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  1. Already paying on Would You Pay an Internet Broadband Tax? · · Score: 1

    It's called VAT, though where the value in an overpriced, oversubscribed underperforming service is is a mystery.

  2. Re:What about hospitals? on FAA To Reevaluate Inflight Electronic Device Use · · Score: 2

    When both myself and the wife had cause to be in hospital (at separate times) there was no restriction whatsoever on cell phones

  3. Re:This Isn't Going to Solve the General Problem on FAA To Reevaluate Inflight Electronic Device Use · · Score: 1

    Given the amount of strobing lights on any commercial aircraft, driving into one and claiming that you couldn't see it because the shades were down isn't likely to be considered remotely plausible. This isn't a "Batman hiding amongst pursuit vehicles on a freeway by turning the headlights off" fantasy.

  4. Re:Considering I fly multiple times a month on FAA To Reevaluate Inflight Electronic Device Use · · Score: 1

    If your phone can connect to a tower 32,000’ away including all the scattering that buildings cause then there's no reason why it couldn't just because the signal is travelling in a more perpendicular direction with no obstacles.

  5. Re:Hrm on BBC Criticized For Snooping Under RIPA Powers · · Score: 1

    Yes, was. In the olden days your RF receiver pumped out loads of modulated RF dependent on input frequencies so it was distinctly possible. Now with EU regulations governing emissions on all electronics you'd be lucky to even detect if it was switched on from more than a couple of metres away. Your ring main kicks out more than a LCD TV.

  6. Hrm on BBC Criticized For Snooping Under RIPA Powers · · Score: 3, Informative

    "The reason we do not release more details on how and when it is used is to ensure people without a valid TV licence don’t use this information to their advantage when attempting to avoid detection.”

    Bollocks. The reason they do not release more details is that they don't want to.

  7. Re:Convention on Diplomatic Asylum on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 2

    "US Federal law only applies to US citizens and cannot be applied to a foreigner without consent."

    Of course it can. Why? Because fuck you, that's why. Ask for consent? That's what pussies do.

  8. Re:but but on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 2

    Because the TV cop show is right (if the embassy belongs to a country that honours diplomatic immunity and possibly political asylum). The fact that the US doesn't recognise political asylum is immaterial. Ecuador does and has a duty of care for anyone accorded that protection.

    The US can't crash the party and then claim that the music isn't to their taste.

  9. Re:My first thought... shuttle tiles on How To Line a Thermonuclear Reactor · · Score: 5, Funny

    What material can withstand 100,000C ???

    The pastry wrapping a McDonalds Apple Pie.

  10. Re:What violation of his rights? on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 2

    Why has Sweden refused to send inspectors to UK to question Assange for two years, despite repeated requests, when they are happy to do so for other suspects of far more serious crimes in other countries? Why have they not given any reasons for the refusals?

    Why have they also refused a request from the Ecuadorian embassy (again without giving a reason)?

    Refusal, especially without explanation, can only mean that there is another reason that he "must" be in Sweden before questioning can take place.

  11. Re:Meaningless on CERN Physicists Generate Hottest Man-Made Temperatures Ever: ~5.5 Trillion K · · Score: 1

    Correct.

  12. Re:Meaningless on CERN Physicists Generate Hottest Man-Made Temperatures Ever: ~5.5 Trillion K · · Score: 2

    Indeed. The unit of hotness is the Helen. Helen herself was so hot she had a Helen of more than 1 using the standard scale so the Troy Helen is used in her case.

  13. Re:Hot Pockets on CERN Physicists Generate Hottest Man-Made Temperatures Ever: ~5.5 Trillion K · · Score: 1

    Hot Pockets are still perishingly cold in comparison to a McDonalds Apple Pie.

  14. Re:Getting tired of Apple lawsuits on Why Apple Is Suing Every Android Manufacturer In Sight · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that Samsung make components for iPhones. Suing the company that provides parts for your products out of existence doesn't seem a particularly good move to me.

  15. Re:When Domination Isn't on Why Apple Is Suing Every Android Manufacturer In Sight · · Score: 2

    If they did a 1:1 copy then it too would have needed screen protectors, pouches and the hands of a world class juggler to prevent damage to it. The SGS is the most robust phone I've ever had, beating even my G1 and an ancient NEC for shrugging off dropping, keeping naked in a pocket with keys and other "guaranteed to bugger up your iPhone" style husbandry.

  16. Re:"The OffSpring" said it best, in "All I Want".. on Australian Gov't Drops Plan To Snoop On Internet Use — For Now · · Score: 2

    Where's the TL;DR moderation when you need it? I think I wore a groove in my phone's Corning glass with all the swiping.

  17. Re:Dear Slashdot.. on Ask Slashdot: Understanding the SNES? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there's a torrent available at Demon... Oh wait.

  18. Re:ProCD v. Zeidenberg on Valve Removes Right For Class Action Claims From EULA · · Score: 2

    Really? Did you sign it? Did you get it notarised? Did you understand every word of legalese used? Did you agree to forfeit statutory rights (that can't be forfeited) like "you agree this bullshit can be changed at any time at our whim when it benefits one party over another"?

    Or did you click through the unenforceable crap just so you could use what you paid for?

  19. Re:mind-job, anyone? on Kepler Spots "Perfectly Aligned" Alien Worlds · · Score: 2

    if the universe is infinite, then there are an infinite number of stars. It follows that orbiting those infinite stars is an infinite number of planets.

    "Would you like a cheese and ham Breville?"

  20. Too much surveillance on City Council Ordered To Stop CCTV In Taxi Cabs · · Score: 3

    I'm thinking that this is only because of the recording of conversations as all public transport has CCTV installed these days. None of them record your voice though there are rumblings of installing microphones in street lamps to complement the cameras. There's even talk of installing speakers which would make the England of V a reality.

  21. We've been here before on HTML5 Splits Into Two Standards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "HTML5" is a marketing buzzword, just like "Web 2.0". HTML 5 is a loose coupling of emergent technologies which is in a constant state of flux as new shiny stuff is added by the competing browsers (Internet Explorer is not one of these). 'Twas ever thus that new things appeared hoping to be part of the standard - either by saturation or by conscious decision - before the standard is declared. This is nothing new.

  22. Re:VBA? on JavaScript For the Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    Not if you're using Troy pounds it isn't

  23. Re:Sixty Bucks a Day? on Icelandic Court Rules: Wikileaks Will Get Contributed Credit Card Money · · Score: 1

    More like $6000 unfortunately:

    http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=800000&From=ISK&To=USD

    ISK is about 200 to the pound...

  24. Re:It's 'Diplomatic *Corps*' on SOPA Provisions Being Introduced Piecemeal From Lamar Smith · · Score: 1

    Except "corps" is a French word that has no English translation for the context it is used in. I'm more surprised you didn't pick on the misspelling of "attache".

    However, these attachés pretty much work for the entertainment industry so maybe "corp." is more accurate.

  25. Re:"shutters"? on Russian Wikipedia Shutters In Protest of Internet Blacklist Plans · · Score: 2

    It's a well established gerund - like "bridge" that serves its purpose. Unlike such idiocy as "burglarize" (burgle already exists), even most -ized words coined by the inarticulate.