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  1. Re:semantics on Greece, UK Go Different Directions On Biometric ID · · Score: 1

    > british people are subjects, rather than citizens

    Funny.. it says "British Citizen" in this passport that I'm looking at.

  2. Re:Project Rave?!? on Java IDE Technical Preview · · Score: 1

    Which proves my point that theres a huge range of people who do that sort of thing. Hence any claims of code-quality lacking due to the product being named "Rave" is stupidly ludicrous.

  3. Re:Project Rave?!? on Java IDE Technical Preview · · Score: 1

    Actually, some of the best coders I've come across have been quite partial to spending all night dancing under the influence of class-A's

  4. Security is not a product. on Windows Developers Agree: Linux More Secure · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When will people realise that security is not about products and operating systems. Security is a process that is ongoing and evolving.

  5. Re:Simple on Fight Woodworking Piracy: Add EULA Restrictions · · Score: 1

    Clarification? It comes down to free speech. They can say whatever they want. They have the right to say that the moon is made of purple cheese, and the earth is a football owned by a marauding space goat.

    Just because they have the right to say it, doesn't mean that it has any bearing on the real world.

  6. Re:sftp too slow - WHY? on Sending Files w/o Sending Clear Passwords? · · Score: 1

    The implementation of ssh you are using can have a huge impact on the transfer speeds. I was recently using ( an admittedly slightly old version of) SSH Communications's SSH software, and getting around 250Kb/sec with the blowfish cipher - getting rid of that and installing OpenSSH bumped the throughput up to 4.5Mb/sec on blowfish.

  7. Re:DVD on Sending Files w/o Sending Clear Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Eh? Snail-mail - you know.. like the post office, and the letterbox out front of the house? People use it to send pieces of paper in envelopes to each other. Sometimes they send parcels. In this case, the guy would use it to send a CD with his data burnt on it.

    I'm not quite sure why you think that requires Base64

    Perhaps you're thinking of E-Mail?

  8. Re:Definition of ISP on Online Journalists are ISPs? · · Score: 1

    Then quoting the section of law that defines what an ISP is would be relevant to the discussion. Quoting Wikipedia isn't.

  9. Re:Yeah on U.S. Lists Web Sites as Terrorist Organizations · · Score: 1

    That answer kinda neatly sidesteps the "directly" part of the question, dont you think?

  10. Re:Definition of ISP on Online Journalists are ISPs? · · Score: 1

    I don't think Webopedia counts as a source of legal definitions in a court of law.

  11. FPS in the UK on Fax-Spam -- What Can One Do? · · Score: 1

    I had just this problem when I moved into my previous house - we were getting 5 or 6 fax calls per night, at all hours. Unfortunately, I couldn't just rip the phone out of the wall, as I needed to be contactable by work also.

    Luckily, here in Britain, I was able to through our number in on the Facsimile Preference Service which put a stop to it almost immediately. Any further faxes then would have landed the sender a rather large fine for each one they send.

  12. Funny? on High-Tech Surveillance's First Target: Suffragettes · · Score: 1

    Err.. what am I missing? What is funny about the article?

  13. Re:What's your point? on Microsoft Services for Unix and OpenBSD · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The point is that Microsoft claimed they were buying a SCO license so they could use it for their "Services for Unix", not as a way of bankrolling SCO's efforts to FUD linux.

    This shows that the Services for Unix aren't derived from SCO sources, and therefore MS lied.

    Or something.

  14. Re:No, you galah! on Australian IT Minister Alston Replaced · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I have a cold.

  15. Re:You Beauty! on Australian IT Minister Alston Replaced · · Score: 2, Informative

    Its taken from the name of the bird. Its generally used in Australia as an insult, roughly translating to idiot and/or fool.
    See also, "Gala"

  16. Re:Paying for paranoia... on Smartcards to Track London Commuters · · Score: 1

    How exactly is a satelite going to track a person on an Underground train?

  17. Re:Analog Hole on Secure Voice Communications While Travelling? · · Score: 1

    yes, but the wind dowsn't cause deflections in the same frequency band that voice does, so its easily filtered off.

  18. Re:Worst. Story. Ever. on On the Record: Scott McNealy · · Score: 2, Funny

    It wouldn't have been so bad if it was at least coherant.

  19. Re:damn. on Knights Over Europe Shows Off Dawn Of Flight Combat · · Score: 1

    A lot of flight combat games do use quite simplified physics - simplified enough that it no longer is considered "real"

  20. Re:Since when... on Brazilian Rocket Explodes on Launch Pad · · Score: 1

    Have you *seen* the amounts of regulations that come out of Brussels? Anarcho it is not.

  21. Re:RFIDs are Meaningless on Gillette Pulls RFID Tags In UK Amid Protests · · Score: 1

    No, they're photgraphing the customer not as some market research tactic, but because the razors are high-risk items for being shoplifted. The stores are photographing everyone who picks one up off the shelf with the view of using that as evidence in prosecution.

    Once the rfid has been through the checkout and the item paid for, the photograph gets deleted. Any that are left over are "obviously" shoplifters.

    The problem then comes when I pick one up off the shelf, look at it, realise its not the right type of blade for my razor, put it back and pick up the brand next to it... my photo is now on a database as a shoplifter.

  22. Re:OR.... on Upper Ozone Depletion Declining · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > So how can we prove that it was the meager efforts of us humans that made the change, and not just a natural cycle?

    Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. But surely thats no reason for us to avoid doing things that we know will fuck it up to some extent?

  23. Flash Mobs = Slashdotting? on Flash Mobs: Peaceable Assembly for Spontaneous Fun · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So this is basically a bunch of people going and doing a real-life meat-space slashdotting of public places?

  24. Re:Not completely true on Survey Tackles College Gaming Stereotypes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you think that most people play 6 hours of computer games each day, then you have a very odd view of the world.

  25. Re:Feathers a duck doesn't make on Darl & SCO Overview · · Score: 1

    But hemp *can* be marijuana, which makes a blanket statement of "Hemp ain't marijuana" untrue in some circumstances.