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  1. Re:No worries about the coffee: on IT Workers To Get Fewer Perks, No Free Coffee · · Score: 1

    Or you could buy one designed to bolt right in!

  2. Re:Only one question... on Google Nexus One Hands-On, Video, and Impressions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Broadcast FM is VHF (Very High Frequency). ELF is down below 1khz, with wavelengths of hundreds of meters.
    The difficulty with microwave (ghz) is that because wavelengths are so short, the entire circuit needs to be tuned, not just the antennae.

  3. Re:scam baiting 9/11 metaphor on Scambaiting Gets Comical; Internet Scammers All Dressed Up · · Score: 1

    Honestly, scam baiting these guys is an undesirable consequence. Just as 9-11 gave us color coded alert charts and increased duct tape sales, baiting them is not productive to your time.

    But it's fun!

  4. Re:It's working great for me on Microsoft Security Essentials Released; Rivals Mock It · · Score: 2, Funny
    And that is wrong :(

    Free the files!

  5. Re:They will sell it. on UK Plans To Link Criminal Records To ID Cards · · Score: 1

    At least Brown was elected. There's no reason that Mandleson, or indeed anyone the party appoints, couldn't be PM.

  6. Re:Frist you need the ID cards... on UK Plans To Link Criminal Records To ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Are you mad? The staff with the seniority to sign out that amount of data all live south of the river. It'll be found on the 0815 to Waterloo. Or, more likely, the 507...

  7. Re:haha on Musician Lobby Terms Balanced Copyright "Disgusting" · · Score: 1

    Bzzt. Wrong. The only people who call NICE 'nasty' are the same ones who refer to it as a DEATH PANEL OF DEATH, RUN BY NAZIS. Specifically, Americans.

  8. Re:Windows Vista: "Good Enough" is the right answe on Is "Good Enough" the Future of Technology? · · Score: 1

    Quick, without looking it up, tell me what the stopping distances are, including reaction time, at 40, 50, 60, and 70 mph. How many school kids are being taught that sort of stuff?

    And by the time you've recalled the appropriate stopping distance for the speed, you've just ploughed straight into the car in front without slowing. The only reason it's taught is to show the differences. All that needs to be taught and tested is 'keep your distance and maintain it at all costs'.

    But then I live in a country with bends, and shit.

  9. Re:Why are the UK government getting into this? on Proposed UK File-Sharing Laws May Be Illegal, ISPs Upset · · Score: 2, Informative

    Everyone seems to forget that Mandy's batting for the other side. The butts will be firm, yes, but the boobies will not be what you were after...

  10. Re:Obligatory quote on Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure you mean ducts. Duct tape being the tape commonnly mis-heard as duck tape. Until someone capitalised on this and started branding crap gaffer tape as 'duck tape'

  11. Re:Waste of time? on Newspaper Crowdsources 700,000-Page Investigation of MP Expenses · · Score: 1
    The Telegraph may not buy it either, but by redacting the addresses they can continue to use the 'in the public interest' argument. If they start printing addresses, then it becomes a whole different kettle of fish as that was the one thing the Information Commisioner was allowing to be blacked out, with the exception of the first 3 chars of the postcode.

    Personally, I think they should have been published intact by the Commons, but that's just my opinion!

  12. Re:Competition on BT Wants Cash For iPlayer, Video Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    I'd be interested if you could show me how it's incorrect to say 'BT buy their ' vs 'BT buys its '. Until you do, you're a crap grammar nazi. Impolite disagreement would be me finishing off the sentence by calling you a cunt, btw. That's how you can tell the difference.

  13. Re:Competition on BT Wants Cash For iPlayer, Video Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    BT is not a single entity. BT Internet is one, BT Wholesale another, BT Openreach is another again.
    If, however, your concern is that I talk about the entities as if they were people (very much like Soylent Green. Om nom nom) then I will, politely, have to disagree with your attitude. The impolite disagreement is that you've obviously got far too much time to worry about trivialities and, really, ought to get over it.

  14. Re:Competition on BT Wants Cash For iPlayer, Video Bandwidth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    BT Internet are a separate division to the organisation that owns the physical backbone. In theory, BT internet buy their wholesale access in exactly the same way as any other ADSL provider.
    So if BT internet play silly buggers with iPlayer you can migrate and you will see a difference, provided that the problem lies with the isp and the amount of money they're prepared to spend on their backhaul and pipe. If the problem is that if the BT Wholesale network can't cope, then that's a different kettle of fish!

  15. Re:Damned if you do... on Data Breach Exposes RAF Staff To Blackmail · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I think you'll find that the DV (developed vetting) process doesn't expect people to be angels. And that is how it should be. It expects the applicant to be honest with the people who need to know and allows them to build a bigger picture of anyrisk you may pose.

    An affair doesn't make an officer inherently disloyal to everyone, that's far to simplistic a view to take. If there's a pattern of behaviour, then that is a different matter. Same with finances. If your forever dipping into an overdraft or are mortgaged up the wazoo, then you pose a different risk to someone who's had bad credit in the past but is now exemplary.

    The problem is that this system relies on people being able to hand over this information in confidence. If people realise that this is no longer secure, then that vetting scheme is fundamentally broken.

  16. Re:Microwave background radiation on Super-Sensors To Sense Big Bang Output · · Score: 1

    I think it's about the time you start asking that question. Still, carpet slippers *are* comfy.

  17. Re:There's one obvious candidate. on British Spy Agency Searches For Real-Life 'Q' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because a Sinclair C5 with machine guns lends a new dimension of terror to a pursuit :p

  18. Re:Better than on Robo-Arm Signatures Are Legal, Gov't Buys One · · Score: 1

    Amusingly, the application forms used by the Maritime & Coastguard Agency in the UK still have a space for people to make their mark as well as a signature box.

  19. Re:British Paranoia at its finest! on UK Company Sold Workers' Secret Data · · Score: 1, Informative

    It'd work if it wasn't for the fact that Poles are entitled to work in the UK.
    Immigrants yes, illegal no.

  20. Re:...and? on First Doom 4 Production Shots Revealed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Quite frankly, I couldn't care less.

    There, fixed that for you.

  21. Re:Personality on Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV · · Score: 1

    Only for an instant. Now he is undone...

  22. Re:Call your credit card company.... on Recourse For Poor Customer Service? · · Score: 1

    Yes. Yes he does!

  23. Re:No money? Just use a credit card! on Low-Income Users Latch On To iPhone · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Oh fuck you, you whiny, patronising waste of space.

  24. Re:Who owns it? Ultimately, the game companies. on Rights To Virtual Property In Games? · · Score: 1

    virtual worlds introduce the idea of virtual labor. In some ways, it is as if you were being paid in factory scrip. Virtual worlds have introduced a new category of activity: play-labor, which acts a lot like regular labor, even though it occurs in the context of leisure.

    Best summary evar!!!11eleven

  25. Re:What about other downsides? on New York Times Says Thin Clients Are Making a Comeback · · Score: 1
    There's plenty of data entry work that requires just that, and I've done enough of it! If I've got no internet access anyway, I'd rather just have a well designed text-based system that is fast, lag free and supplied with a decent keyboard.

    I fail to understand why people moved away from systems that just worked and replaced them with boxes that did so much but are used for exactly the same tasks and do it just that little bit worse.