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  1. Re:Bin Laden admitted planning the attacks on vide on 10 Years of Translated Bin Laden Messages Leaked · · Score: 1

    The only people who are decring it as fake are the 9/11 truthers and various Muslim group who say that the 9/11 attackers were all Jews.

  2. Re:Big improvement over the first one on Microsoft Causes Internal Family Strife · · Score: 1

    Guess I will how to lower my expectations for this one.
    The first was was funny not in a comical way but in a someone actually produced this. Sort of like the TV show American Dad or the way people rubberneck a major accident; it may not be something you want to admit to seeing but you know you want to see it.

  3. Re:Upon deployment.... on Shadow Analysis Could Spot Terrorists · · Score: 1

    No need to do even that.
    Just change your shoes and add height to just one shoe or even a part of the shoe, such as heel or part of the sole, and your walk would change. You would not even need to do it externally add a small marble inside the shoe and walk will change.

  4. Not just the original person but all friends. on The Electronic Bastille · · Score: 5, Informative

    In addition to the person who is concidered to possibly being a threat the database will contain all relatives and people who contact with the person except for in a one-time only type relationship.
    The information stored will contain "civil status and occupation; physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses; physical characteristics, photographs and behaviour; identity papers; car plate numbers; fiscal and patrimonial information; moves and legal history"

  5. Poster should of read the article. on Laboring Longer a Growing Trend For Americans · · Score: 1

    According to the article the lack of pensions is not a problem, it is people not saving or thoses that don't feel like retiring.
    You had one example of people worring about thier pension and they did not want to go into thier 1.3 million dollar savings.
    You had more examples of people who were worried about the lack of money they are receiving from Social Security; and right they should be at an annualized real rate of return of 1.2% the person would of been far better off putting that 14% of her salary in Treasury bills and made an easy 3%

    Besides who has a pension any more? Unless you have an IT job in a company that is old and has alot of factory style workers you will not see a pension.

  6. Re:tier? on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    No what they are care about is if the school accredited. If they have not heard of it they are going to pull of the list of accredit schools and check against that.

  7. Re:I'm surprised on IE8 Breaking Microsoft's Web Standards Promise? · · Score: 1

    The items missing are all the active-x parts such as upload multiple documents, rich text editing and some other editing. Provided you are just doing user type stuff their is generally not much of a problem and a lot of the active-x items are not used that often.

  8. Re:It's interesting, but not predictive. on Wikipedia Edits Forecast Vice Presidential Picks · · Score: 1

    The election is not until November and most people are not even that much interested in it until a month or so out. That McCain is generating enthusiasm is the exact same thing the Democrats did with their convention and what the Republicans will be doing at their convention.
    As for Democrats voting for McCain because of the sex of his Vice it will happen and as evidence just look a the various Republicans the Obama camp has brought out who say they are voting for him because of his race. Also if you go by survies Republicans are more sure in their beliefs then most Democrats are so who cares what Palin believes in you can expect Democrats to vote for her because of her sex.

  9. Re:Not reasonable on 88% of IT Admins Would Steal Passwords If Laid Off · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you want to see how most military systems are locked down just go to http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/index.html and grab the documents describing the lock down procedure. Or you can just download the scripts and programs that do it for you, grab the DISA gold.

  10. Re:Shows what competion can do. on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to the European and thier language report German is the 2nd highest known language in the EU at 32% of the population speaking the language. Spanish is at 15% and is 5th.
    For the top 5 it is:
    English 51%
    German 32%
    French 26%
    Italian 16%
    Spanish 15%

    Also by mother tounue German is at 18% and Spanish is at 9%

  11. Re:People on The Future of Persistent Worlds In MMOs · · Score: 1

    LOTOR does this the first time are in the starter village it is under attack and burning, you advance and the village has burned out areas, people living out doors, etc.

    One of the LOTOR devs had some articles on having a changing world and the problems, this was before the game was released. He address the problem you mentioned and brings up others, the papers should still be on the lOTOR site.

  12. Re:if you don't think Bush is a true tyrant on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 1

    Here are some of the occurrences where Clinton allowed items, now classified as torture, against US citizens(these are federal cases only):
    Stand for long periods of time - Waco
    waterboarding - San Diego and Virginia and others
    playing of load music for long periods of time: Idaho
    Not providing items wanted by prisoners: Kansas and Colorado
    Housing in environmentaly unpleasant places, not life or limb threatening: Colorado, Kansas and Virginia.

  13. Re:Cultural Differences on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 1

    It is more then just the looks. While the age caused people who had spent their whole lives providing training to girl gymnastics to question them, you had various article and documents from various local sport agencies that said she was the younger age, then you get the age requirement and all of a sudden they are older.

  14. Re:Re-education on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 1

    If you want newer cases Clinton allowed the us of waterboarding on US citizens in California, Virginia and a few other places. A quick google search brings will bring up multiple accounts and reports from people.

