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  1. Civ on Colossus has been Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    This gave me flashbacks of playing Civ II.

    Ugh, and now I have to go play it instead of going to work. Trying to get fired is fun.

  2. Oops on Hardened PHP · · Score: 3, Funny

    I like how this story is positioned just above the one about WinZip's poor security.

  3. Number stations on Cryptic Code Stumps Experts · · Score: 2

    I'm still waiting for somebody to successfully crack a numbers station, despite the theoretical impossibiliy of doing so.

    okno, okno, okno... 1 6 44 59 34 alpha kilo lima...
  4. Well, bugger. on Mirror.ac.uk to Scale Back Operations · · Score: 4, Insightful

    See, that's just irritating. That's going to have quite a knock-on effect to all of the software hosted there, particularly a lot of the free stuff (something a lot of people here would likely be devastated about).

  5. Amiga on Refresh your Memory: Advanced Graphics Algorithms · · Score: 1

    Alright! AGA!

  6. Re:I'd never buy one of these! on Plextor First With A 12x DVD+R Drive · · Score: 2

    You don't know what bastardize means. That's pretty funny.

  7. Re:Expensive... on Building A Museum Listening Station? · · Score: 1

    So... feeling a little stupid about completely missing the point? Don't join in with what you don't understand, my sad young patriot antagonist.

  8. Expensive... on Building A Museum Listening Station? · · Score: 1

    $350 each, and you need 10?! That's almost... $1000!

  9. Re:Ow... my eyes... on More Light Shed on Project David · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't believe it. They used GIFs for the screenshots. Somebody needs to knock some sense into these people. This does not reflect well on their computer literacy.

    Computer literacy doesn't mean "zealous revolution against all things that have been deemed uncool by the mindless nerd culture", understand?

  10. Re:New Zealand on Building A Modern Stonehenge In New Zealand · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Who's country precisely did you mean? I am not really sure that the modern Britism Isles can claim stonehenge as their 'heritage' when it was built thousands of years ago by a very different people

    But it is my heritage. The day that you can take away my memories of visiting the place on summer solstice, just sitting in a nearby layby each month and staring for hours, the stories my older relatives told me - is the day you can say bullshit like that again. I don't remember claiming to be a direct descendant of druids/astrologers/whoever (I'm not prepared to make any claims as to who originally built the place when it's shrouded in such ambiguity).

    My real point is that New Zealand really does itself a dis-service by practically ignoring its own virtues. It's a great place.

    The next thing you know they will be stealing your Arthurian mythology.

    Are you suggesting that I'm not a knight of the round table?

    At least your still have your cuisine...

    At least you still have your wildly outdated xenophobic, ill-informed views that we all eat boiled pig anus at each and every meal.

  11. New Zealand on Building A Modern Stonehenge In New Zealand · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Does New Zealand not have any heritage of its own which it can reproduce? I'm not really that pleased about my country's being disrespected in this way.

  12. Re:Wikipedia on green tea on Green Tea Cleans Hard Drive Heads · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Please, next time don't post as an AC. I want to add you to my friends list.

    OK. This is really me again, not some karma-whoring credit-stealing bastard.

    Really.
    I'm Anonymous Coward and so's my wife!

    And it was me, seriously. It would have been way too hypocritical to have posted such a joke and reap any karma from it, see.
  13. Aaah... on Lip Sync Problems with New Digital Displays? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Really? Damn. I was beginning to wonder why everything on T.V. was a badly dubbed German show.

  14. Re:.3ds on Universal 3D File Format In The Works · · Score: 1

    You have an excellent point, but if the company choses to change the format, that causes hell until all the other apps can keep up, granted, users of this kind of program are generally a lot more savvy than those of MS Office, it is still a pain to remember to "save as...". It definitely happens in many version changes of AutoCAD, AutoDesk at one time owned 3D Studio, and I don't think that is necessarily out of their system.

    Have you never heard of version numbers and layered file formats where additional information is discarded? Fool.

  15. Re:What? on Open Sourcing Innovation · · Score: 1

    That is my idea.

  16. What? on Open Sourcing Innovation · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm guessing the the "inspiration" for this project involved a random selection from a hat full of buzzwords. I'm getting fed up with people getting credit for adapting a paradigm such as open source and applying it to something you wouldn't normally associate it with. Just once I'd like to see a project such as this backed by examples of successful output.

  17. Most important question: on Review Of Serenity Virtual Station · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it fast?

  18. Re:more balls? on Linux on the Desktop: More Balls Through Windows · · Score: 0

    Amiga isn't an OS. Can't we not smash tradition around the head repeatedly by calling these classic operating systems "AmigaOS" and "Amiga"? It was Workbench and Kickstart, and will always remain so.

  19. Re:I continue not caring... on Microsoft Announces Three More Critical Vulnerabilities · · Score: 0

    "Nobody without a geek code should be granted an IP address."

    You mean you want the Internet populated by people who think a limited category-based character description scheme makes for witty signature material and valid personal Web page content? Thankfully it's only people with very limited personalities who care about these very limited personality rankings.

  20. Shover on Pearl, a Robot for the Elderly · · Score: 1, Offtopic
  21. Re:DSP music box on Consumer Electronics Make Music · · Score: -1
  22. DSP music box on Consumer Electronics Make Music · · Score: 0

    Although not quite the same thing, some people are making neat music from plain hardware. See this site for some interesting output from a DSP processor. Audio synthesis is a great hobby - the signal processing and mathematics involved are fascinating.

  23. Damn it! on Auto-Censoring DVD Player · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stupid thing... it's censoring all of my cookery instruction DVDs. It's blocked out an apple and banana, both of the melons, and a saveloy.

  24. Re:Money money money on Running for Geeks · · Score: 0

    Thanks. People like you are a godsend to fitness-illiterates such as myself. I try to understand it, but it's all so fuzzy.

  25. Money money money on Running for Geeks · · Score: 0, Insightful

    How about a section for non-rich geeks? I thought running was supposed to be cheap. This is the reason why a lot of people give up on trying to keep fit - every guide thinks it's essential that you buy a bunch of crud.