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  1. Re:Money from people who want to sell? on Interview With A Craigslist Scammer (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    France, at least.
    Most people routinely use checks for rent, for instance.
    In Belgium however, they haven't used a check in the last 15 or 20 years.

  2. Re:Money from people who want to sell? on Interview With A Craigslist Scammer (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The real issue is that it's 2016 and checks are still actually used...

  3. Re:No value on Interview With A Craigslist Scammer (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Yep, because chain gangs made sure that there was no crime, it's only in "polite societies" that there is crime...

  4. Re:Rogue governments !! on GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they own and operate the transport to get there, that doesn't make the station russian...

  5. Re:Rogue governments !! on GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware · · Score: 1

    The US, Russia, and pretty much all the key members of the European Union, at the very least. China probably, and I would say India as well. That makes it pretty international, and not "Russian"...

  6. Re:Rogue governments !! on GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware · · Score: 1

    Look up the acronym. Hint: the first word is "International"

  7. Re:Looks nice; way too expensive on Ubuntu Edge Smartphone Funding Trends Low · · Score: 1

    The Nexus 4 is sold at near loss by google.
    When sold by LG, its manufacturer, in Europe, it goes for exactly the same price as all the other smartphones, which is more expensive than the $600 I paid to support the Edge...

  8. Re:Someone start a defense fund on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 1

    The fact that the program is actually not even really that bad just makes his future problems seem like a case of unloading a firearm into his foot for no good reason.

    So, spying on every single communication in the US is "not really that bad"? So what kind of program would be bad?

  9. Re:This is good for Bitcoin on Btcd - a Bitcoind Alternative Written In Go! · · Score: 2

    Actually, in Greece, they use the Euro, so... Their money has not lost value...

  10. Re:Is it? on Bitcoin Exchange Mt.Gox Suffers Serious Attack, Instawallet Offline · · Score: 1

    I think you need to read the summary again. They are talking about TWO different sites...

  11. How does thinking they are believing something stupid not mean you think less of them because of it?

  12. Re:Strongly Disagree on $100 Million Student Database Worries Parents · · Score: 1

    I was not asking for anecdotal evidence, but for statistics, or at least the beginning of a credible number...

  13. Re:Strongly Disagree on $100 Million Student Database Worries Parents · · Score: 1

    So, because most teachers don't have a degree in the subject they are teaching (do you have statistics on that highly precise number?), you think a parent, who most likely hasn't seen a classroom in the last 10 years (at the very least) and hasn't read anything on the subject taught in 20 could do better?

    I have had my share of bad teachers, but there were definitely a lot more good teachers than bad ones, and pretty much none that simply "read the textbooks" to me...

    I was pretty good in school, I have a history of very grades all through my education, most people would tell you I would make a very good teacher, but there's no way I could possibly teach all the subject in a child's program.

    How many homeschooled kids have actually become scientists, in the last 20 years, for instance?

  14. Re:Strongly Disagree on $100 Million Student Database Worries Parents · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because obviously most parents can teach all the subjects in school as well as specialized school teachers...

    Hint: how many teachers do you know that have taught more than 2 subjects?

  15. Re:Double dipping on Austrian Blank Media Tax May Expand To Include Cloud Storage · · Score: 1

    True, but I paid for the song, then I paid for the 3 or 4 storage medium that I use to store that file I already paid for.
    Once again, as with DRM or unskippable ads, only the people who actually respect the law get the bad treatment. The rest of us buy our media in the countries where such a tax doesn't exist (Luxemburg, Andorra...)

  16. Re:What's next? on Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal · · Score: 2

    Surely the simplest solutions is for the FCC to drop the filing?

  17. Re:Double dipping on Austrian Blank Media Tax May Expand To Include Cloud Storage · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, in Europe, in most of the countries (but not all), you pay a tax on every single storage media that's called "private copy tax".

    It's supposed to compensate artists for the loss incurred because of people LEGALLY copying their music (and not because of piracy, as that would be taxing an illegal practice, which is... illegal)

    It includes cd's or dvd's, but also hard drives, phones (even dumb phones with a few megs of storage...), ipods...

    In practice, it means that you get taxed when:

    - You buy a song, and store in on your ipod : you pay

    - you then transfer that song to your hard drive: you pay

    - then you decide to copy it on your phone: you pay

    The list could go on and on...

  18. Re:"Follow the president's lead"? on Ask Slashdot: Will You Shop Local Like President Obama, Or Online? · · Score: 1

    Most of the books amazon recommends to me, I end up liking.

  19. Re:Thanks Prez! on Ask Slashdot: Will You Shop Local Like President Obama, Or Online? · · Score: 1

    Actually, part-time is not really popular nor practiced over here...

  20. Microsoft has been swapping faulty covers for user on Microsoft Surface Touch Cover 'Splits Within Days' · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, how does that work? You go in with your faulty cover, you leave with a new user? Do you get to choose your user?

  21. Re:The problem with FOSS office suites on OpenOffice Is Now, Officially, Apache OpenOffice · · Score: 0

    Word 2007 is perfectly capable of reading and editing .doc documents, and as far as I know, Openoffice can read and edit both .doc and .docx.

    Your objection is a non issue.

  22. Re:Yeah na bro on Three-Strikes Copyright Law In NZ Halves Infringement · · Score: 2

    While bullets related hospitalization and deaths augmented markedly...

  23. Re:Elephant metric system on New Analysis Shows Dinosaurs Not As Heavy As Previously Believed. · · Score: 1

    And as far as I know, even in the US, for science related things, you use SI units.

  24. fake certificates, or sold certificates? on Microsoft Certificate Was Used To Sign Flame Malware · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Considering that microsoft sold the possibility to sign ssl certificates for any domain to the late Tunisian government, why wouldn't they sell the same thing to the makers of that virus, if it really comes from a government?

    source: http://arabcrunch.com/2011/09/wikileaks-microsoft-accused-in-helping-bin-ali-monitor-tunisians-corruption-stifling-open-source.html

  25. Re:Just my two cents on German Court Rules That Clients Responsible For Phishing Losses · · Score: 1

    Actually it used to be taken as medicine, so I'm guessing it's more or less safe in small amounts.