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  1. Re:Are there any adults in the house? on Oxford Students Hack University Network · · Score: 1

    "It's absolutely ridiculous that security could be so light. I'll certainly be changing my password regularly in the future."

    I liked that quote, it seems to suggest that the outraged students password was previously something like "password" and has been for the last 2 years.

  2. Re:Migratory Birds on The New York Times On Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flop · · Score: 1

    They will learn to fly backwards.

    * waste time for post deadline - apparently ducks already shag backwards on Ilkley Moor By Tat so I imagine the pigeons will find it easy to adjust. If not they may all die, they're nothing more than flying rats anyway so who cares ? *

  3. Re:Can humans sense magnetic fields? on The New York Times On Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flop · · Score: 1

    You have an overactive imagination, it's very easy to convince yourself you're going in any direction you like if your in planes, trains etc.

  4. Re:Hollywood Blockbuster? on The New York Times On Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flop · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well it wouldn't have been any worse without the dinosaurs !

  5. Re:how old? on Antarctic Lake Actually Two in One · · Score: 1

    C'mon they don't really teach that in US schools do they ? I always assumed it was a just a joke poking fun at stupid Americans.

  6. Re:Creationism isn't Science, but is an explanatio on Antarctic Lake Actually Two in One · · Score: 1

    Maybe creationism is a more complete story but I think it is a story you'd find in the fiction section of any good bookshop.

    Obviously we don't and may never have all the evidence to explain evoloution fully but we can apply the scientific method to prove or disprove the various building blocks of the evoloution theory.

    Has any part of creationism been proved or disproved scientifically ?

  7. Re:Reading is poor... on Americans Read Fewer Books · · Score: 1

    There's probably more good fiction than you could read in one lifetime out there, 100's of years of it.

    Unfortunately there's also a lot more 'bad' fiction about but luckily it actually is easy to tell the difference.

  8. Re:Prices, etc... on Americans Read Fewer Books · · Score: 1

    That's a ridiculous amount, in the UK most new Paperbacks seem to be around 6 - 7 and hard backs around 15. However there are far far more old books worth reading than there are new ones and these are usually under 2 from second hand books shops.

  9. Re:Attention spans on Americans Read Fewer Books · · Score: 1

    I thought that was a fantastic novel, personally I enjoyed the weird spelling and it made Bascule ( da Rascule ) a much more enjoyable character.

  10. Re:So... on DIY Cruise Missile Designer Turns Freelance · · Score: 1

    So are a lot of people, particulary when they are organised into Governments, Companies etc but what's so bad about being amoral ?

    If someone offered you 100 million dollars to tell them how to build a Cruise Missile ( assuming you could build one ) are you saying you would turn the offer down ? Think how much "good" you could do with all that money.

  11. Re:I read fewer books because on Americans Read Fewer Books · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that most Sci-Fi now is set an usually unspecified huge number of years into the future, very little seems to be set in the next 50 years or so which I think is a shame because it's the next 50 years or so I more interested in.

    I don't think it's really Sci-Fi but some of the best books I have read lately have been by a guy called David Mitchell; Number 9 Dream, Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas are all brilliant books.

  12. Re:I read fewer books because on Americans Read Fewer Books · · Score: 1

    Indeed I have recently been reading Walter Scott which are at least 150 years old and they are fantastic, and cheap.

  13. Re:So... on DIY Cruise Missile Designer Turns Freelance · · Score: 1

    Who says it's "bad" ? It's obviously not bad for all us countries, governments and companies who are making money out of it is it ?

    If he can make a million dollars out of it then I would imagine that it would hard for him to see that as being a bad thing.

    You might think it's a bad thing which is fine, just don't get into the arms trade yourself.

  14. Re:Thankfully on Jakob Nielsen Interview on Web Site Redesigns · · Score: 1

    Did you notice the rather optomistic gallery section ?

    "Rate this picture: Good, Very Good or Excellent"

    Also I agree the colours are pretty horrible, some of the links don't work and those which do turn into to completely different layouts in equally horrible colours.

  15. Re:Typical technical ignorance on Does A Pentium 4 Need A Weapons License? · · Score: 1

    This machine is 6 years old you insensitive clod.

  16. Re:I tought... on Does A Pentium 4 Need A Weapons License? · · Score: 1

    I think a lot of these kind of things are made in Malaysia as well. I would be interested to see what percentage are manufactured in the US comapared to abroad ( out there... )

  17. Re:Chasing the Windows Rainbow... on Windows Compatability on the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    Yes thats the one, you need to make sure all the bluetooth stuff is working first, I had more luck installing it from source than from the RPM's but once it's working it's great.

  18. Re:Chasing the Windows Rainbow... on Windows Compatability on the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    You ought to try Multisync with Evoloution, it syncs perfectly between Evoloution Calender / Contacts and my Sony Ericisson phone.

  19. Re:Either party? on EA, Atari Sue Over Videogame Copying Software · · Score: 1

    We have a branch of them in the UK as well; the Consebour party and their opposition the Labosertives. Both parties are in fact one and the same except they each favour different coloured ties and it is on this battle ground the next election will be fought.

  20. Re:I love online regestration.... on Turning Up The Heat On On-Line Registration · · Score: 1

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  21. Re:Is this a good idea? on British Telecom Blocks Access to Child Porn Sites · · Score: 2, Informative

    In actual fact I think a lot of the Iraqi's in those photos are deeply upset and shamed by them.

    There was one fellow on the news a few weeks ago who said that he now had to leave Iraq because he could not face the humiliation of being known as one of the people in the photos.

  22. Re:stop watching COPS!!! on British Telecom Blocks Access to Child Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    I think it would be doing us all a favour if they did they take COPS off the air, not least for the COPS who are generally portrayed as simple minded thugs who enjoy harassing people from "out of town" or beating the crap out of them for causing a car chase.

  23. Re:Is this a good idea? on British Telecom Blocks Access to Child Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    I think you have to remember that the pictures being distributed are of real people who have every right to be assured that the pictures of them being abused are not being distributed amongst the paedophile community.

  24. Re:Because it's being paid for on Ken Brown Responds to His Critics · · Score: 1

    Yes I think that is what he means as well, he seems to prefer a system whereby the government pays Universities etc to create "open source" which can then just be incorporated into commercial software as and how the software companies like.

    This sounds to me like he's suggesting that the US government pay Microsoft and others 5 Billion dollars a year to spend on coding there software which I'm sure would be a very nice thing for Microsoft.

  25. Re:Dangers of open source? on Software Upgrade Crashes UK Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 1

    "... in what I hope is a system not connected to the Internet in any way."

    In actual fact it is connected to the internet ( albeit through SSL encryption ). This is as a result of a drive to cut sick days amongst ATC staff by allowing them to work from home, or from coffee shops or pubs, using specially adapted web browsers and their mobile phones or WAP access points.