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  1. Re:Interesting idea. on Holy See Declares a "Unique Copyright" On the Pope · · Score: 2, Informative

    Romain 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use [chresis] into that which is against nature.

    The term /chresis/ has the force of 'sexual relations' here (L&N 23.65).

  2. Re:Church of Scientology on Prison Terms For Spammer Ralsky, Scientology DoS Attacker · · Score: 1

    Scientologists Force Comment Off Slashdot
    http://slashdot.org/yro/01/03/16/1256226.shtml

  3. Re:Some quasi-scientific experiments on Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries · · Score: 5, Informative

    IThe footer of google.cn reads "According to local laws, regulations and policies, some search results are not shown." (google translation)

  4. Re:Security enhancement at best on RFID Fingerprints To Fight Tag Cloning · · Score: 1, Informative

    Those fingetprints are physical charactistics due to manufacturing process. You can't duplicate them in software.

  5. Re:What's the point? on RFID Fingerprints To Fight Tag Cloning · · Score: 2, Interesting

    These are passive tags, i.e. ultra-low power consumption. You can't put any decent crypto on it.

  6. Re:Shocking! on BlueHippo Scam Collected $15M, Only Shipped One PC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    just make the fine print a jpeg file with low quality or embed in flash

  7. Re:Do We Really Need Cookies? on "Breathtakingly Stupid" EU Cookie Law Passes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, it can be done server-side, using IP tracking, login and so on.

    One word: NAT.

  8. Re:He needs thicker skin on Ryan Gordon Ends FatELF Universal Binary Effort · · Score: 1

    Once you overcome the LKML guys, you will have to deal with the GCC/GLIBC gangs. Not so easy.

  9. Re:Is it **better** as opposed to faster ? on USB 3.0 the Real Deal, SATA 6GB Not Yet · · Score: 1

    My issues with USB 2.0 are not so much about speed:

    1- there's that ridiculous fudging about hi-speed, full-speed... is USB 3.0 **ALWAYS** USB 3.0, at last ?

    USB 3.0 is USB 3.0 SuperSpeed.

  10. version controll on The Best Medications For Your Genes · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... "right" version of the CYP2D6 gene

    They should have used git for version control.

  11. IBM on Getting Students To Think At Internet Scale · · Score: 1

    ... a director at IBM's Almaden Research Center

    He is just trying to sell some mainframe computer.

  12. Re:NHS Explains on Candy Linked To Violence In Study · · Score: 1

    This paper looks suspiciously like data-mining to find an hypothesis. It's based on a cohort study that was not specifically designed for finding a correlation of this type.....

    Read the NHS article: "....As it is designed prospectively, it also avoids the chance of reverse causation, i.e. the possibility that in some way violent offending might determine dietary habit. ..."

  13. Re:8 hours a week on Google Brings Chrome Renderer, Speedy Javascript To IE · · Score: 1

    Actually, no. Google Doc exist before Google buy writely.

  14. Re:Competitive advantage on Net Radio Exec Says "Don't Mention Linux" · · Score: 1

    Most people in the world don't even what nanometer is. But every people keep buzzing the nano-technology hair dryer!

  15. Re:Evidence? on Twitter, Facebook DDoS Attack Targeted One User · · Score: 1

    HTTP Access log?

  16. Re:Can't have digital security on UK National ID Card Cloned In 12 Minutes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If it's digital, exact copies are possible.
    [...]

    If it's digital, the process is fast and can be automated, and the threat is increased a million-fold (out of arse, of course) by sheer statistics. We need slow electronics

    [...]

    If it's digital, tampering is undetectable.

    hmm.. in fact, there are smart card with microprocessor empowered with strong public key encryption that would make cloning very difficult and always detectable.

    But the government just don't care (or can't tell the different)

  17. Re:Open standards != open source on Microsoft Redefines "Open Standards" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    really? X11 / POSIX and their friends was considered "open standard".

  18. Re:Isn't this an obvious way to recruit on Defense Department Eyes Hacker Con For New Recruits · · Score: 2, Funny

    9/11 one of the planes that hit the Pentagon hit the one of the offices of a Navy IT dept that was basicly an intel command.

    I guess you should have used AMD.

  19. Javascript maybe bad on Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video · · Score: 1

    Javascript maybe bad, but the blogger's so called solution is even worse.

  20. Re:ActiveX on Mozilla To Launch "Build Your Own Browser" · · Score: 1

    . Until FF does this.....

    You means, since 2005 ?

  21. Re:Bug in Firefox on Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension · · Score: 1

    Except you are just wrong.
    This is a feature in firefox for administrator installing an extension globally for all users.

  22. Re:You forgot on VHDL or Verilog For Learning FPGAs? · · Score: 2

    GNU Emacs can simulate vi (Viper-mode). Can Vim simulate Emacs?

    sure. :!emacs

  23. Re:Doesn't make a difference. on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Released · · Score: 1

    OSF1 and CP/M?
    I wonder what kind of website it is.

  24. Re:Other Flag Bearers on SGI Lives On, In Name At Least · · Score: 1

    ....because it's trademark had expired...

    doh!
    Does trademark ever expire?

  25. Re:search engine that supports pregex on A Look At the Wolfram Alpha "Search Engine" · · Score: 1

    Perl Regular Expression with backtrack is NP-Complete.