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  1. Re:Switzerland on Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors · · Score: 1

    No, the Nazis didn't invade because even Hitler wasn't crazy enough to invade a country where most of the male population have military training (particularly in mountain warfare), and which is in the middle of a minor mountain range sometimes referred to as the Alps. Whilst there is no doubt he would heave turned his attention towards Switzerland eventually, there were many better targets to attack first. Invading Switzerland would have been alsmost as suicidal as Operation Barbarossa, except with far less potential for gain (no oilfields)

  2. Re:Whats so special? on Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors · · Score: 1

    There is a village in England where all front doors are painted a specific shade of red (Southwick, Hants), although I have no idea if this is a by-law or if all the buildings are owned by a single landlord. It looks good, but it is a little odd.

  3. Re:There's good and bad on Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors · · Score: 1

    you couldn't have your significant other move in until you'd been together a certain time.

    How could that be enforced? All anyone would have to do is lie about how long you were together before your SO moved in.

  4. Re:Where's the fire? on China Sets Sights On Rail Record · · Score: 1

    Wrong. The shuttle locomotives (and the coaches for lorry drivers) are too UIC loading gauge, but the transporter vehicles are much larger.
    You are correct about your other points.

  5. Re:Enfant Terrible? on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1
  6. Re:I knew magpies are quite "smart" on Magpies Are Self-Aware · · Score: 1

    He's being a grammar Nazi, of course. What does a grammar Nazi ever have to do with the topic at hand.

  7. Re:Crows, for one on Magpies Are Self-Aware · · Score: 1

    Pheasants have an interesting method of escaping oncoming cars: they run towards them and try to fly over the top. This works, but often they crash after the car has passed underneath them.

  8. Re:Crows, for one on Magpies Are Self-Aware · · Score: 1

    Because a male rabbit is a buck and a female rabbit is a doe, so calling a baby rabbit a fawn like one does for deer would just be too simple.

  9. Re:Slashdot crazies who know nothing about the law on Judge Rules Man Cannot Be Forced To Decrypt HD · · Score: 1

    In that case you phrase your defence differently:
    "If such documents existed, which they may not, then if they were to incriminate me, the Fifth Amendment allows me to refuse to say there they are. If they do exist, and they do not incriminate me, I do not need to prove that as the burden of proof is on the prosecution. If the files do not exist, I cannot tell you where they are. therefore, unless I need the files for my defence, I am not required to tell you where they are, if they exist, which they may not"

  10. Re:A little old isn't it? on Judge Rules Man Cannot Be Forced To Decrypt HD · · Score: 1

    I propose a new /. game: trying to get the oldest story onto the front page, with bonus points if TFA is actually the original post. Maybe I can convince kdawson that Duke Nukem 3D for PC has will be released tomorrow.

  11. Re:The devil is in the details on Judge Rules Man Cannot Be Forced To Decrypt HD · · Score: 1

    What hot outfits are you referring to the Catholic Church dressing young girls in? The only thing which the *Church* would dress young children in would be Albs, and then only in the case of an altar server. Since a unisex floor-length tunic can hardly be described as a hot outfit, I have no idea what you could be referring to. Anything else a girl might wear to church would be chosen by her or her parents, and would be just ordinary clothes.

  12. Re:It's all big massive circle. on Photoshop Allows Us To Alter Our Memories · · Score: 1

    I would point out that a properly fitting suit is not uncomfortable, and nor is black tie or formal morning wear (I have never worn white tie, but unless you wear a boiled shirt, it would be just as comfortable unless it is weighed down with medals and honours).

    Women's formal clothing is traditionally designed for style over comfort, but lounge sits are derived from clothes intended to be worn while riding, whilst black tie was deigned specifically to be comfortable whilst still being elegant.

  13. Re:Not of significant interest on The Duke Is Finally Back, For Real · · Score: 1

    you're on games.slashdot.org. You should expect games news, you retard. What did you think you would find?

  14. Re:Look on the bright side... on The Duke Is Finally Back, For Real · · Score: 1

    By the time DNF is released, it will have long since been the year of Linux on the desktop, and all nerds will have moved to using the Hurd kernel instead, so no-one will ask "Does it run on Linux".

  15. Re:I'm so screwed on The Duke Is Finally Back, For Real · · Score: 1

    Some very old wine might be able to get expensive enough, although tracking enough down in the 8 or so hours he has is unlikely to work.

    The key point to remember is that it is blackjack and hookers, not just hookers (although given only 8 hours, I know which I'd choose), so he could loose any amount of money on the cards.

    His real mistake was quitting his job. Why waste the time when your boss won't have time to fire you anyway? (And even if he did, why would you care?)

  16. Re:This is the pushback! on Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare · · Score: 1

    I think you have been reading too much of RMS's work[1]. As long as you are using the dead tree edition it is impossible to prevent students selling their books. It might be possible to stop piracy of electronic editions with a completely locked down internet.

    [1]Right to Read is about e-books, remember, not paper books.

  17. Re:There is real psychological truth to this on Photoshop Allows Us To Alter Our Memories · · Score: 1

    Then again, there is the Rick Astley counter-argument to take into account, let us not forget.

    But we're never gonna let him go.

  18. Re:Flamewar! on Photoshop Allows Us To Alter Our Memories · · Score: 1

    There is one for Emacs 21, but IIRC it is only a front end to ImageMagick and a preview panel. There is also a video editor (with playback from within the Emacs window if you are running under X or Windows).

  19. Re:Flamewar! on Photoshop Allows Us To Alter Our Memories · · Score: 1

    Heresy!
    Emacs Lisp is a common Lisp derivative, whereas Script-Fu is related to Scheme. THis gives usyet another topic for flame wars:
    Common Lisp vs. Scheme over here please----->

  20. Re:Years worth of emails on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Epic fail: if you want to make that joke, you could at least have said :

    What are the other D types

  21. Re:Conspiracy Theory! on Slashdot Announces Idle Section · · Score: 1

    It is impressive. but possibly UIDs 4 or 570 would be more impressive: 4 because the CowboyNeil option is *always* best, and user 570 is, well, special.

  22. Re:All blogs are editorials on 30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging · · Score: 1

    ...I want blogs to cause stammering inarticulate rage, bleeding from the ears and epileptic seizures in people...

    You're looking for Idle then are, ya?

    I think he was referring to the quality of the content, not the CSS

  23. Re:"Jigsaw elections"? You mean Electoral Eollege? on 30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging · · Score: 1

    If several states seceded together, then it is possible the the US military would at least temporarily be crippled, since everyone from a secessionist state would have to be removed from their position until their loyalty was proven, and a unit with a sufficient concentration of secessionists is likely to mutiny, especially if the US tried to reconquer the state(s).

    As soon as the first civilian casualties were reported, public support for war within the Union would be likely to evaporate quickly, making the use of force politically impossible in most cases.

  24. Re:It is most munificent of you, on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    This happens because the size is defined by CSS, and so either the page would need to be refreshed or javascript could be used to redraw the box, as described in an earlier post. Resizing the box in the latter way is perfectly possible, but not really worth the effort, since this would onky occur occasionally for each user.

  25. Re:Do the police... on Police Secretly Planting GPS Devices On Cars · · Score: 1

    At least you haven't had a real "Clive the slightly too loud commuter" (non-Aussies: search YouTube for it, its funny)