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  1. Re:Doesn't work on California Man Sues Penis-Enlargment Firms · · Score: 2, Funny

    shush, or the spammers will start sending spam offering operations to allow you to breathe through your ears ;o)

  2. come off it! on Surveillance Cameras in Britain Not Effective? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. There is not enough organisation between the people monitoring the cctvs and anyone who may or may not be interested in the content of the feeds for there to be any real risk of you being busted doing anything you, for what ever reason, shouldnt be.

    2. Its a bit more than petty to bother to grab and post images and footage of people for no real reason, besides which the person who lifted the images/footage from the source are no doubt not permitted to do so in their terms of employment, in addition iirc its actually a criminal offence in the UK to do so without authority.

    3. You are assuming that the feeds will be monitored constantly, or their their recordings of the feed, if the feeds are even being recorded at the time, at all often get looked at by anyone. In most cases the footage would only be looked at if there is a need to go back over the recordings. The manpower needed to do this on any large scale would quickly balloon to frightening levels as you would want people to constantly concentrate on single feeds on the off chance that something of import can be seen on it.

  3. Re:Secure beneath the watchful eyes.... on Surveillance Cameras in Britain Not Effective? · · Score: 1

    There's plenty of evidence of surveillance cameras saving lives and stopping crimes actually happening.

    There was a case of one 15 year old girl walking home past midnight on her own from a party or some such, and police monitoring cameras spotting her and monitoring her (obviously with some concern), only some monster of a guy spots her, sneaks up behind her, and attempts to abduct her, live on camera. The police were there in about 60 seconds. Result is one live girl rather than a raped and dead one.

    These things can and do work, obviously the limitation is you have to have eyes on the camera feed for it to be effective, and with so many cameras about (that 4 million figure is obviously inflated by cctvs in shops which in a large proportion of cases are only useful after the fact) its basically a case of having half a million security guards watching cameras for it to be 100% effective.

  4. this sounds about right on "DVD-Jon" Demands Compensation · · Score: 1

    when you consider that, for instance, the british army rejects out of hand any talk of a conscription system. Basically if you want an effective army in todays age the troops have to actually _want_to_be_there, and most of the conscripts wont :o)

  5. Re:"under god" on Supreme Court Will Hear Pledge of Allegiance Case · · Score: 1

    at issue here is the refusal for certain parties to realise that the US 0f A is, like most western civilisations, a secular one when it comes to religion. They are unfortunately attempting to force the continuation of the policy of having their views, and their doctrine, onto the rest of the populace , in this case the populace of the future. This narrowminded, division causing viewpoint is sadly one that is mirrored in alot of religions.

  6. Re:Er - ah - hm on Low-power FM Transmitters Banned in UK · · Score: 1

    stop being a netiquette/literary nazi. The intent of the [SIC] was clear even if it wasn't correctly used.

  7. Re:Remarkable on SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE · · Score: 1

    except ibm are probably so pissed off at them they'll let it go all the way and bury them in court/stretch it out so long that sco fold (hopefully).

  8. Re:games-workshop.com on Games Workshop Tries to Crack Down on Internet Sales · · Score: 1

    damned right they're hurting.Games workshop is more niche than the little crevace at the boom of wookie hole (big cave in UK). Their sales model has seemingly always tried to ignore this for some reason

  9. Re:Please port Baldur instead... on Bioware Releases Neverwinter Nights Linux Client Beta · · Score: 1

    there is also a mod that lets you get more than one npc. (there are some issues with it still though)

  10. Re:ya cunning old buggers on Building a Better Motorized Bicycle · · Score: 1

    what? all teenagers? :o]

  11. Re:Dangers of "Opting Out" on First Test of Utah Anti-Spam Law Dismissed · · Score: 1

    but in most cases it still wont actually get back to the spammer.

  12. Re:I don't think so... on RIAA Unveils Net Tracking Tag for Online Sales · · Score: 1

    parents/family may have bought said car maybe? just possible? :o)

  13. Not quite pertinent to the conversation on California EULA Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    you dont have to agree with the laws, you have to abide by them. The difference between the 'ignorance is no defence' concept in law worldwide, and agreeing to something you have not read, in the context of this thread, is massive.

  14. Re:Bruce, put this one in your doghouse listing on The Always-Encrypted Firewire Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    yes i have, i use it all the time, it obviously does use more cpu cycles, but anything above ~1ghz should easily cope, and no it doesnt cause disk thrashing. grab the trial and test it?

  15. Re:Bruce, put this one in your doghouse listing on The Always-Encrypted Firewire Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    have you looked into bestcrypt? www.bestcrypt.com

  16. Re:Heh, politics, you gotta love it on Elect Steve Jobs President of the United States · · Score: 1

    special interests? no just plain personal vested interests

  17. Re:Please DELETE This Topic on Elect Steve Jobs President of the United States · · Score: 1

    yer , let's get him to waste millions on another microsoft pink elephant, someones gotta make em spend money ;o)

  18. Re:we-need-a-megalomaniacal-leader-for-a-change de on Elect Steve Jobs President of the United States · · Score: 1

    yes, for a change, instead of a plain ole maniac? :o)

  19. Re:campaign on Elect Steve Jobs President of the United States · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Vote Different (to who you thought you voted for)" (c) Bushco

  20. Re:And in WWI on U.S. Air Force Developing Microwave Weapon · · Score: 1

    thats one HELL of a shot though. I'd be pretty annoyed if the Royal Navy shot down the best stroke of my life on the par 3000 hole i was playing on at the time :o]

  21. Re:Mmm.. console rendering. on Lucas Digital Releases OpenEXR Format · · Score: 1

    well they can!!! just attach a large number of rockets to the back of them!!!! :o]

  22. mod parent down. on FreeBSD 5.0 Available · · Score: 1

    someone mod this down fs.

  23. Re:The great divide: on The NetBSD Organization · · Score: 1

    FreeBSD does have the cvs system for managing source and ports source packages (as well as pkg_add etc) and it seems to me at least to be as effective than any other system (rpm, dpkg etc)

  24. Re:Oh boy on FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 Almost Ready · · Score: 1

    a few months?????? errrr not quite that long actually :o) wtf is the point in reporting that a preview is almost ready for release, when the first preview was oooo 5 minutes before :o)

  25. Re:OS X on FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 Almost Ready · · Score: 2, Informative

    actually thats dead right, os XI (yes, os eleven) is gonna be built on the bsd 5 system :o) just it may not make it in 2003, seeing as theres another 7 .1 pointreleases apple can use to fleece their userbase