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  1. Re: To be expected on Windows 10 Grabs 5.21% Market Share, Passing Windows Vista and Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Some games (EQ2, Valve Anti-Cheat) treat being run in a VM as an active cheat and will autoban or insta-ban the user.

    What can you do in a VM that would be cheating? (yes, I realise you just said they *consider* it cheating, but humour me here)

  2. Re:Well, that's embarrassing on Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate Muhammad · · Score: 1

    Ah well... Let's hope these people doing this work are not subjected to too many death threats or terrorist attacks because of their findings. Some folks work really hard to keep other people in line and some folks are willing to die for their religious beliefs. Hopefully that does not happen here.

    You know they will. This will be considered blasphemy in the highest degree, even by the non-fundamentalists. They're marked men.

    And in the future, we'll study the markings using carbon dating.

  3. Re: Happy Sunday from The Golden Girls! on A FreeBSD "Spork" With Touches of NeXT and OS X: NeXTBSD · · Score: 1

    It's "confidant" not "cosmonaut."

    :sigh: another newbie... and since you posted AC, so also shall i...

    Perhaps they forked it.

  4. Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice on LibreOffice 5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    No, forget about Microsoft Office instead.

  5. Re: Efficiency on Who Owns Your Overtime? · · Score: 1

    Meetings. Well, you have to have some time allocated to sleep. It's just a pity I snore so loudly.

  6. Re:What about low-income boys? on Learn-to-Code Program For 10,000 Low-Income Girls · · Score: 1

    THere wouldn't be much CS studying going on in a room full of naked boys and girls.

  7. Re:What about low-income boys? on Learn-to-Code Program For 10,000 Low-Income Girls · · Score: 1

    Make it a "Laconic" mod.

  8. Re:Sad, isn't it? on The Town That Banned Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    So we could block Wi-Fi with sunscreen?

  9. Re:What? on Samsung Cripples Windows Update To Prevent Incompatible Drivers · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see somebody make a decent case using UCC Article 2: " 2-314. Implied Warranty: Merchantability; Usage of Trade (2) Goods to be merchantable must be at least such as (c) are fit for the ordinary purposes for which such goods are used." Laptops are ordinarily used to go online, but any model with this particular hack is not fit to do so. It could be argued that, even in the face of the EULA, Samsung has violated the implied warranty. It's like (obligatory car analogy) advertising that your car has a top speed of 200mph, but then hidden deep within the manual is a disclaimer that the tires will blow up if you go over 60.

    Ahh, retreads.

  10. Re:Thanks Volvo! on Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature · · Score: 1

    A car with a "Look what you made me do!" feature.

  11. Re:Only geeks can vote? on Researchers Devise Voting System That Seems Secure, But Is Hard To Use · · Score: 1

    Hard to use has a certain attraction.

  12. Re:Creepy spybot on Cute Or Creepy? Google's Plan For a Sci-Fi Teddy Bear · · Score: 1

    Extend the patent. It needs to be able to crawl. And several other things I shouldn't go into.

  13. That's clever then... on Oculus Founder Hit With Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    For Oculus to "pick" Facebook to take them over. Mark has history at being good at this (Hellooo Winklevoss twins)

  14. Re:No good deed goes unpunished on Hacker Warns Starbucks of Security Flaw, Gets Accused of Fraud · · Score: 1

    He would have been better off helping himself to free "coffee" until the wankers fixed their system.

    There, fixed. Starbucks don't do real coffee.

  15. Re:Oh, don't get all panicky and stuff on NSA-Reform Bill Fails In US Senate · · Score: 1

    More likely extend it without announcing it.

  16. Re:intentional on No, NASA Did Not Accidentally Invent Warp Drive · · Score: 1

    Irritating, I've got a time travel story I can't recall title of too, where it's a fixed rift with one end being near a wreck of a cloth mill, the other end near it where its up and working, with some weird conditions like a beggar that they throw a coin to ... If I could do a content search on my kindle, I'd find it.

  17. Re:Not forced... on Uber Forced Out of Kansas · · Score: 1

    I'd be surprised if my personal cover that's included in Superannuation (mandatory retirement benefit scheme in AU) doesn't exceed that.

  18. Re:skating on the edge of legal? on Uber Forced Out of Kansas · · Score: 1

    (Saddles up a kangaroo)

  19. Re:Umm... Lulz.... on Will Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis Support Cryptocurrency In Greece? · · Score: 1

    All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Greeks ever done for us?

  20. Re:Not quite comparable on Japan Now Has More Car Charging Points Than Gas Stations · · Score: 1

    Your landlord (or body corporate) will indeed give a shit for paying for 100 outlets, and making sure they get charged to appropriate apartments.

  21. Re: Not quite comparable on Japan Now Has More Car Charging Points Than Gas Stations · · Score: 1

    Not ubiquitous, but I can see a charge lasting me a week. The nuisance is I'm in an apartment with basement parking: if many people do this there's going to need to be some new wiring system there so we get charged (dollars, not electrons) appropriately. Otherwise I'd buy (lease) one tomorrow.

  22. Ladies behind the counter weren't. Although it was long ago enough that it did get laughed off.

  23. Reminds me - at one point I was going down to the local, and asked colleagues what they were after, on requested a carton of Nippy's Apple Juice, when I got there, I asked for Appy's Nipple Juice. Red face time.

  24. Blatant tax grab on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    He's proposing taking money *earned* in other countries for the benefit of the US economy. The US is not the only country getting foxed by the Irish solution. (for instance, Australia has the same problems with it)

  25. Re: For all of you USA haters out there: on Why ATM Bombs May Be Coming Soon To the United States · · Score: 1

    An Oscar Wilde riposte - you'd likely only realise a week later that you'd been insulted