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  1. Re:Mod Down on New IM Worm On The Loose · · Score: 1

    Ooops, my bad.

  2. Re:Clever! on New IM Worm On The Loose · · Score: 1

    It's internal IP address, ie to be found on a LAN behind the firewall to the big bad world outside. Hmm... Deja Vue...

  3. Re:Aargh! on New IM Worm On The Loose · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's an internal IP address, ie to be found on a LAN behind your firewall to the big bad world outside.

  4. Re:No problem with WMP on MS To Offer Windows Sans WMP, If EU So Orders · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Airbus don't make engines. You specify which engines you want fitted when you place your order, eg Rolls Royce, General Electric etc. So no, it isn't a monopoly, Ok?

  5. Re:This is being done by Republican-SUPPORTERS, ri on Hackers Take Aim at Republicans · · Score: 0
    If you follow the link to the BBC story you will find the following,

    However, a senior coalition source has told the BBC the round does not signal the discovery of weapons of mass destruction or the escalation of insurgent activity.

    He said the round dated back to the Iran-Iraq war and coalition officials were not sure whether the fighters even knew what it contained.

    Clear enough?

  6. Re:The Future of Television on BBC Begins Open-Source Streaming Challenge · · Score: 0

    Wow, Margaret Thatcher introduced a socialist tax! Don't tell her though, the shock could be fatal. Wait a minute.....

  7. Re:No on Publisher Renames 'Katie.com' · · Score: 0

    Then I suggest you try a simple Google. No question that Katie T has had a bad experience, that doesn't justify her lawyers bullying tactics against against Katie J, the owner of the Katie.com domain long before Katie T's book was written.

  8. Re:Higher, faster, cheaper on FAA Approves Sport Pilot License · · Score: 0
    There was a saying used (I think) in the Royal Flying Corp during the the first world war,

    If you walk away from it, it's a good landing. If you walk away from it and the aircraft is the right way up, it's a bloody good landing.

  9. Re:Bah Humbug on WA Bans Gift-Card Expirations, Fees · · Score: 0

    My kid sister and I gave up on birthday/christmas presents to each other for just this reason, we we're just swapping cash/vouchers twice a year as neither of us could ever think what to buy the other, so now we just send cards.

  10. Re:A useful recommendation... on CERT Recommends Mozilla, Firefox · · Score: 0

    If you're referring to the Washington Post page it loads fine for me with Firefox 0.9

  11. Re:UK spam laws on The Good and Bad of Data Collection · · Score: 0

    Actually it's generally local government that makes money from selling the electoral register in the UK as there currently isn't a central register, although that may change.

    Due to someone taking his local council to court over the practise of selling the electoral register (local government in the UK operates under legislation that specifies what it can do, anything outside that is open to legal challenge) there are now two versions of the register, the full one used for electoral purposes and an 'edited' one for sale, you can specify that your details do not appear on the for sale version.

  12. Re:Area 51 is a hoax by the goverment on Area 51 Hackers Map Buried Surveillance Network · · Score: -1

    On the hangar hangers, obviously. Sheesh.

  13. Re:Doesn't carbon fibre burn? on Swedish Carbon-Fiber Stealth Ship Runs NT · · Score: 0

    Right example if he's referring to HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, a battleship and a battlecruiser respectively, sunk by Japanese aircraft off Malaya in December 1941.

  14. Re:I don't understand electronic voting. on CA Secretary of State Bans Diebold Machines · · Score: 0

    Brilliant idea, after all, universal suffrage? What a dumb idea. Once we've used your plan to disenfranchise the elderly, those for whom English is second language etc etc we can set about taking the vote away from women, the way it used to be. Oh, and poor people too, can't have them voting either.

  15. Re:Just plausible enough, even if it's parody. on 419er Lost in Space · · Score: 0
    Even the most causal observer of the news should at least know that.


    Nope, a lot of peoples knowledge of space flight won't go much beyond shuttles blowing up now and then, space flight isn't new, when I was a kid we got to watch the Apollo launches on a black and white tv at school, today a manned launch is no big deal. A /. audience is a different matter, we're all techy geeks/nerds of one variety or another, what we are not is representative of the population of planet earth in general.

  16. Re:GNU/Linux on Linux on the Desktop: More Balls Through Windows · · Score: 0

    Fair point, but that knowledge makes you an above average end user, to many home users the program is the icon on the desktop, as long as they know what to click to do what they want to do they're happy.

  17. Re:Slashdotted on Losing His Religion: Adrian Lamo Interview · · Score: 0

    He doesn't want to collect karma, he is being what is known as 'helpful'.

  18. Re:I'm dubious on Diebold Fails Again in San Diego · · Score: 0
    and if every American had a smartcard reader on their computer

    So if you don't have a computer you're disenfranchised.

  19. Re:Why are these so hard to write? on Diebold Fails Again in San Diego · · Score: 0

    An online shopping system is easily verifiable, if your goods don't turn up you complain loudly. With a (truly) secret ballot you can't verify your vote. There lies the difficulty.

  20. Re:View the demo on New Online Advertising Model Riles Journalists · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm running Firefox and the demo link on the how.htm page doesn't work, so hopefully the ads won't either?

  21. Re:The BBC news article asks an important question on Can Communications Be Learned From Chimps? · · Score: 0

    I'd groom Margaret. But then she'd hit me. Then when my wife found out she'd hit me. What is it with the women I know? None of them seem to get the Alpha male thing.

  22. Re:Um... on Can Communications Be Learned From Chimps? · · Score: 0
    As an Englishman,

    They would have the shit kicked out of them by the end of the BLOODY day.

    would be more likely.

    Thank you.

  23. Re:Is Learnt a word? on Can Communications Be Learned From Chimps? · · Score: 0

    Actually old boy it was our language long before you colonials debased it so "learned" is the American version of the British past-tense "learnt", Ok, yah?

  24. Re:Suspended me in that room..... on Giant Sub-Woofer · · Score: 0

    I really doubt you'll find tone controls on their amplification.

  25. Re:drool... on Giant Sub-Woofer · · Score: 0

    We're talking Motorhead, you don't want to hear the bass, you want to feel it.