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  1. Re:Fighting abuse with abuse is bad on Spam War Takes Out Blog Services · · Score: 1
    Its easy ... All products advertised via spam require payment by credit card. All the credit card companies are American owned. If the US governrment told the credit card companies their banking licences would be revoked if any of their merchant account holders were caught advertising through spam, Spam would stop within 7 days.

    However, I prefer the alternative approach involving drive-by shootings.

    A combination of both might be better :-)

  2. Re:Tetris and breakout are the only two games need on Cellphone Gaming Market Lacks Pull · · Score: 1
    Once you have the cell phone version of tetris and break out. Those are the only two you need.

    You are obviously young and inexperienced. Frogger is by far the best game for mobile phones,

    However, you look at it, a cell phone with the compuing power and graphics capability of a 1980s computer is probably only suitable for running the kind of games that were designed and developed on computers with similar power and graphics. And they have almost all been done, and are available for free. But let me know if I can get the "Leasure suit Larry" series to run on a Motorola V3x - I _might_ pay EUR5 for each one. I am pretty sure we played them in 320x240 with 16 colours No, not 16 bit colour - that is 16 colours - ie 4-bits !?!

  3. Re:I work @ a state college on Higher Education Fears Wiretapping Law · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Perhaps you can learn from UK school governors the...

    When I was a school governor, and we were required by law to do something undesirable, we just sheduled the discussion to be the last item in the meeting. Then the meeting would close with that item being postponed for a future meeting, due to lack of time. This was perfectly legal, and could continue for ever.

    Alternatively, vote for it to be implemented "just as soon as we have a budget allocation for it" - ie never. Political problems require political solutions: reality doesn't matter - its the slogans/headlines that are important!

  4. Re:This is not flaunting the laws of physics on Scientists Make Water Run Uphill · · Score: 0
    For some time now flaunt has been used in the sense "to show contempt for," even by educated users of English.

    I think not: flouting the rules of English can only be considered flaunting ignorance. It is clear proof that the speaker is NOT educated. Those to stupid to know that publicly flaunting their ignorance is not clever are obviously incapable of being educated.

    However, even the best of us is capable of typing errors.

  5. Sun's Greatest Hits on McNealy Created Millions of Jobs? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Sun's greatest achievement is not to go the way of DEC.

    Their greatest failure is not to do much better.

    Here is a company with world class hardware and software, and completely failing to exploit the market though "lack of grip on reality" Scott McNealy is definitely in the same league with Ken Olsen in having some bright ideas, but too much ego to make the best of them.

    The world is aboslutely gasping for something better than Wintel, and DEC, Apple and Sun had it. Only Apple is only now recovering from the afflictions of Big Ego striking it down. DEC died of Big Ego, and Sun has barely survived.

    Sun has a good reputation for quality in hardware and software. Every computer professional and Nerd knows it. Even their support is well regarded. Why are then not trouncing Microsoft and Intel? (I dont know. I am writing this on an Ultra60 running FreeBSD.)

  6. Re:Open Source has no chance! on OSS Provides Opportunity, Challenge for Developing World · · Score: 1
    Surely there are two major benefits:

    1) Open Source can be customised to meet local needs: a competent programmer (even one that learned by reading the source himself) can make a huge salary building and maintaining an app on PGSQL/Linux for local merchant, who would benefit enormously from having the management tools this could bring him - and could pay a lot by local standards The local merchant is not going to be able to afford Oracle FInancials, and trust me, no one is going to get a reliable management tool from Oracle Financials without support!

    2) Anyone significantly enhancing Open Source software is globally visible, and if I was head-hunting from competent programmers, I would rather take one whose code is universally accepted as a good solution than someone who puts in his CV "I made my employer's closed source software product much better", and I can't imagine anyone with OSS experience thinking much different.

    In my experience, however, the reason third world countries are poor is not lack of resources - they almost all have far more natural resources per capita than the UK, where I live. The problem is they have cultures where no one trusts anyone else, and the legal system is not able to enforce contracts. (While the local mafia enforces quite a few).

    The reason democracies are rich is that people do not see "the law" as primarily existing as a means of oppression, and obeying it as collaborating with enslavement.

    Poverty is a result of collaborating with others being, or being seen to be, unprofitable. Wealth is created by collaborating with others, whether there is immediate personal gain or not.

  7. Re:I'll be installing Linux in Africa on OSS Provides Opportunity, Challenge for Developing World · · Score: 1
    Lots of them won't have seen a computer before.

    Well, not outside of an Internet Cafe, anyway.

    I am not saying your trip is not going to be worthwhile: You will learn a lot.

  8. Re:I'll be installing Linux in Africa on OSS Provides Opportunity, Challenge for Developing World · · Score: 1
    The problem with functional programming stems from the Alfred E. Neumann machine.

    Please confirm: You are referring to "programming with dysfuntional languages" rather than "functional programming". (Wot? me worry?)

  9. The ultimate solution... on US Intensifies Fight Against Child Pornography · · Score: 1
    I have the solution

    All Adult male Americans must have a webcam superglued to their dick. Then we can catch them in the act!

  10. Re:A designer's perspective on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1
    You are not a web designer, and should go back to setting hot metal type. You have failed to understand the medium in which you are working, and have no future in web design.

