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  1. Re:Being cutting edge is too risky... on Xanadu Software Released After 54 Years In the Making · · Score: 1

    Pah, everyone knows if you want a stable version, wait until version 3.0

  2. Re:A new programming language on Apple WWDC 2014: Tim Cook Unveils Yosemite · · Score: 1

    Yosemite will feature a new icon set. A bigger news is Swift, a new, safe programming language with type inference. Anyone who is able to find a language reference manual (supposedly available on iBooks) will get a lot of mod points.

    Here you go

    https://itunes.apple.com/gb/bo...

  3. Re: Typcial on Physician Operates On Server, Costs His Hospital $4.8 Million · · Score: 2

    At a company I worked for the CFO had used Bitlocker to encrypt his disk and didn't tell anyone. He was the only person in the company that had done this. We went through a major domain migration which failed and so the a new domain was created and everyone moved to it. Suddenly the CFO could not access his machine anymore and they could not recover anything.

  4. Re: I might not be here for Hurd 1.0 on GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    You sound like my mom.

  5. Re: Thanks Kovid! on Calibre Version 1.0 Released After 7 Years of Development · · Score: 1

    All I can say is that it better be an open source firearm.

  6. He built an Alpha in 30 days on Java Developer Says He Built, Launched Basic Open Source Office Suite In 30 Days · · Score: 2

    Claims to have built an office suite in 30 days, but it is only an alpha and not everything works. Well how much is not everything? It is just a bunch of nice splash screens?

  7. Re:WhoTF is Sarah Brightman? on Sarah Brightman's ISS Trip In Peril · · Score: 1

    She lost her heart to a starship trooper (Flashing lights in hyper space) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Tkx6BgRFE

  8. Re:WTF is the point of BB Balance? on RIM Unveils BlackBerry 10, Its Big Turnaround Hope · · Score: 4, Informative

    If your company is involved in litigation and you have work email coming in to your personal device, then under FRCP (if in the US) your personal phone could be imaged and examined for relevant documents. With balance their is a complete separation of work and home.

  9. Re:Duh on FBI Publishes Top Email Terms Used By Corporate Fraudsters · · Score: 1

    Any idiot that SENDS AN EMAIL from his corporate account discussing a fraud, using whatever phrases, deserves to get caught. What the fuck does "Off the books" mean if not "DON'T WRITE ANYTHING DOWN".

    And, if you are going to send an email telling everyone to delete the incriminating emails, make sure you delete that email.

    Furthermore, Mike Brighty, another Hasbro Sales Director, was clearly aware not only of the pricing initiative itself but also of its illegality when he suggested to Ian Thomson to ask Lesley Paisley of Littlewoods to delete an incriminating e-mail ('its highly illegal and it could bite you right in the arse!!!! suggest you phone Lesley and tell her to trash?')

    Source: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mTdDzUvGeksJ:www.oft.gov.uk/shared_oft/ca98_public_register/decisions/hasbro2.rtf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

  10. Re:Why not a British actor? on Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing? · · Score: 1

    He has already been played by a British actor, Derek Jacobi in Breaking the Code. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115749/. The Americans want to re-imagine the story as a sequel to U-571 :)

  11. And you will know us by our trail of checkin's on iPhone and Location: Don't Panic · · Score: 1

    So, how many of those people that are up in arms use FourSquare, Gowalla, Facebook checkins, Path, Twitter etc?

    With my forensics hat on it is an interesting set of data.

  12. Re:Just answer me this: on Doctor Marries Doctor's Daughter, TARDIS Explodes · · Score: 1

    Ex-Who is marrying Baby of other Ex-Who (who is Ex-Who's favourite other ex-who)

  13. Mum kept getting Calls on Web-Users Fall For Fake Anti-Virus Scams · · Score: 3, Informative

    My mother kept receiving calls from some company claiming to be IT support and trying to get her to visit a website to update her machine as there records show it being infected. She always says that my son deals with that sort of thing and she will just not switch the computer on until I have checked it. One day they called while I was there so I spoke to them, they always mumbled the name of the company, I asked them for their company registration number as I needed to check they are a legitimate company. They try to get me to visit there website where I can see that they are legitimate, eventually they give me a number which was about 12 digits too long for a company registration number I tell them I can't find anything about them at Companies House and eventually they give.

  14. Prior Art? on US Army Develops Tooth Cleaning Gum · · Score: 1

    What about just buying some Fuzzy Brushes http://www.fuzzybrush.com/

  15. Read the Fine Print on 'Iceman' Gets 13 Years For 2nd Hacking Offense · · Score: 5, Funny

    12 Years, 11 months of the sentence for using the pseudonym Iceman.

  16. Re:Finally, someone gets it. on Lord Lucas Says Record Companies "Blackmail" Users · · Score: 1

    You can't say "Fuck you". What you can say is "We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye#Litigation

  17. Re:How hard? on RealNetworks To Introduce a Simple DVD Copier · · Score: 1

    I could teach my wife to do that in about five minutes.

    Why is this relevant, is your wife retarded?.

    no this is Slashdot, he is bragging.

  18. Movie Rings on Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? · · Score: 1

    I went for the ring that Ed Harris wore in The Abyss http://www.titaniumconcepts.com/abyss.htm, saved his life.

  19. iPhone is coming soon for Pay & Go on Apple Cracks Down On iPhone Unlockers · · Score: 2, Informative

    02 are advertising a pay as you go option http://www.o2.co.uk/iphone/paygo

    'Customers will soon be able to enjoy all the great features of iPhone without a monthly contract with the iPhone for Pay & Go'

  20. Re:More BBC content on iTunes, since they'll be th on Apple May Introduce New iPod on Wednesday · · Score: 1

    The BBC rakes in TONNES of cash with sales of their programmes worldwide and I'm getting sick and tired of being taxed twice to watch television. They seem to be actively fighting a decent distribution scheme in an effort to prop up Microsoft's DRM-take-over-the-world-mania.

    Well as the iPlayer downloads are free (OK, with the MS DRM baggage), selling them on iTunes would be annoying.
  21. Re:security hole search on Google Unveils Code Search · · Score: 1

    And some people need to make sure that robots.txt is correctly configured so that it doesn't go indexing files with their database username and passwords http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=+file:wp-config .php+username&sa=N

  22. Re:They've skipped the Christmas Episode on Doctor Who Makes Guinness Book of World Records · · Score: 1

    They also did a sketch where Christopher Eccleston goes home to tell his parents about his new job, and they are hardocre trekkers that have disowned him. Mother, fetch my phaser and make sure it isn't set to stun!

  23. Re:not not on Doctor Who Makes Guinness Book of World Records · · Score: 1

    By new you mean 1988 (Rememberance of the Daleks)right? That plunger can rip your face of :)

  24. Title is Wrong on Anousheh Ansari Blogs From Space · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouldn't that be Bloogggggs in Spaaaaaaaaaaaaace?

  25. Re:Cameras aren't all that easy to use on Digital Cameras vs Scanners for OCR? · · Score: 1

    It is my job to know this. I advise, plan, implement and manage large volume scanning operations for a variety of multinational companies and media orgainisations, serving the information back on the intranet / internet. I have work with books going back to the early 1700's. The planetry cams are just for bound books, you can get cheaper professional document scanners for loose paper.

    Google is advertising for people skilled with imaging equipment (http://www.google.co.uk/support/jobs/bin/answer.p y?answer=36925), these scanners are the type of equipment the imaging industry uses. At the volumes that Google are scanning these are good value. True, for a small collection they are not worth it, but I have not seen any digital camera pictures that have matched the quality of a professional document scanner.