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  1. Re:Just put them in your microwave on You Need Not Be Paranoid To Fear RFID · · Score: 1
    Good point on SOMEONE taking it violently, not just some unfortunate from the Big Easy

    Is your sense of humour underwater too?
  2. Re:Why ALL of the keys? on Das Keyboard: Hit Any Key · · Score: 1
    ... all of the auxiliary stuff is labelled wrong (shift-2 is ", for instance). But I've got it on an English layout.
    Why would you not have it on an English layout? It is English. The proper kind of English, from England.

    QWERTY that has Shift-2 with @ on it is U.S. English.

  3. Re:Misleading summary... on Linux Trademark Rejected in Australia · · Score: 1
    In law you need to be sure beyond any doubt.
    In that case it's impossible to convict anybody of anything. So what if you murdered someone in front of 50,000 witnesses and on national television too? Any doubt means claiming a shapeshifting alien dooppelganger did it is a valid defence.

    Just guessing, but YANAL, right?

  4. Re:Linux doesn't deserve a trademark on Linux Trademark Rejected in Australia · · Score: 1

    I wondered if it was the "We tried .... that person is no longer with the company" troll.

  5. Re:Yin and Yang on Rickford Grant Interview · · Score: 1
    I find many people seem prone to categorizing everything as either good or evil
    Fascinating. I find that some people are prone to that, and others aren't.
  6. Re:What about Bose Headphones? on Is the iPod Generation Going Deaf? · · Score: 1
    For people like truck drivers, machine operators, or generally anyone who's around whole bunches of loud noise the first thing to go sub-base to base
    Why is it the first to go? Did somebody set up them a bomb or something?
  7. Re:Dude this is slashdot on What's On Your Tech Bench? · · Score: 1

    Even the lowest division has to have a team in last place.

  8. Re:God don't play dices on Controlling Hurricanes? · · Score: 1
    talk with a biologist, it will tell you that after all major natural disasters life as spred and envolve into new forms, thus adapting to a new realitty.
    So?
    This is a purpose for me!!!
    Then you're a 'tard, because that's a consequence, not a purpose.
  9. Re:Dude this is slashdot on What's On Your Tech Bench? · · Score: 1

    Worst chatup line ever.

  10. Re:I think the solution is obviously on Controlling Hurricanes? · · Score: 1

    It's the only way to be sure.

  11. Re:God don't play dices on Controlling Hurricanes? · · Score: 1
    Hurricanes have always served some nature purpose.
    No they haven't. Some things just are, get over it.
  12. Re:Easy way to control hurricanes: on Controlling Hurricanes? · · Score: 1
    Best putdown ever, taking a figure of speech and demonstrating that it's not literally true.

    Assuming you drive an SUV, couldn't you just shove a sock down your pants?

  13. Re:Global Impact on Controlling Hurricanes? · · Score: 1
    I would hardly call that immediately losing power.
    I would hardly call that losing all its power.
  14. Re:Science is complex. on Bad Science in the Press · · Score: 1
    Therefore it is my considered opinion that, in the long run, Japanese rule would have been beneficial to Asia
    Your source for that would be what? Your ass?
    I believe that, had Japan been victorious in WW-II, the millitary would have been disbanded eventually, and the territories annexed by Japan would come under civilian government control.
    Same source as before, I suppose?
    the one that stands out above all else in relative priority is the Caucasian horde
    Some might consider that just slightly racist.

    The Japanese [...] were genuinely interested in freeing our countryby military action from the severe tyranny of the British.
    Of course they were. And the Nazis were just liberating Ukraine from the Bolsheviks.
  15. Re:Insightful? on Bulky System Requirements for Windows Vista · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Of course, it depends on the structure of your data structures..."

    Are you sure? I thought it depended on the structure of the structure of your data structures.

  16. Re:You forgot! on Secretaries Sacked After Flamewar at Work · · Score: 1
    Oh my. (1) I asked for you to not fill in the missing ones
    Would you please forward the memo, I appear to have missed it.

