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  1. Re:Let me help on An Optimized GUI Based On Users' Abilities · · Score: 4, Funny

    That is because the F1 will not make you continue.

    The interface clearly states: Would you like to delete the seleted file(s)?
    The answwer below it should read:
    All, No or Yes? Press A, N, Y key to continue.

    And if you do not believe that, I will make something else up.

  2. Re:Breaking the law is always easy on Fedora 10 Released · · Score: 1

    The same goes for openSUSE. However there you can just add the Packman repositories that will install MPlayer. Also you can add the ATI or NVidia repositoeries and install those drivers.

    The latter one are at the respective companies themselves.

    They are just not enabled by default.

    Then there is the one-click-install where you can just click on a link and that will do the rest for you (after entering the root password and click on OK once or twice)

    Yes, it is a work around.

  3. Re:So What? on McDonalds Files To Patent Making a Sandwich · · Score: 1

    Well, it isn't. If those people would get their Home F*cking, there would be no prostitution.

    I can only assume it is not so much about quantity as it is about quality.

    I think I am going to apply for a fund so this can be investigated to see whether I am right or not.

  4. Re:Interesting on Lenovo Service Disables Laptops With a Text Message · · Score: 1, Troll

    The junk that steals my portable is not interested in my data. He is interested in selling the PC for a fix.

    This is not about data protection. It is about making the device unusable. Just like you can block your phone when it is stolen.

    It will not stop thiefs of stealing your device. It will not protect your data. As far as I read it does not even claim to do that.

  5. Re:I'd support that... on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am sure that friend was not allowed to do a lot of other things. Sorry, you are on call, that means you are not able to go to a restaurant or movie. Tough luck. Talk to you employer for compensation.

    The doctors I know all turn off their phone during the movie. OTOH they also send text messages to each other during operations, where mere mortals are not even allowed to turn on their phone. (Yes, during the operation.)

    Restaurants do not give much problems here. People take the call outside after the phone was set to vibrate. If they would be on call, they would go outside every 30 minutes or so (like the smokers) and check if they have a message.

    Doctors on emergency call that I know would not go to dinners, but stayed at home. They would do the same if there were blockers.

    If those people do not like it, take a job that does not require you to be on call. I should not suffer from your career choice.

  6. Re:Hold on there... on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    About the fire, crime and emergency. Please look up the numbers of that happening when there were no cell phones available and compare them with how often they are used now in those cases where it was legit.
    Remember that there still can be a fixed phone or even a dect available on the premises.

    Now if there is a fire in a movie theater, you guide the people out. It could be even a GOOD thing that not 1.000 people are starting to call 911 at the same time, but just the employees.
    The same for a restaurant. Let the restaurant owner or the waiters go to the fixed phone and call whomever needs to be called.

    There could even be a button or automatic device that if the fire alarm goes off, the blocking is disabled. And another button that it can disable it whenever it is needed. You could even enable it during the film itself and disable it in between and only in the room where the movie is shown.

  7. Re:perspective on How to Deal With an Aging Brain? · · Score: 1

    Same thing happend to my aunt.
    Oh and the eating of a herring and drinking of orange juice was only true in the last two years or so.

    The reason she told this was because people kept asking and she did not have the answer either. I think because there is no answer. The only thing I noticed with very old people is that they were all optimists that kept themselves busy.

    And one lesson I learned form her was that it doesn't matter how long you have lived, but how much.

    For interested in OS. Giving your body to science must be the ultimate open source project you can achieve and that is just what she did.

  8. How much is spam? on Bush Administration's E-Mail Deluge May Overload Archive System · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How much of that is spam? I can imagine they are not allowed to delete spam. Spam has increased, so this would mean that all of it is still there.

    The rest can mean a lot of different things. I am forced to work (otherwise no food) with 150MB excel files that I would love to put in a database and would take up at least 10 times less space. And I am not even talking about speed increase and ease of use, because somebody else has the file open, so I can not change the content.

    Or perhaps Clinton did not keep everything. Or ...

  9. Re:But... on Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle · · Score: 1

    Bored? I would say occupied (with your right hand, that is).

  10. Re:Misleading summary on Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle · · Score: 1

    #bin/bash
    #openSUSE 11.0
    for I in `grep -i '^[qwertasdfgzxcvb]\{12,\}$' /usr/share/dict/words`
    do
        L=`echo $I|wc -c`
        echo $L $I
    done

    This gives me:
    15 sweaterdresses
    14 detractresses
    ...

