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  1. The lesson: on Canadian Court Reverses Net Publication Ruling · · Score: 0
    Just ignore them lower courts!

    But a valuable decision/correction non the less.

  2. Re:Denmark on Dutch to Open Electronic Files on Children · · Score: 1
    I don't think this tells a different story.
    The site claims a strong resistance of the Danish population re. the Nazi demands but at the same time it explaines this only happened well into the war.

    Especially the governement(s) of just before and during the invasion were quite slack, in those days the king was probably the only exception.

    To give an example of the difference between the Danish and the Dutch situation I would like to mention the elections for the Danish parliament during the war, just the thought of having a (supposedly democratic) exercise during occupation is silly.
    The outcome was funny as well, virtually the same as just before the war...

  3. MOD FUNNY! on Hilton Hacker Gets 11 Months · · Score: 0
    Well, at least I hope you mean this to be a joke...

    Otherwise go out to buy a fresh newspaper so you can check todays date and try to figure out what got you transferred to the 21st Century.

  4. Re:Denmark on Dutch to Open Electronic Files on Children · · Score: 1
    Sorry I just had to.

    Oops! :)
    No offence!

    Yews/jews.

  5. This page's signature, coincidence? on Dutch to Open Electronic Files on Children · · Score: 1
    This page's signature:
    Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when they grow up, they won't be able to edge a car onto a freeway.

    Hmm, maybe hand picked?

  6. Re:I wish this was a joke on Dutch to Open Electronic Files on Children · · Score: 1
    So they can arrest the parents or take the kids away because in a semi-similar situation the kids were much abused or killed.

    Yes this is a form of profiling.

    But recent experience shows that the present Dutch systems are too fragmented to protect children that are in trouble.
    There are many different groups keeping an eye on them but the overview has been missing.

    Especially NOW the overzealous social worker could cause harm, with the proposed new system there would not be a single person or institution dealing with the problem.

    The Dutch proposal is not "till the grave", but only for the juvenile years.

  7. Denmark on Dutch to Open Electronic Files on Children · · Score: 1
    (This is not to make the Dutch look any better, the Dutch census was indeed of great value to the Nazi's, nor did the Dutch do a good job of making it disappear.)

    Sorry to say but the Danish governement of the day behaved disgraceful.
    I am a (very) regular visitor of Denmark, again a again I'm surprised by the way the Danes continued their relatively comfortable pre-war life after the German invasion.
    Originally it was not even called "Occupation"!

    As a matter of fact, the official Danish policy was concidered so distasteful that the country had a hard time to become part of the league of allied nations.

    From about 1942 there was a small but very couragious Danish resistance that was able to get most yews out of the country, mainly to Sweden.

  8. most people won't be able to watch on HighDef Content to Require New Monitors · · Score: 1
    "The end result is that when Windows Vista ships (and Apple's next OS), most people won't be able to watch protected HD content on their computers."

    Excellent news for the *IAA's of the world, piracy will finally be a thing of the past!

    OK, they won't sell much but at least it's not pirated and thats what counts. :)

  9. It's all relative on Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered · · Score: 1

    Fahrenheit/Rankin or Celcius/Kelvin, it's relatively absolutele for this temperature.

  10. Re:Amazing on Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered · · Score: 2, Informative
    yet lacked the ability to OCR it.

    Was to be expected, this is one of the oldest surviving Universities in the world (8th. Feb. 1575), all these centuries they have done fine with just a quil and inkwell.

  11. Re:Other than on Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered · · Score: 1
    Thanks for sharing this interresting compilation.

    I'm sure you could find a similar number of high ranking officials with a contrary view but they are allways in the lime light anyway.

    It is the fact we hear these statements so rarely that gives them an extra dimention.

  12. Re:Other than on Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered · · Score: 1

    Perfect write up!

  13. Re:Other than on Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered · · Score: 2, Insightful
    They could have chosen to be farmers, or say teachers, instead they most likely did support the goverment policy and the war against us.

    That's not how a war is fought.
    People are forced to do certain labour.
    They might still get a regular wage, they are not slaves in the historic sence but non the less they cannot freely choose their job.

