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  1. Re:Using Hashing on Fighting Terrorists Through Software, Anonymously? · · Score: 2, Informative
    I mean, this information may be valid for years, a thing you did when you where 18 may still be there when you are 50. I don't think this data should be distributed much at all, even though it's encrypted.

    This is an issue in the UK at the moment with the Soham murders in that some data (complaints of rape and indecent assault) on Ian Huntley was deleted because some police departments thought they couldn't keep it with others the information was there but not found

    More information here the BBC has a lot on the Soham case

  2. Patronizing on Epson's Female Printer · · Score: 1
    TheresA Volvo all woman design team that has designed a car by woman for woman and it has come out with some classics like

    Honestly, the only time I open the bonnet on my car is when I want to fill up washer fluid," said Tatiana Butovitsch Temm. "Do we need to have a one metre square hatch for that or could we do it in another way? "So we shifted the filling station for washer fluid to the side of the car, next to where you fill up fuel, and we closed the bonnet for good."

    WTF that's a nightmare car there's an engine in there for a start how do you get the oil into the engine? Change spark plugs etc and is it really a good idea to put the filler for water next to the fuel?

    Volvo aren't going to produce the car but some features may appear on other Volvos most likely the seat covers

    Like the Volvo the printer is a marketing scheme more than anything to try and attract woman to there brand and it's a bit fake as most design projects will have woman on the team as there are very few all male design teams.

    an all-female project team created within Epson specifically for making a printer 'easy for women to use

    As my girlfriend said about the Volvo team "patronizing bitches they make us seem dumber than men"

  3. Cybermen on Epson's Female Printer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does anyone else think it looks like a Cyberman from Dr Who.

  4. Re:Why let it die? on Amiga Sells AmigaOS · · Score: 1
    It's probably jealousy or fear if they where in the right about amigaOS BSD etc. being dead they wouldn't need to say anything because it would be dead, however when a good but underused OS is mentioned on Slashdot they feel the need to claims it's dead.

    Probably because it annoys them that to play the latest games Etc. they have to use a buggy OS from a greedy company and when these articles come along it reminds them of this, that there are stable OS and that there are people like you who love using it, I love developing for it, and it doesn't bother me that I can't play the latest games. I use it for the internet (web, irc, email, msn, web development, etc. etc.), programming, music composition, graphics, all sorts, and i'm not alone.

    Indeed you are not and the nay sayers are afraid that the amount will grow bigger meaning they will have to learn to use a different OS (oh the horror). I'm thinking Linux and BSD rather than Amiga OS but It still has the potential if not the support of the other 2.

  5. Re:Precedent? on World's First Warez Extradition Decided Soon · · Score: 1
    prime minister John Howard an "arse licker".

    I wonder if he is any relation to Tony Blair they certainley react in the same way whenever bush clicks his fingers.

  6. Re:Precedent? on World's First Warez Extradition Decided Soon · · Score: 1
    Joe Webmaster from Anytown, USA hosts a site critical of Islam, or Kim Jung-Il, Castro and are found in countries X, Y and Z to violate some law regarding incitement, or subversion -- wouldn't an extrapolation of a decision favorable for extradition mean that the US would need to send Joe Webmaster packing to Uzbekistan, North Korea or Cuba?

    Not necessarily need to but they should if they want other countries Extradite someone who hasn't commited a crime in the US to the US

    IMO, let the US and AU work on their treaties regarding the honouring of copyrights and let AU prosecute violators in-house

    Fair enough is australia want's to change there laws, but Why should Australia change it's laws to suit the US if they are happy with them now? If that was the case shouldn't the US in your hypothetical scenario above change it's law to be more inline with the other country's.

    The Point of extradition treaty's is to ensure that when someone flees a country after committing a crime they can be returned for trial, it's not so that one country can try and impose it's laws on the citizens of another

  7. Re:Our tax dollars... on Beer Bubbles Really Do Sink · · Score: 3, Informative
    Our tax dollars at work!

    What's more this has been done 4 years ago more here

  8. So they... on Dish Network & Viacom Settle Their Differences · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Kissed and made up. ewww.

  9. Re:Yep, it's happening in the Navy, too.... on U.S. Army Warns Microsoft To Back Off · · Score: 0
    E-Pubs

    sounds like a GPS system to guide you and your Globemaster to the nearest alcohol retailer.

    I have a picture in my mind of some quite country pub with a hugh transport plane parked outside

  10. Re:Great. on Four Big ISPs File Six Anti-Spam Suits · · Score: 0
    Before you know it, you'll be rolling in money (and penis)

    Curse my over active imagination im never going to get rid of that image.