  11. Where is the line to draw? on AP Suspends DoD Over Altered US Army Photo · · Score: 1

    I have seen photographers alter photo's by adding different lenses to their apparatus. Before digital camera's, they did things during the development. In some digital camera's I can select a frame to go around the person while I take the picture.

    So what is alteration and what is not? Taking a picture is already an alteration in my eyes.

  12. Re:Criminal intent? on Studios Sue Oz ISP Over Allowing Piracy · · Score: 1

    They should sue the movie and record companies who makes the material available in the first place. If they would not produce the content, nobody would be able to pirate it.
    Do not blame the middle man. Start at the source.

  13. Obb xkcd on Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstructed · · Score: 1
  14. Intelligent design? on Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstructed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If we are able to design an animal, would this mean intelligent design, or would it mean evolution at its best? (There goes the karma)

  15. How many were NOT arrested? on Fewer Than 1% Arrested From TSA's "Behavior Detection" · · Score: 1

    How many of the people that should have been arrested were not? For all I know using this system makes things LESS safer, because now more people pass that would have been arrested otherwise.

  16. Re:Yes. on Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? · · Score: 1

    On monday morning my login procedure take 15-20 minutes. All other days I just hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and ENTER. Fridays I do a log off. This is not just for me, this is for everybody.

    Yes, I do know there are ways to make it faster from a technical point of view. I am not in charge to decide that.

  17. Re:Yes. on Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In Belgium I am insured when going to work and getting from work, even though I do not get payed that time.

  18. Depends on why you do it on Real Name For Open Source Development? · · Score: 1

    If you do it because you want to protect yourself legaly, you must know that you do something wrong. Stop doing it. OTOH there can be many other reasons you do something under an alias. I started using my alias to have a completely sperate name offline and online. That way I would not be confused as if I were speaking for the company I worked for.
    A nickname is nothing more then a just that, a nickname. It is a name that you are known by in a certain group of people. Take somebody who is called Robert Williams (Random pick).
    His mother might still call him Bobby, his brother Robby, his wife Rob, his best man, Robster, his huntingmates Gunner, his employees Mr. Williams, his drinkingbuddies Moaner (don't ask) and his kids call him daddy first, dad later.
    All different names for different groups of people. I am sure that most people will have different names in different groups.

    The main difference might be that your online allias will be one that you picked yourself and all the others are given to you.

  19. Re:"Being developed" = "Hey, I got an idea" on Grenade-Style Wireless Camera For Combat · · Score: 3, Funny

    You do not need to shoot it far, just further then the restraining order allows you to get to.

  20. Re:imagine on Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator · · Score: 0

    To me it proves that Anonymous Coward is running the Universe.

  21. Re:Too good to be true? on In AU, Dodgy Dell Deal Faces Consumer Backlash · · Score: 3, Informative

    The same applies in Belgium. If it is obviously a human error, then there is no deal. This can happen if you forgot a 0 at the end and the car is only 10% of the value. It must however be blatantly obvious. e.g. a car for 5.000 instead of the standard 50.000 is obvious.

    55% would not be seen as obvious and in Belgium they would be forced to deliver the PC at that price. There are sometimes PCs that are end of stock and can be had had reduced prices. Also you can not sell at a loss in Belgium unless it is the sales period, which is fixed.

    Here you must even have a reasonable stock of said items. So you can not say 2EUR for this PC and then only have 1 PC just so you hope people will buy something else. This is what you get in a communist country where the law in principle sides with the people not the companies.

  22. Re:Learn a lesson from America on Irish Gov't Seeks To Rein In Cyber Bullying · · Score: 1

    I once beat up a bully and the school decided to call the police. Nobody ever bullied me again, so I would say it was worth it. I would do it again.

  23. Re:What happens when other countries do that too ? on The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker · · Score: 1

    So in what countries do I have the risk of being arrested? Unless they take me with them, the chances are pretty high that I do not even know that for the country I currently live in.

  24. Re:I bet... on How 10 Iconic Tech Products Got Their Names · · Score: 1

    Many expecting parents do exactly that for about 8-9 months.

  25. Re:Obligatory... on 40 Years Ago, the US Lost a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    Well, next time quote your source correctly. They actualy said:

    The nuclear device is currently prodected by Selachimorpha with Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiatin.