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  1. Re:Dangerous SO exploits on Anti-Phishers Pose as Phishers to Make Point · · Score: 1

    No, I used up my life time quota of rampant sex during the first quarter of this decade.

  2. Re:Dangerous SO exploits on Anti-Phishers Pose as Phishers to Make Point · · Score: 1

    Certainly does - means she washed the cat. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want a lap full of soggy cat when I got home!

  3. Re:Procedural textures on Carmack's QuakeCon Keynote Detailed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I certainly didn't do it, but how about the absolute daddy of procedural texturing?

    http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/tgd/gallery/g allerymain.php

  4. Re:Laptop on PCs in the Living Room? · · Score: 1

    Used to have an iBook, that seem to run at reasonable temperatures.

    That said, I don't quite have the same concerns as you...

  5. Re:Ah, slashdot on The Hidden Boot Code of the Xbox · · Score: 1

    Come off it - crossdressers have the potential to be sexy.

    I'd doubt any of the editors being sexy.

  6. Re:My answer on Best Language for Beginner Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Scheme was the technique they used at york.ac.uk for CompSci - seemed to work very well, for the reasons you give.

    Also leads very well into interpreter and compiler theory, being as you essentially have to build the parse trees by hand.

  7. Re:s/GPL/BSD/ on HP Calls For Sun and IBM to Remove OS Licenses · · Score: 1

    Freedom isn't about making money. Just the fact that I'm not free to rip it off completely, in my eyes, means it's not free. Not that I want to rip it off, you understand, it's just the principle of the thing.

  8. MOD PARENT UP on World's Largest Solar Array to use Stirling Engine · · Score: 1

    This technique is already used to store excess electrical energy in Scotland among other places.

  9. Re:OK, so what's the catch? on World's Largest Solar Array to use Stirling Engine · · Score: 1

    Pump water up hill into a reservoir during the day, then use gravity and hydroelectric to recover the energy during the night.

    ISTR there's somewhere in Scotland that already uses this technique.

  10. Re:s/GPL/BSD/ on HP Calls For Sun and IBM to Remove OS Licenses · · Score: 1

    It's in favour of the common good at the expense of the individual - it's communist by definition.

    Bare in mind I'm from the UK, so I don't attach automatic negative connotations to communism.

  11. Re:s/GPL/BSD/ on HP Calls For Sun and IBM to Remove OS Licenses · · Score: 1

    It's free as in actually free, rather than whatever custom definition fits the proposers agenda, be it communist, commercial, or what ever.

  12. Re:I found a rather obvious bug... on Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, he's just driving on the right side of the Atlantic :P

  13. Re:When the power goes out on Completely Silent Media PC · · Score: 1

    You might - without the gentle hum to drown it out, some of us would be sent completely insane by our tinnitus in no time at all.

    Horse for courses, and all that.

  14. Re:Floppies! on 10 Technologies MIA · · Score: 1

    Yes - from insertion to a screen full of bad sector errors in mere milliseconds!

  15. Re:Interesting Chips Debate on Circuits Better with Purer Nanotubes · · Score: 1

    Worht noting that your average British Chip Shop Chip has a cross sectional area approximately 4 times larger than the average American Burger Restaurant Fry.

  16. Re:Regarding Portable HDs on Using Technology to Protect Anonymous Sources? · · Score: 1

    /me idly whistles the theme from Brazil.

  17. Re:holodeck? on View-Dependent Stereoscopic Projection · · Score: 1

    I guess I attach a special status to sleep - the inner observer isn't in possesion of all it's normal faculties, hence it's not fully aware of itself, or the validity of it's perceptions. I don't feel the same state could be achieved through VR and meditation.

  18. Re:holodeck? on View-Dependent Stereoscopic Projection · · Score: 1

    I would have thought the concentration required to undertake the tasks presented by the virtual reality would inhibit the brain maintaining a meditative state?

  19. Re:holodeck? on View-Dependent Stereoscopic Projection · · Score: 1

    That's where teledildonics comes in!

  20. Re:holodeck? on View-Dependent Stereoscopic Projection · · Score: 1

    Do you remember the last time you woke up in the morning, barely able to think about anything other than stumbling in the direction of your next coffee.

    When you're asleep, it takes much less to persuade the brain that it's doing things, what with most of it being down for maintenance.

    Therefore you need a drug that prevents you frommoving, and makes you dozy.

    Good excuse for a monster spliff, methinks.

  21. Re:Holodeck on View-Dependent Stereoscopic Projection · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Arghh on Leo Laporte On UNIX As the Future · · Score: 1

    To be fair, us Europeans have a word for American buildings:

    Sheds

  23. Re:Wow and flutter on Old Floppy Drive Becomes New Turntable · · Score: 1

    Choon!

  24. Re:Good on yellowTAB's Zeta 1.0 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I dunno, the half baked network stack is probably worthy of a gentle mocking, too.

    I believe the open source clones have fixing it as one of their priorities.

  25. Re:Sustainable cities? on China Planning For Sustainable Cities · · Score: 2, Funny

    It turns them into goths?! :S