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  1. Re:The new $20 bill ... on New US $20 bills Released, Colors & Layout Change · · Score: 1

    Hmm Holograms work just fine on British currency. We've had them for years now.

  2. Re:not new on 3D "Crystal Ball" Monitors · · Score: 1

    My company does. I too have the "we own the IP of ANY software you develop that may be relevant to the company's business, wether during company time or private time" clause.

    My choice was to sign and be able to feed me and mine, or not sign and go out on the streets begging. Here in the UK, IT jobs for 40+ year old programmers are very sparse indeed.

  3. Re:That is why... on Ink Cartridges with Built-In Self-Destruct Dates · · Score: 1

    Yup. The stoer refused point blank to exchange the cartridge beacuse I had broken the foil seal. I'm sure I could have pressed the issue with trading standards or whatever bu for a $15.00 cartridge I couldn't be arsed.

  4. Re:That is why... on Ink Cartridges with Built-In Self-Destruct Dates · · Score: 1

    and they are packed in shiny vacuum packed foil, if you break the foil seal, you cant return it.... at least you can't in the UK, I tried once.

  5. Re:The perl compiler can't grok that, either on Perl 6: Apocalypse 6 Released · · Score: 1

    You diodnt read the apocolypse did you. He pasted it from there. It IS valid perl 6 code.

  6. Re:ughgh on Perl 6: Apocalypse 6 Released · · Score: 1

    Thats the whole point - it IS valid perl (6) code!!! it was pasted from the apocolypse.

    I think Mr Wall knows his perl syntax :)

  7. Re:rejoinder on Linus Comments on SCO v IBM · · Score: 1

    You're not from here are you. It was humor

  8. Re:now that we know the formula.... on Pancake Physics to Cut Batter Splatter · · Score: 1

    Its to do with angular moemntum - i/.e rotation - so that you can (theoretically) flip the pancake so it rotates exactly through an odd multiple of 180 degrees when it hits the pan. The angular momentum isnt related to the flipping force - but yes, you do also need to know how hard to flip.

  9. Re:now that we know the formula.... on Pancake Physics to Cut Batter Splatter · · Score: 1

    umm yes they did. just wasn't written in matheamatical notation...

    "The angular velocity of the object equals the square root of Pi, times the gravity divided by the distance the pancake is from the elbow times four - that is how to get the pancake back in the pan. " and...
    "The 21-year-old explained the formula: "'W' is the angular velocity of the pancake, 'g' represents gravity and 'r' is the distance from the pivot - the elbow - to the centre of the pancake"

    so w=sqrt(pi)g/4r

  10. Re:Limit number of connexions, NOT which FTP clien on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Grrrrr it's CONNECTION not CONNEXION

  11. Re:pffft on Israeli Firm Claims Unbreakable Encryption · · Score: 1

    Hmmm so why are NSA and DOD Ordering it then???

  12. Re:pffft on Israeli Firm Claims Unbreakable Encryption · · Score: 1

    well, ok yeah ot almost certainly IS breakable just almost impossible with today's techniques, but to dismiss it out of hand as garbage is a lil unfair imho.

  13. Re:Why is this even being posted on slashdot? on Israeli Firm Claims Unbreakable Encryption · · Score: 1

    no, if you read the article, NSA valuated it and refused to give them an export license - presumably because they couldn't easily break the encryption. I doubt it's unbreakable, but it could be very very... hard to do so.

  14. Re:number oddities on Why Do Google Hit Numbers Vary? · · Score: 1

    Nope, he's right. He said "or" Google *will* ignore or. It, however, will treat OR as a boolean operator.

    (OR has to be in uppercase)

  15. Re:pffft on Israeli Firm Claims Unbreakable Encryption · · Score: 1

    They say that 2 million people have tried so far, they have put up a $1million prize so I beleive they may be serious....

  16. Re:Why is this even being posted on slashdot? on Israeli Firm Claims Unbreakable Encryption · · Score: 1

    Then why are they winning multi-million dollar contracts from the US government?

  17. Re:How to be stupid... on You Can't Link Here · · Score: 2

    and it's equally Trivial to fake the http-referer header

  18. Re:killing HTTP referers on You Can't Link Here · · Score: 2

    Take a look at - acts as a proxy between your browser and the server and can do many many things, including http_referer faking. The snoop feature is damned useful too, if you want to know what the http converstaion is looking like (I use it to work out what to put in http POST requests from a php script when I want to grab a page from within a php script that needs a POST request to get it)

  19. Re:Links on You Can't Link Here · · Score: 2

    ummmm like muffin which can fake referer headers between your browser and the server

  20. Re:Convince Me on Phoenix 0.4 Released · · Score: 2

    A lot of people dont like to see their task bar cluuttered with a bazliion buttons for every window their app has opened. You could end up with half a dozenbrowser windows, a few word processing windows, debuuger windows, code editing windows, emaail windows, all with their own space on the task bar - it;s a nightmare. I much much prefer keeping related windows from the same app under an application tabbed window toolbar than on the generic toolbar. I use UltraEdiot an awful lot and UE also has tabbed windows. When I'm developing, it's not unusual to have ten source/header files open in UE and half a dozen browser windows (help pages or whatever) - without the tabbed system, that would put 16 buttons on my taskbar instead of 2. I know which I prefer...

  21. Re:Not exactly on Calling Cell Phones Could Cost More · · Score: 2

    So, you'd be prepared to pay for recieving calls on your landline then? Thought so...

  22. Re:Why that solution isn't better on Calling Cell Phones Could Cost More · · Score: 2

    mobile phone owner still pays for OUTGOING calls, its INCOMING That the caller payes for - i.e whoever makes the call pays for the call - just like on landlines...

  23. Re:SWITCH! on Calling Cell Phones Could Cost More · · Score: 2

    Erickson already did this. I beleive BT marketed it in the UK, doens't seem to hvea huge response

  24. Re:NZ too on Calling Cell Phones Could Cost More · · Score: 2

    And possibly the cost of having to pay for calls to mobiles prevenst the TM scumbags from calling? Calling a mobile in the UK is at least 5 times the price of calling a landline...

  25. Re:NZ too on Calling Cell Phones Could Cost More · · Score: 2

    I've had a mobile here in the UK for the last 6 years, and not once have I had a telemarketer call me...