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  1. Re:Have you noticed the Swiss have mountains? on Swiss To End Use of Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    How about reading the thread?

    GP is talking about *dutch* and mankind as a whole needing to abolish nuclear power.

  2. Re:SQL injection attacks fixed long ago on Sony Music Greece Falls To Hackers · · Score: 1

    Indeed you can inject JS or whatever if data isn't parsed correctly, but using parametrized queries will at least never ever expose the users credit cards, username, passwords etc.

  3. Re:What will they replace it with? on Swiss To End Use of Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Also, if/when hydro fail Switzerland will have their own fun tsunami...

  4. Re:Have you noticed the Swiss have mountains? on Swiss To End Use of Nuclear Power · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mankind didn't have to support billions of lives at that point.

    We absolutely need power to drive the world as we know it - if we decide to abolish nuclear power we also need to go back to old way of life which means a couple of billion of lives will need to be sacrificed.

  5. Re:Please please, PLEASE! Come to Texas all 50 tim on Scientists Take Charles Darwin On the Road · · Score: 1

    I like how you subtly put windows and mac users into the I.D camp.

  6. Re:Apple == EVIL on Apple: an 'App Store' Is Not a Store For Apps · · Score: 1

    Yahoo is a trademark, Xerox lost it's trademark on xeroxing since they weren't actively protecting it until it was too widely used.

    Same goes for the term "googling it", not copyrighted, nor trademarked (and doesn't fall under the trademark google) since it became a generic term before google tried to protect it.

    And same goes for all you examples I guess - but you seem to have trademark and copyright confused.

  7. Re:Bad product = delighted customer on AppleCare Reps Told To Skirt Malware Questions · · Score: 1

    Really?

    Early Apply laptops had bad design that would cause cracks in the motherboard - Apple flatly denied the problem and would not replace broken laptops until they got their ass handed to them in court. (Denmark)

    Even to this day Humac (local apple stores) are *often* in the searchlights of consumer protection agency because they refuse to honor warranty - reason being, Apple gave them a list of "allowed" fixes.

    Stop claiming Apple is a nice company.

  8. Re:The relevant bits on How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    At no point did I make such claim, nor did I ever believe that Ubuntu == Linux - not sure what you pulled that information out of.

    Grub was changed to using scripts, those scripts are documented for where to put your config for the general Linux - but on Ubuntu for reasons unknown this is disregarded, hence the Ubuntu comment. The GP and my own comment is about the lack of and/or invalid documentation - and unless something has drastically changed within Gentoo since I stopped using it, that lack of valid documentation is also an issue there.

  9. Re:The relevant bits on How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection · · Score: 0

    I've used Linux for many years, but these days I'm going back to Windows. I'm fed up with the Open source fanatics, poorly written documentations and as you said forums that apply to different versions than the Cosmic Chaos you are running.

    Back when Linux was hard there was actually more help to be found, these days if you can't fix the problem through semi broken gui wizards you're SOL. At least the gui stuff works [tm] under windows. For instance, try changing grub settings, before it was a simple configuration, these days it's generated by some script, in ubuntu the file referenced isn't the one you need to change; so you end up spending ages tracking down the right grub file.

    Yeah windows has it's faults, but at the moment Windows is the most productive OS for me.

  10. Re:Someone is encouraging the dissension on Public Face of Anonymous Leaves Group · · Score: 1

    He flies with the same airline company every time and you can bet he has his preferred hotels. You don't need to do that much planning, find one maid who is in financial troubles and offer her a $5k bribe, at some point she will have an excuse to go into his room - she doesn't even need to go on a witness stand, the damage is done, even if the charges are withdrawn the man has no political future.

  11. Re:The "I Told You So" Thread? on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    The reason why those nuclear plants are old and badly designed is because the world is full of idiots who believe they will sleep safer by disallowing the building of better and more secure plants.

    Don't know where you live, but where I live it's impossible to have electricity around the clock without nuclear power - personally I'd rather have a molten salt reactor in my backyard than a coal burner within the city limits...

  12. Re:Ok on Japanese Researchers Test Flying Trains · · Score: 2

    I find it ironic that you claim a major disadvantage of trains is the amount you can carry and then you go on talking about flying.

    Having high speed trains to major cities is a good idea, better for environment, you can carry more and you are way less constricted than on an airplane.

    I'll grant you your example it doesn't make sense, but what if you wanted to go across the country? Airports are generally out in the boondocks, central train stations are quite often centrally located, less groping, better facilities, you can carry more and a train going 400 km/h isn't going that much slower than an airplane and it is a heck of a lot safer.

