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  1. Re:If there was any doubt about Money being King.. on Microsoft Censoring Blogs on MSN China · · Score: 1

    I don't think Microsoft could do anything to please you; you'd still find something to whine about you sandle wearing hippy.

  2. Re:Ethnicity in comics? - A rebutal involving SW on Holy Men in Tights! Academic Superhero Conference · · Score: 1
    You obviously haven't seen the same films that myself and the parent poster have.....

    Look up Chasing Amy next time you're in the video store.....

  3. Re:I don't get... on Monty Python's SPAMalot Wins 5, no 3 Tony Awards · · Score: 4, Informative

    No it isn't!

    It's from the Holy Hand grenade sketch:

    Brother Maynard:
    And then the Lord spake, saying: "First, shalt thou take out the holy pin.
    Then shalt thou count to three.
    No more, no less.
    *Three* shall be the number of the counting, and the number of the counting shall be three.
    *Four* shalt thou not count, and neither count thou two, excepting that thou then goest on to three.
    Five is RIGHT OUT. Once the number three, being the third number be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade to-wards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight,shall snuff it.
    Amen."
    All: Amen.

    Arthur: Right! (pulls pin)
    One!
    Two!
    Five!
    Bedevere: Three, Sire!!
    Arthur: Three! (throws hand grenade at the Killer Rabbit)

  4. Re:Incentive? on Open source Digital Bacteria · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's a BSD license. No one has to release any changes. And whether you hippy idealists disagree doesn't matter.

  5. Re:Meanwhile... on Mad as Hell, Switching to Mac · · Score: 1
    This has been confusing me all morning, esp. as I don't use a news reader.....

    Glad to see it's not just me...

  6. Re:Please - no more ! - 6 is already 3 too many .. on Another Star Wars Prequel? · · Score: 1

    If you don't like it, don't watch it. But how about you shut the fuck up and let those of us that do, get excited?

  7. *groan* on Another Star Wars Prequel? · · Score: 1

    And a thousand slashbots cried out as one, and unfortunately, weren't silenced, as somehow George Lucas has 'runied their childhood' and myriad other whinings....

  8. buh-bye server... on Seeing Around Corners With Dual Photography · · Score: 4, Funny
    make sure to watch the 60MB video at the bottom. The playing card trick will leave you speechless!"

    The exploding server one has already rendered me speechless. Why in the name of god do they do it!

  9. Re:Ahem, how about reading the article? on UK Schools Told to Dump Microsoft · · Score: 1

    possibly, but School's have not been 'told' to do anything, BECTA have made a recommendation in a report.

  10. Re:Ahem, how about reading the article? on UK Schools Told to Dump Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I was referring to the title, which is complete bollocks, as we say in Britain.

  11. erm, no it doesn't on UK Schools Told to Dump Microsoft · · Score: 4, Informative

    BECTA don't recommend dumping anyone, let alone naming Microsot. They instead recommend that savings can be made by looking towards Free (as in beer) solutions.

  12. Re:And the problem is? on Microsoft Offers Compensation For Counterfeit OSes · · Score: 1

    I worded it badly, I meant to cover those who might hate Microsoft with a passion, regardless of how they conduct themselves.

  13. Re:Fishy on Microsoft Offers Compensation For Counterfeit OSes · · Score: 1

    Microsoft would not just cut off supply to an organsation just because an Employee claims they bought software from them. They would loose to much money for a start, Enterprise agreements are worth tens of thousands, and more in some cases.

  14. Re:Qui Bono? on Microsoft Offers Compensation For Counterfeit OSes · · Score: 1
    My local computer fair is full of them.

    I've seen traders being removed by Council staff (it's in a council owned building).

  15. And the problem is? on Microsoft Offers Compensation For Counterfeit OSes · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This article is written like it's a bad thing!

    Whether you agree with the law, or wear sandals and hug penguins, piracy is still illegal, and if you have unwittingly ended up with illegal software, you shouldn't have to put up with being ripped off.

  16. Re:Virtually Meaningless on Microsoft to Support Linux in Virtual Server · · Score: 2, Informative
    blah blah whinge whinge....

    for christ sake go and recompile your Kernel or something....

    For those of us with large datacenters and limited resources, Virtual Server is great for throwing something in the mix and seeing what sort of integration we get.

  17. Re:Virtually Meaningless on Microsoft to Support Linux in Virtual Server · · Score: 1

    It means you can mess with stuff without coughing up for hardware first so you can see if it is compatibile in your environment, etc.

  18. Re:This group uses PowerBooks on U.S. Military's Hackers · · Score: 1

    I went for an interview with the US Air Force last year and they told me Unix was banned.....

  19. Re:Peace, Love, Linux on Tux Enlisted for U.S. Defense Program · · Score: 2, Funny
    Can't win with you guys can you?

    If they'd put Windows on it, you've have bitched and jumped up and down.

    They put Linux on it, and you're still wining.

    Perhaps the world doesn't actually give a stuff of the opinions of a load of geeks in their bedrooms?

  20. Re:Did anyone on Ask Jeeves Bought for $2 billion · · Score: 4, Informative

    all the non-technical staff here do, they seem to think that you can just ask it anything and it knows the answer. I've seen some really bad full sentence queries get put into it....

  21. Re:"Groudn down screwdriver" on Shufflephones 2.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    yes :)

  22. Even the submitter didn't read the article!! on Keylogging Used To Catch Bank Crackers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The crooks were the ones using the keyloggers, not the people who caught them!!!!!!

  23. I will stop downloading on Would You Pay 5 Cents For a Song? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When the record companies sell what i want to hear. everything i pulled off of napster back in the day was 80's rock and metal stuff that has been discontinued. For god sake guys, put your back catalogues on line, (or even press a cd or two on demand) and then we'll talk. :(

  24. Re:I switched... on Torvalds Switches to a Mac · · Score: 1

    i dunno whether it's a placebo, or whether i'm more careful with it, but i think it makes a difference.

  25. Re:Back on topic: on Problems With the Firefox Development Process · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I have a Ph.D in comp sci

    Wow, big deal. You can research stuff that no one has ever researched before. How does that qualify anything you can't do as mind-blowingly difficult?

    As for a weekend device driver, I'm gald that the dominant software supplier in my shop spends more than 48 hours writing code that is going to be doing the brunt of the I/O work on my hardware....