want to fund my manufacturing plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo,? (Sierra Leone actually has a "Pirate Bay" see Google Maps)

    I am confident that even the HDMI consortium are not going to pay to fix the DRC to fix DRM. There is no evidence that money will fix the problems of the DRC anyway.

  3. Re:Obivous Answer on "Logan's Run" Syndrome In Programming · · Score: 1

    I have made it past 60, and I am still trying to earn a living writing PHP, C, or designing hardware, or doing Unix Sysadmin. I really don't want to be an alligator wrestler at my age, but there are not many other jobs going.

  4. Re:Obivous Answer on "Logan's Run" Syndrome In Programming · · Score: 1

    Please mod parent +2, ROTFLMAO

  5. Re:How about databases? on Australian Judge Rules Facts Cannot Be Copyrighted · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I don't know about the US but in Germany and I think the rest of the EU, the "sweat of the brow" rule applies to databases.

    As an SQL programmer, I can vouch for "sweat of the brow" personally. Is there a ruling that DB4 code is worth more than SQL because of the extra amount of grief that went into debugging it?

  6. Re:Ah, well, that lets Microsoft off the hook then on Rootkit May Be Behind Windows Blue Screen · · Score: 1
    Do you have any idea how many UNIX drones are out there

    Surely the answer must be "none" - drones obviously run "Windows for Drones"?

  7. Re:Idiots on parade on Armed Robot Drones To Join UK Police Force · · Score: 1
    Past experience of the British government's uncanny ability with technology suggests

    Any drones that are actually delivered before they are obsolete will catch government ministers stuffing loot into their pockets, but accidentally kill innocent bystanders instead.

  8. Re:When? on When Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? · · Score: 1
    I'm not sure we have a "the garage is over there gene", or a "aiming key into door while drunk" gene.

    I am willing to research these areas, if you are willing to fund me!

  9. Re:What is the AI's response? on When Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? · · Score: 1
    it appears human like intelligence is still a ways off.

    A short venture outside your mum's basement will reveal that human intelligence is still a ways off.

    Even a visit to the political-news website can be fairly revealing on this subject.

  10. Re:When? on When Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? · · Score: 1
    AI is here.

    You mean Al, as in Bundy, right?

  11. Re:Idiots on parade on Armed Robot Drones To Join UK Police Force · · Score: 1
    Anything sub-lethal will be childishly easy to defeat, once it's been seen in action a few times.

    Now you've blown it! They will have to use leathal force on people caught littering! (We knew that was coming, we live here.)

  12. Re:Worlds stupidst program on Microsoft Wins Windows XP WGA Lawsuit · · Score: 1
    Many pirated ISOs come with malware pre-installed. Maybe you don't think thats a problem

    Nope: I always check the MD5s with OpenBSD.org before installing.

  13. Re:No good on Microsoft Wins Windows XP WGA Lawsuit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My experience is the same: XP shipped with machines bought legit from PC world Business Centre fail. Dodgy looking copies bought from my Ukranian friend at the computer fair pass. (Ubuntu - priceless)

  14. Re:No good on Microsoft Wins Windows XP WGA Lawsuit · · Score: 1
    it makes you call Microsoft and explain what you are doing

    This is obviously a marketing ploy sponsored by Tux. I would sell my MS shares if I had any.

    Vote Penguinista!

  15. Re:I like my desktop. on NVIDIA Shows Off "Optimus" Switchable Graphics For Notebooks · · Score: 1
    A twelve pound notebook?

    By my estimation{ GBP12 = NGN3,000 - I hope its as good as OLPC!

  16. Re:"independently funded"? on Studies Find Harm From Cellular and Wi-Fi Signals · · Score: 1
    Beyond this, I'm out of my depth. (I'm a physicist not a biologist.)

    You are already out of your depth. You are ignoring

    The inverse square law.
    The fact that your skin has lots of water in it.
    Ambient levels of radiation at these frequencies.

    Any radiation that actually gets to your skin will be absorbed by the moisture in it. In all likelyhood, radiation reaching your brain cells from a cell phone will be massively less than that given off by random events in adjacent neurones.

    In summary: If radiation from cellphones was dangerous, sunlight would kill in seconds.

  17. We have the answer... on Tritium Leak At Vermont Nuclear Plant Grows · · Score: 5, Funny
    Nuke it from high orbit

    Oh, wait...

  18. Re:To which Lord Vader of the RIAA replied, on Lord Lucas Says Record Companies "Blackmail" Users · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Vader? I think you mean Mandelson.

    Are they not the same person?

    New labour: Government by the Mandleson, for the Mandelson

  19. Re:PHP is cross-platform on Eight PHP IDEs Compared · · Score: 1
    Gaming while you develop php?

    I hope he is working on an IDE where you write PHP by throwing cowdung at the screen with your Wiimote. I have proposed this numerous times. It just seems so apt. (The duificult is that the SQl development probably relies on a level where you are wresting with aligators).Stomping on bugs would be good using the Wii balance board!

  20. Re:Open Source/Linux's Failure To Capitalize on Using Windows 7 RC? Pay Up Or Auto Shutdown Warned · · Score: 0, Troll

    Step away from the chair, Steve ...

  21. Re:What service.... on Using Windows 7 RC? Pay Up Or Auto Shutdown Warned · · Score: 5, Funny
    What service does this auto shutting down reside in and how do we disable it?

    The service is Windows, and you disable it by installing Ubuntu.

    (You must be new here).

  22. Re:unpossible on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 1
    Funny, I thought the purpose was to hire the best possible candidate.

    You obviously lack experience of HR departments.

  23. Re:unpossible on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 1

    Not in England, where its considered a hallmark of Illiteracy.

  24. Re:Diploma mills prove the worthlessness of degree on Key EDS Witness Bought Internet Degree · · Score: 1
    Do you think they'd just let you have a go at brain surgery or teaching a group of third graders for a week?

    You really need to get out more.

  25. Re:You can't cheat on homework on Key EDS Witness Bought Internet Degree · · Score: 3, Insightful
    >i>It is not possible to cheat on homework.

    I could name at least 7 people who have degrees at "real" universities because I did _all_ their course work. They were not able to understand what the assignment was in some cases, and in others barely able to write English. Coursework assessment is a great idea, but it should not count towards the degree!

    In Cambridge (England) Your final exam is a "tripos" - you sit on a three legged stool in the centre of the Quadrangle, and ANYONE can ask you questions! No cheating there!

    A distance learnign exam is not worth the cost of the e-mailed accreditation pdf. HR people are there to cover their arses. Do you think they would be in HR if they could do a real job? They are their cos they knew someone who owed them a favour.