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  1. As C Heston said... on Dutch Court Punishes Theft of Virtual Property · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll give you my avatar when you take it from my cold dead hands.

  2. Re:Bug Me Not on Paul McCartney On Music In the Digital World · · Score: 1

    That's the Oracle DBA in the corner desk! I'm sneaking out now...

  3. Re:Bug Me Not on Paul McCartney On Music In the Digital World · · Score: 5, Funny

    Proxy at work has classified that BugMeNot as "Criminal". I'm expecting the Internet Police any moment now...

  4. Re:Its People! on Oracle to Layoff 2000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much help these people are going to get from Oracle in finding another job. Maybe they will get some retraining. A course on how to say "Do you want fries with that?"

  5. Re:a couple of real-world examples on How Songs Get Popular · · Score: 1

    I saw u2 on their 11 o'clock tick tock tour in 1980 and it was in a half empty back room of the General Wolfe pub in Coventry. They were already signed to Island at that stage. Not 'huge popularity' at that stage. They were very good though.

  6. Re:broken business model on Newsweek On Click Fraud, Search Engine Response · · Score: 1

    Wow, if that's the case (and you're consistent) then where do you shop? Obviously not a big supermarket because they advertise? But those small shop stock a lot of brand-name goods that you can't buy because their adverts are on the TV all the time.

    What about travel? I can't think of a car company that doesn't advertise so you obviously don't drive. Rail companies advertise so you can't take the train. Second-hand bicycle maybe.

    You have a Radical philosophy

  7. Re:Leeching? OH, how terrible! on Mobile Users Plug-in Anywhere They Can · · Score: 1

    Just make sure they give you the change from 1 cent!

  8. 5 years too late on Free IDE Gambas Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    I've been a VB programmer since version 1 and have had to move to web-based programming to get work over the past 5 years because hardly anyone was writing new desktop applications.

  9. Re:ebay sux on Chief of eBay's Indian Site Arrested, Released · · Score: 1

    Just one minute - the first part of this story is about the blow job video and the second part links this to DCMA type laws 'when dealing with copyrighted materials' So this blow job video was copyrighted? Where's the connection?

  10. Re:I always wondered... on Canada Quashes Copyright Tax on MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    Even if the levies are distributed then I bet it means Bryan Adams gets 300,000 more dollars as loose change while brilliant Canadian bands like Wintersleep or The Peter Parkers will get nothing. More likely it just goes into a slush fund for the record companies so they can pay radio stations to play their music, and hype records into the charts by buying all the copies themselves.

  11. Re:Printer Ink on PC Photo Printers Challenge Pros · · Score: 2, Informative

    They do seem to be better - but are they ripping you with their prices? Colour HP cartidge works out at £1.70 per millilitre - 1985 Dom Perignon costs 23p per millilitre

  12. Re:The correct link on PC Photo Printers Challenge Pros · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's a better article on the results at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4092653.stm

  13. Printer Ink on PC Photo Printers Challenge Pros · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The test gives a great boost to the idea of buying very expensive ink cartridges from the manufacturers.