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  1. City of Lancaster? on Eye In the Sky For City Crime Fighting · · Score: 4, Funny

    For a moment I thought I knew where that was. Are there any place names America didn't steal?

  2. Re:All I forsee is confusion. on ESA and NASA Establish a Joint Mars Exploration Initiative · · Score: 1

    Besides, the British are part of the EU too, and they insist on using the imperial system too...

    Only for beer, it means that we get 13% more than the 500ml glasses used elsewhere.

  3. Re:GKrellM on What Would You Want In a Large-Scale Monitoring System? · · Score: 1

    Interesting! Do the mods not know what GKrellM is?

  4. Re:So sad... on Firefox To Get Multi-Process Browsing · · Score: 1

    I would already expect it to be multithreaded, otherwise waiting for the network would slow down other parts of the browser. The changes proposed are a move to a multi-process model where each tab is unable to interfere with the rest of the browser, effectively constraining any problems to the tab in which they occur.

  5. Re:Inferior translated holy works on British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online · · Score: 1

    When the Holy Koran says something, it *means* it. "As for the man who steals and the woman who steals, cut off their hands as punishment for what they have earned, an exemplary punishment from God" is a real command from the real God who really exists

    Well it's certainly a command but even if it is from a god that doesn't mean that you have to obey it. Sorry to drop some pop-philosphy into this but I think this bit of Kant (quoted by Popper) says it better than I can:

    For in whatever way ... the Deity should be made known to you, and even ... if he should reveal himself to you: it is you ... who must judge whether you are permitted [by your conscience] to belive in Him and to worship Him.

    Also, I cant say if they're a cause or a symptom but ideas like this one seem to link themselves with brutal, violent and sometimes tyrannical societies far too often.

  6. Re:Valid but not simple? on Four Missed Opportunities for Privacy · · Score: 3, Informative

    In Britain the data protection act means that you can write to any company and request all of the data that they hold on you. However, the company is allowed to charge up to £10 to cover the costs of finding this data. I'm not sure what level of security is required tho.

  7. Re:Is it copyrighted? on British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online · · Score: 1

    You seem to have confused the author with one of the protagonists.

  8. Re:Zipped file playback on VLC 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I've never understood why people create multipart rar torrents. BIttorrent has it's own mechanism for splitting files for download and I don't think it improves dthe filesize by much. Seems totally unecesary to me.

  9. Re:Robert Strange McNamara 1916 - 2009 on US, Russia Reach Nuclear Arsenal Agreement · · Score: 1

    He got news coverage last night. Seemed like a good excuse for a beer. The loss of someone partially responsible for one of the most pointless periods of scumbaggery in modern history deserves a little celebration.

  10. Re:VLC media player and MPEG-2 on VLC 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    No. You're too worthless to get sued.

  11. Re:A better video on Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That link just gives me a demonstration of why piracy is better than legit: "This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions. ".

  12. Re:Surely not? on Goldman Sachs Trading Source Code In the Wild? · · Score: 1

    What if having the code allowed you to analyse it for ways to game the system?

    Then you'd just be another trader in the market. The whole point is to game the system to your advantage

    :

  13. Re:journal link on Unicellular "Enigma" Changes From Predator To Plant and Back · · Score: 1

    What about the full article???

  14. Re:Why the latest edition? on We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? · · Score: 1

    Much of the time, that professor is the person who wrote the textbook. The one they make mandatory for their class. The one they will sell to you, for the low, low price of several times the production costs.

    I have only had this happen once. The book was recommended not mandatory and the professor had arranged for my department to sell it for £7

  15. Re:The neoconservatives are laughing on Pirate Party Coming To Canada · · Score: 1

    Somebody needs to study some basic economics, starting with Adam Smith.

    Doesn't basic economics get discredited every 10 years? What would be the point in studying it?

  16. Re:Be Afraid! Buy Our Product! on Symantec Exec Warns Against Relying On Free Antivirus · · Score: 1

    Price, convenience and effect on system performance. The button to make windows stop checking for antivirus wins on all three.

  17. Re:Apple? on Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs · · Score: 0, Troll

    ffs. Just trash the patent system and shut the fuck up.

  18. Ponintless on Linux Patch Clears the Air For Use of Microsoft's FAT Filesystem · · Score: 1

    The current implementation works perfectly well. No one gains anything by writing junk data.

  19. Re:Is Microsoft engaging in their 90s behavior? on Linux Patch Clears the Air For Use of Microsoft's FAT Filesystem · · Score: 1

    Writing some bytes in a particular order is trivial.

  20. Re:If you ever go to court... on RIAA Victory Over Usenet.com In Copyright Case · · Score: 1

    I said worked on. That includes things like doing marketing, getting discs pressed or sorting out a barcode.

  21. Re:If you ever go to court... on RIAA Victory Over Usenet.com In Copyright Case · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Downloading copywriten works is not your right nor do you have some special privilege to it.

    Getting paid when someone copies some content you once worked on is not your right nor do you have some special priviledge to it.

    That was too easy

  22. Re:GPL "terms of service"? on Ksplice Offers Rebootless Updates For Ubuntu Systems · · Score: 1

    If it's GPL cant you just edit the terms out of it?

  23. Re:Hey MPAA! on Iran Tries To Pacify Protesters With Lord of The Rings Marathon · · Score: 1

    Well at least they got something right. Shame about the election tho.

  24. Re:Fear of Windows 7 on Microsoft Discloses Windows 7 Pricing · · Score: 1

    I've just loaded up the release candidate in a VM. While it's pretty, there are still some problems. First, minesweeper won't work on my virtual graphics card (stupid design decision). Second, it's told me to install antivirus. Call me oldfashioned but if I NEED a piece of software shouldn't it be installed by default.

  25. Re:Slashdot Tag Racism on How RIAA Case Should Have Played Out · · Score: 1

    That's religious discrimination not racism. You cant choose your race, you can choose your religion. Still doesn't make it right tho.