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Comment Anecdotal, admittedly, but.... (Score 2) 133

... how to recover serial numbers obliterated from metal surfaces such as firearms and automobiles ... In the NIST experiments... researchers hammered the letter 'X' into a polished stainless steel plate.

Just had a look at the few automobiles and firearms I own. None are made out of polished stainless steel plate.

Also, while my oldtimers are stamped, I recall seeing a few items of more recent manufacture that had the s/n milled into the substrate.

Comment Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message (Score 1) 353

Apart from finishing the current article and starting new one(s) only then, continuing to read the current article also allows a slow link to finish the non-instantaneous (sometimes painful) process of loading.

I've you'd used Firefox, you would have a little checkbox that allowed you to choose between the two options sans plugins.

Comment Re:perforce (Score 1) 343

perforce - Easy to install, free for 20-users or less, rock solid, and clients for many OSes. Most importantly, it supports single-user checkouts, which is vital for things like Word documents that won't merge.

Used at a workplace, many years ago, for non-source code (binary file format)-versioning needs (e.g. documentation, when that was still written as part of the process, which goes to show how long ago that was). Anyhow, we didn't particularly like it, and soon started talking about "Perverse"....

I'm PRETTY SURE it has improved since those days...

Comment Re:Absolutely pointless (Score 2) 80

There is no rule that a Facebook page must be owned by a living person. Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg disagrees, because you can't data mine or sell ads to a dead person.

Yeah, but the advertisers don't know that you are dead. Do you think the line for screwing over should be drawn between those that pay and those that don't?

Comment Basements (Score 2) 690

Not to be a pedant, but since Greece to my knowledge doesn't experience ground freezing temperatures, houses there probably do not require (expensive!) ground excavations and basements that take the house's foundation to below the frost line. I have no doubt that in such warm climes a cellar is a very good idea due to the temperature-buffering effect of all that thermal mass around it (useful i.a. for aging cheese and wine and storing other foodstuffs), but to build one would presumably not necessarily be within the financial means of the poor.

Also, once those people start receiving rent from such (or any other) operation, they might no longer be "poor".

Even the place where I live, which must have one of the world's most intellectually-challenged (and by the way also very socialist-oriented, but I repeat myself) governments, basic amenities (water, electricity, etc.) are only provided without charge to the poor for the first X number of units, where X is really very basic survival usage, any usage above that is charged at the usual prices. Not saying that is what the Greeks plan to do, but they would be really stupid to offer "uncapped/limitless".

Comment Re:How to fuck this guy over (Score 5, Insightful) 175

I know reading the article is not fashionable, but it says:

"You can no longer buy a domain name from Millin. Instead, he will work with your company (or your idea for a company) to build out a product, then he'll lease or lend you one of his domain names in exchange for partial ownership." (emphasis mine)

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