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  1. Re:In real units... on Bugatti's Latest Veyron, Most Ridiculous Car on the Planet? · · Score: 1

    To be fair anyone buying this car is just going to sit it in a showroom so it's not really going to be using it's 1000 horsepower a lot.

  2. In makes you wonder on Ballmer Threatens To Pull Out of the US · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It makes you wonder if they are happy enough to pay their EU fines without to much fuss and threatening to move there EU based developments back to the US how much tax dodging are they doing?

  3. Re:Tell it to the people who cannot get broadband on The State of UK Broadband — Not So Fast · · Score: 1

    Don't they have to fix your line if it's broken. Also they are upgrading the system to fibre optics. I have BT internet and have six megabit internet even though I live right next to the exchange.

  4. Re:Interesting... on Ethical Killing Machines · · Score: 1

    Oddly, the cost of a Automated Killing Machine would probably be more than the cost of a human solider. I guessing that a Automated Killing Machine will cost as least a quarter of a million to buy. A solders training costs around ten times less than that. Also any windows, children's maintenance after wards would likely be less than the cost of a new machine.

  5. Re:Pussies on Defusing the Threat of Disgruntled IT Workers · · Score: 1

    I had to tell the guy who runs the IT in my department how to share a printer on a network, if the printer can't act as a print server. Although I'm not surprised all are IT people are ex cons who go through training as part as there rehabilitation.

  6. Re:Someone bought those shares today. on Investors Bailing On SCO Stock, SCOX Plummets · · Score: 1

    I guess people must think that SCO can still make some money back selling there Unix OS or some other software.

    Although with all the loses in the IP arena can SCO still legally sell it's OS?

  7. Re:possible solutions on Give iPod Thieves an Unchargeable Brick · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In England when you mobile phone gets stolen you can go to your phone company get some ID number and then tell the police who get the phone locked on all mobile networks (although more often than not your phone ends up in Nigeria where the lock won't work but anyway). If they did something like that where the user had to register his iPod stolen with Apple maybe through iTunes to have it stop working they wouldn't have so may problems with false positives on there system.

  8. Re:What? on Norway Liberal Party Wants Legal File Sharing · · Score: 1

    While I'm not sure I agree with this statement I don't understand why it has been modded zero. The coward who wrote it was not trolling.

  9. Mosaic Browser on PC World's 50 Best Tech Products of All Time · · Score: 1

    According to this article Netscape code is used in Internet Explorer!

  10. Re:PA on Interplay Developing $75 Million Fallout MMOG · · Score: 1

    According to the article there parent company Titus Interactive went broke. They go on to say that Interplay managed to stay afloat by licensing the rights to Fallout three to Bethesda.

  11. Re:Is Ignorance Ever An Excuse? on RIAA Victims Bring Class Action Against Kazaa · · Score: 1

    If ignorance was an excuse wouldn't the RIAA's lawsuit have failed in the first place?

  12. It could be a new game on Table-top Particle Accelerator Created · · Score: 1

    Press the button to find a new particle. Bonus points if you find a Graviton.

  13. Re:Is that so surprising? on Saving U.S. Science · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, let me ask you again: is that so surprising? I think not. Another brilliant civilization rejected science and went into a profound decline: it was the Middle-Ages Moslem civilization. Think about that for a minute.

    Same thing happened to Spain in the 17th century

  14. Re:Another obvious question on Microsoft Hands Over Docs To EU · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Will the documents be usable outside the EU? The EU may allow Mac and Linux developers documentation, but that documentation may have the status of trade secret in the US.

    I presume the EU will just fine Microsoft more for stifling competition if they tried to pull a stunt like that.

  15. Re:8500 pages on Microsoft Hands Over Docs To EU · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder if its possible to fund the whole of the EU on fines from large corporations?

  16. Re:Your mission should you decide to accept it.... on NASA Playing With Unreal Engine For Virtual World · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey man, there are gun toting zombies on the moon why else do you think we've never been back?

  17. Re:Hope on GoogleOS Scenarios · · Score: 1

    I don't think it would really matter what Distro they used, they could even offer a selection. Just the fact that somone was selling Linux based home computers would be cool.

  18. Re:Hope on GoogleOS Scenarios · · Score: 1

    I may be wrong but Dell only sell Linux based servers not desktops.
    Also I think that while Linux may only have a nish market it would still be a profitable indevevor . I would happily buy a Linux base laptop if I didn't have to pay over the odds for one. It seems to be impossible to get one here in the UK.

    Also with a little support from Google Ubutuntu might be able to offer GUI support for WPA wireless networks. Which would help me a lot as I can't seem to get my machine to connect to them.

  19. Hope on GoogleOS Scenarios · · Score: 1

    Personally I hope that if they realise there own OS it's more than a Linux distro, we have enough already. Why can't they help popularise another distro they could start selling Google based PC's and Laptops with Ubuntu or somthing.

    If they have to release there own OS can't they develop there own one using new technology.

  20. Re:We need more truth, less humanistic claptrap! on Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer · · Score: 1

    Hitler was not an atheist, he paid a lot of lip service to christian faith, considered himself a christian, and drew upon the 2000 years or christian's hatred for jews. And a lot of german officers at the time (most of them, in fact) were christians. Should also be mentioned the good ol' SS belt buckle motto "Gott mit Uns" (God With Us)

    While I agree with you argument I have to point out that Hitler it is not at all clear whether Hitler was an Atheist or Christian. He was a catholic by birth and often made reference Christianity in his speeches and in private but he did also talk about ridding the world of religion in other circumstances.

    Stephen Dawkins goes into some detail about the question of Hitler's religious belief in his latest book if your interested.

  21. I have to say, on Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer · · Score: 1

    I thought this was open already. It's been covered by the British press a number of times.

    As an Athisest I find this story quite amsuing and while I would love to use it to poke fun at America I know a worrying number of people here in England who aboultly beilve in this stuff.

    Sadly there are idiots everywhere.

  22. Re:Confusing write-up on Video of Fedora On PS3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So far I've heard dozens of discussion about selling PS3's on ebay, and none about actually playing games on them.

    Thats because there all up for sale on Ebay. Nobodys bothered to play one yet.

  23. Censorship on Thai IT Minister Slams Open Source · · Score: 1

    To be honest while I dislike these guys views on Open Source which are just plain wrong. What really gets me is his views on censorship

    The new ICT Minister expressed his belief in censorship and said that even the most avid freedom of speech advocate would change his mind if he sees doctored pictures of his daughter's head on a naked body posted on the Internet.

    anyway I'm off to see if I can't doctor images pictures of his daughter with Gimp and then post it an apache server

  24. Re:RAM size on Intel Releases 4004 Microprocessor Schematics · · Score: 1

    I thought that Page Flipping was a graphics technique. Can anyone provide information to how this would work for using more RAM?

  25. Re:RAM size on Intel Releases 4004 Microprocessor Schematics · · Score: 1

    I meant to ask what is the theoretical maximum amount of RAM possible for a 64-bit processor?