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  1. Re:Real world stats? on Firefox Continues to Bite into IE Usage · · Score: 1

    My site stats breaks down as
    Opera 60%
    Firefox 40%
    Sample size: 2 unique IPs

    Taken at the local level things would seem to be very different.

  2. Re:Conveniently Enough on EDS: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable · · Score: 1

    This, of course, is the same EDS that repeatedly show how well Microsoft products scale in their guaranteed-to-fail UK government IT projects. The only things that scale well are the cost and time to throwing in the towel - Usually somewhere between 200% & 300% of the original negotiated contract.

  3. Huh? on New Dr. Who Episode Leaked · · Score: 5, Funny

    From news.bbc.co.uk: "The BBC was unavailable for comment."

    Investigative journalism is truly dead.

  4. SCO hasn't played their trump card yet... on Randall Davis: IBM Has No SCO Code · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your honour, when we apply the standard abstraction and filtration phases to any Unix System V file we can clearly see that the resulting 0 byte file is identical to every abstracted and filtered 0 byte file in the latest Linux kernel.

  5. Cool - A four Wookie story on ACLU Sues FBI Over ISP Records · · Score: -1, Troll

    Count 'em guys - Four Wookies.

    If the right-hand column of that page contains four Wookies you must not read the article.

  6. Re:Choice? on Code Copying Survey for Developers · · Score: 1

    You don't have to answer Q6 (no asterisk). Question 10 is the worst one - you have to answer even though the question is loaded.

  7. Re:COBOL on The Worst Development Job You've Ever Had? · · Score: 1

    I once wrote a COBOL program that analysed COBOL programs.

    How we laughed.

  8. Re:Fear Uncle Sam on World's First Warez Extradition Decided Soon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's no relevance because they aren't the same thing. Allegedly denting the profits of American corporate profits is not the same as killing people.

  9. Re:Fear Uncle Sam on World's First Warez Extradition Decided Soon · · Score: 2, Funny

    You win the prize for the least relevant digression into highly emotive subject matter.

    Warez != Terrosism

  10. Re:ugh on U.S. Representatives Torpedo UN Information Summit · · Score: 1

    I suggest that the UN torpedo Microsoft

    The only thing that the UN is capable of torpedoing is it's own credibilty as a forum for cooperation between all the countries and peoples of the world.

    The UN is supposed to be greater than the sum of its parts. Everyone involved should be ashamed of what it has become.

  11. Of course it's a small percentage... on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...of the total that accepted wisdom says makes up the full source tree, but what percentage of the full source is for the thousands of drivers etc. that really aren't part of the OS proper.

    I wouldn't be so sure that what has leaked is an insignificant portion just because of the number of lines of code.

  12. Re:If you were interested in the Superbikes on Hack Your Ignition (Before Someone Else Does) · · Score: 1

    Not strictly true that. All the major bike manufacturers entered into 'gentleman's agreement' to set aside the race for top speed superiority before the grey suits got involved and legislation was passed to force even more draconian measures on them.

    All the superbikes subject to this agreement are now limited to 186mph, but neither of the bikes listed there, or my own Suzuki GSX-R1000 are in any way detuned in the conventional sense. My Suzuki's engine management lowers the rev-limiter in 6th gear to limit top speed. It also alters the ignition timing in 1st, 2nd & 3rd gears since these bikes are kind of fiesty in the lower gears.

    Both these limitations are easily removed at almost zero cost by hardwiring the correct value of resistor across the gear position sensor wires to fool the computer into thinking it is in 5th gear all the time. Pretty advanced stuff, No?

    The stoopid thing is that even with the limit removed, on bikes radared at well over 190, the digital speedo never reads above 186. As if that will get you off the speeding ticket - "Honestly, officer I thought I was only doing 186!"

  13. Nope on How Well Does Windows Cluster? · · Score: 3, Funny

    A cluster of Windows would be a Glass House, and you know what they say about those.