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  1. Re:What I love about the FOSS movement on Drupal Needs a New Home · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just looking at the page now.. Received: $6468 USD I guess they're going to get their new server ;-)

  2. Re:Those who paid attention during Fahrenheit 9/11 on Body Scanners for the London Underground · · Score: 1

    33.8% is still a minority share and far from 'owning' Qinetiq when the MOD own 56% of Qinetiq (according to the latest financial statement).

  3. Re:Those who paid attention during Fahrenheit 9/11 on Body Scanners for the London Underground · · Score: 1

    They own a minority share in QinitiQ with the MOD retaining a majority share. To say that they 'own' QinitiQ is slightly misleading even if there is still a connection.

  4. Re:Spelling on Graphics in Science · · Score: 1

    Gah! I'd never heard of that usage although it is listed as an archaic use.

  5. Spelling on Graphics in Science · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Spelling and basic proof reading is just as import as graphical presentation.

    "In fact, one encounters (and I am ashamed to admit that I have published) images that look nice but have no scientific import at all."

  6. Woops! on The Virtual Planet Explorer · · Score: 2, Funny
    Software that allows you to interact in three dimensions with any part of our planet? Sweet! Imagine the possibilities, the god-like power you'd have over beaches in Brazil! I presume that the posting was meant to read:

    Interact in three dimensions with any part of our model of the planet.

  7. Oblig. Red Dwarf Reference on Corsair to Continue Receiving Samsung TCCD Memory · · Score: 3, Funny

    Personally I don't much like the XMSTWINX1024-4400C25PT. I think it's a jerky name. Still, it could be worse. I once knew an memory stick whose middle name was 2Q4B. Poor sucker!

  8. a little niggle on Hackers, Meet Microsoft · · Score: 3, Informative

    Can people write, or the editors make sure that article summaries are just that, not cut and pasted paragraphs from the article? The posting makes it look like Mz6 wrote those paragraphs which is only true if she's Ina Fried .

  9. Re:HA! on Computer Security Lacking at Homeland Security · · Score: 2, Funny

    My computer homeland security appears to perfectly adequate. Just try hacking me!

  10. Don't panic! on Patriot Act to be Expanded · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The solution to your problems as a resident of the United States may be at hand.

  11. Breaking news from our reporter Roland Piquepaille on Decoding the Genome: Serious Infrastructure · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lots of computers use lots of power which costs lots of money!

  12. Re:Slashdot releases a dupe on Red Hat releases Netscape Directory Server to OSS · · Score: 4, Informative

    Please reread both articles. The first announces that Red Hat will be opening Netscape Directory, the second actually points directly to the openned code which wasn't available at first. So if it is a dupe, it's a very useful one!

  13. Re:The "H" word on BusinessWeek on Hacker Hunters · · Score: 1

    I'd think that you didn't know how to cook them properly!

  14. Re:Yellow? on A Step Toward the Diamond Age · · Score: 4, Informative

    Indeed. Whilst a yellowish tint may devalue a white diamond, at the extreme end of the yellow colours (fancy yellow) it increases the value. The Wikipedia article covers this.

  15. Re:Fools, small chidren, and ships named Enterpris on Enterprise Finale Airing Tonight · · Score: 1

    Terry Farrell . Please leave your geek pass at the door as you leave.

  16. Re:Evolution is intelligent design on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1
    DNA is mutated, recombined, merged through sex, and otherwise changed. These changes are hypotheses about the world, in the form of new life forms trying to survive there.

    As much as you'd like to think that these changes are hypotheses about the world and credit the process of natural selection as intelligent by your given definition you've forgotten that it's just a chemical process.

    I can write a computer program to generate a number of random 'hypotheses' as you say and then test them, but I can't claim that I've endowed this system with intelligence, it's just a logic system.

  17. Re:Calculus on Computer Program Makes Essay Grading Easier · · Score: 1
    Except that when it comes to having examinations marked, the person doing the marking may have already read hundreds of papers and won't exactly be happy to have to dicypher your scribblings. At my University it was made clear that the marker was unable to read your writing properly, rather than risk mis-marking the examiner would have your paper transcribed at a cost to you.

    Knowing calculus is little use if you're unable to communicate it to anyone especially someone trying to grade your ability.

  18. Re:easily solved on Internet Phones & Identity Theft · · Score: 2, Funny
    If it works for pizza delivery it should work for money transfers.

    That made me smile, I'm sure it's not quite the wording you're looking for. "I'll have pizza and US dollars, transfer them to my Swiss bank account and go easy on the anchovies.

  19. Just a thought on Star Wars Episode 3 Play-By-Play In Pictures · · Score: 1

    Over 80 fairly high resolution screen shots and the editor didn't think to change the links to a handy mirror before we all hammer the server? Luckily it appears to be coping so far.

  20. Re:The True Deadline on More on Newly Broken SHA-1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Moore predicted that the number of transistors per integrated circuit would double every eighteen months, not that the cost of computing would halve every eighteen months. More strictly speaking it's corollary that some people draw from Moore's law.

  21. Thoughts on sharing on The Economist On The Economics of Sharing · · Score: 5, Insightful
    For a lot of open source project's and P2P networks it's not the case that developers and users are really sharing fairly.

    Most open source projects revolve around a core of developers with the odd donation of time and code from users who extend the code to suit their needs. Ditto with most P2P networks, most casual users are happy to leach whilst most of the bandwidth is provided by hardcore users. Perhaps the exception to this is Bittorrent where users are more inclinded to share fairly.

  22. Public Announcment on Is Anti-Municipal Broadband Report Astroturf? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lobbying of governments by commerical organisations not completely transparent! News at eleven!

  23. Re:Well on Can Microsoft Beat Google? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The power and information google has and will continue to imporve upon is scary.

    Surely whoever beats Google is likely to have more power and information (or gain it later) than Google themselves? That would really solve your problem.

  24. Current state of my Linux gaming on The State of Linux Gaming · · Score: 5, Funny
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    Lameness filter be gone! Lameness filter be gone! Lameness filter be gone!
  25. Re:That looks like a... on A Star of Space and Film · · Score: 1

    There are no furry monkeys in space, you are just imagining this, do not adjust your set. Please remain seated in your present location, the Bavarian furry monkey Illuminati enforcement patrol are on their way.