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  1. Re:PIGS IN CYBERSPACE! on The International Cyber Cop Unit · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Many problems with that study on Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer · · Score: 1

    This should mean a hole in the market. Put the pubs where people CAN get to them.

    Obviously, where I live (Leuven, Belgium) we have a University, the world largest brewery and many, many pubs. Some 35 are one next to the other and yes, it is possible to visit them all in one evening.

    Everything is in crawling distance as well.

  3. Re:I wish our IT was like this. on Pleasing Google's Tech-Savvy Staff · · Score: 3, Informative

    I feel with you. The several IT departments I wored with have the same attidute of not wanting to change anything and forbid everything that could hinder them.

    The worst I have seen was where I requested an email to be send from a a system. I knew it was possible. What was even worse was the fact that they had bought the CRM package for a LOT of money, because it was able to do so.

    So when I asked if it would be possible to implement it, the answer was that I needed to fill out a request. I told them I could only fill out the request if I knew how much money it would cost.

    Catch 22. The procedure on how to do things was written and nothing could change that.

    I have seen IT departments that were unable to remove certain rights from people if they would not need them anymore, because there was no procedure for it.

    I myself had, due to human error, access to each and every place in the building. More then anybody else. When I mentioned this, they told me that because I got it, somebody must have OKed it so I have the right to it.

    IT departments just LOVE procedures. Basicaly because they are so easy to put in logical yes and no questions and answers. They should start with some debugging of their procedures and realise that the real world is more then if, then, else.

    It seems that the person at Google has done just that.

  4. Re:Office 2007 ... still good enough on An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Where I work, we are in the process of going to 2003. I am Betatesting right now. No, I am not kidding you. It does the job of what we need. (2000 is becoming a bit slow)
    Also for our 100 sites (or so) we are testing OOo as an alternative to Office. The main tool we use is websites.n

    I seriously have no idea why they do not use Linux. On 95% of our PC's it could be implemented right away with almost no user impact. The only one would be using FF instead of IE.

  5. TFA is wrong on One Minute of Science Per Five Hours of Cable News · · Score: 1

    It might be true if you look at proramming times, however those 5 hours are 5 time repeats, so only one hour. Of that one hour, there is 15 minutes of advertisement, 14 minutes of 'coming up', 10 minutes somebody anouncing somebody else or themselves and 20 minutes of self promotion.

  6. Re:corporate consciousness on Human Rights and a Code of Conduct for China's Web · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is interesting that although the article talks about China, your comment can be applied internationaly.

  7. You can have my USB key on State Agency to Destroy Unauthorized USB Drives · · Score: 0

    when you pry it out of my dead cold fingers.

    Seriously, how can they confiscate personal belongings? I can understand that they forbid the use, but how can they just take away something that belongs to me. Something that is mine.

    What about cellphones? Or mp3 players? Those can be often used in the same way. Will those be confiscated as well?

    It is good that they issue some sort of encryption, yet that does not mean they should be confiscating all the rest.

  8. I know where this is going on UK's MI5 Wants Oyster Card Travel Data · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Remember remember the fifth of November
    Gunpowder, treason and plot.
    I know of no reason why gunpowder, treason
    Should ever be forgot...

  9. Re:I predict a new business coming on UK's MI5 Wants Oyster Card Travel Data · · Score: 1

    The downfall of all of this is that there is no physical link between the tag and any human being.
    So you di not notice all the camera's in the treets of London then? Or the ones in the busses.

    This would be a great excuse for them to say they need it, so they can rule out the people who didn't do anything wrong.
  10. Re:If only it were so good... on Spam King Pleads Guilty in Seattle · · Score: 1

    30 minute time limit? Why would that stop spam? Mr. Spammer does not care wether it will be 30 minutes late . ASlso much spam is send from zombies.

    I think the only solution is to start from scratch and abandon SMTP completely. If I would know how, I would already be using it and so would the rest of the world.

  11. Re:Easy question, easy answer on The Uncertain Future of Global Population Numbers · · Score: 4, Funny

    They are working on that issue in many US schools and post offices and apparently the terrorists are willing to help out as well.

    So the real terrorists are the people preventing all this.

