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  1. Re:Let me see... on Segway HT Starts Selling · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, but how much would I have to pay to travel in Tokyo? For the few miles I travel each day I have to pay £20/week.

    Actually, thinking about it, this Segway jobbie would only cost me, hrm, four year's public transport money. It *must* be value for money...

  2. Ah fantastic! on Segway HT Starts Selling · · Score: 0, Troll

    So not only is the segway utterly useless but our main defence contractor is actively shouting about saying "Woo! Yay! Hoopla! *We* did this!"

    And they wonder why people think England's going down the pan...

  3. Let me see... on Segway HT Starts Selling · · Score: 5, Funny

    I live in London, England, joyously enough.

    1) No room to drive any longer - cars are everywhere.
    2) No room to stand on the tube (subway) - people are everywhere.
    3) No room to stand on the mainline (overground) trains - people are everywhere.
    4) Segway is still useless.

    Looks like we'd better start bringing out the guns...

  4. Nonsense on Email (As We Know It) Doomed? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The telephone gets bombarded with equally determined spammers and yet that hasn't changed. Certainly, you might not pick up the phone if it's not a number you recognise, but you're still going to look. It's the same for email.

    The only reason email will go away is when mobile (cell) phones become as convenient and cheap a way to communicate as email currently is.

  5. kids.us? on Senate Approves Censored .kids.us Domain · · Score: 1

    Why does that sound like an advertisement for paedophiles? "C'mon, kids us lads!"

    On another note, why is this needed? Aren't the opt-in content checker websites good enough? Personally I would consider the latter to be several times more reliable than just trusting anything with a .kids.us extention.

  6. Re:All very good advice on Leonid Meteor Shower Observation Tips · · Score: 1
    not too sure about number 4, it sounds a bit corny. I'd go for: "This is nice. Wanna get nekkid?"

    Let me guess... you aren't in the company of females very often? :) Cheesiness (and that really isn't as bad as it could be) always goes down a treat, especially when accompanies by a load of boozebeforehand. Oh, and if you're looking at the shooting stars. Well. Ahem. Best not to mention what shooting she'll be viewing.

  7. Whilst on the subject on Douglas Adams Written Dr. Who Episode Goes Into Production · · Score: 2, Interesting

    (which is rather timely when you take into consideration all the strikes currently taking place here in England)

    Some might be interested to know that Red Dwarf was very nearly not made due to the same type of industrial action a few years later down the line.

    Rather depressing that whilst the unions fight for their workers' rights, it can mean that great TV might never have been made. Of all the things!

  8. All very good advice on Leonid Meteor Shower Observation Tips · · Score: 5, Funny

    But, alas, it misses out the vital ingredients:

    1) Invite ladyfriend along
    2) Bring blankets (can get a bit chilly)
    3) Bring whisky (see 2)
    4) Remember rehearsed "Isn't it beautiful, the depth, the colours. Alas, still not a match for your eyes" lines and other "romanticisms"
    5) Bring protection (see 1 + 4 + 3)

    You know it makes sense.

  9. Oh for goodness' sake on Spaf's Crystal Ball: Network Security Predictions · · Score: 0

    Yes, it is entirely predictable and the fact that it's a well-known person who's spouting forth such prattle doesn't make it any better.

    Thrustgood's prediction for the next five years: OK then, man, like there will be, like a total far-out radical 1337 hax0r of, like, some network product, man, you dig?

  10. Well, that's all good 'n' all on Film Gimp · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But other than having Linux on the "inside" where does this get us?
    I remember, about eighteen months ago, really trying very hard to enjoy my hobby - music. I can't believe that sequencing really is that much of a minority activity and yet it was damn near impossible to do anything. Will there be a day when music/film studios release their programs?

    Alas, I doubt it.

  11. Extreme *programming?* on Questioning Extreme Programming · · Score: 3, Funny
    Not so!

    The only acceptable sport / hobby / whatever for which such a prefix can be done justice: Extreme Ironing.