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  1. Banks and Credit Card Companies please? on FTC Puts $1.9M Kink in Phone Bill Crammer's Wallet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    After the phone companies, banks and CC companies are the bloody worst. How many times have you received a 'new revised terms' leaflet in the mail from your bank? Did you sign the contract and send it back? Yeah, thought not. Those tend to outnumber other forms of junk mail in my mailbox...

  2. Imagine... on Hacking a Pacemaker · · Score: 1

    Imagine a cylon network of those...

  3. Printers and Copiers on FTP Hacking on the Rise · · Score: 0

    All network printers also seem to have wide open FTP servers. With some ingenuity, one can hide a music collection on a networked photo-copier or something and the corporate MSCE droids will never fiure it out...

  4. Re:I'm here too soon on CNet Compares Eee PC Against the Competition · · Score: 1

    What ads? I never see no ads and if you don't know how to get rid of ads then you need to hand in your Geek License.

  5. Savage French Security... on MacBook Air Confuses Airport Security · · Score: 1

    I can understand the guards gawking at the Macbook but delaying till the plane departs is a little extreme.

    However, the French security guards at Ottawa airport keeps confiscating my Marmite - damn savages don't appreciate fine British cuisine...

  6. Re:In other news on IE 5.5 Beats IE6 and IE7 On Acid 3 · · Score: 1

    "M$ discovered the Internet"

    Al Gore worked for Microsoft?

  7. Re:I don't get it on Microsoft Tries To Prevent Further Discovery · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Linux is too difficult for the average person"

    So the million people that bought Eee PCs are all above average?

  8. Is not on White House Email Follies · · Score: 2, Informative

    "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."

  9. Most popular books are fiction on User-Generated Content Vs. Experts · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    including ones that are held to be non-fiction eg. Bible, Koran, Book of Mormon, Scientology and many others.

  10. Re:Assault vs Industrial Accident on Homemade Robot Patrols Atlanta Streets · · Score: 1

    It cannot be an assault if the robot is acting autonomously. So it could be an industrial accident caused by a runaway machine.

  11. Linux is already selling more than Apple on Moore's Law Is Microsoft's Latest Enemy · · Score: 1

    The Asus Eee PC alone has higher sales volume than Apple.

  12. Re:Bad Math? on CS Degrees Low in 2007 But Bouncing Back · · Score: 1

    Well, that is true for the larger half...

  13. Re:FTA: on CS Degrees Low in 2007 But Bouncing Back · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I don't think there were any less 'accidental babies' in the engineering faculty than in the artsy faculties.

  14. Ya want fries wiz dat? on CS Degrees Low in 2007 But Bouncing Back · · Score: 1

    The problem remains that electronics and computer science is an extremely unstable career choice that doesn't really pay all that well either.

  15. Re:Redundancy? on Will Mars be a One-way Trip? · · Score: 1

    Well, whoever goes to Mars will have his whole life ahead of him too. It just won't be very long.

  16. Ark #3 on Will Mars be a One-way Trip? · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...then put all the hair dressers and telephone cleaners in it...

  17. The Pantheon is empty on Statue of Galileo Planned for Vatican · · Score: 1

    These statues should be placed in the Pantheon. It has been standing empty for centuries.

  18. Re:The hard part is... on Aging Security Vulnerability Still Allows PC Takeover · · Score: 1

    the even harder part is finding a firewire cable that can stretch from here to Romania or wherever this hacker is hiding out.

  19. Re:Discovery rules in Civil vs. Criminal cases? on Should RIAA Investigators Have To Disclose Evidence? · · Score: 2, Informative

    For the non-Americanos: Discovery is a form of Cross Examination which doesn't happen court. It typically takes place in a lawyer's office, in the presence of a Court Stenographer. This process shortens the amount of time a case has to be in court. In other countries, this may take place in a lower court, to reduce the load on a higher court.

  20. Well, that is how a court works... on Should RIAA Investigators Have To Disclose Evidence? · · Score: 1

    A court has to look at the evidence. You cannot do something secret in court.

  21. 42 on Supercomputer Adds Credence to Standard Model · · Score: 1

    Deep Thought already gave us the answer.

  22. Re:It has to be said... on Supercomputer Adds Credence to Standard Model · · Score: 1

    That would explain the clueless story. It sure sounds like a blond wrote it.

  23. 88% still won't buy it on Microsoft Cuts Vista Price In 70 Countries · · Score: 1

    To me, the best part of TFA is the poll, where 88% of respondents say they still won't buy it.

  24. Re:Article is a Troll on Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Me failed English"

    There, I fixed your sig for you.

  25. Vista PCs run Linux just great on Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista · · Score: 3, Funny

    The MS Vista debacle is fantastic. These Vista (in)capable machines run Linux just fine.