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  1. Re:Can I get a proofreader for $2200? on Google Forays into Print Advertising · · Score: 1

    An automated translation from the original Chinese, obviously. Nothing's perfect.

  2. Re:the wise man on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    Don't know if your daughter had "the original thought". Seems like a good idea to be wise, though. You keep a place to live, even if it is flooded.

  3. Re:Genuine People Personality? on Super Door of the Future · · Score: 1

    Of course they do - except on alternate Wednsday's. Everybody knows that, in Japan (as in Scotland and in France, d'ailleurs), one must eat cats on alternate Wednsdays. Could I have another glass of wine, please ?

  4. Re:cat flaps on Super Door of the Future · · Score: 1

    Sure it would - or a dog flap.

  5. Re:errrm on Opening Up for Open Source · · Score: 1

    Done any Windows + data-base + backup installations lately ? Or did you maybe just watch it being done by a crowd of truely efficient (and duly certified) experts. These experts coming from the "front room", of course. As is well known, the front room is where all the light is collected (the money too) and it is where all the light comes from in small biz.

  6. Re:tax on Is This the Holodeck? · · Score: 1

    You got that one right, friend.

  7. Re:ConCon, vraiment... on Internet Security Warnings · · Score: 1

    Oui, c'est con ça. Surtout si l'on se rappel l'existence du mot "conne". Il va falloir soigner cette explication.

  8. Re:As Voltaire said... on Pentium 4 Overclocked to 7.1GHz, Sets World Record · · Score: 1

    Voltaire did not say that ....... but he should've. Congratulations

  9. Re:You people are hypocrites. on Spammer Scott Levine Convicted · · Score: 1

    I agree with you. My solution is to give him a completely fair trial in public, with a public hanging immediately afterwards. This solution would be effective as a deterent, and would be much more cost effective than 640 years in prison. Could also impound the totality ofhis assets - profit !

  10. Re:Bold, underline and italic patented... on Microsoft's Bold Patent Move · · Score: 1

    Think positive. While they're doing that they're not patenting the really important things in life. Ice-cream and sex come to mind - but not necessarily in that order.

  11. Re:Tradition on Scottish Police Revert to Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    And what, pray, has he to do with the subject in hand ? We're talking work tools here - not doing the nasty to the English. One should, in my opinion anyhow, do the nasty to the English whenever possible - but this imperative has little to do with the suject in hand.

  12. Re:They don't own their data on Scottish Police Revert to Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    Yes well, that's all very well and all very jolly. There is just one tiny detail that has been forgotten. We're talking about policemen here, and Scottish Lowlanders at that. As a Scotsman myself, I have to say that the next advances in computer user thinking are not coming from these ladies and gentlemen. Believe it. This being said, there remains the traditional /. summing-up, "Nothing to see here, folks. Move along please." Sorry, but that's the way of it. Cheers !

  13. Re:Get a Clue Fink! on Google Gives Reason Why it is Built on Linux · · Score: 1

    Oh but I agree completely - with you, with HP, and even (begod!) with Microsoft. There is a huge installed base out there - really silly to alianate it. All I wanted to do was point out that HP are doing Linux as well as Microsoft. HP is a supplier - should therefore supply the demand. I think they would be crazy to try to leave Windows - because of the size of the installed base. I'm just happy that the "big bucks" have noticed that Windows is not the only game in town. The choice lies with us - the users - for myself, I prefer Linux, but many of my friends are into Windows and happy. Clues need looking for - my view on the thing. The only thing I've got to say about the idea of a "fink" on Slashdot is that the originator has a mind like the north end of a south-bound camel and should be ...... well, I hope he/she/it will have a happy life - I take leave to doubt it though. Be happy.

  14. Re:How nice on Microsoft to Fight Crime With Spammer's Millions · · Score: 1

    Nice indeed - even pretty. Microsoft is a marketing orientated machine. The old adage goes "more bang for the buck" but that ain't the game anymore. Now it's "pass the bucks or it's gonna be a grudge fucking that your gonna get". Sorry for the vulgarity, but it is the impression that this leaves me with. Just my thought - excuse it, please.

  15. Re:Computer crimes? on Microsoft to Fight Crime With Spammer's Millions · · Score: 1

    And it was very thoughtful of you to take the time to write it down. Thank you for the thought. I find innocence to be quite without price. Congratulations.

  16. Re:Hopefully... on Microsoft to Fight Crime With Spammer's Millions · · Score: 1

    I should like to personally welcome our new wolverine overlords. Eat more Bill, I say.

  17. Re:Get a Clue Fink! on Google Gives Reason Why it is Built on Linux · · Score: 1

    Somebody here needs to get a clue - very true. HP is getting slowly into selling PC's with Linux pre-installed. It is hard for them. Thinking is hard. But they are trying (sometimes they are very trying, if you'll excuse me for my little joke)- don't discourage them would be my suggestion.

  18. Re:To answer the news article's subject line. on Is It Wrong to Love Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Come on ! Bill is cute as a bug (as you Americans say). Don't hate him - he'll cry. As for loving Microsoft ..... if that's your taste, why not ? Been married for quite a while myself, I guess I'm too old to consider changing. I only use computers for work. I know a lot of people who are happy with Microsoft software though. Like I said, if that's your taste then why not ? Personally, my pay is linked to my productivity and I therefore cannot use Microsoft software - but that's a problem I've learned how to deal with.

  19. Re:Why not buy pirated software? on Getting Open Source to the Dialup Masses · · Score: 1

    Notice two things if you will :- first MS Windows plus MS Office require 3 CD's and the price of the three is $1.95. Just a remark - excuse it please.

  20. Re:French Toaster, please... on Getting Open Source to the Dialup Masses · · Score: 1

    Stay cool, fellow. Nice to think that somebody loves us - but I was taught to wait until one was properly introduced. Worries me that you folks think in terms of love. With all due respect, I can't get further than common politeness - and I have trouble getting that far. Are you sure you're ready for French toasters ? Look at a baguette, then look at yout toaster. Some modification required ?

  21. Re:No, it's a British thing on UK Companies Love IT Workers, Love Not Returned · · Score: 1

    It's a British thing, is it ? Have you ever talked to a Scotsman ?

  22. Re:Is this a "slashdot" news ? WHAT THE F*#$ ? on 29 Vector Drawing Programs · · Score: 1

    I do, sonny, and I'm sure of not being alone.

  23. Re:biomedically informed != engineer on Peter Tippett on Biomedicine and Security · · Score: 1

    I do not yell back at the TV ! Like every other polite little nerd, I turn the sound down so that I can speak to it quietly. Yelling is vulgar - only do that to/with the wife and children.

  24. Re:Why? on Hacking Hotels 101 · · Score: 1

    I read TFA, and that's true. Did the man think he was giving birth to the original thought ? If so, he is/was wrong. To my idea, free drinks and free porn are the right of any reasonable individual who is forced to carry a laptop about with him. I hope this guy got paid plenty for his "chat-show" - but I don't think it'll change anything; unless he repeats it 97 times. 97 times being the time-tested number of repetitions required to get a "security" message across. He should shut his mouth before getting to this number, though - he could spoil it for the rest of us.

  25. Re:Uh-oh on 20k Down Can Get You Up Into Space · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, but isn't it going to be hard to find qualified canditates in this day and age ? - Just a thought.