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  1. Re:Front-Load Washers on Stupid Engineering Mistakes · · Score: 1
    In case you tried to get a 'Funny' mod you failed.


    My front loader washer (Miele) was bought by my mother over 28 years ago and is still going strong.


    The worst part of the top loaders is probably the lack of a temperature control, just mixing hot and cold water of undisclosed temperatures is no good at all.


    It is probably due to the shortcomings of the top loader that so many US textiles are marked 'Dry Cleaning Only'.

  2. Re:In dense areas.. on Pakistan Plans Mobile WiMax Network Rollout · · Score: 1

    30 mi. is the maximum radius, nothing prevents the use of smaller cells in build up areas.

  3. Re:we analyzed your e-behavior... on U.S. Pressures ISPs on Data Retention · · Score: 1
    How do you plea?

    >.4

  4. Re:Pot to piss in... on Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future · · Score: 1

    Since many years all urinals at Amsterdam Schiphol airport have the fly.
    It does seem to save on cleaning.

  5. More urinal gaming stations! on Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future · · Score: 1
    Recently I saw in a German restroom a small green mat (filter) in the urinal.
    Due to the upcoming football World Championships it had been fitted with a small goal and ball on a string...

    Slightly less interactive were the urinals at the Aberdeen (Scotland) Paramount pub, some ten years ago they had TV's behind a perspexs screen. Presumably to piss off the other team :)

  6. Re:Tax SMS? on EU Considers Taxing SMS Messages, Email · · Score: 1
    You are right, this is utter crap.

    We pay tax on our phone bill, a bill that includes texting.
    Depending on the cervice taken and the country where you are there is a certain percentage of tax (VAT), companies pay taxes as well on their profits.
    I see no further space for a specific SMS tax unless it's like an excise duty.

  7. Re:They messed up the punchline...again on Chicken and Egg Problem Solved · · Score: 1

    First was the Easter bunny.

  8. Coral works here on Google Releases Picasa for Linux · · Score: 1
    Indeed strange that the direct link does not work.
    At first I wondered why someone would make a Coral link to Google, Google probably being the least likely site to be /.ed ...

    Via the Coral proxy I (The Netherlands) do get to all the parts of the site, including the download.
    The 20.7MB .deb file downloaded very fast and the install on my up to date Kubuntu was just as quick and without a hickup.
    My first impression is, It looks just like the MS version :)

    The fact that it's not OSS can not excite me, I run software for what it does and so far this looks good.
    At least ntil it's found out all my thumbnails are (for safe keeping) copied to google.com :)

  9. Re:When you get to many hops on Ethernet The Occasional Outsider · · Score: 1

    Stop using those Duracells...

  10. Re:I guess it HAS to be better to sell it on Visual Tour of Office 2007 Beta 2 · · Score: 1

    We're mainly interested in some pre-processing and graphical presentation for some quick and dirty quality control and low-level analysis. The real stuff is done in dedicated proprietary and very expensive software that's only available to a few.

  11. Re:I guess it HAS to be better to sell it on Visual Tour of Office 2007 Beta 2 · · Score: 1
    WTF? If I've got anyone in IT putting 1,000,000 rows in a spreadsheet, I'm seriously considering demoting them. If you're going to have a million rows, get a database.

    No, we don't want nor need a database.
    I use battery powered remote data recorders, they typically record a set of probes and real time calculated results (~2-200 colums) every second.
    Once recovered we like to do a few simple (or not so simple) things with the data, all very well possible with Excel. But the present 65,000 rows allows less than a day of data.

    I'd like something that handles 2 weeks worth (1,300,000 rows), with some intelligent reduction the 1 million will do nicely!

  12. Re:Wow! A replacement CD! on Sony Rootkit Settlement Gets Judge's Approval · · Score: 1
    Because it cheered up the whole department.

    When you left.

  13. Re:"Unusual practice" ... wtf. on Microsoft Employees May Lose Admin Rights · · Score: 1
    Hmm, last time I worked at Stork they had a Huge rotary UPS and programmed using stacks of perforated cards.

