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  1. Re:Can someone tell me... on One Small Breath For Man · · Score: 1

    And, had I such a channel, I'd sell it to you. In the mean time I can let you have a fairly well-known bridge for a very reasonable price. Let me know, huh

  2. Re:Quality on How the PS3 Hit $600 · · Score: 1

    I saw this bit

    "i skateboard with my sony tape deck fall on it drop it etc and still works perfectly 10+ years now"
    and it made me wonder.
    1. Exactly how many years have you been skateboarding?
    2. Did you injure yourself in any of the falls that you mention?

    Just curious, honestly curious !!!

  3. Re:Great phone. Period. on Consumers Look For More Utilitarian Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Nokia 1600 is OK too, from this point of view.

  4. Re:Wasp T12 on Consumers Look For More Utilitarian Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Whoosh yourself, you daft blighter. I use Linux, so I do. I bet I'm at least as cool as you.

  5. Re:Regulate Smoking, Guns and Sex too then on S. Korea's Stress-Driven Online Gaming Addiction · · Score: 1

    Gas is like knowledge - it wants to be free. Even methane. Even your own personal methane. Give up oriental food now - you don't have to fart like that.

  6. Re:Start with... on Starting an Education in IT? · · Score: 1

    I noticed this bit and wondered if you were going far enough

    "as something like the cleaning service staff".
    I would have put it slightly differently:
    "as something like the specialised cleaning service staff".
    and taken some care to avoid mention of a specific speciality. I would suggest - as you do - that another line of work would be good. But if our friend wants to persist, he might consider aiming at becoming a manager in the IT field. After all, IT managers who know anything about what they're managing are very rare indeed.
  7. Re:Wasp T12 on Consumers Look For More Utilitarian Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Wha.....? You're off your chump if you think anybody over 13 years old is going to want to carry a thing like this. Much less try try to use it to telephone. Cool ? You need an ice-pack on your head.

  8. Re:Great top 10 !!! on Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future · · Score: 1

    I don't know what to say

    I gave my watch away

    haiku?

  9. Re:Intelligent Spoon on Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future · · Score: 1

    But only for a very brief moment, I think

  10. Re:There's definitely something here ..... on Microsoft in Talks To Acquire Ebay · · Score: 1

    I saw this bit, and I have to admit that it has me worried

    Say what you will about Microsoft, but their products are pretty slick looking, even if they don't work that great.
    I can only say that I'm pretty slick looking myself. The girls don't run after me though, or not too much. Maybe we should try the feminine attitude to Microsoft products? Just a thought. Don't want to start a flame-war. I think Bill Gates is great. Did you know that he had an Irish grandmother (on the maternal side) ? I've heard that his grandfather (paternal side) was, in fact, a Russian Admiral who got sunk by the Japanese.

    But you're right - these products really look great. I feel bad about wanting them to work as well as they look (and as well as they're priced). My fault - I'm just stupid.

  11. Re: Worried me for a moment, but ..... on Overconfidence in SSH Protection · · Score: 1

    I read this bit and was a little concerned - but only for a moment

    "That's plain wrong to begin with. I stopped reading there."
    I then saw the light - you're writing about the only non-file component of Unix; the human component. That's what you mean, isn't it?
  12. Re:Reminds me of Robin Hood:Men in Tights on Infinium Tries 'Phantom' Name Change · · Score: 1

    And that was the second time they changed it. Originally it was simply "Shit" . But, as somebody said, "What's in a name ?", in this case the answer's obvious ! Same fellow (William somebody, I think) said "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" and, applied to this case, we can see that he sure got that right !

  13. Re:Beat THAT! on Plan For Cloaking Device Unveiled · · Score: 1

    But you gotta get tinfoil trousers ! Think of the next generation !

  14. Re:Bad title on Plan For Cloaking Device Unveiled · · Score: 1

    You are not alone. But you should be - for a painful pun, that's painful.

  15. Re:I just wanted to say.. on Voyager 2 Detects Peculiar Solar System Edge · · Score: 1

    I agree with you - totally. But I can't take my hat off to them. I left the said hat in the train last week, so now my hat's off to everybody. If I ever get my hat back, then .... then I'll take it of to them.

  16. Re:More pentenance on MacSaber Turns Your Macbook into a Lightsaber · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What is pentenance ? Can't find it on Google ! Could it be that you mean penitence ? Just curious, honest !

  17. Now I'm really sorry ....... on NASA Seeking Innovative Ideas from Public · · Score: 1

    Noticed this bit in TFA

    Sadly I don't think simply providing them with a list of people you want shot into space counts.
    and I'm really sorry that such a list - so easy to make - will not be enough.

    I would have listed Tony Blair and George W. Bush in a heartbeat. They could just sit up there and use the Hubble telescope to count their accumulation of money. They would be occupied for eons, leaving someone else the time to clean up the mess.

  18. Re:Integrated graphics are fine! on Ars Technica Reviews the MacBook · · Score: 1

    I noticed this:

    What about two for god's sake???
    And I thought I'd bring 2 things to your attention
    1. Old saying:- "Two's company, three's a crowd" - maybe our friend didn't want to involve his "company"
    2. "for god's sake" you say. Hum. God's number 2 was Jesus Christ, and we all know what happened to him !!!!
  19. Re:Conspiracy Theory? on Symantec Sues Microsoft, May Delay Vista · · Score: 1

    Now there's a thought. !!!!!!

  20. Re:Chimpanzees on Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle · · Score: 1

    And, they all belong to the labour party in the UK.

  21. Re:Yet again.. on Spacecraft Crashes Into Satellite · · Score: 1

    They simply had the sensors mounted back to front ..... again.

  22. Re:Big retailers have something like this already on Airport Video Surveillance Goes Hi-Tech · · Score: 1

    Hum. I think you show yourself to be overly naive and to have held on to some of your illusions with this bit:

    The system would frequently target completely innocent little old ladies
    Believe me, there are no innocent little old ladies ! They are all guilty ! The system doesn't lie ! George Bush has built a gulag specially for little old ladies ! Trust George to see the truth ! Believe the system !
  23. Re:I've used this system on Airport Video Surveillance Goes Hi-Tech · · Score: 1

    Goody for you ! I noticed this bit

    I have to post anonymously because I work in this field.
    and wondered if you used the cameras to monitor cows or sheep.

    Might be nice if the system could alert the security people to people who forgot to wash, are drunk, talk too much...etc. Perhaps you can do something to help the average air traveller ! Thanks in advance.

  24. Re:Finished my ass on Human Genome Sequencing Completed · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but I get the feeling that I'm not really understanding all this too well - I do have a question, however

    Why should I care if your ass is finished or not ?

    However, out of kindness, I'll mention that I own a pair of football boots. One of those, applied vigorously to the said ass ..... may well finish your problem. They are size 43. I'm willing to lend them to a muscular neighbour of yours if you want to try.

  25. Re:Human genome is not finished on Human Genome Sequencing Completed · · Score: 1

    I thought they already were /. editors !!