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  1. Re:Gambling on $300M To Save 6 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    > I'd be quoting $44.50 bid and $45.50 offer

    That's $55.50 offer, no?

  2. Re:Well on British CS Majors Doing Badly In the Jobs Market · · Score: 1

    >When I took the school filter off for him to go browsing about it, he Tweeted to his friends that he'd "hacked the network". This was a top-class, privately-educated kid.

    Social engineering, still counts ;-)

  3. Re:The problem for UK IT graduates on British CS Majors Doing Badly In the Jobs Market · · Score: 1

    Of course you should leave. With 3 years experience and evidently being reasonably articulate, you'll stroll into a junior contract role on 200+/day.

  4. Re:So? on Mobile Browsers Alternatives Compared · · Score: 1

    You know full well the last thing he wants to do is change his machine. Identifying the best theme for his browser is the last thing he wants to HAVE to do.

  5. Geography on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1

    Well, if he thinks Warwick is near London, maybe he's literally having trouble *finding* his girlfriend?

  6. Re:Cell phone built-in? on Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid · · Score: 1

    >Num8 (pronounced as "new mate") Well, you've cleared up the pronunciation question, anyway - that was my other big WTF about this nonsense!

  7. Cell phone built-in? on Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid · · Score: 1

    What a crap article. GPS is a one-way technology. What does this thing actually DO? Is there a GSM transceiver in there too? A SIM card?

  8. Re:And next they'll want them to get off the lawn on Has Texting Replaced Talking For Teens? · · Score: 1

    Fo shizzle!

  9. Re:Nothing New on Bing Search Tainted By Pro-Microsoft Results · · Score: 2, Informative

    It recognizes "rtyrty5233" as a word too. Is that a Microsoft product too? Or do you think it could just be that the digits turn off checking?

  10. Re:The size of Alaska or bigger and no images? on Expedition To Explore an Alaska-Sized Plastic "Island" · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The Wikipedia link in the summary says "Despite its size and density, the patch is not visible from satellite photography." I'd suggest that's nonsense, and it's precisely the lack of density that prevents it being noticeable as a defined area in satellite shots.

  11. Re:How To Sue People For Profit 101 on Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable · · Score: 1

    "Law"

  12. Re:Stop being such pussies. on US Agency Blocked Cellphone / Driving Safety Study · · Score: 2, Funny

    30 seconds? Acrobat Reader takes longer than that to fire up!

  13. Re:This is more about BT Vision than bandwidth on BT Wants Cash For iPlayer, Video Bandwidth · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, there's a loophole here. If you don't pay your phone bills, your BT service will be disconnected, but the broadband line continues to work. (Optional for the conscientious: Then settle the outstanding debt with BT, but don't ask to be reconnected.) I've done this in all my last three places, worked fine until I moved out, two years in one case, nearly a year in the other two. Bethere.co.uk in all cases.

  14. Re:The best part? on New Data Center Will Heat Homes In London · · Score: 1

    >Because they might not need them

    Yeah, 5 should be plenty...

  15. Re:Windows 7 on Microsoft Extends XP To May 2009 For OEMs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh yeah, it's fine. As long as your usage pattern doesn't involve anything intricate like copying files...

  16. Re:Bank station on London's Oystercard Gets New Contract, But Same Suppliers · · Score: 1

    You're doing it wrong. Change at Cannon Street, it's far closer to Bank than Monument is.

  17. Re:Here's how it works... on A Linux-Based "Breath Test" For Porn On PCs · · Score: 1

    Damn right. It should be 20 *fewer* photos.

  18. Re:they sure aren't usable... on London Is Still World's Wi-Fi Access Point Capital · · Score: 1

    No, it's a type of shellfish. The Saint Pan Crustacean.

  19. Re:Tower of Pis? on Leaning Tower of Pisa Secure For 300 More Years · · Score: 1

    There's something special about spelling Nazis who don't know how to spell 'proofread'...

  20. Re:Version number? on Windows 7 Won't Have Compact "MinWin" Kernel · · Score: 1

    Word 2 (skip 3,4,5 to equalise with other products under the "Office" banner), 6, 7("95"), 8("97"), 9("2000"), 10("XP"), 11("2003"), 12("2007").

    You're just confusing version numbers with marketing names.

    They may well all be useless, but it isn't because the version numbers aren't sequential...

  21. Re:I mean... on Will Mars be a One-way Trip? · · Score: 1

    Given this won't be happening for decades yet, how about Feb 29, 2100... What are the odds he'll know?

  22. Re:Almost anonymous? on Psychologist Beating Math Nerds in Race to Netflix Prize · · Score: 1

    It's an American take on his name - no middle initial, no "Sr." or "III" suffix, there's not much left - hence, almost anonymous...

  23. Re:billion? on Collapsed UK Bank Attempts to Censor Wikileaks · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thousand million. The million million meaning is obsolete.

  24. Re:Developers, developers, developers, developers? on Inside Visual Studio 2008 · · Score: 1

    Or to put it another way, "because the market will bear it". Microsoft like money.

  25. In related news on Upcoming Firmware Will Brick Unlocked iPhones · · Score: 1

    Homebuilders' merchants Bricks R Us, Inc. today announced that in future all bricks they sell will come with a licensing agreement under which purchasers commit only to use their bricks for home-building purposes.

    Bricks mis-used by their purchasers, for example in breaking into vehicles or in bar brawls, will automatically be turned into overpriced cellphones.