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  1. Re:gnu site is slow on Stephen Fry Helps GNU Celebrate 25th Birthday · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How did youtube manage to convert it into a proprietary format when it is released under the Attribution-No-Derivative-Works 3.0 License?

  2. Re:To cut fraud, cut taxes. on Restaurant Owners Use Zapper To Cook the Books · · Score: 1

    The top marginal tax rate is usually reached at a specific salary point depending on your personal tax situation where you lose benefits by increasing your income. Once you pass that point, your marginal tax rate goes back down to the published tax rates.

  3. Re:To cut fraud, cut taxes. on Restaurant Owners Use Zapper To Cook the Books · · Score: 1

    The top marginal income tax rate in the U.S. from WWII until 1964 was 91%. Does anyone believe that rich people really paid 91% of their income to Uncle Sam?

    Not anyone who understands what a marginal tax rate is.

  4. Re:This is far from being a record on China Sets Sights On Rail Record · · Score: 1

    The Alstom holds all the speed records because it has very powerful engine cars front and back with unpowered passenger carriages in between. Drop the passenger carriages, and you have a two engine set with the same amount of raw power it takes to pull a dozen carriages full of passengers at 320km/h. Other high speed designs (Valero, Shinkansen) distribute the engines throughout the entire train, so although they have higher in service speeds (360km/h) you can't make it go any faster for record attempts by removing carriages.

  5. Re:Well... Why? on Too Easy For Bank Accounts To Spring a Leak · · Score: 1

    And I don't understand how a statement can be "complicated". For each transaction, there is a line. There is an amount, and a name of some kind that tells you what it was for.

    In the statement for my share dealing account, for each transaction there are three lines, with alternating signs in front of the number. I imagine private banking uses the same or more complicated format on the assumption that all their clients have accountants to deal with that sort of thing anyway.

  6. Re:USDA's argument on Appeals Court Rules US Can Block Mad Cow Testing · · Score: 1

    Has the US ever had a case of CJD in humans? According to the US embassy in Seoul, they haven't, so the risk must be extremely low as long as the level of BSE in US cattle is low enough to remain undetected by the standard USDA testing.

  7. Re:Wow! on Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet · · Score: 1

    I think the OP meant copied many times in the sense of the King James bible being an English translation of the Latin bible used by the Vatican, which was itself a translation of documents that were originally written in Greek, some of which were translations of older Hebrew texts. Given his background as a carpenter's son in Galilee, Jesus most likely spoke Aramaic.

  8. Re:Edifying on Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He's either right or wrong.

    So if you are wrong once, then you are always wrong? This is the type of thinking that gives fundamentalist Christians a bad name. Of course its possible to respect Jesus as a great teacher and leader without buying into the whole Christian mythology surrounding him. Muslims do, and so do a lot of athiests.

  9. Re:Edifying on Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why Hindus, Jains, Budhists, Taoists, Native Americans, Neopagans, etc. should care.

    They should care for the same reason that many Western Christians cared when the Taliban went around demolishing all the ancient Buddhist statues. It is an important part of human history, whether you believe in the religion or not.

  10. Re:therefore on Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research · · Score: 1

    India is still asking women to list their menstrual cycle on job applications. They aren't passing anyone anytime soon.

    Perhaps they already have passed the US. This could be useful information for HR to have to maintain harmony in the office, avoiding scheduling performance reviews at the wrong time of the month for example.

  11. Re:i agree with you on Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research · · Score: 1

    "foreigners" who came to our country to ink out a life that the failed social states of Europe simply couldnt/wouldnt provide.

    I can see European history is not your forte.

  12. Re:The other 22%... on 88% of IT Admins Would Steal Passwords If Laid Off · · Score: 1

    Moreover, my experience is that my coworkers have pretty much all been of like-mind.

    Financial Institutions are more careful about who they hire, usually doing background checks or requiring government security clearance before hiring anyone who will have an opportunity to obtain personal or financial data on others.

