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  1. Re:I'll wait a few days for fixes on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here · · Score: 1

    Ok, I must admit that could add in the end :D

  2. Re:I'll wait a few days for fixes on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here · · Score: 1

    I know that your money go 'POOOF' with the financial crisis. But is $0 too much for you that you must ask for a budget line, having the autorisation of the financial authority before contracting a negotiation with an http/ftp server to buy the product ?

  3. Re:Google Cache of Mirror List on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here · · Score: 1

    Now that OOXML has an implementation. Could we hope that the Microsoft implementation will be compatible ?
    But my biggest question is how do they have managed to implement all these "do it like Wordperfect 0.9 alpha developper release" ? (Yes I know I am little bit sarcastic here :D)

  4. Re:Reach for the switch... on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    Improving my own knowledge is a reason to not kill myself. Why an AI can't like improving is own knowledge and thus having an argument to not be shut down?

  5. Re:Only works on uncompressed bitmaps on Encrypted Images Vulnerable To New Attack · · Score: 1

    Except nightsky picture who are mostly black... But why encrypt these ? :D

  6. Re:yes and no on Strong Methane Emissions On the Siberian Shelf · · Score: 2, Insightful

    more CO2 = higher temperatures

    No. That theory has been soundly rejected by real science in the last 10 years. Get with the times.

    [Citation needed] :)

  7. Re:Why internet radio is hit harder on Copyright Board Lawyer Responds On Pandora's End · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except the cost of such material, and the authorization to use some part of the radio spectrum? Hum, nothing.

  8. Re:Holy crap. on Automated News Crawling Evaporates $1.14B · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yep only if these stupid people are not these who manage your pension fund ? Because they are of these who use this kind of software...

  9. Re:Your failed business model is not my problem on Bloatware Removal Threatens PC Industry Profits · · Score: 1

    1) Because it is for me cheaper to go from Brussels (in Belgium) to Lille (in France) (121km / 75.2miles) to buy my computer in a retail than buy it on a Belgian web site. That could go to 20% cheaper in the French retail than in the Belgian web site without the delivering in account.
    2) If I order on a website, I have to take 1 day off to receive my order (if they could deliver on the same day they said they will deliver).
    3) I take this trip as an occasion to visit some familly members living near Lille.

  10. Re:Your failed business model is not my problem on Bloatware Removal Threatens PC Industry Profits · · Score: 1

    I know, I can build a PC myself from parts but the next PC I will buy for my wife will come from a retailer. The reasons are:
    - Less assle
    - Lower cost than building the same myself
    - The pleasure to format a Windows partition to put Linux

  11. Re:Oh noes!!1! on Compromised SSH Keys Lead To Linux Rootkit Attack · · Score: 4, Informative

    With the exploit, breaking the key is a matter of minutes. The worm could try to crack them all hoping to find one generated on a debian box and not updated.

  12. Re:For artworks, a copyright can be held for 70 ye on US Court Gives 15 Months' Jail, $415,900 Fine For Game Piracy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If an artist only produce a few "hits" in their lifetime, then they must have another job to pay the bill. If copyrights are here for the one-hitters, then something is wrong. Copyright is here to help creator to live from their arts not to go to in an early retirement after a few hits. If for example a singer can live from compilation of his old songs without creating new ones, then copyright doesn not promote creation and by it's own definition is not working.

  13. Re:Wow on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 1

    A long time ago, due to data protection of the lengthly questionnaire to fill before entering the US, I have decided to not cross an american border. But this thing is another ammo to explain why I don't want to go there.

    Too bad, there is a lot of places I will be pleased to visit there, and visiting some family in canada too.

  14. Re:Thank you for your efforts. on ABA Judges Get an Earful About RIAA Litigations · · Score: 1

    Parking tickets aren't a deterrent because of:
    parking_tickets_fine * ticket_probability parking_fee.

    My one year "study" in brussels has demonstrated that it is currently 3 time cheaper for me to pay the possible fine (16â per half day) than paying the parking (20â a day). Hence I can says that parking tickets are too cheap and/or infrequent to make them a deterrent. Put the ticket at 50â and I will start to go to the parking without thinking about it.

    Except this little problem with the current parking tickets, the GP is right in it's way of thinking. I am more scared to a 100â fine than a 1Mâ fine because I know that I can't pay the second one and then don't care about it.

  15. Re:Switch DNS Servers, NOT ISPs on Patch DNS Servers Faster · · Score: 1

    And their ssl certificates are used between computers that need to communicate each others. If one doesn't get the update that the other has changed of certificate you can go in the wall. And If you have hundred, thousands of such computers that need to talk to each other, you can imagine the nightmare.

  16. Re:For Sale via sneakernet on Big Six UK ISPs Capitulate To Music Industry · · Score: 1

    Sneakernet is actually my most prefered file sharing technology. And that no so much by fear of RIAA like entities here in Europe but due to the 20GB/month upload+download cap of my ISP.

