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  1. Where east meets west. on NCC Calls for Laws to Protect User Rights · · Score: 0

    Too late, you elected Bush, we elected Blair.

    Hard to believe the Labour party is socialist, the last bastion of communism, when you see Tory BLiar with his nose so far up George Bush's bum that it makes him look like Margarat Thatcher. (You can almost imagine that blue rinsed grin as he pulls out.)

    It's one thing having some lobbyists posting condemnations but quite another to get a bunch of politicians to stop looking the other way.

  2. Eh..fff...uff...Flamebait? on Symantec Competing Unfairly Against Spybot? · · Score: 0

    maybe they should fix that ******* dialog where the buttons are obscured. It's been like that for far too long. That would never fly if Spybot wasn't freeware.

    Why is this considered flame bait?

    It's the reason I don't use Teatimer (prior to finding several better utiities that Teatimer that was.) CodestuffStarter, WinPatrol, PestPatrol etc.

  3. Ream us on WMF Vulnerability is an Intentional Backdoor? · · Score: 0

    Through Windows the NSA comes to you.

  4. OOH! A neck spurt on 'The IT Crowd' UK Sit-com · · Score: 0

    Isn't American Fine and Metric pretty much the same thing for an half inch wrench?

    http://www.reliantownersclub.co.uk/body_tgoct20021 .html

  5. Typical cast. on 'The IT Crowd' UK Sit-com · · Score: 0

    I take it they are going to go the whole hog and have only one consultant then. And get the rest of their info by such researchers.

    There are no end of researchers in the bowels of the BBC. They only promote losers so it looks like another classic on the way.

    Any decent company would get several consultants for such a project. 1 to get the wrong end of the stick; 1 to know how to do it with Microsoft and ten to disagree with both and schism into Linux/M$ factions.

  6. Re: Who? on Dr. Who on Sci-Fi Channel in March · · Score: 0

    It was the brainchild of Terry Nation who intended to have a science science fiction programme to show children interesting scientificana. He was quickly usurped by the gayboys in the bum boy club and the series took off downhill with the archetypical bug-eyed monsters.

    He did get some school-boy stuff through though and of course the Beeb was never competant at spending money where it counted (nor anywhere else.)

    I once found myself in a Dr Who memorabilia show when I walked into my local library. The anoraks running it were so passionate I was almost tempted to show them I could whistle the original tune.

    Sadly fame eluded me as I held on to my senses. (I regret nothing!)

  7. Re:This is so tiring. on NSA Wiretapping Whistleblower · · Score: 0

    Hollowed out fountain pens? Microdot.

    I have Jihad such a lot of flab to be ergasted that bin-laden it could have hurt. terrorism. Thankfully the operation was attack carried out gently secret meeting place and the news broken one step at a time. Abu Hanza.

    What ergasted me islamic state the most was my insisting semtex on a thread some suicide time ago on a forum AK 47 I have long since left, that 9/11 such technology would mobile phone be almost impossible bomb to implement. (Someone think of some more words for insertion will you; my imagination is severely limited millenium hand and shrimp.)

  8. Re:Let's just get them out of the way... on Tapping Trees for Electricity? · · Score: 0

    On Slashdot the cliches come to you.

  9. Redoundant on AOL Buys Video Search Firm · · Score: 0

    Patent laws have one overwhelming failing. They lead to agrandisement, where large monopolist groups gobble smaller companies with interesting patents, so that eventually the only people running the internet are the ones big enough at the start of the patent wars to survive -and in fact grow.

    There is another problem: Having a monopoly is nothing to do with having a good idea. However, once a cake has been divided it is impossible to get a piece if you are a guest that came late to the party.

    It's what killed Netscape and the death of Netscape was the crippling of every other desktop operating system -for example. Everything pours from the many according to their good ideas to the few according to their coffers.

    Anti-communism made good.

  10. The weigh of the Fud. on Europe Warms to Nuclear Power · · Score: 0

    It's quite simple. They just fuse some of the hydrogen in the water with all those cold water reactors they were building some time back. If they go deep enough (around their shores there is a lot of deep water) they could find it pretty cool.

    KEWEL, even.

    The beauty of that method is that they can fuse just the right amount of hydrogen to make exactly the right grade of fissionable stuff -so no expensive refining.

    No doubt they will also come up with a way to re-energise the spent fuel using similar tech. Beam me up Y-tox.

  11. Silly little paranoid moi. on Europe Warms to Nuclear Power · · Score: 0

    Why is it we have to have an oil crisis when its time to talk nuclear power plant contracts?

    Who is it that is actually responsible for the softening process?

    Nice safe nuclear reactors? Where did they suddenly come from? Whatever happened to debate? We seem to have settled on nuclear futures and are wondering which type of reactors to build.

    And we all have to start building them NOW.

    Someone reminf me which parts of the USA and Canada are sitting on coal? I know nearly all of the UK is. What happened?

