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  1. Re:does that include on Spain Adds 'Copyright Tax' to Blank Media · · Score: 1

    In fact, in Spain you DO pay a levy every time you buy blank paper. There's not only this SGAE association (Which incidentally was a vertical union created while Franco wa in power), but a lot of small publishing, acting, music composer associations each one crying and trying to get a piece of the cake. It's not 1984, It's even worse.

  2. Re:An Even Easier Way to Convert Proteins to Cryst on Easier Way to Convert Proteins into Crystals · · Score: 1

    Normal urine has proteins indeed:

    "Hyaline Casts

    These casts are the most common type of cast, and often they can be found in normal urine samples, especially after vigorous exercise. Hyaline casts result from the solidification of Tamm-Horsfall protein, which is secreted by renal tubular cells and may be seen without significant or abnormal proteinuria."

  3. Re:Well, just another bug on Unpatched Firefox Flaw May Expose Users · · Score: 1

    I tried FF 1.5 beta this morning, and Adblock Plus did work.

  4. Re:Finally on Apple Releases Multi-Button "Mighty Mouse" · · Score: 1
    The only thing that doesn't work is the middle button, so in Firefox you have to right-click and then choose Open in new Tab to get your link in a new tab (as opposed to klicking the middle button in Linux and Windows)

    That's a Firefox bug, and it's already fixed in the nightly builds (and in Deer Park)

  5. Re:Finally... the wait is over on LiveCD Lets You Try Out Project Looking Glass · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He was greek, you insensitive clod!

  6. Re:Souvenirs on 6 Firms Form Holographic Versatile Disc Alliance · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sorry to burst your bubble, but I've read such a story in some 80's sci-fi comic book. It was written by Alan Moore in 2000A.D., IRC. But it was'nt a CD, it was a planet with a strange continuous groove over it's surface, where some kind of creatures lived. Yup, you played the planet with a giant laser beam and it made sounds while the animal life in the planet died. Talk about DRM :-D

  7. Re:Maybe I'm simplifying too much here, but.. on Face Recognition Needs 3 Areas Of Human Brain · · Score: 1

    Prosopagnosia

  8. Re:Man... on A Review of "The Incredibles" · · Score: 1

    I've heard he's busy "retconning" Peter Parker's ex-girlfriend... But, yes, I cannot wait to read the ending of RS either :)

  9. Re:Man... on A Review of "The Incredibles" · · Score: 1

    As seen in JMS' Rising Stars...

  10. Re:Yeah, but... on Hypo-Allergenic Cats Now Available for Pre-Order · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am Persian, you insensitive clod!

  11. Sosumi on Beatles vs Apple · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clank!

  12. Re:Of course not! on Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult · · Score: 2, Interesting
    until they realized that in some of the local languages the name means "won't go".
    Well, child post talking about urban legends aside, some of the local languages its a nice way to call the third most spoken language in the world Anyway, I remember having a great laugh when the Mitsubishi Pajero was introduced in Spain. "Pajero" means wanker in spanish. I think that's really knowing who is going to buy your product. Yay marketing!
  13. Re:backup copies on Industry Group Would Permit (Some) DVD Copying · · Score: 1

    They want me to pay for the interrupt signal? No waaaaay! :o)

  14. Re:Pretty... on Sun to GPL Project Looking Glass · · Score: 1
    Well, I imagine (as I have'nt seen the videos, 'cause IRC they were in real format) that you would control the "depth" of your mouse pointer in the desktop just using a standard mouse with a scrollwheel. I mean up-down-left-right with the ball, in-out (configurably) with the wheel. No?

    Thats as standard as it gets.

  15. Re:Already been tried on Retro Gaming Gets Hot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In fact, Nintendo used the first instance of FUD I can remember being focused to... They used to say that SNES' PAL/NTSC converter could fuck up your SNES and void your guarantee. Know what? My SNES is still alive and well and I use the PAL/NTSC converter to play japanese games. Oh well...

  16. Re:What the patent system needs on Profiting From A Vague Patent HOWTO · · Score: 1
    Well, that's definitely a good idea...

    IANAL an all that jazz, but, Is there any precedent in american law of a company suing the USPTO for damages after an awarded patent has been overturned in a court of law?

    I mean, not looking for prior art could be deemed as negligence if your job is looking for prior art.
  17. As i've just posted in Groklaw minutes ago... on European Council Approves Software Patents · · Score: 5, Interesting
    'Software' patent proposal aproved with Spain's refusal

    Pending a second reading in European Parliament

    Brusselles-- EU Competition Council reached a political agreement about the patentability directive of inventions applied in the field of computer science, with span ish representative voting against it who stated the directive lacked enough guarantees to prevent computer programs being patented.

    The Irish Presidency and the European Comission introduced amendments to satisfy Belgium, Germany, Italy and other countries refusing the proposal. But Spanish Secretary of State for European Affairs, Alberto Navarro, 'after consulting Madrid' decided to keep his negative vote.

    The proposal, which has raised refusal among Free Software advocates, is still pending a second reading in European Parliament

    [...]

    The Spanish Government considers the advantages of the protection given by patentability are not clearly exposed, as computer programs are already protected by copyright law.

  18. Re:Foreign competitors on Germany to Vote Against Software Patents in the EU · · Score: 1, Informative

    That's why we hope in Spain our government votes against the Microsoft^WIrish directive, seeing their involvmente with free software in Extremadura and Andalucía. Cross your fingers!

  19. Re:seiscientos sesenta seises. on RFID Implants for Spanish Revelers · · Score: 0

    That reads as six hundred and sixty sixes == 3960? I suppose you mean seiscientos sesenta y seis. Child post got it right in Catalán, by the way.

  20. Re:ho-hum on New Online Ad Technology To Bypass Popup Blockers · · Score: 0
  21. Re:Please clarify. on Spanish Internet Provider's SMTP traffic Blocked · · Score: 0

    Every company in Spain uses TDE lines to get on the Internet, because they control the pipes. It's supposed to be a private company, but it still controls the lines they controlled when they were state's monopoly. It's not in the FA, but it's true.

  22. Re:perhaps? on Spanish Internet Provider's SMTP traffic Blocked · · Score: 1, Informative

    TFA article is wrong. TDE is a private company, BUT a badly privatized company. The same retard that put Spain in the war of Iraq, fucked it big time when they "liberalized" the company. By the way, the landlines that every company in spain uses belong to TDE. And we have to suffer them.

  23. Re:Pop Up Blocking in IE is bad for us (I'm seriou on Microsoft Plans WinXP "Reloaded" · · Score: 0

    No, you can always block it with Adblock and Flash Click to view Extensions in Mozilla/Firefox/Name of the week

  24. Re:I know something that works... on California Man Sues Penis-Enlargment Firms · · Score: 0
    Google is my friend...

    That was really interesting...

  25. Re:government control on Moving Net Control From ICANN to Governments? · · Score: 0
    Heck, I might get flamed to death, but thanks to Firebird's Adblock Extension I don't even see slashdot ads! OSDN Personals, wtf?!

    Yay for business' inalienable right to annoy me with ads...