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  1. No, this is the City of London that is a country-within-a-country in the the UK, and England's smallest city.

  2. Re:Instagram didn't replace Kodak on The Internet's Network Efficiencies Are Destroying the Middle Class · · Score: 1

    I would name Nokia as the company that replaced Kodak, because while the iPhone may be the most popular camera phone now, it came fairly late to the game and replaced other camera phones from companies like Nokia, not Kodak cameras or other cameras with Kodak film.

  3. Re:Like what Budweiser did back then... on UK Company Successfully Claims Ownership of "Pinterest" Trademark · · Score: 1

    In the UK, both companies sell their product as Budweiser.

  4. Re:Skydrive is changing name? When? on UK Company Successfully Claims Ownership of "Pinterest" Trademark · · Score: 1

    Sky operate in other EU countries as well. I know they operate in Ireland, Italy and Germany.

  5. Re:A US Coast Guard Icebreaker? on US Coast Guard Ship To Attempt Rescue of 2 Icebreakers In Antarctica · · Score: 2

    I've heard rumours that Alaska can get quite cold.

  6. Re:Glass have water on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Pass 10% Market Share, Windows XP Falls Below 30% · · Score: 1

    You can get free updates for Windows XP from http://update.microsoft.com/

  7. Re:Windows XP still at 28.98% on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Pass 10% Market Share, Windows XP Falls Below 30% · · Score: 1

    But nobody connects directly to the internet like that these days anyway.

  8. Re:Standard fare in Australia on Postal Service Starting To Use Mobile Point of Sale Tech · · Score: 1

    Are they using Apple ones? Most people use Windows CE for that sort of thing. Although that is discontinued now, so they do need to look for something else.

  9. Re:Saw this earlier on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1

    And what about your clothes? They could be made of cotton, wool, silk, leather or rubber; all agricultural products.

  10. Re:Security on Cracking Atlanta Subway's Poorly-Encrypted RFID Smart Cards Is a Breeze · · Score: 2

    Oyster is mostly online. There is an offline backup, because if you use it on a bus, the bus may not have a network signal at your bus stop. If you do manage to hack an Oyster card, it will work for one day, but when the reconciliation is done overnight, your card will be blacklisted and it won't work the following day, even in offline mode.

  11. Re:Cost center only? on Australian Dept. Store Chain's Website Crashes and Can't Get Back Up · · Score: 1

    It is a feast we have in our local church on the last Sunday in September to thank God for the harvest.

  12. Re:Ugh on PC Makers Plan Rebellion Against Microsoft At CES · · Score: 2

    Android is not GNU/Linux, it has the Android operating system running on the Linux kernel rather than the GNU operating system running on the Linux kernel.

  13. Re:Who watches them on Houston Expands Downtown Surveillance, Unsure If It Helps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The idea is that that criminals will see the cameras and decide not to commit the crime because there is too much risk of being caught.

    What happens in the UK is that hooded tops, baseball caps and scarves became a very popular fashion choice, so that the cameras can't see who you are.

  14. Re:this is like on Netflix: Non-'A' Players Unworthy of Jobs · · Score: 1

    In the UK, they compete with Lovefilm (Amazon), Blinkbox (Tesco, big supermarket chain) and Sky (Satellite TV company owned by Rupert Murdoch).

  15. Re:Better proposal. on Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back · · Score: 1

    Same as what they do with the money they get from selling the car.

  16. Re:Better proposal. on Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back · · Score: 1

    If you don't have the appropriate licence, then yes, being a notary public is illegal.

  17. Re:Better proposal. on Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back · · Score: 2

    For the bitcoins deposited by customers on the Silk Road website, they have access to the coins inside, and they transferred them to their own wallet. For DPR's personal stash of bitcoins, they only have access to the wallet.

  18. Re:Better proposal. on Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back · · Score: 1

    I agree that it is not illegal to possess bitcoin, however I am less certain that it is legal to sell them.

    For example, it is perfectly legal to possess a 401(k) pension plan, but unless you are appropriately authorised by the relevant authorities, you can't sell them. I suspect it is the same for bitcoins, except that it probably isn't possible to get the appropriate authorisations to sell them at the moment.

  19. Re:Better proposal. on Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back · · Score: 2

    Yes they qualify as assets. They're certainly not liabilities.

    When the Feds bust a drug dealer, they might find an expensive car, and a large stash of heroin. They are certainly OK to auction the car, and certainly not OK to auction the heroin. Bitcoins falls in the middle somewhere. We don't know yet whether it is OK to auction them off.

  20. Re:Better proposal. on Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back · · Score: 2

    Seized assets that are legal to hold are auctioned off, things like cars and houses. Seized assets that are not legal to hold, such as inventory of drugs, are destroyed.

  21. Re:Slashdot being a prime example of bad on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? · · Score: 1

    An app can be quicker because you only have to download the data, not the UI at run-time. That is especially useful for things like public transport apps where you might not have a particularly fast connection when you are using them.

  22. Re:Elsewhere in the world ... on Protesters Block Apple and Google Buses In California · · Score: 1

    Yes, anyone can use them, but realistically, the only people other than employees and contractors who would want to use them are people visiting to attend a job interview.

  23. Elsewhere in the world ... on Protesters Block Apple and Google Buses In California · · Score: 1

    In England, Microsoft and Oracle have a similar free bus service for their employees - http://www.tvptravel.co.uk/tvp-buses , http://www.somph.co.uk/tvp.html
    It too uses public bus stops, and the local council helpfully puts the route and the stops on their bus maps - http://www.reading-buses.co.uk/maps/
    and lists the coach hire company that operates these services as one of the local public transport operators.

    If anyone here were to protest against this bus service, people would think they were mad.

  24. Re:Really? on Proposed California Law Would Mandate Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    Half of all muggings apparently. Probably not any higher than other places though.

  25. Re:Canada has similar on Proposed California Law Would Mandate Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    They blacklist the SIM if your account is overdue, or is a pre-pay account with no credit on it.