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  1. Re:Uhm... wrong site. on What If They Turned Off the Internet? · · Score: 1

    TL;DR , lolcats and titties in other tabs.

  2. Re:marketshare on Now Linux Can Get Viruses, Via Wine · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I was teh evil malwares writer, I would target OSX as its users have piles of cash. The trick would be to make your pop-up so beautifully coloured, shaded, animated and raytraced that the style-obsessed mac user would fill in his credit card details immediately.

  3. No thanks! on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    I had the 'power' part of the power steering fail while i was doing 40mph on a twisty road. It gave me a fright but i could still control the vehicle and drive carefully to a garage. Good luck trying that with fly-by-wire.

  4. Re:Who'd have thought... on Windows 7 Released Early In UK · · Score: 1

    Pfffft, I would like to see UPS and fedex et al do the number of drops that the post office does. They (UPS etc) take on more than they can deliver now, the only way the drivers complete their rounds is by 'carding' a proportion of their packages.

  5. How good a picture is it? on Giant Ribbon Discovered At Edge of Solar System · · Score: 1

    Is it a ribbon, or the hem of The Great White Handkerchief?

  6. Is Clarksfield Chi anything like a Charleston Chew?

  7. Re:The road to richess passes through Marketing on Road To Riches Doesn't Run Through the App Store · · Score: 1

    What you say !!

  8. Re:Scalzi on Stross on ST on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 1

    Psychology is a science? Really? With the rigour and the reproducibility and stuff?

  9. Re:G-forces ???? on Gigantic Air Gun To Blast Cargo Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    Mmmmmm.....pancakes!

  10. Re:OMG... deja moo... with ads... on Microsoft Readies Ad-Supported Office Starter 2010 · · Score: 1

    Heh, I was thinking about works as well. I wonder if there will be new bloated file formats for wasting space and bandwidth? Maybe the time is ripe for WindozeSecureEmail which will put the text into a hi-def-animated-picture-filled pdf-like drm-o-rama file format? That should burn off a few clock cycles.

  11. Obvious solution to wireless data woes on FCC Chairman Warns of Wireless Spectrum Gap · · Score: 1

    Disk space is pretty cheap. Just equip every laptop/phone/whatever with a Tb or two of built-in pr0ns and arrange a system that updates the pr0ns while the device is plugged into the wall to charge up.

  12. Re:They may be lucky! on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 1

    Biodegradable wooden spoons from sustainable resources.

  13. Re:More on the "iPod for books" on Will Books Be Napsterized? · · Score: 1

    First, I would need some clever software that could 'rip' the pdf into a usable format that didn't make wild assumptions about the display technology I was trying to view it on.
    God damn pdf.

  14. Re:Not much music piracy before cds. on Will Books Be Napsterized? · · Score: 1

    Before cds were invented there was a consumer magnetic recording technology called compact cassette, the piracy carried out using this technology was so widespread and pervasive that it almost killed music altogether! Those were crazy times, big labels were brought to their knees, the executives had to cut their own pay to $1000 a month and sell their mansions, limos and helicopters. I forget how it turned out.

  15. Good publicity for once. on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hooray! At last the strict border controls have a positive outcome, saving millions of taxpayer dollars and billions of man-hours of inconvenience from the craptacular olympics.

  16. Re:They may be lucky! on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The London Olympics have epic potential for showcasing the UK. The cycling events should all be on the pot-holed, speed-bumped, litter-filled streets and have to comply with all road laws, the weight lifters would all be subject to health and safety legislation, as would the hammer and javelin throwers. Runners would struggle down the uneven, excrement-smeared pavements, dodging around the lamp-posts, bollards and fencing etc.

  17. I am impressed.. on Gameboy Color Boot ROM Dumped After 10 Years · · Score: 1

    ..that nobody from the original company leaked the information in the interim. What kind of scary NDA do they have?

  18. No solution in sight? on Growing Power Gap Could Force Smartphone Tradeoffs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Way back in the time of analogue mobile phones I had a nokia whose battery pack was six AA sized Ni-Cad cells. All the phones I have had over the last 6 years have had batteries the size of a wafer-thin mint and, by staggering coincidence, short operating times.
    Making the phone twice as thick would give you approx 1000% more room for the battery.

  19. Re:I dont understand ... on AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks · · Score: 1

    You are retarded and shooting your mouth off about things you don't understand. They are white boxes of ignorance.

  20. Re:What about Interstate Highways? on Legal Group Says Unlimited Broadband Promotes Piracy · · Score: 1

    Heh, outside a school at 3:30 pm the average speed is around 1 mph as the parents stop in the middle of the road to pick up their kids because other parents are lining the sides of the road picking up other kids.

  21. Re:You're doing it wrong... on Wii Gets Price Cut To $199 · · Score: 1

    Not really. I would buy at 100, maybe, if my wallet wasn't being raped for insurance/tax etc too badly that month.

  22. Re:You're doing it wrong... on Wii Gets Price Cut To $199 · · Score: 1

    I am not buying a wii because it is too expensive, just like the atari 2600/adam/nes/sega/jaguar/saturn/whatever before it.
    I play on other peoples consoles at their houses and have fun, but not enough fun to justify the price of the consoles. Been this way for 27 years, don't see it changing soon.

  23. Ah, crap! on Alabama Wages War Against the Perfect Weed · · Score: 3, Funny

    It never rains but it pours :-(
    Not only do we have the oil fields drying up so alternative fuels are needed to run power stations but now we have this useless, oily, hot-burning plant that grows like crazy anywhere and nobody knows how to get rid of it.

  24. Arrest him now! on The "Copyright Black Hole" Swallowing Our Culture · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unless this professor is arrested and waterboarded immediately the terrorists will win!!

  25. Re:No no no no no! on Samsung System Tailors Ads To Its Audience · · Score: 1

    Pfft! Next you will be telling us that the pencils don't go in the nose.