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  1. Re:The real reason why Microsoft lost... on Steffi Graf Wins Case Vs. Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Thank you for improving the automated Babel Fish translation. For a moment there, I thought that the only thing she wanted was a retraction statement.
    Babel Fish: "Microsoft managers threw all found star Pornographen out, refused however the delivery of an omission explanation."

  2. Re:The real reason why Microsoft lost... on Steffi Graf Wins Case Vs. Microsoft · · Score: 2, Informative
    The following is a babel fish translation, of the german article.

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    Steffi may not take MSN user off

    Eddi likes Steffi . And Eddi knows well Photoshop. Thus it produced center this yearly falsified Porno pictures of the German tennis icon Stefanie count and made it available under its MSN.de Community side of the world. The predominantly male part of the spectators had a first-class locker photo little hand vibrating to however not also be content, but could over the function "my photo center" additionally to buy.

    A glowing Verehrer of the former tennis queen sent after benefit of such pictures a obszoene Mail to his Idol. This awkward kind of the affection stating encountered however little approval: Steffi.Graf switched its lawyer and within fewer hours was Eddis "Fakes OF of star" history -- at least with MSN. the Microsoft managers threw all found star Pornographen out, refused however the delivery of an omission explanation. Thus those wanted to prevent count by a punishment of 500.000 Marks also in the future that its face on different bodies is abused with MSN.

    The regional court Cologne decided now to favour of Steffi.Graf (Az: 28 O 346/01). Since MSN in its general trading conditions the rights to use leaves itself to stopped contents of transfers on from the Usern and Community contents by Frames and Logos to look, as if are ms slopes of offers, must the Microsoft GmbH ensure that itself no naked Steffis more in the Microsoft network raekeln. The Unterschleissheimer daughter of the software company from the USA tried everything, from Rezitationen of its AGBs and referring to non-liability up to the deportation of all debt to the company nut/mother in talking moon or on the InterNet altogether. But the court remained hard, gave Mrs. count Recht and took up the "concrete unlawful act to the prohibition tenor" for the provisional order. Even Microsofts reference that Mrs. count could not make a repetition danger convincing, did not let the court apply. The company already affirmed the repetition danger by its contradiction against the original omission explanation. ( cgl /c't)

  3. Keyboards? on How Effective are Ergonomic Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    Keyboards? For me, the mouse was the problem. I added an extra ergonomic kensington usb mouse for my right hand, and I put my old mouse to the left, and every couple of hours I kept on switching between the two. This practice slowed me down initially, but it completely made the pain of my right wrist go away.
    Stephan
    PS: The two mouses could work at the same time, but I still needed to go back to the control panel everytime I needed to inverse the mouse buttons.

  4. Re:Excellent. This guy is a scumbag. on Gotcha! DNS Popup Scammer Fined $1.9 Million · · Score: 1
    The principal wanted to suspend her for a week - the parents (who rushed to the school when they heard about this) managed to talk them down to a day.

    A good school would have had the kid come to school an extra Saturday.

  5. Re:It's only because they have a monopoly on Comcast May Raise Prices On "Internet Hogs" · · Score: 1
    The 1% that article quotes are subsidised by the other 99%.

    For all they know, that one percent could only represent virus-infected computer systems.

  6. Re:Iraq on E3: Epic, US Army Develop Games as Recruitment Tool · · Score: 2, Insightful
    War on drugs failed, now let's do war on terrorism, oh we can't get hold of Osama, let's go after Saddam.

    Oh, Saddam wants to stop selling us oil, well let's kill the democratically elected Venezualan President and shut down OPEC.

  7. Re:What a great way... on Pittsburgh Launches Large, Free, Public WiFi Network · · Score: 1
    People referring to their own city as a "Tech City" are like dry cleaners calling themselves "Quality Cleaners" and restaurant owners calling their restaurants "Good Food". It doesn't help your cause, it actually hurts it. Please get in line with the other Silicon wannabes, you're not the first and you're certainly not going to be the last.

    Stephan

  8. San Francisco Bay Area on Pittsburgh Launches Large, Free, Public WiFi Network · · Score: 2, Informative
    If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, check out www.bawug.org, they have an ad-hoc Linux wireless network.
    Personally, I love the fact that the bawug network depends on the work and resources of individuals, and not the government.
    Since Metronome/Ricochet failed, I don't expect our local government to do any better.

    Stephan

  9. Please... on USB Remote Control · · Score: 1
    don't feed the troll.

  10. Read the Social Life of Information on Managing a Global Programming Team? · · Score: 1
    Read The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid.

    This book deconstructs many of the problems with distance learning and telecommuting. It's a must read for you and your boss.

    Stephan

  11. Re:it is in the name of money and their business m on AOL-Time/Warner's PVR to Skip Ad-Skipping · · Score: 1
    "PBS. No ads, no pay "

    PBS is free, but they do get State and Federal funding. PBS has no ads, but they do have short sponsor appreciation messages and long intrusive fundraising drives.

    "Hardly a monopoly, and you can choose whichever model suits you best: pay, donate, watch ads. Isn't that what we want? Choices?"

    Then you should be able to withhold your tax dollars from PBS and send them to another non-profit station. Right? Perhaps, you should call your local friendly IRS office and see if that's possible.

