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  1. Re:I wonder if this is evidence-based at all? on Airport Profilers Learn to Read Facial Expressions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They have a lot of policians to verify this technique.

    It's a natural evolution for former terrorists to become a politician.
    Perhaps someone will define some terrorists as a freedom fighter, but in the end they become all politicians. Look to Tito, Yasser Arafat, Ho Chi Min, Franco and many many others...
    These are the terrorists who succeeded

  2. Re:Legality? on The Pirate Bay Takes Over Anti-Piracy Domain · · Score: 1

    I admire those guys for there sence of humor.
    http://thepiratebay.org/legal

    They are always up for a good laugh.

  3. Re:Super-sekr1t unblurring techniques on Interpol Unscrambles Doctored Photo In Manhunt · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but would mirror the picture and applying the twirl effect in the same direction again not be exactly the same?
    All you need is the same program that was used to create the twirl effect.

  4. Error in the parent post. on Breaking a Car's Cipher · · Score: 1

    The research has been done in Belgium and Israël, not in the Netherlands and Israël as previuosly stated.

  5. Re:Well.. on Safemedia's CEO Tells Congress He Can Stop P2P · · Score: 1

    Funny enough, the same could be applied to the iraqi people when they got bombeb by the US..
    But I doubt that anyone get bombed find this funny.

  6. Re:You can't make money preventing global warming, on US Opposes G8 Climate Proposals · · Score: 1

    I do not agree.
    If you prevent global warming, you or perhaps you're children will still be able to make money in the future.

  7. Better approach on Principal Cancels Classes, Sues Over MySpace Prank · · Score: 3, Insightful

    principal targeted by the pranksters attempted to find the perpetrators

    It would be wiser to monitor the school network to identify the people who where capable to modify the specific webpage. You could make the phrank die out silently, or convert the page to a more friendly nature.

    The principal, he has diserved this. Being so immature.

  8. Re:Cause or effect? on Bilingualism Delays Onset of Dementia · · Score: 1

    Above poster gives a accurate description on historical view regarding languages.

    One thing to add:

    The current language frontier, between Dutch and French speaking people dates from the time of the Roman Empire.

    You can almost draw a line from Tongeren(Tongres) to Wervik (Wervique), passing by other old Roman cities, like Doornik (Tournai).

    All over this frontier, you'll find ancient Roman military cities who prevented the second german wave to enter the Empire.

  9. Re:Wow, I've got to check out these mainframes on Year of the Mainframe? Not Quite, Say Linux Grids · · Score: 1

    "In the old world," Isiminger said of life with a mainframe, "we would have passed all the [customer and vehicle] information through in big batches. These batches would run for days in the mainframe, and we're talking batches upon batches upon batches." But with a grid, this week-long process was reduced to "a matter of hours,"

    Either I don't understand or there is something wrong with the statement the new grid outperforms the mainframe by 70%
    If you should caclulate the gain in time, I find the diference already having astronomical proportions.
    Somebody capable of explaining this to me?

  10. Re:It's news. on VLC 0.8.6 Released · · Score: 1

    For instance,

    I'm capable of streaming live tv shows from a linux server to a wireless XP laptop, both running vlc

  11. Re:Those are americans? on Americans Drove Less in 2005 · · Score: 1

    One additional reason why I'm sure the Fiat Chroma has a French License plate:
    There is a metalic border, part of the license plate. In France, license plates are delivered toghether with the car. It is not uncommon for a France car dealer to create license plates wich contains his coordinates on the metalic border, incorporated to the license plate

  12. Re:Those are americans? on Americans Drove Less in 2005 · · Score: 1

    For me this is a French car. Specefic because on the right hand you have 2 separated characters, which is common for french cars to indicate the region
    a french nummerplate looks like

    xxxxx yz 59

    The cars in the picture
    Fiat
    Renault
    Citroën

    The road itself looks like a common french road. Remark you have a container transport, wich is quite common between Lille and Dunkerke, the region where I would situate this picture.
    The three stickers indication speed limits are also very common for trucks in France

  13. Re:hmmm on Thai IT Minister Slams Open Source · · Score: 1

    This is correct; many OS advocates believe Open Source automatically leads to better code. The truth is that most OS coders are just average

    That's exactly why Ubuntu becomes a good distro: Mark Shuttleworth has added decent managment into the equition and it becomes client focussed. Other OS projects are serving the interests of the project starter. This is not a bad thing, nor a good one, but the perception of a user might be totally different. Avarage coders can be managed and this might lead to a good end product.

