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  1. Re:And it will only take you a million years... on First Impressions of the 11th Doctor Who · · Score: 0

    Stephen Moffat apparently also wrote the Rowan Atkinson as The Doctor for Comic Relief.

    Doctor Who - The Curse Of Fatal Death (HD) - Part 1 and Part 2

  2. One of the best writing tools.. on Memorizing Language / Spelling Techniques? · · Score: 1

    http://www.skritter.com/

    Just draw the characters with a mouse and it'll remember your progress, returning to characters in short, medium and long periods that help reinforce long term memory.

  3. A world without ISPs? on You Won't Recognize the Internet in 2020 · · Score: 0, Interesting

    If every computer was linked to every other in its vicinity, rather than directly to a limited number of ISPs, I wonder everything would be faster and more robust overall; a self healing network rather than one vunerable to a few cables snapping. The watchers won't be happy losing control but might it be a better net, if not everything had to go through the narrow part of the funnel?

    Can this already be done with wireless bridging?.. is it possible to fragment DNS lookup so the ISP becomes redundant?

  4. Re:This is how it is in the UK now on FBI and States Vastly Expand DNA Collection, Databases · · Score: -1
  5. Re:forgot something on UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage · · Score: -1

    They do exactly that in the consultation document..
    http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2008-transposition

    Suggesting how it's helped catch the evildoers is the one example they give.. Successes of the "Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre.." are listed etc.

  6. Double count anyone? on Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day · · Score: -1

    I wondered, as my first download stalled, if partial downloads are counting or only the completed ones.. I also can't make out why the Ubuntu version has been showing as 3.0 for a couple of weeks now. Some have suggested that is turely an RC but it's not obvious.

  7. Re:Pharphetched naming on New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reminds me of the European Commission

    The European Commission has announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU, rather than German, which was the other contender. Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had room for improvement and has therefore accepted a five-year phasing in of "Euro-English".

    In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make sivil servants jump for joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k", Which should klear up some konfusion and allow one key less on keyboards.

    There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f", making words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

    In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e" is disgrasful.

    By the fourth yer, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

    During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and everivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI COM TRU!

    Herr Schmidt

  8. Re:Stealing & More on Dan Rutter Suggests Tossing Some Wi-Fi At the Neighbors · · Score: 1

    The problem of identifying end users shouldn't prohibit innovative valid use of technology.. for all Big Brother's wanting to monitor us and for all the stupidity of people who believe the public must be controlled. Big Brother should work in the background not be changing the nature of the society it is supposed to support and work on behalf of.

    We are not, despite what you may think simple Mindless Automata.

  9. NASA - 'All your space belong to US.' on Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Can't tell me this wasn't deliberate by NASA.. I bet they had a big bet on - You know they redden the sky of Mars to make it look uninhabitable - and don't get me started on the Moon landings. Everyone knows the Moon's made of cheese, can't just land on it.

  10. Fight for your freedoms.. on Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ? · · Score: 1

    Americans aren't any different to the rest of the world.. if you want the US to continue being different you need to work against the normalising forces that move you closer towards a world of 1984 where everyone is guzzling *bucks, munching McD and watching screens telling you want you want and what to do.

    The pressures the drive the brown shirts to look for more powers will always exist. The people need to resist their government, else their prisonkeepers will take advantage and abuse the citizens.