    Besides that as Japaneese they had been brought up with the notion they were waging a fair war by defending the Emperor.

    Einstein was one of the few that saw the future trouble caused by National Socialism and Anti-Semitism well in time and was able to get out in a relatively simple way.
    Not much later he would have had to either buy his freedom or secretly sneak across the border.

  14. Re:Ok guys... educumacate me on One Hundred Years of E=MC2 · · Score: 1
    Some nice displays about the space-time curve are on John Walkers site fourmilab.ch

    (Go for the Physics section.)

  15. Re:Cosmic rays?.... on Warming Up Mars With Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 1
    Our kind of life developed without the strong cosmic radiation present on Mars.

    Why would Martian life not develop a resistant strain?

  16. Re:This is fawked. on Warming Up Mars With Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 1
    Why are we playing "God" on a planet several thousand miles away?
    'cause we can?

    The rest is difficult.

  17. Re:No review? on Typewriter As Keyboard Mod · · Score: 1

    It is actually well known that repetetive actions by themself are hardly the cause for the physical problems mentioned.BR> It is the repetitivenes combined with not using your muscles that often causes the syndrome.
    An other problem with the present keyboards is the extremely small movement you need to make to get a character on the screen, this is why some older keyboards with a (much) longer travel were hardly ever causing the dreaded pain.

  18. It's not IT-specific, it might be UK specific on UK Companies Love IT Workers, Love Not Returned · · Score: 1
    I work for the Dutch branch of a British company.
    I see these problems in all our departments, not just IT.
    And it has come to us in The Netherlands through an imported British manager.

    Continental Europe has historicaly concidered worker participation as important, the UK fights this concept tooth and nail.

    The feeling that you belong to the company and that your opinion is valued is an important factor for employee satisfaction and the company will prosper bacause of it.

  19. Re:DHCP server gave him permission! on Wireless Hijacker Dealt First UK Punishment · · Score: 2
    Would have been more interesting if the guy had had a clued up a lawyer.

    Indeed, I hope someone picks this one up and goes to a higher court, even after reading various accounts it's not obvious he had to break anything to gain access.
    This realy is like the guy took an apple from a bowl with fruit in the street carrying a sign om it that vitamines are healthy.

  20. Re:Don't let the state nany, take some responsibil on Senator Carper Calls for Tax on Online Porn · · Score: 1
    Something that should always be cencored is pornography.

    Hmm, sounds like an easy solution.

    Oh uhh, now you're at it; please define "pornography".

  21. Re:No daylight savings time here on Impact of Daylight Savings Time Changes? · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Yeah right, are you ignorant?
    By leaving this to the individual nothing is gained, only a concerted and regulated system can have any effect.

    Wether the effect (energy savings) is worth the trouble can be calculated.

  22. Re:didn't i read this 2.5 weeks ago?!? on Blowing TiVo's Lid · · Score: 1

    Yep I'm sure, it would have made you shut up in this topic :-)

  23. Re:International Support is Pathetic on MSN Virtual Earth Revealed · · Score: 1
    I would say it's al but non-existent.
    The whole county of The Netherlands (Population: 16 Million) fits at max resolution in 2.5 pages. There are no roads, just a few cities on the map.

    On the other hand the US has decent resulution pictures but when I look at our companie's shops in the Lafayette LA. area I find nothing, these pictures must be >10 years old!

    But it works reasonably well in Firefox, I'll give 'em some time to get upto scratch.

  24. Re:Misleading first few paragraphs? on System Exploitable With USB · · Score: 4, Interesting
    And a little further into TFA:

    Best of all, for attackers, the device drivers run with System-level privileges, giving an attacker full control of the host system once the exploit has been triggered. SPI tested attacks on Windows systems, but any operating system that is USB-compliant is probably vulnerable, he said.

  25. Re:This is all getting quite confusing... on Firefox 1.1 Scrapped · · Score: 1
    not enough pearl necklaces....

    Read your spam!
    Next time you get this message about "The Trickle that used to be A Stream"; follow the link.