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  1. Re:Bad Science book on Bad Science Writer Talks About the Placebo Effect *NSFW* · · Score: 1

    I did the same. "My" copy is at my girlfriends, and I bought one for my Mum.

  2. Re:I did the 80 hour work week on Are 10-11 Hour Programming Days Feasible? · · Score: 1
    Yes, good point.
    Except..

    He told me I'd lose my job if I took the Vacation. Long Story short I took my vacation

    He doesn't do it consistently.

  3. Re:I did the 80 hour work week on Are 10-11 Hour Programming Days Feasible? · · Score: 1

    What's with the Bizarre randomised Capitalised words? It's painful to Read.

  4. Re:I you belive some random dude on UK Targets Twitter and Blog Endorsements · · Score: 1

    Radio 4's Today is the thing. Listen to some poor MP/chief exec getting mullered by Humphreys at 8.10am. I almost feel sorry for them at times.

  5. Re:lesson (hopefully) learned... on Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage · · Score: 1

    I'm talking the 3rd largest employer in Europe (after the Peoples Republican Army of China and the Indian railway).

    I'm not sure China or India are in Europe.

  6. Re:I thought you couldnt swear in a domain name? on Bank of America Buying Abusive Domain Names · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Hey, this news is only 1.5 weeks late on WikiLeaks Continues To Fund Itself Via Flattr · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So can you point us at your submission on the subject then?

  8. Re:Margaret A. Nagle, U.S. Magistrate Judge on DHS Seized Domains Based On Bad Evidence · · Score: 2

    If his British, then his royally screwed.... what? Yep, you're definitely speaking from a position of superiority.

  9. Re:Since its a redirect... on D0z.me — the Evil URL Shortener · · Score: 1

    No, because the traffic comes from the visitors' browsers.

  10. Re:News Flash! Water is wet! on Stallman Worried About Chrome OS · · Score: 1

    Anyone using facebook for private storage does not understand the purpose of facebook.

    I don't use Facebook. But you should be able to do something like this, and send the results as a status update (or write on people's walls, or whatever it is you do):

    gpg -ear your@email.com < my_porn.jpg

    Hey presto. Private Facebook storage.
    GPG. Letting you store private stuff, securely, anywhere. (tm)

  11. Re:ummmm.... on Michael Moore Posts Julian Assange's Bail · · Score: 1

    Yep. Quite a few other non-US famous people have stepped up to put up bail money, and let him stay in their 600 acre mansion.

  12. Re:Had this been pointed at Earth? What then.. on NASA Records Solar Blast of Epic Proportions · · Score: 1

    Wake me up when I can see the Aurora from here in Bristol, UK (51 degrees north). I don't really want to have to go to the Arctic circle to freeze... Wait a minute - it's cold here too. :(

  13. Re:Sounds likes Denver airports luggage system on Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet · · Score: 1
    Well, I quite often think about problems, come up with solutions, and only later find out that they've already been done. CVT is another thing I "invented". Trouble is again I was beaten to it:

    Leonardo da Vinci, in 1490, conceptualized a stepless continuously variable transmission

    At least it validates that I'm solving problems logically in ways that other people solve them.

  14. Re:Sounds likes Denver airports luggage system on Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet · · Score: 1

    This is how I think mass transit should be.
    Small pods, directed along fixed tubes to a specified destination.
    Not sure about the propulsion method - I've thought that pressurised air might be the way to go.

  15. Re:Right then on Wikileaks Booted From Amazon · · Score: 1

    Don't forget other cities. Bristol have them on their buses, and I'm sure sure the other cities of the UK do too.

  16. Re:Anti-US Government, Maybe on WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal · · Score: 1

    their knew hosting provider

    Crumbs! What happened there?! :)

  17. Re:Of course on New Windows Kernel Vulnerability Bypasses UAC · · Score: 1

    It's actually less intrusive than Unix style operating systems where in any sensibly configured default you're tightly confined to $home and everything else requires sudo

    And you can pretty much do everything *in* ~/.
    Download whatever source you want, ./configure --prefix=/home/foouser/progs/packagename, make, make install, and you can run it from /home/foouser/progs/packagename/usr/bin/prog.
    This assumes it doesn't need some admin rights, which most things don't. (Binding to 1024 is probably the major thing).

  18. Re:Bad omen? on New Windows Kernel Vulnerability Bypasses UAC · · Score: 4, Funny

    There was a .exe - I can't remember what that rebooted a Windows box with no warning. We were trying to educate people about not clicking attachments blindly (this was around the Melissa/Iloveyou time), so I renamed it to do-not-run-this.exe or something equally similar, attached it to an email, wrote in the email NOT to run it, and sent it to the company (about 70 people).

    I then had to put up with people complaining that their computer rebooted, and they lost work they were working on.

  19. Re:Why do I care? on A Peek At the National Opt-Out Day Numbers · · Score: 1

    there are some indications that ionizing radiation may be harmful

    Er, is there any doubt about it? As far as I know, *ALL* ionising radiation is harmful, and cumulative.

    Exposure to radiation causes damage to living tissue

    So try and get as little of it as you can.

  20. Re:Seatac had scanners galore but weren't using th on A Peek At the National Opt-Out Day Numbers · · Score: 1

    I returned on a flight from JFK to Heathrow on Monday. From reading Slashdot, I had been pretty much expecting annoying people, barking orders, making me go through ridiculous things in "the name of security". As it was, it was exactly like all the security checks at all the other airports in the world (quite a few) that I'd been through. Coat, metal stuff in a tray, through the X-ray thing. Me through a metal detector, no beep, I'm done. Oh, they wanted my shoes in the tray too - that's the only difference. The queue was short, the full-body scanners weren't being used. (I had made up my mind to try my hardest to avoid going through them - purely for possible future health risks - no, I don't trust that "they're perfectly safe".)

    And frankly, even if it had been necessary to let someone run his hand up my leg until he gets to my genitals? Fine by me. Who's just had a great holiday in New York (me), and who's the one being demeaned (him)? It doesn't make you teh ghey, you know.

  21. Re:BBC and Virgin Media on UK Minister Backs 'Two-Speed' Internet · · Score: 1

    The BBC, who I have to pay by law

    Strange as it may seem, you don't have to have a television.

  22. Re:Good time to campaign for trains on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    Try getting from the UK to Argentina on a train. Or hey - I'm coming to the US on Thursday, and going back on Monday. That would be hard on a train too.

  23. Re:Alternatives? on The Coming War Over the Future of Java · · Score: 1

    I'm usually shocked by how little awareness there seems to be of just how much business software is in Java

    Yep. It really shows up who have worked for the really big corporations, and those who have worked for small to medium companies.
    Java is what big companies use (unless they've gone down the .NET route).

  24. Re:I say "No" on KDE Developers Discuss Merging Libraries With Qt · · Score: 1, Troll

    echo alias tethereal='tshark' >> ~/.bashrc

    There, that wasn't so bad, was it?

  25. Re:Warfare? on Separating Cyber-Warfare Fact From Fantasy · · Score: 1

    if the flood defences had failed to protect the major electricity substation supplying a large part of the county including the city of Gloucester

    ... if the flood defences had failed to protect the major electricity substation supplying a large part of the county including the UK Government's listening HQ, GCHQ....

    FTFY