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  1. Re:There is only one way to find out the truth. on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 1

    #REF!

  2. Re:and that is the threat to the big labels; on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 1

    That lot is just audio engineering. It's nothing that is really uniquely provided by the big name record labels. Having said that, you could probably hire a studio to do the recording sessions. I just checked out the Abbey Road website, and it doesn't say anything in the Terms & Conditions [PDF warning] about having be signed to EMI to make a studio booking.

  3. Re:Why is this an important niche? on Nokia Takes Third Swing at Internet Tablet · · Score: 1

    Or yeah, checking slashdot from bed helps. So slashdot is your Kama Sutra?
  4. Re:This may not even be the most efficient way on Geek and Gadgets Set Cross-US Speed Record · · Score: 0

    and were able to drive straight through without ever stopping or breaking the speed limit. Not quite sure how your Japanese king cab mini pickup is capable of averaging 90 mph while not breaking speed limits...
  5. Re:"They" is rarely a single viewpoint. on OSI Approves Microsoft Ms-PL and Ms-RL · · Score: 1

    Once you clear a certain size, you can't have every decision cross your CEO's desk or they'll get nothing done. I would have though that the CEO is responsible for publishing and implementing corporate policy. This seems to be somewhat related to a corporate policy issue. Confusing your customer base with apparently conflicting business values can't be good for the business in the longer term.
  6. Re:Nice one... on Australians Running On-Line Poll Based Senators · · Score: 1

    it should be possible for the people to override the government on that specific issue immediately, rather than waiting for another election in several years and voting them out entirely. That's called lobbying...
  7. Re:Interesting approach on Australians Running On-Line Poll Based Senators · · Score: 1

    A couple of generatiosn will fix that...

  8. Re:get real on Bill Gates Denied Visa To Nigeria · · Score: 1

    That's a bit lame

  9. Re:It's got a lot of coolness factor to it but... on New Car Sensor System Simulates Birds-Eye View · · Score: 1

    Sure, computers may be more reliable than people, but people reliant on computers (or calculators) are incapacitated when they don't have their mental prosthetics.

  10. Re:Saving lives on New Car Sensor System Simulates Birds-Eye View · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. You can see just as much, if not more, through correctly aligned mirrors as looking directly out the windows. More so if you have convex mirrors. Looking out of the side and rear windows (or opening the doors, as some old farts do), is for pansies with no spatial awareness.

  11. Re:Did anyone else... on Inside Nvidia's Testing Facilities · · Score: 1

    So unremarkable, that you had to leave a remark, eh?

  12. Re:Did anyone else... on Inside Nvidia's Testing Facilities · · Score: 3, Funny

    No. You are special.

  13. Re:I just got an empty page reading... on Inside Nvidia's Testing Facilities · · Score: 1

    Meh? I never read those employee training videos.

  14. SAP needs to buy BEA to survive? on Oracle's $6.7 Billion Bid for BEA Turned Down · · Score: 1

    Trip Chowdhry of Global Equity Research said he expects a counterbid from SAP, which he said needs BEA to survive. 'If they don't get BEA, probably in two years SAP will be on the block to sell itself, So if Oracle buys BEA, does that set the scene for Oracle/BEA to buy SAP in two year's time?

    Does this mean companies need to become an international monopoly in order to survive? My mind boggles at all the corporate takeovers, M&As etc.
  15. Re:useful arts on Hard Drive Imports to be Banned? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Only if the three rights average greater than 60

  16. Re:Congratulations on Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel · · Score: 1

    Taxes and rebates aren't worth a damn. The only way to resolve the carbon emissions issue is to cap the production of carbon based fuels, allowing increased production only where demonstrated sequestration technologies are concurrently implemented.

    The whole Kyoto protocol and emissions trading stuff is fluff and nonsense. Ultimately that system (and any other emissions trading system) relies on the government to set the emissions cap (which can easily be fudged).

    It is worth noting that the entire premise of John Howard's claim that Australia will meet it's Kyoto targets (without ratification, notably) is based on 'offsets' due to reduction in the rate of land clearing (when measured against some projected forecasts). Nothing concrete has been done.

    'Clean coal', widely touted as the panacea (along with nuclear) is probably decades off widespread implementation. Notably 'clean coal' does not include any form of CO2 sequestration, unlike it's extended technology, carbon capture and storage. CCS is even further off into the future. Unfortunately, the general public has been mislead into believing that 'clean coal' is a greenhouse gas solution, which it is not. They are also misled into believing implementation of these technologies is imminent. Nuclear fusion has had more development that either of these.

    As I say, it's all fluff, aimed at lulling the public into accepting status quo.

  17. Re:Load of fear-mongering crap on Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early · · Score: 1

    Remove in airplane washroom, detonate at your pleasure. Why remove it? Let the shit hit the turbofan, I say...
  18. Re:Misnomer on Air Force to Get "Cyber Sidearms" · · Score: 1

    A sidearm is a weapon... And both of my arms are on my side too. Where are yours? In front?
  19. Re:Easy- a lot of it will go on The Evolution of Language · · Score: 1

    ...a wombat is smallish four legged burrowing marsipual which eats bush, roots and leaves. There, corrected that for you.
  20. Re:WILL be? on Hacking the Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    In Australia, the political parties lie, and 733t h4xorz get to tell the truth...

  21. Re:Proves nothing on Scientists Deliver 'God' Via A Helmet · · Score: 1

    But all major definitions of God by mainstream religions are logically inconsistent... I don't think the major monotheistic religion definition of God [substitute name of ultimate deity] are inconsistent, as by definition they are the all seeing, omnipotent creater of life, the universe etc.

    Having said that, the issue is that God, in fact, is a defined being (which is what I believe is the main purpose of the biblical book Genesis - defining the power of God and His relationship with the creation). So God (or gods) can be as much or as little as you want it to be.
  22. Re:Surely this includes the hallucinations on Scientists Deliver 'God' Via A Helmet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since Jesus apparently had other siblings, why do people still refer to his mother as virgin?

  23. Re:Tired of this goddamn label on SAS CEO Blasts Old-School Schooling · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly. They can figure out the interface, but most really don't understand the underlying technology.

  24. Re:DHS on DHS Injects Itself With DDoS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's Allhu Akbar, you imposter.

    (A idiomatic translation of which is embossed/printed on all US currency)

  25. Re:So thermal heat packs.... on D.C. Commuters to be Scanned With Infrared Cameras · · Score: 1

    Scrotum sacks? How many scrotums (scroti?) do you have if you need a sack for them?