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  1. How do.... on The Technology Behind Formula One · · Score: 1

    You make a small fortune in Formula 1? Start with a large one.

  2. Re:Background article on The Technology Behind Formula One · · Score: 1
    Formula 1 cars only crash after going through a gravel pit, and then they hit tyre barriers.

    So they don't crash into each other and Monaco Doesn't exist then. Sadly the most exiting Thing in CART racing is the crashes but it's the same for F1 as well, gimme rally anyday and take the wings of the CART and F1's

  3. Re:get over it on Turning Up The Heat On On-Line Registration · · Score: 1
    Puhlease, who cares if you have to register? Help the news site out for offering you free access to commercial content. Who cares if they know who you are and what you read?

    Intresting that you say that as an AC me thinks i smell hypocrisy.

  4. Re:Hehe! on AOL To Charge for AIM Videoconferences · · Score: 1
    Yes very evil

    What they SHOULD have done was announce a NEW service and offered upgrades to that. That would have been much smarter than saying they were going to start charging for a free service... that was just Darwin.

    Aha Got it now. That would be more sensible than saying "this free thing you enjoyd is no longer free, now pay up"

  5. Re:Fee increase? on AOL To Charge for AIM Videoconferences · · Score: 1
    No, there's no law against fee increases

    what so you could sit in a room all on your own and say the new fees are 100% more and then go and take it from your customer without telling them that your doing it. Any way my point wasn't about increasing fee's it was if they can can do this and take the customers money without telling them.

  6. Re:Hah on AOL To Charge for AIM Videoconferences · · Score: 1
    What they *should* do is hide the fees in your subscription and only allow subscribers to use VC... that would totally fly. Why these companies announce these fees makes about as much sense as the mass-mailing of registration CDROMs!

    Because theres probably a law against taking peoples money without asking you know theft or something.

  7. Re:No they wont' charge for AIM on AOL To Charge for AIM Videoconferences · · Score: 1

    Confuse her and tell her AOL is an Intranet

  8. Re:It's like basic cable on AOL To Charge for AIM Videoconferences · · Score: 1
    What chaps my ass is that 30 minute Pontiac ad that aired on USA recently.

    As opposed to the 30-minute toy ads on Nickelodeon and Fox?

    30-Minutes?!?! I can't belive that is there anyone who sits and watches the entire thing?

  9. Re:Overestimating his contributions on Marking 50 Years Since Alan Turing's Death · · Score: 1
    I think what they ment was without him, Hitler would be drinking tea at No.10, but he did have a pretty big impact.

    Hitler could never have drunk tea at No.10. The Battle of Britain had already finished long before Enigma was cracked. The Bob was more important as a moral booster and proof that the Luftwaffe could be beaten rather than saving the nation, that would have been the job of the Royal Navy.

    Both the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine stated that there was little they could do to stop the RN breaking into German Invasion lanes once in the lanes it would be easy for the navy to sink the invasion barges with there wake alone so Sealion was called off. Air superiority was of secondary concern to naval superiority. The threat that faced us earley on in the war was not as severe as has been suggested.

    Turing never stopped an invasion. Turin's big contribution was to allow Military commanders to decide what resources to commit where and when, invaluable for a country with limited resources especially in the Mediterranean. Turing undoubtedly shortened the war the only debate is by how much and how many lives saved.

    A java enigma machine to play withbut I want a bomba simulator.

  10. Re:Tagged Sexual Offenders: Population as a Whole? on British Telecom Blocks Access to Child Porn Sites · · Score: 1
    A QUARTER of a million British men may have used their credit cards to access internet child porn, it was claimed last night. ( http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?obje ctid=12573669&method=full&siteid=50143 ) That is a lot of people: 250,000. It used to be that you needed to go to a back ally to get these materials, but now it seems that since it is so easy to get people are downloading them now that would have not bothered in the past.

    That report was from the mirror so Of course the real number was much lower being 7,000 suspects and 1,200 prosecuted the 250,000 number was worldwide When choosing a source it's a good idea not to chose a paper known to lie and exaggerate, although Pierse Morgan has been sacked so there should some improvement in there standards now.

  11. Re:Foot in the door on British Telecom Blocks Access to Child Porn Sites · · Score: 1
    It makes me feel warm and secure to know they're out there, calmly watching Farmyard Fuckers 5 with their fingers steepled in front of them and an expression of unruffled concentration on their wise old faces.

