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  1. Re:The band in question on French President Busted For Copyright Violation · · Score: 1

    Are you saying you don't pay any attention to news outside your national border?

    Well, I don't care about what happens in my national border or even in my city either :D

    Anyhow, I didn't say what you mean, I merely said it was hard to follow. I am not sure if Romania is already in the EU or not, or using the Euro or not. If they are not yet, I am sure it is on the way and that it should happen in a few years.
    What I know for sure is that Turkey is not a member yet and is facing a lot of opposition concerning its membership.

    I am also aware that Czechoslovakia split into Czech Republic and Slovakia for more than 10 years, yet I still sometimes refer to "Czechoslovakia" when listing European countries. (And I often mention Soviet Russia when posting anonymously on slashdot, but this is another matter).

    I don't know much about US politics but wikipedia states that "Tallahassee became the capital of Florida in 1824."

  2. Re:The band in question on French President Busted For Copyright Violation · · Score: 1

    For their (and my) defense, the countries composing the European Union are changing a lot more than the states in the USA. Well, even the European countries have changed names/frontiers a lot since I left school (where I had to learn this kind of stuff).

    It is indeed quite difficult to remember which countries are in Europe (the continent) and/or European Union and/or using the Euro currency.

  3. Re:IMDB was up on Jurassic Web · · Score: 1

    Well, we just need http://www.google.com/codesearch to believe that all the web is code. Hey, it is HTML code!

  4. Re:Not released? on Gaming Netflix Ratings? · · Score: 5, Informative

    From imdb
    Release dates for Inkheart (2008)
    Country : Date
    Germany : 11 December 2008
    UK : 12 December 2008
    Brazil : 25 December 2008
    Iceland : 26 December 2008

  5. Re:RIP: PATRICK MCGOOHAN on Ricardo Montalban Dead At 88 · · Score: 1

    Be seeing you...

  6. Re:The reason for SI units on The Technology Behind the Magic Yellow Line · · Score: 1

    commonly known as "football" all over the world, i.e. "soccer"

    i.e. "association football" to be technically and unambiguously correct

  7. Re:Eee Keyboard on Asus Reveals the Eee Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Héhéhé, tha problaim is none of thaim works in Inglish...

  8. Re:It'll never happen. on Next G8 President Wants To "Regulate the Internet" · · Score: 1

    (oops, forgot to preview)

  9. Re:It'll never happen. on Next G8 President Wants To "Regulate the Internet" · · Score: 2, Funny

    P.S. One of his ministers (Berlusconi's) told to the press that he wants an "unique IP address for every citizen"... LOL!

    ok, I'll take 127.0.01

  10. Re:Well, Not ALL of Them Really on Monty Python Banks On the Long Tail Via YouTube · · Score: 1

    I tried to tag it "suddenoutbreakofcommonnonsense" but it seems to be interpreted as "suddentoutbreakofcommonsense"! I am really upset now.

    I also tagged it "humour" rather than "humor", and it worked.

  11. Re:This is interesting... on Argentine Judges Disappear Celebrities From Internet · · Score: 1

    My guess is that it depends on the exchange rate of Canadian dollar over US dollar, or something like that.

    Other examples with selected words from your post:

    "mechanism" : 86,9 million results (US) / 82,2 million results (Canada)
    "incredibly" : 43,6 million results (US) / 40,5 million results (Canada)
    "obvious" : 104 millions results (US) / 97 millions results (Canada)

  12. Re:English names only? on IBM's Teri-is-a-Girl-and-Terry-is-a-Boy Patent · · Score: 1

    I can think about other unisex names such as Claude, Alix or Stéphane (less usual than Stéphanie but at least one famous actress is named like that). I am sure there are others but I cannot find them just now.

    Otherwise, because of Elton John and Luc Besson, Russian male name Nikita has been given to many girls recently.

  13. Re:I wish on China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers · · Score: 1

    Of course it will remain, why would it stop?

  14. Re:Not news on Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed · · Score: 2, Funny

    We geeks are always confused when dating is involved.

  15. Re:Busy schedule on Scientists Discover Cows Point North · · Score: 1

    Looking at the url you give, I'd say: they do this only in the Flickr Farm.

  16. Re:Sure, and then.... on Let the Games Be Doped · · Score: 1

    Still better than lead in the human, Saturnito!

  17. Re:Shell as a scripting language... on Bash Cookbook · · Score: 1

    You can use IFS for this problem :
    IFS=$'\n'; grep -l beer `find . -name \*.titles -prune -o -print`

  18. Re:Cloud computer? on $250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer · · Score: 1

    A "cloud" computer? It must be vapourware!

  19. Plot on Watchmen Movie Trailer Is Out · · Score: 1

    I have read Watchmen sometime around September 2001, so having it talk about Afghanistan and destroying NYC was disturbingly on topic.

  20. Re:O2 Were Leaking Mobile Numbers Too on It's Not Just O2 Leaking MMS Messages · · Score: 1

    But did you do the cut/paste thing with your iPhone?

  21. Re:A Better Approach to Accuracy on Computer Scientists Scour Your Holiday Photos · · Score: 1

    I also wonder how well you could do by checking the photo's timestamp, then examining the shadows to determine the sun angle.


    You need accurate timestamps to calculate that.
    My camera does not adapt automatically to DST and I forgot to make the change myself.
    Moreover, I do not think of changing its clock either when I go visiting other countries...

    "hey, sunlight at midnight, must be in North Pole"
  22. Re:Gmail Backups? on G-Archiver Harvesting Google Mail Passwords · · Score: 1

    Your email is already indexed, and searchable better and faster than a desktop app will be able to.


    Except if you want to sort messages by size, or by sender...
    Or if you want to search your mails for a substring (e.g. a search for "Hel" may return nothing even though "Hello" is present in a lot of messages).

    There are still some limitations in GMail.
  23. Competition on Higher-Resolution YouTube Videos Currently In Testing · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dailymotion announced HD support some weeks ago, so I guess Youtube wants to have that too.

  24. Re:More to it that speed on Sci-Fi Tech We Could Have Right Now (For a Price) · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Correction on Messenger Flies by Mercury · · Score: 1

    Except it is the fifteenth. Or fifteen, I never know.

    And writing the month in letters is language-specific.