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  1. Re:Cool... on China Lights Pure IPv6 Network · · Score: 1

    That's what they call giving them the finger.

  2. random port scanning on China Lights Pure IPv6 Network · · Score: 1

    With IPV6 they'll be able to target you by you post code, making it easier to DDOS the fridge of a fat billionaire.

  3. So, just in case you have forgotten on Medical Students Profile Middle-Earth's Gollum · · Score: 1

    Yep, looks like it. I'd like to know what made Cherie smile like that and tip her head to the side.

    "Happy New Year

    So, just in case you have forgotten, from 1 January 2005:

    all NHS organisations must reply within 20 working days to any credible written request for information from anywhere in the world
    the request can be made by email or written on a piece of paper and made to any member of staff
    it does not have to refer to the Freedom of Information Act
    you cannot ask the reason for the request, or question its reasonableness you can work with the person requesting information to help them clarify what it is they are after so that you can best meet the request
    and, from 1.1.05, the European Environmental Information Regulations take effect which means that any verbal or written question about [the environmental effects of your services or products] must be answered
    as well as maintaining your publication schemes"

  4. Re:Is it really worth the trouble? on Caveats In Reselling DSL Bandwidth To Neighbors? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OT.

    That's the bible, what Jesus said and what's in the bible can hardly be taken as fact.

    Try keeping that kind of fact going for 3 generations via word of mouth and across several countries.

    because that's how long it took before anything was written

  5. where do you find your friends? on Caveats In Reselling DSL Bandwidth To Neighbors? · · Score: 1

    sounds like you've been looking in the bottom of a tar barrel.

    I've lent friends things and money that's never been returned, but then I didn't expect to get it back. I've stayed round peoples houses for months when I've had difficulty finding anywhere else. I don't think I have a single friend who would do something (even lend you some money) and expect anything in return (like the money back before you die).

    as for the condo, I hate people who own second homes, it just pushes the price of houses and rent up to $500 a month. The renter should think themselfs lucky that they've made a bit of cash for next to nothing.

  6. Re:doesn't stop TV adds. on What's Next For Google? · · Score: 1

    I looked...

    "Another example is that the 1996 Atlanta Games cost the official sponsor, Coca-Cola $500m. The TV coverage of the 2000 Sydney Games, 2004 Greek Games and the 2008 Chinese Games cost one television company a total of $3.5bn. Compare these vast sums of money to the first Games that were covered by TV which were the London Games in 1948 which cost the BBC £1,500, (Tomlinson and Whannel 1984). These vast sums of money are being paid, for exclusive TV coverage. This coverage can then be sold to other TV stations or can allow income from advertisements on that channel during the add breaks to increase the income. In these cases the aim is to increase the profits of the organisation by spending a relatively little, on the TV rights or being the 'official sponsor' compared to the financial rewards which are associated with being in these positions."

    well, will the money involved in the Olympics drop that much if there is a recession?

    Maybe an extream case, but a case in point.

  7. Re:Worst Story Ever. on Five Custom Gadgets You Can't Buy · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry battery mods have been around, probably as long as batteries.

    I've got a camera that requires a $10 non-rechargeable battery, or 2 standards AA batteries taped together and a bit of wire to connect up the contacts.

    I remember wiring up transformers to various electronic devices instead of using/buying batteries, 15 years ago.

  8. Re:Sure you can't buy? on Five Custom Gadgets You Can't Buy · · Score: 1

    I think the original creators thought they were so bad that they got destroyed.

  9. Re:doesn't stop TV adds. on What's Next For Google? · · Score: 1

    Have you got any figures for sports advertising costs during recession?

    Maybe the number of people sponsored and the number of people advertising drops but I think the costs are still just as high.

  10. Re:How about... on More on the Microsoft v. EU Decision on Software Patents · · Score: 1

    'It's almost as though you're implying some sort of inherent status possessed by the non-faithful that grants them an ethical superiority'

    Yes, you can join us.

    Talking to someone who believes in God is a bit like talking to someone who still thinks the earth is flat, I think that allows us to have some kind of 'superiority' over them.

    A religious person (well a monocastic one) can not say anything to me that will make me change my mind, not because I won't to believe them, but because what they say is not the truth in-fact I'm so confident that they are wrong I will disprove everything they say, without having to invent crap like the 'multiverse'.

    So, how's your faith today then?

  11. Re:Searching beyond the PC and providing search AP on What's Next For Google? · · Score: 1

    Google runs a developers contest every year, I've seen topical searches come up, so I'm assuming that google already has some ability to do this.

  12. doesn't stop TV adds. on What's Next For Google? · · Score: 1

    TV adds and payola go on through a recession.
    All that 'Google' has to go is attract people to the Internet and away from the TV and radio and attract some of that grass roots advertising revenue.

  13. Re:Christmas Chanllage (or chance). on More on the Microsoft v. EU Decision on Software Patents · · Score: 1

    define bad.

    I don't think you can, well unless you say.
    God is all that is God everything else is bad, and so must be evil.

    Now comes the big problem, So God all seeing, all ..... has an opponent the devil.

    This is why I think that single God religions are such a problem, they have God all good and they have evil that must be defeated so that God wins.

    What they miss is that if God is everything then God is good and evil, but then in that case why try to be good? God doesn't.

    Saying that God is everything also makes God become kind of pointless. If I kill someone am I Godly, Yes God is everything...

    Most religious people start by saying God is good, but end up telling you God is everything, which is argument lost in my books.

  14. Re:China Cracks Down on Freedoms... on China Closes 1,129 Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Why not let every person and animal descide if they wan't to be keps as a slave or not.

