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  1. Nobody cares about French law on France Passes Harsh Three-Strikes Legislation, Again · · Score: 1

    European Convention of Human Rights, Section 1

    Article 6.1
    In the determination of his civil rights and obligations or of any criminal charge against him, everyone is entitled to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial tribunal established by law.

    Article 6.2
    Everyone charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law.

    Article 6.3
    Everyone charged with a criminal offence has the following minimum rights:
    (a) to be informed promptly, in a language which he understands and in detail, of the nature and cause of the accusation against him;
    (b) to have adequate time and the facilities for the preparation of his defence;
    (c) to defend himself in person or through legal assistance of his own choosing or, if he has not sufficient means to pay for legal assistance, to be given it free when the interests of justice so require;
    (d) to examine or have examined witnesses against him and to obtain the attendance and examination of witnesses on his behalf under the same conditions as witnesses against him;

    IANAL, but it you'd have an extremely difficult time proving 6.3(a) to the ECtHR if the guy didn't even know he was to turn up to court (Everyone sends read receipts, of course). The rest is just farce; An evidentiary hearing is not a trial, and as such innocense must be presumed under 6.2

  2. Re:That's a little presumptuous. on A Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    I would ask you, if you, and I, existed.

    Solipsism is a bitch.

  3. Re:Is thisntest desing in such away on A Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    Drink a few tins of hobo beer and you'll be able to understand it, no problem.

    It says "GAHHHHH FUGGIN PIGEONS GET OFF MY HAT... I love you."

  4. Re:Usefulness on A Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    I have a friend who doesn't believe in gravity.

    I've never asked him why; I'm afraid that if he gave me the answer, I'd have to get him Sectioned.

  5. Re:fat cells and muscle cells, too? on Birdsong Studies Lead To a Revolution In Biology · · Score: 1

    I was always told to build tone, not mass, anyway. Muscle mass makes you look like an upturned triangle. Tone makes you look like an athlete.

  6. Re:Bird brain on Birdsong Studies Lead To a Revolution In Biology · · Score: 2, Funny

    We'll have to come up with a whole new set of jokes, lads... This means they have the capacity to learn to reverse park.

  7. Re:ROI on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's unwritten law that you don't take the lightbulbs when you move house; It's just being a cheapskate. Like taking the carpets, or the hooks off the back of doors. My parents have had to walk around with candles before now because the idiot who sold the house too every bulb, and this was before the time of 24 hour shopping in the UK. They had to drag boxes out in front of the car to see what was in them.

    I swear to God if anybody does that to me when I'm moving into the house they've sold, I'm turning up at their forwarding address and peeing in their letterbox.

  8. Re:Desktop multitouch: a tool looking for a purpos on Windows 7 Touch, Dead On Arrival · · Score: 1

    Playing FPS with a touchscreen, though, would just become a pretty version of whack-a-mole. Want to BOOMHEADSHOT that blue team sniper on the balcony? Just touch his face on the screen. Instant death.

    Turning to shoot the guy stabbing you in the back might be an issue, though.

  9. Re:kinda like... on Windows 7 Touch, Dead On Arrival · · Score: 1

    It's a shame you've commented as AC, as I'd like to ask you about which distro you use, and how you went about installing the games and getting 3D graphics working, also about performance.

  10. This what they call on AU Goverment To Break Up Telstra; Filtering News · · Score: 1

    "Divide and Conquer."

  11. Re:15 years old on Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This needs to be the first post so people stop flaming.

    Wait, this is /. ...

  12. Re:Speaking as a chemist on Most Detailed Photos of an Atom Yet · · Score: 1

    To all of the replies above / below, thanks for your efforts. However, I'm afraid I'm going to have to stick with "moons orbiting a planet." I get around three lines into each comment, and my mind wonders to images of Keira Knightly wearing nothing but a strategically placed Kinder Egg.

