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  1. Ingenuity at its best. on Digital Restrictions Management in Office 11 · · Score: 1

    "IRM is a persistent file-level technology from Microsoft that allows the user to specify permission for who can access and use documents"

    Why didn't anyone think of this before?

  2. A bit of background on Citibank Tries to Hush ATM Crypto Vulnerability · · Score: 2, Informative

    To the court case is at the Inququirer

  3. Re:Well on Lawyers Say Hackers Are Sentenced Too Harshly · · Score: 1

    "I thought a laywers job was to understand the law and to represent his/her client"

    You must be living in a totalitarian state, in the free world it is their job to make money from the misfortune of others.

  4. Re:.uk on Slashback: Compromise, Bugs, Slag · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Great Britain is a geographical term for the largest island of the British Isles, comprising of England, Scotland and Wales, whereas the United Kingdom also includes Northern Ireland which is part of the island of Ireland, hope this clears things up for you. Otherwise your post is valid.

  5. It's history on Slashback: Compromise, Bugs, Slag · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No more ridiculus than looking back on Pearl Harbour or the Gettysburg Address. Humans learn from their mistakes, really clever ones learn from other peoples.

  6. If.. on Linux Xbox Project Seeks Microsoft Signature · · Score: 1

    ..you put a a Ferrari motor onto a skateboard do you think that the skateboad manufacturer would say 'Hey yeah lets do it'? No, these companies have responsibilities, someone might get hurt, and they won't want any third party claims.

  7. Interesting on EU Agrees to Give Passenger Data to U.S. · · Score: 1

    "Things Uncle Sam would like to know about passengers include their itinerary, their credit card number and whether or not they asked for a meal without pork."

    So i'd be OK to bring a bomb in as long as I tell them where I'm going to plant it and how I'll pay for the bus to get there, and whether I would be offloading any digested pork in the country?

  8. I must be stupid on Ron Rivest Suggests Probability-Based Micropayments · · Score: 1

    Is this a lottery on whether you get charged or not? I'm sure that if I used it it I'd be to only one that has to pay $10 every time. The article doesn't make this at all clear.

  9. What do they get for their money? on Overture To Buy AltaVista · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The BBC states that Altavista once boasted 65M users per month. That doesn't seem very much to me when I use search engines 20-50 times a day, perhaps that may be above the norm but that must have been pre Google. Is there a list of search engine usage anywhere?

  10. Nope, you can't tempt me on Whether (And When) To Buy HDTV? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm waiting till retinal implants go wide screen.

  11. Less heavy going on Agile Software Development with Scrum · · Score: 4, Informative

    Is a piece by Mountain Goat Software, they explain things with pictures, much better for us simpletons.

  12. Re:Paranoia on Should you Fear Google? · · Score: 1

    "And George Washingon used to work for the British!"

    This is correct, he used to be a ticket man at Fulham Broadway Station, what a waste.

  13. Re:Good riddance on uk.co Domains Knocked Offline By Registrar Dispute · · Score: 0

    But it can help those who don't want to shell out to cyber-squatters.

  14. Re:Why doesn't everyone just get a .com? on uk.co Domains Knocked Offline By Registrar Dispute · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've heard some talk of other countries, across the ocean, I don't believe it myself though.

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    How do I get all this sand out of my eyes?

  15. Re:Aritificial Intelligence on Kasparov OpEd On His Latest Match · · Score: 0

    "where does one go after they realise that chess is only a little game"

    To crush the Babylonian hordes with pong where else?

  16. Chalk, cheese. on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete? · · Score: 0

    Both compliment a nice bottle of Chablis.

  17. Doh! on Murchison Meteorite Still Contentious · · Score: 0

    Have you not heard of sheids and warp drives? You must be from Langley.

  18. Crazy people on House and Senate Reject E-mail Surveillance · · Score: -1, Troll

    Of the Pentagon, he said, "They've got some crazy people over there."


    These would be the ones planning on executing thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, and condemning probably the same number of allied servicemen to horrific deaths? No shit.