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  1. Re:You may think it troll, flame bait, etc, but... on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    Of course. That's why the requirement for passports was introduced. Previously they had to sit in quarentine for about 6 months before being allowed into the country.

  2. Re:You may think it troll, flame bait, etc, but... on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    Animals do need to have passports to be allowed into the country. In that respect, it is a passport by the common definition. It also records its medial history, and depending on the type of animal, the passport must show that it has been inspected by a vet a certain number of days before it arrives at the border and in some cases has received certain types of medication.

  3. Re:Worked for corporations... on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    Shareholders pay death duties on the value of their shares when they die, so they get the money that way.

  4. Re:You may think it troll, flame bait, etc, but... on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    You may laugh, but recently in the UK, a couple of cows were put down because they didn't have passports.

  5. Re:Never underestimate the bandwidth on How the LHC Is Reviving Magnetic Tape · · Score: 1

    A Ford Transit would be better for that sort of thing.

  6. Re:because on Why People Are So Bad At Picking Passwords · · Score: 2

    A lot of these studies come from accounts where people do not care if someone else knows the password, because the password doesn't protect anything of use to the subscriber. For accounts like that, my password is the same as my username, and it is linked to a spamtrap email account that doesn't get used for anything else. I know it is insecure, but I don't care.

  7. Re: Dodgy Customers on How Microwave Transmission Is Linking Financial Centers At Near-Light Speed · · Score: 1

    Yes they do, but I'm not sure what the relevance is.

  8. Re:Waiver of rights on Woman Fined For Bad Review Striking Back In Court · · Score: 2

    This company is asking the government, in the form of the courts, to stop someone from saying bad things about them. If the court were to grant this request, it would violate the 1st amendment, therefore it can't grant this request.

  9. Re:Headhunters suck on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Tech Job Requirements So Specific? · · Score: 1

    In the UK, it is illegal for recruiters to charge employees for finding work, so they always get paid by the company doing the hiring.

  10. Sometimes just a guideline on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Tech Job Requirements So Specific? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've had headhunters contact me with jobs. When I say that I don't meet the list of requirements in the job spec, they tell me that nobody else out there does either, but I'm close enough.

  11. Re:*erior on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If it can go from $1 to $1000 in the space of a year, it can go from $10,000 to $0 in the space of a few miliseconds.

  12. Re:Explain "Private" on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 2

    There are 4 countries[1] in the world where private banks still issue banknotes - Scotland, Northern Ireland, Hong Kong and Macau. But only government approved banks have a licence to print money, and they are required to deposit funds with the central bank to cover the notes they have issued.

    [1] None of them are independent countries, and only Scotland is technically a country, but they all have their own parliaments and legal systems.

  13. Re: on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Not completely useless, because you can combine the data with CCTV footage, and you have a very good idea where their nearest train station or bus stop to home is.

  14. Re:What's wrong with Tokens? on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 1

    For the buses, you can buy paper tickets from some vending machines by the bus stops, or from local shops. You can also pay by credit or debit card if your card has an NFC chip in it. For rail travel, you can buy cash tickets from the station ticket office or vending machines.

  15. Re:What's wrong with Tokens? on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 1

    The Metropolitan Police in London quite frequently use Oyster Card data to help them find suspects.

  16. Re:What's wrong with Tokens? on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 1

    In London, we use Oyster cards, and in most of the rest of the UK, we have cards that comply with the ITSO standard. The benefits are that it is much quicker so the bus spends less time at the stop, completes the journey quicker, and can do more journeys per day. Also the driver doesn't have to carry cash, so doesn't have to worry about being attacked by people who want to steal it off him.

  17. Re:I have to agree on Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font · · Score: 1

    I can shrink the A4 documents to A5 and put two of them on one page. Or I can print them two to a page on A3, and fold them over into a book format.

  18. Re:Oooh No. Most of /. is Arial font on Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font · · Score: 1

    Calilbri or Verdana are better though because they have a larger x-height.

  19. Re:I have to agree on Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font · · Score: 1

    You should join the rest of the world in using A4 - 21cm x 29.7cm. If you fold it in half, the dimensions are in the same proportion.

  20. Re:Ghost transactions on 195K Bitcoin Transaction · · Score: 1

    I think that would only make things worse.

    They know that you have taken money out of a mixing service. They know that you have put money into a mixing service. They know where that money came from, and they know that you must want to hide something.

  21. Re:not a problem. Tall white guy w long blonde hai on Users Identified Through Typing, Mouse Movements · · Score: 1

    VNC, RDP, NX and other similar systems.

  22. Re:network lag doesn't matter on Users Identified Through Typing, Mouse Movements · · Score: 1

    I sometimes browse websites over RDP rather than use the local browser.

  23. Re: And how utterly pointless it is... on Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire Blocked In the UK · · Score: 1

    Yes it does.

  24. Re:Not an issue ... on Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire Blocked In the UK · · Score: 2

    You have to pay the TV licence if you want to watch the live streams, but not the on-demand streams.

  25. Re: And how utterly pointless it is... on Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire Blocked In the UK · · Score: 2

    The ones that are required to do censorship are BT (including Plusnet), Talk Talk (including AOL), Virgin and Sky (Including O2).