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  1. Re:Oops... on Messenger Flies by Mercury · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In Quîndecimber?

    14 months is a long time to wait.

  2. Re:Battery life ... on Mobile Phone Projectors "Will Launch This Year" · · Score: 1

    Like the sibbling poster, I also have a Samsung that'll go a whole week on a single charge. Two weeks if I turn it off when I sleep. I'll admit I don't use it much.

    It also has an MP3 player, 1gb storage, radio, camera, internet, quad-band, TV playback, kitchen sink. All of which are accessed from a menu that I use rarely. They are nice to use when I want them though.

    In the UK, mobile phones with no kitchen sink are now given away with £20.00 of credit. All these phone batteries will last over a week with low usage. They cost £10.00 if bought off the shelf.

    Non-issue. It's been a non-issue for years.

  3. Why BitTorrent? on FCC To investigate Comcast Bittorrent Meddling · · Score: 1

    C'mon you nerds. Why are you still using BitTorrent?

    I pay about £0.15 per gigabte for my downloads, to an American company, who is obviously making a profit because they've been in business for years.

    A whole album costs £0.02 to download. It takes a minute or two. Always at the same speed. No uploading apart from, I guess, acknowledging packet receipts. It takes me longer to extract the RARs sometimes...

    I'd tell you how, but you're all supposed to be nerds and the first rule of U***** is you're not allowed to talk about it. Sort yourselves out or give it up.

  4. Re:well, not effortlessly on RTF Vs. OOXML · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know this isn't ask slashdot but couldn't she have just uploaded it to YouTube and got them to convert it?

  5. Re:Ahh government incentives on Official DTV Converter Box Coupons for Americans · · Score: 1

    If I had mod points...

    I paid £40 ($80) for a digital set-top-box when they first came out. The extra features alone made it worth while.

  6. Re:thats annoying... on 'Extreme Security' Web Browsing · · Score: 1

    ImgLikeOpera on the Mozilla site. It works but it's nothing fancy. Sometimes annoying when big sites host their images on separate domains. Very handy on forums where users can post goatse.

  7. Re:KWrite? on KDE 4 Uses 40% Less Memory Than 3 Despite Eye-Candy · · Score: 1

    Amazing. I didn't believe you but, wow, that's true.

  8. Re:Road Signs? on British Village Requests Removal From GPS Maps · · Score: 1

    Not so.

    I live in a town that boasts the largest number of bridge collisions in England. Approximately one a month.

    There are numerous signs. The bridge is painted bright yellow with black diagonal stripes. We even have an infrared transmitter on one side of the road and a receiver on the other to measure the heights of vehicles. High vehicles get flashed by a huge "Turn Back!" sign made of LEDs.

    It's still funny watching trucks wedged underneath...

  9. Re:Not a comparison of cognitive ability on Chimps Outscore College Students on Memory Test · · Score: 1

    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8... Damn it.

  10. Re:Blatant Misuse of the English Language on $999 For a Complete DNA Scan, Worth it? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Funny as... I love it when one grammar Nazi corrects another.

    Me? I wouldn't have used that colon. A comma would have done the job.

    I does like proper English.

  11. Re:BBC News piece on Google Purges Thousands of Malware Sites · · Score: 4, Funny

    I search for 'fetch doggy go go go go go microsoft vpn excel' all the time. The top result was my favourite site until this happened.

  12. Re:Surprising... on Colleges Outsourcing Email To MS Live, Google · · Score: 1

    "btw, news flash, people under 20 don't use email much anyway. It's basically the tool of "old people." Email is busted in many ways and will probably die as a platform in the future anyway. I say let it ride as is until then." - weave

    And then they enter the world of work. Everyone thinks they aren't educated because they can't communicate over a system that 100% of their peers are using. Where have they been for the last 20 years? What have they been doing? Hiding under a rock?

    It makes me sick. More so than people adding their email address to their email signature.

  13. Re:And I predict that any advertising that .... on IBM Files DVD Spam Patent Application · · Score: 1

    "People already put up with non-skipable sections of their DVDs" - Asic Eng

    Why do people always repeat this? I've owned three DVD players since they came out. All of them did as they were told and skipped the evil bits.

  14. Re:Holy hyperbole, Batman! on Expert Unveils 'Scary' VoIP Hack · · Score: 4, Funny

    I put a handkerchief over the mouth piece on the phone. I sometimes lower my voice to a whisper. Simple solutions beat all technology.

