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  1. Re:What's the problem? on Nokia the Next Gizmondo? · · Score: 1

    The only way I can get 48 hours battery life out of my N80 is by not using it. The N80 is a great phone in many ways but for someone who is used to his phones lasting 3-5 days between charges this is simply unacceptable for me, especially if I'm away for the weekend an I've got few places to plug in my charger. I've been told that Vodafone stopped distributing these phones shortly after launch for this very reason.

  2. Re:Bigot on Mahir To Borat, I Sue You! · · Score: 1

    "Cohen poses as an ignorant Muslim to satirise Muslim culture"

    That's one of the most clueless comments I've seen on here in a long time. There is nothing in the film or anyone of his shows to suggest that he is a Muslim, and the satire is entirely on middle America, not Kazakhstan.

  3. Oh yes! on Counter-Strike Opens Weapons Market · · Score: 1

    TCE is awesome, it plays better than CS and is more realistic than CS. But the most amazing thing about TCE is that there are actually nice friendly people playing it. And it's free as in beer!

  4. Re:"British"? on GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Windows roaming profiles on Experiences with Replacing Desktops w/ VMs? · · Score: 1

    That's why you use Group Policy to restrict profile size, or better still use mandatory profiles.

  6. Re:HOW SAD on OLGA Shut Down by DMCA (again!) · · Score: 1

    Here is a quarter...buy a clue.

    Your clue lesson starts here.

  7. Re:Terminology on Minor Technical Issue Aboard Shuttle Discovery · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not easy to crawl into the conduit and locate a leak.

    Don't they have Jeffries tubes on the Shuttle?

  8. Re:Terminology on Minor Technical Issue Aboard Shuttle Discovery · · Score: 3, Funny

    There are pipelines in space now? Cool.

    They're the tubes that makes the intarweb run, how do you think all that data gets to the satellites and back?

  9. Re:Old PCs Still Good on Why The U.S. PC Market is On The Decline · · Score: 1

    Exactly! The only real reason to upgrade these days is if you are a gamer..

    ..or a Gentoo user.

  10. Re:Just want to say... on Shuttle Launch Success · · Score: 2, Funny

    Godspeed, is that even faster than Ludicrous Speed?

  11. Re:Food? on Working Model of MIT $100 Laptop a Hit · · Score: 1

    Some people want to blame guns for violence, but one little book called the "Communist Manifesto" is responsible countless deaths.

    That book is fairly low on my list of All-Time Killer Books. The two known as the Bible and Koran are still fighting it out for first place.

  12. Re:or it's just a creative troll... on Numbers Stations Move From Shortwave To VoIP · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, they're not somebody trolling the airwaves, most governments are very careful to whom they issue SW broadcasting licenses, and anyone pulling stunts like that would have them revoked in a flash.

    As another poster said one of the most infamous numbers station, the Lincolnshire Poacher, has been traced to an RAF base in Cyprus and a number of others have been triangulated, all of them leading to some sort of military or security service base.

  13. Re:trust the machines. on Airbus Plans to Expand Cockpit Automation · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of that old joke....

    Q: What separates a pair of drunks from a bunch of hookers?

    A: The cockpit door.

  14. Re:All I want to know... on ARM Offers First Clockless Processor Core · · Score: 1

    If you think there's more x86 CPUs in the world than ARM cores, think again.

  15. Re:Linux? on Apple Officially Releases Beta Dual Boot Loader · · Score: 1

    However, I think you're not going to have everything working perfectly, I think the video drivers will only be 2d, your remote won't work, nor will the CD eject button, etc etc etc.

    The eject button doesn't work on any Linux distro!!

  16. Re:There's a lot of potential on Americans Gearing up to Fight Global Warming · · Score: 5, Funny

    Germany during World War II switched to hydrogen for its cars when its petroleum supplies were cut off. Brazil has switched to domestically produced alcohol. It's all do-able with a strong federal leadership.

    Yup, what America really needs a fascist dictator in charge to make things happen, oh wait...

  17. Re:Intel optimizations on Intel and Skype Exclude AMD · · Score: 1

    If the code were optimized for SSE3, it would only run on recent Intel chips to begin with.

    All AMD chips manufactured since around the middle of last year support SSE3. And even if they didn't, it would most certainly run, just not take advantage of those instructions.

  18. Re:Realtime performance on Being Enron's SysAdmin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I imagine instead of the 'flying windows' screensaver they had a stockholders assets flying out of windows one.

  19. Still elusive to slashdotters... on Are Vertical Mice The Next Ergonomic Trend? · · Score: 1

    ...the vertical bacon sandwich.

  20. Cool on NTP Pool Project Reaches 500 Servers · · Score: 1, Funny

    I hope these servers carry alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts.large

    Oh, sorry I read that as NNTP

  21. Re:I'm bummed. on Microsoft Ends IE for Mac · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Our experience has been that DHTML support on Konqueror is still far behind both Firefox and IE. We'd love to support it, but we spend enough time putting in hacks for the big two browsers that we really don't want to take the time to make Konqueror work right. It's also why we don't support Opera, although Opera seems to work better than Konqueror."

    3.5 is very much improved and is said to be one of the most standards compliant browsers out there. It now passes Acid2 unlike FF and IE. Not entirely useful to the user but nice to know nevertheless.

    "Last I'd read, there wasn't much cooperation between the teams. That makes a bad situation even worse."

    Yes I remember reading about that. Apparantly the teams are working much closer now and the Konq devs have access to the Safari CVS. Version 4 promises to have the best of both browsers. Don't get me wrong, Firefox is excellent but I love the speed (as fast as Opera IMO) and the integration into my KDE desktop that Konqueror provides.

  22. Re:I'm bummed. on Microsoft Ends IE for Mac · · Score: 1

    Agreed, but don't forget where Safari comes from.

    Reading this on Konq now, an excellent browser with much promised for version 4.

  23. Re:Jealousy on Intel Calls $100 Laptops Undesired Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, AMD were on the whole more power-hungry than intels

    When was the last time you checked, 5 years ago?

  24. GPS on North Pole Heads South · · Score: 1

    Man, ever heard about GPS? Its been quite a while since anything has relied on compasses to position itself!,

    GPS is not an approved method of navigation for aircraft, it is only intended as a supplementary navaid to VOR/NDB, your charts and of course the compass. I've no doubt that it will become the primary method of navigation in the future, but at present it's not accepted by aviation authorities as being totally reliable. A big problem at present is GPS's vulnerability to solar activity.

  25. Re:Well it's the UK, but same logic... on Canada Moves to Keep Skilled Workers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, immigration of Australians is essential if the beer is to be kept flowing in the London's bars.

    As for Americans, we need them here because...

    I'll get back to you on that one.