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  1. Re:Ni! on Monty Python 40 Years Old Today! · · Score: 1

    Perhaps some of us already have.

  2. Re:I'm sure it didn't help. on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, yes, those figures are taken from the Wiki page on the PIRA.

  3. Re:No. on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Speaking as a European who has experienced US border controls on connecting flights (i.e. not even properly entering the country): whatever the actual reasons for the decision, US border controls are sufficient reason not to host it there.

  4. Re:I'm sure it didn't help. on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to Wikipedia, ETA has killed "over 800 individuals" since 1968 and the IRA has killed "around 1,100 members of the British security forces, and around 630 civilians" since 1969. On that measure having the IRA is twice as bad as having ETA.

  5. Re:Cue the deluge of people... on UK Court Order Served Over Twitter, To Anonymous User Posing As Another · · Score: 1

    Sure you have. Despite never posting with it before today and having a UID in the >1.6m range.

  6. Re:Still no tunneling on OSX on OpenSSH Going Strong After 10 Years With Release of v5.3 · · Score: 1

    Have you tried fink's build?

  7. Re: Licensed books on Company Uses DMCA To Take Down Second-Hand Software · · Score: 1

    "Who" is nominative (corresponding to the subject of a verb), "whom" is accusative and dative (corresponding to the direct or indirect object of a verb), and "whose" is genitive (corresponding to possession).

  8. Re:"Here" is not a pronoun on Artificial Heart Recipient Has No Pulse · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know English grammar because I studied Latin. In fact, it was very noticeable in English lessons that the six hands that went up whenever a question about grammar was asked belonged to the six people taking Latin.

  9. "Here" is not a pronoun on Artificial Heart Recipient Has No Pulse · · Score: 1

    What about adverbs?

  10. Re:Fist-Pumping competition? on Gamers Are More Aggressive To Strangers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Would it not stand to reason that the more detailed and realistic these games become, the more interest they will hold for people who play the games in real life?

    No. It's at least as reasonable to expect an uncanny valley effect whereby the more realistic the game becomes, the more its unrealistic aspects jar for people who are familiar with it in real life.

  11. Re:More An Issue of Censorship Than Copyright on Professor Wins $240K In Fair Use Dispute · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How many people who start reading Ulysses actually finish? And of those who finish, how many manage to persevere only because it was a set text for some English course?

  12. Re:proof of concept on Reddit Javascript Exploit Spreading Virally · · Score: 1

    Have been. Sun's fora spring to mind.

  13. Re:is there any other way to prevent crowd dispers on Revisiting DIY HERF Guns · · Score: 1

    I suspect that you're confusing elections to the Westminster parliament (first past the post) with elections to the European Parliament (PR). The BNP won two seats in the European Parliament this year, but has no seats in the House of Commons. However, they do have some local council seats won by first past the post.

  14. Re:Someone is gonna open it. on AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks · · Score: 1

    You are assuming that it will boot from a USB drive...

    No, that was what the "possibly" was to cover.

  15. Re:Someone is gonna open it. on AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here though they have physical access to the device. You don't need to be an experienced black hat to take a hard drive, mount it in another machine, and modify /etc/shadow. Or possibly simply boot from a USB drive to do the same, in which case it really is script kiddie territory.

  16. Re:Propaganda much? on UK Musicians Back Watered-Down "Three-Strikes" Rule · · Score: 1

    Lily Allen actually wrote (or had ghost-written, but I'm willing to assume good faith to the extent of regurgitating the labels' position in her own words rather than putting her name to someone else's) a guest column for one of the major British newspapers.

  17. Re:Graduate Record Exam on Computers To Mark English Essays · · Score: 1

    Great speaking is usually poor writing. When people read they can stop to think, check back to see what you wrote earlier, etc. When they listen they have to process in real time and they won't remember every detail of what you said 10 minutes ago. The way you approach communication therefore has to be different.

  18. Re:Don't mention the war ! on Wolfenstein Being Recalled In Germany · · Score: 1

    Because Austria didn't have mutual defence treaties with France and Britain?

  19. Re:Taking responsibility for ones actions. on US Wants UK Hacker To Pay To Fix Holes He Exposed · · Score: 1

    One word: extradition.

  20. Re:Komando's show is popular? on Forkable Linux Radio Ad Now On the Air In Texas · · Score: 2

    How would carbonite help? Surely most people are more concerned about losing their photos than their Jedi prisoners?

  21. Re:Bell labs on 60 Years of Cryptography, 1949-2009 · · Score: 1

    It isn't necessary for the US to pretend that they did it all by themselves; we associate that kind of insecurity with the Soviet Union.

    The rest of the world associates it with Hollywood.

  22. Re:ignorant bastards! on Mafia Sinks Ships Containing Toxic Waste · · Score: 1

    Man, I need to buy an atlas. All these years I thought that New Jersey was on the West Atlantic coast rather than the Mediterranean.

  23. Um? on Developer Exposes Copyright Infringers On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Is it normal behaviour when nicking someone's images to also start following them on Twitter?

  24. Re:Terrible idea on Creating a Quantum Superposition of Living Things · · Score: 1

    Fool. He should have postformed it.

  25. Re:Outraged Christian bloggers? on EA Comes Under Fire for Shady PR Stunts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The mind boggles. Do you seriously believe that because some Christians are vocal all Christians agree with them? Or that because some black people behave like stereotypes that it's fair to say that all black people are like that?