  15. Re:Never heard of it on Ask MST3k Creator Joel Hodgson · · Score: 1

    You know what? My daughter used watch Teletubbies many years back. That gives you a clue to my age.

    I have never heard of MST3k either. It must be a Yank thing.

  16. Re:huh on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    We don't have the right to remain silent in the UK. That was taken from us many years back.

    When we're cautioned by the filth they use the phrase "you have the right to remain silent" but it is meaningless. Your silence will be taken as an admission of guilt.

    The filth also let you know that if you don't mention something when questioned, you cannot later use this in court as evidence.

    We have no rights here. Thank Jesus the police, and to some respects the Crown Prosecution Service, are a bunch of inbred racists who are too inept to do their jobs properly, else we'd all be locked up... Locked up in our own homes because the gaols are full.

  17. Re:Out of creative juice.. become an IP vulture. on Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon · · Score: 1

    1 million dollars.

  18. Re:Just do .... on Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out · · Score: 1

    I trust you and you seem to know what you're saying... So help another noob out please.

    Can I install this on a free partition on my Windows XP box?

    How big does this parition need to be?

    Do I get a choice of OS when I turn the power switch on?

    Will it run on my P3 450, 512mb ram, geforce 2 64mb? Will it run faster than the install of XP I currently have on it?

    Cheers.

  19. Re:What the DRM providers don't want you to know.. on EA Denies DRM Problems With Sims 2 · · Score: 1

    That's rubbish. Hundreds of applications are added to the list of cracked applications daily. Most of them crappy Image Resizing programs and the like.

  20. Re:Over/under on Ask Rob Malda · · Score: 1

    I get mod points once a week... The more I post, the more I get.

    But I did abuse Taco once in a thread and mysteriously lost my modding ability for months. hehe.

  21. Re:Most easy solution on Best Way to Build a Searchable Document Index? · · Score: 1

    Yeah Shitpoint is great...

    It doesn't search on filenames. lol

    You cannot use characters like "&" in your filenames because it's a web server, not a file server. Wait, that shouldn't metter either but it does.

    It doesn't find anything useful even if you know the exact title of a document you wrote last week.

    Most of us here map our portals to drive letters and use XP's build in file search. Um, we did that before spending the money...

    Wait, I have an alert... "User XYZ has modified a folder". Well gee thanks for letting me know. Of course, my links still work even though the folder has been changed? No? Bah.

    It's useless.

  22. Re:Why not do the same in the U.S.? on Google May Blur Canadian Faces and License Plates · · Score: 1

    I'm stood in the garage (Petrol station) and I'm watching the CCTV camera output. Underneither, it display the licence plate number of every car that pulls in to the garage in plain text. This happens instantly.

    Even a bajillion pictures wouldn't take google that long to process.

  23. Re:Personal experience in the UK on UK Schools Will Fight Cyberbullying · · Score: 1

    It's not bullshit.

    Squaring-up to someone bigger than you will never work. You have to be more premeditated than that. You have to take the risk element away too.

    Single the bully out. Get something heavy and pointy like a brick. Can of coke might be better as you have a valid reason for carrying it. From behind. All the force you can muster. Back of the head. Drop the fucker like a sack of shit. Night night... Or be prepared to follow it up with another few blows. From behind, remember? No chat. No warning. Pure violence. Draw blood. Blood scares the majority of people, no matter how 'ard they are.

    It's all about how metal you are. How far you're willing to take it. You'll only have to do it once. Your reputation will take of you after that.

  24. Re:Be really good on Law Firm Fighting For White Collar (IT) Overtime · · Score: 1

    We in the UK also have the Working Time Directive (see Wikipedia). A fantasic directive that most of us sign away...

    I'd never work more than 40 hours a week without being compensated. I've also made the point that working 80 hours a week does someone else out of a job.

    When you're on your deathbed, you'll never say "I wish I'd spent more time at work". Sod the money, sod the fast cars, sod the heart attack at 50.

  25. Re:How bad is Vista? on PC Makers Offering a Bridge Back To XP · · Score: 1

    One of my old - he's 45 - work coleages came up to me last week and said "Can you get me a copy of Windows XP?"

    Did he ask for Vista? No.

    Was I pleased? Yes

    Did I give him a copy of XP SP2 Corporate with WGA disabled? No :)