  15. Re:if you don't think Bush is a true tyrant on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 1

    Clinton authorized the same kinds of attacks that Bush did(see all the various 13+ countries he attacked), he authorized or allowed the same the same kinds of torture and he did it against US citizens (see Waco, Idaho, Virginia and others).
    Lets see for the countries Bush initiated attacks on he first spend months or years trying to get the problems solved before he attack for Clinton he just attacked no discussion, no trying to solve the problem.
    What kind of evil person are you that the actions of Clinton are better then Bush?

  16. Re:On the record. on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 1

    They could be age blocked from girl gymnastics but that is not a big ticket item, so not a problem.
    The thing to watch will be the next olympics when they would first be eligible and see how they do and then the one following that when would be 24, if 16 now, and probably too old to have a change to compete..

  17. Re:Minimum Age on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 1

    Womens gymnastics and figure skating are the only ones with this rule, for gymnastics the rules started this year.
    The official reason was the mental health of the particants. Unofficial reason was the creep factor of the sport becoming 12-15 years old only, it is suppose to be womens gynmastics not girls.
    As for the reason girls do better in both those sports is that the hips are not developed so they can spin, flip, move around quicker then a developed female. Some people also credit that at the young age they are less scared of injury so they do more dangerous stuff then someone who is older.
    I think that is everything I heard on the radio.

  18. Re:So much for the seeds of .... on Teens Arrested For Motorized Office Chair · · Score: 1

    Not in Germany, in Germany the vehicle to the right always has priority.
    However in most, roundabout thier are yeild signs to anyone entering the roundabout. The only exception for this are streetcars, on rails, which always have right-a-way in a roundabout.

  19. Re:A great idea but bound to be executed badly on Smart Self-Service Scales · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That is as bad as the old system you saw in alot of Communist countries, seen in Poland, czechoslovakia and Bulgaria.
    There you would go to one person they would select the items you wanted from behind the shelves and place them in a basket, this would then be passed on to the second lady who would then total up your costs and give you a paper listing your total, the basket would then be passed to a third lady who would wrap up your items and place in bags you provided and that would finally be passed to the last lady who was at the door who would take the slip of paper so you could pay then hand you your items.
    All of them were seperated so the lady with the basket would have to walk them over to the next station.

  20. Re:Split some atoms on World's Largest Solar Plants Planned In California · · Score: 1

    fuel rods are not the major nuclear waste. You have all the tools that are used to work with them, storage bins, etc all are radioactive and at some time in their life cycle will need to be stored as waste.
    Also some the largest generators of radioactive waste are hospitals and other industrial companies.

  21. Re:2010? Sigh... on World's Largest Solar Plants Planned In California · · Score: 1

    Long haul transmission of power is not a problem, even from coast to coast you loose less then 8%
    The main problem, besides higher cost, is that solar, wind, etc are all unreliable. So to handle that you have to have duplicate a massive amount of the generators so replace 1Watt of power from reliable sources(coal, nuclear, hydro, etc) you have to have the ability to generate between 1.7 to 1.9(depending on study) Watts of power and that needs to be spread around so the lack on wind in one area does not stop your extra generation.

  22. Re:Two ways? on Bees Help Detectives Catch Serial Killers · · Score: 3, Informative

    First off this behavior is also used by thieves, murderers, arsonists, basically any type of serial criminal activities, and was used is solving poisoning back in the 80s.
    The basis around most of this geographic profiling is that people put a bubble around the places they live or work so they are not to close while at the same time they don't want to be so far away that they don't feel safe or unfamiliar with the area or they don't have an explanation of why they are in that area.
    So yea someone could setup another base but you then increase the chance that you will be seen as unfamiliar in that area or if you don't know the area a good chance there is a chance you will make a mistake and the fear of making that mistake is what causes people to create that original bubble in the first place.
    There are a few pieces of software that are already being used by police and the I recently read an article where they are using this software in Afghanistan and Iraq to figure out possible locations of bomb building and enemy safe houses.

  23. Job title inflation. on Kansas Nerd Uses Net To Shake Up Political Fundraising · · Score: 1

    Talk about job title inflation first article calls him a web developer, second calls him a computer systems manager and finally /. calls him an information architect.
    Why would we give him that horrid job title and didn't information architect just exist as one of those "we cannot give you money but will give you a neat job title" that died off with the dot com bubble?

  24. Re:Worthless ... on McCain Releases Technology Platform · · Score: 0, Troll

    AS opposed to someone who said that plastics and the ability the grow large quantities of food are among the worse things human have created???
    The thing with Obama is that he actually believes that instead of making a mistake. If you want gaffes listen to Obama some time. He is far less intelligent speaker then President Bush except when Obama is given a speech and then coached on it. There is a reason he does not give interviews and runs away whenever someone says lets have a debate; just look at his recent reasons to the problems in Georgia they have kept Obama away from the cameras out of fear of what he would say.

  25. Re:They're using an Excel spreadsheet, aren't they on Netflix Woes Mean a Gap In Shipments · · Score: 1

    Just have to upgrade to Excel 2007 it can support 1M(2^20) rows.