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  1. Why only compare these two? on Mouse or Trackball? · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Goddamn, you people are clever. on Japanese Auto Makers Teaming Up To Create Standard OS · · Score: 1

    Sleep? DOn't you mean crash someplace?

  3. Re:get them back on School District To Parents — Buy Office 2007 · · Score: 1

    No, it is only the dots. SO

    [10pt]Some text, some more[/10pt][12pt].[/12pt]
    [10pt]Some text, some more[/10pt][12pt].[/12pt]

  4. get them back on School District To Parents — Buy Office 2007 · · Score: 1

    When you have to hand over your paper, they will most likely ask for a certain amount of pages. in a certain fontsize. That should mean that everybody has the same amount of work to do.

    What you do is resize the dot from e.g. 10 to 12. Not noticable, yet saves you much work in the end.

    Sorry I can't find the video on how to do this.

  5. Opensource anyway on Cross-OS File System That Sucks Less? · · Score: 1

    If you look at a FS that can be read anywhere, the only solution will be an open source one. This might however mean that it is not readily available everywhere out of the box.

    OTOH it will mean that drivers will be readily available if needed.

    If you want something that is read out of the box by each and every OS, then make up a simple spradsheet, horizontal the different OSses, vertical the different file systems en then start crossing which has what. Last look what is available on most by default.

    Loopmounting an iso is still a file (with filesystem) written on (another) filesystem.

  6. Re:What's the Background? on AC = Domestic Terrorists? · · Score: 1

    That does not realy issue the point made.

  7. Guantanamo Normalization Unit (GNU) on Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating? · · Score: 1

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    djsdf 8sjsd fkask afjka dkadu iai4a
    21390 djd89 23hj2 89dsj ksd78 uioq3
    sd789 sdnmw e4jks d78sd n3jkl asdvn
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    aldqq://8aha8.sw8qw.as-z9 00+++

  8. Re:Please explain on Toyota Unveils Plug-in Hybrid Prius · · Score: 1

    Gasoline for cars, diesel for trucks,


    Why this difference. In Belgium about 50% of the cars run on diesel and on hindsight, I would have wanted one as well.
  9. Why is this news? on Leonard Nimoy to Play Spock in Next Star Trek Movie · · Score: 1

    It would be news if it would have said: Leonard Nimoy to Play Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the next Star Wars musical.

  10. Re:Should have been the plan from the beginning on Cisco to Kill Linksys Brand Name · · Score: 1

    For me that would be a neat price I would pay, depending on the two fingers. As long as they are not the ones I use to type, I am OK with it.

  11. Everybody sing together now on UK Rejects Extending Music Copyright · · Score: 1

    How many years after installing a boyler
    Before the pluber stops you to pay?
    Yes, 'n' how many years is a car-mecanic payed
    Before he is ownin' the car?
    Yes, 'n' how many years must the wallpaper hang,
    before it is finaly yours?

    The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
    The answer is blowin' in the wind.

    How many years after putting up shelves
    Can a handyman expetct to get payed
    Yes, 'n' how many years after having some sex,
    can you expect again to get layed.
    Yes, 'n' how many times can I plagiate this song,
    before I get sued back to hell?

    In the real world, my friend, till the next time you pay,
    In the real world, till the next time you pay.

  12. Re:*heh* on UK Rejects Extending Music Copyright · · Score: 1

    I thought they do not even OWN the copyrights.

  13. Re:Damn on German Court Convicts Skype For Breaching GPL · · Score: 1

    Netbased does not mean that you need a computer. It means that you need an internet connection

  14. Pre-installation on Why Linux Has Failed on the Desktop · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is NOW just one reason and that is pre-installed systems are not readily available. Yes, if you LOOK for them, you can do it, but ther reality is that as long as you do not specify, you get a Windows machine and even if you DO specify, you often do not have a choice.

    Now after 15 years, people have been brainwashed into using Windows.

