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  1. Re:Actually on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    French "cheval" which has been farmed in accordance with EU food regulations is more expensive per kg than beef. They are not going to put that in a Tesco Value beefburger. So who knows where these horses came from.

  2. Re:Can someone explain how multinationals work? on Google Invests $1 Billion To Build New London HQ · · Score: 1

    Google's European base is registered in Ireland, not the UK. Google Inc owns 100% of the shares in Google Ireland, so can appoint the directors and vote them out if they don't do what the parent corp wants them to do.

  3. Re:Depends on... on Aaron's Law: Violating a Site's ToS Should Not Land You in Jail · · Score: 1

    Well in the UK, trespass isn't a criminal offence. Aggravated trespass is..

  4. Re:Depends on... on Aaron's Law: Violating a Site's ToS Should Not Land You in Jail · · Score: 1

    OK, there's lots of sites where you have to sign up for an account before you can get in, and accessing the content requires a password. If slashdot decided not to allow Anonymous Cowards it would be an example of such a site. Would that make it an intranet site?

  5. Re:Depends on... on Aaron's Law: Violating a Site's ToS Should Not Land You in Jail · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the UK for example, it is illegal to access a computer system without the owner's permission. You could argue that the TOS set out the terms under which the owner is prepared to give permission to access their system, and if you violate them, you don't have permission to access the site, and are therefore breaking the law. I guess it is much the same in the US.

    How do you deal with that? How do you draw the line between a website that is clearly open to the public and an intranet site that is only open to selected people?

  6. Location services isn't that accurate on Microsoft Patents Tech That Would Silence Your Phone For You · · Score: 2

    Currently, using wifi location, my phone thinks it is on the other side of the road from where it actually is. Accurate enough to find the nearest bus stop or whatever I'm looking for, but certainly not accurate enough to know that I am actually inside a particular screening room of a theatre rather than out in the foyer or in a shop next door. As I'm indoors, GPS or Glonass location isn't an option, and even if it was, it still isn't accurate enough for that.

  7. Re:Only $850 Quadrillion on This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not that familiar with US federal law, but minting a $1tn probably is legal, and more importantly, it is no different from the quantitive easing that Ben Bernanke has been doing for the past 5 years or so.

    Sovereign defaults are actually pretty common. There are only 11 countries in the world that have never defaulted on their debt. They are Canada, Denmark, Belgium, Finland, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland and England. Sovereign defaults aren't such bad news for a country, it marks the beginning of the end of the crisis, rather than the end of the beginning, and they generally recover quite quickly. Look at Iceland for example.

  8. Re:Low-heat electricity generation on Manipulating Heat Like Light · · Score: 1

    We are at about 90% efficiency for them, so not really.

  9. Re:Low-heat electricity generation on Manipulating Heat Like Light · · Score: 2

    You can concentrate heat and use it to run a thermal machine. However it will require more work to concentrate the heat than you will get out of the thermal machine.

  10. Re:Low-heat electricity generation on Manipulating Heat Like Light · · Score: 1

    Yes, in that a steam generator is able to capture energy from the transfer of heat from a hot area to cold area and uses it to do work.

  11. Re:Low-heat electricity generation on Manipulating Heat Like Light · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, because it would violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

  12. Re:nonsensical allegations on EU Antitrust Chief: Google "Diverting Traffic" & Will Be Forced To Change · · Score: 1

    Their product is selling advertising to European businesses, and it is very difficult for anyone else to sell advertising because of Google's monopoly.

  13. Re:nonsensical allegations on EU Antitrust Chief: Google "Diverting Traffic" & Will Be Forced To Change · · Score: 2

    My searches go through google.co.uk. If I visit google.com, I get redirected to google.co.uk. I believe there is a way to override that, but it isn't straightforward.

  14. Re:Recurring fees on Ford and GM Open Car Software To Outside Developers · · Score: 0

    Who doesn't have a smartphone these days? Blackberry has the budget phone market sewn up, everyone else has an Android or iPhone. I pay £15.32 per month for my smartphone service.

  15. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    Yes, it was originally based on the circumference of the earth, but it is now defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. The second was originally defined with reference to the earth's orbit around the sun, but is now defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom

  16. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    It was originally defined as the distance from the North Pole to the Equator via Paris as being 10,000 km. It is now based on the speed of light.

  17. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    The meter is based on the speed of light. Actually, the inch is based on the meter, so imperial lengths are also based on the speed of light.

  18. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    1 ml is 1 cm^3. And you can work out all the other ones pretty easily from that. How many fluid ounces in a cubic yard?

  19. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    In my fridge I have a 250ml tub of cream, and a 1l bottle of milk. I know straight away that the bottle of milk is 4 x the size of the tub of cream.

  20. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    A4 is 21cm x 29.7cm in Europe. There isn't really any other paper size system in widespread use.

  21. Re:seriously? on Can Fotobar Make Polaroid Relevant Again? · · Score: 1

    Except that I can go in to my local branch of Jessops or Happy Snaps to do that already.

  22. Re:I'm not a nerd anymore... on Is HP Right? Autonomy Salesperson Shares Internal Emails · · Score: 5, Informative

    When they signed the original deal, they should book $25,416.66 as revenue for that month, and the remaining $1,194,583.34 as deferred revenue to be released over the remaining 47 months of the contract. Each month after that, you take $25,416.66 out of deferred revenue and put it in revenue.

    When they signed the new deal, they should cancel whatever is left in deferred revenue, put the new deal in deferred revenue and take $38.729.16 per month to revenue.

    If there are up-front expenses related to the deal, and sales commission may well be one of them, then they go to prepayments, and you expense them every month along with the released deferred revenue.

  23. Re:Do they really want to open this can of worms? on The Copyright Battle Over Custom-Built Batmobiles · · Score: 1

    I think you will find that car manufacturers want their cars to appear in movies, and probably pay the studios to include them, or at least give them the cars for free or at a reduced price so that they will use them.

  24. Re:Huh?? on Patent Troll Targeting Users of Scanners; Wants $1000/Employee · · Score: 1

    But if your scanner can save to a pdf file, and Outlook lets you send attachments, isn't it "obvious" even to someone who isn't skilled in the art, that you can email a scanned file to someone?

  25. Re:Huh?? on Patent Troll Targeting Users of Scanners; Wants $1000/Employee · · Score: 1

    To get the £ sign, you type £. (To get the & sign, you type &).