    Im not going to stop laughing now for a good hour, brilliant visual image perhqaps they would raise an eyebrow every now and then.

  12. Re:Foot in the door on British Telecom Blocks Access to Child Porn Sites · · Score: 1
    Look at the case law on the things that have been found to contravene the Obscene Publications Act and then tell me that you believe that pornographic material involving consenting adults is legal.

    It's less than 30 years ago that three men were sent to prison for publishing cartoon drawings of Rupert the Bear fucking Gypsy Granny.That was in the 70's when it would be hard to have got away with the Wonderbra Adds, Let alone a cartoon that might have been mistaken for the real kids one, since when have cartoon characters been consenting adults anyway? As this link shows That despite the wishes of a puritan nut to use the obscene publications acts law to prosecute John Lennon and Yoko for painting pictures of themselves having sex. They couldn't use it to prosecute art as it would set a bad precedent, for sure the law needs a change but it was already ineffective 30 years ago against true art. Interesting thing to come from the story is the queen owns a porno collection The artist even warns that the monarch could end up being prosecuted if such a precedent was set: "I understand that HM the Queen has some highly erotic work by Fragonard." It's hard for a Puritan like Kenneth Horn to Inflict his views on the public, despite the bad wording of the act no precedent has been set. Hurray for the queen and her collection of porn.

  13. Sop on British Telecom Blocks Access to Child Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    This is unfortunately a sop to make people feel better without actually tackling the main problem, that of children being abused. Seriously how many children is this going to help? Also these sites are one of the best weapons that the police have because they collect credit card numbers and link them up to the owners and arrest them. This is just an example of a company doing something highly visible as opposed to something effective, at the end of the day it is something to make BT bosses etc feel better about themselves and quieten a bunch of reactionaries. So thanks to BT and some busybodies the Police in the UK have lost a way of identifying who uses these sites.

  14. Re:Finally- on FTC to Examine Patent Application Process · · Score: 1
    Congress which means that ideas like a patented method for picking up a box by bending your knees may well continue for some time. "

    No mention of hands id been impressed by someone picking up a box by just bending there knees.

  15. Re:This is not a first on Yahoo Anti-Spy Favors Yahoo's Adware Partners? · · Score: 1
    There is a substantial functional difference between not enabling adware filtering by default, and outright preventing adware filtering

    There's also a big diffrence the adware blocking not being enabled and being enabled from the start, especially for the less tech savy.

  16. Re:anybody compiled it yet on Shareaza 2.0 Released Under GPL · · Score: 1
    This is precisely what Shareaza does with Gnutella and eDonkey. It connects as "leaves" to both networks to ensure that it does not have to contribute any resources while leeching off the other users of those networks to get files

    Strange but my uploads are normally 50% faster than downloads on eDonkey and Gnutella download/upload are about the same, maybe you used an older version. From what i know about eDonkey is that you get punished for donloading and not uploading making it impossible suck resources without contributing some? That's just what i had presummed anyway never looked at it in depth.

  17. Re:anybody compiled it yet on Shareaza 2.0 Released Under GPL · · Score: 1

    It does ed2k as good as the next client Gnutella and G2 work fine Bit torrent is rather ropey (haven't used a BT client that wasn't) but still works and it happily uses a good 80% of my bandwidth (500 kbs). I would prefer a client that does a lot of networks as well as any other client that use those networks, which shareazza does although it still has some bugs in it (what P2P client hasn't?) and requires far more tuning of the options than most to run fast, but it is as fast as the next P2P client and connects to more. Limewire spent all of a week on my computer because when run side by side or separately Sareazza beat it on download speeds almost every time.

  18. Re:Yeah! on IBM tells SCO to Put Up or Shut Up · · Score: 1

    Don't remind me almost over night my local ASDA became dirty everything seemed alot tackier and cheaper in quality but not price (especially as you say the food)the only thing it's good for is alcohol, fags or named brands as they can't lower the quality of these and they still sell them cheapley. Aviod own brand like the plague especially "smartprice", whats so smart about paying half price for a quarter of the beans and they taste like they have already been eaten by someone else.

