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  1. Re:50k$ is not enough on The In-House Decency Patrol At Facebook · · Score: 1

    Well, that implies that the median is unskilled and menial or worse. You may not like that, but it could well be an accurate description of your society.

  2. Re:Misleading or Deceptive Conduct on Merck Created Phony Peer-Review Medical Journal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even Elsevier is subject to Sturgeon's second law.

  3. Re:Misleading or Deceptive Conduct on Merck Created Phony Peer-Review Medical Journal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The publisher may be deeper involved than you think; I have been offered 'special issues' of journals with favorable pieces on one of our products in the past. I never figured out if it was just one desperate sales guy or a real company policy.

  4. Re:Great on Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Released, Supports ODF Out of the Box · · Score: 1

    What would prompt them
    Repeatedly being fined for many hundreds of milions?

  5. Re:Fine Them out of Business on Intel Faces $1.3B Fine In Europe · · Score: 1

    By leaving you mean Intel would rather break the law than make a profit?
    At least that would show commitment.

  6. Re:Is there any point? on Intel Faces $1.3B Fine In Europe · · Score: 1

    breaking up market collusion
    That of course is not something the EU could do with an US based company.

  7. Re:Plunder on Intel Faces $1.3B Fine In Europe · · Score: 1

    That cannot be the reason here. It is neither a government nor an elected body that issues these fines. Furthermore; unlike some nations the EU itself isn't accumulating any debt.

  8. Re:Related Question: Interference in a Lab? on Bluetooth Versus Wireless Mice · · Score: 1

    I have switched back about 5 RF wireless workstations a couple of years ago to wired for that very reason. We had interference from the same labspace and from our neighbours on both sides (all in all about 10 devices fighting over three RF channels).
    I'm now completely wirelessless again, and a lot less irritable.

  9. Re:Open source audio translation? on Crowd-Source Translation Software For Free Content? · · Score: 1

    That one has been done already, now the rest of his lecture. http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm

  10. Re:What's the point? on Europe Funds Secure Operating System Research · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, imagine that: A professor trying to teach students how to implement something new and potentially useful rather than clicking ok in the 'solve my problem' wizard.

  11. Re:yum-updatesd is meant for that on Cross-Distro Remote Package Administration? · · Score: 1

    not cross-distribution
    http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/yum yum can make mistakes (e.g. move your config files around)
    rpm saves modified files, and sends a warning. What more do you need?
    you'll have to restart your services eventuall
    any good post installation for a service comes with a 'service X restart' command.
    if there is a critical kernel patch, you'll even have to reboot
    So critical kernel patches are the only thing requiring a single ssh reboot command.

  12. yum-updatesd is meant for that on Cross-Distro Remote Package Administration? · · Score: 5, Informative

    1) yum -e whateveryoudontneed
    2) chkconfig yum-updatesd on
    3) Make sure do_update = yes, download_deps = yes, etc are set in yum-updatesd.conf
    4) /etc/init.d/yum-updatesd start
    This makes your yum system self-updating.

  13. Re:Needs approval of every single member state on Music Copyright In EU Extended To 70 Years · · Score: 1

    For all you europeans out there: you can vote in a couple of weeks. This time don't stay at home but vote in a loony fringe party of your choice and send the current lot of overpaid corrupt tossers home.
    At least the record companies will have to spend their bribes all over again.

  14. Re:point of reference on Microsoft Suffers Leaks, Lagging Sales Numbers As They Look Forward To Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Nobody who's had to deal with 'old IBM' would call them 'good old IBM'. The pattern I see here is that some small companies grow bigger more vicious until they are stopped.

  15. Re:Give it Up! on Threat To Net Neutrality In Europe · · Score: 1

    Free Markets do eventually work their way around to providing the services people want for the price they're willing to pay.
    Yes and in the intervening centuries the people are stuck with state-sanctioned monopolies.
    Good thing we don't live now.

  16. Re:That was easy on E-Merlin "Super-Telescope" Switched On · · Score: 1

    ..will now be able to do in one day what previously took them three years
    I can sea that:
    - drink 6000 cups of tea
    - download all the porn
    - write a 1 page report on a vague blip

  17. Re:Slashdot education on Why There's No iTunes For Movies · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A trademark infringement lawyer? Why not a divorce lawyer? That would have been funnier.

  18. Re:Some crazy conspiracy? on Why Is Connectivity So Cheap In Stockholm? · · Score: 1

    Because a socialist government will deregulate an industry for maximum competition whereas a typical capitalist government that we need not name will deregulate for the benefit of the highest bidder?

  19. Re:Consistency on Amazon Culls "Offensive" Books From Search System · · Score: 1

    The explanation is called hypocrisy.
    That means they will happily accept the money, but they don't want to be seen taking the money by people whose money they also happily accept but also who don't want to be seen giving the money, especially to people who are happy to take the money.
    Did that help?

  20. Re:Imagine on UK To Train Pro-West Islamic Groups To Game Google · · Score: 3, Funny

    This has got to be one of the worst cases of public sector idiocy I've ever seen
    Really?. The UK has an official state religion; Top that.

  21. Re:Hit the nail on the head on Linux Needs Critics · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Exactly my experience as well; whenever I go to a forum about something I admittedly know fuck all to present my list of chores for the regulars I get that same poor attitude.
    And I suggest you use PDC.

  22. Re:Palin? on Is Your IM Buddy Really a Computer? · · Score: 1

    So did she,
    in Austria

  23. Re:Is this unfair restraint of trade? on Last.fm To Start Charging International Users · · Score: 1

    Apple did that with the itunes store. It is probably illegal, but that never stopped the music industry from trying new 'business' models in the past.

  24. Re:Can we stop enabling these people? on Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    You are the reason why the US is now entirely run by hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, management consultants; and telephone sanitizers.

  25. Re:Like oregon trail but... on Video Game Teaches Kenyan Youth HIV-Safety · · Score: 1

    Hey, Benedict XVI is that you?