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  1. Shades of Edison and the motion picture patents... on The MPEG-LA's Lock On Culture · · Score: 1

    Shades of Edison and the Motion Picture Patents Company shenanigans which compelled the "independents" to up sticks and move out to Hollywood so they could make pictures

  2. Re:Translation on Russian Hacker Selling 1.5M Facebook Accounts · · Score: 2, Funny

    that's if I could get in... FB is currently down for me...

  3. Re:picture of the lofar core on LOFAR Telescope Array Grabs First Pulsar Images · · Score: 1

    anyone got a lat long of this? or a link on google maps?

  4. effing big holes!!! on Re-Purposing the Netherlands' Dike System For Power Generation · · Score: 1

    in order for them to fill and drain every tide cycle...

  5. Re:Gotta love... on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 1

    Seriously, what the fuck is with these people? Isn't it time to move into the 21st century with the rest of us?

    sadly no... they want to drag all of us back to the 12th century...

  6. the unasked question... on Virtualizing Workstations For Common Hardware? · · Score: 1

    what the F are you running that is forcing you to keep Windows around then?

  7. 48 hours? on Sid Meier and the 48-Hour Game · · Score: 1

    sounds like the usual development time for Playfish before sticking it up as a perpetual "beta"...

  8. Get Hollywood and the networks in on it. on "Phone In One Hand, Ticket In the Other" · · Score: 1

    get them to stop doing scenes where characters answer or make calls while driving unless they're using a proper voice activated hands-free system. Even those are dangerous, but far less than having one hand up holding the phone to their head.

  9. Re:japanese will eat anything i swear. on Completely Farm-Bred Unagi, a World First · · Score: 1

    The locals in Gloucestershire have been priced out of the market by the Japanese... we cannot enjoy any elvers because the Japanese buyers come in and pay such ridiculous prices for fresh caught elvers that poaching is rife and the elver catch has crashed as a result... the current price is approx £250 a kilo!!!

  10. zzzz... wake me up when they can machine these: on 5-Axis Robot Carves Metal Like Butter · · Score: 1
  11. would of been first... on Net Neutrality Suffers Major Setback · · Score: 2, Funny

    but my packets were delayed...

  12. Re:ATTN: MICROSOFT on Office Guardian Angel Worse Than Clippy · · Score: 1

    not quite as annoying as the "Unexpected Item In Bagging Area!!!" or "Please put the Item in the Bag!!!" is turning out to be...

  13. Re:Great... on Office Guardian Angel Worse Than Clippy · · Score: 1

    and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized

    nowadays... even in darkness... don't think George had envisioned Infra-red LEDs as light sources for camera use and cameras that were quite so sensitive to infra-red...

  14. Need Hollywood etc. to set a good example on Will Your Car Tell You To Put Down the Phone? · · Score: 2, Funny

    by not showing characters texting or making phone calls while driving... People see their favourite actor doing it so they think there's nothing wrong with it...

  15. embrace, extend, extinguish... on Microsoft Adopts SVG For Internet Explorer 9 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it's their only business model... SVG is the new target to pervert. Expect their web development tools to produce subtly broken SVG that only renders correctly on the IE version... they did the exact same with html. They will go to great lengths to ensure their development tools produce websites that don't work right on other browsers. Ever such subtle glitches, but the users will end up blaming the other browser that they picked on the ballot page.

  16. Re:cars too? Oh wait: scrappage scheme on Tax-Free IT Repairs Proposed For the UK · · Score: 1

    And the scheme supposedly allowed car manufacturers to off-load their piled up stock rather than building new cars...

    not only that, but the vast majority of new cars sold in the UK under this scheme were foreign made so the money just went out of the economy into foreign hands instead of cycling round and round.

  17. Cloud providers? on The Biggest Cloud Providers Are Botnets · · Score: 1

    bollox...

  18. such a pity... on P2P and P2P Links Ruled Legal In Spain · · Score: 3, Interesting

    because when ACTA is rammed down everybody's throat... they'll have anti-porn filtering riding on the back of it... and by law, ISPs will have to block sites deemed to be distributing extreme and/or kiddie porn... what's the bets Pirate bay and other popular sites and their trackers get included on the filters then...

  19. Re:Oddly Enough on ACLU Sues Over Legality of "Targeted Killing" By Drones · · Score: 1

    OK... blowing the mod point I gave this post... I modded it Funny... apparently others went for insightful thus wasting the OP's joke...

  20. I'll give you a clue... on Security Industry Faces Attacks It Can't Stop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Traditional security products are simply not much help, said Alex Stamos, a partner with Isec Partners, one of the companies investigating the APT attacks. 'All of the victims we've worked with had perfectly installed antivirus,' he said. 'They all had intrusion detection systems and several had Web proxies scan content.'"

    the "victims" were all running MS Windows...

  21. Daily Hate... on UK Gov't Wants Facebook To Feature Child Safety Button · · Score: 1

    yup, currently the Daily Hate is a campaign against Facebook... there's been a leading news item every day now where they've deliberately blown something up that's had the slightest connection to Facebook... highly emotive language in the items as well and seriously anti-Facebook comment moderation going on in the online comments... anyone who dares to be pro-Facebook promptly gets howled down with a flood of red arrows... they're only green arrowed for a short time before some block voting happens

    apparently no male is considered safe, we're all potential peados on Facebook...

  22. Re:umm.. simply on EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs · · Score: 1

    for us old schoolers... that'll be two mp3s if you don't mind...

  23. Re:Are bands/labels dumb? on Rock Band 3 Officially Announced For Holiday 2010 · · Score: 1

    Why would ANYONE charge to be in Rock Band?

    the band may be all for it, but the copyright holder of the recording and also the actual composer of the song/melody are the ones who pull the strings here... a band may not have any rights at all to their classic performances... albums/singles created as work for hire and songs they didn't write either...

  24. Re:Bring in a 3 strikes law on Ask the UK Pirate Party's Andrew Robinson About the Issues · · Score: 1

    I'm convinced that Mandelson has some serious "dirt" on key members of the Labour party... nothing else explains how he has been able to stage so many comebacks after scandals. He also must have some pretty serious dirt over key members of the establishment & media as well for there not to have been such a stink over it. "Dirt" that may be photos of Tony Blair in flagrante delicto with other males. Who knows, Cherie might be Tony's "beard" to enable him to appear normal.

  25. Re:Stupid Users on Facebook Founder Accused of Hacking Into Rivals' Email · · Score: 1

    Actually, Facebook directly asks you for your email password so it can "Automatically connect you to others" through your ISP information (phonebook, etc.). They get quite clever with it, even using the ISP's logo, making it seem like it is an official service of the ISP.

    one thing I've flat out refused to do... unfortunately, my daughters had already gone through this step when setting up their accounts so I've told them to change all their passwords.