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  1. Re:Why? on MediaDefender Buys MediaSentry For $136,000 (Not $20M) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why kill yourself when you can flee the country? It's not like she's in jail or something. Talk about keeping things in perspective...

    And more to the point why just kill yourself when you could wait until the court case and take out a couple or RIAA lawyers too. Note: This is not legal advice!

  2. This bit intrigues me on EU Data-Retention Laws Stricter Than Many People Realized · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the story:

    Hundreds of public bodies and quangos, including local councils, will also be able to access the data to investigate flytipping and other less serious crimes.

    So how many people will post on a website or email their friends to say "we just dumped the old sofa in someone's driveway"?

  3. I Just Hope that Prince Charles doesn't read this on Thai Gov't Sets Up Site For Snitching On Royals' Critics · · Score: 1

    I Just Hope that Prince Charles doesn't read this. He has already said that "when" he is King he wants a presidential role and to take back some of the powers relinquished by the monarchy to parliament. I can well imagine him implementing something like this too.

  4. Re:True on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 1

    I have to admit my experience of Texas has been mainly in Houston and Dallas/Ft Worth, I can quite believe that El Paso and San Antonio would be different. Louisiana is certainly on my list of places to visit in the USA

  5. True on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From my experience most Americans can't take our spicy tika masalas let alone the vindaloo. I would make an exception for residents of New Mexico, you really can get a decently hot chilli there but what Texans call hot is really just approaching medium.

  6. Re:Nonsense on Linux Needs Critics · · Score: 1

    In that post he criticizes Firefox for becoming feature-bloated and criticizes Ubuntu for not having enough new features.

    Smart. If they both take note he can have a follow-up blog about how Ubuntu is feature-bloated and Firefox does not have enough new features.

  7. Re:If only on Google Bans Tethering App From Android Market · · Score: 1

    So if you had billions of dollars, you would not be interested in making more money, you would give it all away?? And not to the poor in Africa, to some fuckers wanting cheaper internet??

    I think we can all guess why you don't, and never will have Billions of dollars.

    He didn't say he wouldn't be providing this super internet service in Africa.

  8. Re:I'm compensating. on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm doing the same thing, just the other way 'round.

    So....you're making use of those great e-mail offers to compensate for your small car?

    Man, if I had to get a small car to compensate for my dick the Tata Nano would be way too large for me.

  9. Oh Great on PRS Demands License Fee To Play Music To Horses · · Score: 1

    This is demonstrated by dogs ability to create their own music, howling or barking with patterns of intricate information.

    This means that next time the dog barks I will probably have the PRS round to collect royalties on behalf of him!

  10. Re:So stop... on PRS Demands License Fee To Play Music To Horses · · Score: 4, Interesting

    She could always get royalty free music.

  11. Don't tell the PRS on PRS Demands License Fee To Play Music To Horses · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But I play music for the dogs on Guy Fawkes night. The music distracts them from the sound of the fireworks. It would never have occurred to me that this could be a "public performance".

  12. Re:nice... on Is That "Sexting" Pic Illegal? A Scientific Test · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's a nice proof that Southern Baptist churches (typically wood) are satanic, whereas the Anglican and Catholic stone churches (Stone) aren't.

  13. Re:Summary is wrong on UK Libel Law Is a Global Threat To Web Free Speech · · Score: 1

    I would imagine that if you were against a large company this would be prohibitively expensive, Mcdonalds spent millions in the mcLibel trial. Even if the underwriters give you a nine out of ten chance of winning they would charge hundreds of thousands of pound for such a policy.

  14. Call that good on Mixed Outcome of Texas Textbook Vote · · Score: 3, Funny

    I live in Texas and I have to tell you that the news that makes national and world headlines from this state is never good... outside that one press release on the invention of breast augmentation.,/p>

    Not so good. The flat-chested girls were the only ones who would date geeks.

  15. Re:Summary is wrong on UK Libel Law Is a Global Threat To Web Free Speech · · Score: 1

    Apart from that the "no win no fee" applies to your own lawyers fees. Here in the UK if you lose a civil case you will almost certainly be ordered to pay the opponents fees.

  16. Re:Learn how to learn on Proposal Suggests UK Students Study Wikipedia and Twitter · · Score: 3, Funny

    They'll get round to the Second World War later on when they're at an age to study it with better understanding. It's not being skipped. Just delayed.

    Thank god for that. I was beginning to worry that future generations of "England" football fans would not know what to chant in the England vs Germany matches.

  17. Re:Grammer Nitpick on Proposal Suggests UK Students Study Wikipedia and Twitter · · Score: 1

    It has gone back to being acceptable.

    Yes, whenever someone says "don't start sentences off with conjunctions" I always think of William Blake's "Jerusalem" and how much worse it sounds if you drop the "And".

  18. Re:Grammer Nitpick on Proposal Suggests UK Students Study Wikipedia and Twitter · · Score: 1

    You're not really supposed to start sentences off with conjunctions.

    But who says so?

    And why do they say it?

  19. I could use it on Gmail Adds 5 Second Send Rule · · Score: 5, Funny

    The other day I felt so generous that I sent an email telling someone that I would pay 2,000, 000, million billion US dollars to anyone who would help me get my dead father's money out of Nigeria.

    A second later I thought "you know I could just keep the money myself", but it was too late. Keep looking, you might be the lucky one getting my email.

  20. Re:Now all they need to do is on Blockbuster OnDemand Comes To TiVo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thompson just made massive mistakes with their launch and marketing of it.

    You can say that again. The Tivo adverts made it look really confusing and you could watch one without knowing what Tivo actually does! Compare that to the very good adverts for Sky+, which emphasise that its so easy that your gran use it do it and you see why Tivo flopped.

  21. Now all they need to do is on Blockbuster OnDemand Comes To TiVo · · Score: 1

    Now all they need to do is bring the Tivo back to the UK. There are still people maintaining or even buying old UK-spec tivos because nothing else manages the "program prediction" as well.

  22. Re:I would go further than Linus on this one... on Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release · · Score: 1

    Is that you Linus?

  23. But he would have nothing to do with the content on German Police Raid Homes of Wikileaks.de Domain Owner · · Score: 1

    Don't they realise that the national wikileaks sites are mirror sites, the guy has nothing to do with the content!

  24. Re: Guilty Upon Accusation on New Zealand Halts Internet Copyright Law Changes · · Score: 1

    As far as mistakes by Americans go it could have been worse. They might have thought you had WMD's capable of deployment within 15 minutes.

  25. Re:*This is fake* on Australia's Vast, Scattershot Censorship Blacklist Revealed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouldn't it be easy enough to find out if its fake. If someone from OZ clicks a bunch of the links, and they can't access them, its real, if they can....its fake....or am I missing something?

    There could be a severe punishment for anyone dong this. They could even be transported to Britain.