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  1. Fully laden (40 Tonnes) truck braking demo on Self-Driving Big Rigs Become a Reality · · Score: 1

    Trucks don't need to have terrible braking distances...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  2. Re:Maybe because 5.0.0 and 5.0.1 have serious bugs on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 1

    I've been waiting for Lollipop, especially for my 2012 Nexus 7 which continues to be slow despite clearing the cache partition. I am also still waiting for an update on my Nexus 4, my daughter's Nexus 4, and my other three family members Moto Gs.

    My Nexus 7 was the same. Cleared Cache multiple times to with no difference.

    Performed a factory reset and that sorted it. Back to normal speed.

  3. Re:Who cares? on Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World · · Score: 1

    Modula-2

  4. Re:Comparison results on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon vs. Mac OS X Leopard · · Score: 1

    Surely that's a C++ Programmer...

  5. Re:Okay, so the TSA guys... on Traveler Detained for Anti-TSA Message · · Score: 1

    "Are not very bright, have an over important opinion of themselves and become hostile if contradicted."

    Pretty much like 95% of upper management...

  6. Re:It's a matter of accountability on When Is a Con Not a Con? · · Score: 1

    Last night I butchered about 40 Delfias Catpurses and Bandits in Elwynn Forest. Slaughtered them in cold blood. They never stood a change and most of them didn't see me before they felt my dagger slice across their throats.

    Would you hire me to write some code for your company, knowing that I'd done this just the night before?

    What if I'd (God forbid) written something on the IntarWeb which wasn't true.... Made up a story, say, about my exploits in a game. This would make me a liar, surely? Would you hire me?

    When 2 players in an MMORPG go up against each other PvP, and the loser has his possessions lifted by the winner, surely that makes the victor both a killer and a thief.. you'd not hire the victor?

    If you think that someone's actions in a game reflect on their personality in real life, you need to get out more.

  7. Re:Destroyed Interoperabilty? on Sun Says Java Source Already Available · · Score: 1

    On my Win XP box, when I open Azureus, it seems to have anti-aliasing (I don't recall it looking butt-ugly). However, on the same box, when I open up Sun's Java Updater from within the control panel, it looks utterly dreadful...

    Is this because one uses SWT and the other Swing?

  8. Re:Skip to Eight: Nautilus Scripts on Nine Things You Should Know About Nautilus · · Score: 5, Informative

    1. It doesn't - at least the last version I installed (3 months ago, I guess) doesn't.
    2. It uninstalls in exactly the same way as every other Windows application - via Add/Remove programs.
    3. It creates a virtual CD-drive and mounts the image under each one. You can have up to 4.
    4. I've never heard of these rumours, so I can't really comment. I do know I've been using it for the last 4 or 5 years without any spyware, adware, trojans, etc.

    I suspect that the rumours of spyware and ad-ware comes from the people who are using it to mount ISO's of games which have had little 'surprises' installed by some distribution site before it's released to the masses clamouring for a pirated copy of Doom4 or some other such shite.

  9. Re:Wrong Solution on BitTorrent and End to End Encryption · · Score: 1

    We're building a small list on the Azureus Wiki page. Feel free to update in the usual Wiki way...

    http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/Bad_ISPs

  10. Re:Newsweek and Slashdot: redefining fluff. on Google's Ten Golden Rules · · Score: 1

    That reminds me... what ever did happen to Gerald Ratner?

  11. Re:But surely... on Prime Human Cloning Researcher Humiliated · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's a shame he's been left with egg on his face... blech.

  12. Re:Just hardware, no apple OS. on Torvalds Switches to a Mac · · Score: 1

    If it takes you an hour to configure your Windows desktop, there's either something wrong with time in your area or you're exceptionally slow (and that includes a couple of reboots to remove Messenger et al.)

    15 minutes tops - surely.

  13. Pah.... on Bill Gates to Receive Honorary UK Knighthood · · Score: 5, Funny

    Almost all of us Brits have that title. It's handed down from father to son, in the same way the family bible would be.

    We all live in castles too.

    When does mc chris get is knighthood?

  14. LokiTorrent users pwned... on Was the Lokitorrent Suit a Hoax? · · Score: 2, Funny

    OK, so many, many LokiTorrent users coughed up cash to the owner of the site. I've no problem with that, and the owner of the site looks to have come out of it for something like 30K.

    Seems fair enough to me.

  15. Re:8MBit to the CO on 8Mbit Broadband to Become Available in the UK · · Score: 1

    I believe the figure is something like 90% of intercontinental (internet) traffic goes via undersea lines... Having your packets routed via a bird is highly unlikely.

  16. Re:Because it actually works... on Don't Click Here For A Free iPod · · Score: 2, Funny

    We need to get only 4 other people to sue you, and I get a free Ipod.

  17. Re:while we're at it... on Don't Click Here For A Free iPod · · Score: 1

    Surely the next line:

    15 months: Profit.

    OK, I'll get my coat.

  18. Re:Read this carefully on Don't Click Here For A Free iPod · · Score: 0

    For the love God (sic), someone mod the parent up so the people browsing at +4 see it.

    Amen dude.

  19. Re:IEFBR14 on Linux Has Fewer Bugs Than Rivals · · Score: 1

    But then you run into problems restarting jobs from mid-stream in the JCL deck. With IF/THEN/ENDIF you often get jobs flushing all remaining steps and ending OK unless specifically coded for.

    You're right though - IF/ENDIF makes things a hell of a lot easier to read.

  20. Re:IEFBR14 on Linux Has Fewer Bugs Than Rivals · · Score: 1

    Condition code processing was invented by the devil, immediately before inventing war, disease, pestilence, famine and plain chocolate. Some say it is his crowning glory.

    I've pretty much got it sussed now, but when you come across COND=((1,LT),(0,NE,CUMT1),(0,GT,CUMT2)) you have to wonder what possesed the guys at IBM when they came up with it...

  21. Re:Is it just me.... on One-Man Star Wars Trilogy Returns to Chicago · · Score: 1

    I don't, so long as I can get my job done.

    At work I use Windows and MVS
    At home I use Linux, Windows and RiscOS

    See, the force is strong in me.

  22. Is it just me.... on One-Man Star Wars Trilogy Returns to Chicago · · Score: 1

    ...or is there anyone else alive who's bored shitless with the entire Star Wars thing.

    I enjoyed it when I was 10 or so when Star Wars was first released, but going back to it now... Yawn.

    Just me then...

  23. Re:IBM's analysis to open software on IBM Open Sources Object Rexx · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not those of us who work in the IBM Mainframe world. REXX is still exceptionally heavily used...

  24. Re:getting there on VAX Users See the Writing on the Wall · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1 user at 3 in the afternoon - doesn't sound like a particularly busy machine - consider that the (large) boxes in question have had probably millions of logon/logoff cycles, compilations, test code, patch applications and so forth.

  25. Re:Don't Forget Opera on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Is Opera Free (as in it costs nothing to buy?)