  13. Re:So what? on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 1

    Kollywood mate.

  14. Re:So what? on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 1

    Someone who is illiterate is likely to be uneducated in general. Only 10 of India's 23 states use Hindi as an official language, even fewer use it for everyday communication, so there is little opportunity for the uneducated to pick it up.

  15. Re:Windows Mobile on Cell Phones For Easy App Development? · · Score: 1

    Decent camera is usually the dealbreaker. Even my K850i (which came out on top of N95 for camera performance in many reviews) is noisy as hell in anything less than bright sunlight, and Windows Mobile handsets so far have not treated the camera as a headline feature. You'll be lucky if you can find anything better than a fixed focus 2MPx with microscopic lens.

  16. Re:So what? on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hindi is not the national language, it is a national language, one of several including English. And considering that around a third of India's population is illiterate, second languages are not as widely spoken as you would think.

  17. Re:So what? on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 3, Informative

    The number of hindi speakers is probably 4 times that.

    It's about 1.1 times that actually, there's almost the same gap between Hindi and Spanish as there is between native Spanish and English speakers. Mandarin on the other hand has almost as many speakers as those three combined.

  18. Re:Shows what competion can do. on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Microsoft has long had a policy of translating into German and Japanese first. German words tend to be longer than other languages (except perhaps Dutch) so translation into German catches problems where text overflows the space allocated for it on the screen, and Japanese catches all the stupid character==byte assumptions that programmers make. I'm not sure why they don't do Arabic early as well to flush out left to right assumptions (also affecting Hebrew) and assumptions that characters have a one to one relationship with glyphs (also affecting Indian and South East Asian scripts).

  19. Re:Lloyd's on Changing Customers Password Without Consent · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps it really was Llyods, as in www.lloyds.ru, after all, they did have his password stored as plaintext.

  20. Re:plaintext passwords on Changing Customers Password Without Consent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You just have to hope that they aren't dodgy employees as they could quite easily steal it all if they wanted.

    Or back it up into unencrypted ISO images on their hard drive then sell their laptop on ebay, which seems to be standard practice at UK banks, Inland Revenue and other organizations which deal with such personal information.

  21. Re:Lather, Rinse, Repeat on Microsoft Rinses SOAP Out of SQL Server 2008 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And history will repeat, with committees appointed to heap layer upon layer of extra complication upon XML-RPC and REST in the name of standardization. It seems that every distributed RPC protocol is destined to repeat the pattern of CORBA, being replaced by a simpler, easy to use protocol, then becoming more and more complicated as committees add the features required to meet the security and interoperability needs of all its users.

  22. Re:Serious issue! on What To Do With All of My Gadget Chargers? · · Score: 1

    I went looking for a charger for my phone on my last trip to Japan, as its battery ran too low to charge from USB, and I'd only taken the USB cable with me on the trip. But there, you don't get manufacturer specific power connectors, as the phone networks dictate the connectors. So there is one type of connector for old 2G J-Phone/Vodafone/Softbank phones, one for CDMA phones from KDDI and one for all DoCoMo and newer 3G Softbank phones. Not quite an industry standard, but the limited number of connectors makes it possible to have charging stations at convenience stores to give your phone a quick pump when you're caught with a flat battery and an important call to make.

  23. Re:You can bet good money... on The Internet's Biggest Security Hole Revealed · · Score: 1

    If that's the British DHS, the American counterpart is Home Depot

    You're probably thinking of BHS, although B&Q and Homebase are probably closer matches for Home Depot.

  24. Re:Uh, bluetooth's kinda important for cell phones on Google Drops Bluetooth API From Android 1.0 · · Score: 1

    If the API is not there in Android, it'll be up to the phone manufacturer which profiles they support with native code external to the Android VM.

  25. Re:Hello, I am Eliza. on Software To Provide Astronaut Counseling · · Score: 1

    Earlier you said you used pills?