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  1. Re:Why Scotland? on BT Shows First Fiber-Optic Broadband Rollout Plans · · Score: 1

    "ruin my life and charge me exorbitant taxes."

    Like the Poll Tax?

  2. Re:Seafloorskeeper Rennie on The Men Who Fix the Internet · · Score: 2, Funny

    "we haven't hung anyone in Scotland for quite some time."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_City_Rollers

    It's a shame that some crimes go unpunished. ;)

  3. SyFy on Sci Fi Channel Becoming Less Geek-Centric "SyFy" · · Score: 1

    with ponies!

  4. Re:Sorry to break this to you. on A Surveillance Camera On Every Chicago Street Corner? · · Score: 1

    Maybe I should read the whole summary before I post too. :D

  5. Sorry to break this to you. on A Surveillance Camera On Every Chicago Street Corner? · · Score: 1

    There is not a CCTV camera on every street in London.

    But, who am I to burst your hyperbole bubble.

  6. Re:try a non-Adobe PDF reader on Adobe Flaw Heightens Risk of Malicious PDFs · · Score: 1

    You forgot to mention that it is small and fast to load too. ;)

    I've been using it for a couple of years now, wild horses wouldn't drag me back to adobe reader.

  7. Re:Possibly... on Norfolk Town's Schools First To Be Heated By Burning Cattle · · Score: 1

    That is a truly offal idea.

  8. Re:So... on Man Lists Robbery As Occupation On Court Documents · · Score: 1

    Obviously not, he had hard cash on him. ;)

  9. Re:Authenticity on The Deceptive Perfection of Auto-Tune · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Yes, because everything that isn't done manually is inauthentic"

    How do you do non-manual singing?

  10. Re:There's no way they'll abuse this on Washington State Wants DNA From All Arrestees · · Score: 1

    Mod parent informative.

    This is exactly what is happening in the UK, yes I'm afraid it's us leading the way with this sort of thing again.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5285340.ece

    The authorities were dragged kicking and screaming all the way to the European Court of Human rights.

    I despair at what my home country is turning into.

  11. Re:Poor guy... on Largest Prehistoric Snake On Record Discovered In Colombia · · Score: 1

    goatse begs to differ.

  12. Re:2% on Finnish Court Accepts E-Voting Result With 2% Lost · · Score: 1

    Here's an idea, what if the machine did not release the voting card until a vote had been properly cast. It surely can't be hard to implement in this day and age?

  13. Re:And? on New Open Source FPS Blood Frontier Shows Promise · · Score: 1

    "Hey everybody! Rik has had his fill of FPSs! You can stop developing them now."

    Hey, you've been...

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OY1M-CJHQ8s

  14. Re:Cretins.. on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 1

    "Is this the one pressing issue at the moment?"

    Literally speaking, yes! ;)

  15. Re:THE FACTS on Seagate Firmware Update Bricks 500GB Barracudas · · Score: 1

    Haha, good one.

    Thanks for your informative post. I mean the original one.

  16. Re:THE FACTS on Seagate Firmware Update Bricks 500GB Barracudas · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Right now, the engineers are crapping themselves"

    Shitting bricks no doubt. ;)

  17. Re:Coming to a disaster near you. on Seagate Hard Drive Fiasco Grows · · Score: 1

    Didn't they have issues with certain 7200.9 or was it 7200.10 drives a year or so ago too?

  18. Re:Regarding the desktops on PC Sales Slump Over Economic Crisis · · Score: 1

    Don't know if you could call it "killer app" but "user generated content" rings my bell.

  19. Re:That estimate seems really high on Obama Proposes Digital Health Records · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well here in the UK we have the exact same thing for approx 60 million people. The estimated cost? 18 billion dollars and probably more. What's the population of the U.S.A.?

  20. Re:Its not the content on UK Email Retention Plan Technically Flawed · · Score: 1

    "The initial requirement is to keep the logs for a year"

    There, fixed that for you.

    Look at RIPA, initially only 9 organisations could use it. Now nearly 800 can use it.

    What about using anti-terror laws to detain/arrest an 82 year old man for having the temerity to shout the word "nonsense" at a political meeting.

    I'm sure our dear leaders would never allow feature creep with this latest wheeze of theirs.

  21. Re:Is this....legal? on UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Tony Martin charged with illegal possession of a firearm?

  22. Re:Just for the record, only UK subjects on Terry Pratchett Knighted · · Score: 1

    So earning a personal fortune of forty million pounds sterling is not reward enough?

  23. Re:Terminology on Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Depends on gameplay and nostalgia on Resurrecting Old Games, What Works? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've found http://www.usoutpost31.com/easytutu/ (EasyTutu) easier to use. ;)

  25. Re:Wow on Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination · · Score: 1

    I use this http://www.emro.nl/freeware/ jkdefrag gui, comes with the latest jkdefrag and some other useful tools.