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  1. Re:Not Surprise for MegaUpload on Megaupload Drops Lawsuit Against Universal Music · · Score: 0

    I see you repeating this message from a earlier thread. Looking at your arguments makes me wonder who is paying you to repeat this message over and over again?

  2. Combining some techniques on Ask Slashdot: Image Recognition For Race Timing? · · Score: 1

    Based on a beam triggered start and finish you could use a still camera with a timestamp and a clock in sight. At the same time place a tag on all cars on the same height and distant from the front of the car. Combine a visual tag with a RFID tag in one and you have double signalling of both start and finish. Comparing those two can be done in milliseconds when connected to a laptop and only uses a networked connection between the two laptops.

  3. What's the news? on Artificial Life Forms Evolve Basic Memory, Strategy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When you program some evolutionary theory in your digital world and your digital world is developing some evolutionary lifeform that is news?

  4. That easy? on Hacker Builds $1,500 Cell Phone Tapping Device · · Score: 1

    I find it quite astonishing that it is that easy to intercept GSM calls. And that phonemakers disable this warning is even more astonishing!

  5. Re:mac mini's with virtual machines running win7 on Most Useful OS For High-School Science Education? · · Score: 1

    Looking at current possibilities with virtualisation this the best advise so far I have seen in this thread. Personally I would add a big fileserver or NAS to it and a Gbit network to make usable for more than math and science only.

  6. Take a look at KEEP... on Emulation For Preservation of Digital Artifacts · · Score: 1

    KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable) will develop an Emulation Access Platform to enable accurate rendering of both static and dynamic digital objects: text, sound, and image files; multimedia documents, websites, databases, videogames etc. It's a project supported by the EU and several National Archives across Europe.

  7. How about humans... on VisLab Sponsors Milan-to-Shanghai Driverless Trek · · Score: 1

    do they autonomous control them too? No doubt that those cars can navigate their way to China the technology exists and this is a nice proof of concept. But human behavior especially on the road is not very rational. You need a lot of AI to interpret such behavior in a way to avoid all kind of trouble and sounds like a real quest to me.

  8. It's only annoying legitimate users... on Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update Phones Home Quarterly · · Score: 1

    because those who know to get hold of a working illegal copy of Windows 7 will soon find another crack to avoid WAT. But I can tell that whenever my paid Windows 7 is downgraded by a false positive I will remove it from my computer for ever. And because it is running in a virtual machine it is just "rm win7.vmdk".

  9. It's about time! on EU Committee Says No To Bank Data Sharing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not that I trust my government but at least they are my government. It's obvious that the EU does not really care about data from European citizens going to the US but our international firms do. And further it's quite simple: not one bankrecord from the US went to Europe while all bankrecords from Europe went to the US. And that has to get even now.

  10. Re:Sad news on Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    The US presence in Iraq and Afghanistan did not work out very well too. So maybe investing in development is a better way, it worked with the Marshall plan after WOII.

  11. Sueing over something that do not exist? on Is Gawker's "Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt" Illegal? · · Score: 1

    Can you sue someone for something that does not exist? So far Apple denies the existance of a tablet what ground do they have to go after this hunt for information?

  12. Use Firefox with add-ons on How Do I Keep My Privacy While Using Google? · · Score: 1

    By using Firefox with Noscript, Adblock Plus en Ghostery I think Google do not get that much of my habits.

  13. Re:Think of the children on UK Judge Orders Wikipedia To Reveal User's Identity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Whenever someone is sending threatening letter with or without a child involved it is blackmail. And everybody does have the right to display the writer of such letter. So this has nothing to do with 'think of the children'.

  14. They should talk to IBM on How Google Uses Linux · · Score: 1

    Google and the kernel developers should talk to IBM and ask for publishing the scheduler used in OS/2 v2 and up which in turn was a makeover of a mainframe scheduler. It would certainly solve a large part of their current problems.

  15. Re:The writer is clueless about end users on Comparing the Freedoms Offered By Maemo and Android · · Score: 1

    Well, I do rm-r /* quite frequently and do not see the fun of it. But maybe that the lack of fun is because I do it in a chrooted environment to clean it up.

  16. It's not gonna happen! on ARM Hopes To Lure Microsoft Away From Intel · · Score: 1

    Intel and Microsoft do have the same interests and earn a lot of money because of their relationship. What has ARM to offer against that? Mobile phones? Who wants Windows on his phone anyway? Or Linux? Nokia with Symbian still do have lead there simply because they deliver what the customer wants.

  17. Re:Ok, start the flames on Consumer Group Demands XP for Vista Victims · · Score: 1

    Well, this consumergroup received thousands of complaints about Vista. Microsoft already allowed business users to downgrade to XP and De Consumentenbond want that for the private users too. After Microsoft denying this they could expects this action despite their hastily constructed website with additional information gathered from everywhere on their different sites.

  18. Re:ISDN on EFF Patent Busting - Prior Art Needed for VOIP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What is the difference between a connection over a X25 network and "the internet"? Especially in the early days of internet X25 networks were used a lot.

  19. Another example of prior art on EFF Patent Busting - Prior Art Needed for VOIP · · Score: 1

    Not sure about the actual year, 1990 or 1989 we were offered a new pbx that could divert calls over a permanent data line to all our offices (six at that time). Each call digitized to a 8Kb stream. This were technology from AT&T and Alcatel afaik and used normal analog phones.

  20. Corporate punishment on RIAA Going After a 10-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 1

    This organisation make you think about corporate punishment. At the end organisations do not feel anything but people do. Everybody working for or represented by this organisation should be personally in for a punishment every time this organisation misbehave.

  21. Re:A somewhat obvious answer: on OpenOffice.org Tries to Woo Dell · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To be more accurate: OOo is free, and therefore Dell gets nothing but the support calls and even offshore they want to be paid.

  22. Re:I'm a bit confused? on Where are the 'Modern' Directory Services? · · Score: 1

    Thanks a lot! I have not read it in detail yet but it surely seems well written.

  23. Mirror? on Games Knoppix · · Score: 1

    Anyone a mirror? (Which q#%$^%& says games on ./ at Christmas?)

  24. Re:Another prevalent IT myth on IT Myths · · Score: 1

    Oh boy what a self esteem! When you have a Mac to play with, you really are going to do something usefull? Of course not, you will trying to compile some free software, exchange songs with your Ipod, show it to your friends. Doing a lot of things but usefull!

  25. Re:Another prevalent IT myth on IT Myths · · Score: 0, Troll

    But it is a myth that you can do real work on a Mac! There too much to toy with on a Mac which will keep you away from the real work.