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  1. Re:Then buy NZ music on US "the Enemy" Says Dotcom Judge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't buy US produced music anyway. Its not like you make it all or far from it. The UK makes better music!

  2. Re:Poetic Justice on Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen · · Score: 1

    The thing about these laws is the arrogance that a country thinks its the only country that can develop X and by preventing the export its protecting itself. The thing about knowledge is once you know something is possible clever people can develop it and there's no shortage of clever people. The US tried to prevent the UK having nuclear weapons just after the war. But we went and developed the first commercial nuclear power station before you and nuclear weapons not long after. RSA encryption was banned for export for a while. We'd gone and invented it in 1973 but didn't tell anyone including the US so we were encrypting our own stuff anyway. Now that China makes everything anyway it doesn't really matter. If Iran say wanted loads of iPads for some system they'll just get them from China. The only American thing in an iPad is a bit of the software. The rest is bought it technology.

  3. Re:It's not a "demand" -- it's a request on US Gov't Demands For Google Data Up 37% Over the Last Year · · Score: 1

    I just opted out of the tracking! I just tried the link from the link and Google said it didn't know me. :-)

  4. TB devices are *so* expensive... on Thunderbolt On Windows: Hardware and Performance Explored · · Score: 1

    This is almost $30. Terrible...

    http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD463

    Things will come down as the port becomes more wide spread.

  5. Whine whine whine on Diablo 3 Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live · · Score: 1

    If you don't like the game don't buy it and don't play it. Simple. No one owes you anything. If enough people don't like it the game will be a flop. So be it. But no one is forcing you to buy anything. Blizzard have a product and you have the chance to purchase it. That's it. The entitlement people have is amazing.

  6. Re:That's *it* for me and Blizzard, man!! on Diablo 3 Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Actually no it doesn't. The game producer makes a game and either you want to play it or you don't. You have not rights to demand anything. If you don't like it play something else.

  7. Re:Oystercard: transfer of costs to the passenger on London Tube Stations Finally Get Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I love the Oyster card and I don't live in London. I have one on automatic top up. I basically don't drive in London. I either leave my car on the outskirts or go by train. Oyster card allows me to travel around to my hearts content. There's a maximum daily cost too!

  8. HFCS!! on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be better just to ban HFCSes which is just damn right bad. Most sensible countries don't use it anyway. I don't drink sugary drinks in the US when I'm there anyway because HFCS gives me IBS. I also have to be very careful what I eat too. Its poisonous shit!

  9. Re:Where do you Think the Internet CAME FROM! on Mitch Altman Parts Ways With Maker Fair Over DARPA Grant · · Score: 2

    Actually the internet came from various places. Yes there was ARPANET that formed the majority of it. The UK formed JANET in parallel. A lot of the packet switched network concepts came from the UK too. Like all of these developments. There's no one source. When something comes of age it comes of age. I suspect if ARPA hadn't been there something else would have arrived and we'd still have the internet. It would just be subtly different.

  10. I don't have a steering wheel... on You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA · · Score: 1

    I also only have two wheels and all you guys are stationary object blurring in my peripheral vision :-)

  11. Re:I failed my first driving test on You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA · · Score: 1

    You should have selected the appropriate gear for the intersection before the corner. You brake and change down before the corner, accelerate around it and change up after it.

  12. Different strength air-bags in the US. on You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA · · Score: 1

    One thing to note is that air bags in the US have a more powerful explosive charge than those in european cars. Its to protect those not wearing seat belts which is more common in the US.

  13. Re:One hand, 12 o'clock ... on You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As someone who was T-boned by someone at lights I can say that the crash protection on my Volvo did everything it should have done. In fact I managed to drive the car to the side of the road. However. The air bag went off and skinned my bare arms leaving me with permanent scaring on my inner forearms. I never drive cars with short sleeves now.

  14. Re:No, there's no need on Ask Slashdot: Using Company Laptop For Personal Use · · Score: 1

    I've even had three laptops before. My work laptop, my client's laptop (I'm a consultant), and my laptop. Thank the pastery tentacled one for wheeled cases!

  15. Re:Sometimes they get it right on EU Approves Unified Full Body Scanner Regulations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have one thing to say about who's representing who's ideals?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta

    Remember that the Pilgrim Fathers left England because they wanted less religious freedom. They wanted everyone to follow their brand.

