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  1. Re:Interesting contrast on Ripping CDs Set To Be Legalized In UK · · Score: 1

    Copyright infringement cases are heard in the Patent County Court, not the Small Claims Court.

  2. Re:Inefficient on Use Your Car To Power Your House · · Score: 1

    0.083 cents per kWh? Either you have very cheap electricity, or you are using Verizon math.

  3. Re:Inefficient on Use Your Car To Power Your House · · Score: 1

    In the UK, you have the option of a single rate, dual rate or three rate meter. If you go for a dual rate, there are two meter dials, and it switches over to the night rate for usually 7 hours per night. If you go for three rate, then you get a separate interruptible circuit with its own meter for use with storage heaters. The electric company switches the circuit on for either a fixed number of hours per day or a variable number of hours based on the weather forecast, at times of its choosing.

  4. Re:This is news? on US Patent Regime Is Absurd · · Score: 1

    The news is that mainstream publications are reporting on it. That hasn't happened before.

  5. Re:What is BT? on British ISP Ordered To Block Links to Pirate Site · · Score: 1

    How much digging do you have to do to find out that AT&T = American Telecom and Telegraph?

  6. Re:Have to share this - holy crap! mod parent up on For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution · · Score: 1

    South Dakota's response was the best. "Yes, it is basic science, it should be taught in schools"

  7. Re:Scaaam.... on Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous · · Score: 2

    Intrinsic value means that it can be used for something useful. The fact that expensive resources have been expended in making it doesn't in itself give it intrinsic value; there needs to be a way to convert it back into something useful.

    Take for example the British 10p coin. That has an intrinsic value of 4.7p[1] because that is the value of the copper and nickel used in making it. There is an additional cost to melt down the metal and stamp it to the correct shape which makes it less likely that people will want to create forged 10p coins - they tend to go for more profitable £1 coins, but that does not increase the intrinsic value.

    [1] Calculations carried out last night based on Friday closing prices at the London Metal Exchange and the then most recent USD/GBP exchange rate most likely from the Israeli markets as they are open on Sundays.

  8. Re:Do you remember back before 2000? on Ask Slashdot: Chromeless Cross-Platform Browser? · · Score: 1

    Back in those unix days, most people connected to a server using "telnet" and ran the application on there. There were certainly still a few of those around in the mid to late 1990s. Web based apps are a modern day equivalent of that.

  9. Re:Licensing issue? on Windows XP In a Browser · · Score: 1

    It's no more a licensing issue than me running XP on Parallels on this computer. In other words, I do need to have a licensed copy of Windows for it.

  10. Re:So much for K-splice on Oracle Acquires K-splice For an Undisclosed Amount · · Score: 1

    If Oracle own the copyright, which I believe they now do, they don't have to release any future versions under the GPL. Obviously if you can find an existing GPL copy, you can continue to use it, and you can fork it, but you can't rely on Oracle to support it or update it in the future.

  11. Re:Microsoft and Open Source in General on Linux Receives 20th Birthday Video From Microsoft · · Score: 2

    You can do it in one line using powershell.

  12. Re:Headline is completely wrong on Court Allows Webcam Spying On Rental Laptops · · Score: 1

    I don't see why lack of evidence that they are actually doing it should be a reason not to have the preliminary injunction. If they are banned from doing something they aren't doing anyway, it doesn't affect them in any way.

  13. Re:No, Nothing To Do With The Sun on FBI Executes Nationwide Raid of Anonymous Members · · Score: 1

    In the UK, the police wait nearby and move in to conduct the raid while they are in the middle of the act, so they have evidence it was them, and not a trojan or an insecure wifi router that did it; so it is quite possible that thesun.co.uk exploit was the trigger for them to move in on their pre-planned raid.

  14. Re:breach on EU Considers Strict Data Breach Notification Rules · · Score: 3, Informative

    Certainly in the UK, the government has had to notify data breaches in the past. The Department of Work and Pensions is one recent example.

    People doing business in the EU have to either store data in the EU, or store it under "safe harbour" provisions which guarantee the same standards as in the EU.

    So boxes 1 and 2 are already ticked.

  15. Re:Surprising? on Apple Hopes To Drop Samsung As Chip Supplier · · Score: 1

    You don't have to comply with any regulations to list on the Pink Sheet market. Even SCO Group is able to list on there. If you are listed on NYSE or Nasdaq then of course it is a completely different matter.

  16. Re:Surprising? on Apple Hopes To Drop Samsung As Chip Supplier · · Score: 1

    Samsung are a Korean company with a secondary listing on the Pink Sheet Market, so I don't really think they are affected by Sarbanes Oxley.

  17. Re:Good luck with that on Apple Hopes To Drop Samsung As Chip Supplier · · Score: 1

    When I take my Samsung Galaxy S out of my pocket, a lot of people seem to think it is an iPhone.

  18. Re:Question about GPS on Sub-Centimeter Positioning Coming To Mobile Phones · · Score: 1

    The other thing is that The Americas and Europe are moving apart at about 2.5cm per year, so even if you have the precise location in relation to the satellite, the fact that the ground is moving limits how accurately you can determine whereabouts in for example New York is exactly underneath it.

    On the other hand the most accurate version of GPS is able to land a plane without looking out the window, and that requires an accuracy of a bit better than 5 meters to hit the runway.

  19. Re:The carriers are confused too! on 34% of iPhone Owners Think the 4 Is 4G · · Score: 1

    2G is GSM[1]. GPRS came out a bit later and is sometimes called 2.5G. EDGE came out some time after that, and in the UK at least, at the same time as the original iPhone, and sometime after 3G, and is sometimes called 2.75G.

    [1] 2G can also be CDMA and other competing technologies.

  20. Re:Owning? Yes. Leasing? No. on Texas and Taxes: Is a Server a Business Presence? · · Score: 1

    The hosting provider has a business presence in the state and has to pay taxes. You don't.

  21. Re:Nothing to do with DMCA on Can a Monkey Get a Copyright & Issue a Takedown? · · Score: 2

    A British citizen is entitled to claim copyright in the US just like everyone else, and if their copyright is infringed, they can take action in the US courts. So yes, the Daily Wail is entitled to serve a DMCA takedown notice to someone who infringes their copyright in the US.

  22. Re:Ban is not the answer on Congress Voting To Repeal Incandescent Bulb Ban · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. It just means you need to replace them with halogen bulbs.

  23. Re:Good Riddens on Congress Voting To Repeal Incandescent Bulb Ban · · Score: 1

    That's what they have done, so you will still be able to buy halogen bulbs.

  24. Re:CFL are no savings on Congress Voting To Repeal Incandescent Bulb Ban · · Score: 1

    there is about 3 -5 mg of Mercury in a CFL bulb. Take about 1000 bulbs and you will have enough mercury for a dental filling.

  25. Re:farking bastiges! on Assange Back In Court For Sex Crimes Appeal · · Score: 1

    Yes