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  1. Re:Got my vote on US House 'Creator' of TSA Wants To Kill It · · Score: 1

    If you live in a city with more than one airport nearby, then they do, because they are competing for passengers.

  2. Re:Really? on UK Man Jailed For Being a Jerk On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights is the equivalent, but there is also article 8 about the right to respect for private and family life which Sean Duffy was infringing.

    http://www.echr.coe.int/NR/rdonlyres/D5CC24A7-DC13-4318-B457-5C9014916D7A/0/ENG_CONV.pdf

  3. Re:Propaganda or Bad reporting? on UK Man Jailed For Being a Jerk On the Internet · · Score: 1

    It is a trade-off between different freedoms. What is more important, the right to troll on people's memorial websites, or the right to grieve the loss of a loved one without being trolled by socially inadequate jerks. The British Government thinks the second one is more important, and I along with the vast majority of residents of the UK agree with that.

  4. Re:Propaganda or Bad reporting? on UK Man Jailed For Being a Jerk On the Internet · · Score: 2

    If he had attended the funeral or memorial service of the person involved and said those sorts of things out loud, I think he would have got a much longer sentence. This isn't like the US where the Westboro Baptist Church are allowed to do such things as protected free speech.

  5. Re:Slippery slope? on Global Mall Operator Starts Reading License Plates · · Score: 1

    There are no retail parks near the Westfield Mall in Shepherd's Bush, London - the largest mall in Europe until their Stratford mall opens on Tuesday. It doesn't have any retail parks nearby either.

  6. Re:What is this "piracy?" on Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Buy Legal Game ROMs? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You have to buy a legitimate copy of the ROM, and then you can maybe exercise your fair use rights to format-shift it. However finding a legitimate copy is going to be pretty difficult, and I guess ebay is pretty much the only option.

  7. Re:Since no one ever buys them... on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 1

    It is a not for profit company that competes with the NHS.

  8. Re:My mom's husband has hearing aid troubles on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Since no one ever buys them... on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 1

    http://www.bupa.co.uk/

    It works pretty well.

  10. Re:Since no one ever buys them... on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A regulation-free medical industry is one where you get loads of useless homoeopathic and similar remedies, and there is no guarantee that they will work as described or be safe.

  11. Re:I'd like to take this time to patent.... on Patent Reform Bill Passes Senate · · Score: 1

    Those details could well be the subject of patents in their own right if they meet the criteria, whereas heating water from radio-active elements is probably "obvious", certainly heating water from something hot has been done plenty of times before from wood and coal fired boilers.

  12. Re:I'd like to take this time to patent.... on Patent Reform Bill Passes Senate · · Score: 1

    I don't agree with that statement. If you go to a VC and tell them you have a patent for your invention, they are much more likely to invest.

  13. Re:Sounds very reasonable. on .UK Registrar Offers To Let Police Close Domain · · Score: 1

    Basically all the sites that sell fake concert tickets. I don't want to dignify any of them with links but there are a lot more than three of them. Like maybe 300 of them.

  14. Re:Good news on Justice Dept. Files Antitrust Complaint Against AT&T and T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    Mergers are also good for the shareholders of the taken over company, as the acquiring company has to pay over the odds to buy it.

  15. Re:Sprint and T-Mo should merge on Justice Dept. Files Antitrust Complaint Against AT&T and T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    The 2G service is GSM.

  16. Re:Good on US Gov't Lobbied EU To Approve Oracle-Sun Merger · · Score: 1

    It's not as simple as that. Most of the development for eg MySQL is done in Europe, and the resulting product is sold all over the world. The reverse is true for some of their other products. Development costs would be the same if they lost the European market. Since some of the products are owned by European subsidiaries they have bought over the years, they might end up losing them completely. They provide 24/7 access to tech support by having offices in different time zones, so if someone wants help in doing an out of hours job on their system, they will most likely be speaking to someone in a different country.

  17. Re:Pointless half-way house on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    GMT and UCT are slightly different. GMT is based on the position of the sun at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. UCT is calculated using an atomic clock, and a second is sometimes added or subtracted (usually added) every six months to keep it close to GMT. As most clocks don't deal with 61 second minutes, I guess they use something based on GMT rather than something based on UCT.

  18. Re:even stupider ideas exist... on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    That's how the Romans did things, but they went from the 1st hour when sun rose, to the 12th hour when it set, and didn't number night time hours because the sundial didn't work when it was dark.

    The problem is that people use the difference between start and finish time to work out how long something takes, and that would be a lot more difficult with the Roman system.

  19. Re:AM & PM on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    12am is midnight. It is the start of the new day, and is before noon, so therefore it is am. All but the very first moment of 12pm is after noon, so it is pm.

  20. Re:What an Unreadable and Horrible Summary on A Custom Objectionable Word List Ate My Homework · · Score: 1

    That list could make biology homework difficult.

  21. Re:every-24-hour coordination on Coordinated, Global ATM Heist Nets $13 Million · · Score: 2

    It is a challenge response system that operates on the card itself. For example, my bank supplies a card reader for online transactions. I enter the pin and an 8 digit number supplied by the bank at the time of the transaction, and get an 8 digit number back which I enter on the website to authenticate the transaction. The card reader will tell me if I have entered the right pin or not, but after 3 incorrect attempts, the chip on the card gets locked, and I have to take the card to the bank to unlock it.

  22. Re:every-24-hour coordination on Coordinated, Global ATM Heist Nets $13 Million · · Score: 1

    Maestro is the Mastercard equivalent of Visa Debit.

  23. Re:Second hand on Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? · · Score: 1
  24. Re:These are bad examples on Is the Quick Death of Failed Tech Products a Good Thing? · · Score: 1

    Electric cars were very popular in the 1920s when diesel cars had only recently been invented, were very noisy, smelly and difficult to start, and their main competitor the steam car took about 20 minutes for the boiler to heat up and had a similar range to electric. A lot of people don't realise that electric cars were invented about 50 years before internal combustion engine cars.

    Elecrtric trains are pretty popular and generally outperform diesel models because they can get their electricity directly from the mains and don't have to worry about battery life. That means their range is effectively unlimited. The only downside is the additional capital cost of setting up the power supply, so they are not used on lines that only see a few trains per day. High speed rail manages about 300-350 km/h. You would struggle to find a car that can do that consistently on the motorways.

  25. Re:Very sensible, methinks. on Facebook Data Collection Under Fire Again · · Score: 1

    No, because Facebook are not violating any German laws as they are not in Germany. What is against the law is exporting personal information outside the EU unless you have a safe harbour agreement in place where the company you are exporting it to agrees to comply with EU law in respect of that data.