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  1. Re:Uh, tough? on Belgian Newspapers Delisted On Google · · Score: 1

    No the court ordered it
     

    withdraw the articles, photographs and graphic representations of Belgian publishers of the French - and German-speaking daily press, represented by the plaintiff, from all their sites (Google News and "cache" Google or any other name within 10 days of the notification of the intervening order

  2. Re:I'm trying to parse this on Belgian Newspapers Delisted On Google · · Score: 1

    No the court ordered it
     

    withdraw the articles, photographs and graphic representations of Belgian publishers of the French - and German-speaking daily press, represented by the plaintiff, from all their sites (Google News and "cache" Google or any other name within 10 days of the notification of the intervening order

  3. Nobel's Wife? on Why There's No Nobel Prize In Computing · · Score: 1

    LOL Computing generally comes under Mathematics and the way I heard it, Nobel's wife ran off with a mathematician and that's why there's no Nobel prize for Mathematics and they get a Fields Medal instead. ..probably bollocks of course, but hey.

  4. Re:So?? on Old Man Murray Wikipedia Controversy Continues · · Score: 1

    >don't want the biggest encyclopedia, and a free as in freedom one at that, to be governed by corrupt bureaucrats.

    Too late...

  5. USA next! on Former MI6 Chief Credits WikiLeaks With Helping Spark Revolutions · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If only it would have a similar effect in the USA.

  6. Re:Shows how badly China owns us on VoIP Now Technically Illegal In China · · Score: 1

    Our government and corporations stood idly by while USA infiltrated our military, government and corporate networks, commited blatant acts of corporate espionage, placed unfair regulations on foreign companies operations within their country, pulled blatant protectionist laws to stifle competition and threw trade embargos left and right.

    But nothing was done because USA was the largest emerging economy on the planet and no one could afford to pass up a piece of that pie.

    There...fixed that for you.

  7. Re:1984 on Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles · · Score: 1

    No... They removed that.

  8. Dept? on Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child · · Score: 1

    Why isn't this from the stating the obvious department ?

  9. but the performance hit... on Try Out Chrome OS In a Virtual Machine · · Score: 1

    So you could just run this and save Google the hassle of creating linux or mac versions of Chrome :)

  10. Re:Use subversion either hosted or your own server on Collaborative Software For Pair Programming? · · Score: 1

    That is one of the coolest useful tools I've seen!

  11. Re:DigiLens? on Where Are the High-Res Head-Mounted Displays? · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up

  12. Job hunting on Go For a Masters, Or Not? · · Score: 1

    would you rather try and find a job now? or in two years when the market may have bounced back a bit and you're better qualified (and could have some part-time experience on the side).

  13. Re:Been there, done that. on Mobile Wi-Fi Hot Spot · · Score: 2

    Hell, I can use my Nokia 6234 to get net access via bluetooth. Tho I can't speak for the speed or quality, I only did it to see if I could and then disconnected - I can't afford 1992 data rates anymore.

    I suppose there might be some sort of emergency where I might use it, but it hasn't happened yet.

  14. Enable VOIP! on Mobile Wi-Fi Hot Spot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So wait... The telco's won't allow my iPhone/G1/Crackbery/etc to use VOIP over their network unless I buy one of these first?

  15. Re:Backfeed on Open Source Textbooks For California · · Score: 1

    As an ex-high school maths teacher I can say that your book is (probably - I only read pars of it) almost entirely useless because the level of the language used is well above than of the intended recipient - assuming you intend for the students to read this book and not just their teacher(who generally already knows what they're teaching). Sentences like "Multiplecation can also be done by modular arithmetic"... WTF?

    OTOH assuming your language level is correct and these students are not the intended recipient, then your level of detail and reasoning is off. eg, negative numbers are not just the answer to "what's smaller than zero?" (zero itself is at least a book's worth of problems), but like many of math's number types, originated in previously insoluble equations - in this case equations of the form x-y=? when y>x.

  16. Re:IINBDFI on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 1

    What he said

    Also, if cleaning out the crap on the hdd(of which there may be little), isn't enough, throw in a bigger, old hdd. from memory win95 can handle up to 2G. And like his system, if the old hdd still goes, then it'll probably go for a fair while yet. If 500MB lasted him 15years, then quadrupling that should give him another 45 years or so.

  17. Re:Great. ANOTHER list... on Cellular Repo Man · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but your monthly charges don't drop at the end of your contract do they?

    Nor can you get a discounted plan for paying up front for the whole cost.

  18. Global access = good on Last.fm To Start Charging International Users · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At least you can still access it globally unlike Hulu etc

  19. My GF's Vista err.. XP on French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    My GF says: "it wasn't that hard to learn the new and changed stuff [in Vista] - I was just not impressed with having a girly OS"

  20. Re:What a coincidence on New Zealand's Recording Industry CEO Tries to Defend New Draconian Law · · Score: 5, Informative

    Worse, at the prompting of the US entertainment industry in order to obtain a dubiously valued free trade agreement.

  21. Re:Wow! on Gaming Netflix Ratings? · · Score: 1

    except letters to the editor in the local paper are moderated and everyone else reads at 0+

  22. Re:Only the paranoid survive (not) on Are My Ideas Being Stolen? If So, What Then? · · Score: 1

    ...
    5. ???
    6. Profit!

  23. Re:USB ?= serial on DIY USB Servo-Guided Water Gun · · Score: 1

    ...except in the first paragraph...

  24. Offline play? on New Game Download Site Offers Play-As-You-Download Service · · Score: 1

    Free Game? yay

    Having to return to their website every time I want to play it?/reinstall it? meh...not so much.

  25. Re:It has been said on Adobe Releases C/C++ To Flash Compiler · · Score: 1

    But I want to play Quake on my iPhone...