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  1. Really? on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 0

    Seriously? The oldest fucking brain teaser in the world. It was on QI for fuck sake. No wonder they can't land that fucking rocket on the barge. Seriously my opinion of Elon Musk has just nose dived. And I already knew he was a South African.

  2. Re:not the real question on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 4, Funny

    No. It is because when the generic olive skinned hijackers take over the aircraft the hero can hack into the system with the assistance of the plucky, attractive flight attendant and save the presidents life. Duh.

  3. Re: question on German Court Rules Adblock Plus Is Legal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes. Those things are limits on free speech. The OP want's "absolutely no limits" on it.

  4. Re: question on German Court Rules Adblock Plus Is Legal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So it's cool if I go around telling people you are a pedophile?

  5. Stupid Coworker on Using Adderall In the Office To Get Ahead · · Score: 2

    Stupid coworkers are still stupid on speed.

  6. Re:So - the fact that others are doing it makes it on Google, Apple and Microsoft Squirm As Global Tax Schemes Scrutinized · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When you cheat you tax collectors a few thousand then you end up in court. When a large corporation is minimising tax then it is much more of a negotiation. You are insignificant. Google employs lots of people and generates lots of revenue and can hire the best legal advice and accountants.

  7. Re:what will be more interesting on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Drinking is not the same thing as assaulting a co-worker.

  8. Re:what will be more interesting on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Ummm. Yes. Of course.

  9. Re:what will be more interesting on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Or as they like to be called. UKIP voters

  10. Re:what will be more interesting on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    The one great positive to me is that he won't turn up on QI anymore. Love QI but always dread the episodes he was on.

  11. Re:Good! on RSA Conference Bans "Booth Babes" · · Score: 1

    The implication is that the only people worth attracting the attention of is male(or perhaps gay female).

  12. Re:First principle - who pays? on European Commission Proposes "Digital Single Market" and End To Geoblocking · · Score: 1

    > mandatory TV licence The TV license is not mandatory. I did not have one for years because I didn't have a TV. However you are constantly bombarded with mail and hassle even if you really are not capable of watching the BBC.

  13. Re:Tit for tat on Top-Secret US Replica of Iran Nuclear Sites Key To Weapons Deal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You mean your copies of German technology from 1945?

  14. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 2

    And yet other countries have done this without a problem(my own country of Australia among them... and if you whine about not having as many people consider how much more road and distance we have compared to pussy sized little UK). Are the british and americans just inherently incompetent?

  15. Re: The world we live in. on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1, Troll

    It is and there have been numerous studies to back this up. The stories about Rohypnol and GHB are all moral panic bollocks. Why bother using complicated, hard to obtain and potentially dangerous drugs when good old fashion vodka will do the trick for a would be rapist. This is a solution for a problem that does not really exist.

  16. Re:Great... on Satellite Images Show Russians Shelling Ukraine · · Score: 2

    I kind of get the feeling that the guys that shot down MH17 didn't even tell their own side they were going to start taking pot shots at aircraft. I think the enitire thing was a cluster fuck.

  17. Re:It gets worse... on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 2

    > remember how many groups claimed 9/11 before it was finally pinned down to Bin Laden. I remember. It was none. Zero. Nobody claimed responsibility not even Al Qaeda. Who the fuck would?

  18. Re:solution not taxation on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    What if the shift was on the car itself not the fuel(people can be funny about thinking things through). What if there was a 20% increase applied to traditional cars that was not applied to alternative cars.

  19. Re:Or, of course extensions that google doesn't li on Google To Block Local Chrome Extensions On Windows Starting In January · · Score: 1

    I have never seen mediahint blocked and I use chrome to access US netflix from the UK. Here is the thing about that.... netflix know very very well that this is happening... they have to with the amount of ML profiling and monitoring they do. My account is clearly marked as a UK account and it would be trivial for them to check against that. But they don't. The do a geo test and if you pass that you get thru. They know... they don't care. It means more people will sign up for netflix if they can get both UK and US access.

  20. Re:XBOX? on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 1

    "A grim day for Robotkind. Eh, but we can always build more killbots."

  21. Re: and so meanwhile... on Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL? · · Score: 1

    SQL server still doesnt default to a network listener on install.

  22. Re:At least it's a business plan on BlackBerry Delays Launch of BBM Apps For iOS, Android · · Score: 1

    I think the confusino is that none of that shit is the OS. It all looks like the user land of the OS. My udnerstanding is that BBOS10 is QNX Neutrino at the core... that OS is rock solid(former QNX system developer here). It's one of the most stables OSes around... makes Linux./BSD look like DOS is some regards.

  23. Re:Like a Nokia Android wouldn't have bombed? on Nokia Had an Android Phone In Development · · Score: 1

    > with Android you have a race to the bottom Umm thats the idea isn't it. It's a good thing.

  24. Re:I work in consulting... on Man Trying To Fly Across the Atlantic On Helium Balloons · · Score: 2

    Hey anything that results in the injury or death of an Accenture is OK by me.

  25. Re:Hope one of those megaprojects is to clean the on China's Secret Scientific Megaprojects · · Score: 1

    And on top of that it really wasn't that long ago that Western nations were doing just the same as China is currently. It wasn't really until the 60s-70s that the US friends started passing serious environmental protection laws.