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  1. Re:Wikileaks held back fifteen thousand pages! on Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down · · Score: 1

    After USG refused to help redact.

    They played chicken with other peoples lives and wikileaks didnt blink

  2. Re:Is this legal? on CBC Bans Use of Creative Commons Music On Podcasts · · Score: 1

    Assuming CBC == BBC, then there are truly no ads.

  3. Re:Nights on Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar · · Score: 1

    You're about 10 years behind. Modern super conducting is NOT liq N2 temperatures.

  4. Interesting Hacks... on ATM Hack Gives Cash On Demand · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Originally delayed to let the companies patch. Interested to see if he can live up to his claims to be able to find similar issues in other brand ATMs as well.

  5. Re:This is why we need a carbon tax on Chevy Volt Not Green Enough For California · · Score: 1

    Fuel tax increases in the UK in the early 90's increased average fuel efficiency, as car companies started to focus on efficiency as a key selling point.

    So yes, something like that could work in the US, assuming US citizens are vaguely rational...

  6. Re:The leaf is not a hybrid on Chevy Volt Not Green Enough For California · · Score: 1

    FUel tax escalator - you increase the tax year on year. Worked in the uk in the early 90s, reducing average fuel consumption massively.

  7. Re:I'm puzzled on Chevy Volt Not Green Enough For California · · Score: 1

    As it was switzerland the answer probably IS yes - theyre not fans of cars.

    UK the test is 40 minutes and much tougher - pass rate is about 40% for the practical, higher for the theory and hazard perception but not much higher.

  8. Re:Wrong law to try and apply on Court Rules That Bypassing Dongle Is Not a DMCA Violation · · Score: 1

    Even then (UK at least) they are likely entirely unenforceable, as they are trying to impose a contract of adhesion, containing unfair terms (*everything* in there is unfair as you have entered into a simple sale, for which no license was presented at the time of sale and no expectation that it works as a license has been created) as well as being presented after the fact of the sale, as part of a simple retail transaction.

    EULAs are essentially "we'll pretend we have authority we dont have in the hope you believe us" - im amazed they have not been outlawed like "no refund" signs.

  9. Re:Wrong law to try and apply on Court Rules That Bypassing Dongle Is Not a DMCA Violation · · Score: 1

    Wrong - if you purchase the software then no license is required, meaning that not agreeing to the EULA is perfectly fine.

    Essentially ask yourself this: if you purchase a book could you be required to agree to a license before you could read it? No? same for computer programs.

    OF course this is the UK, which is slightly rational about these things. Oh, and IANAL, etc

  10. Re:Prove it on Blizzard To Require Real First and Last Names For Official Forums · · Score: 1

    minor == 18 in the UK, the whole "13" thing realy, really doesnt apply anywhere but the US.

    HOwever *just* a name is not, in UK DPA terms at least, considered to be PII.

  11. Re:Depends on Blizzard To Require Real First and Last Names For Official Forums · · Score: 1

    Small claims court is a good start, at least in the UK. Also employment tribunals here are free for the employee, costs the employer regardless of the outcome, and are legally binding.

    Oops, orry, forgot the US is kinda backwards on this topic...

  12. Re:Though shit on Paperless Tickets Flourish Despite 'Grandma Problem' · · Score: 1

    That would fall foul of a number of UK laws...

  13. Re:Still unfair.. on Google To Add Pay To Cover a Tax For Gays · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No it is not, as the civil marriage laws have nothing relating to a religious observance in them.

    In fact civil partnerships have absolutely no "standard" wording at all, unlike civil marriages, meaning you can actively denounce religion if you want and it is fine (as long as the registrar doesnt panic, that is....) - we were told we could write our entire service if we wanted.

    Yes the nominal head is both State and Church, but the actual PM is purely a civil role.

  14. Re:Andrew on Google To Add Pay To Cover a Tax For Gays · · Score: 2, Informative

    Marriage was a civil instritution first, long before it was religious.

  15. Re:Cool on Hong Kong Company Develops Solar-Powered Lightbulb · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Same here - I think hotels in the UK are now required to put these systems in when refitting / building, as they seem to be in >75% of hotels i stay in nowadays.

  16. Re:If only. on The Men Who Stare At Airline Passengers, Coming To the UK · · Score: 1

    Except you assume that clothing is for modesty sake, and not, simply, for protection agains tthe elements.

    You are confusing cause and effect.

  17. Re:He should probably wander down to the law facul on University Networks Block Student Project · · Score: 1

    1) Because tuition isnt set by the university
    2) Because, even if it was, it would be breach of contract

    Now what you have instead is the archaic "we withold your results unless you pay up" - however a FoIA request should clear that up, if pressed.

  18. Re:Shrug on In UK, Hacker Demands New Government Block Extradition · · Score: 4, Informative

    1) 50 years in PMITA prison is *not* commensurate to the crime
    2) The level of damages has been inflated to include *actions they should already have taken* in order to justify the extradition.
    3) He has ASKED to be tried in the UK, where the actual act AND intent were committed.

  19. Re:A little perspective from the UK on In UK, Hacker Demands New Government Block Extradition · · Score: 1

    Only if he meets the legal tests in the (fucking stupid) treaty.

    Whcih the USG only managed to do by making numbers up to inflate the "damages".

  20. Re:What kind of stupid comment is that? on In UK, Hacker Demands New Government Block Extradition · · Score: 1

    Ah, you mean the violations of the PCI DSS you mean?

    Idiot.

    I assume you have never heard of a statute of limitations?

  21. Re:But now on In UK, Hacker Demands New Government Block Extradition · · Score: 3, Interesting

    However in order to be extradited the US Gov had to show damages above a certain level.

    WHich they *blatantly* fabricated. $700k to audit windows computers to fix a *default password*? That cost was already sunk - they would have had to change them anyway, or they shoudl have done!

    ANd uner the one sided, inane extradition treaty you cannot fight this until after you have left your home country behind...

  22. Re:"BP won't get off free here" on How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? · · Score: 1

    You really think they'll go bankrupt over this?

    Not a hope.

    a) they made US$5B in just *3 months*
    b) they have huge cash reserves
    c) if they need to they do some "company restructuring" which just so happens to leave one "company" with all the liabilty and none of the assets.

  23. Re:If I were taking an IT Admin position... on Rough Justice For Terry Childs · · Score: 1

    Sounds like criminal negligence to me to NOT have your critical system passwords stored independently of the ONE person in charge of the systems.

  24. Re:employment contract on Activision Hit With $500m Suit From Modern Warfare 2 Devs · · Score: 3, Informative

    WHen IW was bought IW retained the rights to the CoD name and future titles.

  25. Re:So what? on Sony Can Update PS3 Firmware Without Permission · · Score: 1

    EU1999/4, which states that they cannot alter the functionality of the system after purchase for one.

    The one that allowed the guy to claim a refund from Amazon recently....