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  1. Re:Oldest riddle of all... on Will the Solve-the-Riddle Hiring Trend Affect IT? · · Score: 1

    Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

  2. Re:Another expensive Christmas on Apple Announces iTunes 7, Movies, Set-Top Box · · Score: 1

    It means that in September you know what to get her for Christmas, which is better than getting the wrong thing on the 24th and suffering for it afterwards.

  3. Re:What? on Nanocosmetics Used Since Ancient Egypt · · Score: 1

    The line that genetic engineering = selective breeding is sometimes used as proof that genetic engineering is safe.

  4. Re:Solid Pasword examples on Bad Password Allowed Swedish Watergate · · Score: 1

    More advanced users who have responsibilities over more sensitive data will also be able to remember more complex passwords or they can learn.

    They will also have higher positions in the company which mean they're either not subject to a password policy, or the helpdesk will have to reset their password whenever it's needed.

  5. Re:Makes Sense to Me on The Internet Not for Old People · · Score: 1

    They're going to turn left at some stage, so they're probably in the left lane - leaving you free to overtake in the right lane [remember - it is England].

  6. Obligatory ISIHAC reference on Google Image Labeler · · Score: 1

    Points mean PRIZES!

  7. Re:Maybe now they know what it feels like... on Target Advertising Used to Censor NY Times Article · · Score: 1

    No - if you're in the UK you can watch the on-line stuff, license or not. If you're outside the UK you can't watch the on-line stuff, license or not.

  8. Re:High Alert on Do Not Flush Your iPod · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't you post your calculations before we can give any weight to them? It may be, for example, that you never fly out of the country and that fact would alter the risk.

  9. Re:Pixels on What's On Your Thumbdrive? · · Score: 2, Funny

    At Yalta?

  10. Re:from the well-thats-not-very-exciting dept on SanDisk Releases New iPod rival · · Score: 1

    For some of us FM tuner = wireless (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless)

  11. Re:Do we really need all of them? on YouTube to Offer Every Music Video Ever Created? · · Score: 1

    HeadOn - apply directly to the forehead.

  12. Does a CD count as packaging? on Excessive Tech Packaging? · · Score: 1

    I recently installed some software and as part of the process it phoned home with machine details and the serial number so it could generate a license key. A couple of days later a CD arrived. It had one text file, which was the license key, which was 8 digits.

  13. Re:No, go ahead, send a "beta version"... on Jack Thompson Files Take-Two, Rockstar Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    In this case I think they should be called "Beater" versions.

  14. I want a Rolls Royce on Jack Thompson Files Take-Two, Rockstar Lawsuit · · Score: 5, Funny

    So that I and others can analyze it to determine whether it still poses a threat of copycat luxury car driving in our schools.

  15. The League Against Tedium on Biometric Terrorist Detector · · Score: 1

    I remember when I posed as a customs officer to meet Oscar Wilde. "Have you anything to declare?" I enquired. "I have nothing to declare but my genius," he replied. "I shall put that down as 'nothing', then, shall I?" I said. For I am the wittiest man on Earth bar none, and have two sharp fists to prove it.

  16. Re:Not taken aback. on Google Sends Legal Threats to Media Organizations · · Score: 1

    I'm not taken aback either - I've always viewed Google as humourless.

  17. Re:Agreed on Apple vs Microsoft- Who's the Copycat? · · Score: 1

    I'd hardly call Budweister beer.

  18. Re:Headache on The Keyboard That Could Phone Home · · Score: 1

    HeadOn - apply directly to the forehead
    HeadOn - apply directly to the forehead
    HeadOn - apply directly to the forehead
    etc

  19. Re:Trusted Input Device on The Keyboard That Could Phone Home · · Score: 1

    Ah, the joy of talking a user through reloading the bootstrap on a Molly - http://www.ps8computing.co.uk/BCL/models.htm

  20. Re:Look! Someone gave me a new keyboard! on The Keyboard That Could Phone Home · · Score: 1

    I think that the company I work for replaces a third of the PCs each year, and parts such as mice, keyboards, and monitors as soon as they need it inbetween the cycle. So getting a new keyboard wouldn't be a shock here, and I guess it wouldn't be at a lot of large companies.

  21. Re:Scary! on The Keyboard That Could Phone Home · · Score: 1

    You mean you don't have a couple of dozen laying around the house already? And you're reading /.?

  22. Re:So how long? on Windows Vista and the Future of Hardware · · Score: 1

    If you're going to do fixed width, you're already doing something wrong. How wide the page should be is the user's decision, not yours!

    Why?

  23. Re:About time. on Apple Partners with Ford · · Score: 1

    I was going to get one when I bought a Honda Element recently, but the salesman advised against it, saying that they'd had complaints about the sound quality.

  24. Re:Google gives you click fraud stats on Search Companies Team Up Against Click Fraud · · Score: 1

    As far as I know they don't do it the other way and tell publishers information which could be used to stop the fraud happening.

  25. Re:Pardon the idiotically obvious answer... on Search Companies Team Up Against Click Fraud · · Score: 1

    Usually it's cookie based, it gets set when you click the advert and the retailer reads it.