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  1. Re:The sheer number on Complete List of Bugs Fixed in SP2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That would be something of a waste of time, considering the official home/windows update available version will be out tomorrow and will be around 80MB. The 250MB is for network admins, not home users, definitely not dialup users.

  2. Re:Good old Auntie! on BBC Begins Open-Source Streaming Challenge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have to utterly disagree with you. After getting used to satelite TV ad breaks, moving back to BBC leaves me barely enough time to get a drink and get back to the tv, and I live in a modest sized flat. I think the BBC is fantastic, and if you've seent he volume of ads on American TV, you'll thank the BBC and the ITC for keeping the UK tv in check.

  3. Re:Not quite curved on a cricket ground.... on Projecting Video On Curved Surfaces · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, like the logos painted in the try areas at rugby games that are painted in such a way to look like they're standing up out of the ground from the broadcast cameras' point of view, clever.

  4. Re:Some observations and questions on Olympics to Have Massive Surveillance Network · · Score: 1

    We're all about as expert as anybody in terrorism surveillance, because it's only existed for three years, and we think about it as much as anyone.

    Consider yourselves lucky, the UK's been dealing with terrorism for much, much longer than 3 years. Terrorism has not only existed for three years, maybe for you it has, but for the rest of the world, they've been dealing with it for much longer and have considerably more experience in countering it and dealing with it.

  5. Re:oh god on AOL IM 'Away' Message Security Hole Found · · Score: 1

    Ah, so true, its ridiculous to expect (most) AIM users to not click on a clink, I know my sister can't help herself, she almost binned a perfectly good laptop because it was browsing the internet incredibly slowly. The reason? So loaded down with spyware it could barely run calc. I cleaned it up and it runs perfectly.

  6. Re:BBC on Privacy Concerns Moving Into The Mainstream · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You ought to listen to the "Today" programme

    Its a brilliant start to the day to hear an arrogant politician be reduced to a mumbling fool. This kind of programme is all-too-rare, and is sorely needed to keep politicians in check, easily my favourite part of the radio schedule.

  7. Re:Corporate puppets on States Threaten P2P Companies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think you need a little more tinfoil in your diet, the statement is a little fishy and, given the company that a few senators keep (e.g. Orrin Hatch) its really not that farfetched.

  8. Re:Use the long cable. on Steve Jobs Undergoes Cancer Surgery · · Score: 1

    As far as 240v AC is concerned, i'd rather be safe than dead.

  9. Re:Nature's solution is best in at least a few way on Living Without a Pulse · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I remember seeing a documentary about this a few years ago and yes, the fact that prop/impellers chop stuff to bits was a big problem for the doctors working on the project. However, they used very sophisticated modelling and milling techniques (I think the term "developed for the space industry" was banded about) and managed to produce a design that didn't mulch the red blood cells.

  10. Clue meter: reading..... zero on Open Source a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    "O'Dowd thinks that unfriendly countries will attempt to hide intentional bugs that the Open Source community will have no chance of finding."

    O'Dowd is clearly a blithering idiot then.

  11. Re:Isn't it great? on Hitchhiker's Guide Trailer Online · · Score: 1

    The new Dr. Who series has started filming already. As for Red Dwarf, I have no idea.