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  1. Re:Two ways on More On Shatner's Possible Return To Trek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Another ten cameras?

  2. Re:If safety depends on it, use a reliable OS on Fed-Up Hospitals Defy Windows Patching Rules · · Score: 1
    If I would be in a hospital and find out they use W***s or L**x for running stuff like a breathing machine or hart monitor, I'd sue them, go to the press, or both.
    I quite agree. Deer should be cared for by vets, not the local hospital.
  3. Re:Freedom of Speech? on Meta-tag Spam Declared Illegal in Germany · · Score: 1

    You don't have that "basic right" anyway. There are all sorts of laws restricting what you can put on your own web page - consider copyright legislation, legislation to prevent incitement to commit various crimes, in Germany probably anti-neo-Nazi legislation, etc.

  4. Re:pardon my ignorance, but on Estonia Tests "Contactless" ID-Cards · · Score: 1
    Might be true in western Europe, but I don't think that's generally true.
    It's true in the EU as a whole. That's 25 European countries now.
  5. Re:so ? on Estonia Tests "Contactless" ID-Cards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you go to an international airport, you should make sure your mobile phone is turned off, or people will clone it on the grounds that you'll be out of the country and won't notice for a few weeks. This contactless technology is looked upon favourably by Blunkett, so I face the prospect of having to take my passport to the airport wrapped in a Faraday shield to prevent people reading the information and burgling my house on the grounds it will be empty for a few days.

  6. Re:Yes and No...Better solution:Assign the passwor on Passwords - 64 Characters, Changed Daily? · · Score: 1
    Second, accountability for your password goes out the window when someone else knows and controls the password. If the adminstrator knows all the passwords, they can logon as the user without the user knowing. Alternatively, the user can suggest that the administrator did the action which the user is being accused of.
    I can log on as anyone at my company without knowing their passwords, by logging on as root and then using su.
  7. Eh? on CAN-SPAM Is A Bust · · Score: 1

    Bulk mail folder? I don't have a folder called Bulk. Unless it's an alias for Trash, or an option which needs enabling, I have to wonder whether it was something added and not retrofitted to existing accounts.

  8. Re:The secret on CAN-SPAM Is A Bust · · Score: 1

    Nope. I get about five a week to my Yahoo! account, which is nine years old, one a month to my main account, and one or two a week to my work account. I set up throwaways on a subdomain when I need an address to register for something, but I've only had to redirect two or three of those to the bit bucket. (The worst offender was the one I used to post to a newsgroup via Google Groups).

  9. Slashdotted already on Farewell To Eyes Above And Below · · Score: 1

    Does "not recoverable" mean with or without sending astronauts up? If the latter, is it possible it'll be repaired in a few years?

  10. Chalk on Deep Green - A Pool Playing Robot? · · Score: 4, Funny

    At last: a pool opponent who doesn't spend the entire match distracting you by chalking their cue!

  11. Re:Well I work for some Gas Giants, yet... on Are We Alone in the Universe? · · Score: 1

    Maybe once the bailiffs clear out things will pick up again.

  12. Re:You lack imagination... on Katie Jones Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Or whitehouse.gov.

  13. Re:Huh??? on States Threaten P2P Companies · · Score: 1
    Bullets kill people. Guns only mediate.
    Massive blood loss kills people. Bullets only provide a suitable hole.

    Yes, I'm assuming the bullet doesn't hit you in the head.

  14. Wimp on States Threaten P2P Companies · · Score: 1

    sed will do the job perfectly adequately.

  15. Re:Why not tarbox.com? on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 1
    http://www.tarbox.com/ redirects to a page a netidentity.com where you can sign up for an email address @tarbox.com.
    Netidentity owns over 15,000 popular surname-based domain names and allows anyone to use them for email and website addresses.
  16. Re:When is civil disobedience justified? on Australian Voting Software Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1

    I don't know what he thought, but it seemed to me that he was being picked on for a misunderstanding due to a phrase being used in an unusual way. (And, FWIW, recent events in the US and France have shown that civil disobedience and marriage law can come into contact).

  17. Re:typing is absolutely necessary on Is Typing a Necessary Skill? · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. After all, it's the person who can type "Frist psot" the fastest who wins, isn't it?

  18. Re:Other implications on Is Typing a Necessary Skill? · · Score: 1

    In parts of England. With the exception of a group of Oxford students, I've rarely heard anyone use it. (Born and raised in Kent, living in Cambridge for the past five years).

  19. Re:Nah. on Is Typing a Necessary Skill? · · Score: 1

    The Dvorak one-hand-only keyboard layouts might be worth using. When I had my right hand in a sling for five weeks, I experimented with Dvorak left-hand-only, and although I decided after two days that I wouldn't learn it fast enough for it to be worth continuing with the experiment, and went back to QWERTY, I was getting the hang of finding most letters without looking at my cheat sheet.

  20. Re:Slashdot good training for kids on Is Typing a Necessary Skill? · · Score: 1
    thanks to you guys for ribbing the hell out of kids who try to get away with crappy grammer and spelling
    I take it then that you'll appreciate being told that grammar has two 'a's.
  21. Re:When is civil disobedience justified? on Australian Voting Software Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1

    Civil law is normally defined as that part of law which isn't criminal law. Definitions.

  22. Re:When is civil disobedience justified? on Australian Voting Software Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1

    This is the guy whose party got 102% of the vote in his home town, because the returning officers didn't want to disappoint him.

  23. Re:When is civil disobedience justified? on Australian Voting Software Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod points (+1 insightful, even though I'm of the opinion that Switzerland is the only country approaching democracy), but since I don't I'll reply instead. I'm reminded of something Tony Blair said to Jeremy Paxman when being interviewed about his policy on higher education funding: "Sometimes you please very few of the people any of the time." That doesn't sound like a democracy to me.

  24. Re:You mean like slashdot on The Rise Of Reg-Only Media · · Score: 1
    :starts tearing own hair out:
    Where you...
    There's no "do" in that sentence; the answer required is a boolean, not a location.
  25. Re:You mean like slashdot on The Rise Of Reg-Only Media · · Score: 1
    Look at the text of the post rather than the author:
    Where you have to register to get your comment above the default threshold?