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  1. Re:Go Steve on Apple Threatens iTunes.co.uk Owner · · Score: 1
    As you obviously haven't RTFA you won't realise that the guy isn't cybersquatting, he registered the site a month BEFORE Apple registered the Trademark, and the limited trademark that was registered did not cover music products.

    Why should he settle, two days after he registered the site he made use of it by forwarding it to a music search engine service at his CyberBritain site.

  2. Re:Huh?! on American McGee To Adapt Oz As Movie · · Score: 1
    Its a quote from McGee, not the submitter. And from Bruckheimer's view PotC was brilliant - at least in making money for Jerry Bruckheimer.

    McGee wants to feed at the same trough, it beats having to come up with original ideas that investors would have to take a chance on.

  3. Re:I'm afraid he's right on Ex-Britannica Editor Reviews Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Informative
    Well the reason it is listed in the countries of Europe could very well be because Azerbaijan joined the Council of Europe in 2001. So whilst you don't consider Azerbaijan to be in Europe it looks like the Azeri's do.

    The moderation of your comment is a prime example of Wiki's weaknesses, no information in your post to back up your assertions, yet someone still moderates you interesting

  4. Re:easy tiger on BT to Offer Free Internet Calls · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Chill. on Project Gutenberg Threatened Over PG Australia · · Score: 1

    It was a french company not the country. AXA sued google for linking to other competitors when searching for the word AXA. /. covered it back in April

  6. Re:public service announcement: on Samsung Producing 5 Megapixel Camera Phone · · Score: 1
    D'oh!

    that should be A UK Yahoo story

  7. Re:public service announcement: on Samsung Producing 5 Megapixel Camera Phone · · Score: 1

    The quote is referring to the fact that it's a UK Yahoo story , so it is talking about the Atlantic Ocean

  8. Re:Built in FM tuner, can you record? on Virgin's New iPod Rival · · Score: 1
    The new h300 series from iriver can record directly from radio stations. Comes with a 20gb or 40gb hard drive

    Also lets you view jpegs and bmp's and also supports OGG as well!

  9. Re: You want to be your own boss on Advice on Becoming an Independent Contractor? · · Score: 1
    If that's the case maybe you should look for a different career. It seems that its not the issue of making money for someone else that's the problem, it's the fact that you don't want to work in the field.

    You say you were pushed into the school and the degree, without good negotiation skills you'll struggle as a consultant, people will push you into doing things and exploit you as much as they can get away with.

    Reconsider your options now, if you want to stay in the field because you love it, that's great, best of luck to you. BUT, if you're doing it just because of parental pressure and to make money then you're going to be up against a lot of people with either 20 years experience, or a real desire to make something in the field, and to be honest I don't think that in the current climate you'll do to well against them.

  10. Re:Step backwards? on New Copyright Licence Allows Remixing In UK · · Score: 2, Informative
    There are numerous elements of fair use included in UK Copyright Law, including a section on copying for educational purposes:

    From the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1998: Reprographic copying by educational establishments of passages from published works

  11. Re:If you're talking about England... on Caffeinated Beer Becomes a Reality · · Score: 1
    No its not, you are not allowed to take an alcoholic drink to your seat at most football matches, but you are allowed to have a beer in the stadium.

    Although if you're at Everton's ground and are trying the Chang beer they serve that's not necessarily a good thing!

  12. Re:/. pwns you on Mount St. Helens Alert Status Increased · · Score: -1

    Haven't you got it the wrong way round? ABC posted their story a minute before /. not a minute after.

  13. Re:What the Russians didn't publicize on Soviet Space Shuttle Found In Bahrain? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    That's true, but Alexei Leonov and David Scott's autobiography Two Sides of the Moon has no mention of anyone getting into space before Gagarin.

    Leonov is very frank in talking about the censorship that occurred during this period and has no reason to perpetuate any lies.

  14. Re:What should they be called? on USB Thumb Drives as ... Fashion Statement? · · Score: 1
    What part of

    "In a recently rejected poll submission to Slashdot, I asked "

    Did you miss?

  15. Re:not that complicated on Google's Math Puzzle · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or just use Google!

  16. Re:An Americans perspective on iTunes(UK) Targeted By The Office of Fair Trading · · Score: 2, Informative
    Our inflation rate is currently very low, the inflation rate including mortgage interest payments (headline Retail Price Index) is 3.2%.

    The CPI figure (Consumer Price Index) is down to 1.3% from 1.4% in July.

    Figures taken from the BBC

  17. Re:What about on Muppets Named Top Scientists · · Score: 1
    I presume the reason the two mentioned above weren't in the poll was because it was conducted by the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) and the BBC.

    I don't believe (or at least I didn't see them) that they were shown on British TV

  18. Also via mobile phones on Classroom Bullies On The Internet · · Score: 1
    According to this article from the BBC bullying also occurs via SMS messages, with 16% of 11 to 19 year-olds admitting receiving threatening text messages.

    As this was from October 03 it wouldn't surprise me if this figure had risen

  19. If you're Microsoft.... on SANE 2004 Conference In Amsterdam · · Score: 3, Funny

    The whole concept of free software is Bazaar!

  20. Re:What about back across the pond? on Microsoft Found Guilty of Misleading Advertising · · Score: 1

    Or even Caveat emptor

  21. Re:had to do it on Virtual Girlfriend · · Score: 1

    was that because of the vibrate function?

  22. Re:Funny... on Senator Blacklisted by No-Fly List · · Score: 1
    My original post says 'fake' not 'false'. I am not saying that they are carrying a passport in the name they were born with, I am saying that they are carrying legitimate passports that have been fraudulently obtained.

    Legitimate passports used by a terrorist who has not been previously identified or arrested will not come up on a threat list.

    If a terrorist and his pseudonyms are known then this information should be just one facet of the attempt to apprehend him. Only using the name (or pseudonym) as the reason for blocking a person travelling is sloppy and will not provide any more security

  23. Re:Funny... on Senator Blacklisted by No-Fly List · · Score: 1
    Of the four people mentioned in the article cited only one 'Lionel Dumont' confirms that the password was forged, for the other three it alleges, with no evidence provided:

    IHSAN GARNAOUI: ALLEGEDLY returned to Germany in January 2003 with the help of a forged Portuguese passport and REPORTEDLY has told investigators he had a number of South African passports.

    HAMBALI: REPORTEDLY had a fake Spanish passport

    IBRAHIM ALI ABUBAKER TANTOUSH: arrested in February in South Africa for ALLEGEDLY carrying a fake South African passport.

  24. Re:Funny... on Senator Blacklisted by No-Fly List · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Does it not concern you that you can get on the list as a result of a 'prank or a fuck up'?

    Don't you think that addition to the list should be as a result of slightly more appropriate level of checks than that?

    And by the way, terrorists don't 'dress up like one' or carry fake passports, that's why they're difficult to identify, and why any sort of watch list will result in thousands of false positives.

  25. Clearly.... on Expert Warns Of Giant Tidal Wave · · Score: 1

    The professor has just read Scimitar SL-2 in which a terrorist tries to cause the eruption of the volcano with a nuclear cruise missile