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  1. Forget dust removal for b/w negatives! on Scanners for Large Negatives? · · Score: 1
    The infrared dust removal technique really works.
    From wanting to scan "old" negatives I'd guess the original poster means b/w for which automatic dust removal will definitely not work! (The silver particles of the b/w negative are just as opaque to IR as dust specles are.)
  2. Re:Nothing hacks a camera on Hackers Rebel Against Spy Cams · · Score: 1
    I suggest hair spray or other every-day items for applying thin clear fluid films to solid bodies. Applied to the lens or covering of a cctv camera, this will result in a blurry, seemingly unfocued picture.

    And it's a whole lot less suspicious than running around with a can of spray paint or even a shotgun...

  3. Vienna on Hackers Rebel Against Spy Cams · · Score: 1

    Quintessenz is located in Vienna. In the Museumsquartier to be precise. That's also where the q/gate "anonymous surveillance system" is installed. The stuff about blinding cctv by lasers was presented at the 22c3 last week in Berlin AFAICT.

  4. Re:Anyone on breaking the biometric authentication on Fingerprint Recognition with Linux & IBM's T42 · · Score: 1
    Anyone on breaking the biometric authentication?
    Check out the work on biometrics at the CCC Berlin. Lots of links too, but mostly German. They have a guy who managed to build fake fingerprints with a thin layer of ordinary wood glue. I know it sounds silly, but I have seen it work. Here is a summary in English.
  5. Also consider a filtering proxy on Eye-tracking Study Shows How Users Scan Web Pages · · Score: 1

    I am using privoxy for quite a while now. It gets rid of almost anything. And if some annoyance gets past it, you can modify the filters it applies or even write a new one. (Heavy regex hackery, so beware!)

  6. Re:how about... on Remail: IBM is Reinventing Email · · Score: 1
    I have yet to encounter an email that was worth the bloat of HTML. 99.99% of all html email I get is spam.
    Sometimes bold type is needed.
    I seriously dought the "need." And there are plenty of ways to express emphasis in plain text: just use *this* like in the old days. Or _this_. Or /this/, if you like. See also RFC 1855.
    Even blinking marquee text may be needed!
    No, it may not!
  7. Re:Average income increase of $115,000/year? on Simcity Microwave Power by 2050? · · Score: 1
    So that would be, what, a few billion apiece for the people who control the power?
    No, it's just normal inflation until the thing will be finished.
  8. Just use reserve() on How to Develop Securely · · Score: 1

    If you know the size requirements for your strings (or vectors or whatever std containers) beforehand consider the reserve() member function. Eliminating ill behaviour due to running out of memory (assuming you avoid the creation fo temporaries) then also enables your proofs just as in C. And it speeds things up too.

  9. Distro *and* hardware! on IBM Clinches Security Certification for Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to the press release the certification covers the `SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on IBM eServer xSeries', i.e. a specific SuSE product running on a specific family of servers. And nothing else. Read also this bit.

  10. What?!? on Windows XP Edges Out KDE in Usability Test · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Especially since you can't shut down while debugging and you can't end the task while debugging.
    Excuse me? What kind of crap is that? This is not exactly increasing productivity, is it? I don't use Windows, so I don't really care, but...

    Why is debugging in any way a special activity? It's not supposed to require any special priviledges that keep you from killing the debugger if you feel like it.

    Sorry for ranting like that. Couldn't help it, I just had to get this off my chest. And thank you for giving me another reason why Windows is crap.

  11. dead@sf.net on Open Source Organization Models Discussed · · Score: 5, Informative
    By the way, in the last SourceForge newsletter they indicated that they will soon begin to remove dead projects from the database (Following a proper procedure to ensure the project really is dead). The primary candidates are those with 0% activity in the past six months, I believe.
    You believed almost right: "These are projects that haven't had any real activity in the past 6 months and have never released any files."
  12. Obligatory FRRYY-free link on The Future of Digital Cinema · · Score: 2, Informative
  13. Already fact in Germany on Europe To Force Right of Reply On Internet Communication · · Score: 1
    Actually, in Germany internet publications are probably already covered by current laws. It's called Gegendarstellung. (That's not a federal issue, though, and I haven't checked all laws for single states. If you feel inclined to do so, have a look here)

    BTW, if you make sure your claims of facts are valid in the first place, you won't run into trouble.

  14. Re:Newspapers too? on Europe To Force Right of Reply On Internet Communication · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Is this a requirement for newspapers in Europe?

    Yes. Actually any traditional media; paper, television or radio. So incuding publications on the net is actually necessary for consistency.

    I thought the US is having bigger problems with free speech, but this sounds very bad.

    I don't quite see why this is bad. You are responsible for the things you say, no matter by whay medium. You make a publication claming some bullshit about someone else: they can respond with the very same means to the very same audience.

  15. France on First Look at YellowTAB's Zeta · · Score: 2, Informative

    IIRC, BeOS originally came from France. (Old Europe at work here...) So it rather returns.

  16. Re:Well on PeltierBeer · · Score: 1
    One of the major flaws of the device seems to be cooling from the bottom. You get a stable stratification: cold at the bottom and hot at the top and no convection (overturning) of the liquid.

    Heating from below is a good idea, but cooling should be applied at the top.

    (For efficiency, insulation would be a good idea too, but that's another matter...)

  17. Re:Imagine that on Ghostscript Leaves GNU · · Score: 3, Informative
    RMS seems to have stopped contributing anything useful himself and gone off into full-time-ideology mode. (Does he still write code these days? HURD? What? Anything anyone *uses*?)
    Actually, he does. I filed a bug report about Emacs and he fixed it himself.
    The FSF as an institution we no longer need, and the reason we no longer need them is because (though RMS does not realise it yet) they were successful.
    How successful was the FSF really? There is a crucial difference between open source and free software. It seems to me that people fail to see that more and more. This doesn't mean that one is necessarily better than the other. And ranting usually does not make people realise the difference between open source and free either.

    So as a political institution, the FSF wasn't all that successful IMHO. Others seem to have taken over most of the civil rights department anyway (e.g. EFF).

  18. You're off by a decade on Call for Papers: Chaos Communication Camp 2003 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The CCC is actually more than 20 years old. Maybe you even saw their anniversary project. It had appearences in several music videos.