  13. Re:Boring on Japanese Researchers Test Flying Trains · · Score: 1

    The research isn't into how to use the ground effect, the research is into how to stabilize the object autonomously.

  14. Re:Abusing human nature on The Psychology of Steam Wallet & Microsoft Points · · Score: 1

    10 million users with £10 left over means £100.000.000 sloshing around - and remember, they aren't getting the 0.001% interest on their money, they are probably investing that at an 10%+ roi. That is a lot of money.

  15. Re:Blackjack team? on MIT Blackjack King Takes SMTP Public · · Score: 1

    The whole point is to bet high when the count is in your favor (high or low depending on how you do it) - get it wrong and your money is going in at the wrong time - you are better off playing the perfect game since hi/lo counting changes the perfect game.

    Just because *you* find it easy doesn't make it easy, good for you that you are as good as you say you are; millions of people try it and think they are *that* good and end up losing. CSMs are indeed popping up around here also - personally I never play tables with CSM since I don't trust those things; but Fridays and Saturdays at the local casino still provides games with manually shuffled 6 deck shoes (never seen the other versions you are talking about, I would personally stay way clear of those).

  16. Re:Blackjack team? on MIT Blackjack King Takes SMTP Public · · Score: 1

    Yeah, go hide behind anonymous - keeping the count is hard, even with a single deck most people will get it wrong. At a casino you are counting 6 decks for this to work (single deck BJ will be reshuffled after each play) - A good dealer will have laid out 6 boxes in less than 6 seconds, thats 13 potential changes to your count, adding is easy, subtracting is hard - unless you practices rigorously like the MIT team even without the distractions you will get the count wrong.

    Go try with just two decks, remember, if you get it slightly wrong you will lose.

  17. Re:Does anyone know... on MIT Blackjack King Takes SMTP Public · · Score: 1

    The world is bigger than you; some people actually like to get useful targeted information.

    Personally I'd love for the local supermarket and hardware stores to send me mails when products relevant to what I want is on sale. Targeted mass mailing is big business and a huge part of that is knowing how to play nice so you don't get hit by spam assassin et. al.

  18. Re:Blackjack team? on MIT Blackjack King Takes SMTP Public · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You have obviously never tried.

    It is extremely difficult to get right, which is why a lot of casinos actually encourage you to do it - provided you aren't good at it. The local casinos even gives you a booklet which explains the perfect game; it's good business since most players (as you write) will tend to bias their play on how much money is at stake and their gut feeling.

  19. Re:Oh goody, another ten years then on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    At no point did I make that claim. I was referring to the individual who might be sympathizing with Osama, without being part of some terrorist cell going on a killing spree in your local mall.

  20. Re:Oh goody, another ten years then on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    The problem is, with Bin Laden dead he will most likely become a martyr for those who sympathies, while C & C might be non-existent, it only takes one nutjob with an automatic to make life interesting for a brief period.

    I fear the next couple of months will show an increase in terrorist activities.

  21. Re:they never said no CC#s were compromised on Sony: 10 Million Credit Cards May Have Been Exposed · · Score: 1

    Just because they are transmitting it in plain text doesn't mean they store it in plain text. Also, using some random log from the intertubes isn't exactly considered proof in most courts.

    (I'm a PSN user and considering canceling my Mastercard over this - I am seriously pissed at Sony, but things should be kept in context).

  22. Re:Fundementally broken system on Sony: 10 Million Credit Cards May Have Been Exposed · · Score: 1

    Not sure all Americans consider Alaska part of the states.

  23. Re:Technology issues on Sweden May Mandate Opt-in For Cookie Transfer · · Score: 1

    Thats not an issue.

    You embed a javascript that checks the local storage on the browser if cookie question has been answered and use that javascript to do the cookie management.

    Users with js disabled will of course have to be presented with a page saying for legal reasons they can't browse the website.

  24. Re:The 3DS is ok-ish, but lacks a real selling poi on Nintendo Chief: Consumers Don't Understand 3DS Yet · · Score: 1

    A lot of the calculations will be the same for both frames and you can probably cheat a heck of a lot, our brains will fill in the errors if they are kept within a small margin.

  25. Re:Labels and Pop Culture on NYC Resistor: DIY Hackers Doing Awesome Things · · Score: 3, Informative

    As someone else pointed out, the difference between your dads garage and a hackerspace is the latter is crawling with all sorts of people tinkering and often willing to help you with projects.

    Local one in Copenhagen is called labitat ( http://www.labitat.dk/ ), they've build their own 3D printers for instance, first one was build with wood in the shop and from there on everyone who wants to can print the parts for their own. They have some *really* cool machines there and you will find someone tinkering there almost around the clock.