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  1. Offtopic, name on Fish Work as Anti-terror Agents · · Score: 1

    What an extremely stereotypical name you have to have been on /. for so long!

    for those who don't speak dutch

  2. Re:The question is on Fish Work as Anti-terror Agents · · Score: 1

    Blue herring?

  3. Re:nah. on Can Linux Pick Up Users Abandoning Win98? · · Score: 1

    so take a nightly build. At least latest...

  4. Re:Lucky for Toshiba on Toshiba to Exchange 340,000 Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1

    I do certainly agree with you.

    However, name recognition is not all. People hve to develop a liking to you and tyour product for any real #) ??? #+1) Profit! to happen.

    On the other hand, I am joking around a bit on brand satisfaction and brand attractiveness, but the joke only works in the west. Within a certain target population, I am sure that brand attractiveness has gone up as well and people will in fact rather join a well known terrorist organisation than an obscure one.

  5. Re:Lucky for Toshiba on Toshiba to Exchange 340,000 Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1

    Longterm, (nearly) any press is good press.

    Great news, mr Bin Laden, Brand recognition for Al Qaeda is up again. It was in the top 3 terrorist organisations named in last months survey.

    We are working on Brand affection next. we are confident it will go up (it can hardly go down...)

  6. Re:athletes use same excuse on An Interview with a Cheater · · Score: 1

    Real athletes will win no matter the cost, but will also recognise that using drugs will not make them the real winner. The cost off taking drugs is to always lose, and therefore to high.

    Are there any of those left? Sure. Take Sir Steven Redgrave. No drug history (other than his Insulin, he's a diabetic) and 20 years of gold olympic medals

  7. Re:Really lame interview on An Interview with a Cheater · · Score: 1

    Maybe these suggestions could be helpfull:

    http://www.darwinawards.com/

  8. Re:it's the future.... on Linguist Tweaks MS For Redefining "Genuine" · · Score: 1

    I'm a greek minor

    No voting or drinking for you then...

  9. Re:Could mean consumer-unbreakable protection on RFID To Track Play of DVDs And CDs? · · Score: 1

    It will still have to play standard DVD to be accepted. I am not goint to throw away my DVD collection.

    Therefore, it will have some identification system labeling it as "a disk that should be protected". This has to be
    a) an extra code or lack of code, since you cant go back and mark the already produced legacy DVD's
    b) laser-readable, because you still have to read it on a copied disk without RFID

    Therefore, the vulnerability will not be in the RFID, but in the identification code. Rip a DVD, delete the code (this _will_ be possible eventually, its just software de/recoding), burn the DVD. illegal tapings (not DVD rips) there is no problem at all.

    The problems start once people are willing to be unable to play their old DVD's. I do not expect this soon.

    Off course, this only applies to copying, not to regioncoding.

  10. Re:Prediction is not cheating... on Cheating At Roulette May Be Legal In UK · · Score: 1

    please tell me, cause I really don't understand:

    Can you still place bets when the ball is rolling already? I thougt it was "rien ne va plus" and then the ball is tossed in. If that is the case, I cannot see how this works. Otherwise, that rule will be in place very fast, won't it?

  11. Re:Fight fire with fire on Cheating At Roulette May Be Legal In UK · · Score: 1

    2 reasons:

    - people feel that a ball and wheel cannot be fixed, but a number generator most definately is
    - your game makes it painfully obvious that you are playing at 48% odds. roulette tries to hide that fact as much as possible and give the player the idea that the odds are fair (50% black/red etc) by layout, giving the 0/00 different colors etc.

    the fact that you basically suggest a slotmachine has been pointed out in another post. Indeed, poeple do suspect them of being unfair (which, of course, they are, but you cannot pinpoint by howmuch)

  12. Re:Oh, casinos will know on Cheating At Roulette May Be Legal In UK · · Score: 1

    The system is worldwide and they routinely scan for "suspect behaviour" and well known faces. The will remove you before you start winning.

  13. Re:Everybody gets this wrong on Alleged GPL Violation Spurs Accusations, Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    True, but slightly incomplete:

    you require written permission. And the GPL only affords permission if you comply with certain conditions. If you do not comply with the conditions of the GPL, then you are in violation of copyright law.

    Unless you get your written permission from the copyright holder on another basis.

    They negotiated over that, for a feeble 4000, but he decided not to buy that permission. Therefore, he is still in violation of copyright law.

  14. Re:When in Rome, etc. on HP's Dunn as Newsweek Cover Girl · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Now that's what I call justice on Virginia Spammers Go To Jail, And Pay For It · · Score: 1

    Learn from your classics. Be sure to sue for some blood and other spilled bodily fluids as well...

  16. Re:I agree on P2P Hard Disk System Warns of Tsunamis · · Score: 1

    The filter may pose problems, since neither the object of measurement nor the noise are truely random. Consider a trafic light and the buildup of periodic tremors caused by passing trucks. May look a lot like earthquakes.

    The spread of harddisks would help though, since earthquakes tend to travel further than traffic noise

  17. Re:Nothing but public information on Selling Other People's Identities · · Score: 1

    Jigsaw doesn't touch non-business information with a 10-foot pole...

    That's 3 metres, for you SI fetishists

  18. Re:Great Another Perfectly Good Browser Ruined on Former MS Security Strategist Joins Mozilla · · Score: 1

    read the rest of the thread, especially pay atention to the foto's of Window. You might see some distinct female characteristics.

  19. Re:Great Another Perfectly Good Browser Ruined on Former MS Security Strategist Joins Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Relax, they didn't hire him!

    They hired her...

  20. Re:They tried it... on Former MS Security Strategist Joins Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Sam for Samantha?

  21. Re:Turn the laptop upside down... on Left Sided Windows Scrollbars? · · Score: 1

    Setting your text direction the other way will change the position of your scrollbar (was noted above). Essentially, all you have achieved is that the screen wil fill botom to topupwards instead of downwards.

  22. Re:Cities redesigned on The Segway, Five Years Later · · Score: 1

    So does Barcelona, but to say they redesigned the city would be reaching...

  23. Re:Wikipedia says, patent expires in 2010 on SanDisk MP3 Players Seized in MP3 Licence Dispute · · Score: 3, Funny

    No you didn't

    The sad thing is: I checked.

  24. Re:TSA = wrongheadedness gone wild on You Have Been 'Randomly' Selected? · · Score: 1

    Great added feature. I'm not really sure if listening to a baseball bat is comfy though...

  25. Re: Which brand of bogus? on zCodec Video Codec Is a Trojan · · Score: 1

    B

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