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  1. Re:IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MONEY MUST BE IN AMERICA !! on Why There Shouldn't Be a Chess World Champion · · Score: 4, Informative

    That would have been the Indians. Or the Italians and Spanish for the modern game, via the Moors who brought it from Persia.

  2. Re:0.37% of India's total budget on After Successful Launch, India's Mars Orbiter Is On Its Way · · Score: 1

    Oh, dear lord. I fucked up that post quite horrendously, didn't I?

  3. Re:0.37% of India's total budget on After Successful Launch, India's Mars Orbiter Is On Its Way · · Score: 4, Informative

    Poor India with it's 1.842 trillion USD GDP. It's a G20 member with the 9 largest economy in the world, ffs.

  4. Re:Time to shut down the WTO on Antigua Looks Closer To Legal "Piracy" of US-Copyrighted Works · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The political structure inside the US isn't the WTO's problem. The WTO only deals with the US government. If the US federal government wasn't capable of enforcing its own adherence to the treaty it shouldn't have signed it in the first place.

  5. Re:About the authors on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 1

    It matches the timezone of most of Europe during winter and half of Africa all the time. Right now the Czech Republic (along with most of Europe) is currently GMT+2 (UK and Ireland are GMT+1 for another two days, then we revert to GMT).

  6. Re:In before it starts... on Police Demand Summary Domain Takedown, Traffic Redirection · · Score: 3, Informative

    The City of London is actually older than England. Just to confuse people more.

    And then you have The Temple...

  7. Re:Abolish the licence fee on BBC Thinking of Canceling Sky At Night · · Score: 2

    You mean Michael Le Vell? Who was found not guilty on all counts.

  8. Re:yawn on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 7 Slow? · · Score: 4, Informative

    My iTunes just tells me there's an update for my iPhone and asking if I want to install it, with the option of doing it now, doing it later (which is just "bother me next time I sync"), or never ask me about this again. I'm not sure how that's a forced update.

  9. Re:How does this hurt England? on Two Birmingham Men Are Arrested By UK's New Intellectual Property Crime Unit · · Score: 1

    How on earth did you decide I had no problem with Vodaphone?

  10. Re:How is this news? on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business · · Score: 2

    One day I'm going to rip and splice all of my LOTR extended edition BluRays. I've been saying this since before they came out, of course.

  11. Re:How is this news? on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business · · Score: 1

    Doctor Zhivago won't fit on a single DVD; they actually split the movie with the old cinematic intermission reel - I've always really wanted a DVD player that could buffer the video and play it on a loop while you changed discs.

  12. Re:How does this hurt England? on Two Birmingham Men Are Arrested By UK's New Intellectual Property Crime Unit · · Score: 2

    It harms the bit of it that's reselling the genuine articles, as they lose out on sales, which has a knock on effect on various things, such as being able to maintain a profitable business, paying your employees, collecting VAT...on which point, I suspect the gentlemen in question were almost certainly not collecting VAT on their sales; so that's denying HMRC tax revenue. And I'm willing to bet they either weren't paying import duty on the DVDs or they weren't paying the correct import duty.

  13. Re:i don't get it on Two Birmingham Men Are Arrested By UK's New Intellectual Property Crime Unit · · Score: 2

    I suspect because they're the first arrests made by a new unit dedicated to IP related crimes. They were literally their first arrests as a unit.

  14. Re:If you can't beat them on Meet the Guy Who Fact-Checks Stephen King On Stephen King · · Score: 2

    Looking at Wood's own Wikipedia entry it would seem he's actually a horror writer in his own right, as well as an extremely active member of the HWA (he's been president of it for four years, and was a trustee for two years before that). Apparently he was also a member of the Australian Logistics Council...which seems a bit weird.

  15. Re:I'm not falling for that! on What Marketers Think They Know About You and What They Really Do · · Score: 1

    Facebook decided that two of my friends must have gone to school together at one point, and kept asking them to confirm it. One is from Israel and the other is from The Netherlands.

  16. Re:Australia could have learned from New Zealand on Australian State Bans IBM From All Contracts After Payroll Bungle · · Score: 1

    It's New Zealand's choice as to whether they become a part of Australia or not though, iirc? Although if they do I don't think Australia then gets a choice in the matter, it just happens. I can't see NZ wanting to do anytime soon though...

  17. Re:we didn't had submarines in ancient Greece on Sunken WWI U-Boats a Bonanza For Historians · · Score: 1

    A field archaeologist might find them self working on a Viking dig one project and a WW1 project the next. Are they supposed to change job title simply because the period they're working on has changed?

  18. Re:we didn't had submarines in ancient Greece on Sunken WWI U-Boats a Bonanza For Historians · · Score: 1

    It's not confusing in the least, we just learn what the individual words mean. When people are aware of the etymology they just file it away as a quirky etymological factoid.

    And there you go, another Greek rooted word, by way of French and Latin: etymology.

  19. Re:How does... on NHS Fined After Computer Holding Patient Records Found On eBay · · Score: 1

    Secure data destruction involves a very large shredder which just turns the disks in to scrap metal. There's even video of it being done to the HDDs that were holding the ID card database before it was scrapped.

  20. Re:Nein, bitte. on Sky Deutschland Considering Using Bone Conduction To Force Ads On Train Riders · · Score: 1

    Regional usage, perhaps? Although foreign language teaching outside of Germany being hugely out of step with modern usage wouldn't surprise me.

  21. Part of me is pleased by the fact that German trains can be as shit as UK ones. DB (technically DB Netze, I guess) seems to be better at maintaining infrastructure than Network Rail, at least.

  22. Re:Hooray! on BBC Gives Up On 3-D Television Programming · · Score: 1

    I went to see Hobbit in 3D to see what it was like; I found myself distinctly underwhelmed. I very much doubt I'll be seeing the next part in 3D.

  23. Re:How about this on Disney's Titling Problem With Its Star Wars Movies · · Score: 3, Informative

    Also Hamlet and Macbeth.

  24. Re:Retroactively? on Disney's Titling Problem With Its Star Wars Movies · · Score: 1

    Yes; it came out in December 1977, not in 1978. It also didn't say Episode IV, that was added in 1981 after ESB was released the previous year with the Episode V label on it.

  25. Re:Would you ride in one? on Jetstream Retrofit Illustrates How Close Modern Planes Are To UAVs · · Score: 0

    And how well it worked on US Airways Flight 1549...