    Even then the pretty thing that loaded the card tray had all the access.

    To the cards and the perforator.

  14. Re:Not so different on Reporting Vulnerabilities Is For The Brave · · Score: 1
    Oops!

    I should have used those quotation marks in the search...

    Ah well, now I have the pdf I'll read it anyway.

  15. Re:Not so different on Reporting Vulnerabilities Is For The Brave · · Score: 1
    BTW, where is your sig from? I like it. I'm still trying to learn those virtues, though...

    Google is (again) your friend :)

    J.S. Mills:
    http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://www.hn .psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jsmill/autobiography.pdf

  16. Excellent summary! on Wallace's Second Anti-GPL Suit Loses · · Score: 1
    You just wrote an ecellent summary of why (part of) the US legal system is broken.

    In most of Europe nearly all the examples you give would be tried in a decent and affordable manner.

    Now you can see the proposal!

  17. Insightful on .xxx registry sues US government · · Score: 1
    Well spoken vertinox!

    The more liberated people are regarding one of the most beautiful things God gave them the less likely they'd spend time and money on what most porn usually is; fake sexuality.

  18. MSN too on Google in Trouble for Suggesting Illegal Software · · Score: 2, Funny
    Web Results
    Page 1 of 1,548 results containing "MS Cracks" (0.12 seconds)

    Web Results
    Page 1 of 1,673,265 results containing MS Cracks (0.10 seconds)

    That's why we use Google :)

  19. Re:1984 news on UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys · · Score: 1
    With automatic face recognition software that won't be necessary.

    Yep, and the Danish system blacks out the person in the right hand seat, that's to prevent problems at home :).
    A brit speeding in Denmark is thus recognised by his passenger...

    In The Netherlands it's always the title holder of the vehicle that's ultimately responsible. A combination is probably what is "needed".

  20. 1984 news on UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys · · Score: 4, Informative
    - cars are used by criminals, paedophiles, and terrorists - we need copies of your car keys.

    You're behind the times.
    The UK is already (planning) installing a system of automatic licence plate recognising camera's throughout the country. The resulting database will allow a very comprehensive following of cars and thus persons.

    The next step is of course that you have to report to the police whenever you've driven an other car but your own...

  21. Re:Only if it has games and porn... on Would You Wear Video Glasses? · · Score: 1
    Absolutely!

    And now the Dutch military has very recently banned the showing of porn this is the ideal tool for lonely soldiers and sailors.

  22. Re:Assuming a lot on The World's Deepest Dinosaur · · Score: 1
    the approximate age of the bone (oil drillers know all this stuff)

    Knowing a fair number of drillers and their ilk I can easily state they are regulary (knuckle) bone-headed.
    You only have to shout: Slips! and it becomes obvious most of them are mere Roughnecks.

    But having read your next post cutedinochick, I think you too have seen the light re. this driller...

  23. Re:How did it get there? on The World's Deepest Dinosaur · · Score: 1
    What a bunch of idiot mods to declare this 'worldwide flood' remark Interesting.

    A floods doesn't deposit 2000 m. of sediment, well at least not in one or even a few attempts.

    There are plenty of signs that make tectonic movement the typical mechanism for these type of finds.

  24. Re:It was good on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 1

    WTF is this offtopic???

  25. Re:Could it be? on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 1
    This absurdity is based on ye olde principle of hereditary property and privilege, which easily pre-dates the whole mercantile economic system that capitalism is based on.

    I'm afraid you are a little off.
    Original copyright was at most for the life time of the artist, more recently plus a few (~20) years to enable his wife and siblings to not fall into poverty when the artist deceased.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright

    It is recent policy, especially from the USofA, that has increased the period first to death + 50 and now +70 years.
    It is not by coincidence this new period was passed into law just before some early Disney work was to become public domain.

    What pisses me off is that the US has succesfully been strong arming other countries into adopting the same expansions in period.