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  1. The choice on Rent A Bit Of Weta Digital · · Score: 0

    I'll have the one on the left.

  2. Protect and Swat on Asteroid to Make Closest Recorded Pass to Earth · · Score: 0

    To protest against these all you will need is to build the space elevator and have a guy on the viewing platform with a long baseball bat (or rounders bat if there's a UK version). The World Series would finally mean what it says.

  3. Re:Benefit for Stephen Hawking? on NASA Develops Tech To Hear Words Not Yet Spoken · · Score: 0

    Prof Hawkins has had a Tracheostomy, so am not sure if it would work on him.

  4. Mail on Yarn Spun from Nanotubes · · Score: 0

    Now, if they could make shiny tubes, your granny could knie you a mithril mail shirt.

  5. Can see... on Spirit Takes Snapshot of Earth · · Score: 0

    Neither my house nor the Great Wall of China

  6. How it works on Recovering Secret HD Space · · Score: 1, Funny

    You get rid of all the zeros, the 1's take up much less space so you can fit in more.

  7. True on The Command Line - Best Newbie Interface? · · Score: 0

    At a previous employer we used to use CVS, when we moved to WinCVS, we found a number of problems as people thought they were doing x, but were not. WIth the command line you knew what you were asking the system to do, with the GUI it was not always obvious. Pencil and paper were, and still are, the best interface.

  8. DVD crispy on New HP Drive Lets You Burn Your Own Label · · Score: 0, Troll

    Takes the fun out of using branding irons though

  9. Re:Wouldn't it depend... on Glenn Urges Direct-to-Mars Trip · · Score: 1

    And we all know what can happen when you put nukes on the moon. Space 1999

  10. A pattern on MS Word File Reveals Changes to SCO's Plans · · Score: 1

    I think I see a pattern, Damiler, IBM, thinking about Bank of America. The strategy would seem to be "lets find a company with deep, deep pickets, legions lawers already on the payroll and sue them". Perhaps they will go after the NSA next, as it would seem that they have also been naughty Secure Linux

  11. Re:Perfect plan to design a laptop that won't sell on Acer Plans A 16 lb. Notebook · · Score: 0

    Your are missing the point, it comes with a desktop, and chair.

  12. Warming up the credit card... on Star Wars DVD Cover Art Leaked · · Score: 5, Funny

    All look rather nice, which one has the Danish Pastry recipe for Princess Lea's hair?

  13. Re:This seems like a bad ripoff of the Mentor. on Hackers: The Art of Abstraction · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "This is our world now... " What a load of pretentious claptrap. You want knowledge? Go to a library. Seriously, this kind of self-justifying wine does little to endear me to the authors cause. Things are "free" to you because others are paying for them. You can argue the toss about the current socio-economic system, but at then end of the day, someone else will be footing the bill. Where I live, all the garden walls are 6 foot high brick affairs, one summer, some bored local kids decided to start throwing stone into gardens, one hit my 3 year-old. The whining excuse got from them was that they "didn't mean to", they were just having "some fun" and it "wasn't their fault". The post reminded me of their excuse, full of self-justification and blaming others for their actions, especially if things go wrong and someone ends up getting hurt. Remember it's not the people at the top, the town planners who designed an estate with little children to do, but the people at the bottom who get hurt.

  14. Re:CHAOS on Hackers: The Art of Abstraction · · Score: 1

    That would make the Manhatten Project one of the most creative projects ever then?

  15. Yo-yo hacking on CodeCon, Placebos, Fear, Yoyo-hacking, Dune, etc. · · Score: 5, Funny

    Using glue, you can install Linux on your yoyo.

  16. Re:Great... on Mounting Evidence for Water on Mars · · Score: 0, Troll

    Means nothing till you find a traffic cone "CAT: Hey, it's not a good night unless you get a traffic cone." Red Dwarf, Series III, The Last Day

  17. Colossus on Do-It-Yourself Electronic Enigma Machine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I remeber watching a TV show about Bletchly Park a few years ago. They interviewed one of the code breakers about the Colossus computer. They retired codebreaker remarked that he had written a machine-code implementation of the Colossus and ran it on the fasted PC he could find, but the hardware Colossus was still quicker at code breaking. Station X

  18. Work of the past masters on Digital Camera Image Verification · · Score: 1

    The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia shows the work of the past masters of photo fudging. All this and not a copy of Photoshop in sight.

  19. Up creek, but do they still have the paddle? on SCO Files Suit Against Novell Over System V Ownership · · Score: 1

    Just when did they throw away the paddle, or is it all they have left? Perhaps there is some old Norse blood in them, the red mist has fallen over their eyes and they are lashing out at anything that moves.

  20. Re:Dont trust this man, he's part of the conspirac on Explaining the Mars Photo Colorization · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Red-Eye Reduction setting doesn't work on Martians then.

  21. Re:Oh no! on SCO Wants to License Europe · · Score: 1

    "we will fight them on the desktops, on the landing places, on the server farms and in the cities. We will never surrender..."