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  1. Re:Finally! on European Council Approves Software Patents · · Score: 1

    And by publishing your inventions at this stage, you have just invalidated your patents.

    The law is a bit different here you see.

  2. Re:May I be on European Council Approves Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Campaign contributions aren't such a big thing in the EU. There is a maximum limit on what candidates are allowed to spend in an election

  3. The BBC has a different story on European Council Approves Software Patents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3726375.stm

    They say that the patent plans have been shelved indefinately. Who is right?

  4. Re:Bundled spamware and spyware on Anti-Spammers Infiltrate Private Online Spam Clubs · · Score: 5, Informative

    But the most popular download these days isn't Kazaa, it is Adaware. http://download.com.com/3101-2001-0-1.html?tag=pop Spybot is No. 3 in the rankings.

  5. Re:Established paper size on The Logic Behind Metric Paper Sizes · · Score: 1

    They say that the date today is 5/14/2004 rather than 14/5/2004. This example I can almost cope with, as 14 is not a valid value for the month. Sometimes it isn't so easy.

    Of course, most of the time in England, we type the date as 14 May 2004, so there can be no possible confusion.

  6. Re:Established paper size on The Logic Behind Metric Paper Sizes · · Score: 2, Informative

    The old dot matrix printers with continuous paper with the holes down the side used to use Letter sized paper.

    You get it on correspondence from America (complete with the date typed back to front) and sometimes Word / oo.ow will try to print to it if you forget to change the defaults.

  7. Re:Oh no! on Winny P2P Software Creator Arrested · · Score: 1

    What's the highest source of traffic through tcp/ip? P2P by a very large margin. People don't go for ultra-fast broadband to download email.

  8. Re:Habeas on What Happens when Legit Services are Seen as Spam? · · Score: 1

    I block anything that contains the Habeas header as I've never received a legit email with it, and regularly get spam containing it.

  9. Re:Good. on First Four People Charged Under CAN-SPAM Act · · Score: 2

    If you are sitting in a room in the US sending illegal spam, then you are sitting in a room in the US sending illegal spam whether you are controlling an open proxy in the US, in China or anywhere else in the world.

    If you are sitting in a room in the US sending illegal spam, then you can be prosecuted in the US for sitting in a room sending illegal spam.

    Of course if you start breaking into computers in other countries, the governments in those other contries might want to prosecute you for committing offences in their country as well. This doesn't make what you are doing in the US any less illegal.

  10. Re:Reverse Engineering: A right? In danger? Huh? on FOSS Application Under Attack by Makers of KaZaa · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sharman say it is not their network. They say that they only supply the software.

    That is why they are allowed to continue in business, and that is why they are not liable for any copyright infringement that takes place on the network.

    The only possible basis therefore for preventing other people from writing software that can connect to the same third party networks that their software connects to is patent infringement.

  11. Re:Copyright, Organized Crime and Schools? on FBI Raids Arizona School District Over Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    That's the argument that won the case for the alleged infringers in Canada.

  12. Re:Worst effect on the least offender... on Spammer Sentencing Guidelines Released · · Score: 1

    It's not difficult to find a spammer. Just follow the money.

    I realise the average slashdotter can't do this with traceroute and whois, but it should be no problem for the Feds.

  13. Re:Even Worse.. on Spammer Sentencing Guidelines Released · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. Even Clippy doesn't deserve to be subjected to spammers all day long.

  14. Re:Probably not on BayStar Cashes Out of SCO Stock · · Score: 1

    That only works if the business *has* costomers who could withhold their business.

    By not buying SCO OpenUnix, I'm doing exactly what I would have done anyway, so Darl isn't going to notice.

  15. Re:Be careful on VIA Pulls PadLockSL · · Score: 1

    No it wouldn't. If you copy someone's code without their permission, then you are copying it without their permission whether it is included with code licenced under the GPL or otherwise.

    Only the copyright holder can choose to licence their code under the GPL. Nobody else can make that choice for them.

  16. Re:I was almost a victim of this scam on More on Scammers Abusing TTY Services · · Score: 1

    It's OK if you get the $1.6m as cleared funds in the bank before you ship the goods.

  17. Re:Corporate greed? Try government theft. on More on Scammers Abusing TTY Services · · Score: 1

    In the UK, you pay normal phone rates to use BT Typetalk, and if you can show you are disabled, you get a rebate on the bill.

    The Nigerian Scammers wouldn't be able to show that they were genuinely disabled, so they would end up paying lots of money on their phone bills.

  18. Re:In case of /.ing on P2P News Syndication? · · Score: 1

    news.bbc.co.uk is not going to be slashdotted. It is the most popular news site in Britain, and in the top 10 in the US - ie it gets a lot more hits than /.

  19. Re:One Word: on P2P News Syndication? · · Score: 1

    I believe the correct spelling is Freenet.

    www.freenetproject.org

  20. Re:Yeah, I can see this working. *cough* on Are You Reporting Your Internet Purchases? · · Score: 1

    If it was interstate trade within the EU, it would be Alabama.

    If it was international trade involving the EU, it would be Texas. However, they could by concession, use the billing address of your credit card as the place of supply, so it would be presumably Colorado.

    I don't know how it is going to work in the US.

  21. Re:Yeah, I can see this working. *cough* on Are You Reporting Your Internet Purchases? · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the US. But the EU has VAT on internet purchases, and people in the rest of the world are required to comply with it, on pain of a yet to be decided penalty.

    Some of the big companies such as AOL are complying with it, but I doubt you are going to get many porn sites worrying about it.

    A US version of the EU's E-commerce VAT directive would probably work for interstate trade in the US, and the EU would probably be receptive to some sort agreement to enforce Sales Tax within the EU in return for the US agreeing to enforce VAT in the US.

    Returning to your point, I guess all your internet purchases will be recorded on your credit card statements. Your tax authorities may well ask to see them.

  22. Re:Big money maker for companies providing relay on Overseas Crooks Abuse TTY Phone Service · · Score: 1

    Money making for the relay operators - yes. For the people who pay the relay operators their $3m per day, probably not.

  23. Re:I don't think you understand on Overseas Crooks Abuse TTY Phone Service · · Score: 1

    Your boyfriend would register his phone number so that he could receive calls from people like you.

    The password thing would be for his outgoing calls.

  24. Re:WinFS WILL be in the next version, just no netw on Microsoft Clips Longhorn · · Score: 1

    NTFS supports symlinks. The only problem is that there isn't anything in Windows to create them, so you need third party software.

    One such program is http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtm l#junction

  25. Re:The best ads on New Wave of Web Ads? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The other type of ad that does well is classified advertising. For example, recruitment sites, estate agents, autotrader moneysupermarket and so on.

    These ads are sucessful because the advert is the content of the site, and they are displayed to people who are actually interested in what they are advertising.