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  1. Re:This seems stupid on IBM's Morphing Touchscreen Keyboard Interface · · Score: 0

    Apparently, for MS Windwoes users, it auto-morphs such that the entire lower left quadrant of the screen has a massive CTRL "touchkey", the lower right quadrant is filled with an ALT "touchkey" and the entire top half with a DELETE "touchkey". Supposedly, those are the only three keys you need under Windows to achieve 90% of the productivity with it that you enjoy today on your desktop ...

  2. Re:Well, then... on Bashing MS 'Like Kicking a Puppy,' Says Jim Zemlin · · Score: 1

    Always remember that you can set Clippy to be Puppy ...

  3. Re:Not only that on Bashing MS 'Like Kicking a Puppy,' Says Jim Zemlin · · Score: 1

    Monkey Boy still does ...

  4. Re:Yeah, but what's the *down* side? on Bashing MS 'Like Kicking a Puppy,' Says Jim Zemlin · · Score: 1

    Clearly you ain't seen what my Tiger did to the sofa!

  5. Re:The will to be free on Bashing MS 'Like Kicking a Puppy,' Says Jim Zemlin · · Score: 2

    Has it occurred to you that perhaps she tolerates Windows and hates Ubuntu in inverse proportion to the amount of time each requires her to spend with her husband?

  6. Who needs exploits? on New Android Exploit Discovered To Steal Data · · Score: 1

    Just use Windows Mobile 7 which steals your data out of the box.

  7. Re:What do they have to hide? on UK Asks News Outlets Not To Publish WikiLeaks Bombshell, US Prepares For Fallout · · Score: 1

    Nuclear weapons were designed by the British and all the UK designs were handed over to be developed, built and deployed by the US to prevent them falling into enemy hands ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_Alloys

  8. Re:let me clear your mind. on UK Asks News Outlets Not To Publish WikiLeaks Bombshell, US Prepares For Fallout · · Score: 1

    What our team UK cyclist David Cameron and your team America basketball bloke Obama are terrified of is the public finding out that they don't use the same toothpaste, the leaking of which could end the special relationship and, god forbid, lead to nuclear war.

  9. Err, not quite so true in the UK on Researchers Find 70-Year-Olds Are Getting Smarter · · Score: 1

    Yesterday, my friend's 70 year old dad scalded himself by pouring water from the kettle over his hand to test "whether it had boiled yet". Fortunately we didn't miss the match back home, having been fast-tracked through casualty since he's a doctor at the local hospital.

  10. Re:Not A Nerd? on Google Switching To EXT4 Filesystem · · Score: 1

    Ah, you'll be needing our DFS [Dog File System] then which is highly optimised for exactly such queries - unfortunately we lost the source during a spate of flying chairs from a well-known UK furniture retailer.

  11. Re:Fast forward... on Cliff Click's Crash Course In Modern Hardware · · Score: 1

    Or kill Flash Gordon to get rid of both Adobe and Intel simultaneously ...

  12. Re:I actually like swine flu on WHO To Investigate Handling of Swine Flu Information, Vaccine Orders · · Score: 1

    Hmm, my YL went from normal weight to obese in nine months - does this mean she's got it before she's had it?

  13. Re:It's been 400 years? Do you know what that mean on 400 Years Ago, Galileo Discovered Four Jovian Moons · · Score: 1

    Is it 2020 already? Christ, that was some New Year's hangover.

  14. Re:Please keep in mind on Holy See Declares a "Unique Copyright" On the Pope · · Score: 1

    Papal infallibility was only declared in the 1890s at the First Vatican Council.

    Sorry, the declaration was nearly two millennia late due to a clerical error.

  15. Re:Worked with one would love to have one as sidek on Company Trains the Autistic To Test Software · · Score: 1

    Actually, he was awarded a c. $1,500 bonus for each database he'd fixed which (x50) meant he received c. $75,000 well-earned dollars for two or three weeks most excellent work ... The rest of us got some kudos (but no bonuses) and his mum was very proud of his contribution. Coming back to my original point, I'd recommend anyone seriously to consider engaging the services of people with Asperger's in IT endeavours - whilst paying a fair wage - as, despite perhaps being a bit "odd" socially, they tend to be fiercely focused and extraordinarily fast and accurate in matters IT.

  16. Re:Worked with one would love to have one as sidek on Company Trains the Autistic To Test Software · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Seconded.

