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  1. It won't work. This happened in the UK. The ISPs were forced to blocked thepiratebay.se and any other variants that court orders stipulate, but there are some many proxies being created all the time that it's a pointless endeavour. Effectively, there's no meaningful block as it's impossible to maintain.

  2. Re: SQL Server runs and I'm in! on ReactOS 0.4 Brings Open Source Windows Closer To Reality (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Fusion ReactOS. Every time I read about it, it always appears that it will be fully complete and operational in about 10 years from now.

  3. Re:Groklaw Needed More Than Ever on Oracle: Google Has "Destroyed" the Market For Java · · Score: 1

    Good, it's about time someone got that malicious bitch back.

  4. Re:In other news.. on Larry Wall On Perl 6, Language Design, and Getting Kids To Code · · Score: 3, Funny

    If I have children, before they are allowed to use the internet, the first thing I'll do is educate them to be careful about the dangers of Perl.

  5. Re: yes. tried one. on Ask Slashdot: Have You Tried a Standing Desk? · · Score: 1

    Enough. You guys should have sat this one out.

  6. Re:One Must Fall 2097 on Japanese and US Piloted Robots To Brawl For National Pride · · Score: 1

    Wake me up when we get to Robot Jox

  7. Re:Triticum aestivum spelta on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 0

    The last time I saw the word "smelt" outside of metallurgy was in The Hobbit.

    Huh. I suppose, "Whoever smelt it, dealt it", refers to the sale of mithril shirts.

  8. Re:A spokesman for Uber said on Uber Forced Out of Kansas · · Score: 1

    There's always Oooooooklahoma...

  9. Re:You "intern" for...? on Ask Slashdot: Identifying a Stolen Car Using Police Camera Databases? · · Score: 1

    Sure he's an intern - just ask his older brother, the Prince of Nigeria.

  10. Re:My Ex on Mars One: Final 100 Candidates Selected · · Score: 2

    Hopefully she is green. Bonus points if she's little. Future martians should be this size and colour.

  11. Re:So why is Uber is in difficulty? on Seoul City To Introduce Uber Rival Premium Taxi Service · · Score: 1

    Absolutely right. Seoul has very cheap taxis compared to other developed capitals and they are really everywhere. There is much less need for Uber there.

  12. Re:License? on Microsoft Announces Windows For Raspberry Pi 2 · · Score: 2

    I've seen the Blue Screen of Death on ATMs, Point of Sale terminals, Taxi Passenger TV Screens, Airport Screens and others. It's all out there and failing like it's supposed to. :)

  13. Re: Web Searches For These Suck on Attack of the One-Letter Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    You should try Q and K.. http://kx.com/software-downloa...

  14. Re:Backfire on London Regulator Says Uber Is Operating Legally · · Score: 1

    My favourite cab app at the moment is Kabbee. You enter your start and end points and a handful of taxi companies give you automated quotes. In terms of price: Black Cab > Addison Lee > Uber > Kabbee.

  15. Re:Scottish Advice on Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? · · Score: 1

    Coverage can be checked here: http://www.cable.co.uk/guides/... All of the major universities have coverage except St. Andrews, which is really remote.

  16. Nuh-uh! on Ask Slashdot: Intelligently Moving From IT Into Management? · · Score: 1

    2) The fuckups...They're better suited for desktop support roles or development.

    Oh no you don't! Don't send those fuckups over here to development either.

  17. Re:Does it make Minecraft run faster? on Java 8 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    All of these things appear to reflect an uninformed poster.

    ...or a well fed and satisfied troll!

  18. Re: Mischaracterization of problem on Teaching Calculus To 5-Year-Olds · · Score: 1

    Will there be hot grits?

  19. Re:Firrrst post the noo on Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast · · Score: 1
    According to the Financial Times

    If [an Independent Scotland's] geographic share of UK oil and gas output is taken into account, Scotland’s GDP per head is bigger than that of France. Even excluding the North Sea’s hydrocarbon bounty, per capita GDP is higher than that of Italy.

    So your saying a western European economy of this size would not have been part of the EU when countries like Slovenia, Latvia, Malta are welcome? That's delusional.

  20. Re:Firrrst post the noo on Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And to all you Americans, the 4th of July is something we Scots would like to celebrate with you. We think having our own political system is important too.

  21. Re:Firrrst post the noo on Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast · · Score: 0

    As for english opinion on independence, you don't get a say because that is not how it works globally. Read the news and educate yourself chappy.

    As for Labour government, you would have voted for it all by yourself
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    I'm Scottish but have lived in London and have done for 10 years so I can't vote either. I think the only way you will see sensible change in England is when an independent Scotland performs much better. Or maybe the McCrone Report is too scary.

  22. Re:Firrrst post the noo on Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast · · Score: 0

    Why don't you read your own fucking national news you total waste of space. The english don't get a say because it is not the global norm for the non-separating part to get a say. Use some common sense.

  23. Re:Firrrst post the noo on Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast · · Score: 1

    Who was it that had to bail out the British banks RBOS and HBOS? That's kind of a silly question, the British government of course. You can't decide something is British in the good times, absorbing corporation tax, national insurance, PAYE and % of bonuses in the good times then deciding it's Scottish in the bad because you feel like it. This isn't Andy Murray we're talking about. As far as bank bailouts go, could an independent Scotland's banks have avoided collapse during the economic crisis? The experts think yes. Then remember that the US Fed bailed out Barclays to the tune of £552Bn, much less that UK contributions to RBOS and HBOS, themselves large chunks of which are actually English banks of which the investment banking arms based in London. In Europe, considering an independent Scotland may have been in the Eurozone at that time, bailouts were across country boundaries so other avenues. Then again, who's to say Scotland wouldn't have had regulation to prevent the kind of excess we saw in London where the distressed investment banking arm of RBOS is based? That's without even considering a long term oil fund.

    Before we joke more about Gordon Brown, remember that the English voted for him. Even if Scotland wasn't in the UK, the outcome of the general elections in the rest of the UK would have been the same. In other words, the rest of UK voted wanted Blair (and Brown by extension), Thatcher etc. It's not something the Scottish force on the rest. The same is not true in reverse. The Scots never vote Tory.

  24. Re:Firrrst post the noo on Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast · · Score: 1, Troll

    Although probably economically beneficial to Scotland, most people want independence for moral reasons. Successive Tory governments have been absolutely ruthless of stripping Scotland of it's assets while maintaining that it is a burden. Economic and social policy benefits mainly only London and the south east but negative decisions about war and other foreign policy affect us all equally. It's time for a change in Scotland.

  25. Re:As Frontalot says on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Trust Bitcoin? · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are no markets in nature

    Well, almost no markets in nature. Chimps exchange sex for meat