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  1. In Soviet... on FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, KGB decrypts you!

  2. Re:Put the old firmware back on US Air Force To Suffer From PS3 Update · · Score: 1

    It would need to be a Black Ops then, with regard to the DMCA...

  3. Re:Consistent Histories? on Physicists Discover How To Teleport Energy · · Score: 1

    I think the price will lower than 640k...

  4. Re:Article is confusing on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: 1

    I think the important part is 1.

    When an MRSA infection occurs all staff and visitors that have come into contact with the patient is screened for MRSA. This is again DNA-sequenced to discovery the specific strain. This allows us to control the spread and and also find the originating vector for the infection.

    I feel that other countries just prescribe large amounts of antibiotic to stop the singular detected infection, rather that treat the source of the problem.

  5. Re:Same thing applies to anti-bacterial soap on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Hmm... on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: 1

    We used to, but it is much stricter regiulations on this now. Things like this was brought back under control in the late 90s.

  7. Re:This article is so RIGHT on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: 1

    Probably little, as I presume this would quickly be discovered in larger countries like the US. MRSA infections would be less common in winter, or generally colder regions, which they are not.

  8. Re:If this is what Universal Health Care is like.. on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: 1

    At least in Soviet Norway MRSA not kill you! *cough*cold-hearted ultra-capitalst *cough*

  9. Re:If this is what Universal Health Care is like.. on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: 1

    About 3 on a scale to 10 with 10 being the worst :-P

    Could, perhaps this be the cause of the smell? This seems to be a single incidence, and is not portrayed as the norm for the hospitals. It is clearly used to paint a picture to increase the contrast between clean/lots-of-MRSA and unclean/healty-hospitals. Don't read to much into it...

    However, I see your point in this beeing unhygienic.

  10. Re:Hmm... on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have a wife who have worked, and is working, in the these medical fields. According to her, we (Norway) have some of the strictest laws regarding veterinary use of antibiotics. We had some problems with overuse of antibiotics in the fish farming sector some years back. Since then things have gotten even tighter. In many other countries use of antibiotics as a preventative medication in food is the norm. This is not legal in Norway.

    The effect of this is not studied, at least to our knowledge, in any scientifically accurate way. However, I believe this is one of the reasons we do not have problems with MRSA in Norway. There are few natural places where you can be infected i nNorway, whereas in USA you can get MRSA from spending time at the beach!! Ref: http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/16/mrsa-on-the-beach/

  11. Re:If this is what Universal Health Care is like.. on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: 5, Interesting

    TFA is painting a picture about Norwegian hospitals that are easy to misinterpret. Yes, floor ar streaked and scratched, there is some dust on cabinets and blood pressure monitors.

    Howevery, there it is still not dirty and messy as can be interpreted by the article. Cleaning staff in Norway actually have a 3- year education in cleaning! Translated school information site They learn how to spot the difference between dangerous and non-dangerous dirty surfaces. Think in your own home: The dust on the TV isn't dangerous, but the food spills on the kitchen counter can be. The cleaning staff is simply authorized and empowered to perform the important cleaning first, and leave non-dangerous dirt until they have the time to take care of it.

  12. Re:Dammit Dell on Dell Defect Turning 2.2GHz CPU Into 100MHz CPU? · · Score: 1

    No porn today, my love has gone away
    The PC stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn
    No porn today, it seems a common sight
    But people passing by don't know the reason why

    How could they know just what this message means
    The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
    How could they know the palace there had been
    Behind the door where my love reigned as queen

    No porn today, it wasn't always so
    The company was gay, we'd turn night into day

    But all that's left is a place dark and lonely
    A terraced house in a mean street back of town
    Becomes a shrine when I think of you only
    Just two up two down

    No porn today, it wasn't always so
    The company was gay, we'd turn night into day
    As music played the faster did we dance
    We felt it both at once, the start of our romance

    How could they know just what this message means
    The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
    How could they know a palace there had been
    Behind the door where my love reigned as queen

    No porn today, my love has gone away
    The PC stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn

    But all that's left is a place dark and lonely
    A terraced house in a mean street back of town
    Becomes a shrine when I think of you only
    Just two up two down

    No porn today, my love has gone away
    The PC stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn
    No porn today, it seems a common sight
    But people passing by don't know the reason why

    How could they know just what this message means
    The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
    How could they know a palace there had been
    Behind the door where my love reigned as queen

  13. Re:VAT on Books in Europe Trending Towards 0%-5% on Kindle Finally Ready For Global Distribution · · Score: 1

    For me, at least, is this not a topic of interest.

