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  1. Re:SelfSign it! on Self-Regulating SSL Certificate Authority? · · Score: 1

    Create one CA for yourself, and then sign using that CA.
    You should be able to trust that CA since you create it.

  2. Re:Last night in the pub..... on Recording Industry Extinction Predicted RSN · · Score: 1

    'Why bring politics into it?',
    Because you would expect left wing people to be against IP and Copyright laws. I though it valid to point out that everyone was left wing commies, and then say why(with respect to the RIAA).

    BTW the pub has live music almost every night ranging from drum and base to blues/swing on the solo pianist. When we have a lock in (About 4 times a week he he) the guitars come out and the music is 'free'

  3. Re:Through the backdoor. on Robin Gross and IP Justice · · Score: 1

    Because I don't have to use a credit card.

    Ok whats bad with ID cards,
    Well not to be a harsh or anything, ask the gypsies and Jews that question. ask black people, ask anyone who has ever been persicuted.

    Why do they want to know who I am, hell even I don't know that, I don't care who works in this country, I pay my tax and I don't care who uses the health service (or I'd have gone to the US by now)

    I have more than 600 years worth of wills for my family and yet may be required to cary ID allowing me the priverlage of basic human rights.

    So what's good about the ID card thing then?

  4. Through the backdoor. on Robin Gross and IP Justice · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Global IP is being umm... 'forced' on the world through the back door.
    Maybe us western countries have had strong IP for a while, but what about the majority of the world that is having western ideoligies 'forced' upon it. China, India, Africa, the middle east etc....

    Now if we can get mass linux adoption in China, India and Africa we've started to slam the door shut in international IP.
    SFAIK
    China is making there own Linux variant.
    India is adopting Linux etc....
    But there are the 'charities' that distribute 'free' software and computer equipnment to Africa

    King Faisal Charity Foundation

    computers for charities

  5. Re:Copy and Paste on Using Redundancies to Find Errors · · Score: 1

    Ok the idea was that if someone has copy and pasted a bit of code, then the rest of the code around that area may be poor, because; they may not have understood the problem in the first place if the copy and pasted instead of writing a generic function macro template or whatever.

    This is the same as the redundant code Idea, it isn't that the redundant code is an error, it's that the preson who crearted the redundant code may not have been in the best state of mind and made lots of mistakes.

  6. Re:Spray on skin.... Cybernetics here we go. on Produce Organs...From Printer · · Score: 1

    Ok, when they do bone replacements for things like the hard pallet in the roof of you mouth,
    They grind up the bone (in a coffee grinder or whatever) and add some (can't remember) that is absorbed by your body after a few weeks.

    They then press the mixture into the shape they[you] want, stitch it inplace etc...

    Anyhow, as the bone reforms the blood supply comes back quite well with capillaries where the (can't remember) used to be.

    Blood vessels on the size of kidneys may be a bit hard, as could the nephrons, and you'd still have to get ion gradients, proton pumps and all that good enough for the organ will work in the first place.

    Anything lymphy will be a nightmare, just finding a usefull medium that they will bind to to keep them alive in the first place will take a while.

  7. Re:Insightful message... on Produce Organs...From Printer · · Score: 1

    I always read trolls and flaimbate at +1, funny at -1
    sometimes a troll is just a post that goes agaist the beliefs of someone with mod points.

  8. Spray on skin.... Cybernetics here we go. on Produce Organs...From Printer · · Score: 1

    Well, I was thinking about Skin grafts (it's not to hard to grow a sheet of skin).
    But then I had an idea, you could print the cells straight onto the area you wanted extra skin, and they would then grow in place.

    Still can't think of anything else it would be useful for in humans, maybe making layers of different cells for bio-electric and circuits (cybernetic implants and all that).

    Bones you can already do to some extent, by mashing some bone up, forming it into the correct shape and putting it back in.

    Organs are a no go so far as growing goes, and I should imagine fibrous tissues (nerves, muscle etc..) couldn't be grown in this way and be useful, except maybe hair?

  9. Re:Quote... on Recording Industry Extinction Predicted RSN · · Score: 1

    This is a weird stance from a company that kills anyone who Rips/mixes and burns anything Apple.

    Though there quite happy to do it to BSD.

    Not flaimbate, it's a fact as more-or-less anyone will tell you.

  10. Last night in the pub..... on Recording Industry Extinction Predicted RSN · · Score: 1

    We had a lock in last night, about six of us rainging from 60 years old to about 22(all left wing)

    Anyhow, the 60 year old was saying how the record industry was dead, you can get anything over the internet, who needs CD's.
    One of my friends, 26, Never buy's CD's any more, she only ever downloads music off of kazaa.

    The Juke box in the pub kept skipping, they have about 400CD's in the juke box, and are replacing it with, music downloaded off of the internet and stored on a PC.

    And I only ever get music from sites like besonic(I don't like stealing).

    So, that's 4/6 indepentend people saying that the record industry and the Stars they create are dead, and will have to start playing pubs and bars again, like 'real' musicians.

    The End.

  11. embeded fonts on Bitstream To Donate 10 Fonts To Free Software World · · Score: 1

    You should be able to embed the fonts in the document so that the windows user sees exactly what you do.

  12. Skin grafts.... on Produce Organs...From Printer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I didn't think most tissue would be 'printable' it's to complex. so don't expect a new set of lungs any time soon.

    The process may be usefull for skin cultures or other simple single cell types. I beleive there are already other quite efficient techniques out there though.

  13. Copy and Paste on Using Redundancies to Find Errors · · Score: 1

    Couldn't you also search for seeminly copy and pasted code blocks as a sign of errors (or code that at least needs refactoring)

  14. never had a liberal...... on Elect Steve Jobs President of the United States · · Score: 1

    Well,... um..... That's because there liberal.

    It's a life of solitude being a liberal.

  15. Re:day nurseries on Slashback: Bankruptcy, SUVdiving, Singalongs · · Score: 1

    In that case they should cough up, or stop promoting crap brainwash material.

    What's wrong with walking 6 miles through the snow?

  16. Re:I could be wrong, but.... on Slashback: Bankruptcy, SUVdiving, Singalongs · · Score: 1

    Ride
    Cock
    any many other fine nursery songs.

    Just don't sing them too loud.

  17. day nurseries on Slashback: Bankruptcy, SUVdiving, Singalongs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well when I was that age we got,
    'Oh Christmas tree'
    'Ride a cock horse'
    'here we go round the mulbry bush'

    Who are they paying royalties too, anon?

  18. Free VOIP for Linux on Building a Community VoIP Directory Server? · · Score: 1

    It'd be nice to have a directory, but what would be nicer is some software for Linux so I can use a microphone and broadband.
    The only software I could find was for managing VOIP for exchanges.

  19. Re:Morals? on Second Hand Hard Discs Reveal Secrets · · Score: 1

    Well, kinda.
    Except you'll never see your neighbour.

    I don't see any problem in looking, it might even give you some insight into other people.
    Just don't do anything bad with the data. (I'm thinking right hand and some Kleenex)

  20. 44% of the voters (323) cast teir ballot over .... on Swiss Town Holds First Internet Vote · · Score: 1

    "44% of the voters (323) cast teir ballot over the Internet", And what did they think?
    Is the internet good,
    Not enough sweedish porn out there?
    Too many popup adds.

  21. Re:How is it possible to be so fast? on An Even Faster Browser? · · Score: 1

    Yes it can (well maybe there are artifacts and things that make it look that way)
    It's called Quantum duality

    It could just be an artifact though.

  22. only valid for..... on Will GIFs Be Free in 2003? · · Score: 1

    only valid for 20 years.... Jesus, Copyright should be no more than 20years, hell I can't think of anything I done 10 years ago that you can't have for free[or last week for that matter]

    patents no more than 5 if you can't establish a market for your idea in 5 years then someone else should be given the opportunity, and companies that just sit on patents are evil.

  23. And above all on Dealing with Difficult Development? · · Score: 1

    Remeber that you will be able to deliver what looks like a finished product in quite a short period of time.
    And as every developer knows it's the polishing off that turns a almost finished project into a finished project that takes the time.

    Either backen first (so that the client doesn't get there hopes up) or make sure you explain that the polishing off takes time.

  24. Re:It's not that simple, buddy on IFPI Employee Describes P2P Sabotage Activities · · Score: 1

    'Radio plays music, free. Television shows movies for free'
    apart from the 2 cents on a can of coke that goes towards advertising revinue.

  25. Re:now on UFO Evidence From SOHO Satellite · · Score: 1, Informative

    then you could spend more on arms...
    Ok, after the cold war..
    No more threats to security, so , well have asteroids that are going to hit the earth...
    then 11/09 and hey forget the asteroids, lets go after the Axis of Evil. that should stop people thinking about local issues to much and prevent an uprising of the plebs.

    Anyone notice the $600bn over 10 years tax cut Bush gave to the the rich.
    And all that 'control freek' legislaion that's been sneeking it's way in.