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  1. Re:20 years later... on 20 Years of GSM and SMS · · Score: 1

    It's a pretty tightly controlled market if so. There doesn't seem to be any way to get most smartphones on the independent market for less than the total cost of the contract in Europe.

  2. Re:Quoting the Independent on UK Green Lights HS2 High Speed Rail Line · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they did not want the Swainswick bypass built. To me that says the opposite of what you claimed.

  3. Re:Natural beauty of the English countryside? on UK Green Lights HS2 High Speed Rail Line · · Score: 1

    Definitely not wilderness, lovely though The Stiperstones (surely the most remote part of Shropshire) are.

  4. Re:The problem with our railways is not speed on UK Green Lights HS2 High Speed Rail Line · · Score: 1

    It's never cheaper to buy on the day. Sometimes a flexible ticket will be cheaper, but you can always buy that in advance, and get free booked seats with it. The fact that split tickets can be cheaper is infuriating, though, although they may remove the obligation for the railway to get you to your final destination (by taxi, if your last connection is not available through their fault, although they may not do this unless you demand it).

  5. Re:Not just railway lines on UK Green Lights HS2 High Speed Rail Line · · Score: 1

    I'd be interested to know, too. Press coverage at the time says Bel Mooney (married to Jonathan Dimbleby) was dead against it (and it is hideous, though I only visited here once before it was built).

    I've no real information about who was for it at the time. But if traffic was coming down what is now the Gloucester Road through Swainswick, then boy, oh boy, that would have been ugly.

  6. Re:What about a supernova? on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Is there any way to tell when the light and the neutrinos left the supernovae, though?

  7. Re:Seriously, what the fuck! on How Citigroup Hackers Easily Gained Access · · Score: 2

    Not quite, in that with the UK system, those details only allow people to set up a Direct Debit, which can only be used for certain types of Consumer to Business payments, and are automatically refundable on the consumer end, but still makes it worth keeping your account number and sort code private.

  8. Re:Short Answer on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I take it you know more about economics than you do about the command line, right?

  9. Re:Godspeed, Endeavour. on Endeavour Launch Now Slated For Monday · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call the normal operating depth of a military submarine as being 'deep ocean'. I don't know of any that have a test depth deeper than 400 metres, according to Wikipedia.

  10. Re:Meh on Confessions of a Computer Repairman · · Score: 1

    Or buy a non-consumer laptop.

  11. Re:Bait & switch on T-Mobile Slashes Fair Use Policy, Says Download At Home · · Score: 1

    You can certainly cancel the contract though. The comment above ( http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1945144&cid=34834280 ) tells you how.

  12. Re:Creationism on Scientists Decipher 3-Billion-Year-Old Genomic Fossils · · Score: 1

    Well, I've heard that logic as being attributed to Origen, so it goes right back to the early church. I'd say that's an old trick.

  13. Re:How could it be that easy? on Cybergang Compromises Every ATM In Russian City · · Score: 1

    Yes, you'd hope so, wouldn't you.

    But it's worth reading this article in The Register, one of their best ever: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/21/phantoms_and_rogues/

    It seems it happened in the UK in the 1990s.

  14. Re:10 things to do before I die on Aussie Government Competition To Predict Commute Times · · Score: 2

    Yes, because obviously that's responsible for holdups, rather than the fact that there's an awful lot of people trying to travel through an awfully small amount of space.

  15. Re:Also, it's "cue" on Coder Accuses IBM of Patenting His Work · · Score: 1

    No, the interjection is almost always spelt as two words. The adverb and adjective forms, as you say, can be spelt either way.

  16. Re:I'm no expert, but as I see it on Will Netflix Destroy the Internet? · · Score: 1

    But I only want 60GB to go with my 15Mbps (actually I get 19Mbps, but same difference). I'm very happy to get that for a trivial amount of money per month.

  17. Re:Upload on Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    They're probably trying to upload a 200 megabyte(MB) file.

    But the cap's up to 2.5Mb/s, so your numbers still work out.

  18. Re:My experience with a 1:1 initiative on MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks · · Score: 1

    What about running a desktop virtualisation system like Citrix? Then you actually control the whole environment, and the students can have a properly uniform experience. And whatever laptop they like.

  19. Re:Another XKCD link on Wikipedia Is Not Amused By Entry For xkcd-Coined Word · · Score: 1

    a tautapropism?

  20. Re:Great idea on Re-Purposing the Netherlands' Dike System For Power Generation · · Score: 1

    Even though The Netherlands is also a rich country?

  21. The spaghetti slide. on PowerPoint of Afghan War Strategy · · Score: 1

    It looks to me as if the spaghetti diagram would be pretty useful to work from if it were printed in poster format. As a slide, not so much.

  22. Re:Mega projects? on Re-Purposing the Netherlands' Dike System For Power Generation · · Score: 1

    But the Delta Works are already a mega-engineering project. And the Channel Tunnel (which is the name it's always known by, save in tabloid newspapers and Wikipedia) is an engineering success, just not a financial one.

  23. Re:0% drop !? on IE Not Faring Well In the EU Ballot · · Score: 1

    Big enough asshole? Interesting language.

  24. I don't have any reception at home, on The Cell Phone Has Changed — New Etiquette Needed · · Score: 1

    you insensitive clod.

  25. Time for open discussion on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    BTW, if anyone knows of a climate model that correctly predicts past, known weather, please post a link.

    It's called hindcasting. It's done quite frequently. I point this out not because I know lots about climate science or anything, rather to show that you know even less than me.