    I treat all DRM-encumbered purchases as an extended rent/lease agreement. Books (and music) tend to be one-off items for me, except in a few extraordinary cases. In these cases I prefer the special/ultimate/extended/uncut/annotated edition, and purchase the physical object anyway.

  14. Re:What about this one? on Microsoft Denies Windows 7 "Showstopper Bug" · · Score: 1
    This a typical non-issue blown way out of propotions on /. Every OS out there running on PC hardware, be it Linux or Windows, do this to a certain level. Due to the BIOS POST method, every OS has to install a way to bootstrap the system on the first harddrive in the computer, as set in BIOS options. This could ba a small boot sector, mbr-loader og a full fledged partition as W7 likes it. It has been this way since early times. Linux does it. Windows does it. OSX, well I don't give a crap about OSX...

    When you have a multi disk system, and chooses to install the OS on a drive other than the first, it has to work this was. There is no other way. If you do not know this, or get this, please continue to install OSes. You will then cause people to need more of my services as an IT consultant to fix you're borked up work.

  15. Re:Talk is cheap on Jeff Bezos Offers Apology For Erasing 1984 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So you're saying whenever someone jumps on Amazon and start selling books they don't own, Amazon has the rights to go to your house, lock themselves in, steal back the illegal copy and leave?

    While none of these solutions are good solution, I thinkreplacing the books would be the most appropriate solution. Since the customers have paid for these books, Amazon (and the vendor who f***ed up) have gotten paid enough to barter a deal with the rights holder to make these copies legal.

  16. Re:I thought they renamed it... on 802.11n Should Be Finalized By September · · Score: 1

    More likeliy, it's going to be Wifiz

  17. Re:The 8088? Oh, please! on Microchips That Shook the World · · Score: 1

    Thanks for sharing!

    Finally some good and true /. insights.

    Belivable also due to a 3 digit! user ID!

  18. Re:Runs fine on DOSBox too on The Return of Zork On ScummVM · · Score: 1

    Yes, but SCUMM also runs on my cute little Smartphone...which means I can now play Return to Zork wherever I bring my phone :-)

  19. Re:Give me write-protected flash drives anyday! on A Look at Excessive Portable Storage · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doh...

    That's not write protected, that's read-protected!!!

  20. Re:Doesn't seem that scary on Intel CPU Privilege Escalation Exploit · · Score: 1

    This also means it can escape from a Virtual Machine into the host, and also remain if it can flash the BIOS for the system. If you can write SMM assembly, I would guess you could flash the BIOS also.

    Now, all your VM are belong to us.

  21. Re:Gee, known Cisco bug causes problems on How a Router's Missed Range Check Nearly Crashed the Internet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Untrue. Cisco TAC wil give you the latest firmware for free, provided you tell then n\you need it due to security flaws discovered in your current version. Yoy may need to point to their blletin about the bug, but that should be trivial (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisories_listing.html)

    Since Cisco almost exclusivly patches current versions due to security bugs, all their IOS are belong to us for free.

  22. Re:rfc 1178: Choosing a Name for Your Computer on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    This is the way to go.

    We name the physical servers after a group of items, with virtual machines part of the set. So physical server pharaoh would have VMs called Cheops, Cleopatra, Ramses ; transformer whould have VMs called, optimus, unicron, terradive and so on.

    In a large enough environment servers get shifted around and repurposed, and calling them LAXdb01 would not do if it moved to another site, or got multiple functions.

    Documentation and CNAME is god when it comes to working at servers from a functional viewpoint. Look in the docs, or remote to CNAME LAXdb01 who realy would be the same server as LAXlog02 and Cleopatra.

  23. Re:I want a shutter-offer device. on Energy Star Program Needs an Overhaul · · Score: 1

    This has been made and is for sale in the UK and Scandinavia:

    http://www.clasohlson.co.uk/Product/Product.aspx?id=54986218

    Works by sensing draw on one plug, and disconnecting the other 5 automaticcaly when the draw is low (as in power savings mode).

  24. Re:guy should try conservation first on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    If you live at coastlevel in Florida, Spain or Australia, 1600kWh a month may be gargantuan, you insensitive clod!

    I live in Norway, home of vikings, Santa Claus and snow! In my humble 120m2(1290ft2) house i use about 25000kWh a year. Due to electrical heating (cheapest) i can max at at 6-7000kWh in the coldest winter months...

    Don't speak to me about electrical bills!

  25. Amtrak Police!?! on Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested By Amtrak Police · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Has "the land of the free" gotten to the point of creating privatly owned police forces now? Or, at least, fixing them as such in the public mind?

    Are even Slashdot editors and readers at a point to see this, and not protest? Both at the privatization of goverment duties, and at Slashdot editors not thinking freely?

    What's next? Jennifer Amtrack?