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  1. Callback on FTC Awards $50k In Prizes To Cut Off Exasperating Robocalls · · Score: 1

    Simple and already exists, the first time a number is seen the caller gets a machine asking them to leave a message, this then gets forwarded to the recipient who can choose to take the call or not based on the message.
    Once the call is taken the number is whitelisted and the caller gets through first time the next time.

  2. Re:with the cooling costs on The World's Largest Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Or Quebec. Cool climate to the extreme and tons of hydro.

  3. Re:How is this news for nerds? on GM Is Selling Saab To Spyker Cars · · Score: 1

    If you're interested in bumping up the torque and bhp you might want to do a quick google for "BSR saab".

  4. Re:Crazy on Brazilian Pirates Hijack US Military Satellites · · Score: 1

    BBC Radio 1 98.1FM
    This is european, how odd???

  5. Re:aluminum on Copper Thieves Jeopardize US Infrastructure · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We had something like this back home a few years ago. Two miles of railway track stolen buy guys with diggers
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2673629.stm

  6. Re:Yep. I had a boss... on Voters Swayed By Candidates Who Share Their Looks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some women just dont look good with a 'tache

  7. Re:Fuel gauges also lie on Your Computer and Cell Phone Are Lying To You · · Score: 1

    Isnt that the shape of the tank?

  8. Re:ohh common on 80 Gbps Deep Packet Inspection Hardware Announced · · Score: 1

    This is exactly what Bell Canada are doing right now, except they are also doing it to their competition!!

  9. Simulated surface on NASA's New Lunar Rover in Action · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if this is the same simulated surface where the original landings were filmed.

  10. Re:Hawks on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: 1

    I dont get it...

  11. Re:I remember the BSA from the old shareware times on How the BSA Squeezes the Little Guys · · Score: 2, Informative

    "all PC computers were 386, ran MS-DOS, had 32MBytes of RAM"

    Thats one hell of a lot of RAM for a 386...

  12. Heated Seats on D.C. Commuters to be Scanned With Infrared Cameras · · Score: 1

    Wouldnt turning on your heated front seats spoof the cameras anyway???

  13. Re:special chars on Ophcrack Says Your Password Is Insecure · · Score: 1

    My bank and both credit cards do.
    Amex (Canada) is particularly bad. It also restricts you to between 6 and 8 alphanumeric characters but doesnt give you an error when you create it longer, it just chops the end off. This caused me a lot of confusion on the first login.

  14. Re:Does Anyone Really Use Their Wii Anymore? on Nintendo - "Everyone is a Gamer" · · Score: 1

    I feel the same way, I owned mine for a total of seven weeks. I played zelda for about three then it sat there unused for the rest of the time as I had no more motivation to play it (who cares about everybody votes or miis).
    I was offered $450CAD by somebody who was having trouble finding one in the stores and literally bit their hand off.

  15. Re:So, I can sling a video of an NHL game anywhere on National Hockey League Embraces TV Placeshifting · · Score: 1

    This is true, being a Brit in Ottawa I just watched my first playoff series. In the beginning I didn't have a clue where the puck was (I was watching in SD).
    By the end of the finals I was able to figure out where it should be by the players positions, however I still hardly see the damned thing.

  16. Re:Yeah tell me about it .... on Crashing an In-Flight Entertainment System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I flew to Crete (Heraklion) from Gatwick in 2002, while we didn't have IFE's on the seatbacks there was a camera in the nosegear which came on the TV monitors on takeoff and landing. This is the only flight Ive ever been on with this feature but it was _very_ cool.

  17. Re:This is not really a good thing, but... on Army Game Proves U.S. Can't Lose · · Score: 1

    France and British nuclear weapons are few and easily destroyable, since the US built their Silo's and they have no nuclear subsHmmm, no nuclear subs in the UK dont worry about us.

  18. Re:Two Wrongs... on Is Microsoft Using RIAA Legal Tactics? · · Score: 1

    I really cant understand how they can prove you have done this though. Surely its just a matter of swapping out your disk for a new/spare one and getting rid of or hiding the incriminating one.

  19. Re:does not matter. on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD Playback Under XP · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I am in the high end Home theatre market"

    We call it future shop in Canada.

  20. Mod parent up +funny on Flock, the Web 2.0 Browser? · · Score: 1

    That and what we used to call an AOL user, we now call a 'blogger'

    I wish I had mod points today.

  21. Re:Old methods of copy protection... on The Problems With Game Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    Monkey island had a crazy decoder wheel. Mind you that game took 11 floppies, I still remember those load times and disk swaps between screens.

  22. Re:Interesting on Greek, U.S. Officials Tapped For Years · · Score: 2, Informative

    I always liked this story about the xerox machine in the Russian embassy doing more than just copying documents.

  23. Re:Enough of the tabs already on Microsoft IE 7 Goes (More) Beta · · Score: 1

    "They don't use tabs, don't know what tabs are, and don't want to know how to use tabs"

    Since they are so up to date I would love to try their cutting egde products.

  24. Re:Linix tained by M$ crap. ps3?!?!?! on WINE Still Vulnerable to WMF Exploit · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is this supposed to be an SMS message or are some of the keys on your keyboard missing? Either way, what are you on about???

  25. Re:For Another Take, Check Out The Movie "Threads" on UK Cold War Era Nuclear War Plans Revealed · · Score: 1