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  1. Re:Mega-size fossil found in Iran on Dinosaur Forces Rethink Of Flight's Evolution · · Score: 1
    Let's look at the evidence shall we?
    • The spinal column looks like a photoshop special
    • The 'skull' is a different colour to the surrounding rock (ain't no fossil)
      and looks like another photoshop special
    • This is hiding on 2 sites in the 'interweb'
    • It's dumb
    So no, this ain't real, sorry, I was kind hopeful, my disbelief got suspended
    and everything, but I couldn't get over the colour of that 'skull', and flying ...
  2. Re:One Word Gaim on Yahoo and Microsoft to Merge Instant Messengers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is this the worlds first example of a British person not understanding
    American sarcasm?

    I knew our education system was getting worse but...

  3. Re:The UN has finally lost it on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1

    His crack-team of nuclear physicists couldn't do it because they couldn't
    get the materials.

    This, funnily enough, was due to UN sanctions, not 'thick' Iraqis.

  4. Re:Good specs and bad specs on Linus Says No to 'Specs' · · Score: 1
    Meanwhile back in reality...
    I have to write specs to define work that is required all the time,
    yes there are times when something is overlooked so the spec changes during coding.
    Sometimes the problem is more with the coder not having the intelligence to
    figure out when something just won't work.
    And Sepccign is a pain in the arse, but you quickliy learn to do it right
    You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me it's a full time job. Now behave yourself.
  5. Re:He loves you Iä, Iä, Iä! on Call of Cthulhu Available on DVD · · Score: 1
    Why is this modded funny?

    Apologies to the Pre Fab Four


    is informative, surely
  6. Re:Talking to myself on U.S. Insists On Keeping Control Of Internet · · Score: 1
    I hear that the UN wants to turn over full control of the DNS heirarchy to countries like China. Countries to whom "freedom" is just a word to be filtered. Countries where a constitution is just words on some expensive paper. Countries that care little for anything except maintaining their own power.
    You mean away from contries like the US where ...
    But like you say it ain't broke ... at the moment.
  7. Re:Google Moon Apollo 16th... on Happy 7th Birthday Google! · · Score: 1

    Evolution is testable, make random changes to DNA in
    animals and see what happens

    The evidence in support of evolution is overwhelming
    eg: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4260498.stm That's speciation buddy.

    GCC as you acronymoniously call it is not is much doubt either, it's cause
    has yet to be proven, in fact some of the evidence is shaky, something I'm
    trying to figure out myself.
    Intelligent design however has no evidence, any example I've seen brought up
    has been shot down.
    It is not science, it is a matter of faith.

    And the band played Believe It If You Like.

    I'll agree there are some weirdos who seem to have replaced religion with
    blind faith in whatever New Scientist says, but you cannot deny the evidence of
    evolution or the lack of evidence for ID, sorry, you lose.

  8. Re:Crash? on ESA Selects Targets for Asteroid Deflection Test · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Whether it is deflected or absorbed greatly affects the outcome
    of the experiment.

    Mainly because they need to know how much energy they need
    to deflect the asteroid, a deflected explosive may need to
    more energetic, where an embeded explosive runs more risk
    of breaking it up.
    They need to know what will happen.

  9. Re:The Honeymoon is Ending on Mad Penguin on Ubuntu 5.10 Preview · · Score: 2, Informative

    Got Breezy on my laptop at home.
    Did have a problem with the 3.4/4.0 versions of GCC trying to compile
    ndiswrapper (fo WiFi card).
    Maybe it was a cheat, maybe not, but I created a link to GCC-4.0 called GCC-3.4
    and haven't had a problem since, yeah OK I needed a modprobe -f in a
    start up script for ndiswrapper, and kept all I did in a script for
    after kernel upgrades but I've had to do worse in windows.

  10. Re:Symantec? on IE More Secure Than Mozilla? · · Score: 1
    vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities
    So not only is it the vendor (firefox or Microsoft)
    that are creating the list, it is also the vendor
    who is telling us how serious they are!

    Personally I wouldn't trust a vendor to tell me
    what's wrong with their product.

