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  1. Re:Look at how fast they adapted on Tracking Via Anonymous SIM Cards · · Score: 1

    It depends.

    Examine this closely in your area.

    I understand that I can assume any name I want, and tell people that name.

    Where it becomes illegal is 1) fraud to gain benefit and 2) governemtn stuff -- drivers licence, taxes and so on.

    But when I rent a house, I'm free to tell sally secretary I'm Reginald Winterbottom the third. Just check the fine print of what you're signing for the blurb about criminal offence for misleading information. If it's got that, then you could be in trouble.

    If you change your name by deed poll, then of course it's on the public record. It won't get around serious people but employers and small business probably wouldn't dig too deep.

    YMMV

  2. Re:Look at how fast they adapted on Tracking Via Anonymous SIM Cards · · Score: 1

    Did it dawn on you that perhaps the Navy denied the existence of those anti-aircraft weapons in the submarine for security reasons?

    Anywau I always thought the vertical launch tubes were for nukular ICBMs, so what do I know?

  3. Re:I would change if I got paid the same on Changing Jobs for Job Satisfaction? · · Score: 1

    Building includes hard labour and danger, the working conditionsa re often hot, cold or wet and you're often dealing with toxic stuff.

    At the age of 50 - 60 retirement is pretty much compulsory, as your back is stuffed and you've got asbestosis or whatever.

  4. Re:Paid? on Changing Jobs for Job Satisfaction? · · Score: 1

    Tom.

  5. Re:Tax dollars at work, one coin at a time on Science of the coin-toss: Bias in Heads-or-Tails · · Score: 1

    I have a special set of ivory dice with very deep hollows for the numbers.

    They certainly do favour the higher numbers. I keep this set especially for adult games, not D&D.

  6. Re:I love technology... on Correlation Between Stress and Technology? · · Score: 1

    Do you ever listen to the birds, or grow plants or anything? I think your life sounds a bit too much like doing other people's crap.

  7. Re:Technical Documentation relieves stress on Correlation Between Stress and Technology? · · Score: 1

    stream of consciousness does not make an acceptable reference.

    See "Latex".

    See "Dictionary".

    Where important things are in SOC, each verse is numbered. See Classic plays, poetry, the bible and modern printings of the great philosophers.

    Why should I have to trawl through an entire explanation of your program just to find out the hardware support or the performance expectations?

  8. Re:My Hero on Virus Writers - The Enemy Within · · Score: 1

    Why is there never a mention of beneficial viruses any more? Ones that could perform security checks, clean up other viruses, optimise your mtu, clean up windows' terrible temp directory and remove AOL?

  9. Re:How can they do that? on Search and Seizure at the Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    "although in their defense, in the end, the guy always ends up being guilty of something."

    Duh. It's TV, it's edited. They don't broadcast the tapes of the innocent guys.

    Duh again.

  10. Re:Most press-release like post ever on Google's Bigger Index · · Score: 1

    Can you comment on the "good people" side of orkut, given how many people have been complaining about it?

  11. Re:Heh on Google's Bigger Index · · Score: 1

    our library filters chat sites and porn sites in a reactive manner, ie when we find someone using it, we block it.

    So there's no actively filtering software. Generally, chat and e-mail is a bigger headache than porn, it ties up a PC for longer.

  12. Re:Sandra on Good, Affordable PC Diagnostic Software? · · Score: 1

    Hardware Dual PCI/ISA card with diagnostics LED display.

    It works even when the PC won't POST and just bleeps. Or not even!

    $40 Australian at the local computer markets, v. useful for recycling old crap people threw out 'coz they got the jumpers all jumbled up.

  13. once upon a time on Good, Affordable PC Diagnostic Software? · · Score: 1

    debug
    > g=c800:5

    anyone else remember that?

  14. Re:Great Technology that will never be used on Digital Camera Could Help Sort Fish, Save Stocks · · Score: 1

    I agree, however it will be touted as new, green and safe, and used as part of a PR campaign to justify and extend massive overfishing.

