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  1. Centimetre on Sub-Centimeter Positioning Coming To Mobile Phones · · Score: 1

    Thank you Slashdot for finally using metric!

    Your next job is to correctly spell centimetre!

    It's a French word; it's a soft "er". :p

  2. Re:Unfortunately... on New Scottish Wave Energy Generator Unveiled · · Score: 1

    No Scot would call it fooball.

    Fitba, and we would have believed you.

  3. Re:Un-enlightened Austrian authorities? No. on Pastafarian Wins Right To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No-one actually *believes* in the Flying Spaghetti Monster (no-one sane anyway) and that's the point.

    Blasphemy! May His Noodleyness strike you down with one powerful touch of his appendage!

    Pastafarians rise up and smite the non-believer!

    Seriously, you cannot be an atheist and beleive in the FSM. Atheists who use the the FSM to premote their agenda totally miss the point and aren't really welcomed in the church.

    R'amen.

    I know, I know. But people can't have it both ways.

  4. Re:My kids learned language playing games too. on Computer Learns Language By Playing Games · · Score: 1

    And I still remember the looks I got when I said "Oh sugar bags!" as an infant.

    It was something my mother said too much.

    Everyone knew the secret - my mother was obviously saying "shit bags" - and I was confused.

  5. Re:Didn't quit on Zuckerberg Quits Google+ Over Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Them along with the rest of us. It was so easy; why not?

  6. Re:how about people have home pages, and syndicate on Google+ Already At 10 Million Users · · Score: 1

    I had a homepage once. Let's not go back to FrontPage knock-offs, midi sound tracks, loud GIFs, Java applets...

    Anyway, as G+ is not to your liking, can I please have your invite? :)

    IndaUK@Gooooooooooooooooooogle.com

  7. Re:Ideal IDE on Stanford CS101 Adopts JavaScript · · Score: 1

    So true.

    They should have chosen Perl. ;p

  8. Re:For a new Android user on New SMS Trojan Found In Android Markets · · Score: 1

    You have a low user ID; you'll be fine.

    Do what everyone does. Don't install brand new apps for a month. Google the name at a later date and see if any other suckers have fallen for it first.

  9. Re:Safety. on Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sorry for replying to my own...

    Bandsaws were used too on a slow speed. Same small room. Small teeth, nothing special. The only problem is you can't wear gloves, so we rarely uses it.

    It was always the curing that was the problem. The resin gave off carcinogens in the vapour and full breathing respirators were needed. Nasty shit.

  10. Re:Safety. on Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards? · · Score: 2

    I used to make checking fixtures out of fibreglass for BMW.

    We used a 'windy-saw' for cutting. Oscillating, compressed air saw or knife might be a better name. The ones nurses use to remove plaster casts.

    Closes thing I can find online is this: http://www.jetequipment.com/en/product.php?prodnum=409151&groupid=1839

    You just want a slow tool.

    For PPE: Full paper suit, paper mask, rubber gloves, all taped up with masking tape. Overhead extraction in a small room too.

    I had lung function tests every 6 months for 10 years and during that time my results actually improved with each test.

  11. Re:Problem on Fitness Site Accidentally Shows Sexual Activity · · Score: 1

    And yet the reverse is true. Your husband wanks himself silly in the shower because he's not getting enough action in the bedroom.

    Food for thought.

    Yeah, I know. AC being female on /. is...

  12. Re:And it's all coming down the same cable on Illegal Film Downloading Up 33% In the UK · · Score: 1

    Dear VM,

    Your lists of new films are a pain in arse. The wife flicks through your on-screen menus and picks one film after another.

    If she asks me one more time "is such-and-such a film on The Pirate Bay?" I might have to give in and finally let her stream it herself.

    Make it an impulse purchase, you clueless muppets.

    Disrespectfully yours...

  13. Re:Your own domain on 7 Days In Email Hell · · Score: 1

    Good advice. I've used them for years. Gmail even tells me they're redirected. It's a proper, mature service.

    It also lets me count how many times slash.20.inda@spamgourmet.com has been used. And it's a lot lower than expected - I can't check from this work PC but it's only about one a week.

    And the spammers haven't caught on, ever. They could send me mail at jdsfjhdfjajlsdfajldfs.inda@spamgourmet.com but they don't. And even if they did catch on, Spamgourmet lets me use a secret keyword e.g. each address would have to look like [site_name][secret_keyword].inda@spamgourmet.com

    I love it.

