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  1. Re:WTF on Supermarket Loyalty Cards Vs National ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Or you might be buying petrol for two cars. Or you might be buying petrol for your lawn mower. Or a generator. Or....

  2. I can't believe that on Warm Offices Boost Productivity · · Score: 1

    I work much better at cooler temperatures and sit and do nothing when it gets warmer.

  3. Re:Good Idea on AOL Moves Beyond Single Passwords for Log-Ons · · Score: 1

    although if you bribed or tortured your way into knowing the password you could probably bribe or torture your way to obtain the code generator!

  4. Re:And now, for your delectation and delight... on RFID Not Just for Kids · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Lost children is a convenient explanation. I'm sure the park can't actually use the technology to see which bits of the park are most popular, where the best place to put concessions, what ride lengths need shortening to maximize throughput or anything like that. Oh no.

    We wouldn't want them to be able to make the place better now would we!
  5. Re:...so? on Hotmail Means to Double Gmail Storage · · Score: 2, Funny
    C:\WINDOWS\system32>grep
    'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
    operable program or batch file.
  6. Re:A good ruling??!!??! NOT! on Jerry Falwell Wins Dispute Over Fallwell.com · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The right to free speech does not give you the right to speak when and where you want. No one is saying that the gay activists can't run a website, just that they can't run it on a domain chosen solely to be similar to a trademark.

  7. Re:The same as any large organisation? on IBM Tells Employees To Hold Off WinXP SP2 · · Score: 1

    If you don't appreciate the types of internal application that a company like IBM will have then you don't appreciate the type of organisation that IBM is.

  8. Re:What about Linux on IBM Tells Employees To Hold Off WinXP SP2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How long do you think it takes for an organisation with over 300 thousand employees to change its employees' desktop environment? How many much smaller organisations still use NT 4?

  9. The same as any large organisation? on IBM Tells Employees To Hold Off WinXP SP2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't this sort of decision standard in any large organisation? As with any upgrade, IBM will want to ensure that the upgrade isn't going to break any internal applications. No large organisation is going to want employees installing significant OS upgrades without central verification.

  10. Re:national id cards... all countries have them on Estonia Tests "Contactless" ID-Cards · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A passport is not the same as a national ID card. No one is required to hold a passport, so can refuse to show it, or pretend that they do not have one. The same goes for driving licenses.

    A compulsory national ID card is very different. You cannot claim not to have it, and hence can be required to produce it - even if that requirement is not immediate.

  11. Re:Speed Cameras on Annual Big Brother Award Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    I believe that's technically incorrect. If your speedometer shows 70 and you're going 76, it's still within the tolerance permitted by the MoT test, and I understand that you're not speeding. (Not that I condone speeding, lest I be misunderstood).

    This is incorrect. The indicated speed must not be less than the actual speed. It may be more (up to a tolerance) but must not be less.

  12. Re:Speed Cameras on Annual Big Brother Award Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    They don't need cameras to find out if your tax is out of date. The only place they need to look is Here.

  13. Re:Second step? on iPod: Your Portable Corporate Hellraiser · · Score: 0

    And for those PCs that do need USB?

  14. Re:Don't you see the pattern? on Java 1.5.0 Now Officially Java 5.0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Read the article...

    This isn't Java5, it is Java 2 v5

  15. Re:Winamp didn't skip version 4 on Java 1.5.0 Now Officially Java 5.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Although this is J2SE v5, or Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 to give it a longer name.

    So we've had JDK1.1, J2SDK1.2, J2SDK1.3, J2SDK1.4 and now we get J2SDK5.0.

  16. Re:i've always wondered... on Las Vegas Monorail Finally Ready To Open · · Score: 2, Informative

    Trip 3: Walk to bus stop, 1 minute. Wait for bus, 2 minutes. Bus Journey, 10 minutes. Walk straight to platform (with season ticket for train), 1 minute. Wait for train, 5 minutes. Train Journey, 22 minutes. Walk to office, 2 minutes. Total Journey 43 minutes. Total cost, 13 UKP

    Trip 4: Walk to car, get in car, 1 minute. Drive, sit in traffic jam, drive, sit in traffic jam, drive, sit in traffic jam, drive, 60 minutes. Queue to park, 5 minutes. Walk to office, 5 minutes. Total Journey 81 minutes. Total cost, 10 UKP to park, 3 UKP petrol, plus car maintenance, tax, insurance, etc.

    Public transport can work.

  17. Re:forget resolution. on When will 1024x768 Replace 800x600 for Web Design? · · Score: 1

    but in the case of a PDA, it's better to serve a simpler, smaller style sheet to make those users happy and keep the hits coming. Or is it better for the browser on the PDA to realise it has a small screen and ignore CSS elements that it can't handle?

  18. Re:Software doesn't rust... on Software Upgrade Crashes UK Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 1

    It is possible that the upgrade had been tested in a serperate system as well. It is not going to be identical to the Live system though, so some problems on the change over should be expected.

  19. Re:The TV license fee and the BBC on BBC Discusses PVR Software, Creative Archive Plans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The TV license provides a broadcaster that is not dependant on advertising for revenue. In theory it can broadcast programmes that are not popular with advertisers. It doesn't always work, but when it does it works very well.

  20. Re:Governments giveth, and taketh away... on BBC Discusses PVR Software, Creative Archive Plans · · Score: 2, Informative

    Now, the British government is going to switch to MS, dumping Real. All these actions encourage the same company they complain about.

    The BBC is not part of the British government. It may have funding provided by the government, but it is an independant body.

  21. Re:All phone services should have 911 access! on FCC: VoIP Providers Must Provide 911 Services · · Score: 1

    You have 15 seconds. Tell me the non-911 way to report an emergency to the fire department where you are presently located.

    112? Or does the US not implement the standard GSM emergency number?

  22. Re:Simple input on Java SDK 1.5 'Tiger' Beta Finally Released · · Score: 1

    One of the nice things about OO is that you can hide the complexity from new comers. e.g.:

    SimpleInputClass i = new SimpleInputClass();<br>
    String a = i.input();

    This hides all the complexity in a simple class provided by the teacher. Once they undertand the more complex stuff you can open up SimpleInputClassand show how it works - or even get them to write their own.

  23. Re:GPL soul? on NVIDIA Drivers for 2.6 Kernel · · Score: 1

    OSS is a principle-based movement? I think I'll stick to the free (beer) reason. While a small number may be fundamentally opposed to binaries, I would think the majority are more interested in the many practical advantages currently offered by Open Source Software.

  24. Re:MS Coupons on EU's Mind 'made up' on Microsoft · · Score: 1

    To be fair...

    ...He did get rather more than just an Xbox.

  25. Re:Pre-emptive rant reply on Another English/Metric "Spacecraft" Problem · · Score: 1

    Yet there are advantages to a more interventionist attitude from government. There has been a general recognition that a standard measurment system is a good thing[TM]. Similarly, it has been recognised that metric is better than imperial. The only bar to change is the cost of conversion. In the longer term everyone will benefit from governments forcing change by a significantly improved measurment system and a decreased change over period. For the US, the change will take much longer, and be much more costly - given all the inevitable conversion mistakes - but the result will be the same.