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  1. Re:Settled law in the United States on Australian Judge Rules Facts Cannot Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    It is a fact if you add the place and time of when this RGB value hit a screen. (but be warned IANAL)

  2. same old... on When Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I think the OP found some news piece from the 1960s and decided to recycle it...

    If I was to make such a prediction I would say 60 years, then even if it would not happen I would not be around to be shamed.

    AI working? Nooooo! (and I'm in a machine learning research group)

  3. /. running out of topics... on Will Tabbed Windows Be the Next Big Thing? · · Score: 0

    OTOH I whish the KDE guys stopped "innovating" so much and put some stability on this thing. I'm close to migrating to XFCE

  4. Re:Creative destruction on Google Attack On the Mobile Market Rumored · · Score: 0

    Or how China is keeping its currency at an artificially low price by purchasing huge amounts of the currency of its largest customer ;)

  5. Google phone to Orange? on In the UK, T-Mobile and Orange To Merge · · Score: 0

    I hope this means that Android phones will now be available on Orange.

  6. Re:anonymous? on In the UK, a Plan To Criminalize Illegal Downloaders · · Score: 0

    The id is on the side of the ISP who knows very well what customer is connected to which line. You can change your MAC or IP as much as you like, yet the ISP can still identify you.

    Unless, of course you use anonymized services or are in some internet cafe :)

  7. Re:Mandelson on In the UK, a Plan To Criminalize Illegal Downloaders · · Score: 0

    the other one that is supposed to be in charge was also not elected... The guy who was actually elected has retired somewhere between Rome and Jerusalem

  8. Re:The UK already has one dumbass party on Why the UK Needs the Pirate Party · · Score: 0

    actually I would not be so casual about the current government. Never underestimate how toxic is power and how people who have been holding it for 12 years will do anything to keep it theirs. I am worried about these lot!

  9. Re:Well I can think of one reason why... on Bill Gates Puts Classic Feynman Lectures Online · · Score: 3, Insightful

    however much we dislike Gates and M$, we must recognize that he is a serious philantropist and has a record on donations to charity, particularly towards serious world problems like malaria, measles, etc. That is something good I can say about him. Silverlight, on the other hand, is not :(

  10. Re:Gimp doesn't need a book on Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional 2nd Ed · · Score: 0

    it needs a proper UI.

    excuse me, PS needs a proper UI too!

  11. poor man's slashdotting on Beyond Firewalls — Internet Militarization · · Score: 3, Funny

    DDOS attack is the poor man's slashdotting

  12. Re:picasa on Face Recognition — Clever Or Just Plain Creepy? · · Score: 0

    digiKam
    KPhotoAlbum

    these are just two, there are more

  13. Slackware, of course on Which Distro For an Eee PC? · · Score: 0

    Slackware 12.2, kernel 2.6.28, KDE. But I do have an 8Gb 701 (actually known as 702), the extra space was very useful for KDE, otherwise with a standard 4Gb 701 you're better off using XFCE instead of KDE.

    more on http://slackeee.strangled.net/

  14. Re:Euclids... on Freeing and Forgetting Data With Science Commons · · Score: 0

    Very good point.

    I never bought into Occam's razor. I think it shaves off important stuff all too often.

  15. Re:Well Science excluding Maths and the Hard Scien on Freeing and Forgetting Data With Science Commons · · Score: 0

    This sort of project only really applies to the non-fundamental sciences.

    And what are fundamental sciences?
    I keep hearing this type of argument: (some) physicist think biology is not a fundamental science; (some) biologists think sociology is not a fundamental science... each science is fundamental to those who want to understand the phenomena that it deals with.

  16. Not high definition - just hype on 18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD · · Score: -1

    HD is a cheap way of "forcing" consumers buy more TV sets. Until they really start to increase the real resolution (ie reduce pixel sizes) and increase the number of pixels up by a lot HD is not really worth it.

    I have a "HD-ready" 26" LCD screen and sit about 10' away from it and cannot tell the difference. Plus the HD stuff is way too sharp, having ridiculous un-natural contrast levels, probably just to impress the masses.

    This is just like saying that digital radio broadcast has better sound definition than good old FM - it does not!

  17. Re:Who needs a study: science != medicine/biology on Why Most Published Research Findings Are False · · Score: -1

    oh yeah?

    What about Cold Fusion? What about the fabricated nanotechnology data of Schon? What about the memory of water?

    The issue is the same with physics, chemistry, and all the others. A large part of the problem is that the top journals *want* papers that can make the news on Thursday; and will select papers that may have not been fully vetted, and also have a bias towards "big shots" (who have much easier time publishing any kind of trash than do young researchers).

  18. Eee PC... on How Big Should My Swap Partition Be? · · Score: 1

    runs without swap, at least the version of Xandros that comes pre-installed (SSD's do not seem to be the best medium to hold swap partitios).

    On regular desktops that do not need to hibernate I usually have between 512Mb - 1Gb. On laptops it is useful to have 1.1X size of RAM to be able to hold the system state there.