  14. Re:Future Shop does it too now on Retailer Calls Rivals' Bluff On "HDMI Scam" · · Score: 2

    In the UK, Tesco still offer the cheapest HDMI cables amongst the brick and morter stores. Often at 20% of the price Currys and John Lewis. Their choice of lengths is perfect too; 0.5m is enough for three of my devices.

  15. Re:Comparison on Law Professors vs the PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes you are.

    The rest of us can read without issue.

    Who keeps modding this crap up? It's not funny; it's childish.

  16. Re:Really bad idea. on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    Local tip: Always use the mini-roundabout nearest the County Ground. It's the least busiest.

  17. Re:Roundabouts are much safer on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 2

    Getting rear-ended is more common on roundabouts in the UK. Someone tries to pull away then changes their mind (lawful) and the person behind drives into the back of them (unlawful).

    People (the young) sometimes try and take them too fast and crash into railings.

    Actual crashes on the roundabout are almost unheard of.

  18. Re:HOW? on Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hello Mr Corporate Account User, I'm from the password police and I need to inspect your password!

    I joke around here that this month's password is July2011 as it passes all the company's password requirements (1 upper, 2 digits, +7 length). I know for a fact that the boss uses it and 10 quid says others do too.

    Listen to the IT Expert (moi?) when he's having a bad day? You may as well play with matches.

  19. Re:small... on Toyota Scion IQ Electric Car To Launch In 2012 · · Score: 1

    There's a video floating around that shows a 0-60 in under 4 seconds. It has a motorbike engine, if I remember correctly.

    No one needs a car that does 0-60 in 6 seconds; 12 is fine. If you think you need 6 seconds, you're doing it wrong... When I leave work at night, I plod home through the traffic. Other workers put their foot down and overtake on the duel-carridgeway. 5 miles down the road, I can still see them in front. They've gained nothing, and lost everything else.

  20. Re:Data loss is your own fault... on Office 365: Suffer 18 Days' Outage, Still Pay Half Price · · Score: 1

    Surely people can see the good too?

    I'm fed up while having to double my storage capacity every few years. I'm fed up with having dusty DVDR backups laying around and I'm fed up with burning them. It's time to let someone else worry about it all; I have better things to do.

  21. Re:How about Google Classic on Google's New Design · · Score: 1

    Firefox will let you use JS as a homepage

    e.g.

    javascript:document.write("YOUR_HTML_HERE")

    Wish I had the time to write the image and form HTML. Maybe someone else can help ;)

  22. Re:Misleading on Android Phones More Prone To Hardware Problems · · Score: 1

    The missus had a problem with her HTC Wildfire. One of the apps was 'broken'. She made a support call, which was a complete waste of time because they fixed nothing.

    I googled the problem and found it was a network issue that solved itself (in our eyes) the following morning.

    Hardware? Software? Network?

  23. How much on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    How much game programming can you do in an hour's lesson? Even Scratch, used at our local school, takes an age to get the loop timings and event handling right. My little'un soon got bored of that.

    How long would it take one of you guys to program Tic-Tac-Toe in a low level scripting language? What about with an AI?

    The kids spend 38 weeks a year at school, maybe doing an hour ICT a week. Knock Tic-Tac-Toe out in 38 hours? I think not.

    The article also spoke about getting Johnny interested... My little'un camp back from school yesterday with a robot. It consisted of a batery pack, two motors, two microswitches with cable-ties attached, which doubled the speed of the motor when pressed, all held together with electical tape, with two googly-eyes on top. You want interesting? That's what you do with young children.

  24. Re:Polymath? on Remembering Alan Turing On His 99th Birthday · · Score: 1

    lol. Highly unlikely. Fair play for the +5.

    Been racking my brain and I cannot think of RS for bath... but it has never been polymath. It doesn't even rhyme in Norf Landan.

  25. Re:do people really hate IVR systems? on Fonolo Lets You Bypass Company Phone Menus · · Score: 2

    I have a colleague who puts these calls on loudspeaker. He happily keys in his credit card number, bank account number, DoB and all the rest. I've even heard him spell out his address to the operator.

    Should I warn him or just kept recording?