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  1. Re:Like Region Coding, Then on DRM — It's Not Really About Piracy · · Score: 1

    To be exact 30pence (GBP 0.30). Bob was a slang name for a shilling, which after decimalisation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_Day in 1971 a shilling became 5 pence and 'a throw' each

  2. Explosions on TV Brainiac on Liquid Terror Charges Dropped · · Score: 1

    They often blow up caravans on this show (which is always a good thing) but whenever they claim to have destroyed one with high explosives there is always a huge fireball. IIRC high explosives tend to flameless and low explosives or acclerents tend to cause fireballs. Just another example to TV misleading the public

  3. Re:Interesting... on Map of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Do you mean here http://www.draconian.com/ ?

  4. So Ringtone downloads existed in 1981??. on RIAA Wants Artist Royalties Lowered · · Score: 1

    So in 1981 (When artists' cut was increased) there was no pirating of mobile ringtones, and now in 2006 there is. Well I guess in way this is true. In the same way the in 1981 there no need for spam filters, IT DID NOT EXIST!!! So as they didn't and ringtone are generally only played for 30secs tops and 2Mins absolute max (Max ringout timer in GSM networks in 2 minutes) surely ringtone only help sell more records whether the ringtone is pirated or not. By extenstion if the labels only obtained royalties of 1% of all ringtones sold that still more than 1981. The argument makes no sence.

  5. Re:This could be a good thing on RIAA Wants Artist Royalties Lowered · · Score: 1

    This is already happening with sites like http://www.indiestore.com/ [indiestore.com] You can buy tracks from bands there for same price as iTunes

  6. Re:printing contacts suck: I'll wait on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    But this formatting is only useful, if you live in the USA or have US contacts the UK has either 4 digit or 5 digit Area code and MS products always mis-interpreted these to USA format, so in this case Mozilla is better and hopefully if they do introduce Area code brackets there are configurable.