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  1. Re:Netbooks are gone? on Can Crowdfunding Bring Back The Netbook? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    How many people have you seen using a fullsize keyboard with a tablet (which would require at least one adapter to lose or break) on a plane or train?

    You haven't even attempted to address the point of the toy OSs on these devices.

  2. Re:Zero tolerance has failed on Typo In IP Address Led To an Innocent Father's Arrest For Paedophilia (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Wild guess: roman_mir?

  3. They don't do "punitive damages" in the UK.

    Some scouse git got a huge amount because he wasn't allowed to vote while he was in prison for hacking a woman to bits with an axe. What financial loss was that covering?

  4. Re:Netbooks are gone? on Can Crowdfunding Bring Back The Netbook? (salon.com) · · Score: 2

    I know tablets with detachable keyboards exist, and there are also 3rd party keyboards.

    But they all run arsewank operating systems.

    My Eee 1000 boots into Kali when I want to & Win7 when I have to.

  5. Re:Netbooks are gone? on Can Crowdfunding Bring Back The Netbook? (salon.com) · · Score: 2

    Anyone I knew who bought a netbook bought them because they were cheaper than laptops

    I bought one because it was ickle. It's about the size of a textbook and it fits in a manpurse that I can wear under my coat perfectly. At the time I bought it I was on a lot of site visits & courses and for quickly banging out a spreadsheet it was more than adequate,

    Now it has less than a tenth the power of my laptop, but that bastard needs a flatbed to move any substantial distance.

  6. What's withe the downmods? It's almost like Germans don't have a sense of humour or something.

  7. The boomers say: "Sorry, eh".

  8. Re:I am Jack's total lack of surprise. on Millions of Smart Meters May Over-Inflate Readings by up to 600% (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    There's no law against selling shitty products.. at least as long as nobody can prove you were being intentionally malicious.

    Maybe not where you live, fatty.

    Other parts of the world have a different POV.

    http://www.legislation.gov.uk/... (key part is section 14(2))

  9. Steamshovels scheamschmovels. Give 'em spoons. on Millions of Smart Meters May Over-Inflate Readings by up to 600% (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Ordinary old-style meters do an adequate job, and give employment to a lot of meter-readers. (That's a good thing, by the way).

    Here's a better thing, then: employ pairs of meter readers, where one does odd digits and the other does the evens.

    Belay last pipe! Stupid idea. They'd have to read the digits to know if they were odd or even.

    *ping*

    Have a third guy who looks at the meter and tells the other two which digits to read.

  10. Ask yourself a question: given that inflate (in a context like this which is not to do with footballs or Zeppelins) means to make something bigger than it should be, what would under-inflate mean?

    So why the fuck so you feel the need to stick over in there?

  11. Re:We've known this for years on Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It speaks highly (shurely you mean helio-ly - Ed) of you too.

  12. Re:thunderf00t says bs! on Hyperloop One Reveals Test Track Progress (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 2

    I call it the rloop because I cut out all the hype.

  13. Re:Excellent on Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What do they do in Japan? I think we should do that.

    I'm rather surprised you didn't suggest it.

  14. Re:Correlation =! caustion on Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you get jet lag flying between adjacent time zones you should just kill yourself. You're too pathetic to live.

  15. Re:We've known this for years on Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I can tell you with 100% certainty that sleep-deprived pigs are exceptionally grumpy.

  16. Re:So what is it for? on New 'USG' Firewalls Protect USB Drives From Malicious Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It only has 4 pins. If we can find which one carries the Evil Bit can't we just snip it?

  17. Re:More Useful Daylight in Summer on Will Montana Become America's Third State To Ditch Daylight Savings Time? (missoulian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's one of those things that brings out the nutters, along with vaccination and water fluoridation. It's mostly the same nutters in all cases.

    As to your last point, I wouldn't be surprised if the F-22's avionics have a problem.

  18. Re:Gender Confusion on Blogger Wins Libel Damages Over Columnist's Tweets (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Did you graduate from DeVry international law school in the same class as AK Marc and Wijnowski?

    1) Thorley v Kerry (1812)

    2) Defamation Act 2013 26.2.

    3) Arkell v. Pressdram (1971)

  19. "System failures that angered citizens in recent years never were related to the LiMux project, but due to new bureaucratic procedures..."

    Zey voss just followink orders.

  20. Frost fratkonker psot on Jeff Bezos' Spaceflight Company Blue Origin Gets Its First Paying Customer (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    put down "a significant deposit"

    Huh huh. Heh heh.

  21. Re:That's cute on IEEE-USA Criticizes Failure To Reform The H-!B Program (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah... because all of those things can be done in the first 100 days.

    Judging by his campaign he should have done them in the first 100 minutes.

    Did people think there's a prosperity dial somewhere in the oval office and Obama didn't tun it because he's a rotten old meanie, and right next to it a security from tairzum lever but he couldn't figure out whether to push or pull it?

  22. I'm terrified at *how* they'll be keeping themselves in power.

    If you're talking about things like burning the Reichstag I doubt that will even be necessary.

    Economy of effort: why break windows when bullshit will suffice?

  23. Re:The thing to do, here on Police Allegedly Threaten A UK Photographer With Seizure Of All His Computers (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not an umlaut, it's a diaresis.

  24. Re: Offsite backups become more and more important on Police Allegedly Threaten A UK Photographer With Seizure Of All His Computers (wordpress.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    demonstrate a illiteracy

    *golf clap*

  25. Anyone else on Samsung Pay Could Come To More Non-Premium Smartphones (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone else read that as Samsung Pry?