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  1. Re:Don't spoof it! on Pay-As-You-Drive Car Insurance · · Score: 1

    You can't get a road tax disk without insurance, and the traffic police regularly check tax disks, and can confiscate your car if you don't have an up to date one.

  2. Re:Prior Art? on Microsoft Patents sudo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You could have a period where the public are allowed to submit objections to the patent.

    If someone objects on the basis of prior art, then the patent office could look and see if their complaint was valid or not.

  3. Re:Reread the grandparent post: on Pricing a Software Product · · Score: 1

    Packaged software for sale employs about 5% of the programmers out there. The other 95% write custom inhouse software for their own employers. This other 95% would not suffer if packaged software were to become free.

    They would benefit from being able to modify the packaged software for their own requirements rather than accept whatever the software house gives them.

  4. Re:Of course not! on Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult · · Score: 1

    I've seen Roman and Greek maps from before then, and in any case, not everyone believed Erostothenes claim that the earth was round.

  5. Re:Specific Ocean? on Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult · · Score: 1

    I have seen Americans address things along the lines of

    1 High Street
    Kilmarnock
    Ayrshire
    Scotland
    KA1 1AA
    England

    Scottish people get a bit upset if you suggest they are part of England.

  6. Re:Of course not! on Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult · · Score: 1

    North has been upwards since the days when we believed in a flat earth, we thought that the Mediterranean was the middle of the world, and that America didn't exist.

  7. Re:Of course not! on Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult · · Score: 1

    Or the Mazda Laputo. La Puto means "the prostitue"

    Or how about the Toyota MR2. The french read that as Emm Er deux, which sounds a bit like merde, which is french for a word that probably won't get past slashdot's naughty words filter.

  8. Re:Of course not! on Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult · · Score: 1

    Their called Vauxhall or Opel in Europe, and their Novas didn't sell very well in Spain for the same reason.

    BTW it seems to be a very accurate description of their cars.

  9. Re:Third-partying on UK ISPs to Shut Down Spamvertised Websites · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Start up competitor to /.

    2. Send out spam promoting /.

    3. See /. shut down.

    4. Have your site DOSed by a hoard of angry slashdotters

    5. Bankruptcy

  10. Re:Recovering from Spyware. on The Spyware Inferno · · Score: 1

    Symantec AV Corporate doesn't require IE as far as I can see.

  11. Re:Environmental effects on Cooling Toronto Using Lake Ontario · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also because cold water is denser and so it falls to the bottom.

    When the pre-heated warmer water from nearer the surface falls down to replace the cold water that is removed, what happens? Does it say warmer, or does it cool down?

  12. Re:Environmental effects on Cooling Toronto Using Lake Ontario · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you take cold water from the bottom, then surely it will be replaced with warmer water from above. Is there anything that makes the water cool down once it is in the lake?

  13. Re:Just two questions on Cooling Toronto Using Lake Ontario · · Score: 5, Informative

    Q1 is a valid concern.

    Q2 is apparently answered in the article. Approx 25% of the energy requirements for electrical air con.

  14. Environmental effects on Cooling Toronto Using Lake Ontario · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Will this not cause the lake to warm up? What are the envirnmental effects of this? Have they been considered?

  15. Make the rules the same as for paper mail on Deleting E-mail Could Get You In Trouble · · Score: 1

    You aren't required to keep all the dead tree spam for pizzas, kebabs, credit cards, personal loans, Readers Digest and so on, only that which relates to your business. So it should be pretty easy to make the rules the same for email.

  16. Re:It was doomed to fail anyway on CAN-SPAM Is A Bust · · Score: 1

    Most spam comes from American companies that want to make money out of the process. Don't let the pink contracts with Chinese ISPs and the networks of zombie mailers obscure this basic fact.

  17. This is good news on German Court Says GPL is Valid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But it is not a surprise to anyone with even basic knowledge of copyright law.

    The GPL is probably one of the least controversial copyright licences out there, and I would say it is totally watertight.

    The only places where there might be problems are in countries like Iran which don't recognise copyrights from countries like the US. - if there is no copyright, there is no need to agree to the terms of the GPL to be allowed to use the software.

  18. Re:Pretty high cost on Microsoft's Midlife Crisis · · Score: 1

    Of course it includes marketing. Their sales staff are presumably employees just like everyone else.

  19. Re:Riiiiight.... on Custom DVDs & Players For Academy Members · · Score: 1

    It it was unbreakable, then you wouldn't be able to watch the DVD.

    You can watch the DVD, so it much be breakable, even if it means putting a video camera in front of the TV screen.

  20. Re:What it really means on Online MD5 Cracking Service · · Score: 1

    Cue the comments about a beowulf cluster of slashdotters.

  21. It already happens in Britain on China Will Monitor, Censor SMS Messages · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/03/text_punk/

    And I'm sure it happens in the USA as well.

  22. Re:Prevent it? on Playing Nice: Reviews of CrossOver Office, WineX 4 · · Score: 1

    And as far it is concerned, that wrong OS is Windows 98. You need Windows 2000/XP/2003 to run Office 2003.

  23. Re:Firefox doesn't know it's been upgraded on Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 Released · · Score: 1

    The shampoo bottles I've bought recently no longer say I should repeat the process. Once is apparently enough now.

  24. Re:This is good on Telus Puts A Stop To 'Modem Hijacking' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There is one problem with that approach. It happens when people do plan to go online. They dial out thinking they are paying for the local rate number to their ISP (possibly at $0 per minute) and the dialer intercepts it and dials the $16/m premium rate number.

  25. Re:Competetive? on Wired on McBride · · Score: 0

    My studies show it is.

    Higher salary = higher costs = lower profits