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  1. Re:Jesus on Teens Prosecuted For Racy Photos · · Score: 1

    Of course the legal age is 18 (though in many countries it's 15 or 16, it depends on the hypocrasy of the inhabitants mostly). So let's assume they made a mistake, it's then up to the parents to show them the "right" way, to punish them if necassery. It's not up to the courts to make a case against them, even if formally they were breaking the law. I doubt they were aware of this but as every citizin, even minors should know the law... In other words: your story is *$##$%$#$.

  2. Re:A *Puget Sound* school board. NOT Seattle! on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 2, Informative

    And exactly how is kytoto's goal to damage US-economy. The US is not the biggest emmitter of CO2 per capita (8th place) but when multiplied by the number of inhabitants it is... So you think there's a global conspiracy to damage the US with regards to CO2-emissions? The IAE (of which the USA is a member) says the USA is the biggest spender of primary energy...

  3. Re:The worst is yet to come on George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    This is already a fact in the Netherlands: in a soccer-stadium and in in shops (in Dutch)

  4. Re:RIAA does *not* represent artists on RIAA Wants Artist Royalties Lowered · · Score: 1

    not to mention the part "Each sale by a pirate represents a lost legitimate sale". As if I would legitimately buy all music I download (I don't buy pirated cd's but I do use shareaza and bittorrent).

  5. Re:How to fend of 100,000 attacks a month on How Microsoft Fights Off 100,000 Attacks A Month · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Reading the artcle...... on Former Spy Poisoned By Radiation In UK · · Score: 1

    Putin said this before it became public that polonium was the cause of death and after the docters said no "strange shadows" were discovered and that thallium wasn't the cause of the death...

  7. Re:Astonishing on Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit · · Score: 2, Informative

    Even Hans Blix says likewise...
    Blix also claims the situation would have been better if the war had not taken place, saying, "Saddam would still have been sitting in office. Okay, that is negative and it would not have been joyful for the Iraqi people. But what we have gotten is undoubtedly worse."

  8. Re:Thats great but.. on One Laptop Per Child Gets 4 Million Laptop Order · · Score: 1

    you can pledge to buy one here...

  9. Re:Just following suit. on UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    To be honestm, they already won. The purpose of terrorists is to create terror and thus change society. Our governements have been altering the rules and bases of our society, they've been taking our civil liberties away and thus changed the main princple, the freedom of thought. How can we form our own oppinions of the world when everything around us is scanned, manipulated and controlled by the governement. That's why it's so important to have freedom of press, freedom of speech etc etc.

  10. Re:Not likely on U.S. to Gain Access to EU Retained Data · · Score: 2, Informative

    You must be kidding right? Here's a nice overview, also EDRI has quite some information...

  11. Re:Sack of shit on U.S. to Gain Access to EU Retained Data · · Score: 1

    I hope you have some money otherwise you can't teleport as it's patented...

  12. Re:No surprise at all on FCC Affirms VoIP Must Allow Snooping · · Score: 1

    It's been possible to encrypt your mobile calls for quite some years now with cryptophone, a product from Ron Gongrijp.

  13. collection on More Than 20 Years of the Web on the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    six out of ten in my collection...

  14. From the website itself.... on Government-Aided Phishing · · Score: 4, Informative

    Defending Yourself Against Identity Theft

    According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), identity theft occurs when someone uses your personal information such as your name, Social Security number, credit card number or other identifying information, without your permission to commit fraud or other crimes. The FTC reports that there were 161,819 victims of identity theft in calendar year 2002. Florida has one of the highest

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    Tips to Avoid Identity Theft
    -Do not respond to phone calls or emails from unknown solicitors seeking personal information.
    -Do not leave documents containing identifying information lying around your house or workplace. Keep them in a secure location.
    -When discarding documents containing your social security number, credit or debit card information, or utility and phone bills, shred or destroy them. Don't just throw them away.
    ...
    -Limit the contents of your wallet. Do not carry extra credit cards or important identity documents (social security card, passport, etc.) except when needed. Never carry passwords or PIN numbers in your wallet. -Photocopy, scan, or make a list of the contents of your wallet and keep it in a safe place. Copies or scans should include both sides of each item. A list should include account numbers, expiration dates, and customer service phone numbers for each item.


    Maybe someone could point them to their own site? And why make copies if you can download for free???

