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  1. Re:Is it blacker than priests socks? on The Blackest Material · · Score: 1

    they were very very very very very very VERY very dark GREEN actually.

  2. Re:Well, not just that. on Tor Open To Attack · · Score: 1

    no need: see numerous guides on how-to use bitorrent through TOR that turn it into the internet superhighway equivalent of a milkfloat

  3. Re:Scary on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    because Christians actually do a heck of a lot of good in the world as well (www.tearfund.org) (www.christianaid.org) despite what your dawkinist convictions have led you to believe whearas scientology is stuck up its own ass?

  4. Re:Hmmm on Linux Hackers Offered Early Access to Next-Gen DVR · · Score: 1

    although external hardrives that connect via USB are cheap as chips now heck even compact flash is cheapish... a harddrive is not a major thing to add to something like this what matters is the technology and idea behind it.. I hope they make a PAL (or whatever other compatability fix it would need) version for the UK.

  5. 24" cinema display please? on Apple Unveils 24" iMac · · Score: 4, Interesting

    well hopefully this will trigger an update for an apple 24" monitor as well to compete with the dell and Benq ones- as 24" has a slightly lower pixel density we could almost hope for a sane price on that one too- or maybe not

  6. Re:Quick question. on School Admins Demand Access to Students' Cellphones · · Score: 1

    sorry but UK fatalities caused by gun crime in 03-04 70 (source bbc), US fatalites 30,000+ (wikipedia).. in contrast the number of under 14's in the US killed accidentally by guns is around 70- carrying guns dosn't make you safer it makes you an idiot. while you're having this argument in th us the rest of the world is busy not killing themselves

  7. Re:Physics majors have to work somewhere on Dick Tracy's New Linux Box? · · Score: 1

    actually with wrist watches this is verry easy to do- my £10 watch has a backlight that only turns on when you look at it- there's a simple tilt sensor in the watch that registeres the angle chage when you turn our wrist away from its natural position

  8. Bling Gordon on Interview With Bing Gordon (EA) · · Score: 1

    was it just me that read that as bling gordon? like flash gordon only with 50% more whores

  9. Re:The Dog That Didn't Bark. on Internet Search Company Execs Disagree on Future Search Technology · · Score: 1

    dude you didn't know? ask.com IS jeeves http://sp.uk.ask.com/en/docs/about/jeeves_retireme nt.shtml- he was fired man, i'm sorry i had to be the one to tell you

  10. some good features though on Flock, the Web 2.0 Browser? · · Score: 1

    true most of flock is hype and garbage but when you actually use it (i know this is /. so for most of you who haven;t even bothered to rtfa this will be out of the question) some of the features are actually darn good- the inbuilt rss reader rocks (seems better than any 3rd party reader i've tried and outclasses sage by miles) and the storgae area and del.icio.us integration is very tight. the searchbar while set to yahoo by defalut can be easily fixed with yubnub to make something much miore useful than the same bar in FF and the fact its all intergrated menas it has a lower memory footprint than FF (flock currently at 100meg whears FF is usually at about 200 on my system with 50+ extensions). beta 0.7 is also a lot more stable than previous releases.

  11. Re:Wait on The Doctor Says: Fun is Officially Over · · Score: 1

    only 9/10 times iirc.. which is why their keeping the current one for the forseeable future

  12. Re:Go Sony, go! on PS3 Cell Processor 'Broken'? · · Score: 1

    and you know what those experts were right compared to what sony was hyping the ps2 did suck.. but just like I don't expect killzone for the ps3 to look as good as it did at e3 2005 i'm sure the ps3 will still look "good".. but not £425 good

  13. Like smoking warnings on U.K. Group Wants DRM'd Media Labeled · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope they have to do it like smoking warnings in massive black and white letters "DRM while pregnant can seriously harm fair use"

  14. Re:Nice Summary. on What's the Secret Sauce in Ruby on Rails? · · Score: 2, Funny

    exactly, this improves the amount of the article that most /.'ers will read by 100%

  15. Maths ability on Americans Are Scarce in Top Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    I'd just like to re-inforce what is said about maths ability in the eastern world. Maths as a subject is placed in rat empahss in schools in eastern countires because its a "universal language" in which people can compete with the western world with much lower language barriers. I'm in Y12 UK at the moment and the chinese peope in my maths and further maths classes have all been used to a far harder but less time based math system than the uk/us. This kind of development of maths as problem solving is much more condusive to programming than the UK/US(as I understand it your maths level is moderatley comparable to ours). This certainly helps produce this kind of statisctic. BTW for a programmers website that one is horrible. try some validation checks on it..

  16. This is the problem with having only americans on 2006 Nebula Awards · · Score: 1

    no Ian M Banks, no Alastair Reynolds, Battlestar losing to serenity. While the novella and novel winners are good they by no means represent to pinacle of sci-fi. I'll be waiting for the winner of the british science fiction award instead. IMHO while we have less excitng writers here we have better ones. I was rooting for men are tourble which was availible as a free CC licensed podcast from http://www.jimkelly.net/pages/free_reads.htm.

  17. Re:62 out of 130 million jailed? on Reporters Without Borders Internet Annual Report · · Score: 1

    yes its important to keep things in perspective- many many many many more people are jailed every year in china for "dissenting" not on the net

  18. Censorship and the Web on Reporters Without Borders Internet Annual Report · · Score: 1

    ..it is just me or can't chinese dissidents use google.com instead of google.cn and get an uncensored version. Having said that i have never been to china so I wouldn;t know.. but this just highlights more than ever to get all the azeureus users off tor and get more tor servers set up to help protect these people who need the annonimity.

  19. Re:DOA?? on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You · · Score: 1

    yes but you just know if you sent a movie studio to look at c&c games they'd pick yuri's revenge to turn into a film.. although that could be good if they got the guys from shawn of the dead to do it i suppose

  20. DOA?? on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You · · Score: 5, Interesting

    why do film companies choose the worst possible games to make movies out of? doom, resident evil, DOA.. all were horrible games to try and make into a film . A Film game needs to survive without the interactivity off the top of my head something like Spiderman or Starwars rouge-squadron would work well as a movie... ahh i've just realised those are the only 2 decent movie tie in games i can think of.

  21. Re:Opiating system on OpenBSD 3.9 Released · · Score: 0

    ... well if you are going to be like that what's an opiating system?.. does it get you high while you read your e-mail or something?

  22. Wii will get talked about on Both Sides of Wii · · Score: 0

    nowadays every gamain article talks about the xbox and ps2 with the gamecube tacked on.. you can bet their not going to forget the wii and that can only be a good thing. there was never this much disscussion over the gamecube or xbox 360 names. Nintendo need bold if they went with revolution it would have sucked in japan and if they went for a moderate name it would be sen as another ninty faliure

  23. Because... on Hey Oracle, Why Not Ubuntu? · · Score: 0

    they don't want a community of geeks to handle they want a product to make money from??

  24. Re: Cuba- But switching to Linux on Google's CEO Clears the Air · · Score: 1

    Actually cuba is switching to LINUX.. it was on digg apparently to rid them of the influence of the capitalist pig. :D

  25. Slashdotted on A CES Preview: CES Unveiled · · Score: 1

    .. 503.. service tempoarikty unavailible... neeeeeexxxt