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  1. Re:You just don't get it on Captain America vs. The Patriot Act? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not if they are operaitng IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY AT THE TIME - they are not acting as spies then!

    if you as an invader are attacked by citizens with guns, then you have to treat any subsequent prisoners as POWS - in fact any and ALL prisoners have to be treated as POWS under article 4 until proven otherwise

    "illegial combatants" is a term made up by the current administration that doesnt even make sense...

  2. Re:And I'm a libertarian, at that. on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    Free month off? Nope, just a recognition that employers have to ensure you get 20 days per year as this enhances your health - at my work paid holiday is 25 days, you get 8 bank holidays and i have "bought" with the £500 extra they give me an extra 5 days. means i get 6 weeks off plus ban hoildays. This is however factored into my salary - i could get paid "more" but have less holiday - but why would i want to? You have one life, and work != life for me or most of my colleagues...

  3. Re:Answer is easy. on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    You're obviously a troll, however...

    if that 0.50 euros was 2% of your disposable income, then it would hurt you AS MUCH as a 10000 euro fine to someone with 500000 euro disposable income. Therefore it is as much a deterrent for you as for the other person. Whereas a 30 euro fine for the 500000 disposable would be the same as him dropping a cent on the street...

  4. Re:Google != Mozilla Foundation on Microsoft's IE7 Search Box Bugs Google · · Score: 1

    Microsoft = convicted of leveraging their monopoly in the OS field into the browser market AND WMP

    They have a monopoly in the browser market, thereby leveraging THIS monopoly into the search market would be illegial.

    Get it yet? Or should we explain this s l o w e r....

  5. Re:My Rule of Thumb on Spafford On Security Myths and Passwords · · Score: 1

    ONly if they can get an example of the hashed LM - easy enough with laptops, but we cant help with that.

    If they're trying to come in from the outside, then some methods do query the database - this method is quite slow, however without meaningful lockouts it will be effective.

  6. Re:I've (unfortunately) forced this on users befor on Spafford On Security Myths and Passwords · · Score: 1

    I would also fail the company in their annual audit if it was known that user accountability had been compromised - only financial systems though, any others we really could care less about.

    What this would mean would be a substantive audit, costing around 4x the cost of a controls based audit. Trust me, more than one person would be fired once THAT bill reaches the upper echelons!

  7. Re:My Rule of Thumb on Spafford On Security Myths and Passwords · · Score: 1

    However, brute force cracking should not be an option - I find in my job that recommending failed attempts = 3, lockout = 0 and window - 1440 minutes normally suffices (gives 2 attempts per day without locking the account. average time to crack 1 account - years)

    However, unless you have a good minimum length requirement, yr screwed!

  8. Re:s/Weary/Wary/ on Canadian Government Weary of Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Ah, for you patriotism means mindlessly following whatever the republicans say I'm guessing here....

    They destroyed the WTC cos of your foreign policies. You are too idiotic to realise that American raping of the world caused the world to hate you back.

    Now back to Fox "News" you go, and the blinkers can go nicely back on...

  9. Re:Finally... on Microsoft EU Monopoly Appeal Thrown Out · · Score: 3, Insightful

    how the fuck this got modded "insightful" i dont know

    They are a convicted monopolist. Do you know what tat ACTUALLY means? it measn tyou cannot ABUSE that monopoly in order to monopolise other areas, ref IE, and now WMP

    so yes, they can offer it free, however you cannot include it with the package and deliberatley exclude (via OEM contracts) other companies from bundling additional players. It gives you another monopoly.

    It isnt about cash. And the fact they may be based partl in the US makes not a squat - if you want to do business in a territory, you have to abide by the rules of that territory, and abide by the legal penalties

    or are you getting pissed off cos europe is again doing something that you lot couldnt manage, ie holding them to account?

  10. Re:Does no one else check for drivers *first*? on Are Your Peripherals Monitoring You? · · Score: 1

    you're missing his point.

    his argument: buy the printer AFTER chcking driver support that is built in.

    For Linux, make sure it talks PCL and PS, and you are fine

    For Windows check the driver listing.

    Simple idea, and makes sense - recent printers are not significantly improved over printers 1, 2 yrs older, so why go for one which reuires this extra crap.

    Bu tthen you bought a lexmark inkjet, so you're short of a clue already....

  11. Re:Oh, know Canada! on What's Going On in Canada? · · Score: 1

    and do you deny that straight guys and gals get HIV (you are such an ignornat fuck you dont even know the difference between a virus and the syndrome it causes, do you?) and cost your healthcare money?

    and did you know the publised statistics that show, time and time again, that gay guys and gals take the least from society in monetary terms.

    grow up yourself, fuckwit, and realise that your prejudice against homosexuality (which is something something the person has no choice over - did you decide to be an ignorant straight tosser? 2 out of 3 perhaps...) just shows what a pathetic and insignificant person you are

    another reason not to allow americans out the country, civilised countries are getting rid of people with your attitude

  12. Re:Emergency Brakes on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 1

    but you are meant to do that to stop your car becoming an additional hazard if it gets pushed into the road

    same as you should put your wheels towards the kerb, so if you get rearended (not that i ever complain...) it goes into the pavement rather than into the road

  13. Re:Groundbreaking? on Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    he also fucked the marquis of queensburys son (who was 18 or older at the time, not that it made any difference back then of course....)

    you know, the guy who codified the rules of boxing.

    would love to have been able to say to him "yes, but i've had your son......"

