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  1. Re:There must be a better way on "Smart" Parking Meters Considered Dumb · · Score: 1

    A $1 coin will work out to be much cheaper than a $1 bill because they last a lot longer. Coins will last about 50 years, whereas low value notes, up to about $5 or $10 will generally only last a year.

  2. Re:Bloody difficult. on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    She's clearly not a normal woman, but normal people don't win world athletics championships, so where are you going to draw the line.

  3. Re:Easy on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    Lots of people are infertile for various reasons. That doesn't mean they belong to the opposite sex.

  4. Re:Stocks ROSE? on Sweden Launches Criminal Probe of Pirate Bay Sale · · Score: 1

    I think you mean "bought on the rumour, sold on the news". The announcement and the news are the same thing.

  5. Re:Stocks ROSE? on Sweden Launches Criminal Probe of Pirate Bay Sale · · Score: 1

    Novel has torrents of OpenSuSE. Canonical has torrents of Ubuntu and the various other *untus, and there are plenty of other examples.

    Bittorrent is perfectly OK for free distribution of your own stuff. If you want to distribute stuff illegally, there are plenty of better ways to do it where there isn't a single attackable point of failure.

    People generally don't like p2p networks for paid-for content due to higher bandwidth costs.

  6. Re:RTFA on Sweden Launches Criminal Probe of Pirate Bay Sale · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is knowing that the company is about to blow however many millions of Krona on a domain name that has nothing to do with your business really inside information that could cause the share price to rise.

    If I had that information, I would probably think about shorting the shares rather than buying them. And seemingly I would have made a loss on the deal.

  7. Re:How about: Write zeros to the disk? on Ten Ways To Destroy a Hard Disk · · Score: 0

    You can still recover the data with an electron microscope because the drive doesn't write the data in exactly the same place every time. If you look round the edges of the blob of zero on the disk, you will see what was there before.

  8. Re:No surprise on Writing Style Fingerprint Tool Easily Fooled · · Score: 1

    It can be matched exactly with total confidence if you scan the entire DNA. However, it took the human genome project a long time to do that with just one sample, so I don't think that is being done with police samples.

  9. Re:Could have told you writing analysis was bogus. on Writing Style Fingerprint Tool Easily Fooled · · Score: 1

    This is writing analysis, not handwriting analysis. It looks at the words and punctuation you write, not the shape of the letters you write, so it can be used for typed documents. If they were looking at my writing for example, they would look at my vocabulary, the fact I use British rather than American spellings and words and so on.

  10. Re:Which is it? on Xbox 360 Failure Rate Is 54.2% · · Score: 1

    3.8% will buy another xbox.
    4% won't buy another xbox because of hardware failures
    92.2% won't buy another xbox for reasons other than hardware failures

  11. Re:I'm sorry but on IPv6 Challenges and Opportunities · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apple's market share for routers is tiny compared to Netgear and Linksys. I'm one of the 8% or so of people who uses a Mac, but it talks to a Netgear router.

  12. Re:marketing speak = teh suck on IPv6 Challenges and Opportunities · · Score: 1

    If I wanted to network my socks, I could do so at the moment with a VPN. I'm not going to want them to be publically routable anyway.

    You can get things that track where you are going, and how many miles you've walked / run etc. They don't even need an internet connection, never mind a publically routable one.

  13. Re:what i would say on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 1

    It is your problem if you can't get credit because of it.

  14. Re:Decline of the Landline on The Decline of the Landline · · Score: 1

    Cellphones didn't work very well in New York in 9/11 following the attack, as a lot of the networks had their kit at the top of the world trade centre towers.

  15. Re:Value of music vs value of software on Why the BSA Is Less Reviled Than the RIAA · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I take your lettuce out of your fridge, you are no longer able to eat it.
    If I take a copy of an mp3 off your ipod, you can still listen to it.

    That's why it is different.

  16. Re:Less sympathy for companies on Why the BSA Is Less Reviled Than the RIAA · · Score: 1

    In the UK, they have the same rights of entry as a door-to-door salesman. You tell them to get lost, and use reasonable force to eject them from your premises if they refuse to leave.

  17. Re:Less sympathy for companies on Why the BSA Is Less Reviled Than the RIAA · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that is the RIAA's department, as the RIAA deal with recordings, and this requires a public performance licence.

    In the UK, the Performing Right Society goes after people for listening to shop purchased CDs in their home office with out a public performance licence. That doesn't make them very popular.

  18. Re:Because .. on World's Only Diesel-Electric Honda Insight · · Score: 1

    In Europe, the majority of new cars sold now are diesels, and petrol stations sell more diesel than petrol. *Every* petrol station sells diesel, so that is not a problem.

  19. Re:Great! on School Uniform To Block Cell Phone Emissions · · Score: 1

    But if you arrange the tin foil, or whatever it is, so that the phone is outside the tin-foil shielding area when inside the pocket, then the phone will still work, but the rays from it won't hit the body.

  20. Re:Beware the Details on "Easy Work-Around" For Microsoft Word's Legal Woes · · Score: 1

    The work-around is that they are no longer using the patented invention. That is complying fully with the requirements of the injunction.

  21. Re:How did they get control of the servers? on Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt" · · Score: 1

    It is a bit harder to crack a Windows 2008 machine with rainbow tables compared to a Windows 2003 machine as passwords between 8 and 14 characters long are no longer split in two before hashing, but changing the password to one you know is pretty easy. That only doesn't work if you have an encrypted filesystem, and that is generally a security measure you consider for laptops rather than servers. Mounting the drive on another machine is as easy as it has always been.

  22. Won't work for long on Measuring Real Time Public Opinion With Twitter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wait until the astroturfers and lobyists discover this.

  23. Re:Designer doesn't understand virtual worlds on Designer Fights For Second Life Rights · · Score: 1

    In legal terms, is there any difference between a website and a second life virtual world?

  24. Re:Designer doesn't understand virtual worlds on Designer Fights For Second Life Rights · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you commission me to create some graphics for a website, and the contract says I retain the copyright; you can't then sell my graphics to another website.

    That is essentially what happened here.

  25. Re:People definitely neglect science... on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 1

    From a large multi-volume bound copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannia,