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  1. Good - but to Notes? on IBM Challenges Microsoft With an Ad Campaign · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hmmm. Last time I used Lotus, I thought, arrgh, what a POS. Clunky clients, flaky servers. Why are they pushing that, and not investing 1% of that 300 million in developing/extending some server based on Groupware.
    Exchange is good for what it does, and users scream loudest when their email goes down. So I expect companies will be loath to change their entire messaging system. Especially to Notes.

  2. Re:Rationalization on Pr0n's Effect On Society · · Score: 1

    That's at odds with the Tao of Love, which says a man should only spill his seed once during 100, or more time of sex. It makes the differentiation between orgasm and ejaculation.

  3. Re:I'm wondering about porn mags. on Pr0n's Effect On Society · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But is the problem though that as you seek out a certain type of pics on the net, you stumble across others of a slightly harder nature - do you think that it "upgrades" your craving to harder stuff?
    I don't think it does, but I've heard that argument before.

  4. Re:Connection not so important on Increased Bandwidth Irrelevant? · · Score: 1

    Can you install OpenVPN and Quagga for me on that box, and hook me up....? :)

  5. Re:[Off topic] It's not a worm! on Hackers Serving Rootkits with Bagles · · Score: 0

    -1, Far too anal. :)

  6. Spin it a different way on Sony More Trustworthy Than Microsoft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or to spin it a different way: Microsoft less trustworthy than Sony. :)

  7. Getting the OTP around is the hard part. on Totally Random One Time Pads · · Score: 1

    Trouble is, is if you have a secure method for getting the copy of the one time pad to the other person, you might as well have sent the thing you're encrypting. (Unless you do it in advance, and store it completely securely, and destroy it the moment it is used. And it's not much use for network traffic - a 650MB CD of random data lasts only minutes on a 10Mbit link. And you cannot reuse it without seriously compromising the security of the encryption).

  8. Re:Intervention? Maybe.... on Help for an MMORPG Addict? · · Score: 1

    Of all the answers I've read so far, this could be the one that works, at least in the short term. Induce latency, and packet loss, and yes, you can get him out. Of course, he'll soon work out that it's your laptop that's causing all this, and ban you from his net.

  9. Re:My Clinically Inept Siblings on Forbes Says Vista Not People Ready · · Score: 1
    Let's take my three sisters. Each has a degree in biology.

    That's not very fault tolerant. You should have a doctor, and a lawyer in the family before you can even start thinking about some crazy careers like biology.

  10. Never have these words been heard together on Brits To Crash Test a Scramjet · · Score: 1
    If everything goes to plan ... the £1m engine will eventually crash into the ground.

    Sounds like a British project to me :)

  11. Re:Which Nature magazine? on The Future of Computing · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What? Why is this flamebait?

  12. Which Nature magazine? on The Future of Computing · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Is this the same Nature magazine that made stuff up to suit it's purposes about Wikipedia?

  13. Re:American Dictator on UK Parliament to be Made Redundant? · · Score: 1
    Sort of like the word "ring." Now, when you read that do you think of

    ... the Goatse man?

  14. Re:Hopefully not offtopic... on UK Parliament to be Made Redundant? · · Score: 1
    stop paying taxes,

    Very effective, I'm sure - but a: the services lost would probably hit the poor and needy most, and b: how do you stop paying taxes when it's automatically deducted from your wages, and sent straight to the Inland Revenue?

  15. Re:Check out saveparliament.org.uk too on UK Parliament to be Made Redundant? · · Score: 1

    Riiiight. So unless I trawl 3 very boring websites regularly, I won't hear about it? That's like in the HHGTG where the notice is in a locked cabinet in disused lavatory with a sign that says "Beware of the leopard".
    Why isn't it on the BBC website? BBC News? Channel 4? Only place I've heard about it is on Radio 4, and The Guardian, (which I don't buy).

  16. Re:The Parliament Act. on UK Parliament to be Made Redundant? · · Score: 1

    Look, troll. What about children, the elderly, the infirm, those working on that day, those over the sea in Northern Ireland, on holiday, etc? Not everyone can come. Not everyone can be bothered to come. But the fact that that many people got up on a Sunday, travelled to London, and stood up, and said "Not in my name", and "Make tea, not war" is something large. Now, if there was a pro-war rally, and more than 750,000 (2 million by some counts) people came, I'd be really shocked. I would say that when a country manages to turn out between 1 and 3 percent of it's entire population for a cause, that's an enormous number.

  17. Re:That sucks... on UK Parliament to be Made Redundant? · · Score: 1

    Well, I've just writen to my MP using the WriteToThem service. I'm sure that he is already on the case, as he strongly opposes Labour's anti-terrorism laws, the Iraq war, and the introduction of ID cards.

    As an aside, I was just looking up oligarchy on Wikipedia, and there is a political theory that all forms of organization, regardless of how democratic or autocratic they may be at the start, will eventually and inevitably develop oligarchic tendencies.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy .

  18. Re:The Parliament Act. on UK Parliament to be Made Redundant? · · Score: 1

    750,000 out of a nation of approx. 60 million not enough? ("The police estimate of 750,000 people could be an underestimation due to people bypassing official routes or going straight to Hyde Park without joining the main march.") That's a very large message if you ask me.

  19. Re:The Parliament Act. on UK Parliament to be Made Redundant? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Indeed. TB seems to think he knows better, and when the houses rightly reject his bills, he wants to have some method for forcing them through.
    Has he forgotten that England has suffered terrorism before, and survived without removing everyone's civil liberties? Yes, there have been terrorists in the past. *

    * Subject to your point of view.

  20. Re:The Parliament Act. on UK Parliament to be Made Redundant? · · Score: 1
    This wasn't snuck in, it's been around for quite some time now.

    Well, it's the sort of thing I notice, and I only heard about it yesterday. It's not exactly being debated much in the media here.

  21. Check out saveparliament.org.uk too on UK Parliament to be Made Redundant? · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's also a website that explains in slightly less dry terms than the official parliament website some of the things it would allow MPs to do. It appears to be unavailable at the moment, but check it out when it's back up.
    From memory, it's basically: add or change any laws they feel like, as long as they don't raise taxes, or have jail sentances over 2 years.
    And as for why the opposition parties and UK media aren't mentioning it, I have no idea.

  22. Isn't this already known? on Cosmic Radiation Speeds up Aging in Space? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't this a given? Just as if you expose your skin to UV radiation on the beach all day, it'll age faster. Isn't aging (and cancer) just the decay of the DNA in your cells - aging just making them not grow back properly, and cancer making them grow wrongly?

  23. Re:I hope they don't change the tabs too much on Mozilla Firefox 2 Alpha 1 Available · · Score: 1
    I could care less

    So why don't you?

  24. Re:I hope they don't change the tabs too much on Mozilla Firefox 2 Alpha 1 Available · · Score: 1

    Is that a one-off sort, or do newly added bookmarks go in to the right place?

  25. Re:SVG support on Mozilla Firefox 2 Alpha 1 Available · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Send the guy an email :)