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  1. Re:So, what does that make the record ? on White House Responds To Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz's Prosecutor · · Score: 2

    I would like to see a bit more comment on whether the statement starting "Consistent with the terms we laid out when we began We the People" is true in response - if it is then srely the complains should be able the terms rather than about the response to this petition?

  2. Re: Overseas comment on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Pay Your Taxes? · · Score: 1

    Whereas in the UK a number of benefits have application/renewal forms that look a lot like a tax return but are actually separate.

  3. Re:What about capital gains or dividents? on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Pay Your Taxes? · · Score: 1

    Not all higher rate tax payers have to do a return either. (Then again with gift aid and pension contributions relief even defining a higher rate tax payer can get complex - there was a big fuss recently over child benefit and the fact a particular claw back only applied to net relevant earnings rather than all earnings)

  4. Re:Overseas comment on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Pay Your Taxes? · · Score: 1

    And often you can simply write a letter, in simple cases you don't have to file a full return.

  5. Re:A safe harbor solution on A New Species of Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    I was thinking about suggesting the same thing - and also wondering what the rules in countries are.

  6. It ain't over yet? on Digital Economy Bill Passed In the UK · · Score: 3, Informative
  7. Wrong title? on Vista SP1 Update Locks Out Some Users · · Score: 1

    The linked thread seems to be about the updates issued to enable SP1 rather than sp1 itself.

  8. Re:Answer is easy. on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    Note that in the UK the "Statutory minimum annual leave" is inclusive of public holidays (although most employers do grant them in addition)

  9. Re:Differend approach, same goal on UK Satellites May Keep Cars From Speeding · · Score: 1

    How can this sort of system cope with 30 limits running alongside / over 70 limits - could I be driving along the road at 65 and suddenly with no control over speed be slowed to 30 by a small positional error?

  10. Re:The control desk computers aren't the worry. on Some Nuke Plants Still Have Y2K Bugs · · Score: 1

    I think the US had one reactor of similar design to Chernobyl.

    Windscale (the site became known as Sellafield) in Cumbria UK was caused by inadaquate instumentation of the core and an incomplete knowledge of the behaviour of irradiated graphite. (Weigner (sp?) energy was released). It was a reactor whose job was purely military.

    I think the lesson for us here is the importance of the instrumentation - they knew they had a problem but not how bad it was.