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  1. Re:Gift Cards on Thousands of Adult Website Accounts Compromised · · Score: 1

    My Citbank has such a card. I can decide for myself how much I want the card to be worth with a minimum of 1 EUR and the card is valid for 2 months.

    It generates a new number, the limit, valid from tru, a cvv2 number and the account holders name. This is for www.citibank.be. No idea why not more banks do this.

    I use a new number for each online purchase that I do. The worst that can happen is that the goods are not deliverd and I loose the amount I payed. However I am not worried wether someone in Georgia (no matter what country) steals my creditcard details and that is most often the highest risk.

  2. Re:Do you know what "anti-trust" means? on FSFE Supports Microsoft Antitrust Investigation · · Score: 2, Informative

    since at least Win98, if not Win95


    The first version of Win95 came without IE. These were both the normal and the a(lowercase) version. The A, B and later C did have (different versions) of Internet Explorer. source
  3. Make something that is different on Extreme Christmas Lights In Orlando · · Score: 1

    Basicaly it is a bunch of groups of lights that go on and off individually. The first time I saw something like this a few years ago it was impressive. Now it is just another one.

    It would be more impressive if he were realy steering each light individualy and thus making his whole house a screen. The real chalange would be to have more then one angle in which it looks great (no just good). This would mean some weeks or months of 3d modelling first to see how it works.

    The obvious next step whould be a connection to the Internet, although a repeating message with "Fuck Global Warming" would be also apropriate.

    Some other lights here from 2005 and although in one colour, better then the one now posted

    Here also something that looks better and is from 2006.
    A last one is here.

  4. Re:The USA should get one of these... on China Anti-Corruption Web Site Crashes On First Day · · Score: 1

    Yeah and with the PATRIOT act, you do not even need to log in. People just can contact you like that to, uhm, verify your claim.

    Hey, with Echalon, you do not even need such a website as they already know.

  5. Re:I'm not sure I'd call it "open sourcing" but... on Afterlife Will Be Costly For Digital Films · · Score: 1

    Do not forget that books from the middle ages where not printed on the same paper we have now, which leaves us with much more time to copy it, if we so desire. Paperbacks are not something that will survive that long.

    OTOH there a a lot more of them, so the chances of one or more surviving for a longer time is also larger.

  6. Re:I guess.. on Chuck Norris Sues Publisher, Tears Don't Cure Cancer · · Score: 1

    I guess you are wrong : Chick Norris on Chuck norris.

  7. Wonder if this is different from what I have alrea on Penetration Testing TV Series Coming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have already seen shows where people are hired to brak into houses and buildings and then 'steal' things. The people get a new burglarproof house, which is then also tested.

    Probably this will follow the same format, but include other techniques as well.

    What people do not realize is that with the world of spam, people hardly ever target one premisis and then see what the best opportunity is, but rather look for the best opportunity and then see to what premesis it is connected.

  8. I know I am going to write on New York Decision On ODF Vs. OOXML Approaching · · Score: 1

    Dear New York,

    I would like it realy realy much if you would use Microsoft one, because that would help my cause much better. As we have a history together, I am sure you will do this.

    O. B. Laden

    Then IF they select for Microsoft you can suddenly 'produce' the email/letter and those who choose for Microsoft will be send to Guantanamo and be an example for the rest of the USofA.

  9. Re:Where do the laws of nature come from? on Where Do the Laws of Nature Come From? · · Score: 1

    And they will sue anybody who will break those laws.

    Jezus must be happy not to live now, because He would be considerd a terorist by walking on water. I just can see it now "Hey, we have one more bearded guy from the middle east for Guantanamo!"

  10. Re:Not true. on Microsoft's Influence On Upcoming ISO Vote · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How many countries require closed format by law? I would say a lot less then there are laws that require open formats.

  11. Re:Who has more money? Google vs Microsoft on Microsoft and Google Duke It Out For the Future · · Score: 1

    Shares are only worth what the fool is willing to give for it.

  12. Re:Absolute truths on Wikipedia? on Should Wikipedia Allow Mathematical Proofs? · · Score: 1

    If you want it to be, yes.

  13. Re:the key to a (more) stable MS Windows install on The Advantages of Upgrading From Vista To XP · · Score: 1

    13) Download a Linux distribution and repeat the process in a virtual manager like Parallels or VMware

  14. Re:Straightforward, sure.. but... | also, the bug on Follow-up on EVE's Boot.ini Issue · · Score: 1

    Well, the people who sufferd will have learned some valuable lessons:
    1) Do not install anything anymore once a system is running and you have critical data on it.
    2) Backup
    3) Be able to restore that backup

    To me it is comparable to changing a tire. If you are not able to do that, you should not even be given a driving licence.

  15. Nice one on Dutch Government Adopts Open Source Software Initiative · · Score: 1

    In the short term, there will not be realy much change, I asume, but in the long term there will be.

    Also everybdoy will be thinking about word, but I am also thinking about Excel sheets and all the scripting that goes with it very often.

  16. After recieving the messages on Does Active SETI Put Earth in Danger? · · Score: 1

    After recieving the messages, they have edited their intel to mostly harmless.

  17. Re:To compare with GNOME... on KDE 4 Uses 40% Less Memory Than 3 Despite Eye-Candy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I do not use either. One of the reasons I went from Windows to Linux was that is hated the way it looked.

    I first went to Enlightenment! and then to WindowMaker.

    I just can not understaqnd people who want to have something that is windows not made by Microsoft.
    Microsoft is the best maker of Windows. If you want Windows, run Windows.

  18. Re:What Balderdash! on KDE 4 Uses 40% Less Memory Than 3 Despite Eye-Candy · · Score: 1

    640K is all you ever need, if you're not filling it up with pictures of Britney and the latest American Idol's nudie pics.


    Do you have a URL?
  19. Re:Best Buy apologies for sending C & D letter on Best Buy Hands Out Cease & Desist Letters for Christmas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Too late to send an apology. They should have NEVER send the letter in the first place.

    It blew up in their face, this time, but how many times has it worked?

  20. Re:Discovery #0... on Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of 2007 · · Score: 1

    That is what God did when he send us a Tsunami that killed a few hundred thousand.

  21. Re:...now that I read the changes... on Ogg Vorbis / Theora Language Removed From HTML5 Spec · · Score: 1

    off to tag the front-page article with "badsummary"


    I think that should be the default.
  22. Re:Very much about Microsoft on Dutch ODF Plan Could Sideline Microsoft · · Score: 1

    ... which actually makes it very much about Microsoft,
    ... from a Microsoft point of view. This was not about killing Microsoft, although it might be a nice side effect.
  23. Re:So let me get this straight... on Copy That Floppy, Lose Your Computer · · Score: 1

    If tghhey actualy would do that, each and every provider will be out of business. Just surfing will be infringing up a copyright. You downloaded the picture, after all.

    To see how stupid this is, do a traceroute to all the people sharing your favorite distribution. All those providers where you went trhough will be out of business.

  24. Re:Aww, poor corporations. on Corporations Face Problems with Employee Emails · · Score: 1

    No, the fact that very soon YOU can't hide anything from the public.

  25. Re:Watch that movie again! on Brawndo, It's Got Electrolytes. It's What Plants Crave · · Score: 1

    It's people. Source code is made out of people! They're making our
    source out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle
    for code. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!