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  1. Re:Flawed study. on Study Compares IQ With Browser Choice · · Score: 4, Interesting

    According to your grasp of Lies, Statistics and more Lies you are either running IE6 or Opera.

  2. Re:Inflation on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 1
    There is a lot to worry about.

    Private debt has risen dramatically and has become a burden to the banks which in turn look at the US government (= taxpayers) to prop them up.

    Regretfully the original private debts are owed by those same taxpayers, talking about pulling yourself up by your own hair...

    So you'll either have to pay a lot more on interest or in tax.
    The third option is to get out of it via inflation but I imagine that would get the Chinese and other creditors a little upset.

  3. Re:Yep. This is not a free country. on Movie Studios Want Automated BitTorrent Warnings · · Score: 1

    Everyone is a drunk driver - that's why there are road blocks where they stop everyone to see if they're drunk - sucks when you're working weekend nights and you're automatically considered a drunk!

    As someone on the road during weekend nights I happily blow a few times a year in that breathalyser and gain some peace of mind knowing that oncoming car is more likely driven by a sober person.

    Freedom doesn't come for free.

  4. A price to pay on Why Public Email Needs a Police Force · · Score: 1
    Whoever runs this 'service' needs to be paid.

    So just keep it where it belongs, with the postmaster@*, that way the better policed operation will eventually be the most economical and successful.

  5. Re:subject on Tens of Thousands Flee From BT and Virgin · · Score: 1

    Yep, and just wait till the end of summer for them to come back in :)

  6. Reciprocal? on House Panel Approves Bill Forcing ISPs To Log Users · · Score: 4, Interesting
    As CP is a global issue it has a clause to share this data with EU authorities.

    No? I thought so...

  7. Re:What's been missed is ... on UK Taxpayers' Money Getting Wasted On IT Spending · · Score: 1
    Around our offices hardly anyone has ever had formal training in any office suit and they 'manage'.

    What's going to be different using an OSS suite?

  8. Re:J/MW? on Solar Energy Is the Fastest Growing Industry In the US · · Score: 1

    but A/C is pretty energy hungry. The harder people work the more A/C needed.

    A/C is for weenies, real men don't need or use A/C when they work out.

  9. Re:J/MW? on Solar Energy Is the Fastest Growing Industry In the US · · Score: 1

    And the subsidies will get killed off. Because we are broke. We will either end the foolishness now while we still have a choice

    You are broke yet you choose to continue importing oil = export money instead of paying local industries and workers to generate renewable energy.

    I understand why you are broke.

  10. Re:J/MW? on Solar Energy Is the Fastest Growing Industry In the US · · Score: 1
    You forget where the oil is coming from, effectively you are exporting currency and jobs when buying it abroad.

    And once you've burnt it you have to buy more, over and over again.

    When you invest in solar a much larger part, if not all, of it is spend locally plus it lasts for at least 30 years without large recurring costs.

  11. Re:KDE on KDE 4.7.0 Released · · Score: 1

    So much gray though...

    Yeah, Ubuntu brown is so much more appealing...

  12. Re:KDE4.x is getting pretty good now. on KDE 4.7.0 Released · · Score: 1

    that having revision numbers two-thirds of the way to the next major release is far from being an acceptable situation, and this has tarnished the reputation of KDE for quite some time to come.

    Huh?

    What could be wrong with KDE4.28 ?

  13. Re:Wireless system connections on KDE 4.7.0 Released · · Score: 1
    Or use wicd, it makes a connection even before X is up.

    And it has a very transparent GUI for configurations.

  14. Re:Gnome on KDE 4.7.0 Released · · Score: 1
    KDE's philosophy has since a few years been to keep the desktop space pretty much bare.

    At the same time they do allow you to put anything there like in the Win95 days.

    The Plasmoids are a flexible way of presenting helper applications, it's realy up to the individual where he wants to park them or how he initiates them, with exceptions there's certainly no need to have them clutter the desktop.

    On my system krunner is taking 24,472 Kb, I can't possibly imagine what you are doing with it to get this high in memory use.

  15. Re:Sending astronauts? on NASA Probe Orbiting Asteroid Vesta · · Score: 1

    I see why you have no time left for science.

  16. Re:breach on EU Considers Strict Data Breach Notification Rules · · Score: 1

    Just a pity the Safe Harbour provisions are according to those in the know a completely unenforceable dead letter, google it!

  17. Re:breach on EU Considers Strict Data Breach Notification Rules · · Score: 2
    About 1), yes there is a requirement for data retention on connections, in other words the content or body of the message is not exposed.

    When a EU authority including national authorities want access this is generally recorded and can later be questioned for legality.
    Illegally obtained evidence is in most EU nations not admissible.
    Where 'generally' and 'most' is written there is place for more EU rulings to level the playing field.

    2), read TFA.
    3), no, dissolve the business involved but first fine them into bankruptcy.

  18. Does that include 3-letter agencies? on EU Considers Strict Data Breach Notification Rules · · Score: 2
    Now that The Cloud and US-based have been excluded at excuses to not report breaches of EU citizens data I wonder about the requirements and feasibility of reporting access by the notorious 3-letter agencies that seem to roam wild in the USofA...

    I don't hold my breath.

  19. Re:Yay on Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code · · Score: 1

    In the end, sorry, in the USofA the only thing that counts is who has the better lawyers.

  20. Re:Old news for linux users? on Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know · · Score: 1
    To take advantage of some extra memory I do run 64bit Linux and there were very few applications missing, right now I'm only missing a 64bit version of Klibido.

    I installed the 64bit Flash plugin a few days ago and 'it works' but the 32bit version is still better.

  21. Re:Just make it work properly, please. on Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know · · Score: 1
    Have you considered that because so few people have similar problems it might be an issue with the way you installed it or the (combination of) plug ins you use?

    I run both 5.0 and 8.0a1 and only the last one has the occasional crash but then makes up by being faster.

    And I use them in both 32 and 64bit Linux.

  22. Re:Eh? on Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know · · Score: 1

    Ah, the Linux version IS 64bit, could have thought of that one myself...

  23. Re:Eh? on Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know · · Score: 2
    I'm presently running the 64bit flash 11.0.1beta in Firefox on Linux.

    It has some issues but for the majority it works.

    Can you point to such a Firefox 64bit build?

  24. Re:So they find one developer... on UK Developers Quit US App Store Over Patent Fears · · Score: 1
    There is indeed strong lobbying from the usual unsavoury suspects.

    You can already 'register' your software claims, all in the hope this'll one day stop the competition and you get rich quick.

    Scary but luckily our legislature is too fragmented to outright bought by Big Industry.

  25. Re:So they find one developer... on UK Developers Quit US App Store Over Patent Fears · · Score: 1

    Cucumbers can be totally circular as far as EU law is concerned, just don't try to sell them as class A.