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  1. Re:Who really has to be concerned ? on British Traffic Wardens Issued CCTV Head Cameras · · Score: 1

    The criminal element don't have to be concerned about these head cameras as they are criminals and will ignore the traffic warden's demand that they pay an on-the-spot fine for anti-social behaviour.

  2. Re:Why do you live 100 miles from where you work? on US Gasoline Prices Spur Telework · · Score: 1

    .... because job security doesn't exist? Can you risk spending several thousand pounds moving house when you may get made redundant at any minute?
    Similarly, the house you move to may need costly repairs that only come to light when you have been there a little while?

    That is a lot to weigh against the £50 a week to commute 100 miles.

  3. I doubt it on Modern Medicine Might Have Saved Lincoln · · Score: 1

    Even such a relatively puny weapon would cause severe problems if lincoln were injured with it today, as he would be nearly 200 years old and this would greatly complicate matters.

  4. The Fools! on The Rise of "Hybrid" Vinyl-MP3s · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't they realise that evil hackers will make multiple copies from the vinyl to audio cassettes and listen to it on portable tape players? Home Taping Is Killing music!

  5. Re:Hybrids can be better at highway speeds too on Toyota Going 100% Hybrid By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Meh. I can get 70mpg on the motorway in a comparitively low-tech 1.9 litre normally aspirated diesel hatchback. Imperial gallons, but 70mph roads. YMMV

  6. Re:Well then, let me be the first to say on Do We Really Need a Security Industry? · · Score: 1

    I always thought it was 'If if's and but's were crisps and nuts, then how we'd fill our little guts'.

  7. Re:a couple questions on New Submarine Cable Planned Between SE Asia and US · · Score: 1

    The cable is too heavy to lift but floats up when cut?

  8. Re:bah on UK Voters Want To Vote Online · · Score: 1

    Hey, you don't have to be lazy or apathetic to fail to vote. You may just be a realist who has seen the performance of previous election winners.

  9. Re:I'm doing volunteer math tutoring ... on $100 Laptop Repriced at $175 · · Score: 1

    Wtf does 'cast dispersions' mean? Is it like casting aspersions?

  10. Re:Why Apple? on NIN Releases Garageband Sources For 3 New Tracks · · Score: 4, Funny

    So why are his song lyrics always along the lines of 'Oh crikey, life is horrible! Everything is dreadful! I am so depressed! Blimey, things just took an unexpected turn for the worse!' ? Are macs that bad?

  11. stock up on dvdr disks on Preparing for the Worst in IT · · Score: 1

    If the intarwebs get broken, maybe we can fall back on sneakernet to exchange pr0ns? Or set all our wifis to ad-hoc? It is a terrifying prospect, no matter how well we are prepared.

  12. Re:Power on New Solar Panel Design Traps More Light · · Score: 1

    Fair enough.
    I applaud and second your attitude re other people's liberty. I would also point out that gun bans, no matter how good the case for them, are as effective as the drug bans currently in force. They only serve to increase the tax burden.

  13. Re:Power on New Solar Panel Design Traps More Light · · Score: 1

    Hehe! I like the way the rednecks only obtain rights and liberties when the government has forcibly taken their guns away. :-)

  14. but.. on WiiHelms Go on Sale · · Score: 1

    I have ankylosing spondylitis, you insensitive clod!

  15. Re:What Linux should do on PC Makers Say Vista Is Not a Seller · · Score: 1

    I find freenas to work for me. It even gets round the pesky BIOS hard disk size limitations on my clunky old 800MHz box.

  16. Thank Blimey! on Wireless Power Now A Reality · · Score: 1

    I have only read the summary, but I am overjoyed by this fantastic new development! Batteries that could last a lifetime! Yippee! I am fed up with laptop and cellphone batteries losing capacity after a couple of years.

  17. roomba vac on Dyson Preparing a Roomba Killer? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, if it was smart enough to lay out and rewind a mains power cord as it went, it would probably sell.
    If it could go into the next room and plug itself into the wall outlet (i could live with special reflectors on them to help the robot dock ) it would probably sell even to me.

  18. Re:Sunglasses? Colors? Pfft. on Smart Sunglasses · · Score: 1

    Sublet? Is that you?

  19. Re:Interesting take? on Blogger Vs. Journalist — Access Denied · · Score: 1

    Journalists can spell, now? Good luck scrabbling around for an example to cite.

  20. tagging beta on Record Labels Struggle With the Album's Demise · · Score: 1

    How do i tag this 'cry-me-a-fricken-river'?

  21. Re:web pages without horizontal scrolling on How Small a PC Is Too Small? · · Score: 1

    Maybe someone could come up with a version of HTML and a suitable browser spec that allowed the browser to organise how text and other content is laid out on the screen?

    Of course, you would first need to take all the people who care more about the 'look' of the page than the information it conveys out back and shoot them before they screw the whole thing up.

  22. Re:pile of crap on Bill Gates Talk From 1989 Surfaces · · Score: 1

    Aaaaaaaw!! I liked OS/2 2.2! With neko the cat and much more stability than windoze on my system at least. I still don't regret the £100 or so i paid for it. Sigh. Them were't days.

  23. Re:default 3D on CBC Recommends Linux To Average User · · Score: 1

    Yeah, i tried the walkthrough thing with debian a few times. It worked the first time but i couldn't get it to work ever again a fortnight later. I assume it was the repository that had changed since the hardware was the same and i was reinstalling the whole system.

    Maybe i should clarify that i wasn't sitting there for a couple of days straight installing one distro after another, i have been installing them over many months, usually when a newer piece of hardware has trickled down to the 'experimental' box.

    I like the idea of something working out-of-the-box as I seem to reinstall often. Some fancy screensavers broke Freespire, but it was easy-peasy to do a fresh install and put all my common apps back with CNR.

    Yes i could probably have found out how to repair my system by booting from a rescue cd, but that would take more time than reaching over from webbing the intersurf on the laptop to okay the install routine on the broken box. I am more interested in delving into why the samba browsing acts up than wrestling xfconfig.

  24. Re:default 3D on CBC Recommends Linux To Average User · · Score: 1

    Hehe i tried gentoo once, i spent ages trying to work out what the hell the installer was asking me to choose between. After much downloading and clanging around it didn't boot. I ran away rather than blindly try all the possible install permutations.

    I used the id script too. It taught me some more about file permissions and the executable flag :-)
    It worked in the end though :-)

  25. Re:default 3D on CBC Recommends Linux To Average User · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, ubuntu seems to give me more trouble than deb or suse or slax. I keep trying out linux on whatever hardware my linux-test-box has inherited from other machines. I do try out install instructions that i find on forums etc, but i am only copying text. I was intrigued to find that i got NVIDIA drivers installed and working 1st time with deb, but a fortnight later could not repeat the result after reinstalling on the same hardware. Something must have changed in the suppository. I gave up after five or six tries. I must emphasise that i was following the same instructions immediately after installing.
    Ubuntu seems to regularly break after installing a few apps, maybe it will work better on the next motherboard.
    Anyway, my fileserver is freenas, my firewall is smoothwall, my laptop wifis in courtesy of knoppix and i only run win2k for battlefield 2142. If i can get that to work on freespire on the gaming box I will be clean :-)