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  1. Re:The Law on Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    AKA: Do as I say, not as I do.

  2. Re:Typical on US Army "Scams" Service Members to Test Their Spam Gullibility · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the guy calls you, because he then does not have to work. I have seen the same behavious with people trying to get to delay working. They blame the computer of not being able to do something.
    Instead of me wasting my time (the first time is OK) I tell them to ask their N+1 or in their abscence N+2 to explain it. This solves the problem ectremely fast.

    Also: why are people fired if they watch a female nipple, but not if they install and download something that will result in a re-instalaton and thus in actual loss in money and productivity.

    Wether you loose time by looking at women or by reading /. should not matter.

  3. Re:Interesting problems for students on U. Maine Law Students Trying To Shut RIAA Down · · Score: 1

    Forget about the CD. Boot from USB and use something like this or any other distribution. And for USB sticks, there are so many types available, including ones that look like Lego, Micro-SD cards or Other things so that unless they storm your house when the device is plugged in, they realy would have no idea what to look for.

  4. The message is often not important on Blocking Steganosonic Data In Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    They can send a 'secret' message if they so desire. That can be by asking if aunt Lilly is still sick. This could trigger an event or it could be that aunt Lilly was sick. Or even both.

    What is more important very often is being able to link people. To see who is talking to who. The fact that a secret message is send will highten the importance.

    So what could a wannabe terrerist do to avaid that? Usenet! No direct connection between the two and everybody can connect from everywhere and post to any group. As long as you keep to the rules of a (binary) group, you should be OK.
    Even when caught, the person sending might not even KNOW who the reciever might be.

    Disadvatage is that there is no or only slow interaction possible.

  5. Re:Another fun keyboard prank... on Geeky April Fools' Day Prank Roundup · · Score: 1

    M an N keys switching will be noticed pretty fast. Do it with the keys on a phone that doesn't have a display so that they have the same order as the keyboard. Watch them to try and make a phonecall.

  6. Re:Clandestine? on Clandestine Operations at Google · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hiring a guy (or team of people) who know how to handle the Government is practically a necessity if you want to make sales like this.
    I agree. Where I used to work we had a person who did all the contracts with the governements (we have several in Belgium), cities and other official customers.
    he als had a different target, Profit was not his main goal. The largest amount of equipment was. That way we could advertise that we we largest in the country for our product.
    There was at least one person in each of the European countries.
  7. Re:why on 3G iPhone Going Into Production In May · · Score: 1

    Flop? It isn't on sale in Belgium. Other then that, you might be right. The reason might be that people in Europe are not realy surprised if they see a phone that can do some other things as well.

  8. Re:Please... on What Are Must-Sees For Open Day At the LHC? · · Score: 1

    All this to sell a A superconducting key ring! I kid you not. It is on the website. It is a scam. A normal keyring works just as fine as a superconducted one.

  9. Redifine 'sexual intent' on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 1

    Is it the girl doing the lapdance in the bar. She does NOT want to have sex. However if your girlfriend or wife is doing it, it can be sexual intent. Or it could be she just wants a new dress.

    When told my jeans were fitting nicely, was she coming on, or was she polite?
    When somebody invided me to here house did she wanted to do the nasty, or did she wanted to talk?

    Often things can mean two things, or like Freud said it sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

  10. Re:Soapboxing on Amazon Insists Publishers Use Their On-Demand Printer · · Score: 1

    They talk about the second part of the last seentence: to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online
    If they disable the ability to buy, it violates their goal to become customer friendly.

  11. Re:No suprise... on Microsoft Brand In Sharp Decline · · Score: 2, Funny

    IMO, MS lost its direction when they became entirely marketing/business/lawyer driven instead of engineering driven.
    OK, I agree and we can even date when that happend February 3, 1976
  12. How to prevent this on Cell Phones To Be Allowed On UK Planes · · Score: 1

    There is a way we can prevent this from disturbing you in your sleep. Prevnt people using any phone at all.

    I will make a site on how to open up your celphone, sharpen the board into a knife and then leak it to the Homeland SA. Soon phones will be banned on planes. You could even just sgharpen the sim card.
    My grandfather already told be how they would hide their 'weapons'. They sharpend a coin and used that in fights.