    We will then be sold Genetically Engineered/farmed fish substitute and told how much better it is for the environment, jobs and the economy that those stinky wild fish which swim in their own excrement (eeew!)

  15. Re:Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. on FBI on the Windows Source Code Theft · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Goes hand in hand with cognitive disassociation, where you belive that our society is stable, sensible, safe and sustainable.

    Many objective, scientific analyses point to doom and gloom and global system failure less than a hundered years away.

    Many /.ers will understand the science behind these reports and regard them as good, solid science but do nothing to alter society's direction.

    Really, when the bad news is generated so often by disinterested parties like scientists and grassroots witnesses, and the good news is generated by the oligarchies and stable institutions, it shouldn't take a genius to question the sanity of our western social system as badly designed/engineered/whatever.

  16. Re:Scapegoat on FBI on the Windows Source Code Theft · · Score: 1

    Who says there's a criminal?

    Double-check if giving someone else a copy of MS source code is a crime and not a copyright infringement in the US -- I'm not sure of the law.

    There was most likely no cracking of MS sservers:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/35564.htm l

    Looks like it was most-likely a second-hand PC that wasn't cleaned.

  17. Re:there is no half of globalization on FBI on the Windows Source Code Theft · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a fuss about political donations from outside the USA trying to get rid of Bush? I think that's a bit hypocritical. If you can set up corporations to siphon money from a country*, then you shouldn't be blocking donations from outside to legal, legitimate organisations.

    * Some industries are refined now and it's a blueprint. Go in, bulid this, advertise that, get a return between x% and y%. It's naive to think that you can offer easy credit, cigarettes or cola in an untapped market and people just won't buy them. Established global products like these are effectively a "plug it in" money pipe. This is in contrast to something like Camel meat exports, where you have work to build a market.

  18. Re:Microsoft Killers : Premature? on Open Source Spreads Beyond Software · · Score: 1

    [root@darn gentoo]# /join #gentoo
    bash: /join: No such file or directory

    Sorry, soesn't work for newbies.

    Besides, some people won't like to be hanging around the same place as #bifemdogsex.

    The correct answer for these people is to buy a boxed version with paid support.

  19. Re:Don't think of it as open source on Constructing a Corporate Open Source Policy? · · Score: 1

    you can't close a window by double clicking the icon at the top left.

    A personal pet hate of mine because when using two screens I don't want to mouse all the way over to the other side, or mess with menus.

  20. Re:"the 'weaker' sex?" on Toy Penguins and Male Egos Drove Linux Acceptance · · Score: 1

    Perhaps their government is so advanced it doesn't even NEED to lie to them?

  21. Re:Why stop with M$? on TVI to Sue Over MS Autoplay Feature · · Score: 1

    So do VCRs and ATMs and god knows what else.

    Of course, I didn't RTFP, so maybe it only applies to computers, but an ATM would be pretty close, surely.

  22. Re:Robots had another purpose on Russian Rovers on the Moon · · Score: 1

    Acronyms. A technocracy names everything with obscure TLAs used to tell if someone really is in a particular field of expertise or just bluffing.

    How many tech-related acronyms can you think of? Now ask a farmer or a musician or a doctor how many (non-tech) acronyms are directly related to their field.

  23. Re:Google and cross-site scripting on Slashback: Zip, Language, Opportunism · · Score: 1

    on pppoe you need an mtu of 1492 (or 1454) instead of 1500.

    If it's all screwed, many web sites will not work, they never time out, they just hang.

    Google works, google searches work.

    So I'm happy about that when I get myself stuck and hovet o dl an mtu patch...

  24. Re:So... on Dell Offers FreeDOS With New PCs · · Score: 2, Informative

    to run freesco from the HDD you need a booting fat32, free dos is nice and easy...

    This doesn't explain why you'd buy it with a brand new Dell though.

  25. Re:No Clear Channel stations mentioned in story... on Local News Anchor Feels Pain from Afar · · Score: 1

    Having a greenie leftie pinko hippie perspective, I'd rather remove the cars and we can all wander around bombed and stoned on public transport.