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  1. Like switching to Blue A;art on WHO Declares H1N1's Spread Officially a Pandemic · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of Blue Alert, from Red Dwarf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa_gZ_7sdZg

  2. Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun? on Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun? · · Score: 1

    > Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun?

    That's patently not true!

  3. Map Error - Sicily not Malta! on Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again · · Score: 1

    The map of the linked article http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081219_undersea_cables_cuts_europe_asia/ names Sicily as Malta!

  4. Article refers to possibly a fake malware site on New Game Download Site Offers Play-As-You-Download Service · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This looks REALLY suspicious and I would advise that nobody registers or downloads the .EXE files until this has been checked out.

    Firstly the parent company as listed at http://www.awomo.com/?q=node/10 appears to have an address which is The Queen's residence, Windsor Castle

    http://maps.google.com/maps?client=opera&rls=en&q=12+Castle+Hill,+Windsor,+Berks+SL4+1PD&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&um=1&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title

    Secondly, the company GDI Game Domain International plc doesn't appear to exist - try finding a stock ticker. To be a PLC in the UK you must be a public limited company with shares traded on the London Stock Exchange.

    Dodgy! Unless this can be cleared up and proof of the company's details validated I would steer clear of this.

  5. Re:AGAIN cue the anarcho-capitalists on US Population to Top 300 Million · · Score: 1

    There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

  6. Re:Old recipe for stopping diarrhea on Bio-Engineered Rice Uses Human Genes · · Score: 1

    Yes, this frankenrice thing is so scary.

    Am I the only one who is sh*tting myself over this latest development?

  7. Re:No Mac version. Less functions than Acrobat. La on Unipage - A PDF Alternative? · · Score: 1

    actually you can embed fonts, crabby says so!

    Best practice #2: Have fonts, will travel
    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011 193841033.aspx

  8. Re:Webservices gone mad on Early AJAX Office Applications · · Score: 1

    "That idea died a horrible death, despite Microsoft's best efforts to make the Network the Computer."

    I think you'll find it was actually Sun's efforts, even after his efforts with the godawful Network Computer failed McNealy still goes on about it

    http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2002-09/sunf lash.20020918.21.html

  9. Re:On "blaming the employer" .... on Pay vs. Happiness · · Score: 1

    It makes me laugh how this is a very Indian (south-asian) way of looking at things. Most of what you say I've heard this many times from my elders who always think they know better. They forget one thing, life is short and the purpose for a lot of people is not to have a house, car, wife and kids. Some people actually enjoy not having the responsibility those things entail.

    If I restricted my choice of friends in such an insular way I'd have never have travelled, met so many interesting people of different backgrounds and cultures that I have met and never would have left my home country (England) for Spain where I now live. Variety is the spice of life you know!

    Some people realise life is short and want to have fun and enjoy it. They don't see life as a race to buy a house, get married and have kids. They want to wear nice clothes that look nice rather than ones that function. God man, I imagine you are the kind of guy that wears the brown Y fronts with cream piping.

    Sure, live within your means, not beyond them.

    It's possible to have a good quality of life and enjoy it without incurring huge debt. I've done it and I still have enough money to buy clothes, go on holiday etc and I've paid my debts off like this. If I bought a place of my own instead of renting that would put paid to my fun. I would be waiting for retirement to live like I do now.

    If you want a kid badly, then go have a kid. Just don't complain when you realise you don't have a life anymore because of your kid. But from your advise I guess you never really had one if you're so desperate. I know of many people, with no education a lot worse off with less who had kids, many of them immigrants and you know what? They always found a way to feed/cloth/buy them nice things. It's not a question of money, it's a question of your will to provide.

  10. Re:they're not always 'learning' what you think... on Armed Dolphins Released Into Gulf of Mexico · · Score: 1

    what we need is sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads

  11. Re:Start building better mousetraps! on Australian Science Makes the Regenerating Mouse · · Score: 1

    the implications for landmine sweepers and failed suicide bombers are incredible

  12. Re:#1 thing Inkscake is missing on Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer · · Score: 1

    I disagree about Inkscape crashing all the time. I've been using 0.41 on ubuntu to design tshirts ( http://www.cafepress.com/urunu ) and it has been very stable, only crashed once or twice and that was when i was using it under Windows.

    I thoroughly recommend Inkscape.

  13. Re:The perception of security on Body Scanners for the London Underground · · Score: 1

    Also the vast majority of Spaniards (I think opinion polls showed 95%+) were against their government joining the coalition and many millions marched against the war in Iraq. The fact that the government went against the will of the people by going to war as well as their lies about ETA being responsible lead to the downfall of the Popular Party.