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  1. Seahorses on Household Pets for the Common Geek? · · Score: 1

    i'm not sure if they're obtainable in your neck of the woods, but they're an excellent geek pet and unique exemplar of male pregnancy!

  2. Pisschrist on Slashback: Disclosure, Maricopa, Telecoms · · Score: 1

    Well it sounds the maker of the shroud predated Andres Serrano by 600 years.

  3. hotmail on 'Think Tank' Issues Microsoft-Funded Troll · · Score: 2, Interesting

    i seem to recall the 9/11 dudes communicating with hotmail accounts on windows machines.

    wasn't this a tragedy that closed source could have prevented?

  4. Re:End of the internet if Gutnick wins on Media Giants to Join Dow-Jones Libel Appeal · · Score: 1

    Well, that's probably criminal law not civil law. But, interestingly the terms and conditions of my ISP in Australia includes this: " 5.5 You agree to make reasonable efforts to avoid establishing hypertext links to material, which promotes or facilitates copyright infringement or contravention of any law of any country or state. " I'm not sure what a reasonable effort is, but I guess I can't includes links to copyright circumvention, euphenasia, fermentation, apostacy, atheism, communism, capitalism, anarchism or holicaust revisionism. One might say I'm left with a Mickey Mouse page, but even that is prohibited due to potential copyright infringement.

  5. Re:Thank you, thank you! on Sometimes, Microsoft is Right... · · Score: 1

    Yep. It's very easy in the current climate for all and sundry to repudiate Microsoft for their own failings. We need to be fair minded and skeptical about anyone who is crying "victim". Otherwise there is too much anti-Microsoft noise and hysteria which dampens out legitimate (and usually subtle) criticism of Microsoft's business practices.

  6. Re:Super man. on Debian Developer Wins Gold in Paralympics · · Score: 1

    There's occasionally snow on some of the high lumpy bits called mountains.

  7. Stamp Collecting on Debian Developer Wins Gold in Paralympics · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was surprised to read that Bart collects stamps. The idea of a blind stamp collector is somewhat counter-intuitive. I'd be interested in knowing more, particularly about what kind of visual aids he uses and what role linux plays in the blind-geek culture.

  8. Re:The missing link is never going to be found. on Move Over, Archaeopteryx · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Alternatively everytime a 'missing link' is found it is retrospectively inserted into the somewhat cramped Noah's Ark with a playmate as a distinct 'species'.

  9. Species are innumerate on Every Species on Earth · · Score: 1

    What we call species are clusterings of genetically similar individuals. There are many examples in nature where 'species' A mates happily with B, B mates with C, C mates with D but D won't mate with A. Normative species can actually be quite a harmful conceptual shackle. I believe that there is a 1977 endangered species act in the United States that protects members of 'endangered species' but doesn't protect hybridised members of two 'endangered species'. And similarly some activists get up in arms when Australian dingos or Ethipian wolves start interbreeding with domestic dogs. It's as if they want to keep nature in some taxonomic apartheid.

  10. Sidney ? on Highbrow Highjinks Come to an End · · Score: 2, Funny

    what kind of cortex development, caused this typo.