    The entire success of the web concept is that you have no control over physical appearance, and have only control over logical appearance. Stay the F*ck away from web design until you understand what this means.

  11. Re:Um... on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1
    If you hammer concrete, it generally breaks

    No worries, mate. most web standards are already broken. That's what we have MS for.

  12. Re:Opera Zoom on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1
    It's not open source? Who gives a damn,

    I give a damn - they don't offer a version for UltraSparc/FreeBSD, and I can't compile it myself since I dont have the source!

    Obviously, this means I have to use Intel kit just to browse the www, since I don't want to use Internet Explorer !?! (What's that you say, Konqeror? Louder, I can't hear you with an Ipod in my ear :-}

  13. Re:Too True on Tilting At Windmills · · Score: 1
    The above suggests that Walmart are buying standard European spec vehicles. All these features have been standard in Europe for a good many years.

    Clearly the American auto industry is doomed.

  14. Re:Simplicity, price, and size please on The Future of the PDA · · Score: 1
    I think it would be cute to support Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, just so you could look weird in cafes, with a full-size keyboard for a computer the size of the numeric keypad. But that's just silly.

    It would not be so silly if it had a VGA output! Then you could use a full sized screen when its available.

    And I love the idea of the OS on an SD card - then we could dual boot by switching SD cards, like we used to with 5 1/4" floppies. Yay - bring back the good old days! Hell with PDAs having 640x480 resolution, a PDA has the same performance as an early desktop. We know where that leads to...

  15. Re:Gotta admit on Return of the Web Mob · · Score: 1
    Aand if, after paying your money, you get zilch. Who you gonna call?

    Ghostbusters?

    If you are the sort of person who considers signing up for this, I can introduce you to a prominent member of Nigeria's former government ...

  16. Re:Animal data? on FDA Questions Swedish Cell Phone Cancer Study · · Score: 1
    can't fill out the contracts required to obtain a cell phone.

    Obviously your American animals are dumb compared to our European animals. Here in Europe there are plenty of records showing that many animals, including dogs and goldfish, are able to obtain credit cards without difficulty. We actually have a credit card company that TARGETS goldfish Surely its easier to get a phone than a credit card?

  17. Re:No oracle for FreeBSD on Oracle and PostgreSQL Debate · · Score: 1
    PostgreSQL does run on FreeBSD however. Better than that, PostgreSQL runs on FreeBSD on old 64 bit Sun kit.

    Now that's a cheap and reliable database system.

  18. Re:I can pronounce Oracle on Oracle and PostgreSQL Debate · · Score: 1
    SQL is *NOT* Sequel. Sequel was IBM's product prior to SQL, which is an ANSI/ISO standard.

    (Actually there are several SQL standards... As in "We've upped our standards, so UP YOURS!")

  19. Re:If you need Oracle, you need it. on Oracle and PostgreSQL Debate · · Score: 1
    If you neeed Oracle, you should switch to DB2 instead. Its better in every possible way.

    If you could get by with something else, Postgres IS that something else.

  20. Worried! on Netflix Suing Blockbuster for Patent Infringement · · Score: 4, Funny
    Does this also cover my shopping list at Asda (Walmart)?

    I am really worried. Any minute now, someone will patent going to work by bus. (Including SCSI and VME)

  21. Re:I will now hold my breath... on Microsoft Providing Virtual Server Free · · Score: 1

    Yes, but its less effective than the British Ministry of Silly Walks and less profitable than our Ministry of Sound

  22. Re:They've already attacked on America's War on the Web · · Score: 1
    Someone has been dropping spam bombs on my mailbox for years now.

    Its those damned Americans who keep spamming us with their stock hyping and illegal drugs promotions.

  23. Unemplyed is the best option on An Interview with 180 Solutions · · Score: 1
    I don't think they should be afraid to be unemploeyd. If ever anyone deserved to be the vistim of a drive by shooting, these f*ckers are top of the list.

    They are in the same league with Al-Quaieda when it comes to evil.

    They have destroyed billions of dollars of pruductivity and are probably directly responsible for the attitude that computers have to be thrown away on a regular basis because its easier to throw them away than get rid of the spyware.

  24. Re:suprised? on Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk · · Score: 2, Interesting
    people who work at TV and FM stations should be dropping like flies.

    Except that they don't go nea the antenna (or they would be cooked), and thee is such a thing as the invese squae law.

    Howeve, if the study coves 20 yeas, then it coves the time when cellphones put out a steady 4 watts. Now they can pehaps peak at that, but now they use adaptive power levels, the average power level while transmitting is generally below 100mW, and often below 4mW.However, the power from a domestic light bulb in that band is? and the SUn's radiation is massively greeater

    In simple terms,

    a)if it covers 20 years, its not relevant to today's phones.

    b)FM radio is not relevant at all

    c)If today's phones are a risk, then they are less of a risk than having incandescent light bulbs in your home, or being exposed to sunlight and that does not appear to kill anyone.

  25. Re:So is political spam still exempt? on Australian Rules to Crackdown on Spam · · Score: 1
    The Prime Minister, John Howard, used spam provided by his son's company in the last election campaign. And he won the election - I can see why Australians need anti-spam laws - they are too stupid to recognise that spammers are bad!

    If I thought an ISP could block spam properly I might switch to them. Unfortunately I have my doubts. Has anyone had an ISP which could do it right?