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  1. Re:Pot / Kettle on EU Broadens Probe of Search Engines and Privacy · · Score: 1

    Flamebait? I thought it was a joke - made me laugh, it's funny because the UK really does think it isn't part of Europe even though it is.

  2. Sounds like a plan on EU Broadens Probe of Search Engines and Privacy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Round up the usual suspects, drag them down the station, knock a few heads together and see what falls out.

  3. R&D Architect - don't take it on Pros/Cons of Working at Big R&D Consulting Firm? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your mother will keep expecting to see the buildings you designed.

  4. It will never work on Robots To Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers · · Score: 5, Funny

    It will never work - those robots are huge, they will never make it across the border undetected.

  5. Re:Gamma Rays on Eta Carinae, Soon To Be a Local Supernova · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, do I need to build a lead-lined concrete bunker in my garden?

    You don't have a lead-lined bunker in your garden already? You must be new around here.

  6. Re:In Other Words on More Than Half of Known Vista Bugs are Unpatched · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to fixing it because it was broken?

    The saying is: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If it was the way round you said, the software industry would disappear under an infinite pile of gant charts.

  7. Re:Girls on Firstborn Get the Brains · · Score: 3, Funny

    I knew I shouldn't have started this.

  8. Re:Girls on Firstborn Get the Brains · · Score: 4, Funny

    If there is a difference between us it's slight. I'd wager that would hold true for most girl siblings regardless of pecking order.

    Hmm, my wife has a science PhD and her sister is a mor... um, is more talented in non-academic areas.

  9. Re:Why is Slashdot quoting Time abut Cybersecurity on Crackers Cause Pentagon to Put Computers Offline · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't it be the other way around?

    The Slashdot editors have been infected by their own "In Soviet Russia..." joke. From now on everything will be the other way round.

  10. Re:54mbps? on College to Deploy First 802.11n Network · · Score: 4, Insightful

    54mbps isn't fast enough?

    Shared between whoever's within range of a particular access point in a school, 54Mb/s doesn't seem all that much.

  11. Re:I wish on EMI Says ITMS DRM-Free Music Selling Well · · Score: 1

    Thanks! Yeah, I have thought of doing it lower quality. I thought I would start out assuming the best of people and then try tweaking things if it didn't work!

  12. Anyone? on Peer Review Starts for Software Patents · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...whereby anyone (even you) can help to evaluate...

    Well, anyone who can read a patent without their head exploding. I can't even read my own. let alone other people's :)

    Hopefully the people that do this will know enough to read the claims properly and not just deluge the system with incorrect prior art based on reading the description.

  13. Re:I wish on EMI Says ITMS DRM-Free Music Selling Well · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Heh, click the link in my sig - it is all there as MP3's.

    But the problem I have with giving it away is that I never find out if anyone actually likes it! Sure, they can say it's great, but then if they don't think it's worth paying 10 bucks for I've got to wonder how sincere they're being!

  14. I wish on EMI Says ITMS DRM-Free Music Selling Well · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wish apple would offer this option to indie musicians (like me), I'd sign up for straight away.

    (strictly speaking they'd have to offer it to the the aggregators like tunecore that people like me use)

  15. At last on Faster and Open Access to Scientific Results · · Score: 2, Funny

    A way to get first post at Nature. And possibly be modded -1 troll.

  16. Re:Well this is stupid on SourceForge's Hottest Five Apps · · Score: 1

    That's what I thought too. Its kind of like doing a music chart by looking at who's spending the most time in the studio (or maybe who's smashing up the most hotel rooms?).

  17. Re:OK on Innovation's Role Is Sorely Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    Heh, I think your first post answered the question pretty comprehensively thanks!

  18. OK on Innovation's Role Is Sorely Exaggerated · · Score: -1, Redundant

    So the summary tells us what he doesn't think. But what does he think?

    And no, I'm not planning on reading the article. Although, surprisingly enough I sometimes do.

  19. Re:Therapeutic? on Scientists Move Closer to Human Therapeutic Cloning · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you don't feel good, why clone yourself?

    To have someone to share the misery with?

  20. Don't worry on Google's New Lobbying Power in Washington · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't worry, Google's lobbying office's motto is: "Do no lobbying".

  21. Re:Further the science or just a dumb stunt? on New WiFi Link Distance Record · · Score: 3, Funny

    is like comparing Karl Marx with Ronald McDonald

    Wait, wait, I think I know this one: one published in Hamburg and the other punished the Hamburgler? Was that it?

  22. Re:What the hell? on Will AT&T Start Filtering Your Connection? · · Score: 1

    Yeah and you also have to spend billions maintaining a network so that morons can blather on about inanities!

    Hey, I'm blathering on about important stuff you insensitive clod!

  23. I can't wait on DARPA to Raise Robot LANdroid Army · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can't wait for the civilian version - I could use a bunch of Wifi routers with tracks scurrying round my house making sure I never get into a weak signal area.

    As long as I could turn them off at night that is.

  24. I can see on Dell Refuses to Sell Ubuntu to Business · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I can see why they might want to sell different products in their different "channels", presumably they have different support staff for each one and not all are trained for all products.

    I can't see why they won't accept a business card for an item purchased in the "home / home office" section though.

  25. The best part on Microsoft Pleads With Consumers to Adopt Vista Now · · Score: 1
    The summary left out the best bit of the article:

    Despite the "fact-rich" materials being designed for both "partners and customers", the link supplied by Microsoft goes to a website which is available only to computer makers who are prepared to sign up to a non-disclosure agreement.

    Heh, fact-rich materials that they won't show us.