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  1. Re:How do you measure success? on Genetic Algorithm Helps Identify Criminals · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They won't present the sketch as evidence to the jury. They will call the witness and ask him to identify the suspect. They will be able to do other things like take fingerprints and DNA samples from the scene and match them to the suspect.

  2. Re:Golf balls? Ropes? Parachutes?! on Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots · · Score: 1

    There happens to be a rocket launcher on the seabed nearby, but they don't know anything aboout it.

  3. Re:What about for Windows 7? on Microsoft Advice Against Nehalem Xeons Snuffed Out · · Score: 1

    Does it affect the XP Mode component of Windows 7? Obviously you aren't going to use that for gaming unless you don't mind having less than one frame per second in your games through it's internal RPD thingy, but you may well have some sort of XP program running in the background when you are playing your game, even if it is just your XP virus scanner.

  4. Re:Good news... on Apple Forced To Clean Up Its Fine Print · · Score: 2, Informative

    Verizon? Blackberry?

    I don't live in the US, so I'm not sure if that is the one the grandparent poster has in mind.

  5. Re:I Don't See the Comparison, More Like MLB Strik on Newspapers Face the Prisoner's Dilemma With Google · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't think Google will care in the slightest if all the newspapers removed themselves from its index. There are still plenty of online only news sites, specialist media sites and so on that Google can point to. If people know they want to read one of Rupert Murdoch's offerings, they would go there direct, not via Google, and most Google customers aren't going to go to Yahoo or Bing to compare the search results they get.

  6. Re:Impact on The World's First Osmotic Power Plant · · Score: 1

    It appears that it requires fresh water, and outputs salty water.

    Fresh water is in short supply in many parts of the world, and one of the ways people deal with this is to use electricity to desalinate salty water. For that reason, I don't think this is going to be very popular.

  7. Re:Another site will replace it. on Mininova Removes All Copyright-Infringing Torrents · · Score: 1

    Maybe you need to look at something other than Bittorrent. Bittorrent was never really designed for what the RIAA / MPAA / BSA call "piracy" anyway.

  8. Re:Well, something *has* changed on Google Apologizes For "Michelle Obama" Results · · Score: 1

    Also Robert Mugabe is himself a racist, by blaming all the problems in Zimbabwe on a minority race, in this case white British and Afrikaan (Dutch) people. His policies are very similar to those of the British National Party, National Front and similar fascist parties around the world.

  9. Re:Stupidity is not color-blind. on Google Apologizes For "Michelle Obama" Results · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They did it to George W Bush as well. That would suggest they are not racist - they do it to everyone regardless of race.

  10. Re:God Bless the USA! on Moving Decimal Bug Loses Money · · Score: 1

    It could be worse. You could receive Hebrew localised Excel files with the columns going from Z - A in the wrong direction.

  11. Re:God Bless the USA! on Moving Decimal Bug Loses Money · · Score: 1

    And some other country who's name I can't remember.

    In Britain, we use the metric system up to and including meters, then switch over to miles, with some yards thrown in sometimes just to confuse everyone.

  12. Re:You mean 11,500 Euro on Moving Decimal Bug Loses Money · · Score: 1

    The Irish would write it as €115.00 and they use the Euro as their currency.

  13. Re:You mean 11,500 Euro on Moving Decimal Bug Loses Money · · Score: 1

    In Europe, the , is used as the decimal point and . as the thousands separator. In English speaking countries including Britain and Ireland , is used as the thousands separator and . as the decimal point.

    I think it actually makes sense to use the larger more noticeable symbol for something that is important and means something and the smaller less visible one for presentational purposes.

  14. Re:Brilliant piece of software on Inkscape 0.47 Released · · Score: 1

    Most people who do graphics for a living use Adobe Illustrator, not Corel Draw, and they generally use it on a Mac.

  15. Re:Got to love (joke) the MS spin on Major IE8 Flaw Makes "Safe" Sites Unsafe · · Score: 1

    If it is anything like IE 5.2 for Mac, then very few sites will work in it anyway. I am aware that it isn't exactly the same as the Windows version, it does support the <q> tag for example, whereas the Windows version doesn't.

  16. Re:Errr Radius Authentication on UK File-Sharing Laws Unenforceable On Mobile Networks · · Score: 1

    Yes it is. I can go into my local Three shop, hand over £19.99 in cash for a pay as you go modem, and another £15 for a one month access voucher. They have no idea who I am.

  17. Re:Duhhh on Would You Use a Free Netbook From Google? · · Score: 1

    I think you will find it will be tied to a cellphone plan.

    You can get "free" netbooks on a cellphone plan at the moment. You pay about £40 per month for two years on the plan vs £15 per month if you only take the modem. The £360 extra you pay over two years more than covers the cost of the hardware.

  18. Re:Not possible on Would You Use a Free Netbook From Google? · · Score: 0

    In a third world country it costs something like $10,000 per year for the broadband connection needed to make such a netbook work, so it isn't viable from the customer's point of view.

  19. Re:dont overthink on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Also, when you get to England, get a pay as you go HSDPA modem. It is much cheaper than using WiFi hotspots, and you get much better coverage.

  20. Re:no matter the mocking on Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works · · Score: 1

    In England (and I believe Scotland as well) it could be an offence under the Computer Misuse Act for Googlebot to continue to access the site after it had been told to leave.

  21. Re:If anyone can see it, it can be indexed on Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works · · Score: 2, Informative

    In Britain, The Sun and News of the World are about as trashy as it gets, although there is the Daily Star and the Daily Sport if that's too upmarket for you. The Times however is a pretty decent paper, although there is the Telegraph, Independent and Guardian if he starts charging for it. It is not as good as the Financial Times which already has a successful pay model in place.

  22. Re:If anyone can see it, it can be indexed on Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works · · Score: 4, Informative

    He does put a robots.txt file in his sites. See for example
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/robots.txt
    http://www.thesun.co.uk/robots.txt

    He's put loads of crawlers on it. Googlebot isn't one of them, because he presumably is happy for it to visit.

  23. Re:RDP on Simple, Free Web Remote PC Control? · · Score: 1

    I've never had firewall problems using it over Windows Live Messenger. It is something they most likely already have installed and running anyway, which makes it a lot easier than talking them through installing some other program.

  24. Re:12 ways watches are better than cell phones on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 1

    A Samsung E1100 for £4.95 ($8.16) from Carphone Warehouse. It comes with a PAYG SIM, but you can take that out and put whatever SIM you want in there.

  25. Re:12 ways watches are better than cell phones on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 1

    1. Try telling that to British retailers please.
    2. Subsidised phones are getting pretty rare these days, and generally work out more expensive.
    3. The phone needs to be recharged anyway.
    4. You need to take your phone with you anyway.
    5. You need to take your phone with you anyway. The watch is additional weight.
    6. You can't make calls with your watch, plan or no plan. You don't need a plan or even a sim card for the phone clock to work.
    7. Even if you can't make calls, you can still see what time it is.
    8. You need your phone anyway.
    9. You can password protect your phone, and you need to take it with you anyway.
    10. You need your phone anyway.
    11. My phone syncs to my Exchange Server automatically.
    12. I have a clock on my car dashboard for that.

    The point is that you have a phone anyway. Why do you also want a watch?