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  1. Re:script kiddies on Novell OpenSUSE Server Hacked · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...any jackass can type "./the_great_script"...

    Don't you mean ./t3h_l33t_5cr1pxx0r?

  2. Re:And... on Wifi Camera Uploads without Computer · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I have a list as long as my arm of the reasonably useful "Wi-Fi-enabled" devices and network applicances I've turned down because (seriously) they don't support WPA with EAP-TLS, which is how I lock down my network.

  3. Re:Finally it fits the original quote on Google Ant · · Score: 1

    ...and this poster thinks it's about —king time.

  4. But who needs magnets... on Magnetic Computing Takes a Step Forward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..when we've already got a laptop powered by a 6,8 GHz quantum optical processor with 1 TB of NvlOpRAM?

  5. Re:the NSA? on Red Hat Seeks to Deliver Most Secure Linux · · Score: 4, Funny
    I didn't realize that ANYTHING they did was "open".

    Cavity searches.

  6. Re:New Freedom. on Flash Memory with Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    I could, but it's not the kind of video I'd pay £10 for...

  7. Re:Damn... on Flash Memory with Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    No, that was Flash (ah-aah).

  8. Re:This is the general direction of the industry on Flash Memory with Copy Protection · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A crow eating garbage in the snow, definitely. Unlike his canary friend, he does not have to rely on an owner. Nor does he have to sing for his dinner.

  9. Re:Clean input on Thirty Four PSUs Tested - Is Biggest Best? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In order to make it a fair test. There's no way this could be achieved with the crappy quality of supply sometimes found coming out of sockets all over the UK.

  10. Re:Why even bother with word processors? on KOffice Developers Reply to Yates · · Score: 1

    Correct, that was exactly my point.

  11. Re:Why even bother with word processors? on KOffice Developers Reply to Yates · · Score: 5, Funny
    LaTeX is more than capable of the vast majority of document typesetting needs

    That's an understatement — TeX is Turing-complete.

  12. Re:Hmm on Seattle Axes Monorail Project · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shut up, or we'll put you on a plane to North Haverbrook.

  13. Re:No Max Headroom? on Top 50 Science Fiction TV Shows · · Score: 1
    I can't think of any good reason why Max Headroom was left off this list.

    Maybe because he now presents BBC World's Click Online ? (Technically sci-fi, but certainly not one of the top fifty.)

  14. Re:The Prisoner on Top 50 Science Fiction TV Shows · · Score: 1
    The Prisoner (despite Netflix's incorrect synopsis) isn't science fiction. It's a cold-war-era spy story.

    Science fiction isn't just about starships, time-travel and parallel universes. The Prisoner deals with more psychological sci-fi (things like mind transfers, mental programming, controlled/simulated realities, etc.). It is primarly spy-fy, but it's also no less sci-fi than The Man from U.N.C.L.E. or The Avengers, both of which feature in the list.

  15. Re:No Lexx? on Top 50 Science Fiction TV Shows · · Score: 1
    Nothing ... (... made me cover myself with a pillow) more than [Lexx] did.

    Er... which part of yourself — no, never mind.

  16. The Prisoner on Top 50 Science Fiction TV Shows · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Greatest 50, my arse! Where's The Prisoner?

  17. Microsoft, the under-dog on The Company Everyone Loves To Hate · · Score: 1

    Quoting one comment:

    Any control of any market was hard-earned by a company who started out as the under-dog.

    What?!

    Nobody gave them any favours, they had to innovate and compete on the open market. And they won.

    Artists and geniuses, methinks.

    I'm an Apple user, I don't touch Microsoft products now with a bargepole, but as a business they are the greatest success story.

    Ah, an apologist!

  18. Re:What are you prepared to do, TripMaster Monkey? on Playing CDs a Privilege Not A Right · · Score: 1
    Are you willing to let a GNAA operative thrust his member into your tender anus?

    Better still, cowboy, are you willing to let a RIAA operative shove his up yours?

  19. Re:Warranty? on Review: Monarch Computer's Nemesis FX-57 7800 SLI Gaming · · Score: 1

    That's what stuck out when I read this. I've had machines for GBP 750 with two and three year warranties. Six months? Doesn't exactly inspire confidence in their build quality, particularly as experience tells me most faults show up towards the end of the first year of working life.

  20. Re:Oh, Belgium! on Linux-Powered Humanoid Robot on Sale Friday · · Score: 1

    As long as the Dalek is like this, I don't think anyone would object.

    Or maybe you would prefer the genocidal type...

  21. Re:Exterminate!! on Linux-Powered Humanoid Robot on Sale Friday · · Score: 1

    I think it looks more like Anne-Droid from "Bad Wolf" (only with jaundice).

  22. Re:encyclopedia dramatica? on Wikipedia's New Archnemesis · · Score: 1

    They apparently issued DMCA takedown notices against Uncyclopedia and Wikipedia recently over some apparent pictures of ED's apparent founder. ED's sense of (apparent) humour is also a smidgen (and by "smidgen" I mean "dump-truck", apparently) more brutal, apparently, than that of Uncyclopedia as well.

  23. Re:CDs? on Artist Suggesting Ways Around Copy Protection · · Score: 2, Funny
    He did, but their response was "De doo doo doo de da da da is all I want to say to you."

    So they'd organise a sting operation, then?

  24. Re:sigh. on Artist Suggesting Ways Around Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    200g operational shock tolerance. Some will do up to 800g non-operational.

  25. Re:CDs? on Artist Suggesting Ways Around Copy Protection · · Score: 3, Interesting
    A trojan cd. I believe there's a criminal case...

    This is actually a good point. Did the grandparent contact the Police?