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  1. Re:Violation of the Data Protection Act on Facebook Is Building Shadow Profiles of Non-Users · · Score: 1
    Except that the data protection act also states

    Personal data shall not be transferred to a country or territory outside the EEA unless that country or territory ensures an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.

  2. Re:Hold on on ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data' · · Score: 1

    Ahhhh, ok your original comment makes much more sense now. Cheers for that.

  3. Re:Hold on on ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data' · · Score: 1

    Plum Consulting claims the cost per additional gigabyte of data for fixed-line ISPs is between €0.01-0.03 per GB

    Is that €0.03 or €0.0003 ?

    Ris?

    Sorry I don't understand your point, could you explain?

  4. Re:Let me be the first to say on Russian Space Agency Determines Cause of Soyuz Crash · · Score: 1

    If you can't value a human life, ask life insurance professional. Short version: a human generates income stream. Value of someone's life is a sum of that income from present to death of the individual. So if GDP per capita today is 14K in Russia and 45K in America then average American life is three time as valuable.

    Except that he said important instead of valuable. Many of the most important figures in history died destitute.

  5. Re:Nothing to surprising on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't think everyone agreed that they were acceptable, I think that the wealthy agreed that it was more profitable.

  6. Re:Gonna get flamed on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 5, Informative
    By putting out mis-information like this you are part of the reason for the large number of deaths from measels. From the WHO.

    • Measles is one of the leading causes of death among young children even though a safe and cost-effective vaccine is available.
    • In 2008, there were 164 000 measles deaths globally – nearly 450 deaths every day or 18 deaths every hour.
    • More than 95% of measles deaths occur in low-income countries with weak health infrastructures.
    • Measles vaccination resulted in a 78% drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2008 worldwide.
    • In 2008, about 83% of the world's children received one dose of measles vaccine by their first birthday through routine health services – up from 72% in 2000.

    You clearly did not read the nature article as this is in no way a strawman. They did not just look at the relation between vaccines and MMR, but about negative effects of vaccines.

    They found

    We looked very hard and found very little evidence of serious adverse harms from vaccines

    Stop putting out your own knee-jerk reactions and at least read the article you are criticising before putting out dangerous misinformation.

  7. Re:Just Giving on Kickstarter-Like Service For Charities? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ah, I just noticed that may be slightly UK centric. Here is the US version.

  8. Just Giving on Kickstarter-Like Service For Charities? · · Score: 3, Informative
    What you are loving for already exists.

    Just Giving

  9. Re:Apple's old-hat at doctoring photos on More Photoshopped Evidence In Apple v. Samsung · · Score: 1

    I actually bothered to check that accusation of trickery. In the image he claims that both images are from the exact same frame and that it has been altered since the position of the man in the background is different. They are simply different frames, with the ipad version being about 7 seconds earlier than the 'real' one.

    However I will agree that it was dishonest of them to show the film playing like that rather than letterboxed. The amount of detail lost throughout the film would have been staggering.

    The accusations surrounding apples manipulation of images for evidence are as far as I'm concerend, valid.

  10. Re:Failing geometry on First Observational Test of the "Multiverse" · · Score: 1

    "Two arbitrary lines in a 2D plane will meet with probability 1.0."
    y=1
    y=2

    Huh?

  11. Re:lol Daily Mail on Mysterious Object Found In Seabed · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm actually quite annoyed at this. I foolishly clicked the link without checking where it led (just wanted a peak at the pictures). The daily mail is a disgusting newspapers that spreads lies and promotes racist and homophobic agendas. The damage it has caused to vaccination in the UK is more than enough reason to boycott it and I am now ashamed to have provided them a hit.

  12. Re:Testing on Google+: Tools, Names, and Facebook · · Score: 2

    Actually you are not allowed to create fake accounts with facebook, you are supposed to create test accounts. I believe one of their blog posts threatened app and account closure if you were found to be created fake accounts as opposed to test accounts.
    Since google+ doesn't have a developer API yet it doesn't really need test accounts. Once the API is released I'm sure they will come.

  13. Re:Best UI? on Google+ Already At 10 Million Users · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your post is the equivalent of people who use linux and complain its not identical to windows. Google+!=facebook

  14. Re:Future Shop does it too now on Retailer Calls Rivals' Bluff On "HDMI Scam" · · Score: 3, Funny

    You wouldn't plug your computer straight into the wall,

    Wait, what? Why wouldn't you plug it straight into the wall? I've been doing that for almost 20 years now.

    You fool! You need to plug it into the ceiling, how else are the electrons supposed to drain into your computer?

  15. Re:Really bad idea. on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 2

    If roundabouts are causing confusion, just be fortunate that they haven't decided to start building magic roundabouts

  16. Re:Principals didn't get it on Google Bid Pi Billion Dollars For Nortel Patents · · Score: 1

    Actually a lot of people graduate from physics and head straight into finance, if they were clever and had worked out googles strategy, they should have bid Pi+1 dollars.

  17. Re:Well that's not good on Algorithm Solves Rubik's Cubes of Any Size · · Score: 3, Funny

    The man was devastated by the article and as soon as he overcomes his devastation you tell him his other 12 year life long pursuit is fruitless. He is not going to be having a good day.

  18. Consolidate the stories on Google Gmail Motion Beta · · Score: 1

    Can we not place all the April fool jokes into one slashdot post with the appropriate links. Otherwise we end up like last year with 10 stories spamming the front and anything interesting being pushed out of sight.

  19. Re:Nuclear technologies on Things Get Worse at Fukushima · · Score: 1

    And in fact was commissioned 6 years before Chernobyl. Chernobyl is still state of the art, who knew.

  20. Re:My favorite Gosling quote on Java Creator James Gosling Hired At Google · · Score: 0

    I tried to find the source for this but googling just comes up with your post. Can you cite it anywhere?

  21. Re:Where's the news for nerds in this? on Pocket Wars and Cores · · Score: 1

    I've almost completely given up on it. I've stopped reading the articles, not because of lack of interest but because they never point towards the original source anymore. In fact what they link to also rarely even link to the original source. I've taken to just reading the comments waiting to see if some inquisitive poster has tracked it down.

    The editors purposefully manipulate whats posted usually to increase the hyperbole but often are outright lies. In some case the posts are so warped that they say the opposite of what was originally posted.

    We've reached the point where I think we need to fork. People complain about the problems in nearly every story and yet it falls on deaf ears. The recent forks with respect to Oracle seem to have been all fairly successful, why can't we?

  22. Re:I don't use Firefox for performance reasons... on Firefox 4 RC Vs. IE9 RC: the First Duel · · Score: 1

    Hadn't seen this before but been a long time vimperator user. From the addon page it looks like some of the developers fell out with the creator of vimperator and forked it.

  23. Re:As Powerful as the PS3? on Sony Reveals the Next Generation Portable Console · · Score: 2

    Considering that a 4-core Cortex-A9 isn't even in the wild yet let alone benchmarks how can you make this assertion. Also when it comes to a console the GPU matters more than the CPU and similarly there is no current way to compare the Quad Core PowerVR SGX543MP4+ against the PS3.

  24. Re:Or was it a hole in a badly designed game? on Xbox Live Labels Autistic Boy "Cheater" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sounds like you exploited a bug which in my mind is cheating and so "there's no other way you could get that many ships" remains true. The punishment for abusing bugs in many games is banning so this isn't a lone case.

  25. Re:Remake of Jedi Knight? on FPS Games That Need a Remake · · Score: 1

    You do realise that when you duelled in Jedi Academy you couldn't use force powers and so both 1 and 2 are invalid.

    The rest of what you say is also simply wrong.