  15. Re:China is freer in some ways on China Closes 1,129 Web Sites · · Score: 1

    In capitalist America you buy the law.

  16. Re:China Cracks Down on Freedoms... on China Closes 1,129 Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Stop talking shit, people run away from Cuba to America. But then I know a hell of a lot of well educated people who'd rater go to Cuba than America. I very much doubt that you can show everyone's so much freer, safer, and happy there! most of the things people purchased this Christmas would have come from sweat shops in China.

    Never ask a victim if they feel that someone has done wrong to them, they tend to go crazy at you.

    Anyhow...
    The Holocaust would never have happened without religion.
    People in Tibet wouldn't have been persecuted without religion. (even though I would say that Buddhism is a theology not a religion).

    Your saying that a man walking down the street with a Gun shooting people should be allowed to complain when someone stops him.

    As for Tienanmen, they really fucked it up didn't they. I have protesters in my country, probably a lot more and a lot more frequently than the students at Tienanmen. Are you saying that my capitalist pig of a country must be more wrong then?

    Also, don't forget how much greener the grass looks on the other side, and capitalism is set up with some very lush green grass to get that money out of you pocket and into the bank of a multinational.

    If we are getting 'better' then why are working hours longer then they have ever been throughout human history? Shouldn't our aim to be to work as little as possible not as much?

  17. Re:House keys on Banks Begin To Use RSA Keys · · Score: 1

    I have a crowbar.

    Locking you house, car, shed, gun case just makes you feel a little safer. It deosn't prevent anyone from breaking in.

  18. Re:Yes, it IS different... on Banks Begin To Use RSA Keys · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you read the GPP you would have found out that CR is less prone to man-in-the-middle attacks.

    A CR system can take multiple inputs (one of which could be a hash of your transaction data)
    making the response unique to the transaction.

    SecurID uses a simple token that is not unique to the transaction and so is very vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

  19. Re:Don't forget Poland on More on the Microsoft v. EU Decision on Software Patents · · Score: 1

    ' Show me a libertarian party'

    The greens aren't too bad, if you can put up with the terribly middle class names they all have.

    The Liberals are better than most and at least there not totalitarian like the Conservitaves and 'new' Labour.

  20. Re:Don't forget Poland on More on the Microsoft v. EU Decision on Software Patents · · Score: 1

    PR is to FPTP
    like
    stopping eating so many sweets, getting a bit so you don't grind you teeth, brushing twice daily, and visiting the dentists is to just popping down the dentists and getting a filing.

    brushing you teeth isn't a cure any more than a filling is.

    But brushing your teeth and getting a filling is a lot better then having to select one activity.

    the problem I have with PR is that the representatives are stacked by the parties.

    So,
    Tony is first out the hat.
    Then all the people that agree with tony.
    Then his best friend at school.
    Then ....
    Then some random people who have been with the party for a few years and could possibly fit into government.

    PR can make the system worse by reducing the Mix of representatives up for grabs.

    The truth is that most MP's are put into 'safe' seats effectively being hand picked by the party.

    Personally I like the house of Lords because they don't have to worry about short term goals and frequently reject knee-jerk policies put through by whatever government is in power.

  21. Re:Don't forget Poland on More on the Microsoft v. EU Decision on Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Lots of things happened before Bush, if he openly support the killing of native Indians I'd say that he supported all the killings that have happened before hand.

    SFAIK Bush openly support the death penalty so I say anyone killed due to the death penalty under his jurisdiction was killed by bush by proxy.

    Just like Bush is still killing Iraqis by paying the Army and 'telling them' to kill Iraqis, he doesn't have to go over there and rip them apart with his bare hands.

  22. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Stable Linux Kernel 2.6.10 Released · · Score: 1

    ohhh, 2.6.9 isn't a nice kernel, it's had a profiler tweak that screws up wine and cedega.

    I don't like to touch a stream kernel for at least a few builds after the unstabalise it with a new 'feature'. How long did it take for the VM changes in 2.4 to calm down?

  23. Re:Big Brother is Watching on RFID Cards to Include Tin Foil Hats? · · Score: 1

    do you really believe that the actions of other countries/states/people doesn't affect you.

    The way things are going at the moment, and Idea gets beta tested in one country and then gets rolled out across the rest of the west if the people don't complain too much.

  24. Re:Don't forget Poland on More on the Microsoft v. EU Decision on Software Patents · · Score: 1

    "If you religion is based on 'good' and 'evil'"

    Which part of this says that I only believe religions are based on good and evil?

    Good= Something God would like me to do.
    Evil= Everything else (or something of the devil).

    So, yes the pope can say that some things in another religion are 'good' because they are things that are Godly, he can also say that things are 'evil' because they are of the Devil.

    'Buddhists or Taoists', well I would argue that they probably believe all 'religions' are equal. Even though Buddhism isn't a religion because Buddhists don't worship God.

    As for Socrates he's not the pope, or Mohamed, or Christ, or Abraham or whoever, religion isn't based on logic.

  25. Re:Christmas Chanllage (or chance). on More on the Microsoft v. EU Decision on Software Patents · · Score: 1

    No, more science.
    I can use science to account for almost aspect of my self, my toughts, the way I look, why I don't float off into space every single thing well apart from where did the sub-atomic particles come from if the first place.

    So say God created them, now for God to be all seeing and all knowing, but only a creator then he must have set us rolling knowing exactly what is going to happen.

    But then that means that we can't have free will and still be here, so God must have some influence in out Dayle liefs.

    But then I can already account for everything that we do and are using physics and a bit of maths without god's hand coming into play..

    So I can only assume that God doesn't exist..