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  1. Re:Programmable Number Plates on California Wants To Put E-Ads On License Plates · · Score: 3, Informative
  2. Re:You don't on How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? · · Score: 1

    Agreed.

    I'm studying software engineering (same course as computer science till third year). 1/4 of the course chose computer science because they somehow figured that being good at WoW and other games meant that they would be good at and enjoy computer science.

    Most of this 1/4 are within the lowest 1/4 of the year.

  3. Re:damned faintly praising? on Schooling Microsoft On Random Browser Selection · · Score: 1

    It doesn't. How could it, without communicating with a central server for the arraignment of the choices.

    He ran it for 10,000 times and came up with this graph:

    Position I.E. Firefox Opera Chrome Safari
    1 1304 2099 2132 2595 1870
    2 1325 2161 2036 2565 1913
    3 1105 2244 1374 3679 1598
    4 1232 2248 1916 590 4014
    5 5034 1248 2542 571 605

    Looks pretty significant to me. Chrome was in position 5 almost 10 times less than IE was.

  4. Re:Shenanigans on Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development · · Score: 1

    Sometimes. Remember Play4Sure?

    It's not unusual for open office to be better at opening old .doc files than later versions of MS office.

  5. Re:Change DNS settings only in your router? on Google Launches Public DNS Resolver · · Score: 1

    It is enough to change it in your router or DHCP server if other machines on the network get it automatically.
    Your router normally acts as the DNS server, and forwards requests onto your ISP's or google's.

    smither@ares:~/Documents$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
    # Generated by NetworkManager
    domain lan
    search lan
    nameserver 192.168.1.254

  6. Full disclosure a day after discovery? on WordPress Exploit Allows Admin Password Reset · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is that not a bit soon? Especially with wordpress - it's going to be ages before many people update, and it's not a critical problem.

  7. Re:Not Reading It on The Mice That Didn't Make It · · Score: 0

    It also has " and DANCE" before that line.

  8. Re:Richard Dawkins on Tomorrow's Science Heroes? · · Score: 0

    This is not true. "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

  9. Sounds efficient on Emulated PC Enables Linux Desktop In Your Browser · · Score: 2, Funny

    And it'll still be more responsive than slashdot.

  10. Re:A taste of their own medicine on Camara Goes On Offense Against the RIAA · · Score: 1

    There are a LOT more +5 posts than +3 or +4.

    This may be because a lot of people browse at +3 or +4, so only see the ones which have already made it that far.

  11. Re:OMFG! ROCKET SILOS! on Google Earth Uncovers Secret UK Nuke Base · · Score: 1

    Fuel depots.

  12. Re:Lack of knowledge not an excuse on Teachers Need an Open Source Education · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of people should not be teaching IT.

  13. Re:One theory of dark matter eh? on New Type of Particle May Have Been Found · · Score: 1

    If you want to reduce CO2, *plant trees*. Elaborating a CO2 tax scam is merely a tool for social control.

    The average CO2 or Oxygen output of a forest is 0.

  14. Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! on Hubble Finds Unidentified Object In Space · · Score: 1

    "Supernovas are industrial accidents" Arthur C. Clark, Final Odyssey

  15. Re:DoubleTake on NSFnet — 20 Years of Internet Obscurity and Insight · · Score: 1

    I read it as National Secessionist Forces, from deus ex.

  16. Re:Caps-Lock key on Review of Das Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Take it off? I do with all my keyboards.

  17. Re:Well, I don't see why not ... on A Hippocratic Oath For Scientists · · Score: 1

    "Perhaps we simply need criminal sentences for breaking any part of the hippocratic oath. " I have a few qualms about making a 2400 year old document the basis for laws.

  18. What's the story behind this? on Studies Confirm That Bad Boys Get More Girls · · Score: 1

    Sounds like some evolutionary biologists are a bit bitter.

  19. I learnt to program on this on BBC Micro Creators Reunite In London · · Score: 1

    ...when I was 7 or 8. I'm still recovering.

  20. Right on US Group Wants Canada Blacklisted Over Piracy · · Score: 1

    That's it! I'm moving to Canada!

  21. Re:They are part of *that* lot. on US Group Wants Canada Blacklisted Over Piracy · · Score: 1
  22. Plans for world domination on ESR's Desktop Linux 2008 Deadline · · Score: 1

    Only with open source are they publicly available...

  23. Plans for world domination on ESR's Desktop Linux 2008 Deadline · · Score: 1

    Only in the open source community do we make the publicly available...

  24. Re:Easier or harder? on Motorola Unveils Phone Vending Machines · · Score: 1

    Will I get my soul back when the contract expires?!

    No.