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  1. Re:Could I give a tip to my fellow Americans? on Rescued Banks Sought Foreign Help During Meltdown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He said he's hired these guys - you'd find out quite quickly if they've been spinning you a load of BS. But don't let facts get in the way of prejudices.

  2. Oblig Penny Arcade on Retailer Planning Laptops With Intel Core i7 Chips · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Time to tighten our belts on IBM Hides the Bodies, Eyes US Government Billions · · Score: 1

    Silvio Berlusconi is a fuckwit - not "enlightened" by any stretch of the imagination.

  4. Re:Bit of a tangent on The "Bloody Mess" That Is Intel's Poulsbo Driver · · Score: 1

    Intel eepro10/100 cards are really good, as is their wireless stuff. Your friend is talking shit- except Intel pretended that AMD didn't do 64 bits first.

  5. Re:Sarah Palin an expert in geology and vulcanolog on Alaskans Prepare For Volcanic Eruption · · Score: 2, Funny

    Score 2, Flamebait? Boy is someone still sore about the election.

  6. Re:7.2MW for 9000 homes? on Power In Scotland From Tides and Whiskey · · Score: 1

    Winter or summer?

    Never mind, summer doesn't really happen north of Berwick.

  7. Re:What's the big deal? on Charter Launches 60 Mbps Service · · Score: 1

    But the Finns make me look like a moderate drinker!

  8. Re:Is this surprising? on UK Proposes Broadband Expansion, Plus a Music and Film Tax · · Score: 1

    If I had to specifically decide which my license fee went to and which producers had to be locked away for eternity for crimes against TV and sanity, the Big Brother people would definitely have to be the ones locked in the Big Brother house along with the mindless contestants of each series they've made so far.

    And the Komodo Dragon. Don't forget the Komodo Dragon.

  9. Re:erase my mortgage on Fannie Mae Worker Indicted For Malicious Script · · Score: 1

    If it caused millions of dollars of damage *and* shut everything down for a week, they might save money overall.

  10. Re:My first experience with LED lighting... on LED Lighting As Cheap As CFLs Invented · · Score: 1

    500W halogen floods are regularly used in the UK - see with any incandescent, the more it heats up, the greater the resistance becomes and so it's all kind of self limiting. Usually these are outside, but no reason why you couldn't place one in a warehouse or something. Active cooling, active bollocks more like.

  11. Re:Streisand effect strikes again on Lie Detector Company Threatens Critical Scientists With Suit · · Score: 1

    Sadly, "our ex-colonies aren't as fucked up as the French/Belgian ex-colonies" isn't exactly high praise.

  12. Re:It justifies on 45% of Dutch Media-Buying Population Are "Pirates" · · Score: 1

    Illegal copying is like using drugs. You don't foresee any problem eary times and even feel good about it. But eventually it harms your body and future.

    I do very little copying, but I'm pretty sure, if it's harming your body, you're doing something very, very wrong.

  13. Re:No Critisism of F/OSS? on KDE 4.2 Is Released · · Score: 1

    I've adminned a 7000-host network, 3k of those being Microsoft boxes. Now, I have to admit to running Linux myself, but if it wasn't Linux it would be *BSD or something.

    Maybe the fact that everyone has it in for MS has something to do with their products, their licensing, their support suck in a really, really big way?

    Ask some Windows and some UNIX admins how many boxes they can support per person and then tell me I'm wrong.

  14. Re:Thanks to the KDE 4 Devs! on KDE 4.2 Is Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Er, nuclear weapons physics is NOT pyrotechnics. I think I'll skip any fireworks displays you may be organising.

  15. Re:It is good SSN becomes totally public on What Web Surfers Can Find Out About You · · Score: 1

    Bzzt! He's right.

    A SSN is identification (user name), but gets used for authorisation (password) as well. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

    Because everyone else seems to realise that e.g. my National Insurance number is printed on a card, it can't possibly be a secret and thus the tax people only use it to match it up to their database, not as a "secret" to authenticate me.

  16. Re:Model Tee Hee Hee on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 1

    There's also a whole lot of sighted pedestrians who don't look over there shoulder before stepping off the kerb. Apparently, I have a stealth bicycle.

    I'd feel bad about the blind people, but the other guys have it coming.

  17. Re:"All traces of George W. Bush disappeared" on We're In Danger of Losing Our Memories · · Score: 1

    President GW Bush: "Mostly Harmful"

  18. Re:Something to credit Microsoft for on Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 RC1 · · Score: 1

    No, I'm fairly sure Firefox 3.0 beta shipped with Ubuntu 8.04.

  19. Re:Hey, this is Unix! I know this! on Daemon · · Score: 1

    Actually, if they were using IRIX, having a couple of staff members eaten by dinosaurs is probably a relatively good outcome.

  20. Re:from TFA on AMD Phenom II Overclocked To 6.5GHz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Two vast and shapeless puffs of smoke
    Fill the basement. Near them on the floor,
    Half black, a shatter'd hard disk lies,...

  21. Re:They Should purchase it back on US Army Files Found On Second-Hand MP3 Player · · Score: 0

    Even worse, /dev/urandom on my computer contains ALL secret US military data. I'm certainly going to do a 3 pass wipe before I chuck this machine away.

  22. Re:And the previous owner was? on US Army Files Found On Second-Hand MP3 Player · · Score: 2, Funny

    The IRS ceased her home and garnished her wages

    That usage sounds weird to this European - like I'd end up with a sprig of rosemary and a bit of orange peel in my pay packet, or something.

  23. Re:CDE and Motif on Linus Switches From KDE To Gnome · · Score: 1

    Nothing says "hard core" like twm.

  24. Re:As for preservation on Long-Term PC Preservation Project? · · Score: 1

    But how did it taste?

  25. Re:Will there be no wiki truths? on Edit-Approval System Proposed For English-Language Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Yeah, everyone knows it's "irk". Come on, people!