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  1. Re:Poorly written summary on Leak Shows US Lead Opponent of ACTA Transparency · · Score: 1

    The final paragraph of the Dutch note is confused about Denmark. It starts saying the UK (VK in Dutch) called for transparency and was supported by FIN, FRA, NL, ZWE, OOS, HON, DK, ITA, IER, POL, BEL, POR. Later it says the UK thought there was a consensus for transparency but BE, POR, DK & DUI resisted, that DUI, BE & POR might be flexible but DK was firmly against.

  2. Not that exciting? on First Flight of Jet Powered By Algae-Fuel · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is well known that biofuels can (at a cost) be refined to meet most specifications. Providing there is some mineral fuel in the blend to prevent microbial contamination and growth, using this should cause no problems apart from cost. But since jet kerosene is generally untaxed, it is harder to subsidise biofuel replacements than it is for road fuels.

  3. Re:patent!? on Google's Floating Datahaven · · Score: 1

    The patent application does not cover issues like being outside the territorial limit or tax avoidance.

  4. Re:Misleading article on Potentially Huge Legal Boost for EU File Traders · · Score: 1

    The court (the judges) has not made any decision. One of its advisers (the Advocate General) has given an opinion.

  5. Re:Hah. on Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Follow the links and you can find out that religious education is a statutory subject in English schools. So teaching about ID is quite possible, just not in science lessons.

  6. Re:specific cuts or proportional to the funding? on British Government Slashes Scientific Research · · Score: 1

    The previously planned levels of funding are here. Page 6 suggests EPSRC are seing one of the biggest increases in absolute terms from around £500 million in 2004-05 to £720 million in 2007-08. So it is hardly a cut - just a slower rise this year follwed by a bigger rise next, both for individual research councils and in total.

  7. Re:Moo on Global Warming Debunker Debunked · · Score: 1
    Your links (the top 10 Google hits) are consistent with a temperature rise over the last 150 years, but they are hardly dramatic:

    Himalayan ice cores show a seven year drought from 1790 to 1796; ice cores hold information on pollutants and radioactive fallout; Antarctic ice cores show ice ages and CO2 concentrations; deep ice cores could give information about environment half a million years ago; tropical ice cores suggest reversal of cold snap 5200 years ago; ice cores contain air bubbles; clathrates could help untangle CO2 and temperature relationships; paleoclimatology uses ice cores and other techniques; warming in western Canadian Arctic, stable in eastern; bipolar seesaw link between Antarctic and Greenland temperatures.

  8. Re:Download Oracle Enterprise Linux OS on Oracle to Compete With Red Hat for Linux Support · · Score: 1
    Indeed. The Financial Times has

    Countering warnings from some observers that its entry might fragment the fast-growing Linux world, creating multiple incompatible "distributions" of the software, Oracle promised that its version would be identical to that produced by Red Hat.

    Asked whether Oracle had the legal right to take its rival's code, strip out the trademarks and redistribute the code under its own brand, Larry Ellison, chief executive, said: "It's an open-source product, right? That is what open source means."

  9. Re:Once upon a time ... on Netflix Suing Blockbuster for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    I liked a comment in a comic which went roughly like: "Amateurs do things they are good at because they want to. Professionals do things they are good at because they are paid to, whether they want to or not."

  10. Re:useless topic on EU-wide Music Licensing Policies Published · · Score: 3, Informative

    I did preview, and still it went wrong Google news search

  11. Re:useless topic on EU-wide Music Licensing Policies Published · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is a better link and a Google news search.

  12. Re:This sort of thing... on RIAA Sues a Child · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Grand Theft Auto in the United States and on your 18-rated Playstation.

    In England it is "twoc" (taking without owner's consent). Sounds rather milder.

  13. Re:Consider switching to someone less petulant on Internet Partitioning - Cogent vs Level 3? · · Score: 1

    That list has had Cogent on and off it today, so perhaps the point is you have to stay on the list.

  14. Re:Vulnerability in software on Camera Phone As High-precision Scanner · · Score: 1

    If your plan is to cut the wire to the speaker of a phone, you might want to consider purchasing a small camera instead.

  15. Re:G-? on New Legal Threat To GMail · · Score: 1

    Actually they were G-MailTM while Google use GMailTM. So it is all in a hyphen. But note the TM rather than ®, which makes the case a little harder.

  16. Re:using other containers have same 'crime'? on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1
    A pedant writes:

    Injucted is not a word, it is a misspelling, either related to injunction or inject.

    Injuncted is sometimes used, as is Injunctioned rarely, but they are both ugly backformations and by far the most common form is Enjoined .

  17. Re:using other containers have same 'crime'? on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1
    Do it in the USA, where 1 quart = 32 floz or 0.94635 litres.

    Liquids cost less in the western hemisphere because they sell short measures.

  18. Re:Word from Chicken Little on Siberian Permafrost Melting · · Score: 1

    It changed that fast 9-10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.

  19. Re:Not enough on Microsoft to Fight Crime With Spammer's Millions · · Score: 1

    So you can find spammers for a low cost. (Looking in a spamtrap or your inbox is cheap too.) But doing something about them costs a lot more.

  20. Re:Scary. very scary. on Blu-Ray to Include New Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    I would prefer VHS if it had a no extra cost subtitling system. DVDs stutter too often after a little use, while VHS just degrades slowly.

  21. Re:Not the USPTO... on Epicrealm Uses Vague Patents to sue Web Sites · · Score: 1

    ISNOT ISNOT NOT

  22. Re:Almost Home on Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely · · Score: 1

    Low cloud yesterday, thunderstorms today.

  23. Re:Blogging similar to open source? on What Business Can Learn from Open Source · · Score: 1

    Even better was "The other thing I like about publishing online is that you can write what you want and publish when you want" when it turns out what he really wanted was to delay and delay until the relevant section of the magazine no longer existed. One of the reasons people are paid to work is that the We Pay You = You Work For Us equation can be enforced on both sides.

  24. Re:And of course... on Congressman Seeks Scientists' Personal Data · · Score: 1

    This issue is that critics of Michael Mann's work reconstructing temperatures over the last 1000 years claim it could not be checked, because it involved some complicated statistical calculations and he refused to provide the program code used in his calculations. Senator Barton's questions seem to have been prompted by these critics, who want to look at the code and the input data so they can see how the output data was produced. They believe that Mann's research has been partly funded from US federal money and so the code and data should be available to all.

  25. Re:WTF's payola? on Sony Agrees to Stop Payola · · Score: 1

    And bribery links back to a recent feature here on payola.