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  1. Re:Grain of Salt on Breakthrough in solar photovoltaics · · Score: 1

    In this case, I hardly feel the distinction matters :)

  2. Re:Grain of Salt on Breakthrough in solar photovoltaics · · Score: 1

    To take something with a dose of salt "the size of the Hope Diamond", well, one could conceivably eat the whole thing -- wait for it... -- hook, line and sinker.

    Actually, I should think that anyone would struggle to eat if their food had a grain of salt the size of the Hope Diamond in it...

  3. Re:Hmmm on New Orbitz Terms Prohibit Inbound Deep Linking · · Score: 1

    3. A simple search on Google using the words Orbitz and Terms comes up with deep links to your own site. Do you now intend to ask google to remove all those links therefore rendering your website unreachable by the majority of internet users.

    This is what robots.txt is for - to inform Google and other search engines to not index certain pages. Once Orbitz sets these files up properly, Google will stop indexing the pages and the information will fall off of its records and results.

  4. Oblig. Simpsons Quote on Mitsubishi LED Projector: Small, Cheap, Durable · · Score: 1

    Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan? Save me Chaka Khan!

    Forgive me, I don't usually jump on any bandwagons. But this ep was on last night.

  5. Re:I'm sorry, but on Is IRC All Bad? · · Score: 1

    Man, bagels by IRC? I for one welcome that flavor of copyright infringement...

  6. Re:BT on Xanadu: The Forgotten Hypertext · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget that our friend Ted coined the term.

  7. Re:More than one Bruce Tonkin? on MelbourneIT Lapse Permitted Panix Hijack · · Score: 1

    No, it's the same Bruce who's professor of philosophy at the University of Walla Walla.

  8. Re:Evolution: both theory and fact on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Many people, yes, but three languages (Hebrew, Aramaic and Koine Greek) isn't many.

    That would be the "original" texts. Translation into other languages (English, Latin etc.) includes the possibility of not only errors in translation, but intentional corruptions of messages to suit the translator / commissioner.

  9. Re:Dear Creationists on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    ...are you going to actually believe there's a train in Chicago?

    I find it helps me get around the city if I believe there is a train in Chicago...

  10. Re:Strange dimensions... on Pair Arrested After Telling Lawyer Jokes · · Score: 1

    AFAIK a "court" is not a physical location, but a collection of individuals delivering judgement under that name. So the First District Court could have been in one courtroom, and smaller courts could have been in others. Therefore, they could have been inside the courthouse but outside the court.

  11. Re:Only in children on UK Report Suggests Dangers In Cell Phone Use · · Score: 1

    The reasoning behind this being aimed at children is due to the comparative thinness of their skulls versus an adult's. It is thought that thicker skulls would absorb more radiation and hence provide more protection than thinner ones.

  12. Re:Coming Soon! on Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline · · Score: 1
    Man, you forgot:
    • First posting of "20 years of Usenet"
  13. Re:Test site on Extremely Critical IE6/SP2 Exploit Found · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hooray for Windows 98!

    Never thought I'd be saying that... *sigh*

  14. Re:We[re very 'neutral" the mans sez on WikiPedia Founder Wales Speaks About Wikinews · · Score: 1

    Who neuters the neutrals?

    Er.

  15. Re:phel I need help on New Trojan Threatens Windows XP SP 2 · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'd call 191 - "Phel" is the reverse of "help" as much as "Sirch" is the reverse of "Chris".

  16. BBC on Sought for MGM v. Grokster: Non-Infringing P2P Use · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The BBC is apparently considering using P2P for the distribution of their archives once it goes live.

  17. Should have happened by 1985... on Sony PSP Launched With Long Queues In Akihabara · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... but it seems that laws are made to be broken.

    The Metric Conversion Act 1975.

  18. Robert X Cringely... on Get Your Broadcast TV Anywhere · · Score: 2, Informative

    Our favorite geek writer covered this in a nice piece about a month ago.

  19. Er... on Flickr Online Photo Service Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who thinks the the grampa with grandchildren towards the right looks like he has the biggest hunchback ever?

  20. Re:Something I can say about Jeeves.... on BBC Magazine's Search-Engine Shootout · · Score: 1

    Of course it was the last one you turned to - everything is always in the last place you look.

    Look any more once you've found it, and there's something seriously wrong with you.

  21. Re:Is that a review or an ad? on Review of Team America World Police · · Score: 1

    Are people not allowed to like things now?

    Do we all have to think exactly the same thing about a piece of art/entertainment?

    Time and time again I've encountered this kind of reaction to a review - No, it's too good, write it again. - what if I actually liked the thing?!

  22. Re:Not that impressive... on 11,000 Words on the Star Wars Trilogy DVDs · · Score: 1

    How can you say that?!

    Part 3 is just as good as the other two, with the exception of the appalling acting of a certain Oscar-winning director / Oscar-winning director's daughter. The movie brings it up-to-date and adds an international dimension to it - the conspiracy against the Pope was an interesting storyline, and the massacre of the Dons was iconic, if slightly clichéd. Garcia stands out among the crowd, and Pacino even further out - I have to say that Corleone's daughter being shot on the steps at the end (HOORAY!) was one of THE best scenes on celluloid. Even thinking about Pacino's face, and the silence is making me shiver.

    Honestly, I don't know why people don't like the last one, other than Sofia Coppola and an absence of De Niro. Perhaps people don't like the ending? I'm not too keen on it, but if the movie started out in the place it ended, with maybe a little internal monologue from Pacino, it would have framed the whole thing nicely.

    There. Happy?

    Shamelessly copied and pasted from a previous post on the subject.

  23. Re:I'm waiting for the 'Think about the Children' on Town Fights FOI Request for GIS Data and Images · · Score: 1

    There are always somethings that can not be revealed: Witness Protection, Undercover Officers, etc

    What about the submarine base in Greenwich? Isn't that kind of sensitive?

  24. Re:Retrieval on Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia Coast? · · Score: 1

    If there were any "international accords" don't you think our "enemies" would break them?

  25. Re:Roll mouse over timeline icons... on Report Claims SCO Intends to Charge IBM with Fraud · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not actually working for me in IE6 either, so I think they're just incompetent...