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  1. Re:This is so unfair on Using RFID Tags to Make Teeth · · Score: 1

    Actually they should adopt bluetooth

    And drive the toothpaste manufacturers mad?

  2. Re:Nothing that amazing on Build Your Own Flying Lawn Mower · · Score: 1

    Oh, I bet you're a hit at parties.

    What are these 'parties' of which you speak?

  3. Re:Text-To-Speech on British Library Starts Email Archive · · Score: 1
    One good thing about digital archieve is the possibility to use text-to-speech software to read those emails to people with sight problems.

    Lots of Vogon poetry in your inbox?

  4. Re:Wallets and purses get lost in accidents on FDA Approves Implantable RFID for Patients · · Score: 1
    nobody's allergic to O2 or a leg splint or a cerebral-spine stabilization device

    Insensitive clod!!!

    Last time someone stuck me into a cerebral-spine stabilization device, I couldn't move for ages

  5. Re:Your Rights Online? on FDA Approves Implantable RFID for Patients · · Score: 1
    what??

    Anal probes are now the proper treatment for haemmorrhoid?

    hmmmm

  6. Re:muuuh. on If Windows Came to PPC, Would You Switch? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Fast, Cheap, Reliable

    Pick any two

  7. Re:This will be handy... on DVD / Hard Drive Recorder With 28-Day Capacity · · Score: 1
    I bet Ebonics really gets your goat. Or is it goats. Maybe goats'...

    It is actually spelt goat.cx

  8. Re:so let me get this straight.... on Warez Suspect To Be Extradited, After All · · Score: 1
    Artistic works, on the other hand(video, audio, etc) may only be duplicated by the National Archives and under very strict circumstances for research purposes by accredited educational institutions.

    Oddly enough, I am employed by the National Archives of Australia, but I do not speak for them most of the time.

    In general, the National Archives does NOT do this (in fact, I am not aware of it happening in the many moons I have worked here).

  9. Re:the joys of a wired world on Warez Suspect To Be Extradited, After All · · Score: 1
    You forgot....

    6) Profit

  10. There was supposed to be... on Disney Goes Boom! · · Score: 3, Funny

    an earth shattering KABOOM!!

  11. Re:"Common sense" health modification - not on Need A New Retina? Look No Further · · Score: 1
    leave it alone

    Damn, thats what I'm doing wrong

  12. Re:do not call list on Net Phone Customers Brace For 'VoIP Spam' · · Score: 1
    I don't understand why the "do not call list" does not apply to this technology. Can anyone explain, please? I mean, from a legal pov.

    What "do not call list"? I understand that this list only exists in one part of the civilised (and uncivilised)world.

    The laws applicable to the USA generally do not have any standing anywhere else - But try telling that to the people detained in Cuba

    This sig detained for questioning

  13. Re:What next? Seriously... on Canadian Music Industry Drills Dentists · · Score: 1

    Most magazines in doctor's offices and the like are usually so old as to be in the public domain.

    I'm new here - who do I need to pay the 'use of sig' royalties to?

  14. Re:If you can stand waiting... on How To Avoid Viruses At Windows Install Time? · · Score: 1

    Of course, you need Internet explorer to sign up for the cd - Mozilla 1.7 will not work