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  1. Re:Hmm... on UK ISP Spots a File-Sharing Loophole, Implements It · · Score: 1

    Too bad I cant vote for you on account of not being the subject of your queen, but good luck.

  2. Re:Hmm... on UK ISP Spots a File-Sharing Loophole, Implements It · · Score: 1

    I think that was the plan, but it seems it didn't fly. Hence the registration.

  3. Re:Don't see this working on UK ISP Spots a File-Sharing Loophole, Implements It · · Score: 1

    They have customers, but these customers are providers themselves. And actually, this is the reality. Lots of people run open wifi so friends and relatives and whoever visits with their smart phones and netbooks and ipads and laptops would feel welcome. Specially in private housing areas where leeching neighbors are not that much of a threat.

  4. Re:Don't see this working on UK ISP Spots a File-Sharing Loophole, Implements It · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If I have wifi hotspot open to the world, nobody can say I'm in any way deliberately skirting the law.

  5. Re:Well done on UK ISP Spots a File-Sharing Loophole, Implements It · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So, who will be suing them? The Labels cant. The practice of letting users register as communications providers has nothing to do with them or their content. The state? Over a service they provide for their customers? Not happening. Also UK is not us AFAIK. No punitive damages.

  6. Hmm... on UK ISP Spots a File-Sharing Loophole, Implements It · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A communications provider is say someone that operates a free Wifi hot-spot and they are immune? And anyone can sign up? O_o Somebody has effectively neutered the entire law. You guys really vote some Pirate party to your parliament to properly put an end to this crap properly tho.

  7. Re:Been there. The Feds hate geeks. on Terry Childs Found Guilty · · Score: 1

    So you attached a rifle target to a portable toilet and shot at it seven times in a relatively safe area? I can understand why people can get upset about that, but fair would have been a revoked gun license and a hefty fine IMHO. Around here you can get drunk, drive, kill a kid and injure another and you'd get the same. 5 years prison time for an offense like that sounds unbelievably stupid. IS your prison industry something of a for profit company or something that locking up for stupid offenses is so popular? Its damaging to the society even. Criminalizing people for occasional stupidity creates problems at every level of society.

  8. Re:It should read 'stoopid people hath spoken' on Terry Childs Found Guilty · · Score: 1

    That explains it. Nobody with half a clue would agree to this.

  9. Re:Simpler solution... on Computer Competency Test For Non-IT Hires? · · Score: 1

    If somebody can sit 8 hours and do jack shit and nobody complains they can be fired and nobody would miss them. No company keeps such a position.

    Being paid by the hour is one of the silliest things there is Its a convenience feature. The most effective way is, I want you do X for Y money, want the job? Fixed price offer. If the worker is good he/she can do 6 of these in the same time a slower person does 1 and everybody gets value for their time.

    Salary is a sort of fixed price offer too. You pledge your time to do tasks they assign to you. The task load is agreed to be such that 40 hours of your week should be enough. The manager assigns the tasks and the deadlines. Keep missing those and you will be without a job. Normally at least in tech, this means when and how(within spec) exactly you do it is your business.

  10. Re:You could stick post-it notes over my screen .. on Website Mass-Bans Users Who Mention AdBlock · · Score: 1

    Around here publicly funded television is not allowed to show ads. Also, ad delivery is always passive. It's the site i'm interacting with and if ads stop me from interacting it, im gonna "switch channels" or kill the ads. With former removed, the value that I could give by interaction alone is also lost. So... the owners choice.

  11. You could stick post-it notes over my screen ... on Website Mass-Bans Users Who Mention AdBlock · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lets ban people for suggesting channel switching for the duration of ad breaks on tv aswell...

  12. Re:And after all these years on Open Community vs. Open Code · · Score: 1

    So did I when distros pushed the immature kde 4 out. I went back the moment things started looking saner again.

  13. Re:And after all these years on Open Community vs. Open Code · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Choice of DE is a matter of taste. Personally I am KDE user too. A kernel developer does not have to do a good GUI. Git as version control is very nice once you get to know it. The UI parts are both optional and replaceable with custom tools if found inadequate. So far this has not happened.

  14. Re:What's that I hear? on Open Community vs. Open Code · · Score: 1

    And what makes you think that a real professional wouldn't be listened to? Trouble is real artistic professionals seldom move in the circles of developers. We have had a few and Ive learned a lot from them, but they are rare... Strangely enough, its usually the non-pros that complain and demand things loudest.

  15. Re:Hmmm on Open Community vs. Open Code · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I had modpoints, you would get a +1 Funny. But really, open solaris is dead and has been dead for some time.

  16. Re:What's that I hear? on Open Community vs. Open Code · · Score: 1

    It works sometimes too. I got into GIMP community via such suggestion. I sucked at code then, but I could debug things. That evolved into full developer thing over time since I got to know the code. Large projects like GIMP take commitment to know the code and to contribute. And that so-called line is not an excuse. If you want it done you need to do it yourself because, the developers don't have resources and the will to full-fill every users desire. Specially since they can be 100% conflicting at times with each other and sometimes with what developers see themselves developing, the product vision. Best way to know it fit matches the vision of those that manage the code is to ask and to to be offended when you are told "No", "Not now" or "Hell freeze over first" in some cases.

  17. Re:Think of the children of the parent company... on Open Community vs. Open Code · · Score: 1

    And AFAIK the originators of the whole project are already forking it... Oracle can try to kill MySQL off but due to community having both code and programmers, its not really possible.

  18. Re:if you're in the intersection and it's red on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even if you have good brakes, the guy behind you may not have. Or may be a truck with several tonnes more weight on it. That's why there's a yellow light and that's why it has a length limit.

  19. Re:Huh? on New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders · · Score: 1

    Usually when I try to buy something I get "Not available in your region" message. Lets see.

  20. Re:Not Correct on Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    I personally only ever type 2 urls. My internet banking site(6 symbols) and google. That's one awesome dataset...

  21. Re:Huh? on New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders · · Score: 1

    Didnt even know there were movies on his books. Got to get them now... Options are: Move to UK and hope they are on tv, pray that local television shows them in the next 10 years and I have a working TV and free time at the moment or pirate. That's it. Guess what I'm gonna do?

  22. Something you have on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 1

    Around here to do more than a basic limited sum transaction you will need to have a smart-card that has your identification and signature certificates, the first for connecting to the banking site and the second to sign the transactions. Even if somebody got my pins for the certificates, they cant empty my account because they don't have the physical card used to encrypt my communication and authorize transactions and if I lose the physical card it is blacklisted just like bank cards Nad its safer because breaking RSA keys is not subject to social engineering. That's how real security works.

  23. When you see a guy trying to open a coin... on Hollow Spy Coins · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Picture this: a guy is busy with the little opening ring on a handful of change and NONE of them open. Say bye-bye to your data on that sd card. :D

  24. Re:You lost me at hello... on Theoretical Breakthrough For Quantum Cryptography · · Score: 1

    Quantum physics does not have a car analogy. Cars cant be mixed up and then split so each part has a bit of the other, and not just physically. if one car starts, it means its parts in both entangled sets start and the moment you go and look witch of the cars you have it becomes one or another, instantly causing the other entangled car thingy to become the car you didn't get. Also, fu Eve.

  25. If you are worried about it... on Killer Apartment Vs. Persistent Microwave Exposure? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dont buy it. You will worry yourself sick whatever we say.