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  1. How To Formulate Subject Lines Better on How To Better Verify Scientific Research · · Score: 1

    Or "How Better To Formulate Subject Lines". But "How To Better Formulate Subject Lines"? Ugh. Have to read that three times to parse it.

  2. Re:set a password and change it regularly on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release · · Score: 1

    Nice idea!

    Though the implementation might need tweaking.
    Judges 5:16, word 10 could be any of:
    the, to, hear, bleatings, pipings, lowings
    depending on your version.

  3. Re:Very simple one on Best Open Source Genealogy Software? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fine for many. But some families I can think of need a directed graph.

  4. Re:Hardly premature. on Nokia Trades Symbian For MeeGo In N-Series Smartphones · · Score: 1
    What?!

    S40 is awesome low-end phone software*.

    Fast, stable, simple and intuitive. S30 and S40 was the codebase when Nokia wrote the book on cellphone HCI.

    I know people still using their 3210 and 3310 handsets.

    Mod parent -1 (uninformed).

    * Disclaimer: I worked on it.

  5. Re:I dont need it. on Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup · · Score: 1

    s/Spectator sports/Computer games/g
    Fixed that for you...

  6. Re:It's always been my dream ... on UK ID Cards Could Be Upgraded To Super ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Halleluiah brother!
    Should I be itemizing the loo time on their invoice though?

  7. Re:Next problem... on Using Classical Music As a Form of Social Control · · Score: 3, Funny

    Right, stop that!
    This thread's got silly.
    It started off with a nice idea about grannies attacking young men, but now it's got silly.
    And this "j-bay's" userid is too ordinary for a +1 funny too.

  8. Re:For sale on Facebook Campaign Decides UK Christmas Music Charts · · Score: 1

    Geez, what's a guy gotta do to get a +1 Funny around here?

  9. Re:Astroturf on Facebook Campaign Decides UK Christmas Music Charts · · Score: 5, Informative
    Except that it's NOT the same Neil Ridley. Compare
  10. For sale on Facebook Campaign Decides UK Christmas Music Charts · · Score: 1

    I now have 15 Em-Pee-Threes of "Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name", would anyone like to buy them from me? Actually only 14 for sale since I want to keep one.

  11. Essential information on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1
    If you're travelling to London you ought to know about these:

    It's also useful to know that each post code (zip code) is allocated to a small group of houses (say ten-ish) within the same street.
    That's accurate enough to navigate using just the house number and post code. So if you wanted directions from, say, the British Museum (WC1B 3DG) to Buckingham Palace (SW1A 1AA) you'd google this: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC1B 3DG to SW1A 1AA

    Get yourself a London A-Z (Zed ;) - most of the time dead tree maps still beat electronic (and there's no cellphone reception on the Underground).

    Get yourself an Oyster Card. It's a significantly cheaper way to travel.
    You don't have to register it if perhaps you're sensitive about personal privacy (just remember you're constantly under CCTV surveillance).

    CCTV cameras will watch you everywhere Unless you happen to be the victim of a crime, in which case the cameras will be "switched off" or "pointing the other way".

    Mobile data is pretty cheap (assuming you have a compatible phone) - pick up a Three or T-Mobile sim at the airport.

    Lastly, no geek can be without their coffee fix: try Monmouth Coffee, Flat White or Cafe Amato.

  12. Re:Misleading headline on Building a 10 TB Array For Around $1,000 · · Score: 1

    And indeed, if all you need is large amounts of cheap storage, then an adapter with port multiplier support, like a SiI3132, and two SiI3726s will let you attach up to ten drives per PCIe port.

    A decent solution for all that storage you're going to need to backup all that other storage.
    (Since, after all, a backup is way more important than availability for that porn collection, right?)

  13. Re:Sounds like fun on Internet Communications While At Sea? · · Score: 1

    And Iodine too.

  14. Re:Boxee on Blockbuster's Movie Download Box Runs Linux · · Score: 1
    1. The hack doesn't improve HD content support.
    2. It's a bit of both.

    There's the issue of container formats - the Perian plugin doesn't decode Matroska efficiently enough to play 720p. The built-in Quicktime player obviously doesn't support Matroska at all.

    The ATV *can* do 720p (in an mp4 container), but not if it's high-profile h.264. That's a hardware limitation.

    Of course, since the majority of 720p content on the net seems to be high-profile in Matroska, the ATV falls short.

    But if you're willing to transcode (to a lower-profile and switch containers), you can get smooth 720p.

  15. Re:What's "GA"? on FireFox 3.1 Leaves IE in the Dust · · Score: 1

    Mod points for the maths joke, if I'd had any.

  16. Re:Of course they won't fund it on Hawking Searching For Africa's Einsteins · · Score: 1

    +6 funny. Parent post is full of win.

  17. Re:Pay as you go variant. on UK's MI5 Wants Oyster Card Travel Data · · Score: 1

    As a late New Years resolution you could always use up your current credit, ditch the card, get a new one topping up only with cash and you're out all of £3 (or whatever the deposit is now).

  18. Re:Some adults can hear it too... on UK Commissioner Seeks To Ban Ultrasonic Anti-Teen Device · · Score: 1

    18 kHz.

  19. Re:In this Corner on South Africa Adopts ODF as a Government Standard · · Score: 1

    This guy better watch out for Steve "The Chair" Ballmer. Do you know any guys called Geraldine?

    But, thanks, I lolled anyway...

  20. Cambridge, offtopic on Linux Devicemaker Sued In First US Test of GPL · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "University of Cambridge, England" is a bit like saying "Harvard University, Massachusetts" or "Yale University, Conecticut".

    The addition of a geographical qualifier just seems wrong...

  21. Re:Price on Will The iPhone Kill The iPod? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just one button.
    It dials a random number from your phonebook.

  22. Re:What about new ccTLDs? on Outdated Domains To Meet Their End · · Score: 1

    Dibs on goatse!

  23. Re:Canna do it Cap'n! on Boeing Drops Wireless System For 787 · · Score: 1
  24. Canna do it Cap'n! on Boeing Drops Wireless System For 787 · · Score: 1

    Now if only they would add Power-over-Ethernet...

  25. Passing through. on FBI Arrests Neteller Execs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So *this* is the reason there's no such thing as sterile transit through US airports. gfd.