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Comment And a server from the USA is hacked by Chinese? (Score 1) 119

It starts to bug me. Why are there two types of investigation? 1) "The hacker could not be traced as probably several servers were used". 2) "The IP was from China/Russia, so the hacker too". So since it is politically useful to the Americans to point at China, I suggest all hackers to get one of the computer in China. Best is Russia last with all logs at max, then China, then the usual.

Comment Re:A world leader as a disruptive patent troll? (Score 0) 272

Agree. The title of this post is also very annoying, especially the word "aggressively" - as if people with big budgets will solve this problem where people with big *brains* have been working on for ages. And also... which money is in the fund? Money borrowed from Japan and China with which the USA tries to force to default with? Come on, USA, focus! Focus!

Comment #ifndef _WIN32 (Score 0) 63

Developer: "Sir, I have fixed the issue that I could not manage to compile try-catch clausules on Linux". Interoperability is not something MS is good at: it works perfect on Windows, works ok on other systems. Sends us back to the era where Linux-users got sold cars with 3 wheels and the conversation with the salesman became sort of funny. As probably mentioned by others, the latest release of Skype isn't that stable and I have a clue the word "keep" in "keep interoperable" will be a nagging word in the future of Linux-releases.

Comment Stubborn Exceptions? (Score 1) 1271

Most modern economies are a mix between socialism (healthcare and caring for the elderly, weak and poor) and capitalism (independence and freedom). Communism (independence-void) is an extreme form of socialism and corporationalism (care-void) an extreme form of capitalism. It took me a while to see that the current shift to corporationalism is breaking our freedoms more than we want to see - and still... we just shake our heads about "the brainwashing methods of communism" when reading articles as above. For that reason always vote for "extreme middle" to get a real stable system (referring to Van Kooten en De Bie, but very serious about it).

Comment Re:Why? Bitcoin and Slashdot? (Score 1) 258

Exactly, as paper money (money backed by "stocks" and other emotional products) works the same way. I like this project as it explains the "normal economy" with stocks has exaclty the same design-flaws - and you point them out quite well. Since bitcoins I start to like the sentence "In money we trust" (or was it god? they get mixed up a lot).

Comment Pirates don't want memory-upgrades then (Score 3, Informative) 245

The memory-demands for SP3 have increased a lot - Where SP2 runs well with 512MB, you need at least 800MB for SP3 to run basic software like IE and Office smoothly. Though this is not official, I have seen too many cases with unresponsive PCs after the upgrade. A good reason to revert back to SP2 if people don't know how or dare to upgrade hardware nor want to spend another €300,- to €500,- on a new computer.

Comment LOFAR and low frequencies (Score 1) 32

Only one interesting comment? Why so many people like to make jokes about Dutch technologies, I really don't know. Or do I just hear complaints about (research) jobs moving to Europe and Asia? Remember some flood in the US not long ago? Remember who helped you how to get prepared for such disasters? So "dykes" should be something you don't laugh about, but respect. They save your life. You probably heard the saying "God created the land, but the Dutch created their own". Just like LOFAR is an unique project, which sees the sky with different eyes. Lower frequencies means different data to be combined with existing HF-data, to complete the picture. Pulsars are an unique phenomenon which stll is not understood at full; reseacrh on lower frequencies Another thing is that LOFAR can look in any direction, whereas normal radio-telescopes can only look into 1 direction. The Netherlands have a very high reputation in (radio) astronomy kept high for several centuries.

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