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  1. Re:Connected on Can Egypt's Telecom Giants Be Sued In the US? · · Score: 2

    There is an international criminal court - just the US hasn't signed up to it and during the Bush presidency threatened violence to anyone who pulls a US citizen in front of the court.

    http://www.icc-cpi.int/Menus/ASP/states+parties/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_International_Criminal_Court

  2. Re:first full bodied nonx86? on Windows 8 ARM Will Not Support Legacy Software · · Score: 2

    I used NT4 on Alpha - there were even beta copies of Windows 2000 for the Alpha.
    It also had FX!32 which was fairly decent at allowing x86 binaries to run under Alpha NT4 which meant companies didn't need to port software specifically for the Alpha.

  3. Re:Yippee. Yet another Australian "story". on Inside CERT Australia · · Score: 0

    No, you didn't communicate the riff.
    You communicated a trigger which activated the riff which was already embedded in the receiver, kinda like a lookup table :-)

  4. Re:Hummm... What? on EU About To Vote On Copyright Extension · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If its good enough then people will continue to consume quality media products.

    Beethoven's music is still fairly popular.
    Charles Dickens books are still being printed.
    Michael Faraday's inventions are still in use (after further development and refinement).

    Of course, history would probably be different if those 3 examples were heavily restricted and limited in their use.

    Where would Disney get their stories from if copyright existed on all those fairy stories they corrupted?

  5. Re:Looking back now, it was a terrible mistake on Journey To the Mantle of the Earth By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Well...
    "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" (1961) was simultaneous nuclear test detonations.
    "Crack in the World" (1965) was searching for geothermal energy sources.

    I love 60's disaster movies.

  6. Re:Looking back now, it was a terrible mistake on Journey To the Mantle of the Earth By 2020 · · Score: 1

    We seem to think its OK to try and keep animal species going with only a few hundred pairs (and less in some cases).

  7. Re:Thanks for the notice... I almost unpacked my P on Duke Nukem Forever Gets Delayed - Again · · Score: 1

    Dblspace? Thats just a dodgy copy of Stacker technology!

    I remember DOS 4.01 - buggier than an ants nest :-)

  8. Re:Can you imagine on Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's · · Score: 1

    "I've come to kill your Monster!"

  9. Re:Not updating over internet on Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's · · Score: 2

    They have given access to numerous other agencies and universities (Cornell, Dartmouth College, Florida, Maryland, Tennesse) to the system - whose access will be over the internet.

  10. Re:Violent revolutions create Dictatorships on Internet-Spreading American Gets 15-Year Sentence In Cuba · · Score: 2

    Most communist revolutions are a revolution by the working masses to remove the landed gentry from positions of power and control. The American Revolution was a revolution by the landed gentry - who then put in place a system of government to keep themselves in positions of power and control.

    If the revolutions mantra of "No taxation without representation" is true then why are Green Card holders taxed?

  11. Re:Damage has been done, hello oil and coal... on Net Sees Earthquake Damage, Routes Around It · · Score: 1

    They did it because they didn't want people getting the idea of reprocessing the fuel and extracting the plutonium to make bombs, but they completely forgot that the UK, France, Germany and other nuclear power producing countries reprocess their fuels so the technology is out there anyway.

    Japan gets its nuclear fuel reprocessed in the UK at Sellafield.

  12. Re:Damage has been done, hello oil and coal... on Net Sees Earthquake Damage, Routes Around It · · Score: 1

    The environmentalists don't like the idea of tidal barrages to harness the power from those 20m tides (and even 10m tides).

    Something about salt marsh habitats, wading seabirds and the like.

  13. Re:Damage has been done, hello oil and coal... on Net Sees Earthquake Damage, Routes Around It · · Score: 1

    Waterwheel technology has been around for a few thousand years :-)
    The additional leat (mill stream leading to the mill from the river) and mill ponds actually provide additional habitat to the fish.

    Although in the UK - you need an extraction license to divert the river water down the mill stream, over the wheel and back into the river.