    Ooooh! shock, flawed report.
  11. Re:No... on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War? · · Score: 1
    What I do believe is that you have to do is make the war(and it is a war) too horrible for the terrorists to continue, to make people not support the terrorists, to make countries sit up and control their own extremists. I think that we're far too tilted to the way of the carrot, rather than the stick.
    You simply cannot do this.

    Most of these 'terrorists' already believe the west is out to get them.
    There is no 'carrot' here, what happened to the IRA? Did we shoot them all?
    No diplomacy worked, very slowly, but it worked.
    It will take a change on the part of the 'terrorists' but that will happen over time, if we stop trying to force our capitalism/democracy/coca cola on them and treat them with respect.
  12. Re:PDF? on The Massachusetts Office Party · · Score: 1

    For Linux? Actual Microsoft viewers, from Microsoft?

  13. Re:Credibility? on Australian Science Makes the Regenerating Mouse · · Score: 1, Funny

    Something smells fishy to me.

    That'll be the side effect then
  14. Re:I wonder.. on Robot Bat With Echolocation · · Score: 1

    http://actionfiguresbygofigure.com/product3193.htm l

    Ok so it's a toy, but I think he used something like sonar
    in the big ol' suit he built to kick a Predators ass in the
    imaginitvely titled
    Batman Vs. Predator

  15. Re:Finally? on Newest Star Wars Reviews Suprisingly Positive · · Score: 1

    You mean THX1138?

  16. Re:Star Wars... on 2005 Star Wars Fan Film Entries Online · · Score: 1

    The important word there would be Science. Please point me in the direction of any in Star Wars. P.S. I am a rabid Star Wars fan. P.P.S. even though they are just "big dumb films about space wizards".

  17. Re:S-curves on Broadband to Kill Off DVD? · · Score: 1

    DVDs exploded onto the market, MP3s haven't.

    CDs/DVDs will be replaced eventually, but currently, as can be seen here, there are enough people who want them to make it a huge market.

    It generates massive amounts of profit for the companys involved... end of story.

    I also like owning a physical thing, I don't like borrowing, or lending, I want to own; whether it's books, CDs or DVDs. Data on a hard disk, backed up or not, does not have the same feeling of permanence.
    My PC at home does not have anything particularly important on it, nothing I can't re-create pretty damned quickly, so I only back up little bits and pieces every now and again, I don't want to have to start backing up tons of crap I download at what is still an inflated price.

    Hell, I haven't bought singles for over 10 years why should I start to download then, surely that's being sucked in by what is basically a market drive to generate revenue (note, not a market drive to replace a failing revenue).

  18. Cool on Cyrix Hotplate Howto · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... er ....

  19. Re:An idea on Humans are Causing Global Warming · · Score: 1

    la la la I'm not listening

  20. Re:Is it still "working"? on Stonehenge Version 2.0 Completed · · Score: 1

    I think the religious significance comes from the druids being a religious people.
    It doesn't work anymore though, but it did line up correctly when it was built, with whatever astral bodies it was supposed to line with, at solstaces etc.

  21. Re:This is why we need a manned mission! on ESA to Deploy Mars Express Radar · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yeah, but men don't work to well when bits fall off either

  22. Re:JNI is an API, not a platform... on Don Box: Huge Security Holes in Solaris, JVM · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be using java at all for anything that's architecture reliant, I know some things are possible, but I'd most likely stick with C or assembler.

  23. Re:JNI is an API, not a platform... on Don Box: Huge Security Holes in Solaris, JVM · · Score: 1

    Why the hell would you use JNI for array manipulation, java actually competes with native code quite well at this sort of thing.

  24. Re:Code Bloat on Where Have All The Cycles Gone? · · Score: 1

    Code bloat is mostly crap that is not used, that's not to say that it is a feature that is not used,
    it's just old code that has been worked around and not removed.
    So many systems (not just code could do with pulling down and starting again, but this never (or rarely) happens.

  25. Re:You have no right to visit here on Canadian Government Weary of Patriot Act · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then close the border, or do you want the tourist dollar? And yes my prsonal rights do (or should) exceed those of a 'country', not a citizen of that coutry, but the country itself. This is xenophobia, pure and simple, it's the assumption that a foreign national is a more of a threat than a citizen, go tell Timothy McVey.