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  1. Re: Washed Through By The Mainstream on After 40 Years 'Dungeons & Dragons' is Suddenly Popular (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    âoeVanillasâ I think I understand (normies?), but what are âoepinksâ in this context?

  2. And yet.. on Officials Say "Capes For the Unemployed" Plan Not Super · · Score: 1

    ..not one is up on eBay. Not one. They must really like the capes, or they're so dumb they don't have the tiniest flare of entrepreneurial spirit.

  3. Games may not be art, but they are free speech. on When Does It Become OK To Make Games About a War? · · Score: 1

    Personally I have always been disgusted by any wargame based on historical events, and I don't play them. However, free speech is one of the many things these real men and women died to defend (to take the WWII example so oft cited), and so no 'war' or war should be off-limits, IMHO.

  4. They didn't "back-pedal" on Royal Society and Creationism In Science Classes · · Score: 2, Informative

    They corrected sloppy journalism http://royalsociety.org/news.asp?id=8004

  5. "Let him go!" on Predator-Style Helmets Allow Pilots to See Through Planes · · Score: 1

    "Stay on the leader!"

  6. Re:Round edges.... on Space Money Invented For Space Tourists · · Score: 1

    Who the hell is modding this guy informative? For those people who have never seen a coin, it is topologically a cylinder and has two sharp edges.

  7. Re:Statutory rights?!? on Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux · · Score: 1

    Yes they are "bizarre" in that we do have rights in exactly this sort of case, and very useful they are too. IANAL but the original poster should immediately ask for a refund (after you have removed your personal data), and if they refuse get the manager's name, and write to the H.O. saying you will make a claim through the Small Claims Court. I would be surprised if they don't cave immediately. The OS is immaterial, and it is just going to be easier for them to give in than have you drag them through a civil court, whilst giving us juicy gossip to talk about on /. I worked in retail for 20 years and refunds/repairs/goodwill go to the loudest and most relentless customers - sad but true. When you get your refund, I hope you will have learned your lesson about shopping at PCWorld

  8. Boggs on DMCA Takedown Notice For a Fake ID · · Score: 1

    You mean none of you have heard of Boggs?

  9. Re:table of contents? on DHTML Utopia · · Score: 1
  10. The main reason this will fail spectacularly on Hybrid Fixed and Mobile Telephony · · Score: 1

    is that incoming calls are charged at the call-to-a-mobile rate even if the recipient is at home.

  11. I work in a bookshop on Retail Theft Detectors and False Alarms? · · Score: 1

    and we routinely ignore the alarm going off, because more often than not it is some other stores security tag that sets off our alarms. As a technology they are worse than useless. I hope RFID actually works.

  12. Re:"adult fantasy novels"? on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell · · Score: 5, Funny

    a novel the bible is not, and it only rates adult 'cos of the sex.

  13. Re:Documentary? on Cannes' Palme d'Or goes to Michael Moore · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are slightly missing the point. The Republican administration is toeing the Murdoch party line.

  14. Re:What's the problem here? on FBI Investigates Open Records Request · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, "May you live in interesting times." should be updated to be, "May you be a 'person of interest'."

  15. Re:Wrong-er on Towards Silent Supersonic Planes · · Score: 1

    If it was more than or equally profitable as BA's and Air France's other operations then it would still be in service.

  16. Yes but its... on Hardware Hacking · · Score: 1

    ..the quote you have to love.

  17. ...spastically... on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 1

    You insensitive clod! Do you not know what spastic actually means? Get a clue and just don't use it in this context, and certainly not on t'internet. It is offensive. That is all.

  18. Re:YEEEHAAAA on Curse Your Way to Live Support · · Score: 1

    Now that is what I call a learning algorithm.

  19. Re:Snipers... on On FPS Sniping And The Ruination Of Gameplay · · Score: 1

    and the rest

  20. Its been on on 64 Bit Athlon Notebooks Hit the Market · · Score: 1

    www.evesham.com for a few days

  21. Re:Finally on Wireless Street Lamps for Traffic Monitoring · · Score: 1

    Keyword there is "essential" - this may come as a shock to some but we do not have a God-given right to cars. In fact being too poor to run one is an eye-opener. Wasting effort on protecting 'liberties' like driving your car at 45 in a residential street is not very sensible when real liberties are under threat.

  22. One word.. on Why Such Unimaginative Nomenclature? · · Score: 1

    ..Xerox

  23. I always thought it looked more like on Universities Dispute with Red Hat over 'Fedora' · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Universities in some places are taking action on For Americans, Imported Textbooks Can Be Cheaper · · Score: 1

    Books in the UK are not subject to VAT (more accurately VAT is charged at 0%).

  25. The book it is from is worth reading on Creation Of Elite Charted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The article is from Chapter 3 of Francis Spufford's "Backroom Boys". I enjoyed the book immensely.

    As the subtitle suggests it is unashamedly British in outlook, but celebrates engineering with six anecdotal stories that would warm the heart of any geek (or at least allow them the odd knowing chuckle).

    As well as Elite, it covers Britain's space program (Black Arrow, Blue Streak etc.), Concorde (topical), cellphones, the Human Genome, and a reprise on Britain's space program with Beagle 2. Not a proper review I know, but a recommendation all the same.