  16. Not all CS is the same! on British CS Majors Doing Badly In the Jobs Market · · Score: 1

    My employer is always having problems finding new staff. We're expanding and its hard to get the right calibre of people to fill those vacancies. The problem is that your regular run of the mill computer science grad doesn't necessarily have the right expertise or knowledge for us. So if you've graduated and can write VB, .NET or create and manipulate databases great. But you've got nothing we need. And that's the thing. Computer Science is such a vast area of knowledge now that a CS degree isn't enough. Every Tom, Dick or Harriet has one in the industry. More importantly so do the far eastern equivalents. You need to differentiate yourself from the crowd and make yourself indispensable.

  17. Here in the UK ... on Google Latitude Arrives For the iPhone — As a Web App · · Score: 1

    ... we don't have the Google G1 app at all! So I have a choice of the poor iPhone app or nothing. I own both an iPhone 3G and a Google G1 on T-Mobile UK. And I hate to say that at least I get everything on the iPhone that my US cousins get. T-Mobile UK have crippled the G1. Also, on the whole, the iPhone lasts far longer on battery than the G1 does.

  18. Re:Proper Old Skool on How They Built the Software of Apollo 11 · · Score: 1

    a) I have, in fact danced at slimes, sunday night laughtons, friday night laughtons and infest. I used to be mopey mopey hand stapled to forehead and still am on occasion but I'm not averse to a little dayglow and glowsticks when the mood requires.

    b) I rode a Z750 to April Whitby.

    c) A babe?? Some may think so.

    d) Female. Check

    e) Yup. Check.

    LOL...

  19. Proper Old Skool on How They Built the Software of Apollo 11 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As some one old enough to enter raw hex in to a hex keypad on a machine with an LED display having hand assembled the code in the back of her math exercise book during a math lesson (when I should have been learning stats) this doesn't sound too different.

  20. Re:Their value system is out of whack on Bletchley Park WWII Staff Finally Recognized · · Score: 1

    The issue is this. During the war if you were seen to be 'avoiding' the front lines or fighting for your country you had a very very rough time of it. War was hell for those who apparently were not doing their duty for the country. This is from everyone. You were a pariah in your communities. You were picked on by the local authorities (police, etc).

    So imagine how you felt if you knew you were working hard for Britain in the war but you couldn't tell anyone. Not only are you not being recognised you're getting all the shit from the rest of your society over it too. It was not nice for them. I know I'd bloody be bitter.

  21. Re:Let's Start With an Apology on Bletchley Park WWII Staff Finally Recognized · · Score: 1

    Welcome to slashdot. Predominantly the world of the privileged white male and the attitudes that go with that. Heaven help you if you're a bi-sexual woman. But then I probably shouldn't be worrying my pretty little head over such things...

  22. Re:Their value system is out of whack on Bletchley Park WWII Staff Finally Recognized · · Score: 1

    The results of the cracking of Enigma were kept secret because after the war the Enigma technology was sold on and they didn't want the purchasers to know that it had already been cracked!

  23. Re:whats the crime in hate crime? on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 1

    In this case the crime is "Incitement to racial hatred". You can say "I hate Pakistanis" (I don't actually). You can even publish it (hence the BNP). What you can't say is "I hate Pakistanis and we should kill/maim whatever any we find.". When proposing violence is involved it turns from mere through to "Incitement to racial hatred" which is illegal in the UK.

  24. Re:It seems ironic... on Ballmer Scorns Apple As a $500 Logo · · Score: 1

    I have style and care about design and have a really strong preference for female sleeping company!

  25. Re:That's odd... on Hippies Say WiFi Network Is Harming Their Chakras · · Score: 2, Informative

    Firstly that book is not 2000 years old. Its about 1600 years old.

    Secondly its *only* 1600 years old. Some concepts of basic British law do predate Christianity. And then the basic concepts of freedom which were first enshrined in the Magna Carta were there *despite* the Christian King of the time.

    Thirdly that book tells us that blind people and other disabled people will not go to heaven, its wrong to eat shellfish, you can stone bald people, and more importantly is the main cause for bigotry against me. For everything good in there there's a conflicting bit of madness. On the whole the general teachings of the Jesus character are good but you need to throw away the whole of the old testament and St Pauls letters to the Corinthians since he was a born again rabbid nutter. Oh yes get rid of the Book of Revelations, surely that's mushroom inspired!

    But basically yes it does teach

    - Personal responsibility
    - Treating others with love and respect
    - Not being a greedy selfish twit.

    But also that you should be a complete arse to anyone who's gay or transgendered, oh yes, and put women in their places. So I'm screwed on three counts. The are plenty of other religions that teach the good bits without the fuckwittery.