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  1. It doesn't matter what they do on More Details on IE7 Tabs · · Score: 1

    Joe user won't upgrade until he gets a new machine.

  2. Re:Lynx is safe on There Is No Safe Web Browser · · Score: 1

    I prefer 002.jpg.

    Seriously though, Lynx is immune to the well known 'goatse' vulnerability!

  3. mental images? on Security Skins: Single Sign-On with Images · · Score: 5, Funny

    Worse than goatse... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/24/182322 5&tid=99&tid=16 -- seriously - what the hell????

  4. Re:Been there, done that. on Security Skins: Single Sign-On with Images · · Score: 1

    You got it wrong, it's spelt p4ssw0rd.

  5. Re:Info Overload + Abuse on Burnout and Depression Among IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    Your life sounds like mine... Except I have about 17 projects on the go. It's great! I can't wait until sleep becomes totally redundant - I really despise having to waste my time lying down doing nothing.... It's so... caveman.

    Sleep evolved so we wouldn't be running around in the dark getting eaten by Sabre-Toothed tigers. Now that we have elecricity, sleep is totally needless. Unevolve, damn you, and give me another 5 hours in the day!

  6. mod parent funny!!! on Burnout and Depression Among IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    Seriously... What kind of lifestyle could ever, possibly allow this?! I work from 7am-8pm every day for my day job, then do consultancy work from the end of work until 2/3am - and work when I travel as well. Time is not to be wasted... I sleep 3 or 4 hours a night, and work weekends...


    The strangest thing... I always feel good.

  7. Best part of the game on GTA and Lemmings on PSP · · Score: 1, Funny

    Seeing how deep a hole you can drill when you nuke the poor little fuckers.

  8. Re:Must find on ISS Oxygen Generator Fails for Good · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In soviet russia, oxygen generator replaces YOU!

    You see, that wasn't so hard, was it?

  9. Re:You've all been caught! You'r ID is logged! BAN on Revamping Freenet · · Score: 1

    Nice troll - you have too much time on your hands. Unfortunately, you can't search freenet. Everything is in the form of linked directory pages.

  10. Re:Unfortunately, not a troll on Revamping Freenet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sorry, no, I didnt' mean that that was what was on my node, just what was on the network as a whole.

  11. Unfortunately, not a troll on Revamping Freenet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used to run a freenet node - for a while it bloated with kiddie porn, and not much else - now not even the paedophiles bother, it's become so dilapidated, out of date and slow.

  12. Re:its a problem on Computer Problem Caused Price Errors on NASDAQ · · Score: 1

    Can you say... 'in flight fills'? The number of exchanges which don't support delta quantity is insane - and FIX doesn't support it either, officially... Total bloody nightmare, if you ask me.

    We haven't had anything go too badly wrong. Yet.

  13. Re:Last I checked.... on The Feasibility of Star Wars Tech · · Score: 1

    I read the first slide about these, and I loved the comment about how it isn't possible to make light do things without a large gravity source or some thing to redirect it through.

    That being the case then... Why does the road or a desert horizon shimmer on a hot day? Heat from the road or the sand is causing the light to shift.


    The heat is NOT directly causing the light to shift. The heat is causing a density gradient in the air, which simply acts as a variable lens. Good point though.

  14. Re:I don't know about their technology... on The Feasibility of Star Wars Tech · · Score: 1

    I'm one of them! It was organised by a couple of guys I was at school with.... It's no coincidence that there are about 390,000 public(private) school boys in the UK.

  15. Re:Welcome to Britain on The Horror Of British Telecom · · Score: 1

    Yeah, securicor managed to drop everything as well. At least a claim with them only took 3 months.

  16. Re:Welcome to Britain on The Horror Of British Telecom · · Score: 1

    *Drinks to that*

  17. Welcome to Britain on The Horror Of British Telecom · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Would you like some red tape with that?

    What's that, you need a glass of water? Not without getting for 867-334-B. You get that from the Post Office, but they're only open during office hours. So you'll have to take time off work to go there.

    Actually, this started as a piss take, but mentioning the post office just got me riled. I shipped a laptop in January. Parcelfarce (equivalent of USPS parcels service) dropped a fridge or something on it, as it turned up in Ireland utterly mashed (it was in the original apple box, and wrapped in bubblewrap, then in another box.

    I filed a claim with them on *checks receipt* January 12th. 3 days ago they called me (first I'd heard from them, 4 months is pretty swift in this country), to tell me that they couldn't pay up because it is an item which is made of or contains glass. I politely explained that the display was made from a polycarbonate composite, and was, in fact, pretty much the only undamaged part of the machine regardless. Trisha, or Trini, or Crystal, or whateverthefuck they call those callcenter peons then politely explained I'd have to enter the disputed claims process. Which has an expected waiting time of... wait for it wait for it.... 200 (two hundred) business days!

    This country is so arse about tit it makes me sick. I'm £1500 out of pocket pretty much indefinitely due to the incompetence of some cretinous handler who saw 'fragile' and read it as 'place fridge here', and nobody gives a shit.

    Being born and bred british, however having lived around the world (Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Paris, Chicago, New York, Auckland), I can happily say I detest this country. I hate it with a venegance. I spit on the anglo-saxon pig dogs.

    To be honest, I'm not entirely sure why I'm still here. Perhaps because I do enjoy sipping pimms on a riverbank, eating strawberries, wearing a silly hat, and lounging in the sunshine with scantily clad english flowers.

    The cons are beginning to heavily outweigh the pros however. Particularly now that we have Labour (a farcical excuse for a government) in power again.

    I might secede. Who's with me?

  18. Re:Only four kids? on Chronicles of Narnia Trailer · · Score: 1

    No, sorry, only martinis & g&t's allowed. Oh, and nice, strong espresso.

  19. Re:Only four kids? on Chronicles of Narnia Trailer · · Score: 1

    It's presumably owned, however not by me - I'm just a tenant! Did I mention the river view?

  20. Re:Only four kids? on Chronicles of Narnia Trailer · · Score: 1

    I haven't, although I may well have to - sure I can pick up a copy from the rather charming second hand bookshop just round the corner!

  21. Re:Only four kids? on Chronicles of Narnia Trailer · · Score: 1

    Haha, indeed... Strangely enough, as I write this, I'm sitting in Ransome's old flat at Hurlingham Court... In the room which was his study. He wrote at least a few books of series from pretty much where I sit now.

  22. Here you go on Linux Friendly One-Time Credit Card Providers? · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  23. Re:4 x 4? on Artificial Retinas Bring Vision Back To The Blind · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, but imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!

  24. WARNING! TURTLES! on Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race Photos · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is a picture of what appears to be a papier mache turtle or tortoise about halfway down the page. This construes a clear violation of company policy, as we believe that all creatures were created by god, and any effigy of a creature (ie. created by man & science) is an abomination against christ.

    This site is only not safe for work if you happen to work for some kind of totalitarian mothers against everything company.

  25. MOD PARENT UP CORRECT REFERENCE TO BOOK on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    NT