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  1. Re:So what's the selling point? on Ubuntu-Based Peppermint 7 Released (peppermintos.com) · · Score: 1

    Spot on, because a) appearance is what matters and b) it's carved in stone at installation time.

    I'm pretty certain that I've made Gnome 2 look like both of those by randomly frigging about with it.

  2. Re:Ever heard the parking brake? on Star Trek Actor's Death Inspires Class Action Against Car Manufacturer (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    All uxtards should read it. Some of them might even grok the points it makes.

  3. There are about 55,000 articles on teh interwebs referring to "the next Bill Gates". Are they speculating about what Mr & Mrs Gates of Burgsville Idahoma will call their eagerly awaited bundle of joy or are they saying, in a roundabout way, "the next big tech entrepreneur"?

  4. Do they all have 5 years experience in entrepreneuring 3.2 even though it only came out last week?

  5. Nobody yet? OK. on After Death, Hundreds of Genes Spring Back to Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    Things unexpectedly activating is usually due to a virus that goes by the common name of systemd.

  6. Re: The shifter is always in the same position on Star Trek Actor's Death Inspires Class Action Against Car Manufacturer (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    what I've seen is that MT drivers

    At first I read that as MIT, and was wondering what Berkeley drivers do differently.

    There's a potential systemd joke here which I have left as an exercise for the reader.

  7. Re:Ever heard of the parking brake? on Star Trek Actor's Death Inspires Class Action Against Car Manufacturer (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's probably by Papanek or the other guy. Norman?

  8. Re:It's the design not the part on Star Trek Actor's Death Inspires Class Action Against Car Manufacturer (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. I clearly stated so in so many words, didn't I? *eyeroll*

  9. Calling it an emergency brake is stupid, because it has plenty of uses which aren't emergencies. Setting off uphill, for example.

  10. And I was also taught to never wrench a manual handbrake up without the button held down. Personally, I think that's a load of horseshit

    That rasping noise it makes is the pawl rubbing against the ratchet teeth as it wears them out.

  11. Re:It's the design not the part on Star Trek Actor's Death Inspires Class Action Against Car Manufacturer (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you could argue some of this goes back on the driver incapable of properly operating their vehicle.

    As proven by the fact that neither James Doohan nor Simon Pegg have, AFAWK, made the same mistake.

  12. Les rosbifs ont foutu le camp on UK Tech Sector Reacts To Brexit: Some Anticipate Slow Down, Some Contemplate Relocation · · Score: 1

    They already have a special deal - it's called the Common Agricultural Policy.

    They're the next major nation to have an election coming up. No doubt Mme. Le Pen will produce some choice nuggets of wisdom. I'm going to stock up on popcorn right now.

  13. Put a brick under the wheel and still got frosty piss!

  14. Fortunately Javascript is unlikely to resemble that fossil, ever.

    Yeah, it's nearly as terse.

  15. Re: No take backs!! on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't mean you're equally good at making everything, though.

    If you were, there'd be no point in trading in the first place. Law of comparative advantage and all that.

  16. Re: Web. Petition. on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Have a word with that nice Mr Putin, I'm sure he'd be happy to oblige.

  17. I spy a DeVry grad /|\ on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    And the pound had lost 1/3 of it's value during last Friday.

    Even without the apostrophe that's a total load of garbage.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

  18. Don't be silly. Bill Gates was younger than that when he started Microsoft.

    Er, hang on...

  19. He's been ranting on but you never know whether it's him or the booze talking. They don't call him Druncker for nothing.

  20. Re:Not in the UK on Vacationing Security Researcher Exposes Austrian ATM Skimmer (carbonblack.com) · · Score: 1

    Boris, have you been overdoing the Chardonnay?

  21. Not the point. People are claiming that all these things (and some of them definitely do exist - the one restricting the power of vacuum cleaners, for example) were basically false flag operations. I'm waiting for evidence of that.

  22. Consumer protection in the UK is actually stronger than the EU mandates, and it's strongly enforced. The equal pay act was passed in 1970, before Britain joined the EEC (or whatever it was called then).

  23. Didn't Eire pass a law legalising gay marriage recently? That wouldn't happen if they were all raving bead-jigglers. I guess it's mostly old people in the pews these days, cramming for their finals.

  24. You need to produce proof that it was the UK that originated it. You also need to explain why they didn't say "bugger off". It doesn't have to be fruit related, if that makes it easier.

    P.S. I wasn't eligible to vote. Typical SJW, jumping to conclusions and assuming that if anyone has a different POV it's because they're inferior.

  25. Re:How can this work with European smart cards? on Vacationing Security Researcher Exposes Austrian ATM Skimmer (carbonblack.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sometimes there's a distraction attack afterwards and they steal the card. With the number they can then go & withdraw loads of cash.

    Saw one on TV where a bloke spotted the hidden camera and alerted the bank. Turns out there were a bunch of undercover cops outside waiting for the perp to come back & collect it.