    I worked with someone with Asperger's Syndrome as part of a large Government Y2K bug "fixing" team (and it was fixing, not checking). Senior management had prioritised the fixes based on how much each database was "worth" (i.e., how much they paid for it) rather than, more sensibly, on how much the databases in question would affect citizens were they not to be fixed.

    The result of this was that three weeks before 1/1/2000, 50 databases critical for functions such as medical care, burials, garbage collection, liquor licences, care homes etc. had not been fixed. This work-experience chap with Asperger's who up until then had basically been the post room / tea-boy (as well as carrying out rudimentary IT tasks) offered to help.

    We let him join the team and gave him all the database documentation to read just to keep him quiet as we were busy enough. He sat reading it for two weeks and we got on with our work and left him to it.

    Then the tape arrived with a copy of all 50 databases on it for us to fix. Before we'd arrived for work that morning, he'd opened the post, loaded the tape and was fixing the databases one by one (having prioritised them well by importance without our intervention) at an unbelievably fast typing speed. Incredibly, as he finished the fixes for each database (which we obviously tested), it turned out that he had fixed it without error (so far as we could tell).

    He finished fixing the 50th and last database on 30/12/1999. The "post mortem analysis" (as far as we could tell) in early 2000 was that he'd fixed all 50 databases perfectly within a week.

  17. Re:Aspiritech? Specialisterne? on Company Trains the Autistic To Test Software · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, the Danish word "Specialisterne" includes a [plural] definite article in its suffix and can be translated into English as "The Specialists", or better translated as "The Professionals".

  18. Re:I don't get it.. on Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US · · Score: 1

    Agreed. In the event of the extradition going ahead (against the expressed wishes, not only of many of us here but also a clear majority of the UK population, including highly influential members of the [UK] government etc. (e.g., the Prime Minister's wife as reported here some time ago in the UK Press), ) the Anglo-American "Special Relationship" could be severely damaged. I concur with your advice that President Obama should close this issue down and issue a pardon or similar.

  19. Re:Telemurder on Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US · · Score: 1

    To use a real example: A Libyan intelligence agent placed a bomb on an airliner in Frankfurt (Germany) resulting in the murder of hundreds of (predominately) UK and US citizens, both in the air and on the ground, over Lockerbie (Scotland) and then scuttled back to Libya to hide. The UK government, working in conjunction with our US cousins / allies over the pond, eventually managed to arrange the extradition of the suspect from Libya such that he was tried and convicted under Scottish Law in a court within a Dutch military base which had temporarily been ceded to Scotland such that it was Scottish Territory for the duration of the trial. The accused was convicted and served IIRC c. nine years for the murder of these hundreds of people in a prison in Scotland before being recently released on compassionate health grounds ... Coming back to the main story, it seems as if the accused has been a bit of a "naughty boy" and has clearly embarrassed the US military authorities by exposing their, reportedly, woefully inadequate IT security. Arguably he's done them a favour by highlighting the IT security flaws they have (or had) - thereby saving them money (and helping them improve their IT security). Were I to be judging the accused, assuming he were found to be guilty, I'd think a good "slap on the wrist", along with a stern warning not to try such actions again along with twelve months supervised community service (in the UK - with him not having been extradited) would be an appropriate sentence.

  20. Re:Good grief! on Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US · · Score: 1

    They're saying he caused 700k worth of damage

    Personally I blame the parents. They should have encouraged him to become an Enron executive or some sort of banker and if he then caused billions of dollars of damage, he would get away with anything (or at least spend less time inside and certainly not be sent to the chair).

  21. Re:Good grief! on Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US · · Score: 1

    I personally get highly stressed out in situations I'm not used to and have to plan trips and holidays meticulously so that I don't panic.

    Everyone gets this - it's called "Ryan Air Syndrome". It's especially exacerbated when you realise you've not got a spare quid to gain access to the in-flight "human excretion cubicle" after having been serendipitously allocated a seat next to a gorgeous blonde female human who's trying to chat you up whilst all you can think about is trying not to pee all over the seat.

  22. Re:Amusement du jour: on Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy · · Score: 1

    This is a *feature* of, not a bug in, the "Windows for Warships" ethniccleansing.dll. http://www.windowsforwarships.com/

  23. Re:Train stations on Google Gives the Gift of Free Airport Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Obviously you don't live in the UK ...

  24. Re:Train stations on Google Gives the Gift of Free Airport Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Could we add Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch to the list too? Wales expects!

  25. Re:Standard Calculus on Radar Beats GPS In Court — Or Does It? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but fps is more important for GTA.