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  1. Debt isn't the problem on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    You see the problem in terms of debt, but this isn't the real problem. The problem is lame, unqualified, prone-to-corrupt-and-clientelism politicians which are elected by uninformed citizens. The money of EU should be spent to increase economic and political awareness of the Greek people instead of just paying back debt or wages. The whole Greek public sector should be rebuilt from scratch. This doesn't require any "bright minds"; just copying successful (sub)systems from other countries. EU was available for help a lot during the last decades, but this wasn't leverages by the Greek system.

  2. Adonis v. Lee on Singapore's Prime Minister Shares His C++ Sudoku Solver Code · · Score: 1

    Adonis Georgiadis, a major political figure of the former Greek government (New Democracy) cannot solve this equation: x/2=30/3 but this guy shares his C++ program. My respect. :) PS: Proof in these videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  3. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome on Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    M$ Natural 4000 all the way. Convenient and reasonably priced. A lot of people misdiagnose something as CTS, while in reality it could be just a stiff arm or neck or misaligned neck vertebrae or muscles that press on nerves. Trigger point therapy and serious physiotherapy (that sweetly hurts) can do miracles in that case.

  4. Uncorrelated... on RapidShare Threatens Suit Over Piracy Allegations · · Score: 0

    Piracy? RapidShare? NOOOOOO!!!...

  5. Re:Understatement on Why a Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than an SSD · · Score: 1

    ... you are talking about leechers. :D

  6. they should only block Cuba & Korea... on Microsoft Blocks Messenger In Five Embargoed Countries · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Linux has over 90% of the supercomputing market on Is Linux's "Overall Market Share" Statistic Meaningful? · · Score: 1

    or 99% of the geek market :) I think the M$ share of the geek market is 1% ! :D

  8. Re:My business was raided by the BSA on Calling BS On the BSA Global Piracy Report · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a pirated version of a linux distribution and other FOSS, I share the torrent only with you: http://www.slackware.com/torrents/slackware-12.2-install-dvd.torrent

  9. OpenOffice adoption on Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked · · Score: 1
    Hi to all, is OpenOffice really adopted by others in your day-to-day life (public services, schools/universities, public sector) as I read online the last years?

    In Greece its use is negligible, as in "OpenOffice: Is this the new name of MS office? really?"... on the other hand we always are at least a couple of years behind the real world. :)

  10. Re:How about those hidden linux taxes? on "Apple Tax" Report Backfires On Microsoft · · Score: 1

    that's why there is http://www.filehipp.com/ :D :D

  11. The real cause of the crisis on The End of Tax-Free Internet Shopping? · · Score: 1

    I think behind this point of view, lies the fact that non-existent internet sales taxes, was the root of the crisis we undergo.

  12. Re:and it means... on Tiny Particle With No Charge Discovered · · Score: 1

    oh yes, the detergent that took its name after the greek word axion meaning worthy: "well done, axion, bravo!!..." and it shares almost the same pronunciation with "action"... Short, catchy names, love them!...

  13. Re:Why we're about to do it on Getting Companies to Contribute to Open Source? · · Score: 1

    I dream of the day that people will demand from the companies to open their code... ;)

  14. and it means... on Tiny Particle With No Charge Discovered · · Score: 4, Informative

    axion () means worthy in greek. ;)

  15. Resisting to impluses... on Laptops Searched and Confiscated at U.S. Border · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, listening to such stories, I want to become a terrorist myself!...
    Do not underestimate the fact that some people are just a couple of steps before doing something criminal, and the rest of the community, with their actions and the lack of trust, just pushes them to do it!

    Sometimes I go into supermarkets dressed up rather untidily. The guard watches me, follows me, then he does something else... It never occurs to me of stealing something except for those moments, really!...
    We could make the cost of ridiculous safety measures higher than the cost of their lack somehow, in order to stop such safety insanity...

  16. Shame on Greek Blog Aggregator Arrested · · Score: 1

    Shame on the Greek Authorities (Body of Electronic Crime included), really. They've done a pretty good job in arresting criminals that take advantage of child pornography or thieves that take advantage of people's ignorance over the use of electronic payment methods, but some times I doubt if they have the judgeship of how things really work over the internet. Unfortunately there are public prosecutors that simply don't laugh at such accusations.
    However, Greek Law is somehow up-to-date for such accusations and I estimate that the defendant will be acquitted. The problem is that the PC of the defendant (confiscated by the authorities) contained important data of his small personal enterprise (that is subsidised by the Greek Unemployment Office - that is in turn funded by European Union) and now his professional reliability is shattered.