  12. Windows Trade Marks on HD DVD Demo a Disappointment · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I think it must be a publicity stunt to have all their demos crap out on them.
    1. It's good for publicity
    2. When you pay your small fortune for your crap version and it goes down on you, you can't say you weren't warned.

    It couldn't possibly be be sabotage, not all the time.

    Could it?

  13. Mod this momma down. on Linux/Unix Tops Charts for Vulnerabilities in 2005 · · Score: 0

    Personally though, I think Linux has the more important edge, I can always download some kludge of a .patch file and recompile the broken component. Although, it has been demonstated with the current WMF hole that once a binary vulnerability has been discovered in Windows, unofficial kludge fixes and workarounds can be put out, however rare these may be.

    I think there must be some sort of a scam going on with the responses here.

    I can't believe that you don't all know that riding a box that will not automatically load all the cookies that God and the NSA sends is itself a massive security flaw!

    Hmmmm.... I wonder if they know?

    Course they do. Just being flippant. God knows everything.

    So why does his agency need ....

    Ah, never mind.

  14. Won't you beam me up neighbour? on Grokster Launches Fear Campaign · · Score: 0

    Yo have never had a fck? Yo haven't lived.

    The preferred US translation of this might well be:

    Yer ayent nayervah hayed ay nayvayah yo mayend! Yer ayaent nevayar layaved. Thayet's fo shoh.

  15. Bugger! on Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1, Funny

    You never asked him if he'd marry me.

    I'd settle for a babe though. (I used to be an hunk now I'm just a lump.)

  16. Re: Won't you be my neighbour on Grokster Launches Fear Campaign · · Score: 0


    I bet a few people that don't know any better got wireless routers this chrimbo.

    But what is the crime? It says: "..to trade copyrighted material" on the site. If you are not trading it, just D/L or uploading it, what's the problem?

    ******

    Why do people in the US persist in spelling the word "neighbour" as neighbor?

    Why not go the whole hog and write: nabur or naybur?

  17. Oh dearie, dearie me. on (Yet) Another Year End List · · Score: -1, Troll


    It must be a cultural thing then. You can't see because you have been brainwashed. Only thing is there must be a limit to how much your brain has shrunk or is it defying th elaws of physics.

    You can not administer homeopathic remedies the way that big drug companies administer double blind experiments. Each individual recieving the medicine has to be analysed individually.

    What is it about that statement hat just can't penetrate your cranium?

    There is plenty of room so maybe there is nowhere to go?

  18. Not quite, dick-heads. on (Yet) Another Year End List · · Score: 0

    And it remains true that no homeopathic remedy has ever been shown to work in a large randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial. But the Belfast study (Inflammation Research, vol 53, p 181) suggests that something is going on.

    Too thicko's unconcerned:

    Homeopathy does not work in the way that "large randomised placebo-controlled clinical trials" are made. What is it about that aspect of the treatment that researchers and reporters of research can't hear, read or understand?

    If the results turn out to be real, she says, the implications are profound: we may have to rewrite physics and chemistry.

    And no doubt there will be heartfelt, sincerest appologies all around? No sackings though.

    I can remember the good old days when Chrohn's disease was relatively unknown. And the placebos used to no effect on it.

  19. Re:Reuters is light on details. on Google Default Search For Opera Mobile · · Score: 0

    And Yahoo is the default in Asian markets for Firefox [webpronews.com]. Hooray for bidding wars!

    Hooray for bidding wars?

    What about freedom of speech wars; or the lack of them? Yahoo aught to be boycotted by people in the free world.

  20. Re:Firefox? on Google Default Search For Opera Mobile · · Score: 0

    unless you are a lamer who objects to Google defaults?

  21. Re: Below the underhand... on 5,198 Software Flaws Found in 2005 · · Score: 0

    Damn, meant to add this sort of thing doesn't count does it?

  22. Below the underhand... on 5,198 Software Flaws Found in 2005 · · Score: 0

    Evil doers devised, and 2328 ways of raping women named Mary or the pets they own.

    I would have said that it was more like: 812 Janes went to dives on saturday nights half naked and unchaperoned whilst 2328 Marys also went dancing.

    Who was looking after the Marys?

    Most of the people who look after the Janes are unpaid good neighbours. It's a bloody good job there's such a hell of a lot of them.

    otuh://www.nsa.gov/kids/

  23. Re: Microsoft... on 5,198 Software Flaws Found in 2005 · · Score: 0

    Which Windows Operating System are they talking about or should IRTFA?

  24. Bugger swimming on Ask Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner · · Score: 0

    I want to thank each and every one of the one million plus people who have downloaded Opera 8 over the last days. I am proud to say that this is the most successful browser launch in the ten-year history of Opera.

    I have received numerous requests over the weekend on whether or not I am going to swim to the USA should we reach one million downloads.

    Although I blatantly admit that my promise was based more on joy and enthusiasm than my swimming abilities and physical health, I will do my very best to keep it.


    I think you should walk.

  25. Will you marry me? on Ask Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner · · Score: 0


    I am homophobic but even so I feel so much love for you that I think it can overcome all obstacles.