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  1. Re:six hundred dollars? on Apple Forces Google To Degrade Android Features · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Windows has done this for years when searching for device drivers...

  2. Re:Time and Place on Home Office To Ignore Wikipedia Founder's Petition Against O'Dwyer Extradition · · Score: 1

    Linking is *not* a crime in UK, no matter what some district judge might personally think. There is no legislation saying it is a crime (or even civil misdemeanour), just an opinion by someone who has nothing to do with any part of an extradition process and forgot that he is supposed to interpret law, not make it up. What he said was "probably illegal" and has no place whatsoever in any legal proceedings.

    Posting a letter bomb is most definitely a crime in UK, even if it doesn't kill / maim / hurt anyone because the intent was there.

  3. Re:Then how should I port a platformer? on Adobe Stops Flash Player Support For Android · · Score: 1

    You port it to Android with hooks for PS3 / XBox controllers. Even joysticks are supported.

  4. Re:Enough! on More Hot Weather For Southern California, Says UCLA Study · · Score: 1

    Hopefully they'll be the primary targets from the increased Predator visitations.

  5. Re:[Stupid] move on Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He was given permission to leave Sweden. So he did. Then something weird and as yet unexplained happened and another prosecutor decided he was guilty of something without including the two women the original questioning had been about.

    I've never heard of this "have to be in Sweden to be questioned by a prosecutor" before. Presumably neither Assange nor his lawyers have as well. The prosecutor was asked several times to come to London during the last 450+ days of house arrest but refused without saying why.

    If a prosecutor is enough of a "judicial authority" (not in this country they aren't) to authorise a EAW then the Swedish embassy is Swedish enough to be a venue for questioning.

  6. Re:Not like the USA on Chinese Censors Accidentally Block Shanghai Index · · Score: 1

    "The more serious problem with Dresden was that arguably they really were targeting civilians."

    Same as Coventry. Difference being Churchill knew about the attack thanks to intercepted messages but had to let it happen so the Germans didn't know we had cracked their codes. That incentive for revenge, plus the fact that Dresden was pretty much the only large city not yet hit made it a pretty tempting target.

  7. Re:As 'Dutchie' I think its uberfunny ! on Five EU Countries Taken To Court For Failing To Implement Cookie Law · · Score: 1

    If France was one of the countries that hadn't implemented a law this case wouldn't have seen the light of day...

  8. Re:US not great, UN would be worse on UN Takeover of Internet Must Be Stopped, US Warns · · Score: 0

    "In Canada, speech which specifically targets minorities or criticizes religions can be labeled as hate speech with fines given."

    You say that like it's a bad thing. Which would you prefer, WBC assholes shouting that your loved one that you are currently burying will been in hell, or the legal facility to shut such hate mongerers down?

  9. Re:not sure on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 1

    It's a bit more than that. A contract that contains a clause that removes your statutory rights can be agreed to without that particular clause being a valid part of the contract but requires a re-issue of the contract without that clause. If the clause cannot be removed (like in a EULA), then the entire contract can be considered null and void...

  10. Re:Implied Consent? on 64 Complaints Received On UK Cookie Law · · Score: 1

    As a user of websites I know this can happen so they are fine under the law. As a user of my company's website I know this does happen because I'm in the development team so that is fine under the law.

    Oh, you meant some other user? How is a site supposed to know what a random user knows, let alone prove it when there is no definition of "user"?

  11. Re:Implied consent is now ok on UK "No Tracking Law" Now In Effect · · Score: 1

    Quite. There's nothing to see here any more. For implied consent you just need a suitably descriptive privacy policy page, which most sites already have. The 11th hour relaxing means everybody can pretty much carry on as usual

  12. Re:Or what? on NASA To Future Lunar Explorers: Don't Mess With Our Moon Stuff · · Score: 2

    The UK method is to put a low fence around it with a heritage noticeboard filled with uninteresting facts. Worked for Stonehenge.

  13. Re:Or what? on NASA To Future Lunar Explorers: Don't Mess With Our Moon Stuff · · Score: 1

    I remember when the story broke (in the Sunday Sport) that a London Routemaster bus had been discovered there. They had pictures as well.

    It was a much bigger story a few months later when they reported it had disappeared. They had pictures of where it had been to prove it

  14. Re:As a hacker.... on Police Charge News of the World Editor Over Voicemail Hacking · · Score: 2

    It's a more correct use than usual as hacking means "unauthorised access"

  15. Re:The best defence on Police Charge News of the World Editor Over Voicemail Hacking · · Score: 1

    Works even better when you reply *in detail* to something you haven't read.

  16. Re:I'm Shocked on Police Charge News of the World Editor Over Voicemail Hacking · · Score: 2

    There was a rumour that she knew she'd eventually face charges so she got pregnant in order to help her case, as rich pregnant women with connections to the Prime Minister don't go to jail. She claimed her body clock was "ticking" and such scurrilous accusations denigrated the fine reputation of the UK press.

    Lest it be forgot, she was editor of the News of the World, a paper that even fish balked at being wrapped in.

  17. Re:The 10 blocked sites on Report Highlights 10 Sites Unfairly Blocked By UK Mobile Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    Don't you be dissin' mah county, boy, it ain't no wasteland!

    Except for Worthing.

  18. Re:This just in. on Apple Gives In, Drops iPad '4G' Tag To Avoid Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    We do know what English muffins are. We call them muffins. McDonalds calls them McMuffins. The French call French Fries pommes [de terre] frites.

  19. Re:This just in. on Apple Gives In, Drops iPad '4G' Tag To Avoid Lawsuits · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Do astronauts get to sue Apple, too, if they discover their 4G iPad doesn't work in orbit?"

    If it was advertised as being able to do so and thus a purchase decision was made because of that assertion, then I'd say yes.

    The iPad "4G" was advertised as working with UK 4G networks. It doesn't and never will.

  20. Re:Piss off, FBI on Privacy Advocates Protest FBI Warning of 'Going Dark' In Online Era · · Score: 1

    Just because the FBI's strawman argument worked to extend them powers they didn't really need doesn't mean your one will be as successful

  21. Re:Obviousness on Oracle Not Satisfied With Potential $150,000; Goes Against Judge's Warning · · Score: 1

    If I had to implement that method I'd have checked that the highest index of a zero based array is length - 1 for my third comparison...

  22. Re:U.S. court systems on Oracle Not Satisfied With Potential $150,000; Goes Against Judge's Warning · · Score: 1

    Not only that but the function doesn't work unless there is some sort of zero indexed array whose highest index is equal to the array length.

  23. Re:Move to Europe on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection? · · Score: 1

    Or just get some shipped over from UK. All surge protection devices (strips, pass-through sockets, etc.) are rated at least 250VAC / 13A with response times for some in the nanoseconds. You'll need plug adapters by the crate though...

  24. Re:Never? on Government Asks When It Can Shut Down Wireless Communications · · Score: 1

    Have there between any examples that weren't part of the plot in a police procedural show?

  25. Re:One simple request on Finally, a Shark With a Laser Attached To Its Head · · Score: 1

    I'm sure he is busy working on a new project