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  1. Re:Sentences???!!! on Browsing the Web, One Sentence at a Time · · Score: 2, Informative

    Good luck with writing a spelling and grammar fixer which English-speaking people from both sides of the Atlantic are happy to use.

  2. Re:Misleading- on Bicycle Riding on Square Wheels · · Score: 1

    Sides can mean edges or faces.

  3. Re:*BOOM* on Bicycle Riding on Square Wheels · · Score: 1

    Given that most wheels are closed, whereas most roads are open, this isn't too surprising.

  4. Re:Asian-language localized UNIX tools on Japan, China, S Korea Agree To Standardize Linux · · Score: 1
    Entire cultural paradigms could be replicated via a plug-in system. For example, in Chinese markets the apt-get package management model could be described as a yum-cha cart
    For the benefit of a Brit, could you explain the cultural paradigm reflected by the apt-get package management model?
  5. Cannot find server on Speculating About Gmail · · Score: 1

    No longer.

  6. Hang on on Speculating About Gmail · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Anything confirming that it's not an April Fools' joke which was published after the 1st of April?

  7. Re:Operative Phrase "Shipping Not Included" on For sale: Eurotunnel Tunnel Boring Machine · · Score: 1

    It is small, though how you deduce that from the name I don't know. As far as tourism goes, there's already a small theme park and a museum based around some Roman remains: far more interesting than a museum built around a boring machine. ('Sides, the article summary says they're auctioning one - there were ten or twenty of the machines, so plenty left over for other purposes).

  8. Re:Unauthorized overtime on Computerized Time Clocks Susceptible to 'Manager Attack' · · Score: 1

    That might work for supermarket packers. It wouldn't work for me, as a programmer. If I'm halfway through a series of CVS commits and the boss tells me to clear off home, it's going to break the overnight build.

  9. Re:WTF???? on Canadian Minister Promises to Fix Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    The analogy he used was having photocopiers in a library. By providing said photocopiers, the librarians are assisting people in exercising their fair use right to copy a small amount of a book.

  10. Re:server suicide on Grand Challenge Videos Posted · · Score: 1

    I'm not a US taxpayer, you insensitive clod! Muhahaha.

  11. Re:U.S. Football Capitalist Game; Soccer Marxest G on Little Robots Play Soccer · · Score: 1
    Soccer is a Marxest game characterized by its ... lack of specialization of labor
    You don't play it, do you? Put two defenders up front, and you'll be lucky to score: fill your back row with strikers, and your goalie will be very busy.
  12. Re:Sigh. on Little Robots Play Soccer · · Score: 1

    I looked it up. It looks like there's plenty of room for arguments over when each sport was invented.

  13. Re:I need your help on NY Holds Spam Scam Contest · · Score: 1

    It would take me about 10 minutes to find my bank details and transfer the money to you, for a profit of $100. Since that's worth about 75 pence sterling, it's really not worth it.

  14. Re:First hand experience on US Expands Fingerprint and Mugshot Program for Visitors · · Score: 1

    The US uses digital fingerprinters. Brazil's retaliatory measures use ink, but only apply to US citizens. I kinda like the Brazilian retaliatory approach.

  15. Freudian slip? on US Expands Fingerprint and Mugshot Program for Visitors · · Score: 1
    Anyone who thinks U.S. citizen's civil liberties aren't being violated
    Is the positioning of the apostrophe intentional?
  16. Re:a good start on Nature Debate on Open Scientific Journals · · Score: 1
    So what's left? Author-pay, government-pay and donation-based systems all have disadvantages.
    Reader pays. However, access is by subscription only for a limited time - 6 months, say. This is the best model I've heard proposed - there's some income from universities who want to get the papers immediately, but the papers are generally available.

    As things stand, when I find a paper is subscription-only, I check the authors' home pages, and can usually find a copy.

  17. First post? on Open Source Vulnerability Database Goes Live · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Could this be my first first post?

  18. Re:Having a good time today? on PC Case For Hamsters, EZ Bake Oven in a Drive Bay · · Score: 1

    I definitely saw that article mid-Wednesday GMT.

  19. Hot Water Bottles on UK Government to Tax Linux? · · Score: 1

    "Continentals have sex. The British have hot water bottles."

  20. Re:Ihope this is an April Fool on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 1

    Squee: What's that? Ertai: It's a magical book? Squee: Am I smart enough to use it? Ertai: You could say that.

  21. Disagree on Homemade Subliminal CDs · · Score: 1

    The chicken one was magnificent.

  22. Engagement on 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop · · Score: 4, Funny

    Having fooled at least five people today by claiming to be engaged, my aim for next year is to get engaged on the 31st of March.

  23. Re:2004-03-11? He's going to need lots of luck. on 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop · · Score: 1
    You don't speak dates like this: "Meet me 17 April 2004."
    Quite right. In Europe, we have ordinal numbers.
  24. Re:where? on Chatterbox Challenge Contest Underway · · Score: 1

    Or the pain in his diodes.

  25. No Blackadder quotes yet? on Pigeons' Bandwidth Advantage Quantified · · Score: 4, Funny

    We didn't receive any messages, and Captain BlackAdder did not shoot this delicious, plump-breasted pigeon.