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  1. Re:I for one welcome... on 24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray · · Score: 3, Funny

    No they shouldn't handle dangerous substances like these, which are inhumane anyway: time for Americans to stand up for the right to arm bears.

  2. Re:Time for a dark-darkweb on Dark Web Dealers Voluntarily Ban Deadly Fentanyl (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Time for an infra-black web, which you can only see by lowering your head and running hubwards into your monitor.

  3. Re:Why ony in "developed" countries do I hear this on CDC: Do Not Eat Any Romaine Lettuce Until Further Notice (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't blame us in the UK. We didn't vote romaine.

  4. Then you might as well not use it. I hear this all the time: "I only use FB for a) and b) and sometimes c), blah blah...." Just close your account then.

    There will come a day when having never used social media will be an accolade - and it can't come too soon.

  5. Re:My about:config edit list is about to grow agai on Mozilla Is Reportedly Going To Sell VPN Subscriptions Within Firefox (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 2

    Probably not even going to happen, but if so I will also be tweaking about:config to turn it off , even though it would only appear if I browsed an unsecured wireless network, which I never do. Firefox is still the best browser overall and they have to try and earn some money somehow. Pale Moon? Really?

  6. Whom Does Your Constitution Belong To? on Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what the rest of the world asks, every time this happens. We can all see you are being held hostage by a few gun nuts, why can't you?

    It's YOUR constitution, change it (if necessary) and save yourselves. Right now, another shooter is planning to kill American children. Eventually you will realise they are YOUR children.

    The NRA could increase it's funding by 1000% if it put up billboards saying how many innocent Americans have died from guns - as long as they were in Arabic and on the other side of the world.

    But hey, I don't live there and my two daughters don't have to learn how to run in zig-zag lines to avoid fatal shots, what do I care? I do care and I know someday the gun nuts will fall.

  7. Re:tl;dr on The Real Inside Story of How Commodore Failed (youtube.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is a boring video though, not a good advert for the book. After 10 minutes I tried to hold down RUN STOP and hit RESTORE.

  8. Re:But what about Brexit? on Google Unveils Design For 1 Million Squarefoot London Headquarters (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    May has promised Nissan something they won't get (that's what politicians do) but they won't pull out because by the time they realise it will be too late to do so. Google but won't get any NEW special treatment in the UK - just the special treatment they already get. No change necessary. We need a new law about Brexit: a variant of Godwin's Law. Farage's Law? But, until that law is passed: Brexit will make little difference economically. All the major corporations inside the EU want trade with the UK to continue as normal, EU bureaucrats will say that's not possible but then they will give in and blame everything on Jean-Claude Juncker - once he's safely out of office in 2019. Negotiations will take three years at least. Trump on the other hand, could cause a recession throughout the western world and still the influential remoaners in London will find a way to blame it on the Brexit.

  9. Re:I dunno; I kind of like "Nigel" better. on Jeremy Clarkson's Amazon Show To Be Called The Grand Tour (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The 160,000 Grand Tour. http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-...

  10. Progress is Great on India's Audacious Plan to Bring Digital Banking to 1.2 Billion People (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Soon Indians won't need to rely on the first world anymore: they'll be able to phone people and steal their bank account details using local-rate instead of international calls.

  11. Re:What its like..... on The Mexican Drug Cartels' Involuntary IT Guy · · Score: 1

    This would explain why his head is now slowly heading back to New Mexico on the back of a giant turtle...

  12. Re:Wow on CCIA Calls Copyright Wiretaps 'Hollywood's PATRIOT Act' · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that have been spelt ©unt?

  13. Re:WTF? on Takedown Letters For WP7 Tetris Clones · · Score: 1

    How do you know? Does karios weigh less than a duck?

  14. Re:Does the Bear poop in the woods ? on Is Google Polluting the Internet? · · Score: 1

    People think Google is a good search engine because when they type their query it finds what they want. I am amazed so many nerds can't grasp this and think people want something else from a search engine - and attempt to code it.

    As for Google being a corporation and making money, they are guilty of that.

    As for Streetview, you can get higher res pictures of streets by walking down them. Molecules are smaller than pixels. Thus far.

  15. Re:I would not be too surprised on Who Is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most of the traffic PeerBlock blocks is false positives. It blocks huge ranges of IP addresses, YOU could be on one of their lists. The Gizmodo article says "it should be mostly accurate". Lol.

    It used to be called PeerGuardian, remember? The "lucky talisman" app that stops teh RIAA catching you? What a load of balls.

  16. Re:I'd love to see... on The Wii Laptop · · Score: 2, Funny

    "What ith the point?"! Ath he clearly demonthrateth, thith Wii Laptop Mod ith tho thuper thecthy! Focthy chickth jutht love thith!

  17. Re:This thread should be about the title... on French President Violates His Own Copyright Law, Again · · Score: 1

    but now everyone's talking about Thai boys and what Polanski did, it's completely buggered.

    Could someone on the staff please go through this and hit all these berks with Off Topic -1?

  18. black_box = solution on How Do IT Guys Get Respect and Not Become BOFHs? · · Score: 1

    When someone doesn't respect you, wait until they have to give a big presentation, then tell them you can get hold of the ACTUAL BOX that contains the WHOLE INTERNET...

    N.B. Before you do this, make sure you clear it with... The Hawk.

  19. Re:No different to any google service on Facebook's New Terms of Service · · Score: 5, Funny

    You wouldn't steal a car analogy...

  20. Re:Better late than never on RIAA Drops Enforcement Case To "Sort Out" Inaccuracies · · Score: 1, Funny

    Indeed; the British government never underestimated the IRAA. Thankfully, the permanent ceasefire brought peace to Northern Ireland. Or rather, it stopped IRA bombs going off in England, which is all the British Government (and the British public) ever cared about.

    I'm just glad I live in Britain - yes, the IRA used to be a threat to me, but the RIAA never will.

  21. Re:"Content" buzzword on 45% of Dutch Media-Buying Population Are "Pirates" · · Score: 1

    Personally: I wouldn't download a car.

  22. Re:Should he be praised on BBC Profiles Extradited Cracker Gary McKinnon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dat McKinnon dude should be damn grateful he a cracker, cuz if he were a brother his ass'd be straight to Gitmo bay.

  23. Re:Obligatory on Google Buys a Piece of a Cable To Japan · · Score: 3, Funny

    In congress terms, a terabit is a thousand pipes.

  24. Re:hmmm..... on Millions in Middle East Lose Internet · · Score: 1

    Re tags, what's the Meg Griffin one mean? What's she got to do with it? Just wondered, peeps.

  25. Re:Surprisingly common on The 5 Users You'd Meet in Hell · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're lucky. This is what I get:

    Me: Right-click on your mouse

    Client: Hang on, I'm getting a pen. (PAUSE) OK.

    Me: Can you see the context menu? Click Properties on it.

    Client: Menu? What menu?

    Me: Did you right-click on your mouse?

    Client: Yes.

    Me: OK do it again then.

    (SILENCE)

    Me: Can you see the context menu?

    Client: No - nothing happens. I've written click on my mouse twice, nothing's happened and now I've got ink on fingers!