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  1. Re:This one is not. on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the burden is on the victim, not the bank issuing the cards.
    I've never really understood the logic of that, though I've seen stories where it appears to be the case.

    Let's say you're the victim in one of these cases. You walk into the court with a letter from the CFO of the bank (written in crayon, with the "s"s all backwards) and a notarised photocopy of his passport (actually a Dennis The Menace fan club membership card) stating that he's decided to let you keep it, and here's a shilling for your trouble, you cheeky monkey.

    They're going to say "That's not genuine! It wasn't him who wrote that!" ... how is your defence any less valid than their case?
  2. Re:I disagree... on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 1

    e.g. innocent people can request that the police officers who arrested them serve whatever sentence they faced.
    Mistakes can be made, but if there's clear evidence that the framed somebody that's the minimum they should face - and no segregation either. Don't drop the soap, constable...

    But unfortunately the UK has a getout clause whereby a policeman is 100% immune once he's no longer serving - so if it comes out that he's likely to be caught he can just cite health grounds and retire on full pension.
  3. Harvard shmarvard on The P.G. Wodehouse Method of Refactoring · · Score: 1

    How do you aggregate the combined efforts of all the teams into a birds eye perspective and how do you know where the boundaries of the project lie?
    Obviously, you need to nurture a holistic learning culture as an enabler for out of the box thinking. This will become an ipso-facto best practice, and in combination with co-synergistic paradigms a strategec transformational ethos will emerge, driving in a virtuous spiral to add stakeholder value.
  4. Re:Spoiler on A Battlestar Galactica Prequel Series on the Way · · Score: 1

    Brentford Cylons - open bank holiday monday!

  5. Re:Good but Dull on BBC Micro Creators Reunite In London · · Score: 1

    The Beeb was a better machine, but if memory serves it cost twice as much.

  6. Re:Volkswagen gauges are this exact color on Blue Lights To Reset Internal Clocks · · Score: 1

    the Blue light of a regular Blue LED damages the eye over a period of time
    Insert joke about windows crashing here -->
  7. In other news... on Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year · · Score: 1

    Florida investigating how to do it again this year.

  8. Re:And? on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 1

    the historical conditions which allowed them to be born are unique and unlikely to be repeated. For a tiny time frame in history the communication technology was supreme to surveillance; it won't happen again.
    There's always a chance that some of the elites will want more than the other elites and nuke us all back to the stone age.

    So don't be such a pessimist!
  9. Re:Nobody on Newly Discovered Fungus Threatens World Wheat Crop · · Score: 1

    All diseases have non-zero survival rate. It's just a question of time.

  10. Re:Nobody on Newly Discovered Fungus Threatens World Wheat Crop · · Score: 1

    Anyway, up until scientific medicine came on the scene, cholera, smallpox, and whooping cough routinely decimated Europe. So it's not even clear that people would become immune naturally
    Well clearly somebody had at least a partial immunity to those diseases, or I wouldn't be here.
  11. Re:And? on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nazi Germany and the Soviet union are prime examples. They both got bad beyond any sort of comprehension before the pulled back, but they did.
    No they didn't. Nazi Germany was defeated, occupied and partitioned. The Soviet Union collapsed into something that, for the vast majority of its people, is even worse.
  12. Re:Took their time on Gibson Accuses Guitar Hero of Patent Violation · · Score: 1

    Does prior art still count if it's in another country?
    Other countries' laws don't even count in other countries. See here, here and here.
  13. Re:The questions are interesting... on Air Force Cyber Command General Answers Slashdot Questions · · Score: 1

    You're right, but on the other hand I don't have a lot of sympather for whiners. Whining's easy - usually much easier than the situation the that the target of that whining has to deal with.

  14. Re:The questions are interesting... on Air Force Cyber Command General Answers Slashdot Questions · · Score: 1

    I don't see why it's less honourable to exploit a tactical advantage. We did it to the French at Agincourt by shooting arrows at them rather than swordfighting; you did it to us by hiding behind cotton bales and not marching in straight lines.

    Finally, doing anything from 20,000 feet is intrinsically dangerous. You've got all the other shit of being in a war, plus a long way to fall.

  15. Re:Which method? on Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology? · · Score: 1

    Thong has the same meaning in British and American. It's Austaralians who use the word to mean a kind of shoe.

  16. Re:Which method? on Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some claim that prayer saves them from illnesses, but the third variable here is a positive attitude/will to live
    Is that any different from the placebo effect?
  17. Re:Which method? -- How about being well informed? on Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology? · · Score: 4, Funny

    What emerged was a type of psychological langauge framework that describes how certain planetary positions influence living systems including people and animals, possibly through DNA influences at the quantum level.
    My bullshit meter just redlined!
  18. Re:Which method? on Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology? · · Score: 1

    It's not wrong as such, but it doesn't apply in all situations - such as very small distances and at very high velocities (IIRC).

    For most everyday purposes it's close enough.

  19. Re:Isn't it obvious? on IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth · · Score: 1

    Such as deodorant and being able to speak English?

  20. Re:Pseudo-science on Cat Ownership Correlated With Heart Health · · Score: 1

    No, stonehenge causes sunlight.

  21. Re:My cats on Cat Ownership Correlated With Heart Health · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Since cat owners tend to be slightly dotty single women or gay men, did the study control for childlessness?

  22. Re:Cats vs Dogs flamewar on /.? on Cat Ownership Correlated With Heart Health · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think we need to get it into terms we can understand.

    Cats suck, because they use emacs. Dogs rule because they use vi.

  23. Which method? on Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which method - radiocarbon or by slicing thenm and counting the rings?

  24. Re:Judging by this picture on T-Ray Camera Sees Through Clothes, Preserves Privacy · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean the one of the guy with the knife hidden in the newspaper?

    Considering how image conscious teenagers are, I don't think she'd be happy being made to look like a cross between a colthes store mannequin and Krtyten from Red Dwarf.

  25. Re:But then.... on Drugs In Our Drinking Water · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's why I prefer beer - though I heard a rumour it contains female hormones: after you've drunk ten or so, you can't drive and you start talking crap.