  14. Re:Microsoft Outlook Web Access on Mozilla Usage Doubles in 9 Months · · Score: 1

    Used to have this problem in OWA 2000, where the window wouldn't pop up no matter what i did. DEFINATELY fixed in 2003, as i can use the premium or basic in mozilla 1.7.2 with no problems at all.

  15. Re:Bashing an American Company on EU Fines Microsoft $613 Million, Officially · · Score: 1

    Guess you missed all the info posteed before the judgement, showing how many EU companies had been taken to court then? What, you mean you just made a rediculous comment, without even the briefest amount of time spent looking to see if your position was tenable?

    You americans surprise me

  16. Re:Old, old idea. on Honeytokens: The Other Honeypot · · Score: 1

    that's ok, there's already a proof out...or does that mean your crypto has been broken?...

  17. Re:Lawsuit! on Sen Hatch Would Like To Destroy Filetraders' PCs · · Score: 1

    Or, in my case

    ME: You destroyed my computer. Under the COmputer MIsuse Act 1992 I will be awarded damages and your directors in the UK will face criminal charges, holding you liable for jail time and unlimited fines

    RIAA: Shit, perhaps we should realise that other countries existed before we did this.

    ME: can anyone say woohoo!

  18. Re:and if you find yourself... on Sony Ericsson P800 Reviewed (Again) · · Score: 1

    Nope, they just don't need it in Europe or Japan, which is the primary market for new phones - you DO realise this don't you?

  19. Re:The question asked to citizens on Card Makers Say UK Citizens Want Biometric ID Cards · · Score: 1

    nope, i'm a citizen - my passport says so...

  20. Re:VAT while across the ocean on Evolution Of The Online Tax Debate · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it's not quite an extension of that l9ogic.....you pay taxes for kids to go to school becauseyou benefit by having a higher skilled workface, that can afford to pay more tax and [in theory] perhaps lower your contributions. same with central roadss etc. now you don't pay contributions to other countries tax bills [directly!] as you WOULDN'T recieve such benefits, so the VAT back is a sensible item

  21. Re:Residual Radiation? on Re-examining the Port Chicago Disaster · · Score: 1

    Eh? wtf are you on then? SOME of the matter is converted into energy [actually the difference in atomic bond energy is....] but most of it is converted into atoms of lesser atomic mass, by that lovely FISSION [like, you know, [i]splitting[/i]] process...and most of these tend to be active, slowish decaying isotopes

    so, there would be some residual radiation, but that would have mainly been carried away in the dust cloud....

  22. Re:Not sure on economics.... on IDE/ATAPI to SCSI Converters Reviewed · · Score: 2, Informative

    MTBFs are around 100,000hrs for scsi, around half that for IDE. IDE drives are designed to be fast to spin up, wioth low viscosity fluid bearings, good for worksstations/home use. SCSI drives have high viscosity fluid bearings which gives less wear, but the spin up time is greater [hence "spinning up drives" msgs on controllers]

    also the scsi interface is technologically far superior, TCQ, 15 devices per channel, Connect/Disconnect etc

    so the controller on the drive actually does a lot of work, in that it sorts out out of order execution ITSELF, CRC etc etc.

    plus U320 is pretty neat ;-)

  23. Re:Not so common sense on Appeals Court Finds "Nuremberg Files" Site Unlawful · · Score: 1

    But the whole trouble with theory 1 is that WHO CREATED THE CREATOR! - you end up in an infinite recursion, once you presuppose a creator.

    Throey 2: Yes the universe is full of matter and aengery, but as all matter is energy we'll count them as one. however, gravity is counted as negative energy, and so the whole [assuming a big crunch[ evens out -you end up right back where you started. TI's like a check book that you borrwo against, then start paying back...

    2 sounds unlikely if you assume we ar ethe only universe - once you get the "many worlds" solution, it makes sense that as least ONE universe should have life...

  24. Re:EU regs? on Xbox Price Drops For Australia And Europe · · Score: 1

    Do not confuse leasing the phone, which you are NOT DOING, with getting it for free for signing this contract. You are tied into a 12 month AIRTIME contract, for which they give you the phone. IF you end the contract before the minimum period, they do not take the phone back, check your contract next time, dumbfuck

  25. Re:what's wrong? on Feds Undertaking Massive Passenger Profiling Plan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Cos, fool, the only reason that Irish forces haven't tried anythign in the US is that US bloody citizens SPONSOR THEM

    I like the way it is moral indignation when you get attacked, but you'll happily send your dollars to SinnFein