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  1. Re:For what it's worth.... on New Version of Gmail Being Tested · · Score: 1

    They already call it Google Mail in some contexts. I've had an @googlemail.com account for quite a while.

  2. Re:It doesn't matter when the defendant suffers fr on First New Dismissal Motion Against RIAA Complaint · · Score: 1

    Do you think that becoming a father at 15 doesn't mess up your life? Or do fathers have no responsibilities where you live?

  3. Re:Particularly Interesting.... on Linux Devicemaker Sued In First US Test of GPL · · Score: 1
    Being reduced in rank in the Army, named as third party in a divorce, or caught climbing King's College Chapel are the other ways I recall hearing of losing your eligibility for the MA.

    On a technical point, the MA isn't an "MA in law" or in any other subject. But neither is the BA, and that hasn't stopped it becoming customary to talk of a "BA in x" where x is the tripos of which one studied Part II.

  4. Re:evidence on A Gut Check On Gutsy Gibbon · · Score: 1

    And, of course, the folks at icanhascheezburger.com will have a field day with Kinky Kitten.

  5. Re:You could script it for Linux on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 1

    The laptop's interface's address could be an 196.168.*.* or 10.*.*.*. How about also including the output of traceroute to some arbitrary address?

  6. Re:Cron on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 1

    If you want top be super paranoid, install a keylogger and set up a cron job to periodically scp the files to an ssh account you own.
    If you want to be even mildly paranoid then don't just pick "an ssh account you own". If your laptop can scp to that account, the person in possession of it can ssh to it.
  7. Re:Kind of makes sense. on German Police Arrest Admin of Tor Anonymity Server · · Score: 1

    More likely to be embassy staff checking their e-mail.

  8. Re:That sounds like praise for European privacy la on Google Calls for International Privacy Standards · · Score: 1

    From my perspective, as an individual, the EU Directive on data protection is one of the best things to come out of Brussels.

  9. Re:Everything I know I learned in kindergarden... on SCO Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    I didn't even have to push my sister back. I'm bony enough that when she punched me she'd hurt her hand and start crying, getting me in trouble.

  10. Re:'visitors DNA' on Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK · · Score: 1

    When I flew from the UK to South America two years ago, I had to make a connection in Houston. It was pretty similar to the situation you describe except that rather than having my water confiscated (that was before the fuss about "liquid bombs"), there was a massive queue to have my fingerprints taken and my iris photographed.

  11. Re:In the UK on Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License · · Score: 1

    In the UK, I believe you can be arrested for "failing to produce ID".
    Nonsense. A British citizen in the UK is not required to possess ID, so can hardly be required to produce it.
  12. Re:source? on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's because all the lovers of freedom flock to America, whereas people who think they can trade freedom for security .... stay home where they belong.
    That sounds rather perverse on the part of the former.
  13. Re:Because we all know on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1

    How do you think people study at Oxford? Reading books, and then discussing them one-on-one with their dons (and perhaps, even often, informally, with their fellow students).
    While I studied at Cambridge rather than Oxford, I believe the systems to be very similar: there's probably more variation between subjects than between the two universities. For undergrad maths and sciences a week's workload breaks down at about 10 hours of lectures, 2 to 8 hours of practicals (varying by subject, options, and how far through the course you are), 3 hours of supervisions (one to three undergrads with either a Fellow or, more usually, a postgrad), and as much time as one needs and is willing to spend preparing for those supervisions.
  14. Re:Someone didn't RTFA on Attack of the Evil Monkeys From Hell · · Score: 1
    The summary is pretty much a rewriting of the first paragraph of the article, which begins

    If you live in the small village of Nachu in Kenya, watch out, because a group of approximately 300 marauding monkeys is out to steal your food, sexually harass your women and attack and kill your livestock! In a truly amazing incidence of interspecies communication, a group of vervet monkeys, Cercopithecus aethiops, is using sexual harassment to intimidate women and children...
  15. Re:DHCP on UK Police Cracking Down on Broadband Theft · · Score: 1

    There are four key elements to a contract in English law: offer, acceptance, consideration, and intent to create legal relations. No matter how you cut it, you're going to find it hard to claim that there is consideration: the owner of the network doesn't benefit in any way.

  16. Re:No problem on UK Police Cracking Down on Broadband Theft · · Score: 1

    My father used to work at a school next to Regent's Park, and cycled there. He bought a foldable bike after he had two bikes, both locked inside the school, stolen in a week.

  17. Re:When Wealthy Christians and Crackpots Attack! on Science Blogger Sued for Unfavorable Book Review · · Score: 1

    Most sensible people in the modern world would call a doctor who proposed leeching as a panacea to be a crackpot for much the same reason--it is contrary to well established medical fact and commonly available evidence.
    A doctor who proposes anything to be a panacea can be regarded as a crackpot, so there's nothing specific to leeching in that statement. If, however, you intended to say that a doctor who prescribed leeches would be a crackpot then you're two decades out of date. Modern research indicates that hirudotherapy, the medicinal application of leeches, can be beneficial in certain cases.
  18. Re:"US recruitment site"?? on Monster.com Attacked, User Data Stolen · · Score: 1

    By your logic ("it is what you call it") all the Native-Americans should be citizens of India, right?
    Actually, that's the precise opposite of GP's argument. By his logic native Americans, not being from India, should not be called Indians.
  19. Re:Farthest Man Made Object? I duno.... on Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's without even raising the question of what constitutes an object. If photons or neutrinos count...

  20. EU law? on Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready! · · Score: 1

    Had I ever changed apartments, I would have been required by EU law to report my change of residence to the police.
    Are you sure it's EU law? Certainly you have to register residence in many EU countries, but I live in the UK, which is usually one of the first countries to implement new EU directives, and we don't have that requirement. Yet. We're moving towards it, but that's a domestic issue - our government is just as set as yours on having a massive tempting target for fraudsters ^W^W^W^W database of all residents.
  21. Re:It's called detailed billing on iPhone Bill a Whopping 52 Pages Long · · Score: 1

    Any reasonable person would interpret "detailed billing" to mean details about what you're being billed. If an item costs $0.00, it isn't being billed. There should be one line saying "Unlimited data transfer - $xx.yy".

  22. Re:Media believes it is above the law ... on Dateline NBC Mole Outed At DefCon · · Score: 1

    I suspect that the reason "feral beast" is in quotes in the GP is that it's quoting Tony Blair, who described journalists thus in his last press conference as Prime Minister.

  23. Re:telemarketers on First Third-party Native iPhone Application Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not /dev/random. You want to wait for a pause in the incoming sound wave and play samples of voice saying things like "Do go on" and "Could you run that past me again?"

  24. Re:And what do horoscopes have to do with science? on Winnie Wrote a Math Book · · Score: 1

    Taurus
    You will never find true happiness - what you gonna do, cry about it?
    The stars predict tomorrow you'll wake up, do a bunch of stuff, and then go back to sleep
    From Your Horoscope for Today, "Weird Al" Yankovic.
  25. Cricket? on Winnie Wrote a Math Book · · Score: 1

    Do baseball matches take 5 days?