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  1. Mouse usage? on Thumbs Are the New Fingers for GameBoy Youth · · Score: 0

    The use of the thumb is a deviation from the use of the index finger...

    What about clicking the left mouse button using the index finger dozens of times a day for several years? Does the index finger become mulitated? :)

  2. Big numbers can be deceptive. on Online Population now Half Billion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are we talking American billions or British billions ;)

    British billion = one million million
    US billion = one thousand million

    Probably US billions. You'd think that this sort of thing would be standardised. (No, not standardized, standardised ;) )

  3. Re:Not just Chuck on That's All Folks: Chuck Jones RIP · · Score: 1

    I see.

    I said Quimby 'cause at the start of many T&J cartoons, it mentions his name :)

  4. Not just Chuck on That's All Folks: Chuck Jones RIP · · Score: 1

    There's no doubt that Chuck Jones did a lot for the entertainment industry.

    But this is a chance to also remember Fred Quimby - who created Tom & Jerry, which Chuck kept alive in later years..

    RIP

  5. Actually it HAS been in the UK on Keeping Alien Samples Safe For Study · · Score: 1

    The BBC did run Farscape for a while. I know that because I saw it.

    You just made a fool of yourself.

  6. Re:This will probably be modded down, but.. on 2.5.4 Kernel Out · · Score: 1

    You're a worthy spokesperson of the most important /. demographic group.

    :) Hmm.. there's the 1337 h4x0rz clique, then the hackers-to-be,-we-hope group. Unfortunately it's the former that get noticed :/

  7. This will probably be modded down, but.. on 2.5.4 Kernel Out · · Score: 1

    Just in time for my 30th birthday

    And my 14th, and thousands of other peoples' birthdays. What better present than a new kernel :)

  8. This post is troll / undermoderated / offtopic. on Running Linux On Your Swimming Pool · · Score: 1

    LOL!

  9. Be careful! on Running Linux On Your Swimming Pool · · Score: 1

    Surely Tux will make the pool freezing cold so he can go in for a dip now and again - so be ready for that when you jump in!

  10. Re:Hasn't this already been done.. on Intel Developing Cellular Internet Chip · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, of course - an Intel version, only propietary.

  11. Hasn't this already been done.. on Intel Developing Cellular Internet Chip · · Score: 1

    Intel will thus be able to realize an old company dream - the development of a computer enabling users to be connected, any time and any place, to the Internet.

    .. with 802.11b (or whatever) wireless connections?

  12. ironically.. on Incredible Shrinking PC · · Score: 2

    .. the better/smaller the device, the easier it is for pickpockets ;)

  13. Age is just a number! on Handling Discrimination in the IT Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Over the next ten years or so, I'm sure we'll see a boom in those who claim to be 18 or so and have 5+ years experience. After all, computers are so easy to get hold of today, and learning about them is relativly simple, too.

    I'm 13 and started dabbling with Linux when I was 11.. but I don't claim to be some 31337 h4x0r d00d. Instead I put my time to better use, such as learning more. Notice how younger people who do know and understand what they are doing never seem to speak up. Sure, by posting this I'll probably be tarred with the same brush and labelled just another dumb kid, but there are some people, like me, who want to learn with the right attitude. Where is the hacker (in the proper meaning) culture going if the younger generation can't be encouraged to follow the right path?
    Please don't be as prejudiced towards everyone in the 10-14 age bracket; there are some who are not lame crackers with nothing better to do than play elite and cause trouble.

    I speak for those who are the same age as the eejits of 12-yo script kiddies, but cringe at the thought of their tarnishing of the image of the younger generation in computing.
    (Thanks for reading.)

    --
    freelin.org - GNU/Linux on CD, free

  14. Re:More details needed. on Handling Discrimination in the IT Workplace? · · Score: 1

    In the UK, you can start a "small" job at 13, for example a paper round or light agricultural work. But you can't be properly employed until 16.

  15. Leet h4x0r possibilities? on Europe Adding RFID Tags to Euro Currency · · Score: 1

    Just imagine all the underground cracking utilities that will probably appear to wipe a note's history.. "this note has not been used yet." "this note hasn't been photocopied". Serial number alteration.
    To hell with Europe, keep the pound £££ .. :)
    (A watermark, light-sensitive line and hologram are usually enough..)

  16. Re:hrm on Europe Adding RFID Tags to Euro Currency · · Score: 1

    I agree with you, even though technically i'm european.. (british).. to hell with europe !