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  1. Will it stay on there on French Kids Get OSS on USB Sticks · · Score: 1

    Is the software placed on the stick permanently? If not, how long will it take to use these sticks just to transport documents, MP3's etc?

  2. Re:The perfect crime? on Wii Hacked To Control Sword-Wielding Robot · · Score: 2, Funny

    It wouldn't be the first time someone was killed by lag... or so they always claim.

    It wouldn't be the first time someone was killed by a bot either.

  3. Re:Voting computers, not machines on Deathblow To a Voting Machine · · Score: 1

    In dutch it isn't. The words would be combined into one ("votingmachine"), showing that it is not a verb and a noun but only a noun. Futhermore, the word voting in "to be used for "the proces of voting" and voting in "he's voting" would be different words in dutch.

    The literal translation is actually votecomputer.

  4. Re: 95 miles altitude is space..Way Cool on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 1

    It would be very amusing to see how those wings take being shot in a railgun. My guess: badly!

  5. Re:no suprise on Expert Says Cisco's iPhone violates GPL · · Score: 1

    In Dutch, Wip would be slang for f*ck.

  6. Re:Big Company on Expert Says Cisco's iPhone violates GPL · · Score: 1

    The moderator of the parent and GP post clearly has a strong grasp on the meaning of redundant. offtopic maybe, but redundant?

  7. Re:Richard Stallman... on Expert Says Cisco's iPhone violates GPL · · Score: 2, Funny

    I agree, your third party should not be just any party.

    I mean, after the first two parties, you are probably a little drunk anyway. If the third party sucks, you might just get totally pissed or fall asleep, leaving you open to any of many problems

  8. develop yourself on Is it Possible to Age Yourself Out of a Job? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You say you lack the technical and social skills to get to senior level. Develop either one or both.

    Specialise:
    Get some focused, advanced specialist trianing in a subect that interests you and is commercially interesting. Invest some money in doing this.

    Develop your social skills:
    There are courses in social skills, customer handeling, consultancy skills etc. Get a good training and develop what you already have further. You are asking for the opinion of others here, why not expand that communication urge to fields where it can be beneficial to you personally or, even better, professionally.

    Get some management skills:
    If it interests you in the least, get some business degree, a MBA or some form of management training. It may not be what you want to do now, but it provides an option to be of value to a company later and keep a job.

    Bottom line:
    Invest in yourself. Don't be scared of investing some money in this, but choose quality and choose education in a direction you feel confident will provide you options. Be cautious of things you like now and think are fun: They may not add extra skills. Also be cautious with things you do actively dislike: it may take a lot of effort to master something like that and you would have te grow to like it if you want to be succesfull in it.

    Good luck from a chemical engineer/project manager/sales representative/marketeer/manager. Yes, I chose the diversify option :-)

  9. Re:some totally wicked "weird" security on What Bizarre IT Setups Have You Seen? · · Score: 1

    Maybe in some fucked up countries, but many judges would rule that you do not need to be notified if you do not need to be in the car...

  10. Re:gramar nazi on Tamil Nadu (India) Shutting the Door On Microsoft · · Score: 1

    the spelling nazi, I presume?

  11. Re:Finally... on Tamil Nadu (India) Shutting the Door On Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Sorry, missed your post earlier. However, happy to oblige...

    Missed the indian thing, probably because I am not indian.

  12. Dutch and trading on Tamil Nadu (India) Shutting the Door On Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Huh?? What have the Dutch ever done for world trade? This is either very funny or quite ignorant.

    VOC was the first multinational corporation in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Com pany) and was an important and innovative leader of trade for two centuries. It was a dutch company. Nowadays Rotterdam is still a major port and companies like Royal Dutch/Shell or Unilever are part dutch.

  13. gramar nazi on Tamil Nadu (India) Shutting the Door On Microsoft · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pose a thread? Post a thread!

  14. Re:Wait a sec...! on Council of the EU Says "We Cannot Support Linux" · · Score: 1

    My PC didn't come with windows. May have had something to do with buying all the components seperately. still, no windowstax there...

  15. Re:A total waste of time on Where Should I Get My Job Interview Code Samples? · · Score: 1

    A good GUI is important. Sort of like punctuation. Last thing you would want is to have your text appear in one continious block on the screen.

    I tried to explain that a text could be formatted to be better understood, but he just didn't get it.

  16. Re:Microsoft Recommends.. on Microsoft Issues Zero-Day Attack Alert For Word · · Score: 1

    Probably why he noted that 2007 BC is the altered name of a delayed project 2009 BC...

  17. Re:I'm not so sure about that... on Unsuggester: Finding the Book You'll Never Want · · Score: 1

    Same for Harry Potter

  18. Re:Tailgating on Detecting Tailgaters With Lasers · · Score: 1

    In the Netherlands, my experience is that if I leave a safe distance, someone will see this as "space" and will move his car in the gap, thereby reducing my safe driving to just "going back in the line one place".

    Then again, dutchman can't drive. Probably because they spend more time in traffic jams than actually driving at a normal speed.

  19. Re:please think of the children! on Microsoft Looking to Run Windows on OLPC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With Fedora on it and the OLPC's distributed throughout the world, someone will get the idea to release a virus/worm sooner or later for this.

    It may even be the beginning of Linux virus trouble taking off seriously.

  20. Re:??? you mean like this... on Community Comments To Security Absurdity Article · · Score: 1

    Maandag, dinsdag, woensdag, donderdag, vrijdag, zaterdag, zondag

    Montag, Dienstag, Mitwoch, Donnerstag, Freitag, Samstag, Sontag

    Excludig days with a "g" already solves a lot of problems in some parts of the world

  21. Re:Why? on Self-Recycling Paper · · Score: 1

    Each print in our office comes with a cover stating who printed it and when. It protects the first page from prying eyes and is used to sort the prints in the print/copyroom.

    This first page could come out of a tray of reusable paper. They go in the bin right away now.

  22. Re:anything special? on Laser Turns All Metals Black · · Score: 1

    what happens if you scratch it? will it look metallic?

  23. Re:Grammar check on WiiConnect24 Update Causing Issues For Wii Owners · · Score: 1

    The word you want here is "words", not "word". They're is a contraction but still considered to be two words.

  24. Re:I sense a disturbance in the force... on Firefox 2.0 Password Manager Bug Exposes Passwords · · Score: 1

    The exploit works on Firefox 1.5.0.4 also

  25. Re:Polite Warning! on Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled · · Score: 1

    >>What happens when you're deaf?
    >[you] hear the bullet whiz by.

    Slashdot logic