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  1. Re:agreed on Samsung Launches 3D Movement Recognition Phone · · Score: 1


    I went to the trouble to learn Graffiti (tm I presume) for my PalmPilot, such that I would even write it on paper if I made notes for myself (nerd!!)

    It was still quicker to pop up the virtual qwerty and tap in the chars with that.

  2. Re:self prophecising on NASA Releases Free Global Climate Model Software · · Score: 1


    Grammar !

    pot meet kettle

  3. Re:Tailing requires a physical act... on No Warrant Needed For GPS Tracking By Police · · Score: 1


    Legally, you're not allowed to touch my property without permission of the owner thereof- even the OUTSIDE of the property.

    Is that really true ?

    I'm not American but that sounds like a crazy law.

    The statute would have to have a huge list of accepted defences and a shit load of casework precedent saying in what situations it was legally acceptable to touch the outside of someone else's property.

    Does anyone have a URL to the particular statute that prohibits touching.

    I wouldn't want to visit the US and be arrested for leaning on a crate or passing someone their coat. The police might get my fingerprints from the item and cross reference it with the prints that they take at immigration!!

  4. Re:Private voting on Masked Email Activist Can Stay Anonymous · · Score: 1


    democracy only leads to freedom if the people you vote for win

  5. Re:the answer is... on PHP Automated Administrivia? · · Score: 1

    Considering that sad state of databases and integrity constraints today, you probably *must* do it that way otherwise you will get bad data into the database.

    Let me guess ... MySQL ?

  6. PHP is a bit cruddy on PHP Automated Administrivia? · · Score: 4, Insightful


    Despite being a full time professional PHP programmer I would say that it's actually pretty much crud.

    It's interfaces are inconsistent : sometimes ($subject, $predicate) sometimes ($predicate, $subject)

    The worst thing that ever happened to it ws the CLI version

    Steer clear, it's not worth the hassle

    My adivce is to go for mature sys admin tools

  7. Re:avaliable invites on Gmail Messages Are Vulnerable To Interception · · Score: 1

    surely you mean lonely_thes@hotmail.com ?

  8. A bit more to it than that on Robot Makers Say World Cup Will Be Theirs By 2050 · · Score: 2, Insightful


    If only soccer was as easy as a bit of shielding and hefty kicking !

  9. Re:Makes you wonder... on NASA Details Earthquake Effects on the Earth · · Score: 1

    why would the earth consider us and our times a special case ?

    Does it care what the ambient air temperature is at any given time?

    Seeing as the point of attraction is oblivion, our existence has an impact that asymptotes to zero.

  10. Re:You might be wondering on NASA Details Earthquake Effects on the Earth · · Score: 1


    or even vise versa

  11. Re:Surprise surprise... on Crackers Tune In to Windows Media Player · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Remember when media files used to be safe? When we only needed to worry about files with .exe and .zip and a few others containing viruses or malware?

    Presumably that was before you learned things.

    All data is safe, processing untrusted data is potentially dangerous, particularly if it is automatic.

    Email is just plain text but look how many buffer overflows various email clients have had just parsing it

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=email+parsing+buf fer+overflow

    and is has nothing to do with OSS/CSS they have all been vulnerable in various ways over time.

  12. Re:My neighborhood on Best Wireless SSIDs You Have Seen? · · Score: 1


    ssh forwarding is your friend

  13. Re:It's not the size, it's the speed which matters on Giant Iceberg to Collide with Glacier · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find it's the moment um.

  14. Re:Set a course, Cptn Stubing! on Giant Iceberg to Collide with Glacier · · Score: 1


    Who are these "Brittish" of which you speak?

  15. Re:Good memory on IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    British Telecom is reportedly having concerns of the PR nature of being involved in the UK's ID Scheme

    Just wait for humans to be RFID chipped from birth, tried and tested in dogs and cats rond the globe, my own included.

    We've already got a DNA database being built where your DNA is taken upon arrest rather than charge.

    They are getting carried away with their power.

  16. Re:If I break in your car... on Security Researcher Faces Jail For Finding Bugs · · Score: 1


    On UK housing estates the door keys are also from a fixed set. I don't know how many but I had a friend on the same estate as me and it turned out we had the same front door key !

  17. Re:Sweet! on IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source · · Score: 1

    bah, lest not let =)

  18. Re:Sweet! on IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source · · Score: 1, Interesting


    Let We Forget

    IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.

    Though, to my mind, the story is as much about being aware of the uses of personal information and how the climate for that use can change *very* quickly.

  19. Re:new suggestion for subtitle on A Look Inside the BBC's Network · · Score: 1

    yeah I know, I just couldn't find the proper address

  20. Re:new suggestion for subtitle on A Look Inside the BBC's Network · · Score: 1


    hehe, how missing 4 letters makes a difference =)

  21. Re:new suggestion for subtitle on A Look Inside the BBC's Network · · Score: 1

    The BBC is here

    To be a Cockney one needs to be able to hear the Bow Bells which are here

    I'm not sure that the BBC has such good hearing!

  22. Re:EQ2 - best mmporg of the year on Developer Retrospective on the MMORPGs of 2004 · · Score: 1


    Adventure packs were announced last week there Mr. Smartypants. On or around the 7th of Jan.

    you shouldn't rely on /. for your news

    So, let me see, they charge you extra for extra things you can live without.

    How is this different from paying for more channels on cable or buying more bandwidth or your next meal ?

  23. Re:EQ2 - best mmporg of the year on Developer Retrospective on the MMORPGs of 2004 · · Score: 1


    Adventure packs (wow 2 a year for $10 apiece, backbreaking slavery! how dare the milk us so!) were announced as part of the game well before launch, not exactly hidden.

    I don't want to knock other games but I enjoy EQ2. Can't play them all and still eat !

  24. Re:EQ2 - best mmporg of the year on Developer Retrospective on the MMORPGs of 2004 · · Score: 1


    In what way does EQ2's method of having a Shard with a few stat points at your point of death ruin one's life ?

    Sounds like one is basing one's opinion of EQ from 1999

    And tbh. eq1 was a challenging game where fear of death was real. Just respawning is not punishment enough.

  25. Re:Forget the option just give us the stock on The Coming Expensing of Employee Stock Options · · Score: 1


    The post to which I was replying asked "If they have to expense it anyway, just give us the straight stock."

    As options and not stock the receiver can decide when to incur the tax implications.