  15. Re:What problem? on Microsoft Anti-Spyware Removes Norton Anti-Virus · · Score: 1

    For the home-users I support I always install AVG-free, great package. The only disadvantage is the updater for winme/win98 stations, having to download a 2 MB updatefile a couple of times a week is a pain in the ass for people with a 56k modem. At some offices I use f-prot. Hardly any recources and I didn't have a slip-through up till now. Mcaffeee, Norton and Sophos were all memory-hoggs is my experience...

  16. Re:David vs Goliath on Dutch Court Orders Lycos to Reveal Client · · Score: 1

    Yes, but only because he had Brein behind him, paying for lawyers etc. Also, somewhere I read he's making like 350k/year with his stamps, don't know if it's true though.

  17. Re:Don't miss the entertainment industry connectio on Dutch Court Orders Lycos to Reveal Client · · Score: 5, Informative

    Brein is not a government-appointed foundation, it's a foundation which is set up and paid for by the music-industry. They act like they have the authoroty to prosecute just like the RIAA does, but they have just as much right to do so like every other individual. One of the founders of Brein is the organisation BUMA/STEMRA which is the dutch organsation for collection and distibution of royalties for the componists, bands and producers. Over here if, as a componist or a band, you don't become a member of BUMA/STEMRA you can't have cd's made. You'll have to burn them yourselves or you have to go abroad. When you become a member you'll have to pay quite some money, so only the real popular bands will be able to gain some money.

  18. Re:the real news on Novell Doubts Microsoft Latest "Linux Facts" · · Score: -1

    Or you could ask the author yourself in yesterdays news

  19. Re:Dear Microsoft... on Novell Doubts Microsoft Latest "Linux Facts" · · Score: 1

    Or you could ask the author yourself in yesterdays news

  20. Re:Apples and Pears on Novell Doubts Microsoft Latest "Linux Facts" · · Score: 1

    Or you could ask him yourself in yesterdays news

  21. Better then google moon on View the Moon in 3D on Your Desktop · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course they couldn't stay behind after Google released Google Moon but this looks way more promising...
    Let me just say: Cool!!! (-9F, 451R, -23C, 250K on the average that is...)

  22. Re:I dunno on White House Cease & Desists to The Onion · · Score: 1

    Actually this was no joke. Even in the Netherlands there are fundamentalist christians who oppose against the Harry Potter Books. We have the "week of childrens book" which theme was "witches and wizards" this year and quite some schools didn't engage this year.

  23. Re:Mass production is the real challenge on World Solar Challenge Started in Australian Desert · · Score: 1

    Of course these races won't do the trick, but the research which is being done for these cars will help understanding solar power better and it will certainly have a lot of spinn-off into the real world. That's the purpose of a lot of fundamental research and also the purpose of for instance the martian-landers (unless you're really planning on living on mars when we fucked up earth too much)

  24. new alternatives on Seattle Axes Monorail Project · · Score: 1

    I'm really glad that they killed this
    What is with the fixation with monorails?
    Guess the good citizens of Seattle checked up on what happened to the monorail in Springfield and all those other poor towns.

    I can see most /.-ers are opposed to monorails. City's don't come up with these ideas without a reason. It's (even to us cellar-dwellars who never see a ray of sun on our skins) that there's a problem with transportation. I wonder then, what's the best alternative?
    * Building metro's? They're really expensive, not all soil is suited for metro's and it means turns the city into a building-area for years and years...
    * Building more roads? You're causing more exhaust-gasses and no matter how many roads you build, you'll always have traffic-jams...
    * Double rails? It produces much more fricion in general (don't know the specifics of the Seattle-project) which causes more noise and needs more energy
    * More public transportation busses? Almost the same disadvantages as building more roads.
    * More trams? See under more roads...

    Can we, as a bunch of creative technology-freaks, come up with a better solution for the traffic-problem or is the monorail in fact the best solution? I know WE don't mind remotely working from our basements but there's an world out there in which this isn't possible... People have to actually see and meet each other IRL...

  25. money buys everything on Business At The Price Of Freedom · · Score: 1

    Though, like often, I would like to fall into some serious US-bashing I'm afraid the whole world sees China as THE market for the future with huge profits. The fact that there's oppression doesn't withold big company's from making money. OTOH, Chinese people get to learn more and more about freedom dealing with the internet and dealing with other countries. The US-navy actively sponsores TOR to help the freedom of speech in China...