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  1. Re:Packing my Bags on BBC Views Content Piracy As Wake-Up Call · · Score: 1

    They're a publicly funded body, you'd have to pay for the BBC over and above taxes. It's called a TV licence and it's currently £121 per year.

    Mind you, that's less than satellite and cable charge a month so overall it's worth it.

  2. Re:"Turns 10" on Windows 95 Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    For god only knows what reason we STILL have some 95 machines at work. Most of them are 2k now though

  3. Re:Great on Google Talk Available Early · · Score: 1

    <AOL>

    Me Too !!!!!

    </AOL>

  4. Re:I'm moving... on U.S. Broadband Access Falling Behind · · Score: 1

    No, No, Move to the Scotland instead, we have whisky !!!!!

  5. Re:That's very nice, but I want a wood case on High-End Aluminum PC Cases Make A Comeback · · Score: 1

    I thought everybody had a wooden PC case ?

    My mate is on his second one now

    http://www.alienonline.plus.com/id86.htm

  6. Re: Your Apology on ZDNet UK Begs for Google's Forgiveness · · Score: 1

    I'd mod the parent funny but it's probably true......

  7. Re:Great News for Banks on U.K. SF Writers Dominate Hugos · · Score: 1

    It really is a small world isn't it ?

  8. Great News for Banks on U.K. SF Writers Dominate Hugos · · Score: 1

    Brilliant news for the Kingdom of Fife

    Ian Banks stays down the road from me, don't actually know the guy but he's from Fife same as me so he must be a genius !!!!!

  9. Re:Torrent Link on Visual Studio Hacks · · Score: 1

    So, is this copy of Visual Studio 2005 I got free from some company called Microsoft in Germany a dud then ?

    That explains a lot of things about it !!!!!

  10. Pondering methods on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 1

    Was thinking about how we in Britain have gone about catching the people who bombed/attempted to bomb London.

    The first set are all dead apart from the organiser, no sign of him yet as far as I know.

    The second set seem to mostly be caught and in custody now.

    Sovereign nations invaded as a result of bombings - NIL

    How many people related to 11/9 have the American authorities caught ofter organising the invasion of sovereign nations and blowing up almost everything they could find there ?

    Gives pause for thought on the most effective way of going about things doesn't it ?

  11. Re:Patents can be useful weapons. Slashdot should. on Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents · · Score: 1

    You forgot 7. Method for posting dupes.

  12. Re:This is marketing, baby on HP Embraces Linux for its Toughest Servers · · Score: 1

    I dunno, my dinky little 1U Sun SPARC64 looks quite cute sitting in the corner, I might just sidle up to it and hug it later on.

  13. Re:Skeptical on Internet Explorer 7 To Be XP Only · · Score: 2, Informative

    Microsoft will tie windows update to the new browser just to be on the safe side.

    They've already done something similar by making windows update refuse to work with the original release of XP, it's SP1 minumum these days for XP users.

  14. Re:MSX on Happy Birthday, Amiga · · Score: 2, Informative

    I always thought of the MSX as Microsofts fledgling attempts to control home computer industry standards.

    I have to say as a strategy it has been brilliantly realised after they learnt from their mistakes and decided to go the software route rather than trying to control the hardware.

  15. Re:UK Telemarketers call it survey... on Do Not Call List Under Attack · · Score: 1

    We had 3 complaints against our small call centre operation from people who registered in the 3 days it took for our dialler to get through the TPSd list.

    All 3 occasions we were found to have complied with the requirement to TPS the list before loading the dialler.

    After the 3rd one we started loading smaller lists into the dialler to avoid the possibility of complaints.

    I forget what my point was now, oh well.......

  16. Re:Nonsensical change on Firefox 1.1 Scrapped · · Score: 1

    I want to know what happened to 99-1999, I'm sure they were cruddy test versions.

    MS probably rolled them out as Me

  17. Re:UK Telemarketers call it survey... on Do Not Call List Under Attack · · Score: 1

    Report them to the Telephone Preference Service if they're a firm operating in the UK.

    There are fairly hefty fines for failing to check your call centre autodialer list against the TPS register and they're on a case by case basis.

    The more people who complain against these rogue companies the more it'll cost them.

  18. Re:Most of them.. on 100Mbps Home Internet Service Next Year in Finland · · Score: 1

    I would suspect that you don't even know what's legal and what isn't in Finland.

  19. Re:There goes a good man on Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Met him at an exhibition in Edinburgh, just a normal bloke who happened to be a famous actor with plenty of time for his many fans.

    Not a bad fake Scots accent in amongst the real Scots either.

  20. Re:Strict vs Fun on Dungeon Master's Guide II · · Score: 1

    E Gaxy Gygar always said that the books were guidlines, not hard and fast rules.

    Only a rules lawyer can't figure out that the only important rule is the DM is always right.

  21. Re:Dupes: How Slashdot Lost Its Crown on Doomed: How id Lost Its Crown · · Score: 1

    I don't mind, I was on holiday last week and missed it the first time around.

  22. Re:vote! on Trolltech Releases Qt 4.0 · · Score: 1

    Not so sure about that.

    There was this one time, at a Star Trek convention......

    Sorry, I can't go on, I'll get flashbacks.

  23. Re:KDE4 for Windows? on Trolltech Releases Qt 4.0 · · Score: 1

    I suppose it was too much to hope for that you'd RTFA, after all this is /.

    You could have at least read the summary before your typing got ahead of your brain though.

  24. I only downloaded 4.8 yesterday on iTunes 4.9 With Podcasting Support · · Score: 1

    This is getting worse than trying to track a Gnome library ;-)

  25. Re:Well, to their credit on LA Times Pulls Wikitorial, Blames Slashdot · · Score: 1

    So, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will cause me law suits ?