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  1. Foreign nationals on Google Confirms Chinese Censorship Claims · · Score: 1

    Can foreign nationals access the full internet while visiting China ? If not, can they SSH home ? What's there to hold Chinese citizens to SSH to a foreign "proxy" ?

  2. Bootlegging concerts... on US Judge Strikes Down Bootleg Law · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...is like shoplifting in Disneyland. It would be stupid to actively prosecute it.

    Try stealing some minor toy at Disneyland. If you don't steal a 2m high Winnie the Pooh, they will let you get away with it. Just because the tagline "Disneyland, the kingdom of dreams where they jail poor shoplifting kids" just wouldn't fit.

    In the same perspective, would you go to a concert of that cool rebel band that will put you to jail for making some shitty recording ? Don't think so.

  3. Meanwhile Gmail is still 1 GB on Hotmail Begins to Upgrade Free Accounts · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile I've got 6 gmail invites. The 6 first responses criticizing George Bush's policy OR (to be fair play) telling me how he's not the most lousy US president post WWII America has known, will get an invite.

  4. Re:1999 called. They want their joke back (n/t) on Will Google Launch A Browser? · · Score: 1

    2001 called, it wants its funny line back.

  5. hobby, hobbier, hobbiest on Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia Coast? · · Score: 1

    The latter two do not exist. You meant hobbyist.

  6. Re:Whoa. Wait a minute. on Wind Power Falls Under $0.01/kwh · · Score: 1

    Nimby ! Nimby !!!!!

  7. Re:Do you really need real tubes? on Aural Heaven -- iPod And Analog · · Score: 1

    Well actually an engineer just did that in the 70s. The amp sold poorly. He then had the idea to add dummy triods to the design, just for looks. That version sold very well.

  8. Re:The HD Master Being Kept in Storage... on 378 Terabytes Of Star Wars on 600 G5s · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, with Lukas and princess Frieda

  9. Re:europe on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 1

    1 year later The RIAA has the method forbidden. The Dutch guy is still poor, but at least not in jail.

  10. Re:run away! on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 1

    Dutch is not harsh at all, it's the most floppy, softened germanic language there is out there.

    Dutch:German::Portuguese:Spanish

  11. colour scheme on Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing politics.slashdot.org · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm Belgian you insensitive clod.

  12. Re:Not quite a dupe on The Death of the Floppy Disk · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apparently, the catchphrase already existed ten years ago. Explosion is in 2001 indeed.

  13. Re:Perelman and the prize on Russian May Have Solved Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 1
    But this is the rule in the academic world: "publish or perish". You must prove yourself "productive" year by year, otherwise you're out.
    Or have your PhD students put your name on the paper. That's what my PhD friends do anyway.
  14. Re:Why aren't proofs verifiable via software? on Russian May Have Solved Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 0
    The real bitch about the whole thing is proving that your program is valid
    Of course, but if the "proving" software is written by someone agnostic of the SUT, the SUT passes the test while erroneous mutations of the SUT do not, it might be an indication that the proof was also correct.
  15. Re:Google Should fund it on Space Elevator Prizes Proposed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All the things you could have done with the Iraq $150 billions...You could have easily built five such elevators, plus ITER and the two next generations of fusion reactors to get rid of oil need. Prizes are good and all, but these things can also be fully financed by doing intelligent political choices.

  16. Re:I want to know too! on Windows XP To Get Longhorn Technologies · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because Win98 is a poorly designed, unstable, buggy excuse for an OS that probably puts Microsoft engineers themselves to shame ?

  17. Re:Safety of Nuclear Power on Interview With Chernobyl Engineer · · Score: 1
    P.S.: Is it ok to copy a paragraph from a copyrighted article if I reference it?
    It may be legal, "fair use" just now, it is not OK. You are denying a hard working publishing company billions of dollars of hard earned income, because every ./ reader would have bought the page ten times for the outrageous price of $10 (and bought it again for cacheing purpose).

    Knowledge is not there to be shared, it is there to be sold and bought. Congress should levy taxes AND forbid under pain of death OSes with copy-paste functionalities : these are obviously also used by computer murderers (I just made this term up, abuse of the word "pirates" is too mild).

    Also, you may have noticed the original was twice encoded with the ROT-13 technology, which is patented until 2049 (extensible). Either you reverse engineered the encryption, which is illegal under the DMCA, either you let some communist European hacker do it, and the thus generated specification is illegal under the DMCA. You will therefore will be put to torture until death, and you family will be sent to the galley. Because of your selfishness, Brad Smith, executive of time.com will not be able to purchase his fifth villa on the French Riviera, and will be the laughing stock of time.com . Bravo !

  18. The Red Cross are a bunch of supersticious idiots on Interview With Chernobyl Engineer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They won't accept blood given by homosexuals either. Because somehow, they feel that the people who fuck without taking simple precautions are the same peoplas as those who want to waste an hour to give blood. And you know, teh gheys habe teh AIDS OMG.

  19. Re:What a waste! on Composite Of Earth At Night · · Score: 1

    In Belgium, they have those archaic "labour laws" telling work should not be done at night if it can done at day. That explanation about broken lights seems bogus though. A fun consequence of highway lampposts in Belgium is that airliners cannot make emergency landings in Belgium (did that actually ever happen anywhere ?)

  20. hay guys on Composite Of Earth At Night · · Score: 1

    hay guys ! look @ that dancing baby ! It looks so cool

  21. Re:Options? on A C Compiler For The HP49g+ · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Because of the millions of apps written for the 48gx ?

  22. Re:Do It Yourself... on Hotmail Means to Double Gmail Storage · · Score: 1

    metafekt.com does that. Except for the game service. But the EPA will forgive you if you turn on your server when necessary.

  23. Re:Do It Yourself... on Hotmail Means to Double Gmail Storage · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's sum it up :

    * turning my TV on and off for such a short time significantly shortens the MTBF of the components, and is therefore environmentally nefast.
    * I do use low wattage bulbs, for the reason that I have a low amount of current available, so if I wat to see something, I have to use mini-TLs; plus they're cheaper on the long run.
    * I do not have a microwave oven because it's far to easy to heat junk food with one.

  24. Re:Do It Yourself... on Hotmail Means to Double Gmail Storage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe in you alternate universe, PC fans are noiseless.

    Maybe in you alternate universe, it is OK to spend tens (hundreds ?) of Watts to power an otherwise useless machine.

  25. Re:A note from Microsoft. on Hotmail Means to Double Gmail Storage · · Score: 1

    Hay guys, if you forward this email to ten people in your adress book, Bill Gates will give 1 megabyte to little timmy who has cancer.