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  1. Re:Time will tell on Amazon Caves On Kindle 2 Text-To-Speech · · Score: 1

    Me. I have difficulties reading. (magnocellular deficiencies)
    I believe this is discriminatory, and I hope to hell they (the 'rights' holders) get a class action rammed up their stingy backsides. Frankly.

  2. Re:Makes you wonder on US Becomes Top Wind Producer; Solar Next · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Exactly. US becomes biggest wind bag. Or producer of hot air might be a better title... I know troll/flame/whatever. But please the rest of the world is kinda sick of this empty brovado. Real results please. Then we'll get back to admirring you as a nation. (and don't get me wrong - I already admire you as a poeple, many of you anyway)

  3. Re:That's OK. on UK ISPs Are Censoring Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Acceptable does not mean proper.

  4. Re:I'm sick fo CATCHA on Audio CAPTCHAs Cracked; ReCAPTCHA Remains Strong · · Score: 1

    And for your blind users...?

  5. Re:That's OK. on UK ISPs Are Censoring Wikipedia · · Score: 2

    "enemies"?

    erm OK. May I suggest less sensationalist language? It's 'more stupid' by the way.

    May I also suggest that you would be censoring, if you were to block those using the proxy in question. And on a grander scale. Adding fuel to the censorship war... Also you would be doing worse still if you were to block the ISPs (if that is what you meant).

    If you happen to be in the States, I also suggest that you visit Europe, to assess first-hand which continent you consider to be most 'free' in terms of speech. Take a walk through Amsterdam. To Speaker's Corner. Read our highly varied news. Just suggestions...

    Other suggested reading might start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-escalation
    As I say, I also assume you mean 6 ISPs not IPs (as it was one proxy IP that was the vandal problem I believe).
    not sure why you have been modded insightful. Possibly they meant inciting. A common mistake amongst some /.er mods.

  6. Re:Don't think so! on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 1

    The question wasn't if I deserve it, but whether it was possible likely that someone in my position could be in my position. If you see what I mean. BTW - as it happens, being dyslexic is often a benefit in my particular line of work.

  7. Re:Don't think so! on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    hmmm....
    Anyway - I'm a well payed CTO (33 years old) got and conditional offer to work at Google this year (very interesting terms). I studied Physics with the Philosophy of Scince Msci, but dropped out.
    If you're bright, you have ideas, and you can make them a reality, then you will will do well. a degree, is only good for proving you can get a degree.

  8. Re:Misleading on Talking Web, Memory Aids, and Solar Phones In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    But the web talking to you can be useful via most common interfaces (desktop browsers), as you can listen to a story in one tab as you crack on with other stuff. Of course I'm biased as I make the Web talk for a living (see my sig).

  9. Re:I've only got one thing to say... on E=mc^2 Verified In Quantum Chromodynamic Calculation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and how do you see relativistic speeds as scale restricted? Indeed that is what is being tested here...

  10. Re:Paranoia on Mind Control Delusions and the Web · · Score: 1

    Paranoid? Is that what they're saying about me now? Is it? IS IT?

  11. 100 mph? on Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    also 100mph? erm... Even if it were a big parachute shaped piece of thin metal, it would get very fast when still on the fringes of the atmosphere (damn sight faster than 100mph) which would seriously upset its flimsiness when it did hit the atmosphere. Turning it into something with a much higher terminal velocity - I would have thought. Meaning it will hit the earth at a *much* higher speed. No?

  12. Re:Why now? on ICANN Releases Draft For New TLDs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because they CANN. Apparently.

  13. Re:Sponsors? on 1000-mph Car Planned · · Score: 1

    ..,o%80o== Meep meep!

  14. Re:Food for Thought on Wikipedia's New Definition of Truth · · Score: 2, Interesting

    abstracted again, Hume questioned our very belief in empiricism by asking why aught expect the future to resemble the past, regardless of the amount of past evidence? There is no 'logical' a priori reason to assert this...
    "As to past experience, it can be allowed to give direct and certain information of those precise objects only, and that precise period of time, which fell under its cognisance; but why this experience should be extended to future times, and to other objects, which for aught we know, may be only in appearance similar-this is the main question on which I would insist."
    But we belive it so, and tautologically, the more evidence we see, the more we belive the illocical, to be 'fact'.
    what excites me about wikipedia, is that it is still improving, yet we are still questioning, how it could be improved. Not so of the the old encylopedia...

  15. Re:Write speed on An In-Depth Look At Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda · · Score: 1

    I have an application for such a drive (a few thereof), and indeed it is storing audio data...

  16. Why? on Artificial Gecko Adhesive, Now In Experimental Glue · · Score: 1

    Why would I want to stick something to an artificial gecko? Or am I not getting this...

  17. Re:I have to ask... on XKCD Improving the Internet ... Yet Again · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you want it we'll make it. I'm CTO at TEXTIC we make Talklets

  18. Re:redirection on US Responsible For the Majority of Cyber Attacks · · Score: 1

    So you're saying US contains the most compramized machines? Hmmm... not much better.

  19. Re:'knife crime?' on YouTube Bans Gun and Knife Videos In the UK · · Score: 1

    "I think a lot of them are getting blown to hell.

    This is not a failure "

    Then I wish much success. ;) (sorry - just a bad joke - but I am sick of The Nobility of War bollox. )

  20. Re:'knife crime?' on YouTube Bans Gun and Knife Videos In the UK · · Score: 1

    "The kid hiding in a bush with a $20 AK-47 has proven to be quite effective against the supposedly higher tech, "

    I disagree. I think a lot of them are getting blown to hell.

  21. Re:'knife crime?' on YouTube Bans Gun and Knife Videos In the UK · · Score: 1

    And I see your comment as plane stupid. Funny world ain't it... If you make the tools more convinient to use and more 'effective' then the crime becomes more catastophic more quickly and more often. Why not give everyone the right to bare nulear arms?

    Because that would be crazy right? Well living in a country where gun crime is very low and guns are heavily controlled, alowing people to arm themselves seems just as insane to me. Well maybe not quite, but I hope you see my point.

    and the argument about saving yourself from a rogue government seems completely lost now. You can't. They have bigger guns. Oh, and nukes. Which is crazy - right?

  22. Re:In other news... on Google's Floating Datahaven · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure they'll listen to Reason

  23. Re:The summary misses the key point on Tying Knots With Light · · Score: 1

    "It is impossible, therefore, that any arguments from experience can prove this resemblance of the past to the future,..." Hume

  24. Re:This version does not include Tracemonkey on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 · · Score: 1

    My question still stands, but I now realize that chrome does not use tracemonkey, and for this, I must be punishd...

  25. Re:This version does not include Tracemonkey on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 · · Score: 1

    How do I get firebug to install on a nightly ff (it balks at the version being too new obviously)?

    My hope is this will allow me to use firebug to debug Tracemonkey intrepreted js and thereby my js on Chrome... (I know it has its own debugger, but it aint no FB)

    all help appreciated.