    This is how I prevented people from passing you all the time to go to the toilet, by preventing liquids on board.

  13. Re:Goddammit! on What Will Life Be Like In 2008? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not only that. It is not devided honestly. Some people have 0 hours and some have 8.

  14. Re:We all know what to do now: on Beer-Drinking Scientist Debunks Productivity Correlation · · Score: 1

    So basicaly beer vs. Non beer.

    You could use the American Beers for the double blind tests.

  15. The originating article on A New Tool From Google Worries Brand-Name Sites · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Always nice to see some people panicking over something that happens and then not show where the actual panick originated.
    The original article is most likely this one with a link to some sample.

    You can try out comapnies yourselves. bwm does nothing. Nasa gives a result. wikipedia as well.

    This is all on the Google site. I have not yet found a company site that uses Google (payed, not free) and get the seconday search.

    What they do on their own site is their business. If they would do it on a site of one of their customers without asking, that might indeed upset them.

    As far as I can see the secondary popup happens only to companies who are already customer and do have such a searchengine on their site anyway.

    So instead of doing a search on google, find the site, click on that site and then do the 'search site with google' you do the search, then do the search and then get the results from that specific site. Good for Google as it can server more adds. Bad for Googles customers, as they do get lesser visitors.

  16. Wilders declines offer from Dutch Mulimbroadcast on Network Solutions Suspends Site of Anti-Islam Film · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/3619543/_Wilders_slaat_aanbod_af__.html?p=14,1 in Dutch
    http://canadianinfidel.blogspot.com/2008/03/wilders-declines-offer-from-muslim.html in English

    So apperently the Muslims in the Netherlands are willing to show it if they can see it upfront to make sure it contains no legally libel content.

    Nice to see that the Muslims are more willing and open then a US based company when it concerns free speech.

  17. Re:Experience it first hand on The Wrath of the Apple Tribe · · Score: 1

    I live in fucking Europe and public transport sucks.
    for you.

    For people making short journeys with predictable times and a reliable public transport service, sure, it can work out. But I'm not such a person,
    OK. However for many people it is, or it would be. However people think it is better to sit one hour alone in a car then one hour in a train. All the rest are excuses. People like it having their own transportation.
  18. Technical solution on Network Solutions Suspends Site of Anti-Islam Film · · Score: 1

    to a social problem.

    If he wants to put out the film, put it out on torrent.

    The fact that Netsol was completely out of line is something else. I wonder who pushed them and wether this has been done before. This all irregarless of the subject the movie might handle.

  19. Unimpressive on Astronomers Find Oldest Known Asteroids · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would be impressed if they would have found the oldest unknown adstroid.

  20. Re:The real dissaster is spectrum regulation. on Australian WiMax Pioneer Calls It a Disaster · · Score: 1

    The AM radio is as accessible and familiar to the four year old as it is to the centenarian.
    AM? I have never ever listend to a readiostation in my life. It is all FM here in Europe.
  21. Re:Not so fast... on White House Says Hard Drives Were Destroyed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't it sad that you can not even go after the people who have done it when you catch them with both hands in the cookie jar AND telling you how nice the cookies are.

  22. Re:A way to check... on White House Says Hard Drives Were Destroyed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nuremberg Defense. Unfortunatly only for the military.

  23. Windowmaker is what I use on From GNOME to KDE and Back Again · · Score: 1

    I run Windowmaker as that gives me much better what I personally want. I use both KDE and GNOME programs that I want.

    To answer the question, Yes GNOME is a better desktop for you
    Or as the French say: Le goût et les couleurs, ça ne se discute pas.

  24. Re:unimportant on Blu-ray BD+ Cracked · · Score: 1

    http://plutohome.com/ is perhaps something you can use for that.

    I do not have the HD space at this moment, otherwise I would do the same.

  25. Re:Heh. on Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year · · Score: 1

    I make it simpeler.
    One machine and a printer. Machine counts the vote. Printed paper has the vote on it and is put in a box.
    Random places are selected to count the paper votes and compare them to the electronic ones.
    If there is any doubt, count the paper votes.

    No barcode printed, because people can not read those and could contain information about the voter.