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  1. Re:BMI = Worthless on French Scientists Link Higher BMI with Lower IQ · · Score: 1

    Because there are so many fat people about nowadays your mistaking looking looking healthy for like an aids victim.

    The reasearchers have done the maths and by the looks of things the slightest bit of excess fat is damaging to your health and they recomend a BMI that matches their research.

  2. profanity and nudity on YouTube Accused Of Censorship · · Score: 1

    If there already censoring profanity and nudity what's wrong with censoring other content.

    Personally I don't think they should be censoring anything.

  3. Re:fer'ners on Intel Developing New Chip Designs in India · · Score: 1

    Though I find it worrying that if it wasn't for Hitler there wouldn't have been an Israel in the first place, I don't think the Germans are currently committing war crimes on an almost daily basis.

  4. Re:Trademark defense on EU Rejects Spam Maker's Trademark Bid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Their not trying to protect iPod their trying to to protect pod. Apple shouldn't have picked a common word to trademark in the first place.

  5. Re:fer'ners on Intel Developing New Chip Designs in India · · Score: 2, Funny

    If that's true then I'm only going to buy AMD.

  6. Re:New PC's to cost $1500-2000? on What a Vista Upgrade Will Really Cost You · · Score: 1

    TFA didn't say anytning about training, installation, loss of productivity etc...

  7. Re:New PC's to cost $1500-2000? on What a Vista Upgrade Will Really Cost You · · Score: 1

    that's $450 for the box.
    then add on the time it takes you.
    Then add on the cost of retraining the staff
    then add on the cost of lost productivity due to the switch.

    Bingo $1500-2000

  8. Re:What about the accuracy of Sun headlines? on Google To Predict Accuracy of Political Statements · · Score: 1

    I think newspaper is streatching it a bit the suns more like a comic.

  9. Re:Qt not $3300 on Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    how much support do you get with Visual Studio 2005 Professional? Will you applications run on multiple oss's?

  10. Oli per hactare. on US Population to Top 300 Million · · Score: 1

    Whats the oli per hactare cost of producing all that food.

  11. Re:How hard can voting machine software be? on E-Voting Raises New Questions In Brazil · · Score: 1

    Ok, store the votes in batches on 100 and print them out in a random order.

    That's still only a few more lines of code.

    Assuming that the random number ganerator is a stock one (line meisner twister) it's not going to take that long for a few experts to validate that the code has no bugs or deliberat vote squeing with 100% accuracy.

    You could even stick it all on a stock microcontroler so you don't have an operating system confusing things.

  12. How hard can voting machine software be? on E-Voting Raises New Questions In Brazil · · Score: 1

    Randomize the buttons so that the order of candidates changes every time, store the order in a table.
    When a button is pressed run a lookup on the table and increment to count for that candidate.
    Send some text to a line printer with details of the vote.
    Repeat untill end of election.
    Have a button inside that dumps the vote count out to the line printer.

    That's going to be a few hundred lines of code at worst, surley it doesn't take that long to pick up any bugs.

  13. P2P on Suit Blames Videogames for Homicides · · Score: 1

    P2P networks have been sucessfully shut down because of the actions of the users of their networks.

    Don't expect precedent to count for anything anymore.

  14. Re:o (British) bank should let.... on Paypal Agrees to Consumer Protections · · Score: 1

    I've been using my girlfriends bank details for online direct debits for ages (sometime they even put through my name on the direct debit request) , we've never had to sign anything and the money comes out every month.

    I do have her permission to setup direct debits but the bank doesn't know that and still lets me set them up, accasionally using my name instead of hers.

    All you have to do to setup a scam is setup a company and begin taking Direct debits over the internet.

  15. o (British) bank should let.... on Paypal Agrees to Consumer Protections · · Score: 1

    o (British) bank should let funds be removed from an account with just the a/c name, number and sort code

    How do you think I setup all those direct debits on my girlfriends bank account then?

  16. mod parent up on Self Cleaning Mouse · · Score: 1

    too true

  17. Re:Buy hardware and music without DRM. on Zune Won't Play Old DRM Infected Files · · Score: 2, Informative

    The last shop I looked at (and the first)
    didn't have instore notices telling you what format the various players would play, let alone something telling their customers what DRM was.

  18. Re:Um, aren't music videos just adverts for the ba on Warner Opens Video Library To YouTube · · Score: 1

    Are songs just adverts for the band?

  19. Lack of social consiquences on Consumer Electronics Causing 'Death of Childhood'? · · Score: 1

    If TV, Computer games and straight jacket schooling are preventing kids from learning proper social skills and learning cause and effect it may go some way to explain why so many of my friends have been beaten up by gangs of kids lately.

  20. Re:Wrong on so many levels on Why the iPod is Losing its Cool · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The value of a CD is in actually owning a product as apposed to the value of a DRM song which you license.

  21. Re:Wrong on so many levels on Why the iPod is Losing its Cool · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can buy an album with 13 songs on it for about $10 and they aren't in a lossy format or crippled with DRM and I get a free coaster and cd case.

    99c is expensive for lossy DRM crippled music, something like 20c would be closer to the mark.

  22. Re:Communism vs crony Capitalism on The Death of Privacy · · Score: 1

    The way democracy is going at the moment I think were all going to need saving.

  23. Re:Why is this surprising? on The Death of Privacy · · Score: 1, Informative

    In the UK no one really uses the word crappy.

  24. Re:Why is this surprising? on The Death of Privacy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Maybe the problem is that most governments are crap at running things.

  25. Re:Doesn't matter on GPL Gets Its Day in Court in Israel · · Score: 1

    After reading your abstract from the Fifth Circuit case it looks like a hell of a lot of OSS projects are in deep shit (e.g. wine/ ndiswrapper)