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  1. Re:Get your facts straight... on June Windows Update To Be Biggest in a Year · · Score: 0

    My favourite bit of Windows Defender is this in the FAQ: When Windows Defender (Beta 2) detects potentially unwanted software, it shows you how customers who participate in the opt-in network voted to classify the software. This helps provide you with more information even before Microsoft analysts evaluate the software. So loads of Windows users who haven't got a clue start pressing "yes" to everything, and the rest start following! It's the blind leading the blind. I have visions of lots of Windows Lemmings following each other off a cliff.

  2. Re:Get your facts straight... on June Windows Update To Be Biggest in a Year · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Security updates will still be downloaded if you select "automatic updates", you just can't download nice addons like windows defender"

    You don't class windows defender a security update?

    From Microsoft...

    "Windows Defender is a free program that helps protect your computer against [...] security threats"

    Come on admit it, you thought Windows Defender was Microsoft's version of the popular 1980's arcade game didn't you?

  3. Intentional purchases? on The Pornographers vs. The Pirates · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do people intentionally buy porn? I assumed the whole industry was funded by IE users accidentally installing premium rate dialers. I guess now that broadband is so popular the porographers need to find another revenue stream.

  4. Re:Soccer? on IT Meets the World Cup · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It must be an OS X thing. I'll never forget the time I ran out to buy an iPod and ended up with 2 MP3 players.

  5. Re:Riverworld anyone? on Capacitors to Replace Batteries? · · Score: 0

    >If I remember correctly, Benjamin Franklin If you remember correctly??? How old are you exactly?

  6. How technically feasable is this. on U.S. House Rejects Net Neutrality · · Score: 0

    If video packets were to be encrypted, how could the ISPs tell the difference between a video stream and a (very long) letter to my grandma?

  7. USA: Defender of the free world. on U.S. House Rejects Net Neutrality · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wonder which representatives got paid most for their vote!

  8. Re:Riverworld anyone? on Capacitors to Replace Batteries? · · Score: 0

    Rubbish. We all know that the early scientific writers created a time machine and have been nicking their ideas from the scientists of the future ever since. It's a conspiracy of mammouth proportions, and its a disgrace that the patent laws only consider prior art as a defence!

  9. Am I missing the point? on Banned From WoW For WINE & Programmable Keyboard · · Score: 0

    He was using a Macro to automate tasks. I'm not a fan of MMORPGs, but surely that's not allowed in any of these games?

  10. oo-er on VENUS Satellite, The Next Eye in the Sky · · Score: 3, Funny
    plasma-thruster engine

    Am I the only person that giggled when reading that

  11. Announcement on British Rail's Flying Saucer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Due to technical difficulties, this spaceship will terminate here at Uranus, a bus service will be along shortly.

  12. It's all a conspiracy on Google Goes to Mars · · Score: 5, Funny

    Notice that if you zoom in Google Moon, you see that the moon is made of cheese. It's a joke you see, the moon isn't really made of cheese. However, if you zoom in on Google Mars, you don't see little green men. Don't you think that's suspicious? Surely if it were untrue, Google would have included it. Therefore we have conclusive evidence that Mars is full of little green men!!! The martian govenment are clearly colluding with Google to censor the Google Mars results!

  13. OMG! on NASA Detects Nearby Mystery Explosion · · Score: 4, Funny

    OMG! They're making room for a hyperpace-bypass!

  14. Re:Third profitable entity on Microsoft FAT Patent Upheld · · Score: 1

    Nah. Microsoft Bob makes a profit now, they're selling it on to the Afghans who don't know better.

  15. FAT cat on Microsoft FAT Patent Upheld · · Score: 2, Funny

    They might as well register FAT cat as a trademark whilst they're at it :-)

  16. buddy Interaction on Is AllPeers FireFox's P2P "Killer App"? · · Score: 1
    > Initially, interaction with those buddies will be limited to discovering and sharing files.
    A bit like MSN Messenger, but without the chat :-P
  17. But it voids the warranty! on Water Cooling an Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    So the creators of this device claim that the x-box can overheat and possibly break. However, by installing this device, they claim it voids the warranty.

    Forgive me if I'm being dumb, but rather than fork out a load of dosh preventing the problem, I'd rather wait for the Xbox to break and get a shiny new one courtesy of Microsoft.