  12. Re:It would be good... on The REAL Reason We Use Linux · · Score: 1

    and I run some windows only games at home.
    Down with proprietary lock-in mechanisms!
    Put your money where your mouth is and stop playing (sell it on eBay, so somebody else does not give that company money) and do not buy anymore closed source games.
  13. Re:hmmmm on A Robotic Taxi Named robuCAB · · Score: 1

    Quick! someone tag this: whatcouldpossiblygowrong
    How about a tag It is Roland again, so nothing to see here, move along.
  14. Re:That is a lot of... on Stored Data to Exceed 1.8 Zettabytes by 2011 · · Score: 1

    openSUSE is 73MB for network installation.

    The fact that after it is done, it coult be several tens of GB large means nothing, I asume.

  15. Re:Is it that much of a deal? on Japan IDs All Its Citizens · · Score: 1

    Abd want to know what is written on the ID card in Belgium?
    http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/EID-belgium
    This also shows what you could do with it, like signing your email.

    It has also links to the offical site where there are more examples of use (French and Dutch)

    I live in Belgium and I have been asked my ID once by police when they were looking for somebody who looked like me. Checked my card and I was on my way. Otherwise they would have taken me to the police station and I would have to otherwise proove who I was. What if I would have been the person they were looking for?

    The reason I know they were looking for somebody was because two days later I saw them stop a guy who had the same sort of clothes and the same build and hairstyle I had, checked his papers and where on their way.

  16. Re:It's not the ultimate meaning... on Hitchhiker's Guide Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    73 and 37 are reverse numbers. Coincidence? I think not.

  17. Re:Most popular books are fiction on User-Generated Content Vs. Experts · · Score: 1

    Cookbooks?

    But indeed, most books that are popular will be fictional. The reason is that if you have 20 different books about one subject, the 21st book will not likely be adding something to your knowledge.

    Whereas 200 fictional books will not even scratch the surface of possabilities on satisfying the readers interest.

  18. Re:Well, what did you expect? on Posting Publicly Available URL Claimed a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    Wishing, yes. Luckily that is not the case.

  19. Re:I'm the optimist on FBI Admits More Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    The fact that this information can be found via audits and released publicly signals that our system of government is working pretty well.
    The fact that I can see and report security leaks in open software is not the measurement of how good open software is. The fact that it is CORRECTED is what counts.

    So whoop-di-doo that you are able to find it. As long as nothing is done about it, it only shows how BAD the system is working. It is nice that you can proove it and it is better then nothing, but in itself it is useless.
  20. I already know how to name mine. on Open Source Robot for Household Tasks · · Score: 0

    I would name mine after 'female dog'. I can't wait to yell "Hey BITCH, bring me my beer and get back in the kitchen."

    I can see a merger between them and realdoll.com as well.

    Yes, I am single and live in my moms basement at the age of 38. Why do you ask?

  21. Re:Handing off thumb drives - The new Cuban Intern on The Cuban Memory Stick Underground · · Score: 1

    they can at most carry .5 ounces of microfilm which then requires a microfilm reader
    MicroSD can get up to 8GB and there are small enough. Also there are pretty small: http://www.ixbt.com/short/images/Trifecta_microsd_sd_usb.jpg

    Much smaller then a thumbdrive yet you will be able to use the pigeon. Best of both worlds.
  22. Re:Called UUCP on The Cuban Memory Stick Underground · · Score: 1

    Email only if you have upstream spamfilters. Usenet should not be a problem.

    Also if the internet is out to your location, most likely your landline will be as well. Cellphones could still work and should be able to get Usenet and (filterd) email.

  23. Re:Democrats on Clinton Takes Ohio, Texas; McCain Seals The Deal · · Score: 1

    He is #935C33, I am #FEE497.
    Go see a docter, you don't look well.
  24. Re:Democrats on Clinton Takes Ohio, Texas; McCain Seals The Deal · · Score: 1

    I would say they do not need the help anymore when it is a black man running for the other party and not just one, but as many as there is to be expected percentwise.
    I would say they do not need the help anymore when nobody is interested in what the colour, sex or religion is of the person running.

    I am sure many people will vote for one of the candidates because of the sex of the candidate or the colour of his or her skin instead of what they stand for.

  25. Re:Democrats on Clinton Takes Ohio, Texas; McCain Seals The Deal · · Score: 1

    Showing Obama wearing a turban (I think it was a turban)
    That is what they want you to believe. And I am not trying to make a joke, unfortunatly. And also I do not excuse the wording. If you thought it needs excuse, change it before you press the post button.