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  1. Re:Narrow the scope perhaps on Judge Makes Lawyers Pay For Frivolous Patent Suit · · Score: 1

    How ironic that you assume that a US metaphor is known and used round the world.

  2. Narrow the scope perhaps on Judge Makes Lawyers Pay For Frivolous Patent Suit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "could this case be the 'shot heard round the world' in the revolution against patent trolls?"

    Not until/unless (take your pick) US legal jurisdiction extends round the world - on an official level!

  3. Songs and Nursery Rhymes on Child-Suitable Alternatives To Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Child picks one of her favourite songs or nursery rhymes and then a part of it.

    Use the initial letters of key words to make a password.

    Simple examples:

    How Much Is That Doggy In The Window = hmitditw
    Reach For The Stars Climb Every Mountain Higher = rftscemh

  4. This has MAJOR consequences... on Milky Way Is Twice the Size We Thought · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...We are told that the sun's light takes approx 8 minutes to reach us, but now we know that the distance involved is twice as much so therefore the speed of light must be approximately double what we thought! ...if the moon is twice as far away as previously thought, how come astronauts have landed successfully - in theory, they should get 'there' and be in the middle of nowhere ...UNLESS, of course they never went....AH HA!!!

  5. Re:You can't make this stuff up. on Vista SP1 Update Locks Out Some Users · · Score: 1

    I must be a high achiever then - my laptop (Vista Business) BSODs about 2-3 times a week on the WLAN driver when coming out of hibernation. The driver did update about a month ago, but that only seemed to get the front panel WLAN LED and switch working properly.

  6. Re:I hear on Outer Space has a Smell · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, that's Austrian wine.

  7. Re:Best part of the article on Nanowires of Unlimited Length · · Score: 1

    Stay away from nano cotton candy. Did you see what happened when Neo touched the mirror in The Matrix!?

    Nuff said.

  8. Re:Missing tag. on Birds Give a Lesson to Plane Designers · · Score: 1

    Have you asked any swallows?

  9. Re:Phython! on One Computer to Rule Them All · · Score: 1

    Nah, that would be silly. Next you'll be telling me that the 486-DX4 processors were quad clocked!

  10. Re:Phython! on One Computer to Rule Them All · · Score: 1

    I hope any plastic components don't contain Phthththalates

  11. Re:Phython! on One Computer to Rule Them All · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hear the computer will be based on quad core Pentathlons

  12. Re:How did I net thee? on LAN Turns 30, May Not See 40? · · Score: 1

    That was a minefield I wasn't going to bother with 'cos I knew whatever I did someone would pick up on it!

    I'd love to know if anyone else here remembers Infanet and Infaplugs??

  13. How did I net thee? on LAN Turns 30, May Not See 40? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let me count the ways:

    Infanet
    ARCnet
    10Net
    Appletalk
    Token Ring
    Ethernet: Thick/thin/UTP/STP/fibre/wireless

  14. Re:Court did not rule on copyright issue on Court Says You Can Copyright a Cease-And-Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    I think you meant to put: "..the law firm that some may consider slimy.."

    There - just saved your ass from a libel suit!

  15. Re:Nice! Very clever! on Collapsed UK Bank Attempts to Censor Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    ...keep up at the back there!

  16. Re:Do you support wake-on-lan? on Do Any Companies Power Down at Night? · · Score: 1

    Its *IS* possible to get WOL to work across a WAN - it's just a PITA and a bit of a security risk to do it as it requires you to allow local broadcast packets from external sources + some routers won't do this.

  17. Re:Patience on Failed Avionics a Possible Cause of BA038 Crash · · Score: 1

    I take your point, but you have no proof apart from your gut feeling based on what you perceive as a 'normal' landing - and from what you wrote you're not even a pilot so who's to say the landing wasn't within acceptable parameters?

    Your belief has to remain speculative even though you are 100% certain you are correct and that the airport, pilots, flight data, independent crash analysis team and airplane manufacturers seem to all have agreed otherwise. I would also consider that any aircraft manufacturer would under most circumstances strongly dispute any false accusations that their equipment was at fault because this could lead to an extremely expensive maintenance and refit process.

    Not that I don't believe that what you say is impossible.

  18. Re:Patience on Failed Avionics a Possible Cause of BA038 Crash · · Score: 1

    It's probably too late to submit the coursework now! Good job you had a backup eh!?

  19. Re:I had a suspicion on Failed Avionics a Possible Cause of BA038 Crash · · Score: 1

    Glad that's cleared up then.

    I'l let the boys at the AAIB know about the cause - that'll save a shit load of time and money - and I'll have a word with Boeing and see if they know about this 'redundancy' thing of whuch you speak.

  20. Re:Are cables safer? on Failed Avionics a Possible Cause of BA038 Crash · · Score: 2, Funny

    So how many airlines are still flying the De Havilland DH-50 anyway!?

  21. Re:Patience on Failed Avionics a Possible Cause of BA038 Crash · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh, I am well aware of the /. crowd's ability to generate 'fact' - it's even more impressive than Leeloo's reconstruction.

  22. Patience on Failed Avionics a Possible Cause of BA038 Crash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's just wait for the official forensics rather than patched together rumours shall we?

  23. Re:Real work. on Down Time At Work — What Do You Do? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that - useful stuff. I poll our IP cameras by FTP from a remote server every two seconds. Each daily set of images is saved in their own folders and purged after 7 days.

  24. Re:Real work. on Down Time At Work — What Do You Do? · · Score: 1

    This mirrors some of the work I have done for a local school and also at work.

    I used Dansguardian for the content filtering - did you do the same or something else (curious to learn)

    Our IP cameras were one generation back from the suppliers current model and cost us £37 each + they look like 'regular' cmaeras, not domes or pods so the visual deterrent is strong too.

  25. Re:research or education on Down Time At Work — What Do You Do? · · Score: 1

    Blimey - are you me!?

    Spookily similar activities!

    Our 'newintranet' went live this week and my son is here: http://supersite.blogdns.com/