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  1. If you see the pope ... on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... tell him he owes me a new irony meter.

  2. Renewable on Tapping Solar Wind's Renewable Energy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Er, in what way do you suppose the solar wind is "renewable"?

  3. Re:Eliminate text messaging on Could Anti-Texting Laws Make Roads More Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    I guess the folks with whom you communicate don't have voicemail, then.

  4. Re:What is this stupidity??? on New Adobe PDF Zero-Day Under Attack · · Score: 2, Informative

    xpdf.

  5. Re:But the real question is: on How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy · · Score: 1

    Probably the Death Star since it's quite a bit bigger than an X-wing.

    Oh, wait.

  6. Finally on Facebook Says It Owns 'Book' · · Score: 1

    At last we are shown the Facebook business model. Who knew there were so many people to sue?

  7. Re:HTML5+SVG+CSS3 on Microsoft Silverlight 4 vs. Adobe Flash 10.1 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    With version 9, IE will also support open standards nicely.

    That's quite an assertion - unless by "nicely" you mean "barely", "feebly" or "tortuously". Given the fantastic history of standard compliance in Microsoft Internet Explorer, you'll forgive me if I don't hold my breath.

  8. Re:Shared Experience. on Lost Star Wars Scene In the Wild · · Score: 1

    So, you've been to a recording of Jeremy Kyle, then? How was it?

  9. Re:Where's the Bureau of ATF? on Can Twitter and Facebook Deal With Their Dead? · · Score: 1

    I think you are seriously underestimating the global mortality rate among tobacco users. It was about 3 million in 1990 and is likely to be even higher today.

  10. Wirelessless on Some LA Coffee Shops Are Taking Wi-Fi Off the Menu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think they mean "wirelessless". Note wirelessless != wired.

  11. Re:Just. Encrypt. Everything. on Child Porn As a Weapon · · Score: 1

    Except that this occured in the United Kingdom where failure to disclose the passphrase is an imprisonable offence with an unlimited tariff (it's in the terrorism legislation). So no, don't try that one.

  12. Bad, bad idea on ISC Offers Response Policy Zones For DNS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have a lot of time for Paul Vixie, but in this particular case he has come up with a bad idea. This should absolutely not be handled in DNS. There are plenty of reputation-based schemes already in operation for per-protocol black or white listing which work as well (and as badly) as any such scheme can do. There is no need to drag it down to the core, polluting DNS with yet more protocol shenanigans as we do so.

    DNS was always a simple protocol which did one job and did it well. Please stop trying to expand it to solve problems which have already been solved (by those who wish to do so) elsewhere.

  13. Re:Here is the shitty site on Lawsuit Hits Companies Using 'Zombie' Flash Cookies · · Score: 1

    Standard-conformant XHTML 1.1 would be fine, thanks (and use less bandwidth, and be easier to fill in, and work on a character-cell terminal).

  14. Re:Free Wi-Fi illegal on Major ISPs Challenge UK's Digital Economy Act · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For the first time in human history technological progress will be effectively shaped and limited by the concerted actions of big corporate interests and a political power scared of the populace they pretend to serve.

    First time? Dude, where have you been for the last 10,000 years?

  15. Re:Perhaps copyright needs to be more like tradema on AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra' · · Score: 1

    True, but it winds up Adobe even more when you say you photoshopped it with GIMP.

  16. Re:Browsers on Dot-Org TLD Signed For DNSSEC · · Score: 3, Informative

    Browsers? They shouldn't care about DNSSEC either way, all of that should be handled by the local resolver. To be fair I'm presuming here that you mean web browsers as opposed to say DNS browsers.

  17. One more case to be brought on Judge Rejects SCO's Motion For a New Trial · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All it requires is for someone with stacks of time and money to take a look at the SCO corporate profile and sue them on the basis that just about everything written on that page is a lie.

    I mean, does anyone really think that SCO is a "leading provider of software technology", or that their "highly innovative and reliable solutions help millions of customers grow their businesses everyday". As we have just seen, "SCO owns all rights and ownership of the core UNIX operating system source code" is about as untrue as it is possible to get. As a bonus, such a legal action would certainly conclude faster than the 7 years this has been going on.

  18. Re:What a schmuck. on Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain · · Score: 2, Informative

    It isn't hijacking if the previous owners let it lapse, it's just recycling.

  19. Geller on Scientist Infects Self With Computer Virus · · Score: 1

    It won't surprise you to learn that Dr. Gasson's Lab at Whiteknights is only a few miles from Mr. Geller's residence in Sonning. If you want to find out what other idiocy the cybernetics department of the University of Reading have been up to, do a quick search for "Kevin Warwick".

  20. Re:It's a Trap! on Microsoft Tips the Scale In Favor of HTML 5 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Past performance would suggest so. However, it's enlightening to note that yet again Microsoft (and Apple for that matter) really hate other people's proprietary monopolies. I'm only really worried about how they're going to ruin HTML5 as a result of this (whether deliberately or accidentally).

  21. Re:This can be solved simply on ISP Is Bypassing Firefox's Location Bar Search · · Score: 1

    We have an abbreviation for that: it is "https".

  22. Re:Yankee Doodle is not monotonic. on Fatal System Error · · Score: 1

    The tune is monotonous, the rendition was monophonic. Not sure which the OP meant.

  23. Re:Showing its age on Red Hat Releases RHEL 6 Public Beta 1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hmmm. Would you care to explain what you think it is that CentOS would give you that RHEL doesn't?

  24. Re:Not everyone is an Apple whore on How the iPad Is Already Reshaping the Internet (Sans Flash) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    s/Apple/Adobe/;

  25. Re:If you have Windows XP, you got a copy of Bob on 15 Years of Microsoft Bob · · Score: 2, Funny

    Run a search on Bing

    It's always good to have a genuinely laughter-inducing moment before the end of the day. Thanks for this.