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  1. Obligatory Gates reference on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 1

    256 megajoules ought to be enough for anyone...

  2. Letter To All Email Designers on New Outlook Won't Use IE To Render HTML · · Score: 2, Insightful



    Dear Sir,

    Go Fück Yourself. Your profession is responsible for designing all the corporate spam I receive, therefore you deserve this red-hot poker up your årse

    Best wishes
    C

  3. Utter Piffle! on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 1

    I'm 28 years old and British. My teachers at school taught no imperial measurements at all, it was a 100% metricated education. The only imperial measures I use are miles, mph and mpg for planning long road journeys.

    and since you can't drive more than about 800 miles in this country without falling into an ocean, that's hardly a concern.

  4. Re:Deal Breaker on No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs · · Score: 1

    this message was sent with a w800i. great phone. i couldnt do without it since the java client for Gmail was released. hence no iphone for me..

  5. Re:Do not look into LASER with remaining eye... on 10th Annual Wacky Warning Labels Out · · Score: 1

    "screw removal by qualified persons only" could be a comment about the culture of not repairing your own property. Just depends where you choose to emphasise....

  6. Re:There are ways this could be more interesting. on Toyota Creating In-Vehicle Alcohol Detection System · · Score: 4, Funny

    the true guarantee of safe driving technique: remove airbag, replace with a sharp spike

  7. MacOnLinux on Installing Yellow Dog Linux on the PS3 · · Score: 1

    Firstly, it dual-boots between PPC Linux and PS3's internal OS Secondly, PowerPC MacOS can be virtualised on PPC Linux using MacOnLinux so this console can be an (dubious legal status) PowerMac too..

  8. Lightsabre fuel duels on Darwin Awards 2006 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I can warrant for this one, it happpened 100 metres from my house in Hertfordshire, UK

  9. Yes on Durabook Laptop Marketing Claims 'Destroyed' · · Score: 1

    My 366mhz Apple iBook "Clamshell", with its case made of rubber on thick ABS on a thick steel frame would take that and keep on running. it's fallen over 4ft while open and running (on one occasion only) and suffered no noticeable damage at all

  10. Vanity? on Novell Files New Summary Judgement Motion · · Score: 1

    In terms of copyright/IP law, this case might set the scene for 21st-century American litigation. Were it not so significant I doubt Slashdot would pay such close attention to it.

    Judges are human beings and subject to all the vices of the rest of us - could it be the kudos of fronting such a trial would outweigh more logical considerations about the wisdom of allowing the case to continue?

  11. amstrad Teletype on What's the Coolest Thing You've Ever Built? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Back in the 80s I had 2 Amstrad CPC464 personal computers (Z-80 CPU, 64k, tape deck built-in). I built an electronic circuit to link the joystick port from one to the sound-out port of the other (sound triggered a switch-effect using transistors)

    I wrote Morse-code modulator/demodulator software and set them up as a simple text-based comms system down the garden...

  12. Re:There's one difference... on The Failure of the $100 Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Poor societies have the same distribution of geniuses as rich ones. Handing out communications and information hardware might just help to identify those few.

  13. Re:Speech issues aside... on YouTube Removal Highlights Media Self-Censorship · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "if they have any moral decency."

    I think you just found the flaw in the argument.

  14. Obvious first steps..? on Google CEO — Take Your Data and Run · · Score: 3, Insightful

    IMAP for Gmail, where Tags become Folders dynamically. Send as Emailed DOC/XLS/ODW/ODS for Google Docs

  15. Re:Time zones? on Gadgets From the Future · · Score: 1

    "You are now entering Texas: Please set your clocks back 200 years.."

  16. Re:Apple is a bit different on Apple Should Get Out of Hardware? · · Score: 1

    Nice thought. the concept that economic disengagement is an effective way to cut our impact on very sensitive issues - whether targeted at Zionism or Militant Extremism - means we aren't far apart in what we hope for anyway.

  17. NAT! on Zombies Blend In With Regular Web Traffic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If every home internet connection had a NAT router it would cut down incoming TCP80 traffic a fair amount (so long as uPNP doen't f*ck it up anyway)

  18. Re:Apple is a bit different on Apple Should Get Out of Hardware? · · Score: 1

    Congratulations. No, seriously, I mean it. When the West breaks its dependency upon middle-eastern oil it'll be much easier to disengage from its interests, which will probably calm the Middle-Eastern situation down considerably. While that won't help the Palestinian situation (no oil in israel), al-Qaeda gets very annoyed about US forces defending the oil industry and government in Arabia. I don't believe the US would prop up the Sauds so willingly if they werent dependent on Saudi oil.

  19. Re:Apple is a bit different on Apple Should Get Out of Hardware? · · Score: 1

    Quarter-jewish, anti-zionist - thanks

  20. Re:Apple is a bit different on Apple Should Get Out of Hardware? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    they always have the option of cheaper AMD chipps if Intel pulls the discounting plug, anyway

    that might even lead to increased sales, such as to people like me who have stuck with G3/G4 systems as Core (1) is a 32-bit dead-end they shoould never have taken and Core 2 is unacceptable due to its Israeli manufacturing origins (I couldn't live with myself if I bought it..)

  21. Re:uhm... on Ask the Warhammer Online Team · · Score: 3, Funny

    the only place on the web where Trolls are modded-up

  22. Protection from the USERS themselves on OLPC Developers Boost Security · · Score: 1

    the kids who will eventually have these machines might be poor, sometimes hungry and thirsty, and living in deprived conditions, but there will be the usual distribution of thinkers, creators and geniuses among them. Think about the javascript myspace virus someone wrote just in order to get people to add him as friends a year back - if the security of the systems isn't good, intendedly-harmless pranks and experiments by users, or attepts at electronic bullying could disable vast sections of the wireless grid and deprive whole communities of connectivity

  23. Its a language thing on OpenOffice.org to Get Firefox Extensions and More · · Score: 1

    In some languages, "soft" is used for software

  24. Would you elaborate please? on OpenOffice.org to Get Firefox Extensions and More · · Score: 1

    I'm curious - I know nothing of the way professional writers work but I'd imagine you face different issues to most of us : what do you need?

  25. Not strictly correct on Challenging Microsoft on the Desktop · · Score: 1

    As someone who sets up / builds PCs, I've found that if you change the icon on Firefox to use the iexplore icon, and rename the shortcut to OpenOffice Calc to say "Excel", people will use it, and they won't even notice most of the time that its a different application.