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  1. Re:Just my imagination? on Looking For a Link Between Sci-Fi UFOs and UFO Reports · · Score: 1

    Is it shiney and metal?

  2. Re:Latest news on Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself · · Score: 1

    I keep my money in a numbered Swiss mattress.

  3. Re:Security Theater on Verified Identity Pass Shuts Down "Clear" Operations · · Score: 1

    Heathrow, terminal 5. I know there's water fountains there.

  4. Re:Watch out for John Cage on Danger Mouse Releases Blank CD-R To Spite EMI · · Score: 1

    Only if he puts the writing credits as "Dangermouse/John Cage".

  5. Re:Name vs. content on Irish Domain Registry Banning Adult Domains · · Score: 1

    Ring? Hula hoop surely.

  6. Re:Make me rich! on Adbusters Suggests Click Fraud As Protest · · Score: 1

    And Google sees a pattern of (whatever they call) click fraud and your AdSense account is closes without any chance of getting it back.

  7. Re:1984? on False Fact On Wikipedia Proves Itself · · Score: 1

    2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8 Rounding this by the rule that if it's below .5 then you round down, and if it's above you round up, gives 2 + 2 = 5

  8. Re:Not that big a deal on Microsoft Donates Code To Apache's "Stonehenge" Project · · Score: 1

    But they are v-e-r-y long lines.

  9. Re:Count 3. on 1 In 3 Windows PCs Still Vulnerable To Worm Attack · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between knowing someone and knowing of someone - I don't know you or your parents, but now I know of you.

  10. Re:Genuine Advantage Validation on 1 In 3 Windows PCs Still Vulnerable To Worm Attack · · Score: -1, Troll

    I know no one who is afraid of updates because of the genuine advantage validation.

  11. Re:Family Provide Our Best Stories on Tales From the Support Crypt · · Score: 1

    The Lark removable hard disks used to have two arrows printed in the plastic to show which was the front and which was the top, so it made it easy to be sure the user was putting them in correctly - except for the users who turned them upsidedown because that was the only way they could see where the arrows were.

  12. dell didn't announce anything on Lenovo's New ThinkPad Has 2 LCD Screens, Weighs 11 Pounds · · Score: 1

    From the FA: "Dell is refusing to confirm official details of the laptop, which will reportedly be unveiled at next month's Consumer Electronics Show."

  13. Re:What do you mean if? on If Programming Languages Were Religions · · Score: 1

    Assembly is fine enough, but you really should read it in the original machine code to understand what it's all about.

  14. Re:Plot/Series Branching on Canadians Miss Out On Doctor Who Season Finale · · Score: 1

    Sarah Jane Adventures is a childrens programme.

  15. Re:Shoot the messenger. on Performance Tests Show Early Windows 7 Build Beats Vista · · Score: 1

    A six year old Mac will have a 800MHz processor, the Leopard spec says 867MHz or faster is needed. But if you'd said five years then you would have been right.

  16. SitePoint on Freelance Web Developer Best Practices? · · Score: 1

    Although there'll be a lot of good advice about this on /., I'd suggest going to SitePoint and reading up on how people who are already doing this deal with problems.

  17. It's only resveratrol on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can get drinks containing resveratrol from many places, such as Costco.

  18. Available in the US for years on New Gadget Blocks 'Spam' Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    There's a company called http://www.interceptorid.com/ who have had a product out doing this for a few years - and it's been mentioned on /. as well. Blacklists, whitelists, private time, it does them all.

  19. BBC documentary on NASA Uses Rubber Ducks In Climate Study · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Dynamic address from ISP = intermittent lock-ou on China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days · · Score: 1

    That's why Comcast is announcing limits on their service - use it too much, you go to the back of the queue for addresses.

  21. Re:Fee Reduction? on Comcast Discontinues Customers' USENET Service · · Score: 1

    No reduction because they offered the service free (paraphrased from their support).

  22. Re:0xBBCD on Dirac 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    nYbbles on parent's geek card

  23. Re:Internet Meme on 3D Web Browser Draws Lukewarm Review · · Score: 1

    New from Infocom: Goatse 3D - "You are in a dark tunnel that seems to stretch forever."

  24. Re:Both parties stupid? on AT&T Slaps Family With a $19,370 Cell Phone Bill · · Score: 1

    It depends whether the family said their son was going to Canada or Vancouver - there's a Vancouver only about 10 miles north of Portland.

  25. Re:GOON SHOW!!!! on BBC To Launch Music Download Store · · Score: 1

    BBC7 will play on your Linux box.