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  1. Re:Typical for samzenpus to accept this story... on Time Warner To Spin Off AOL · · Score: 1

    AOL took over Time Warner, not the other way round.

  2. Re:So how much for AOL? on Time Warner To Spin Off AOL · · Score: 1

    AOL UK has already been taken over by Carphone Warehouse. Together with Talk Talk and a few other ISPs they've bought, they are one of the largest in the country.

  3. Re:Can you get Bluetooth mice with only 1 button? on Bluetooth Versus Wireless Mice · · Score: 1

    The only problem with keyboards, at least for en-GB locale ones is that some of the keys are in different places. For example @ and " are swapped round, and a few other symbol keys have been rearranged. I had to find an en-GB Mac keyboard layout for the copy of Windows XP I run in Parallels.

  4. Re:Wireless Mighty Mouse on Bluetooth Versus Wireless Mice · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mice is the one thing where Microsoft is better than Apple.

  5. Re:Whooooh! They picked the WRONG guy for this one on Warner Music Forces Lessig Presentation Offline · · Score: 1

    Eldred v Ashcroft?

  6. Re:*coughs* on Viability of Mobile Broadband For Home Use? · · Score: 1

    I do have a clue what I'm talking about here. I am well aware that 192.168.x.x aren't publically routable addresses, which means you are stuck behind your cellphone co's NAT server.

    The setup is a USB modem plugged directly into my MacBook.

    On my home ADSL connection, using the same ISP as for my mobile broadband, I get a publically routable static IP address which I can use to phone home from outside.

  7. Re:Heads Up Tech Support on Microsoft To Disable Autorun · · Score: 1

    I haven't checked the U3 drives myself, but I have a USB wireless (cellphone) modem which comes with a virtual CD drive containing the drivers for it. The CD drive appears until you activate the software, which makes the computer ignore it and use the modem instead. So it is certainly possible to have a USB virtual CD drive that doesn't require drivers to operate.

  8. Re:*coughs* on Viability of Mobile Broadband For Home Use? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The ones I've looked at in Britain give you a 192.168.x.x IP address, so no-ip isn't going to work whatever you do.

  9. Re:Heads Up Tech Support on Microsoft To Disable Autorun · · Score: 1

    And unfortunately the virtual CD drive in U3 flash drives is also read only.

  10. Re:Well yeah... on US ISPs Using Push Polling To Stop Cheap Internet · · Score: 2, Informative

    My house has two different telecommunications cables - from BT and Virgin. Pretty much everyone in the country has access to BT, except in Hull where Kingston provides it instead, but only about half the population has access to Cable, mostly Virgin, but there are about two places where Wight Cable provides it. If you have a large business in the centre of London or some of the other large cities, you might find another company that will supply you with a pipe.

    Virgin, or NTL/Telewest before them didn't cable the rest of the country because it wasn't economically viable for them to do so. Similarly, other companies don't supply pipes outside large city centres because it isn't economically viable. That is why there is a natural monopoly. If all the residents of a small village pay BT to supply the communications infrastructure, that is just about doable, but if the money was split between two or three companies each supplying their own set of pipes, then it wouldn't be workable.

  11. Re:How much is your time worth on Handmade vs. Commercially Produced Ethernet Cables · · Score: 1

    They do, but none of them appear to be suitable for Gigabit networks.

  12. Re:no brainer on Should the US Go Offensive In Cyberwarfare? · · Score: 1

    Physically bombing a country's electricity and transport infrastructure seems to be fair game, so why shouldn't a cyber attack be the same.

    We might find it is preferable to break in in such a way that they don't know it has happened, and monitor what is going on. I'm sure that already happens, but this is a tactical decision.

  13. Re:Difficult on Twitter Considered Harmful To Swine-Flu Panic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People who use Twitter, or astroturf about it, are called twits.

  14. Re:Military Eggheads did not think put the domain on Military Enlists Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    There are DNS records for it, so it is supposed to exist.

  15. Re:It's about protecting trademarks & brand id on Taser International Sues Second Life Creator Over Virtual Replicas · · Score: 1

    They can't file a DMCA notice because they don't own the copyright. The creator of the virtual taser owns the copyright.

    They own the trademark, and that's what this complaint is about.

  16. Re:second life? on Taser International Sues Second Life Creator Over Virtual Replicas · · Score: 1

    DMCA is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This issue relates to Trademarks.

    The only issue here is whether or not Taser's trademark extends to virtual gadgets in online games. Different people can own the same trademark in different product lines. Lotus for example is a range of software sold by IBM, a range of Sports cars, a range of shoes, and a type of fruit.

  17. Re:Seems like the Swedish know what to do. on The Circus Widens In Aftermath of Pirate Bay Verdict · · Score: 1

    In a lot of elections, eligible voters who did not vote > number of votes cast in total for all candidates.

  18. Re:Cost on Blackwell Launches Print-On-Demand Trial In the UK · · Score: 0, Redundant

    TFA says it takes about 5 minutes. It does bind the books, whether that is some sort of spiral comb binding or proper book binding, I don't know.

  19. Re:Cost on Blackwell Launches Print-On-Demand Trial In the UK · · Score: 1

    For normal commercial printing, it costs a lot of money to print the first copy, and pretty much the cost of paper and ink for any subsequent copies, so it is very cheap to print large runs of popular books, and not at all cheap to print small runs.

    This machine will print the first copy a lot cheaper, but subsequent copies will cost the same as the first copy, so it is much more suited to print on demand.

  20. Re:Similar thing for independents on Blackwell Launches Print-On-Demand Trial In the UK · · Score: 1

    The licence on the front of the pdf says what you can do.

    You can distribute the pdf at no fee. You can print it yourself, you can feed it to your dog. You can't sell copies to other people. So it doesn't meet RMS's definition of free.

  21. Re:Dying industry on Gamefly Complains of Poor Treatment From USPS · · Score: 1

    Which part of Europe are you in? I certainly don't have the same experience as you in England.

  22. Re:Dying industry on Gamefly Complains of Poor Treatment From USPS · · Score: 1

    DHL was taken over by Deutche Post. I can still send things via them from my local Staples or WH Smith.

  23. Re:Dying industry on Gamefly Complains of Poor Treatment From USPS · · Score: 1

    Royal Mail lost their monopoly in Britain a few years ago. We now have the option of them, plus Deutsche Post, TNT Mail, Fed-Ex and a few others. Mail has got a lot more expensive and a lot less reliable since that happened.

  24. Re:Broadband for Some on UK Government To Back Broadband-For-All · · Score: 3, Funny

    As we generally follow football (English, not American), we tend to go for a Yellow Card / Red Card law rather than a three strikes law.

  25. Re:Better than dial-up on UK Government To Back Broadband-For-All · · Score: 1

    I don't think it will be free. It will most likely cost about £15 per month.