    FLAC is the best storage file format available for music, but not the most file transfert efficient :)

  17. Re:Naive Question on Speculation On a Second Internet Economy Collapse · · Score: 1

    I have read somewhere (but didn't remember where) that coke continues to spit ads to keep their sales. It is one of the directors saying that when they stop doing publicity in media for a too long time they see a non negligible decrease in sales.

  18. Re:python on How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming? · · Score: 1

    Before taking courses in formal programming, you need to hook your subject in programming. For this High level languages are easy to pick-up, with good library to do nearly everything (calculus, graphism, constrain programming, ...). Once the kid is hooked to programming, then you can send him to courses in formal programming where he will have the opportunity to understand why all he have done worked and how it work, fine tune his programming skills, correct his bad behaviors and so on.

    This is what I have done with basic and a book with a lot of sources code of games for my ZX-81. And with 1k memory I got to ASM to put more in my little ram. After that my dad bougth me a book explaining how the Z80 worked and with my uncle (who is electronician) added nearly myself 16k of RAM and a lot of other extensions (beeper, voice synthesizer, logical and analogical IO card and other fun projects). It is true that this last part is nearly impossible on new hardware, but at this time it was 'very' easy with a cutter to cut some wire on the PCB and rewire completely the machine :)

    Then after that I have taken informatics courses whenever I possibly can, learned a lot of other way of programming and languages. And I thank my ZX-81 from which I learned to program and how program worked going to the metal. Unfortunately for my ZX-81, the last extension I tried to add to it signed it's death due to some missing resistors and capacitors says the post-mortem analysis done by my uncle :)

  19. Re:Only works if it's default install on TrueCrypt 6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I use TrueCrypt because it is the only one to my knowledge that integrate very well with the OS, portable, not cumbersome to use, free as in beer and as a bonus free as in speech (more or less). I am open to better alternatives.

  20. Re:Sweet Jesus on TrueCrypt 6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    False.

    If you are on the first "partition" and fill the disk, your second "partition" will be overwritten and left unusable except if you enter the second password when opening the first "partition", then truecrypt will say that the first one is full and will refuse to overwrite the second one.

    Then in front of the investigator, you send the first password, he will be able to create as much files has he want to the excess of overwriting your precious datas. But will be left unable to says: "see I can't write here then there must be a second "partition"".

  21. Re:Glad to hear this. on Bell's Own Data Exposes P2P As a Red Herring · · Score: 1

    Actually no. There is no contradiction. The company will not make any profit, but the bill of the consumer will see the profit in a way of it's reduction.

  22. Re:This will probably teach people to use encrypti on Internet Pirates In France To Lose Broadband · · Score: 1

    No problem, truecrypt is here to let them look at my porn collection instead of my music collection.

  23. Re:LOTR Actor? on Bezos Buries Patent Office in Paper · · Score: 1

    He was not an actor but the weaponry and fight choreographer.

  24. Re:Oh the humanity on Weak US Dollar Means Nintendo Favors Europe For Now · · Score: 1

    The biggest remaining gender discrimination here in Sweden is probably the wage gap which is hard to explain. There is work being done to reduce it, but it is hard without understanding the real reason for it. As you say, women aren't less skilled or capable, so how come they on average have lower salaries.

    Is it concious discrimination by those setting salaries, or maybe unconcious discrimination. Or are women less likely to ask for salary increases? Until we fully know the answer to those questions it will be hard to fix it. One of the factors in the difference in salary id that women are more prone to take parental leave for the child, take half-time work to have time with the children and refuse promotion to keep a less stressing position to be more available for the children. All of that adds up at the end of a career and create a very big salary difference. It is a social phenomenon where the women are more inclined or pushed to take care of the children at the cost of their career. And this cost reflect on their salaries it is not hard to find a reason of a salary difference.

    I have seen this with nearly all the women in my family. Having a full time in the beginning of their career, taking an half-time with their first child and for some completely stop. And when their child is ready for school or old enough to be more independent taking back an half-time job. And finally, taking a full time once the last child has leaved home. When you compare a career lake these one and the career of a man of my family who has worked full time from the first day to the last one.
  25. A little off-topic but CMS related on Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Joomla and Al are very good. But, does someone know a CMS with:
      - worflows depending of the kind of content to put online (ie: a news is a different kind of content than an agenda entry than an in-depth article on a subject)
      - where the content editor is not a kind of html editor (ie: if a kind content need 3 kind of information (eg: a date, a title and a text for a news) you are presented with 3 fields to input a date, a single text line for the title and a little editor with the strict minimum of formating possible (Bullets, Bold, Italic and not so much)),
      - that support multilingualism (ie: display the English version of a content on the English version of the page and the XXXX version of the content on the XXXX version of the page and if the content doesn't exist in XXXX display the English one)
      - and the most important feature: Could generate the site as a bunch of static html pages to put on a web server without any kind of server side language?