    That's the one telling us that someone died and that you are now King. Thanks in advance.

  17. Re:Hearsay on Secretaries Sacked After Flamewar at Work · · Score: 2, Funny
    If they wanted to "sort out their differnces" (as we say in Blighty) they should have met up in the bike sheds after work for a good old fashioned punch up whilst their mates kept watch for teachers (sorry "bosses").
    Or signed up to /. and had their flamewar here - highest karma after 5 days wins.
  18. Re:Oh, the horror of Outlook Express on Secretaries Sacked After Flamewar at Work · · Score: 1

    Mod parent insightful. There are many types of communication for which the usenet model fits a darn sight better than the email one. Anything bouncing & refining ideas, for example.

  19. Re:Mostly pointless. on Logitech Unveils Smart Mouse · · Score: 1
    Yeah, I do that, but when it's been in a laptop bag the cord 'learns' another shape. Or some knob comes to your desk and rearranges it.

    I have a fairly light touch and I set my mouse sensitivity high. I can feel the cable dragging.

    I have a wired MS wheel mouse optical and the cordless equivalent at home; the weight difference isn't noticeable. Only downside of the wireless one is the sensor is pretty big - as big as the mouse, in fact. Can't remember if it was 20 Euro or 20 Quid.

  20. Re:10 buttons? on Logitech Unveils Smart Mouse · · Score: 1

    The problem with ten buttons is it doesn't leave much room for anything that isn't a button. Call me wierd, but I find the non-button zones on a mouse fulfill a useful function - for holding & moving the damn thing.

  21. Re:Why? on Logitech Unveils Smart Mouse · · Score: 1

    Totally agree. Why the fuck do mouse drivers feel they need to connect to the internet? That's leaving aside dumb ideas like "move mouse over to select", "hover for 0.5 seconds = right click" and similar garbage.

  22. Re:Ouch on Secretaries Sacked After Flamewar at Work · · Score: 1
    misspelling of loser

    Not necessarily, in this context it might mean the one that isn't tighter.
  23. Re:Worst. Sentence. Ever. on Evidence Dinosaurs Are Like Giant Chicks · · Score: 1
    The word "whit" means "a tiny amount of something."
    I knew that.
    Pray tell, what would "to whit" mean?
    Work it out yourself, Einstein. Accurate to a very small measure? Right on the dot? To the penny?
    Unfortunately, there's a certain caliber of person which simply blindly believes whatever they were raised on, and chooses to look down on anyone which says otherwise.
    No, I've always used it wuth an "h" (not that I write it every day) but it sems you are in fact right. Arrogant and not particularly funny, but right - at least this time.
    Few people's arrogant and erroneous attempts at snide rebuttal develop googlefight results as stilted as 90k versus 2mil.
    As you're such an authority on words, no doubt you'll explain to us all how the ratio of two numbers can be "Stiffly or artificially formal; stiff" or even bombastic; stiffly pompous.

    How ironic[1] - you don't know what the word means, and it describes you.

    So, One all. Oh, except I'm still ahead, because I can read the letters "ing" at the end of "resembling" and you can't.

    Nice try, but you've yet to even make it to the halfwit mark
    Sir, I eagerly await your response. Probably something intellectual, like "My ID is lower than yours - ner ner!".

    [1] At least in the Alannis Morissette sense. So don't even start about that, gaylord.

  24. Re:Learn from nature on Rebuilding New Orleans With Science · · Score: 1
    Once you start to do that, you are no longer maintaining a nature reserve but you have just become a garderener with a big & unusually wet garden.
    An unusually wet, low garden. Well said, clog-wearing buddy!
  25. Re:Worst. Sentence. Ever. on Evidence Dinosaurs Are Like Giant Chicks · · Score: 1
    To wit, it is also common
    ... to confuse "wit" and "whit", apparently. You consider yourself to be the former, and you're half right.