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  1. Re:Sigh on EU Commission Declines Patent Debate Restart · · Score: 0

    I never went hunting

    But you're still an expert on the subject, right?

  2. Re:Sigh on EU Commission Declines Patent Debate Restart · · Score: 0

    Rather the opposite I'd say. But, how can you compare corporate greed with subjecting defenceless animals to a horrible death.....no wait..

  3. Why on Microsoft Not Worried about FireFox · · Score: 0

    can't I get excited about Longhorn?

  4. Re:Ah yes... on 100 Years of Einstein · · Score: 1, Funny

    such as evolution

    No, you're mistaken that was Benjamin Franklin.

  5. Eighth? on Federal Appeals Court Sides With VoIP Providers · · Score: -1, Troll

    Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
    Couldn't they manage something in the top five at least? This isn't worth shit.

  6. Gallon? on Wireless Security By The Gallon · · Score: 0

    Would that be the US half-measure; or the full on Imperial version that takes no prisoners, and makes young ladies feint?

  7. Re:Kinda makes you wonder, on Build Your Own Apollo Guidance Computer · · Score: 0

    I retrospect, who among us would have the courage to do what the Apollo guys did.
    Noi fear there, not in the real world anyway.

  8. Re:$3000 on Build Your Own Apollo Guidance Computer · · Score: 0

    Oh right, the dollar is really holding it's own against the Rupee isn't it -7% in 30 days. Please do some research before you try to be cute.

  9. Re:Your Palm Pilot is not radiation hardened. on Build Your Own Apollo Guidance Computer · · Score: 0

    So, you're saying that they flung people a quarter of a million miles from earth and they weren't experts in either(pick one) geometry or computers. Wait... I beleive!!

  10. Re:But I can!! on Build Your Own Apollo Guidance Computer · · Score: 0

    Shall I run for cover?

    No, but if you were to claim you went there, well, that's rather like claiming God told you to stab people, and they'll lock you up, unless it's in the national interest of course.

  11. Re:Cowboy Neal's body on Build Your Own Apollo Guidance Computer · · Score: 0

    What a dude does in his own time is hardly topic for debate here. However base and unnatural.

  12. Re:$3000 on Build Your Own Apollo Guidance Computer · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's fallen to about € 0.74 to the dollar in the last week; thus about € 2220.

  13. Does this prove on Build Your Own Apollo Guidance Computer · · Score: -1, Troll

    that NASA really did put human beings on the Moon and brought them back alive thirty five years ago? Or more likely that this guy can navigate his way to some secluded spot in Nevada and film himself mincing about in slow motion?

  14. Re:BBC News on Cassini's Huygens Probe Rendezvous with Titan · · Score: 0

    Still doesn't explain what PST is, UTC +/- xx:xx would be helpful. Thanks.

  15. Re:What everyone wants to know.. on Walmart Offers Sub-$500 laptop With Linspire · · Score: 0

    Touche! How eloquent, but I sense you're a little testy, it must have been a while since your last reaming.

  16. Re:What everyone wants to know.. on Walmart Offers Sub-$500 laptop With Linspire · · Score: 0

    as most people will probably want to install windows so they can use the programs familiar to them

    true. But where are they gonna get it now suprnova is shut down?

  17. Re:Runs Linux on Walmart Offers Sub-$500 laptop With Linspire · · Score: 1

    It DOES run linux?

    With those specs it certainly won't run windows with any enthusiasm.

  18. Re:and how much do the creators get on Linux To Ring Up $35B By 2008 · · Score: 0

    How are they being exploited if they end up having systems that function correctly? And furthermore have a sense of wellbeing with knowledge that they have benefited their fellow man without reward. They are heroes not patsies my friend.

  19. Re:Seriously... Why would you use this? on GIMP 2.2 Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    When did Adobe release a Linux port of Photoshop?

  20. Re:My guess on The Definitive Guide to MySQL, 2nd Ed. · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't think they have yet published an Idiots Guide to PostgreSQL. Thus no idiots, lets just keep it to ourselves OK?

  21. Re:Interesting book but on The Definitive Guide to MySQL, 2nd Ed. · · Score: 0

    the binding on my copy broke after a month

    What no rollback?

  22. Looking forward.. on Spies Riding Shotgun · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..to the day when my every every bowel movement is recorded for the enjoyment of future generations.

    "You can't shut it off, and you can't manipulate it," I had that trouble when I had a Ginseng and Viagra chaser.

  23. Re:Hrmph... on Mozilla.org Relaunched · · Score: 0

    "For fun validate Microsoft web pages"
    Can't be that much fun, otherwise the designers would have done it.
    Oh, and the Mozilla page doesn't render correctly in Lynx, is this a conspiracy?

  24. Re:Yikes. on The U.K.'s National Health Service Licenses JDS · · Score: -1

    Altruism.
    Zoology. Instinctive cooperative behavior that is detrimental to the individual but contributes to the survival of the species.

  25. Inept Legal Advisors? on Justice Dept. Raids Homes of File Swappers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "to make available material to be stolen"

    Does this available material, have some non-availability clause attatched? Or maybe I'm confusing the whole infant grammar thing here.