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  1. Re:Except that... on London Turned into Giant Board Game · · Score: 0
    So, even though I couldn't be shagged looking through all the properties on the board they have there, I bet Wimbeldon is there.
    So, someone looks it up, but your hunch is more likely to be correct? Monopoly is one of the two games on my mobile phone (ideal for a quick skive at work) and I assure you there is no Wimbledon. Now, everyone who didn't fail it can leave early. Er, where do you think you're going, spoco2?
  2. Re:I don't know if you noticed the dollar dropping on Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S. · · Score: 0
    ribbet?
    No, "Pardon, je ne comprends pas l'anglais" ;-)
  3. Re:A constant battle on Major Blow to Opponents of Software Patents in EU · · Score: 1, Insightful
    "And small and medium sized software companies produce crap that shouldn't be in the industry."

    Even if you could prove that (and you can't, because it's bullshit), most big software companies started out small. So remove the small companies and in 10 years there'll be no big ones, which we all know (or which shills like you claim to think) produce all the totally brilliant high quality software in the universe.

  4. Re:It hasn't taken off on Big Retailers Timid About Selling Linux Boxen · · Score: 0
    Walmart will sell anything that people will buy.
    Really? How's their pr0n section these days?
  5. Re:subscription on Makers of MAKE · · Score: 0
    It's not "the law" that magazine subscriptions are subject to the recipient's local sales tax.

    Just as well, seeing as it isn't flaunt, it's flout.
  6. Re:Links on New Amazon Patent Cites Bezos Patent Reform · · Score: 0
    From TFL above, http://www.onecause.com/shop/amazon.asp
    - We have over 300 other "top shelf" merchants that are willing to support our worthwhile causes.
    I guess they're not from the UK, where "top shelf" has a somewhat different meaning.
  7. Re:Text of granted patent on New Amazon Patent Cites Bezos Patent Reform · · Score: 0

    Whatever, you like so totally fail it. Mine has all that and "with an intarweb" tacked on the end. Too bad you didn't bagsy that, so yah-boo sucks!

  8. Re:Technical Inovation Indeed on New Amazon Patent Cites Bezos Patent Reform · · Score: 0
    the patent lawyer used the example of nails and screws and how they appear the same to engineers while to lawyers they are as different as cats and dogs.
    In that case, I'd conclude that (patent) lawyers are failed engineers.
  9. Re:Nothing against SETI on SETI Disrupted By Cell Phones in Airplanes? · · Score: 0
    At least until we're populated there (which at this rate is going to be a while), it would presumably mask out signals from the earth
    In that case, how would it communicate with the base lab on Earth?

    Anyway it would only work at night. Unless they built another base in Australia. Or something.

  10. Re:Unavoidable... on SETI Disrupted By Cell Phones in Airplanes? · · Score: 0
    Imagine trying to hear someone playing a flute from 30 miles away. Now imagine you're trying to hear that flute, standing 50 yards from a raging waterfall.
    It could be worse, you could be standing next to some waste of oxygen bellowing "I'M ON THE TRAIN".
  11. Re:No cell phones on aircraft! on SETI Disrupted By Cell Phones in Airplanes? · · Score: 0
    I can see the value of a cell phone call, but can't see the value of searching (seemingly in vain) for beings that we can't* communicate with.
    Oh come on. Europeans aren't that bad.
  12. Re:New trend? on Japan Striving For Energy Efficiency · · Score: 0
    ... massive weight, massive weight, massive weight, massive weight, massive weight.
    So this specific SUV you're talking about, it's a 5 seater, right?
  13. Re:Sounds over specialized to me on New .XXX Top Level Domain · · Score: 0

    It's not that you buffoon, it's the number thirty.

  14. Re:In SOVIET Russia ... on Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi Nuke' · · Score: -1

    There's a name for thse who were in the Wehrmacht but weren't Nazis: Germans.

  15. Re:Actually, you do illustrate just the point on Too Much Homework Can Be Counterproductive · · Score: 0
    If we followed a Montissori type system
    ... then perhaps there'd be fewer dullwads around who don't know that it's Montessori.
  16. Re:Pfffft on Too Much Homework Can Be Counterproductive · · Score: 0
    The word "gay" in that sense means something akin to " [...] unlikely to be well-received by anyone with traditionally masculine values and/or attitudes."

    There's no other word that does that.

    "iPod" comes pretty close.
  17. Re:The Inverse on IT Giants Accused of Exploiting Open Source · · Score: 0
    They choose to be unpaid.
    Or maybe they just suck.
  18. Re:Toby the Spoiled Brat on IT Giants Accused of Exploiting Open Source · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    they have learnt basic software engineering skills that many geeks do not learn by themselves, such as UML.
    What, even people who graduated in dentistry?
  19. Re:Well, duh! on Another Star Wars Prequel? · · Score: -1
    Cannon means what the original author/creator himself has done/written.
    No, it means artillery, you ignorant fucktard.
  20. Re:Hmm... on Another Star Wars Prequel? · · Score: 3, Funny

    How long will that take (in parsecs)?

  21. Re:Money use on PalmOne to become Palm Again; PalmSource & Linux · · Score: 0
    ... and another 0.6 seconds later, someone would s/S/$/.

    Note to self, upon owning massive software monopoly, choose a name that doesn't contain any of the letters S,E, or L. Oh, and Y.

  22. Re:No discussion? on OpenBSD Hackathon Approaching · · Score: 0

    In Soviet Russia, recipe contains port!!! But only if they can't find any vodka.

  23. Re:1984! on UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets · · Score: 1
    if a citizen asks the police to install a mick in order to capture people doing noise
    How does that work, then: "Oh, to be sure to be sure, dere was music blarin' out, so there was, an all an all. Whoi don't yer go book the gobshoite now, officer, da noisy fecker"?
  24. Re:Just a proposal, hopefully... on Dutch Pass iPod Tax · · Score: 0
    Ever heard of sheet music?
    You talkin about Breetney Spears, gringo?
  25. Re:Almost Brilliant on New Computer Powered By PoE · · Score: 0
    USB bus
    Do you work in the department of redundancy department?