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  1. Re:From the article... on Is Plagiarism In Literature Just Sampling? · · Score: 2, Informative

    AFAIK, she didn't copy whole pages verbatim. In the box at the bottom of
    this page, you can find a comparison of the original and her text (in German, of course).

  2. The real problem on FAA Data Shows Exploding Batteries Are Rare, Small Risk · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think the real problem is that people could make their Li-Ion batteries explode intentionally.

  3. Re:Banking Reform on Paypal Reverses Payments Made To Indians · · Score: 1

    It's a bit complicated, but when selling to private individuals, it has always been the VAT rate of that individual's country.

    There is a certain allowance per merchant, year and country. If a merchant is below that allowance he can also choose to apply the VAT of his country.

    See here.

    The B2B case is another story.

  4. Re:Simply, no software required. on How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time? · · Score: 1

    Personally, I always use 2 * T3. Has always worked out nice for me, but those were all rather small projects.

  5. Re:I feel split in this matter on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A DDOS attack originating from port 80 of boards.4chan.org? Think again.

  6. Re:Banking Reform on Paypal Reverses Payments Made To Indians · · Score: 1

    When you sell things online in Europe in meaningful quantities the VAT rate of the consumer's country applies, no matter from where you ship it. It's only about corporate taxes which are also very low in Luxembourg.

  7. Re:Currency controls on Paypal Reverses Payments Made To Indians · · Score: 1

    The lower the price for the yuan (a.k.a the renminbi) in dollars, the more dollars China earns from exports, and the fewer dollars it spends on imports.

    No, they also have to spend more on imports. But that doesn't matter much because of their trade surplus.

  8. Re:Banking Reform on Paypal Reverses Payments Made To Indians · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's pretty common. Most US companies doing business in Europe have a subsidiary in a tax haven like Luxembourg (Amazon, for example) or Ireland (Google).

  9. Re:Banking Reform on Paypal Reverses Payments Made To Indians · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, in Europe they claim to be a bank so they don't have to pay VAT on their service charges.

  10. Re:Before someone says it on FBI Pushing For 2-Year Retention of Web Traffic Logs · · Score: 1

    One should note that EU data retention laws also require that the following is logged:

    • date, sender, recipient and IP address of every email you send/receive
    • date and IP address of every access to your mailbox
    • date and phone number of each call you make/receive or SMS you send/receive including your current location if you use a mobile phone
  11. Won't matter much anyway on MPEG LA Extends H.264 Royalty-Free Period · · Score: 1

    Google will open source VP8 from On2 in a few months, and H.264 will soon be history.

  12. Re:I guess Apple did all that themselves... on The Apple Paradox, Closed Culture & Free-Thinking Fans · · Score: 4, Informative

    They obviously never visited this page.

  13. Re:GJ slashdot... on FTL Currents May Power Pulsar Beams · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, we already have to assume Einsteinian post-mortem rotation because of certain results of quantum theory.

  14. Re:Google's purchase of On2 on YouTube Hints At Support For Free/Open Formats With HTML5 · · Score: 1

    I'm convinced that this is exactly what Google plans to do once the acquisition of On2 is finished. The lack of an open, royalty-free video format with better compression than Ogg Theora is the one thing that's keeping HTML5 video behind.

  15. It's not the "government" on German Government Advises Public To Stop Using IE · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a German federal agency, not the German government. And they warn users about IE every time there is a major unpatched security hole.

  16. Re:One thing to say on New Pi Computation Record Using a Desktop PC · · Score: 1

    pi isn't random in any base. In base pi it's 10.

  17. Only one mine on earth? on China Moving To Restrict Neodymium Supply · · Score: 1

    The article says

    Nearly all of China's supply of rare earths comes from a single mine near the city of Baotou, in Inner Mongolia.

    I can't believe it would be a big problem to find those are earths somewhere else.

  18. Re:So only XP is out of luck? on HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors · · Score: 1

    The alignment is another thing. But the read-modify-write extra accesses can still happen with the right alignment so the drives will be slower in compatibility mode.

  19. Re:So only XP is out of luck? on HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors · · Score: 4, Informative

    The new hard drives will have a compatibility mode. It will be slower though because it has to read-modify-write behind the scene.

  20. Re:Does this do something SFU doesn't? on Cygwin 1.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Mozilla's build environment for Windows is based on MinGW for quite some time now.

  21. Re:Shovelware makes $6 about right... on No More Fair-Price Refund For Declining XP EULA · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Given the amount of preinstalled crapware on some notebooks, users should be happy that they don't have to pay more for a notebook without Windows.

  22. Re:Rources on Malware Can Download Child Porn To Your Computer · · Score: 1

    In Germany, there has been a big debate about online child porn recently. One organization showed that by simply sending email to the hosting providers many sites were deleted within 12 hours.

    See http://ak-zensur.de/2009/05/loeschen-funktioniert.html (in German)

  23. Reminds me of that macro lens hack on Turning a Cell Phone Into a Microscope · · Score: 1

    Super Macro Your Cellphone Camera With A DVD Lens

  24. Re:not sureprised on Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, there is one major difference. If I steal your car, you can't use it any more. If I copy your software, you can still use it. I don't take something away. In most cases, the copyright holder doesn't even notice.

    It's the copyright holders that are trying to mislead people and contort the English language by saying stealing is the same as copying.

  25. Re:It stands to reason on KDE Founder Receives Highest German Honor · · Score: 1

    Scratch that. As another commenter mentioned, judging by the photo it looks like the Verdienstmedaille.