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  1. Re:It fills those gaps in user interface on Microsoft Hypes XP Tablets · · Score: 1
    So uses? Warehouses, any place live inventory management happens. Any place a clipboard is in use. Very useful to the blue collar/labor people where a PDA is useful mostly to white collar/office people.

    You're assuming the white collar people (with a $1k PDA), who control the money, will pay $2-3k for the blue collar guy to have a tablet. Sorry pal, office politics does not work like that; the PHB has got to have the most expensive kit.

  2. Re:uh-oh. on SA Government's Crypto Registration Up And Running · · Score: 1

    Especially a South African prison. 40% of the population has HIV. Don't go drop the soap!

  3. Re:How are they going to get you? on SA Government's Crypto Registration Up And Running · · Score: 1

    Extradition isn't for all crimes. eg. New Zealand & Australia will trade murder suspects, but not fraud suspects.

  4. Lickable widgets.... on More Switching Stories · · Score: 1

    Woohoo, gimme two servings!

  5. ... or license plates on Passenger Profiling: CAPPS II · · Score: 1

    for that matter. How did they ever convice the bleeding heart liberals to allow license plates on cars?

  6. Damn Martians.... on Rings Around Earth From Ancient Meteorites · · Score: 1

    They throw rocks at us, now they fire-bomb us too?

  7. Surf's up! on Signs Of Water Found On Distant Planets · · Score: 1

    So they find water, maybe good waves. Maybe even surfers, but not likely to find any intelligent life!

  8. Re:Screw the lawyers.... on Patents for the Little People? · · Score: 1
    I agree.

    Patents are probably a waste of time for little people anyway. Big ugly people will stand over you and steal your lunch and you can't do jack unless you have very deep pockets (ie. you're not a little person).

  9. Don't dump on Intel on Analog & Digital Chips On The Same Silicon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Of course they invented mixed signal, just like Microsoft invented linked lists last year.

  10. Re:US Gov too busy on Australia Taps More Phones Than Entire U.S. · · Score: 1
    Yup, you're onto it.

    After bugdget cuts, the Oz spies could no longer afford international calls so they spy on their own folk instead.

  11. C ] on MS/Waterloo Curriculum Deal On Hold · · Score: 1

    C blunt.

  12. DDT is bad stuff on Undersea Deposits of Frozen Methane Found · · Score: 1
    DDT is bad stuff. When we bought our farm a few years back there was detectable DDT. The report said that the levels were consistent with a single light DDT application 35 years previously.

    Anything that lurks in the soil that long can't be nice stuff.

  13. Re:One Question.. on So Where Are The Fuel Cells? · · Score: 1

    Well now you can just piss yourself and blame your laptop.

  14. Re:WTF is a whitepaper? on A New Model for Software Innovation · · Score: 1

    We've also used the term greenpaper meaning a whitepaper that isn't ready yet (ie, typically just incoherent ramblings like /.).

  15. Re:Solutution on FEC Permits Anonymous SMS Spam · · Score: 2, Funny
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  16. Bulk SMS is cheap on FEC Permits Anonymous SMS Spam · · Score: 1
    Buy bulk SMS (10,000 messages) and you get them for about 2c each to send. Depending on the provider, SMS messages are flat rate world-wide.

    In NooooZealand it is free to receive SMS and incoming calls, only the originator gets charged.

    The SPAMsters are going to play this game as long as they can sucker companies into using SPAM services. When the penny finally drops that people hate SPAM, companies will realise that SPAM isn't worth using. The SPAM companies will then fold.

  17. Re:all your *indows belong to us... on Lindows.com Hypes An Upcoming $199 PC · · Score: 1

    There's evey Lindow Moss lipstick. Must make you look like a dead bloke.

  18. 385 bits of code on MS to Implement Some DoJ Settlement Terms Preemptively · · Score: 1
    Ummm, 385/8 = 48 characters.

    /*++ THIS CODE AND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS I

    Yup, should be useful. More seriosly though, I work with WinCE quite a bit. They released some of the OS source under a look-don't-touch license. This helps a bit, but still is insufficient to work very effectively.

  19. underwater is probably easier on Autonomous Race Cars · · Score: 1

    The underwater vehicle is probably a lot more forgiving in terms of control loop stability. The water gives some damping.

  20. Re:Don't waste your time on What (And Where) Are The Classic Free Games? · · Score: 1
    With a seven hour flight looming...

    That's not much time to get stuck into the free drinks. Don't waste your time with electronic toys.

  21. Re:IIRC... on Possible Evidence of Martian Bacteria · · Score: 1
    Up? Down? oooooh information overload.

    Get real - how is a bacterium going to use this info?

  22. Re:Just out of curiosity ... on Possible Evidence of Martian Bacteria · · Score: 1
    How is it determined that one of these rocks is from Mars and not from somewhere else?

    The planetary scientists develop these models based on emmitted gases etc (a bit more PhD-ish than just saying "Red rocks come from Mars").

    Having made the model, we go out and find a rock on earth that, according to our model, belongs on Mars. WTF? We have two options: (a)Recall all our research papers and say our model is broken -or- (b) Say awmigosh a Martian Rock. Fund me!

  23. Re:Compass? on Possible Evidence of Martian Bacteria · · Score: 1
    find sources of food and energy

    The only time it helps to know which way to go is when you also know that it is the "right direction".So how do they know to head West for food? Got a map too?... or a waggle dance like bees?

    A much more plausable explanation is that a 1 April message got stuck in someone's outbox for 4 months.