    This written, I know that even the Ubuntu model is perfect. For the moment, it seems to be working

  14. Re:Basicly on A Concrete Solution To Pollution · · Score: 1

    I did read the article and with MY reading skills there is nothing wrong. The story imposes only more questions. Not making such questions is my definition of being stupid.
    Actualy did you read what you where quoting?

    It doesn't look a real solution to me. In the best case I considered it a patch.


    The treate concrete can be cleaned through a bio-scrubbing process. Using the poor and illegal immigrants as a low-cost resource pool a corporation or municipality could hire as few as 500 "bio-cleaning engineers" to lick the pollutants out of the concrete.


    The costs are essential. Specific mentioning poor and illegal immigrants makes me wonder how dangerous this job offer might be. (there is already a indication in the article) Don't gonna comment much on this, but the day the cleaning costs are to expensive, the remainings will shipped somewhere to a third world country.

    Sounds like a open case to me. But shut ??? doubtfull

  15. Basicly on A Concrete Solution To Pollution · · Score: 1

    You reduce the polution of the air by absorbing this in Tx active and thus creating another poluated product? How you gonna get rid of that?

  16. The correction unit replies on Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit · · Score: 1

    This is the US correction unit. lower you're firewall and drop you're posts. Slashdot will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

    If this warning reminds you of the Borg in star trek, this is pure coïncidence. Darwin has not been corrected yet. Planned assimilation time: stardate 2011

  17. Re:2D-3D? on Fear of Snakes May Have Driven Pre-Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    My mother in law has 4D sight. (4th dimesion = travel though time?)
    She makes predictions of someones future based upon tarot cards.
    Imagine, 100 years ago, most people would call her a witch.

    I'm alone...

  18. Password policy: OK, but user policy? on Debian Locks Out Developers · · Score: 1, Interesting

    He does one choose users, aka developpers on debian?

    If for instances someone wan to be a debian developper, creates his account Bill.Gates@debian.org choose on purpose a weak password (does not matter) and then has been in contact evil@hacker.org who managed to get the password.
    In case Bill Gates would obtain a developper status, I wouldn't wonder he would open source his password to any hacker arround.

    But seriously, no FUD: How do they work to trust their developpers.
    I can't imagine I'm writting a little tiny app, knock on the debian door and they would open it. This is user trust policy.

  19. Re:Web Site Contact on Virus Trackers Find Malware With Google · · Score: 1

    I hope the authors are planning to contact the affected site owners.

    Given the fact that websense sells a product to block users visiting different websites, I believe they will use the data for their products database.

  20. Cold War? Terorists? on Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs · · Score: 2

    Everyone believed the cold war is over and the USA won it.
    Wrong

    Actually Rusia is free, but it looks the people in America find themselfs suddenly on the wrong site of the iron curtain. The USA is slowly shifting to a police state worse then the USSR ever has been. Just fearing terorists.

    Not allowing money transfers, just because someones name is Mohammed is one of the stupid things I ever ever heard. Who the fuck is actualy in charge in the USA? Pipo the clown? Kafka?
    More likely denying people to use the service will turn them into terorists.
    Besides the story was talking about transfers out of the USA. I would suspect a terorist should being interest in transfering money INTO the US.
    In the short run, this aproach might annoye the real terorist, but not stop them.
    In the long run, you'll have more of them.

    And they still wonder where terorists come from?
    Terorists aren't born, they are created by other (forgive me the word) humans.

    I do hope the parent story is fud or a hoax.

  21. Re:This is a f*cking test on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of another story involving a big boss.

    I had to replace a guy at the testing department.
    The guy I replaced wasn't that smart but it was a good guy. Others tried always to annoye him by phoning to him and hang up.

    Obviuosly they were not aware I replaced him. After the third call, I transfered all incomming connections to the line of our companies Big Boss and went to visit him about some personal documents. After I went back, I "forgot" to reclaim the lign back.
    The boss in question had a expensive phone where he could see who phoned him.

    Game over :) Some people have had a verry bad day.

  22. Re:An oldie... on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    Just wait. You'll encounter one that also doesn't know the difference between the fax machine and the shredder.

    Sir, you have problems with the quality of you're faxes.
    Could you fax us a 500 Euro biljet in order to adjust the quality?

  23. The Jerry Taylor story on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    This is defenitly on of my favorite support stories.

    http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?sto ryid=127

  24. Re:An oldie... on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    My client was already using a fax to sent us copies of the needed files.
    But it remains a classic one

  25. Re:The last thing the world needs is more landmine on Networked Landmines Work Together · · Score: 1

    First thing I was thinking about: Handicap international is fighting for years against landmines and now some useless wannabe important guy will make this creeps walk.

    http://www.handicap-international.org.uk/page_255. php