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  1. Re:Honestly on Coppola Loses All His Data · · Score: 1

    No, someone who's computer and backup disks were stolen, as they were stored in the same place.

  2. Re:Compatibility on Do You Recommend Google Maps API or Microsoft Live Maps? · · Score: 1

    In my experience, live has better satelite images than google, certainly in Britain, and particularly in the more remote parts of Scotland and Wales.

    Google however works flawlessly in Konqueror, whereas Live doesn't work at all in Konqueror.

  3. Re:Oh, for the love of Jebus on Apple Platform Lock-Ins, A 3rd Party Dev's Opinion · · Score: 1

    http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25a/215348-215348-64929-314903-215381-1822489.html

    That's where I got my phone from, or at least the UK branch of them.

  4. Re:Actually its the photographer's fault on Texas Family 'Sues Creative Commons' · · Score: 1

    They can use the pics to say "look, Britney Spears came out of the Foo Club at 2am with a bottle of vodka in her hand."

    They can't use that pic in an advert for something without her permission.

  5. Re:CC gets out easy. on Texas Family 'Sues Creative Commons' · · Score: 1

    But they need two different licences.

    They need a copyright licence from the photographer for the use of the photo. They had that licence.
    They also need a model release licence from the subject of the photo. They did not have that. And this is what the case is about.

  6. Re:Article is useless without a graph! on Canadian Dollar Reaches Parity with US$ · · Score: 1

    And in England, it probably costs £48,000 ($96,000).

  7. Re:The Actual BSD License on Software Freedom Law Center vs Theo de Raadt · · Score: 1

    They don't relicence. You can use the appropriate bits of the compiled .dll under the terms of the BSD licence. However the BSD licence doesn't require them to provide the source code, or make it easy for you to do it.

  8. Re:The Microsoft mindset does not determine law on PC Superstore Admits Linux Hinge Repair Mistake · · Score: 1

    The reason he didn't go to the manufacturer is presumably that by law, it is the retailer who is responsible, and the manufacturer doesn't have to do anything. Sometimes they do, in the interests of good customer relations, but they don't have to.

  9. Re:Huh? on PC Superstore Admits Linux Hinge Repair Mistake · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's wrong is that it has absolutely nothing to do with PC World's ability or otherwise to fix broken laptops, or about tech matters in general.

    If I had mod points at the moment, I would be giving out a few -1 offtopis here.

  10. Re:Differences in the UK market on iPhone Likely Set to Launch in the UK Next Week · · Score: 1

    Yes. I paid £320 for an unsubsidised IPaq with no contract, and then got a £15/month sim only contract with a very reasonable amount of minutes included.

    I guess HP, along with HTC and Blackberry are Apple's main competitors in this market.

  11. Re:Not likely to be UMTS on iPhone Likely Set to Launch in the UK Next Week · · Score: 1

    Well Blackberries don't really need high speed bandwidth, and 3G needs a lot more battery power, so maybe EDGE is a good idea from that perspective.

  12. Re:It's Been Fun on SCO Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Too late. Your stock price feed most likely has a time delay built in. Trading will have been halted as soon as the news comes out. This is the insiders dumping their stock before the news gets out.

  13. Re:Perfect pitch is a learned ability on Pitch Perception Skewed By Modern Tuning · · Score: 1

    Someone with perfect pitch still needs to learn their reference notes to be able to make use of their abilities. Of course, if you haven't played any music for a long time, you will forget these.

    The point is that someone who doesn't have perfect pitch wouldn't be able to learn it.

  14. Re:Upon entering the premises... on Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It may do. But that is a contract matter. If you refuse, the only thing they can do is sue you for breach of contract, and claim the actual losses they suffered as a result of you breaching the contract, which are probably approximately equal to zero.

  15. Re:Clarifying copyrights on GPL Violations On Windows Go Unnoticed? · · Score: 1

    The difference is that the GPL is a copyright licence which is designed to encourage copying, and people who violate the GPL are trying to stop people from excercising their right to copy the software.

    Unless the mp3 is released under a Creative Commons style licence, in which case most slashdotters would condem it in the same way as a GPL violation, most mp3 licences are designed to discourage copying, and people who violate it are trying to promote the copying of it.

    The stance taken by your typical slashdotter here is entirely consistent here, in that they support in both cases, the person who is encouraging copying over the one who is trying to restrict it.

  16. Re:Well.. on GPL Violations On Windows Go Unnoticed? · · Score: 1

    Safari is the example that immediately springs to mind - it uses khtml from Konqueror. They also use Samba.

  17. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Kaspersky Wins Important Ruling for the Anti-Malware Industry · · Score: 4, Informative

    They have offices in the US, from which they sell their software to US customers.

  18. Re:Open source projects? on Top 25 Hottest Open-Source Projects at Microsoft Codeplex · · Score: 1

    The licence itself says that you don't need to agree to anything merely to use the software, so if you only plan to use it, agreeing to that doesn't bind you to anything.

  19. Re:No, really on New Method To Detect and Prove GPL Violations · · Score: 1

    A university/college assignment is supposed to allow the student to demonstrate their ability to write good code, not copy someone else's code.

    Secondly, while open source permits copying, it generally doesn't allow you to claim that you wrote it, even for the most permissive licences such as the BSD style licences.

  20. Re:well, now that we know on SCO Fiasco Over For Linux, Starting For Solaris? · · Score: 5, Informative

    There were three key elements to the defence, and success in any one of them would mean victory for linux.

    These were:
    1. Linux does not include any unix code.
    2. SCO does not own the copyright to unix code.
    3. SCO themselves published a linux kernel under the terms of the GPL, and hence granted permission for any SCO owned code it might contain.

    The court judgement yesterday established point 2, and therefore linux wins.

    In a court case taken by Novel, point 1 would still apply, and point 3 would apply as well in that Novel have also published a linux kernel under the terms of the GPL. Either of those two points would be sufficient for Linux to win.

  21. Re:Inaccurate statements on Is RIAA's Linares Affidavit Technically Valid? · · Score: 1

    Also, I think I'm right in saying that if I access the internet through my cell phone using WAP, I share the IP address with every other customer on my provider's network. Of course, I'm unlikely to start sharing music that way, it is way too slow, and at £2.35/MB way to expensive.

  22. Re:References? on Politically Incorrect Observations About Human Nature · · Score: 1

    Much of the population of the UAE is immigrants, and there are more male immigrants than female immigrants. It's not that the women are going anywhere, they have just been left behind.

  23. Re:You still have service fees? on ATM Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    We don't generally have service fees for accounts in the UK. We do however get pretty poor interest rates on current accounts (checking accounts in US English).

    If you use a machine owned by another bank, your own bank pays them a small fee to cover the cost of the machine, so non-customers are not being subsidised by customers.

  24. Re:You still have service fees? on ATM Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    And that major company is owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland (Natwest in England).

  25. Re:Secret moral of the story: on Can Apple Find a European iPhone Partner? · · Score: 1

    To make a call to France, I would get a calling card and pay for a local call + about 1p per minute. That's what most people here do.