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  1. Re:new games on Using Games to Improve Medicine · · Score: 1

    "Life and Death" for the good old Commodore Amiga...

    Never managed to get the first Appendix-surgery right without that poor guy bleeding to death :-)

  2. Re:Why did I get into this? on Busted For Using Library Wi-Fi Outside The Library · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And? wheres your problem with that?

    A closed bank doesnt mean that I cant withdraw cash, it only means I have to use the automated service, AKA ATM.

    Closed library also means that I can only use automated service offered there.

  3. Re:Why did I get into this? on Busted For Using Library Wi-Fi Outside The Library · · Score: 1

    Excerpt from library rules:
    > Users will not make any attempt to gain unauthorized access to restricted files or networks, or to damage or modify computer equipment or software.

    so it's allowed to access unrestricted files or networks.

    > Who cares if it was encrypted? Does an unencrypted hotspot make it public?

    And the other way round? How can you make an AP public? Right, there IS NO SUCH WAY besides leaving it simply OPEN! Or does anyone who wants to share a bit of his internet bandwidth with people in need of it has to put up a sign "free internet here?" Isnt transmitting an open WiFi-Signal like such a sign?

    If you dont want it to be public close it, if you want it to be open and public, dont close it. Sounds quite simple. If you want anything more complicated like "Free to McSomething patrons, x ct/min for others" put that on some forced proxy splash page.

  4. Re:Spy on Nerds?! on Peeping Tom Worm That Uses Webcams · · Score: 1

    Genlock (or Genlock interface) is also the name of the device you could hook up your old Commodore Amiga to, to synchronize it with a video signal and key titles into the video.

    Hence that name I guess...

  5. Re:limbless can't fly on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1

    I didnt know "jewish" was a race to. But that didnt keep certain racist people from killing millions of them.

  6. Re:Har on Pay To Have Your Phone Tapped · · Score: 1

    thats why we (here in germany) have at least two names for that. Taxes go into a big pool which gets diverted to everything, and charges are only to be used for what they are charged.

  7. Re:No big deal on Emergency Alert System Insecure · · Score: 1

    What kind of warning should have been broadcasted?

    Go to your local atomic shelter because two big houses thousands of miles away collapsed?

    This system is meant to transmit information how to protect yourself from something that is to come.

    If they had, say a 15 minutes warning, they might have used it to transmit an evacuation order, but after the planes crashed, it was too late anyways.

  8. Re:Just do what I do on Passwords - 64 Characters, Changed Daily? · · Score: 1

    I thought Brahms died from lung cancer?

  9. Re:The scariest thing... on Canadian Music Industry Drills Dentists · · Score: 1

    That explains why some trade unions over here (germany) were really close to strike last christmas...

  10. Re:Get me a rewrite... on Bar Coding The World Away · · Score: 1

    sounds like the old garbage in - garbage out game.....

    Always have to explain to our custumers too that a computer can only do what they tell it to do, and not what they want it to do.

  11. Re:But For How Long? on Comcast Port 25 Blocks Result In Less Spam · · Score: 1

    Is it possible to forge the recepient adress of a letter?

  12. Saving energy on Reducing Electricity Bills For Buildings With XML · · Score: 1

    The Berkeley Lab twice signaled price increases that triggered reductions in the buildings' energy use -- at 30-cents and 75-cents per hour -- following criteria established by the buildings' facility managers. The building control systems triggered the required adjustments within two minutes, said Piette.

    If it's that simple to reduce energy usage un demand, then why not reduce it permanantly and save even more without XML?

  13. Re:It should be free on The Future of Free Weather Data on the Internet · · Score: 1

    But you dont get that with KWeather either.

  14. May be new... on U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right · · Score: 1

    ..if you're not used to it. But I'm living in a country where you have to carry your ID card with you and present the police on demand... but guess what? It's not a police state! In fact, it's far more liberal than the USA. At least you can come over here for holiday or a buisness-trip WITHOUT getting arrested at the airport. I dont want to start a rant about some parts of the body stuck in other parts, but you might start doing something against the stuff that *really* puts civil rights to danger (e.g. non-existant protection of privacy, police violence and so on) instead of yammering about rulings that (hey thats new!) really helps the police doing its job.

  15. Re:soo... on McDonald's Germany Moves to SuSE Linux · · Score: 1

    I guess I would have made the same conclusion... after a night of hard drinking! :-)

  16. Re:Hrmm on Smart Bullets Phone Home · · Score: 1

    I thought Dynamite was stabilized Nitroglycerin?

    can someone explain the difference between those? Espescially as someone said that there is no difference between them in comics.

  17. Re:Glance-able technology on Text Messaging-Enabled Crystal Chandelier Shown In Milan · · Score: 1

    me too...

    but thats ok cause I find a wall clock or a computer screen or a vcr (with clock) everywhere I am with a single glance.

    but on the other hand I see many SMS too late cause I just dont have a look at my phone.

  18. OT: Wine and MSI on "Missing Link" In Windows Emulation Unveiled? · · Score: 1

    Did anyone of you managed to get an windows app running with wine that uses MSI installation?

    mine here always crashes with error minus 16thousend or so

  19. Re:Scarred for life... on Another Fan-Made TRON Costume · · Score: 1

    and the terrible thing is... thats not much better :-))

  20. Re:Scarred for life... on Another Fan-Made TRON Costume · · Score: 1

    Jake Blues :-)

  21. Re:In related news on Microsoft Authorized Refurbishers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Uhmm... This would be $5 to install Windows AGAIN on a PC it was already legally installed on....

    So it's not like a pricetag, but like a "installing fee" for re-installing software.

  22. Re:From TFA --- Gator has a new name on New Wave of Web Ads? · · Score: 1

    nope. but users install some software that intrecepts your google queries and then displays those ads. or at least thats how gator was working.

  23. Re:protecting from viruses on Nasty New Virus Variants · · Score: 1

    So what do I do if I need to get some file (executable for some reason or pictures in a case of paranoia-firewall) past some firewall?

    Stuff it in a MS-Word file. Works like a charm.... It's a good container for anything, it's left alone by mailscanners and can (unlike zip) be opened by clueless people too.

    The sad thing is that sometimes you have to use such dirty tricks.

  24. Re:protecting from viruses on Nasty New Virus Variants · · Score: 1

    I catched a virus by executing a *.scp file.

    P.S. I was aware that that might be stupid.

  25. Re:Apparently on Live Chat Salespeople On Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Hmm... at least it's even far away from testosterone filled chatrooms too :-)

    But where ist it then?