    Another is that change costs money and managers have three issues about changing. The first is that they need to admit that they were wrong the previous years. Second they will need to train/hire new people and thirdly, it will not look good on their budget fr the next year. Perhaps great over a 5 year period, but not many companies are intersted in 5 year plans.

  15. Re:Great Firewall needs Reconfigured. on US and China Top List of Spam-Relaying Countries · · Score: 1

    Too bad that if it would work, the US won't use one to protect the rest of the world.

  16. Re:Not africa's biggest problem on Africa - Offline And Waiting for the Web · · Score: 1

    Is AIDS solved in your country? What about Cancer? Are there people living below the povertyline in your country? Solve that first, or do you think this is not an OR/OR but and AND/AND solution?

    Do not put all your eggs in the same basket.

  17. Why on old PC's? on Firefox Lite And Old PCs Could Crush IE · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why not on new PC's. Are there people who enjoy having to run bloated software? Make it available and if it ALSO runs on older hardware, that is even better.

    When did we stop to program with bounderies in our minds? Memory is not an issue. Drive space is not an issue. So please start programming again with these things in mind.

  18. How about the other way around on Slot Machine with Bad Software Sends Players To Jail · · Score: 1

    Now that the Casino has given proof that a machine can be made to give much more then what is required by law, it should be clear that there are machines that give much less. Machines that do not give you anything, or not nearly enough.

    So all people who have lost should now start filing claims that they were on such a machine.

    What is good for the goose...

  19. Not sure what to think on FBI Used Spyware for Online Search · · Score: 1

    On the one side it is good that they go after people like this and use the tools available. On the other side with how things are going in the US, this might have been a proof of concept.
    Also I see it just a s a tool and just like anything it can be used and it can be abused.

  20. Re:No, T Mobile does not charge a monthly fee on Where In the US Can You Get Just a Cell Phone? · · Score: 1

    OK. If I look at it that way, I could get a 'monthly' fee for as low as 4EUR per year, or some 30 cents per month. So for people almost never calling, this will be the cheapest solution.

    I personaly charge about 10EUR per 2 months and sometimes less.

  21. Re:T Mobile to Go is a good option on Where In the US Can You Get Just a Cell Phone? · · Score: 1
    First

    T Mobile pre-paid plans don't have any monthly charges

    Then

    it offers an aggregated monthly rate of $12 per month or less.


    Sounds to me they DO charge you per month. In Belgium when you buy a pre-paid card, it will be valid for 1 year or 6 months dependng on the card. You can buy them as ceacp as 4EUR and I have seen mobiles in Belgium where you buy a Nokia 1600 that comes with a card that has 2EUR valid for 1 year.

    Ideal for people who only recieve calls. Obviously unblocked phone, as it is illegal to block phones in Belgium, so when your 2EUR are up, you can buy whatever pre-paid card you desire.
  22. Pitty he did not patent it on Blogging Is 10 Years Old · · Score: 2, Insightful

    because that would have ment that nobody would be able to blog.

  23. Re:What we need is DRM! on False Copyright Claims · · Score: 1

    That is already the case. Everything you find on the internet is copyrighted, unless stated differently.

    The fact that almost nobody realy cares if you copy their stuff and place it somewhere else is another matter. If you do not see a disclainer it is implied that it is copyrighted and should be treated as such.

  24. Re:Mii Hot or Not? on Nintendo - "Everyone is a Gamer" · · Score: 1

    You have it so easy these days, yet you complain. We did not have Miis. We dod not even have sticks to make them. We had to IMAGINE them. With our heads. No sticks. No stones, let alone screens.

  25. Re:One Solution on Uri Geller Accused of Bending Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    Yeah, let's have it that only companies can claim copyrights, because normal people can not pay for it.

    The code written and put under copyright by definition? Sorry, it is not copyrighted anymore. That would mean that you can't put an extention of the copyright on it, like GPL or BSD or whatever you desire.

    98% of the takedowns will indeed not be happening, even though they were legid requests.

    Wether or not copyrights should exist and in what form is another discussion.