  13. Coming to a law court near you on Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1. Buy Netbook with Microsoft WIndows XP installed.
    2. Run all updates.
    3. Browse web, get hacked by this exploit. Lose money through "identity theft" / bank fraud.
    4. Turn up in court with the receipt for the netbook & windows license stating when purchased, and the date and time Microsoft refused to patch the hole which caused your loss.
    5. State that Microsoft is profiting from a product which is unsuitable for purpose, and it knows is unsuitable.
    6. ...
    7. Read Microsoft fine print and realise that you have to now give Microsoft your first born child for ever doubting that their asses are covered.

    Yeah, consumer loses out on this one.

  14. Re:Infeasible? on Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP · · Score: 1

    You're speaking nosense!

  15. Re:Speaking as a chemist on Most Detailed Photos of an Atom Yet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Speaking as a chemist, could you explain what exactly this means? Up until this very moment I have been under the misguided notion that the nucleus of an atom was orbited by electrons within groups called "shells", and these worked very similarly to satellites around a planet. I've looked up and read (for around 5 minutes, so give me a little time to properly read up on it) that this is not the case, and that the "shells" model given to 16 year olds is (understandably) over-simplified.

    So, could you in any way explain how we get from "think of it as a planet with many moons" to this or more importantly, what gives orbitals this shape?

    Maybe I'm opening Pandora's Box here, but I'm intruiged.

  16. Re:Similar Pictures From Switzerland on Most Detailed Photos of an Atom Yet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Your article is much more impressive, IMHO. All I see in the original story is three blue blobs. You could have told me it was false-colour cellular mitosis, and I'd have believed you. I understand that the detail in the story is much higher (imaging one atom instead of a whole molecule) but seeing hexagonal Benzene rings with my own eyes just excites me more.

  17. Re:You know the answer on Japan's Cell Phones May Get DRM, At Music Industry Behest · · Score: 1
  18. Re:About time on Australian ISPs Asked To Cut Off Malware-Infected PCs · · Score: 1

    SSL much?

  19. Re:Don't be a policeman on Australian ISPs Asked To Cut Off Malware-Infected PCs · · Score: 1

    When the customer calls to complain, tech support has a kindergarten teacher on hand to explain how simple it is to upgrade to a safe unix-like operating system to avoid future infestations.

    What's wrong with the tech support monkey teaching them how to set up a restricted account for every day use? Why couldn't they instead tell the user that browsing the web from an Administrator account is what caused the issue, accompanied with clicking "Yes" "Accept" and "Allow" at every box which pops up in front of them?

    Linux is not a cure, it's a choice. Education is the cure.

  20. Re:Buy a Pre on iPhone 3.1 Update Disables Tethering · · Score: 1

    Pfff, of course they could.

    You do know that there are tools in the community to re-flash the radio software, don't you? They can't disable anything. The community is so large, with so many people with such in depth knowledge of how WinMobile works (bearing in mind that WinMobile 6.1 is based on Windows CE 5.0, released in 2004) that Microsoft couldn't do anything to the OS that these guys couldn't fix. I'm that confident enough in their collective ability.

  21. Re:Apple embraces Evil(tm) on iPhone 3.1 Update Disables Tethering · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, you win at The Internet.

  22. Re:This is why on iPhone 3.1 Update Disables Tethering · · Score: 3, Informative

    The only crap, expensive software I have on my Diamond 2 is... Erm... Oh, wait, I downloaded a cooked community ROM with all of the rubbish removed and installed the apps I use. The WinMobile community is HUGE, with a large amount of free software for the platform.

    XDA Developers is somewhere you want to look before considering purchasing any smartphone, especially one you want to toy around with.

  23. Wait for 3.2 on iPhone 3.1 Update Disables Tethering · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In 3.2, they're including a printable coupon for your very own Steve Jobs replica wang, coupled with a couple of apples as the veg.

    For the authentic Apple experience.

  24. Re:It's a huge fraud! on Dinosaur Auction In Las Vegas · · Score: 1

    I want to know how some of these fossils survived all of those H-Bomb explosions. Seemed to destroy the physical remains of all those space folk...

  25. Re:IT Dept on Dinosaur Auction In Las Vegas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Modding rule No. 6: If you offer for people to mod you down, you will be modded up. If you begin your comment with "Mod me flamebait / troll / redundant, but..." you'll be modded +5.