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  1. Mod parent down: this is not a spam issue on Ireland Cracks Down on Online Scammers · · Score: 1

    It's a phone dialler problem.

  2. Re:Crime costs even when it doesn't pay on Ireland Cracks Down on Online Scammers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    99.9% of calls to these numbers are fraud. Ireland isn't stunting its telephone infrastructure in any meaningful way.

    Think of this as cutting off an entire netblock for spamming. Either the guys on the other side do something about it, or their phones just stop ringing.

  3. Re:CT scanners at major hospital affected on Sasser Worm Takes Down UK's Coastguard · · Score: 1

    Eh, Beaumont Hospital in Ireland.

    http://www.horizon.ie/press/apr_22_2003.html

  4. Re:Paper trail on Ireland Rejects E-Voting for Upcoming Elections · · Score: 1

    You're mistaken, I'm afraid: if the system had had a VVAT, it would probably have more acceptable to the commission, but probably not entirely so since end-to-end testing was not performed.

  5. There are better things to do than look for aliens on SETI@Home Faces Funding Problems · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If those spare cycles are on a Windows machine (maybe you're not using it anymore!) you could always try www.uniteddevices.com, at http://members.ud.com/projects/cancer/index.htm, and help find a cure for cancer.

  6. Re:enjoy the craic? on Linux Beer Hike Goes to Ireland · · Score: 1

    Craic is an Anglo-Irish term meaning good conversation, good company, good times etc.

    Happily, Ireland has a craic habit, but no crack habit.

  7. IPAQ and Nokia Card Phone does the same thing ... on Handspring Treo Now Available · · Score: 2, Interesting

    .... but the battery life sucks. Anybody know what the battery life is on this thing?

  8. Re:Blessed, blessed duct tape! on Home Improvement · · Score: 1

    Duct tape is like the force, Luke: it has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

  9. Not an end, but a beginning on Dot-com Unhealth Benefits Other Industries · · Score: 1

    If this continues, it'll be great. As a worker in a pretty stable dot com (actually, the online arm of a media group) it'll be nice, next year, to be able to come home to my wife and for her not to ask "are we paper millionares yet?".

    She'll be asking if I still have a job, though. :)

    It's probably better for everyone in the high-tech economy if the heat went; big bucks being thrown at stupid ideas only obscure the real gains to be made.

  10. Re:Uh. Shouldn't This Be On The Main Page? on Federal Judge Says It's OK To Port Scan Networks · · Score: 1

    Well, now (18/12/00) it is. :)

  11. Famine diet on Eat Less - Live Longer · · Score: 1

    Hmmn, this fits with someone telling me that in countries with a tradition of a famine diet, like Japan and China, people do live longer. Of course, what you actually eat less of is probably important also.

  12. And this achieves what, exactly, for open source? on Can You Back Up Data On Audio/Visual Media? · · Score: 2

    http://www.ajwm.net/backfire/ The server has detected that you are using a browser that is incompatible with Internet standards (probably Microsoft Internet Explorer). The server is programmed to deny requests from such browsers.