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  1. Re:Not separable (?) on SCO Proposes Sale of Assets To Continue Litigation · · Score: 1

    No. SCO is still liable for those.

    But they would be liable for any future royalties on product sales, and this would depress the value they are willing to pay for the assets.

  2. Re:Government Bailout for SCO on SCO Proposes Sale of Assets To Continue Litigation · · Score: 1

    But you have to register as a bank first, just like General Motors did.

  3. Re:Correction and prediction on SCO Proposes Sale of Assets To Continue Litigation · · Score: 1

    And who might that be? Microsoft's cash pile isn't as big as it once was. It's actually smaller than Apple's now.

  4. Re:Customer information sharing on Blu-ray Update Sent To User Via Credit Card Records · · Score: 2, Informative

    In Europe the limit is €15,000, and car dealers are on the list.

  5. Re:FAT on Panasonic Working On 2-Terabyte SD Cards · · Score: 1

    I don't think Windows would let you format a disk of that size with FAT, so they would format it with NTFS.

  6. Re:Carbon neutrality is a joke anyway on The Inexact Science of Carbon Neutrality · · Score: 1

    It's worse than that though.

    I drive around in my Hummer, and offset it by paying someone not to chop down a tree that they probably had no intention of chopping down anyway.

    Thanks to carbon offsetting, I keep getting boxloads of lightbulbs from my electric company.

    Problem is that 1. they have a British style connection, whereas my light fittings use European style connections.
    2. I switched to CFT bulbs about 12 years ago

  7. Re:Bullshit on The Inexact Science of Carbon Neutrality · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well there are people in England at the moment who are saying that global warming can't possibly be happening because it is very cold in the South of England at the current moment in time. The coldest it has been for about 20 years.

    It is cold at the moment, colder than in for example Scotland, Greenland and Antarctica.

    Trying to get them to understand the difference between "climate" and "weather", and the fact that it is global average temperatures that are increasing, is impossible. Instead they focus on today's temperatures in some little corner of England. The fact that today's temperatures in a little corner of Scotland are unseasonably warm doesn't matter though.

  8. Re:Minimum wage in the US on Phishing Is a Minimum-Wage Job · · Score: 1

    I would have thought the pool of phishing money would decline over time.

    When I get about 10 email per day from various banks asking for my login details, I very quickly learn to ignore all of them, and even if I didn't, am I going to respond to every single email from Abbey National or Lloyds TSB?

  9. Re:So that's what they do... on Phishing Is a Minimum-Wage Job · · Score: 1

    Yes. I got an email from the Financial Services Authority the other day asking me for my bank details due to some sort of security alert. I'm not even sure which bank I was supposed to enter them for. Needless to say the site didn't go anywhere near fsa.gov.uk.

  10. Re:Try actually using a docking station on Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes · · Score: 1

    The Mac's mini DV connector looks pretty solid in that department. It is still a pain having to pay £15 for an adapter so you can plug a normal monitor into it.

  11. Re:Darn... no iPhone update on Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes · · Score: 1

    I'd like one with a keyboard, but knowing Steve Job's attitude to the number of buttons on his products, that isn't going to happen.

  12. Re:Submit everything to the Library of Congress on Groklaw Shifts Gears, Now Stressing Preservation · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And if possible to similar libraries in other countries as well.

    In Britain we have the British Library, the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales, and the University Libraries of Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin. Dublin is not in Britain, but nevertheless it is one of the British copyright libraries.

  13. Re:Im troubled on Groklaw Shifts Gears, Now Stressing Preservation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would like to hope that they cover software patent cases, RIAA/MPAA cases and any other relevant technology law cases that might come up in the future.

  14. Re:FOSS Will Gain Market Share on Linux In 2009 — Recession vs. GNU · · Score: 1

    The main thing is you can take regular backups of your exchange server. It is not so easy to backup GMail. Yes, it can be done, but most people like to be able to see where their data is.

  15. Re:FOSS Will Gain Market Share on Linux In 2009 — Recession vs. GNU · · Score: 1

    Things like pulling figures off your accounts program and preparing reports with them.

  16. Re:FOSS Will Gain Market Share on Linux In 2009 — Recession vs. GNU · · Score: 1

    I only ever see flash embedded .doc files used for chain letters, so I don't think it is going to be a problem.

  17. Re:FOSS Will Gain Market Share on Linux In 2009 — Recession vs. GNU · · Score: 1

    What do you plan to use for email / groupware?

    I've looked at the various options available, and Exchange with Outlook / Evolution / Entourage generally works out the cheapest, and there isn't really anything else out there that is a suitable free replacement.

  18. Re:they already chose on AT&T 3G Upgrades Degrade 2G Signal Strength · · Score: 1

    How long ago? Edge was only rolled out when the iPhone came out, and came quite a while after UTMS (3G).

  19. Re:The problem of Islam on Overzealous AirTran Boots 9 Passengers Off · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never been to Northern Ireland.

  20. Re:What is WITH the BGP issue? on Four Threats For '09 You Haven't Heard of · · Score: 1

    Perhaps as part of a blackmail threat? A while back, botnet owners were blackmailing gambling site owners into paying them money to prevent a DDOS attack on their servers.

  21. Re:"The Unthinkable" on Four Threats For '09 You Haven't Heard of · · Score: 1

    Two things:

    When you are sitting in front of a computer, there doesn't feel like much difference between playing a computer game and doing it for real

    Secondly, I don't think the malware outbreak at the hospital was intentionally directed at the hospital. They try to infect as many people as possible and don't think that some of their victims might be hospitals.

  22. Re:rm -rf / on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 1

    or dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk0

    saying as it is OSX, not Linux.

  23. Re:Interesting. on Google Tells Users To Drop IE6 · · Score: 1

    Can you block ads on Chrome? That was the dealbreaker for me, and why I still use Firefox and Safari.

  24. Re:Somewhere in Redmond.... on Google Tells Users To Drop IE6 · · Score: 1

    But they would rather people use IE6 than Firefox, Chrome or Opera.

    Yes they told all their Mac users to switch from IE5 to Safari, but I don't think they will be doing that on Windows any time soon.

  25. Re:Antitrust on Google Tells Users To Drop IE6 · · Score: 1

    Hotmail has about 25% of the webmail market, in 2nd place just behind Yahoo who have 26%. I would say that's the sort of market share that justifies anti-trust action, especially as it isn't so easy to change your email provider as it means telling everyone your new address.