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  1. Re:Diabolical on Spam That Delivers a Pink Slip · · Score: 1

    Exactly the same in Denmark, if the person being laid off has sufficient access to company data you need them out of the building. But here in Denmark, if you get a job within those 3 months (up to a year depdending on how long you have worked there) they can deduct the new pay from whatever they should have been paying you.

  2. Re:Heatsink is supposed to be that hot... on Cooking With the XBox 360 · · Score: 1

    Ditto for me, and the radeon board chucks along at about 82 celcius - the great thing is to use my case to rest my feet, gets nice n warm during long gaming hours.

  3. Re:Three Red Lights of Death? on Cooking With the XBox 360 · · Score: 1

    Why o why does consumers put up with that?

    Here in Denmark we got a mandatory 2 year warranty, the first year the seller has to produce evindence of mishandling in order to void it (very hard), the second year it's left to the consumer to prove error on the producers part (pretty easy) - but the way it works is the buisness always take in the item within the first two years. And on top of that you get the warranty extended if you have to get it repaired - that means if something breaks after 1 1/2 years, they will most likely take it in and you get 2 years more warranty.

  4. Re:My Windows activation experience on Vista to Allow "One Significant" Hardware Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I got a MSDNAA and I've installed the XP key i "bought" through the program on more than one of my computers and done a few reinstalls on one of them. Never been a problem to activate (well my laptop did, because lack of drivers for the networkcard, but thats hard to blaime MS).

  5. Thats just great... on Vista to Allow "One Significant" Hardware Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Just bought a new laptop, the very first thing I did was to wipe the XP install and reinstall it so I could partition it meself.. So that would be my first activation spent because the friendly setupgnomes at HP doesn't think people might wan't something else than everything on one partition?

  6. Re:anything is a good alternative to DeBeers on Lab Created Diamonds Come to Market · · Score: 1

    Well I plan to live forever - or die trying.

  7. Re:Any chance of fraud chargers? Breach of contrac on Quebec Bans Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    I know it's a joke, but damnit! You can't say "just one" it is one too many!

  8. Re:What's wrong with going outside RAC? on RentACoder Losing Street Cred? · · Score: 1

    I just don't get people saying stuff can be done in 10 hours, back when I did webapps the specifications could take more than weeks to get agreed upon. I wouldn't even think of doing a full site for less than $20,000.

  9. Re:hahahaha on IBM Sues Amazon For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    What makes you sure google hasn't already paid the licenseing fees? Just because IBM has a patent doesn't mean others can't do it, just means they have to pay to use it.

  10. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. on IBM Sues Amazon For Patent Infringement · · Score: 2, Funny

    Screw that, what is a library?

  11. Re:German not the only ones on Germany's New Internet License Fee · · Score: 1

    The thing I love about the one we get in Denmark is we have to pay full price, but won't get the full package. The shows you can watch from the internet is lower grade than what gets aired - and you only get the stuff produced by the tv-station, that means you can view something like 20 percent of the stuff you would see on a regular TV.

  12. Re:While I appreciate... on DVDs w/ Built in USB Ports for Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    I once heard from a guy working with 3DMax that it is common practise to buy the software, then get the cracked version so you didn't have all the hazzle of using the dongle.

  13. Re:Soty, miised a digit, only $17 mil lost on Google Campus to Become Solar-powered · · Score: 1

    10,000 * 30w. * 8760 is a wee bit more than 263,000... Think you dropped lots of zeros on those calculations.

  14. Re:Oh get off it on Windows XP SP1 Support Ends Tuesday · · Score: 1

    For personal use, I would properly upgrade to Vista, but where I work, I can't see any reason for havin to upgrade, other than MS pulling the plug on XP.

  15. Re:So... on Microsoft Piracy Plan Means Concerns for IT · · Score: 1

    Volume license doesn't get activated (ours doesn't anyways).

    We just load our image, hit newsid and connect to the right domain and the machine is in buisness.

    Ohh and doing something on alot of machines isn't exactly hard if you know what you are doing, even changing the serial if the volume license key somehow gets banned, MS has even made an example script to do this here.

  16. Re:FUD on What a Vista Upgrade Will Really Cost You · · Score: 1

    Indeed, but that upgrade cycle is 2-3 years depending on your budget and other factors. That means when the last few PCs to be upgraded in my organisation will probably run a OS that is no longer supported by MS.

  17. Re:Well on Students Protest Turnitin.com · · Score: 1

    I don't know how it works in the US, but here in Denmark, when you turn in your paper, it belongs to the University, so if they decide to upload it for comparison the student doesn't really have anything to do.

  18. Re: GSM text messaging while flying on Space On a Shoestring · · Score: 1

    I don't think Hastur and Ligur really grasps the possibilities.

    And I don't think guys like Crowley care about being traced...

  19. Re:Tor logs on German TOR Servers Seized · · Score: 1

    You really should know what you talk about before posting. Honeypots won't do squat agtainst TOR, you need global control at link level and timeing attacks (or I think about 90% of the nodes) to link each request with a peer.

  20. Re:Napkin numbers on Vaporizing Garbage to Create Electricity · · Score: 1

    Don't know how things work over there, but here (Denmark, EU) you would get a shitload of grants for getting rid of trash, so I would think the buisness plan is somewhat viable.

  21. Re:State Bird on Supercomputer to Hit 1.6 Petaflops With 16,000 Cell Chips · · Score: 1

    Roadrunner is also the nickname for the guy/gal who manages to get the fastest speedup in the cluster computing and architecture course taught at DIKU (www.diku.dk). (And to top off the fun, each assignment is based around the roadrunner cartoons)

  22. Re:no good solution for now on Will Solve Captcha for Money? · · Score: 1

    2 = fly really high and hope to god this one hasn't figured out how to fly, then drop it and eat the goodies.

  23. Re:Use a moment method with physical optics on Add Another Core for Faster Graphics · · Score: 1

    I really hate it when people do the "double the resolution" (or core or whatever) and say its 4 times calculation - of course it's true if you double up in both directions - but you only said to double it, so it should only be in one direction...

  24. Re:Think of the children! on Harvard Phd Vs. About.com over Gaming · · Score: 1

    Opening scene? What about the one where the bad guy gets splashed with acid? Had nightmares for months on that account...

  25. Re:Is that the kind of person apple wants? on Apple Fires Five Employees for Downloading Leopard · · Score: 1

    Why?

    Stealing is stealing.