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  1. Re:Why do you think he has any say? on McAfee Is Doing a Live Broadcast Tonight · · Score: 2

    He is being deported because he is in Guatemala illegally, not because Belize wants him, so extradition treaties aren't relevant here.

    If US border patrols see someone crossing the border from Mexico illegally, I guess they send them straight back. They don't check their passport first, or if they do check their passport, it is to confirm that the crossing was illegal, not to determine where to send them back to.

  2. Re:The guy has sex with underage girls on McAfee Is Doing a Live Broadcast Tonight · · Score: 1

    17 is not underage in most parts of the world. In Belieze, they are legal at 16. The UK, where I live is the same except that if you are in a "position of responsibility" in respect of the person in question, eg their teacher, you have to wait until they are 18.

  3. Re:I don't know about the man... on McAfee Is Doing a Live Broadcast Tonight · · Score: 1

    "Antibiotics" is a euphemism for something a lot more dodgy here, and it is most likely these "antibiotics" or "bath salts" that are making him behave like a madman.

  4. Re:...and nobody came. on McAfee Is Doing a Live Broadcast Tonight · · Score: 1

    We had the most interesting football game of the season yesterday - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20571835 . That didn't help.

  5. Re:Age of Austerity on UK Organization Set Up To Encourage IPv6 Adoption Closes · · Score: 1

    A lot of government computers are still running NT4, and the software doesn't work on later versions of Windows.

  6. Re:Hmm. Yes. "Footballers' injury" I believe. on John McAfee Collapses At Guatemala Detention Center · · Score: 1

    I think it was probably withdrawal symptoms from whatever dodgy chemicals he ingests.

  7. Re:Expertise does not translate on Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate' · · Score: 1

    Vista was a step in the right direction, but implemented badly. Windows 7 was Vista done properly.

    I just don't see how you can do Windows 8 properly. The problem isn't so much the implementation as the whole direction the software is moving in.

  8. Sure, and if the material they are alleging infringes their copyright is a newspaper review of their movie; then the copyright to the review is actually owned by the newspaper.

  9. XP Passwords on New 25-GPU Monster Devours Strong Passwords In Minutes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I was under the impression that a 14 character NTLM password was basically two 7 character passwords, and the fact you can crack them easily is not news. Rainbow tables will crack them in a matter of seconds on a standard PC setup.

  10. In British English, a bing is a dent or scrape, usually on a car or other motor vehicle.

  11. Re:Hm... on Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films · · Score: 3, Informative

    Goatse.cx is now a safe-for-work webmail provider

  12. Re:Sorry, but... on McAfee Was Not Captured · · Score: 1

    Yes, the Belizian Prime Minister has commented on the case.

  13. Re:Boatware on Dell's Ubuntu Ultrabook Now On Sale; Costs $50 More Than Windows Version · · Score: 1

    It does when people phone up to ask why their copy of Norton Anti-virus won't install on Linux. I've had people ask me that.

  14. Re:Surprised? on Dell's Ubuntu Ultrabook Now On Sale; Costs $50 More Than Windows Version · · Score: 1

    They have a deal with MS preventing them from selling laptops without an operating system, ostensibly to stop people buying a "naked PC" and putting a pirated copy of Windows on it. FreeDOS is an operating system, but it doesn't come from Microsoft so it meets the requirements of the deal.

  15. Re:If that is what you call symbolic what is reali on In a Symbolic Shift, IBM's India Workforce Likely Exceeds That In US · · Score: 1

    Well last time I looked a couple of years ago, the typical salary was more like $8,000. If this keeps going, Indian wages will probably reach parity with US wages in about 5 to 10 years time.

  16. Re:It's all a scam by the Ukrainian government any on Workers Raise First Section of New Chernobyl Shelter · · Score: 1

    That may be true, but surely the 2% that is left is bad enough?

  17. Re:Imagine that... on Amazon and Google Barred From UK Government Cloud · · Score: 1

    Dublin hasn't been part of the UK since 1922.

  18. Re:Privacy/security/responsibility on Amazon and Google Barred From UK Government Cloud · · Score: 1

    Companies can't agree to ignore court judgements in their country.

  19. Re:Testing the water? on Lenovo UEFI Bug Only Likes Windows and RHEL · · Score: 2

    How many of them will notice when it refuses the "Windows 9" boot string, or someone in their home country notices that it refuses a string with Chinese characters in it.

  20. Yes, Right Click on the Icon | Properties | Change Icon ... | Browse ... | Look for MS Word or something and use its icon.

  21. Re:Free speech is for useful speech. on Man Arrested For Photo of Burning Poppy On Facebook · · Score: 1

    The idea of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance comes from the WW1 poem "In Flanders Fields" which refers to poppies growing on the graves of the fallen soldiers in the First World War. It was actually an American who brought the idea of wearing a poppy to the UK.

  22. Re:better yet on Man Arrested For Photo of Burning Poppy On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Including the then British Prime Minister Neville Chaimberlain. When that failed, he was forced to resign and make way for Winston Churchill.

  23. Re:Could we hear some Germans tell this story? on Germany Exports More Electricity Than Ever Despite Phasing Out Nuclear Energy · · Score: 2

    European houses tend to be much better insulated than American houses. Certainly in the UK, very few people have air conditioning. In southern Europe it is probably more common, but I don't think it is that common in Germany.

  24. Re:Could we hear some Germans tell this story? on Germany Exports More Electricity Than Ever Despite Phasing Out Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    Your electric company is required to buy a proportion of its energy from renewable sources. That costs more than fossil electricity, hence the indirect subsidy.

  25. Re:Good reason for it to be illegal on Pull Lever, Don't Snap Shutter: It May Be Illegal To Post Your Ballot · · Score: 2

    What about the actual natives of the USA who will be forced to learn a language used by one particular set of immigrants who arrived a few hundred years ago?