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  1. Re:No future on Console Makers Pushing For More Network Reliance · · Score: 1

    Soylent green.

  2. Re:what? on Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle · · Score: 1

    Or, indeed, the entire comment.

  3. Re:That is all nice in theory on Microsoft Joins the OpenID Foundation · · Score: 1

    myopenid.com already has the option to display a personal icon on the login page.

  4. Re:It's good to see. on US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search · · Score: 1

    also, wouldn't this type of search be pretty useless for identifying kiddy porn images?

    It's obviously good enough in some cases - like this one, as 5 videos containing child pornography were, in fact, discovered.
    This has been discussed a few times recently on \.

  5. Re:What I'd like on Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs · · Score: 1

    I used a nice one some time ago but don't remember the name

    Filelight?

  6. Re:One question on Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit · · Score: 1

    Yes, but can it... oh!

  7. Re:A Letter on Every Email In UK To Be Monitored · · Score: 1

    It's an offence to be drunk in a public place, and there are many places in the UK where you can't drink alcohol in public at all.

  8. Re:It's a slippery slope... on Every Email In UK To Be Monitored · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But it probably wouldn't be a new programme. It would be an extension to an existing programme and would more easily and quickly pass into law.

  9. Re:Who owns it? Ultimately, the game companies. on Rights To Virtual Property In Games? · · Score: 1

    Gamers invest a great deal of time and emotion, to the games they play. That's real time, and real emotion, and should be represented by a real dollar value.

    I play football in my spare time, investing time and emotion. Are you going to pay me "real dollar" for that?
    There's me thinking all along that the pleasure, and hence the value, was in playing the game.

  10. Re:Don't let it spill over - Just a game. on Rights To Virtual Property In Games? · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you didn't RTFA

  11. Re:You need to think about who you're dealing with on Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? · · Score: 1

    How the hell is this modded -1 Troll?

    Troll != Disagree

  12. Re:What remote access technology? on Man Uses Remote Logon To Help Find Laptop Thief · · Score: 1

    Maybe he has the thing using a dynamic dns service.

  13. Re:Please go away. on Sept 24 Is World Day Against Software Patents · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome the invention of the magnifying glass.

  14. Re:*Yawn*, I think I'll stick with Ubuntu. on Windows 7 Beta Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 1

    duel boot

    Fighting for your attention?

  15. Re:public keys on Nevada Businesses Must Start Encrypting E-Mail By Oct. 1st · · Score: 1

    This doesn't parse very well, so I'm not sure if this is the point that you're trying to make, but the sender needs the public key of the receiver for encryption. The receiver only needs the senders public key to check if a signature is ok.

  16. Re:Sure. on Jedi Knights Course Offered By Queen's University Belfast · · Score: 2, Informative

    In the same way that there's a difference between USA and Canada.

  17. Re:mockery of the education system on Jedi Knights Course Offered By Queen's University Belfast · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The article only refers to "speculative discussions" about the "possibility" of removing books. Which is, to my mind, not attempting to ban books, although it may well have been a tentative first step.

  18. Re:No not really on Jedi Knights Course Offered By Queen's University Belfast · · Score: 0

    At universaities no less!

  19. Re:Going to get in trouble on Picasa Rolls Out 3.0 — Now With Facial Recognition · · Score: 1

    The trouble is that the effect has become much greater than the cause, and it's often out of the hands of the person involved.
    Of course you're right, to be absolutely sure of not getting kicked off the team, don't break the rules. But at the same time college kids are supposed be doing some growing up and that involves bending, and even breaking, the rules, and it needn't be made harder than it already is.

  20. Re:Going to get in trouble on Picasa Rolls Out 3.0 — Now With Facial Recognition · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's right. You're another pious prick who's lived a completely blameless and angelic life.

  21. Re:Going to get in trouble on Picasa Rolls Out 3.0 — Now With Facial Recognition · · Score: 1

    That's a nice trite answer.
    Of course you've never driven just a little too fast, and you waited until it was nice and legal before you took your first drink.
    These pictures appear to mostly embarrassing rather than evidence of law-breaking.

  22. Re:I'm confused... on Picasa Rolls Out 3.0 — Now With Facial Recognition · · Score: 1

    Except that it's the PicasaWeb that has the facial recognition and tagging, not Picasa.

  23. Re:So true (yes, this is a 'me too' post) on Picasa Rolls Out 3.0 — Now With Facial Recognition · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why is going to a party and getting drunk necessarily a "bad decision"?
    Sure, it's not the healthiest thing you can do to your body, but not relaxing and letting loose once in a while isn't too good for your mind either - and that could lead to bad decision making.

  24. Re:ah, yes... Google is evil... on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 1

    Yes, bad example on my part, just making the point that the EULA covers more than simply reuse.

  25. Re:ah, yes... Google is evil... on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 1

    But it's not limited to reuse, but also allows adaptation and modification.
    You say "Google are evil",
    Google reports "Wolfger says 'Google are not evil'"