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  1. First on A Sony Camera Running Linux · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    First post thet mentions a rootkit.

  2. Re:Herd instict on Visitors To US Now Required To Register Online · · Score: 1

    a fundamental function of state sovereignty is controlling who can enter and exit your country

    Just checking passports worked before.

  3. Re:Reasonable compromise... on iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info · · Score: 1

    [paranoid mode] I wonder if that's all they put there? [/]

  4. Re:When I was breaking in on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oxford and Cambridge (they're in England) do mostly BAs, even for subjects like maths, physics and enginerering. Why is anybody's guess but it's probably because they're a bunch of tossers.

  5. Re:What's the point? on PowerBeam Demos Wireless Electricity At CES · · Score: 1

    there are very large issues that have to be dealt with, mostly the incredible inefficiency.

    And the conspiracy by the utility companies. Free energy machines have been invented hundreds of times, but Powergen and their ilk just buy up all the patents and stick them in a basement. I know this guy who saw them while he was putting up the sign that said 'Beware of the Leopard'.

  6. Re:It's not so bad on Abused IT Workers Ready To Quit · · Score: 1

    I ask them if THEIR expertise has a magical button to generate their reports, setup their projects and perform strategic planning.

    Don't ever do that. They'll expect you to make one.

  7. Re:Long history on Another Attempt At Using the Courts To Suppress an Online Review · · Score: 1

    It's my opinion that he didn't post it like that, because if he did, anybody of right mind (as are most of the good people here) would see straight away that if he wasn't exactly bullshitting, his opinions weren't being expressed with a degree of confidence that would cause a disinterested observer (with no prejudice intended) to not conclude that he was a total gobshite.

  8. Re:Long history on Another Attempt At Using the Courts To Suppress an Online Review · · Score: 1

    It's for the plaintiff to prove the defendant was making false statements.

    You would say that, you're a paedophile. It's now up to you to sue me for libel and prove that you aren't.

  9. Re:Long history on Another Attempt At Using the Courts To Suppress an Online Review · · Score: 1

    People don't usually post bad rewiews for no reason at all.

    I agree.

    PS: mod parent down, he's a total shitcock!

  10. Re:Long history on Another Attempt At Using the Courts To Suppress an Online Review · · Score: 1

    At least in The Netherlands, this is correct. The suing party can never reclaim their courtroom costs as part of the ruling

    Well that's lovely if you're a poor person and someone rich harms you, isn't it?

  11. Re:Slashdot == Zoo filled with Idiots? on Russian Hopes To Cash In On Emoticons · · Score: 1

    For instance, Ford has a UK trademark on the word "Fiesta".

    Only in relation to cars, not wank mags. Similarly, for Escort.

  12. Re: rubbish phone on Apple Disables Egyptian iPhones' GPS · · Score: 1

    I have an E71 and did the same thing. The Nokia map application doesn't seem to want to work unless it has a data connection (wifi or GPRS) open. There's no technical reason for it, GPS was around long before even WAP (anyone remember) existed. Is it to keep the service providers happy so they can charge you for data?

    In which case what was the point of preloading the maps? The PC connection software has a specific function for this.

  13. Re:Remember kids on Race and Racism In Video Games · · Score: 1

    I think we're probably better off not knowing.

    Lack of knowledge isn't a good thing, especially if you're going to make policy based on it.

    Whenever there are differences, people try to assert superiority and inferiority on the basis of them

    Bad actions aren't down to too much knowledge; they're either accidental (due to lack of knowledge) or intentional (due to bad intentions).

    Ignorance is not bliss.

  14. Re:No, this is a fine place to start on Losing My Software Rights? · · Score: 1

    slashdot is the perfect place to get misinformation on legal matters.

    Especially if you don't mention where you live in the question. IANAL, but I heard that laws vary from country to country, and even within them.

  15. Nuke it! Nuke it now! on Alien Comet May Have Infiltrated the Solar System · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Nuke it in orbit, it's the only way to be sure

  16. Re:attorney - and you're probably wrong. Fail. on Losing My Software Rights? · · Score: 1

    He's probably a C programmer.

  17. Re:Aids on Guitarist Hopes To Play Again With The Help of Bionic Hand · · Score: 1

    No, you just broke it in a different way.

  18. Re:Mine was certainly cruel to us on Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty · · Score: 3, Funny

    C obsolete and pointless?

    It's certainly not pointerless!

  19. Re:Ridiculous argument on Excluding Intelligent Design Principles From the Search For Alien Life · · Score: 1

    That isn't what atheist means. But it's such a good definition that there ought to be a word for it. Egotheists?

  20. Re:I mod this down. on Excluding Intelligent Design Principles From the Search For Alien Life · · Score: 1

    People still speak and use Hebrew and Greek today.

    Modern Greek != Ancient Greek. Nobody speaks Ancient Greek as a mother tongue. It has run up the curtain...

  21. Re:Worried? on European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Her Brittanic [Don't you mean Germanic - Ed] Majesty's government probably think they wouldn't need to search your machine to get your data.

    Because if their experience is anything to go by, everyone just leaves it lying around in taxis, trains, pub car parks and so on for anyone to find.

  22. Re:I mod this down. on Excluding Intelligent Design Principles From the Search For Alien Life · · Score: 4, Insightful

    attempting to add the ages of the key players in the bible up and estimating the age of the earth. There are a few problems with it though.

    You mean problems apart from literally believing a book that's been through several translations from extinct languages and wasn't written down at all until many generations after the events allegedly happened?

  23. the only known intelligent life we've found

    Where?

  24. compare the straight lines of a road

    Straight roads? Are you from a country that makes cars that corner like sacks of wet sand, by any chance?

  25. Re:Time to move... on Massive Martian Glaciers Found · · Score: 1

    The chances are a million to one.