  12. For all the Perl and Python programmers... on Digitizing Your Dead Trees? · · Score: 1
    Here is an excellent "Ruby Programming" eBook that can be downloaded for free from http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/ book.html

    Here, you can download the Ruby source or the executables for your platform at http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/index.html

  13. Re:INFORM yourself with the FACTS on Distributed Computing World Climate Simulation · · Score: 1
    Here is the dissenting opinion of 15,000 scientists.

    And here are two books worth looking at:

    The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjørn Lomborg, 2001 The author of this book is an Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Aarhus (Denmark), and used his knowledge of statistics to analyze the claims that the Earth is dying.

    Environmental Overkill Whatever Happened to Common Sense? Ray, Dixie Lee; Guzzo, Lou. 1993. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

  14. Re:The more I look at it... the more it sux. on Distributed Computing World Climate Simulation · · Score: 1
    Ok. So, how will they try to falsify their hypothesis? and how will they determine if their experiment was a success?

    This is the first paragraph under their heading Science : Motivation

    "You've heard of climate change -- how the "greenhouse gases" we produce by generating electricity, driving cars, heating our homes and so on, are almost certainly warming up the planet. If present-day computer models of the climate are correct, children born today may live to see climatic conditions unheard-of since before the dawn of human civilisation. Since we, and all the other species on this planet, are pretty well adapted to the climate we've been experiencing for the last 10,000 years, such a rapid change could have very serious consequences. "

  15. Re:Ignorance. on James Doohan Not In A Coma and Likely To Survive · · Score: 1
    Sounds to me like actors get plenty of recognition already. Not that this is a bad thing, but I wonder how many of those same Milwaukee students knew who Richard Feynman was.

  16. Re:To vocalize what's on everyone's mind... on Fewer Jobs, Less Pay In The IT Industry · · Score: 1
    "Your wrong-- factory workers are smart enough to form unions, IT workers are not. This despite the fact that doctors and lawyers have their own unions (AMA and ABA respectively). "

    Yes, please do count me in that category. I'm obviously not smart enough to lobby the government to impose limits on the number of fellow practioners like our American Medical Association has done. Obviously, it takes a certain kind of genius to start choking off my own competition.

    Stephan

  17. Re:Hi-tech toilet swallows woman on Debug your Code, or Else! · · Score: 1

    The same thing happened in France. A guy was stuck in there for three days until a maintenance crew found him.

  18. Re:Why do we need legislation? on Alternatives to the CBDTPA? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I like that one. We should also be using this argument to protect the photocopy machine. "Photocopiers don't pirate books, criminals pirate books" and "there are legitimate uses for photocopiers." Oh god. Don't let them take away our photocopy machines.

  19. Re:Cost savings? on Rolling Your Own Business Desktops? · · Score: 1
    "What's your salary/the salary of the people that will have to build 60 boxes? "

    An employee's salary isn't necessarily related to a project's marginal cost. For instance, an employee may be exempt from being paid overtime. Or an employee may be paid just to sit around waiting for something to break. And the list goes on...

    "Are you sure $600 + labor costs + no manufacturer support will be less than $1,000? If not, there's no business case to do it yourself."

    And you sir, are you aware that all manufacturers use substandard OEM parts in their machines just to save money? And are you sure that the ($1000 + down time + post-warranty replacement cost of non-standard OEM parts) of the substandard branded PCs will cost your business no more than $1000? If not, then conversly there's no business case to buy a branded PC.

  20. Re:I think time is probably the critical factor... on Rolling Your Own Business Desktops? · · Score: 1
    "...the cost of ESD straps and mats (you will be using ESD mats, right?)..."

    Someone hasn't been reading the responses. What do you think the beer cans are for?

  21. Re:Flash ain't easy on Flash and Open Source · · Score: 1

    Flash MX is the latest version, it's much better than Flash 5, and it's not really compatible with previous versions.

  22. Re:Flash ain't easy on Flash and Open Source · · Score: 1
    "You can't just open the source code and peek inside. It's probably going to be some time before any open source project can produce the complexity Macromedia's put into six versions of their product. "

    Squeak can do most of things, plus 3-d graphics, and speech synthesis. www.squeak.org You should seriously take a look at it. Flash is nice, since version 5.0, it's a fully object-oriented programming language, but it can not even compare to Squeak. Macromedia has some smart people, but I don't think they can compare to Alan Kay. Alan Kay is one of the main developer behind Squeak, he is one of the inventors of the Smalltalk programming language and one of the fathers of the idea of Object Oriented Programming. He is the conceiver of the laptop computer and the architect of the modern windowing GUI.

  23. Try Squeak ! on Flash and Open Source · · Score: 1
    You've got to try Squeak! It's free, it's open source, it works on all platforms, and it was designed exactely for the purpose you had in mind. It was conceived by some of the best minds at Apple, Xerox Parc, and Disney and I can guarantee you some of its capabilities will blow you away.

    http://www.squeak.org/"

    From their web site: "With the Squeak programming system, we have made some delightful and powerful educational applets. If you are a student, parent, or teacher, please jump over to www.squeakland.org, and download some great educational projects."

    Stephan

  24. Re:eveybody should have this on e-Denounce · · Score: 1
    They could also benchmark the reliability of informers based on known pirate sites.

    For example, as soon as someone correctly identifies one or two previously catalogued pirate site, then that person can automatically be considered a bonafide informer.

  25. Re:It's small beer on Amazon & Used Books II: Bezos Strikes Back · · Score: 1
    Can't sell them.
    Can't give them away.
    Can't throw them away. (Someone might actually fish it out from our trash.)

    Should we burn them then?