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  1. Re: How does... on NHS Fined After Computer Holding Patient Records Found On eBay · · Score: 0

    There's far more force required to do that than to unscrew the lid and remove the platters. Only requires minimal force. Alternatively just drop an anvil on it... but then there's possible mess to clear up, which isn't fun.

  2. Re: How does... on NHS Fined After Computer Holding Patient Records Found On eBay · · Score: 0

    Given the type of data here (personal details - think of the children etc) it's far better to throw the disk in the crusher and let the PC owner acquire a fresh blank disk.

  3. Re:Asta Lavista on Yahoo Puts AltaVista To Death · · Score: 0

    Someone mod parent funny :)

  4. ISR on Edward Snowden Leaves Hong Kong · · Score: 0

    In Soviet China, Moscow extradites you

  5. Re:Viruses drove me from Win7 to Linux on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 0

    What makes you think the windows box isn't rooted? It's pretty hard to tell with the poor windows IO scheduler when it's misbehaving. At least with a Linux box its obvious when its been rooted because you notice an increase in latency from a gazillion new jobs running.

  6. Re:Six years is not a short term on LulzSec Hackers Sentenced To Short Prison Terms · · Score: 0

    It's out of scale because they provided a humorous service to the internet.

  7. Re:maildir: qmail, courier-imapd, roundcube on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Archive and Access Ancient Emails? · · Score: 0

    That sounds fine, you were doing things correctly until you stopped using mutt. Using rc/squirrelmail both require PHP and web server, just to look at mail. mutt has an excellent search facility, can keep an index of headers and will show you want you want 99.9% of the time giving the result I want within two or three lines: l ~d 7d ~s holiday etc

  8. Re:Time Standards vs. Time Formats, and Y10K probl on Ask Slashdot: How Many Time Standards Are There? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't that somewhat close to ISO 8601? I generally find it good and sensihle, helps with sorting and reading.

  9. Re:It's not the ads on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 0

    That's not true. Dove soap does contain glycerine, at least in the UK it's right there on the list.

  10. Re:Great on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 0

    I totally agree. However, WordPerfect 5.1 was damn good on a 8Mhz 086, the text interface was simple. You just wrote what you needed and when you wanted to worry about the layout you'd look at the print preview. I think this is why I prefer things like (La)TeX and do all my editing in vim. Certainly makes life better for me. Someone once said, "if it can't be said in plain text then it's not worth saying", which seems true to most things, so why is the whole world worried about the way something will look once printed, when they should be more concerned with the message?

  11. Re:a good move on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 1

    It does look like this was just a "feeler" but indicates the direction MS wants to take wrt to software licensing.

    Bit of a late feeler, Windows XP is a bit like this, three strikes and you're out. Time to phone custome services for an enabling. Soon people will take notice of Open/Libra office or other free and immediately usable program.

  12. Re:Great on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 1

    Too true. In reality, perhaps they employed a sensible one this time? The MS business was built around piracy, if it were not for people swapping/trading disks all the time in the early day they wouldn't have such a grip on the market now. Move ahead a few decades and people are pissed off with install times, slow boots and difficult migrations.

  13. LOL on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: -1, Troll

    First post!

  14. Re:Cycling and stretching. on Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Fit In the Office? · · Score: 0

    You shouldn't stretch your breaks, your manager will dock your pay.

  15. Re:Um ... excuse me ... on Investing In Lego Bricks For Fun But Mostly Profit · · Score: 0

    I think the point here is that the collections become valuable and someone has made a value tracker for sets. The objective is not to use the toy as an investment, but if you happen to want a particular set you can use the page to locate and estimate what you should pay, or if you're selling, you can make an estimate for what you'd hope to receive for it.

  16. Re:FWIW on Ask Slashdot: Typing Advice For a Guinness World Record Attempt? · · Score: 0

    I started to use the Dvorak layout but it hindered me once I tried to edit a file in vi and started pressing the wrong buttons, hjlk and :wq etc were all in the wrong place. My brain would think "up!" but instead all I pressed was garbage.

  17. Re:Microsoft Office on Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux? · · Score: 0

    I'd hire anyone who submits a CV with LaTeX source.

  18. Obesity on Fast-Food Logos Burned Into Pleasure Center of Children's Brains · · Score: 0

    Obesity is just something to take the place of tobacco to kill off the population just before they're eligible to draw pension, but a little better on the economy since buying food employs more nationals (to stock/cook/deliver/process) the product. Just works better. Genius really. Once people realise they're too fat, they take up a gym routine they can't hope to keep. It's wonderful.

  19. Re:He's right you know... on UEFI Secure Boot and Linux: Where Things Stand · · Score: 0

    TL;DR: Windows took twice as much time to install, cost me 200 times as much money, and provided about 10% of the software.

    Don't forget, Windows is also less helpful when it comes to debugging, where's the useful stuff like strace/ltrace?

  20. Re:Not Surprised on Munich Has Saved €4M So Far After Switch To Linux · · Score: 0

    Ratpoison does this quite easily with a couple of key strokes and your windows can be split very easily. It also loads in a faction of the time that today's bloaty desktops start.

  21. Re:BB: "Inparty must continuebe goodthink!" on UK Plans More Spying On Internet Users Under 'Terrorism' Pretext · · Score: 0

    But a dictatorship that leads the party AND the rebels.

  22. Re:Trolling campaign by GreatBunzinni, aka Rui Mac on UK Plans More Spying On Internet Users Under 'Terrorism' Pretext · · Score: 0

    Then the UK government ministers get onto google and search for 300+ yotabyte management, end up on /. reading posts about why its a stupid idea. I don't see how Fecebook message tracking will get anywhere. Half of this fee is stupid. Fecebook DON'T DELETE messages, they're simply marked as deleted. Just pay a small fee to Fecebook to access the message steam. Job done. Stupid idea, the government wouldn't ever go for that.

  23. Re:Finally! on UK Plans More Spying On Internet Users Under 'Terrorism' Pretext · · Score: 5, Funny

    1984 was about the Thought Police. I don't see any thought on facebook or twitter.

  24. Re:Google needs to focus on a few products on Google Health's Lifeline Runs Out · · Score: 0

    They just seem to cancel anything anytime they want. There was an earlier discussion about Native Client. Who's to say Google won't just drop it? Even Microsoft offers very specific end-of-lifecycle dates and they're always several years in to the future. With every version, too!

    They're free to cancel anything they want, whenever they want. It's their service that you're not paying for.

    I won't be trusting Google's services to stay up, and hence won't be using them either. I only use the ones I can afford to end randomly, like search and youtube.

    I don't trust any provider. All web/mail etc is hosted by myself. If you want a job doing properly, do it yourself.

  25. Re:http://xkcd.com/936/ on Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year? · · Score: 0

    That prompted this, http://www.usenix.org.uk/password, sadly most of the passwords which I have at work don't accept plain words, the crypt string is more appropriate for them. Once I have a random password for a login I record it in a GPG encrypted file along with the username and mail associated with that site and store it in details/sitename/login.gpg, that way it's very easy for me to retrieve.