    You just don't want to know

  11. Re:Hope it works on Four Big ISPs File Six Anti-Spam Suits · · Score: 0

    But this doesn't help spam's main purpose which is to deliver you a message not gobbeldygook.

  12. Re:Huh? on Four Big ISPs File Six Anti-Spam Suits · · Score: 0

    Kind of reminds me of the two towers scene were the orks fall out over who gets frodos stuff

  13. Re:Yes Yes! on Comcast Cuts Infected PCs' Network Connections · · Score: 0
    There are valid reasons why I shouldn't run a spambot. But are there any valid reasons why I shouldn't be allowed to run a spambot

    the resons you shouldn't run on in the first place talk about ansewring your own question. do you have a valid reson for you to be allowed to run a spam bot.

  14. Re:Imagine on Kodak Sues Sony Over Digital Camera Patents · · Score: 0
    imagine that a slashdotter wrote one e-mail to a representative or a government body for every 20 posts he or she wrote here. Even better if a physical letter were sent through the mail.

    it would be filled in that round receptacle known as a bin and/or you would receive a generic reply that urges you to vote for your government representative. Damn that was a cynical post even for me.

  15. Re:Anyone Else Notice? on Kodak Sues Sony Over Digital Camera Patents · · Score: 0

    There is hope

  16. Re:The Selden patent!! Excellent! on Kodak Sues Sony Over Digital Camera Patents · · Score: 0
  17. Re:The Selden patent!! Excellent! on Kodak Sues Sony Over Digital Camera Patents · · Score: 0
    However, for many years Selden was able to convince every manufacturer (except for Ford) that he did own the patent for all automobiles

    Slight correction that's every american company, he probably got laughed at when he tried to bully importers. Also if Seldan convinced that many companies he was right with such a bad patent then SCO's must look very very stupid. Excellent link might spend all afternoon there.

  18. Re:On click patent... on Kodak Sues Sony Over Digital Camera Patents · · Score: 0

    the match and flint lock are prior art sorry

  19. Re:Anyone Else Notice? on Kodak Sues Sony Over Digital Camera Patents · · Score: 0

    Also anyone else notice how it's American based company's that are claiming dubious patent's and trying to sue can anyone they can find example and here and here and finally are there any examples of non American company's doing this I couldn't find any but there must at least one somewhere. How often is suing someone used as a revenue generator why is it seen as legitimate business practice to gamble on the courts making a mistake and upholding stupid patents

  20. Re:Gotta love FL laws on EB Demands Payment From Victim of Theft · · Score: 0
    Florida. Each time, it showed up in some pawn shop, and the theif got their slap on the wrists. And we were out a couple of hundred bucks. Florida sees it as making sure there is only one victim, of course they're a victim twice. Not only can't you use your stuff because it's missing, but you have to pay someone to get it back.

    this encourages pawnbrokers to ignore where the stuff came from. florida pawnbrokers are just a bunch of criminals

  21. Re:issue? on EB Demands Payment From Victim of Theft · · Score: 0
    but at that point, it isnt the police's job to strong arm EB into providing restitution. That burden lies in the arms of the courts

    Actually common human decency means EB should have anyway and surely the police should arrest them for dealing in stolen goods.

  22. Re:WTF? on EB Demands Payment From Victim of Theft · · Score: 0
    If you receive stolen goods unknowingly, you won't be charged, but there is no obligation for anyone to compensate you for those goods once they are returned to their rightful owner - legally, they were never yours to start with, so if you paid money for something from someone who had no right to dispose of it, tough shit.

    That is also the case in the UK only in America could it be legal to profit from crime

  23. Re:It's a Lee Gomes article on Is Windows Worth $45? · · Score: 0
    Maybe it's interesting in the sense that there are die hard Microsoft haters outside of /. as well.

    I don't think you will find Microsoft lovers anywere exept the obvoiuse ones gates McBride etc.

  24. Re:Who actually pays? on Is Windows Worth $45? · · Score: 0
    If there hasn't been any innovation, why are you running win2k and not Windows 95 on those machines?

    it's not no inovation but very little the biggest windows inovations are new shiny buttons, Isn't that great

  25. Re:It essentially means a free trip through colleg on 'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide' · · Score: 0

    because they just don't give those things away. they probably do to sons of president's especially if there is good chance that he will be president themself. Never hurts to have friends in high places