  14. Re:Clue bat achievement unlocked on UK Gov't Says Open Standards Must Be Royalty Free · · Score: 1

    And typical of the government to leave a gaping get-out clause of "where possible"

    So - rather than using open royalty free standards, they'll just phrase the contracts in such a way to require the use of the closed standards or royalty payment encumbered ones.

    I trust the politicians to a point - but I can throw them further with a trebuchet.

  15. Re:Top 500? on Iran Claims Two New Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    Watson on Jeopardy also had bucket loads of storage to run those filters on :-)

  16. Re:Nostalgia is good... achievements are better on NASA Readies Discovery Shuttle For Final Flight · · Score: 1

    And the Russians have been constantly developing & refining those systems since the 60's.
    NASA has a working system, then bins it for something else, then bins that and goes off elsewhere - probably because the contractors can make more money that way aswell as using it as a testbed for new technologies.

  17. Older than Stonhenge on Aboriginal Sundial Pre-Dates Stonehenge · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is nothing special or new - there are loads of stone circles and other landscape features which pre-date stonehenge and are astronomically aligned. Stonehenge isn't even the best stone circle in the area.

    If you want to get up close to the stones and see a proper ancient landscape then head up to Avebury instead.
    You have the village inside the huge circle, the other circles, the avenues, Silbury Hill, the Kennet Long Barrows, The Sanctuary.
    All together Avebury is a much better AND cheaper stone circle complex to visit than stonehenge.

  18. Re:What's interesting about Android on Android Tablets Were Born Too Soon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But its OS so the community can support the hardware the manufacturers drop.

    eg. Samsung dropped support for the original Samsung Galaxy i7500 while the phone was still under contract from some of the networks - the Samsung firmware is stuck on 1.6 with them saying that it won't support 2.2 (Froyo). Fortunately due to Android being OS there is a community GAOSP (Google Android Open Source Platform) build on it which means that despite Samsung's inaction the hardware does still have the latest release on it.

    Thats definately a bonus.

  19. Re:Test flight might not mean what you think it do on Has China Already Flown a Space Plane? · · Score: 1

    US X designation is just "experimental" rather than "space plane" so the X-35 became the F-35.

    Test flights - mean just that. A flight to test various systems.

    So the Chinese space planes successful test flight just means they've dropped it from a bomber and its flight characteristics have been tested and it landed. No space re-entry just yet.

  20. Re:This makes me sad on Sony Wins Restraining Order Against Geohot · · Score: 1

    Or give the equipment to someone else - so it is no longer in his possession, custody or control.

    Print it out - its a constitutional right to hold the info then.

  21. Bogus Dude! on Reeves Rumors Reversed · · Score: 1

    On the BBC he did discuss the possibility of another Bill & Ted though, musing on Bill & Ted being in their 50's.

  22. Re:BIG Mistake on WikiLeaks Gives $15k To Bradley Manning Defense · · Score: 1

    Newspapers often have defense funds to support their sources & journalists.

  23. Re:Putting the snideness of the summary aside... on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 1

    So you fully support the HTML 'BLINK' tag and think it should stay?

    Some things should be removed - those with patent licensing especially so.
    I know that MPEG LA have said that internet video using H.264 will not have to pay any patent license fees, but do you trust them to keep to that?

  24. Re:Where? on US Twitter Spying May Have Broken EU Privacy Law · · Score: 1

    Except the subpoena's have been issued to seize information on EU citizens who were doing perfectly legal things within the EU.

    Its the same as those in the US complaining about being sued for libel in Europe for stuff that was said in the US - but it was seen in Europe by Europeans which is why they sued there.

  25. Re:slow network? on T-Mobile Slashes Fair Use Policy, Says Download At Home · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is not a contract change - the "Fair Usage Policy" conditions are already in the contract, and they can modify the terms of the policy whenever they want without a change to the contract.

    I had this problem with O2 when they changed their meaning of "unlimited" to 500Mb.
    So I told them they can can an unlimited amount of money from my account to pay for my unlimited bandwidth - upto £5 pcm. Oddly enough, they complained that that wasn't an unlimited amount of money.