  19. Re:Yeah! on IBM tells SCO to Put Up or Shut Up · · Score: 1

    And maybe one day even MS will become benign

  20. Re:A return to the old phone company on Sun Says Hardware Will Be Free · · Score: 1
    That model still exists here in the UK -- although it's probably not very popular. My mother's a doctor and she has one corded phone that's provided by the phone company; the benefit for her is that if her phone &/ line breaks the company come around and fix it much faster (or so it appears)

    That's the first time i have heard of it still being here i remember my parents talking about leasing phones in the 50's but also of them talking about how everyone swapped because it was cheaper.

  21. Re:More importantly... on Sun Says Hardware Will Be Free · · Score: 1
    Sun can take back the old hardware and replace it with new hardware while only increasing the monthly subscription fee.

    and increassing the amount of money being hemoraged whilst having nothing at the end of the day not a clever way to run a bussiness

    It is also worth noting that a subscription (lease) model is much better for businesses. Instead of buying hardware and depreciating it over time, they can expense the monthly lease cost (which is why auto leasing became so popular for businesses).

    You meen accounting tricks make it look better this was something that a friend was telling me about not long ago it's easier to claim tax back and other accounting tricks with a rented vehicle than to own and for the short term it can be cheaper buying it but in the end it costs more especially because you have no asset to sell.

  22. Much Prefer........ on Sun Says Hardware Will Be Free · · Score: 1

    Free software than hardware once you have the hardware its yours whereas you will have to pay a subscription for the software. I can see why Sun and MS like the idea because every month or year they get another lump of money in return for nothing and after handing over all that money the user will end up with..... nothing and it's for this reson that most consumers will avoid it. I can see some companies using as a short term solution, but is just renting and there's another name for longterrm renting that's money pit. I will never use subscription software.

  23. Re:A return to appliances? on Sun Says Hardware Will Be Free · · Score: 1
    As publishers of proprietary software shift their business model from running on customer-owned hardware to running on hardware rented from the publisher, does this coming "appliance era" spell the end of affordable general-purpose PC hardware for residential use?

    It's the subscription part of this scheme that will ensure it's failure, people might be willing to rent movies for a few days but they go and buy them when they want to use it more than a couple of times same with software you might rent it for one off jobs but your not going to rent something that is important for your bussiness that would be dangerous.

  24. Re:Abu Ghraib on The Economics of Executing Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    Nah, Medieval history was much worse you would have to working really hard to beat the inquisition for sheer evilness. Even countries with terrible human right records pale in comparison to what was standard practise back then and no one would have raised an eyebrow at being informed that someone had the hands crushed for stealing a loaf of breed where as nowadays you people protesting when someone is merely (in comparison) locked up without trial. Also nowadays these acts standout in a higher contrast making them seem even worse and thus sicker i think if anything the world is becoming more enlightened

  25. Re:One way street... on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 1
    Osama bin Laden is dead. He was killed in the assault on the Tora Bora mountains in November 2001. He's a dead man. What's the point of declaring war against a dead man?

    OK you seem to have some issues big big issues even rumsfeld doesn't belive this.American law and American history

    America did exist at this and where a part of the world and would know about this precident in international law that was set you do know that America has been a keen practitoner and contributer to international law in the past.I'm pretty sure that's the case. What other explanation could you have had for thinking that the United States declared war on Napoleon and that Osama bin Laden is alive? Again you have a thin grasp on reality or you are being very subtle with your humour. I didn't take anything out of context. From your unacceptable spelling, incorrect grammar, and inability to use punctuation, it was clear that you were typing while drunk. Removing a piece from what you are quoting is taking something out of context. As i explained i have dyslexia hence the grammer etc. it is your ignorance that is unaceptable and your attitude that is incorrect and inability to act like an adult.

    I'm pretty sure that's the case. What other explanation could you have had for thinking that the United States declared war on Napoleon and that Osama bin Laden is alive? Im starting to wonder if you have dyslexia and don't realise (mine affects writing and bizzarley i have above average reading and comperhension) it as it can affect some peoples ability to read and comprehend what they have read. It's nothing to be ashamed of most dyslexics have above average level inteligence.

    anyway don't have anymore troll food today so you will have to wait until tomorrow. Don't go sealing your house up against sarin chemical attack and suffocating on me im starting to enjoy this.