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  1. Re:Penis Size Tax? on Portugal Is Considering a "Terabyte Tax" · · Score: 1

    "You've just admitted to the internet that you have a small cock" Have I? I thought i was making a joke about the tendency of men to exaggerate the size of their penis and how this could be exploited by the government of Portugal to address their budget deficit. Probably you are right, it is very likely that my penis is so small it would require an electron microscope to view it in all it's minuscule glory. Or maybe I'm a woman, or a spam bot programmed for sarcasm.

  2. Penis Size Tax? on Portugal Is Considering a "Terabyte Tax" · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you are going create an arbitrary tax on the size of something that affects an arbitrary section of the population why not create a penis size tax. It could be entirely self declared with no verification. The results should be made available on a public register, listed in order of length x girth. I'm sure that would raise a fortune.

  3. Re:They Do Catch Criminals That Way on Best Practice: Travel Light To China · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They only catch the moronic ones that way. If you want to move data from country x to country y there is this new fangled thing called "the internet" that allows you to move data from one place to another without having to pass through customs. If you are dumb enough to try and smuggle illicit data from one country to another by carrying a laptop across the border containing said illicit data then you deserve to get caught because you are a moron.

  4. Re:Why? on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 2

    Yes but why are they supposed to do that, what value does that give. Knowing how to get the information you need to accurately understand and answer the question is a very important skill to learn. If you use it regularly then you will remember it, if you don't use it regularly then you can't being able to quickly research and understand things is a very important skill.

  5. Bummer on TiVo To Brick All Remaining UK PVRs On June 1 · · Score: 1

    This must be a real bummer for all 7 people in the UK that own a TiVo rather than the one of the many different other PVRs that don't charge you a fee to use the device that you have paid for and own.

  6. Choose how much you pay? on Last.FM To Require Subscription For Mobiles and Home Devices · · Score: 1

    On the subscription page http://www.last.fm/subscribe it seems you can choose to pay 3 USD, EUR or GBP for your subscription. Well that'll be $3.00 please as that is the cheapest !!

  7. Re:Not random and not predictable? on Scientists Develop Financial Turing Test · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It means it follows a recognisable pattern, that can be distinguished from random data after the fact but not predicted in advance.

  8. Re:TiVo invented timeshifting? on The Sad History and (Possibly) Bright Future of TiVo · · Score: 1

    I have never understood what service Tivo are providing for their monthly fee, why doesn't it just work?

  9. Cutting and pasting code is cheating? on How Easy Is It To Cheat In CS? · · Score: 1

    If so my colleagues and I cheat every day on a professional basis. We have even taken this cheating to an even more efficient level by using things we call "libraries" where we simple re use code written by other people.

  10. Re:Of course it is possible on BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice · · Score: 1

    It is DVB-S or DVB-C. The BBC HD is not available over the air, only on satellite and cable. It will be available shortly in some areas but it will use DVB-T2

  11. Depends on your contract... on Should You Be Paid For Being On Call? · · Score: 1

    ... and the terms you agreed to when you took the job. The usual deal is that being on call is covered by your salary but if you actually get called out you get more paid for it, usually a standard fee per call rather than an hourly rate. There is usually an on call rota as well so you are not on call 24/7.

  12. Re:wow, a whole million? on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    Sorry but this is not true, you can be specific about which robots you want to exclude. More importantly google chooses to respect robots.txt and noindex meta tags, if it decided it was in its interest not to respect them - either at all or just for the sites that did the deal - then there is precisely nothing anyone could do about it.

  13. Re:wow, a whole million? on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    The thing is though if the top 1000 sites used robots.txt and the noindex meta tag to remove themselves from google, then google could just ignore robots.txt and the noindex meta tag for the top 1000 sites and index them anyway. Ultimately if the site is publicly accessible then google can index it and there is nothing anybody could do about it.

  14. Re:US vs UK... on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    The circuit breakers in my house are 30 amps, they protect against current overload in the wiring in my house. The fuses in my plugs are between 3 and 13 amps (as appropriate to the particular appliance) they protect against circuit overload in the appliance and associated wiring. This is not redundancy it is 2 different fuses/breakers that serve totally different purposes.

  15. Put all projects together on How To List FOSS Experience On Your Resume · · Score: 1

    Most tech cvs/resumes i have seen list the various projects worked on in the career history section. If you wanted to include open source projects that don't relate to a specific job then you could have a cut down career history section with just an explanation of each job and then split out the projects into a seperate section. You could then just put a reference with each project to say which job or open source project it related to. That way your commercial work and open source work get equal precedence and you don't have to relegate your open source projects to their own little ghetto.

  16. Re:officially its an adjective on What Data Center Designers Can Learn From Legos · · Score: 1

    Lego is not an exception, it has no s because it refers to stuff not things. You would say "that's a lot of Lego" in the same way you would say "that's a lot of sugar". An individual Lego brick is not "a Lego" therefore lots of them are not "Legos". Even Firefox knows this, it is happy with Lego, but it tells me Legos is not spelled correctly and suggests Lego instead.

  17. I will never use Boxee on Build a BoxeeBox and Wean Yourself From Cable · · Score: 1

    I have just watched the demo video for Boxee and i refuse to sue any piece of software that does anything "automgically", is it powered by fairy dust and sprinkles?

  18. South Park Test on Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test · · Score: 1

    This is more of a test of the South Park theory that 1/4 of all people are retards. Pretty conclusive I think.

  19. So what is this alternative meaning ? on Has Google Redefined Beta? · · Score: 1

    The reply from Google posted in the article says "We believe beta has a different meaning" and then just meanders off into a load of PR waffle about customer expectations and doesn't even try to explain what this alternative meaning of beta is. I am still none the wiser about why Gmail is still in beta, despite the fact that it is a stable, commercially operated, publicly available service.

  20. I pay everything by direct debit on Pitfalls of Automated Bill Payment · · Score: 1

    Things that are the same amount every month like mortgage or gym membership just come out of the account on a particular day of the month. Other things just as mobile phone bill, cable bills etc i get a bill about 2 weeks before the money comes out and it tells me when the money for the bill will be coming out of my account. If for whatever reason i didn't want them to take the money i can cancel the DD at any time. I have never personally had any kinf of problem with DDs though they can happen. If they do the Direct Debit Guarantee states that the bank will just give you your money back if you ask.

  21. Re:In US dollars on Asus Confirms Specs, Price of Eee PC 904 and 1000 · · Score: 1

    It's not an entirely fair conversion as those prices include VAT (sales tax) of 17.5%, you really need to knock that off before converting to $

  22. Come to slashdot.... on Air Force Emails Sensitive Information to Tourism Site · · Score: 1

    ... the best place on the web for 3 day old technology news stories.

  23. Re:Strange finnish timewap on Finnish Censorship Expanding · · Score: 1

    "Called" is past tense so it implies it has already happened however Wednesday 20 February 2008 is tomorrow which hasn't happened yet. Ahhh brain exploding due to temporal anomaly....

  24. Strange finnish timewap on Finnish Censorship Expanding · · Score: 1

    FTA - "..They called him for questioning on Wednesday 20 February 2008." Damn those Finnish police and their time machines.

  25. Web browsing optimisation on Comcast Cheating On Bandwidth Testing? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sounds like they have simply optimised their network to favour "bursty" usage, for example web browsing. This would seem a sensible thing for a consumer ISP to do.