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  1. Re:Have anyone tried to use Comedy Central's video on YouTube Begins Defense, Seeks Depositions · · Score: 1

    Which Comedy Central player are you using? I use this one + AdBlock, and I don't see any ads. It uses Windows Media Player (insert your own opinion on whether that's a "crappy player" here).

  2. Re:KDE4 != KDE 4.0 on KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would you prefer it if we call this one Expanded KDE, and the 4.1 release Extended KDE?

  3. Not true, according to the government on Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not true. The example given is that allegedly one school didn't choose it as GCSE (Key Stage 4 - 14-16 year olds) coursework, for that reason. However it's still compulsory to teach the Holocaust in Key Stage 3 (11-14 year olds).

  4. Youtube protest chant on Protests Move From the Streets To YouTube · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're here, we're buffering,
    We don't want any more suffering!

  5. ObMonkey Island Re:Criminal Liability? on RIAA Hires Artists, Then Sends In the SWAT team · · Score: 5, Funny

    "And if there's one type of piracy I don't like, it's CONS-piracy."

  6. See also Brass Eye ... on When Celebrities Speak on Science · · Score: 3, Funny

    'Doctor' Fox:"Did you know that genetically paedophiles have more in common with crabs than with humans? There's no evidence for this, but it's still scientific fact."

    Phil Collins:"What am I talking? I'm talking 'Nonce Sense'"

    Etc.,

  7. Re:Sometimes it Backfires on FTC To Investigate 'Viral Marketing' Practices · · Score: 1

    That was at least partly because their "say yes" campaign was ripping off the book Yes Man by Danny Wallace. (Allegedly)

  8. Re:Nine attempts? on HSBC Online Banking Security Flaw Analyzed · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think it means that after the victim has had 9 successful logins, the h4x0r has enough info to successfully login themselves.

  9. Re:Donald Becker quote on The Next Three Days are the x86 Days · · Score: 1
  10. Re:The full interview here on Sony Rep Denies Need For PC, PS3 Better · · Score: 1

    The shareware version of Descent came out in December 94, but a couple of weeks after the PlayStation.

    The Sega Saturn came out a couple of weeks before the PS, but I don't know if it had any 'proper' 3D titles on launch.

  11. Re:It's not just Novell on Fixes for WinXP Ignoring Novell Disk Mapping? · · Score: 3, Informative
  12. Re:In other news... on Exploits Circulating for Latest Windows Holes · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Hundreds of vulnerabilities discovered in Linux since the release of a distro: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?dis=10 .1
    Of course, Windows doesn't come with the hundreds (thousands?) of applications that Mandriva does, and so it's a bit unfair to compare the Mandriva security advisory list (which includes fixes for MySQL, Apache, Perl, Mozilla, Vi, etc etc) to the Windows list.
  13. Re:Dead giveaways on EFF Requests Help to Identify "Evil" Printers · · Score: 1

    I don't think that's a good indicator - HP Deskjets been doing that for years.

  14. Re:Why Uninstall? on Firefox Greasemonkey Extension Security Problem · · Score: 1

    Yes, if there's one thing you should do after an extension is found to be insecure, it's install "the updated version" from some random guy's website. What you should really do is e-mail it to people, like Microsoft do with all their important security patches.

  15. Re:Elfman? on The Formula for a Successful Sitcom · · Score: 1

    They're talking about the flop of the British version, which starred Jessica Stevenson (who was fantastic in Spaced, and as good as she could be in the shitfest that was AtB).

  16. Re:why? on A RAW repository, The Internet Archive and OpenRAW · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think it refers to the camera's internal representation of the image (i.e. the "raw" data)

  17. I had a look at one of these once on Perspecta Walk Around 3D Display · · Score: 4, Funny

    The lady who was operating it said I'd meet a tall handsome stranger. Luckily she didn't ask me to cross her palm with $40k (that's a heck of a lot of silver).

  18. Re:Bull Hockey! on USPTO Issues Email Address Patent to Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I don't think it means "object" in the sense of OOP. The patent covers things like "click on From: address in an e-mail you've just been sent, drag-and-drop to Contacts folder -> Creates new contact for that address".

  19. Re:Bandwagon, much? on Yahoo Introduces Competitor for iTunes · · Score: 2, Funny

    The! People! Who! Love! Exclamation! Marks!

    (with apologies to The Register for nicking their standard Yahoo! joke)

  20. Dr Hugh on David Tennant Cast as New Doctor Who · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparently they also asked Hugh Grant (no relation AFAIK) to do it at one stage, but he turned it down. THANK GOD! Hugh-'king-Grant, fer chrissakes!

    Dalek: YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!
    Dr: Well, I, um, gosh, I mean, that is to say, I ... um, well, er, this is all very, er, ... gosh [and so on].

  21. "Due to overwhelming demand" on CherryOS Goes Open Source · · Score: 5, Funny

    s/demand/threats of legal action/

    It would be funny if the OSS release proved that it wasn't a rip-off of PearPC. Unlikely, but funny.

  22. Re:Uh-huh on 'Geek Speak' Confuses Net Users · · Score: 1

    Er, you do realise that you can get AOL dialup/broadband in other countries?

    On a related topic, can someone suggest any other dialup ISP that you can use from anywhere in the world, cause I'm sick of setting up AOL's crappy software for customers in our International Office who want to use it in both the UK and South-east Asia (or wherever else they're going this week ...).

  23. Re:Instability on Mozilla Foundation in More Development Trouble · · Score: 1

    ... the companies/foundations making it are more stable.

    ... in other words, the instability, bitching, etc is kept hidden from the customer (instead of being public along with the rest of the development process). It's usually still there though.

  24. Re:Oh please! on Microsoft's 'IsNot' Patent Continued... · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're only calling you 'cause they're too polite to call the person they really want.

  25. Re:Reviews on Ask Microsoft's Martin Taylor About Linux vs. Windows · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Slightly less loaded question...

    Many people have suggested that the TCO studies referenced by Microsoft are inherently biased towards Windows - the infamous example being "Windows on Xeon vs. Linux on a huge IBM mainframe". Do you believe that the studies in the "Get the facts" campaign are impartial?