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  1. People and Companies? on Google's "Knol" Reinvents Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Who gets to write the blurb for famous people and companies? Surely if its them then it may be a bit biased. But then if its someone else, someone else will be making money off them.

  2. Re:editors? on UPS Using Software To Eliminate Left Turns · · Score: 1

    No, but it is certainly Travelling.

  3. XBLA? on LittleBigPlanet Demo Not Coming This Year · · Score: 1

    Shucks, can't they port it to the 360. I would pay £5 for a piece of that action.

  4. Re:I don't get it on Promise of OOXML Oversight By ISO Falls Through · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the idea of having 3 standards (ECMA, ISO and OASIS) seem a bit self defeating? What we need is a meta standard.

  5. Re:I must've missed a memo. on BioShock Backlash · · Score: 1

    It's ok, I think you need more than about 5 people for a heavy backlash.

  6. Re:It's not bricked! on EVE-Online Patch Makes XP Unbootable · · Score: 1

    I think the phrase is "it is up on bricks". As in the car is still there but it aint going anywhere as someone has kindly removed the tyres.

  7. I saw Heroes last night ... on California Testers Find Flaws In Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    and all you need is one of them little kid things to rig the election.

  8. Tiresome on Users and Web Developers Vent Over IE7 · · Score: 1

    IE v Firefox. Windows v Linux. Blu-Ray v HD DVD. When is /. gonna stop raising the same old arguments over and over again? Haven't we got anything better to do with our time?

  9. Register of PDF Files on PDF Is Now ISO 32000 · · Score: 1

    Won't somebody think of the children?

  10. Doh!!! on Privacy Breach In Canadian Passport Application Site · · Score: 1

    See subject.

  11. Re:Spintronics on Major Breakthrough In Spintronics Research · · Score: 1

    No, the Spintronics were a 80 rap band weren't they?

  12. Re:No! on $999 For a Complete DNA Scan, Worth it? · · Score: 1

    This takes hypocondria to a whole new level. You don't think you have disease x, you think you have the genes that could lead to disease x. And there ain't a thing you can do about it. Yet.

  13. Re:Not the first time... on Firefox Security Head Says Microsoft Obscures OS Holes · · Score: 1

    How many IE vulnerabilities are actually in IE and how many are the OS? It is two distinct bits of source code and all the low level bugs probably belong to the OS rather than the browser. I am just saying there are lies, damn lies and statistics.

  14. Facebook == new Google on Facebook Beacon Privacy Issues Worse Than Previously Thought? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google stopped becoming a search engine and is now an advertising company that does a bit of searching on the side. Same will happen to Facebook. You might use it as a social networking site but it WILL become more concerned with getting ads on screen.

  15. Re:Madness, I say on BBC Creates 'Perl on Rails' · · Score: 1

    Especially if you work in a large corporation, diversifying the number of languages means having lots of developers who can't work together, as they don't program in a common language. You really need to be able to choose the best people for the job and not just give the project to Fred as he is the only one who knows some obscure language.

  16. Re:Death of the album on Media Research Exec Says Music Industry Is On Its Last Legs · · Score: 1

    That is double albums though. Dont get me started on the 2x45 min CDs some artists release.

  17. Death of the album on Media Research Exec Says Music Industry Is On Its Last Legs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Frankly I won't mourn the deat of the album. There are very few out there that work as a whole. even the best artists pad them out with filler. Especially since the advent of the CD meant they had 80 mins to play with.

  18. Re:international??? on NZ Teen Arrested as 'Spybot Mastermind' · · Score: 1

    "international spybot ring" Good name for a band.
  19. Re:And this is news? on Canada Opens Wireless Industry To Competition · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And why post it while most Canadians are alseep? Like we in the rest of the world give a £$%^.

  20. Re:Pricing is the big hurdle on Hands-On With The Kindle · · Score: 1

    Yes, and I would like to resell this album i downloaded from e-music.

  21. Re:So now, with a little work on Xbox 360 Updates Social Features, Back Compat · · Score: 1

    Ha. Funny.

  22. Re:If I was starting a business on PlayStation 2 Game ICO Violates the GPL · · Score: 1

    It is sort of like a bunch of weak kids sitting around discussing what the bully should spend their lunch money on after he has stolen it. The bully could listen to them but nine times out of ten they won't.

  23. Re:Sony won't have to release source code to game. on PlayStation 2 Game ICO Violates the GPL · · Score: 1

    I know, I was just exaggerating for effect. This is /. you know.

    But seriously, do we need so many licenses? They don't do themselves any favours.

  24. Re:Sony won't have to release source code to game. on PlayStation 2 Game ICO Violates the GPL · · Score: 1

    How do these libraries save time and money if you have to hire a lawyer first to see what you can actually do with it?

  25. Not desktops! on The User Experiences Of The Future · · Score: 1

    This is why Moores Law was such an important thing. It may not have any noticable effect on the desktop but just think that a major company could do twice as much processing each year than it could do the year before. Amazon could handle twice as many orders, the Tax peole find twice as many tax dodgers, etc. While not every company upgrades every machine it owns every year, it has a knock on effect. If Intel stopped increasing CPU power then the economy would grind to a status quo.