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  1. Re:Everyone knows it takes until at least version on Linus Renames 2.6.40 Kernel To Linux 3.0, Announces Release Candidate · · Score: 1

    And to be really confusing, Windows 7 is actually Windows 6.1, or saying as there was never an NT1 or NT2, it is probably actually Windows 4.1.

  2. Re:It's CO2, not gigawatts on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's easy. Just mail everyone in the country 100 CFL lightbulbs every day, or whatever the latest scam is. I think it is paying people to destroy refrigeration gasses, and they make them specially so that they can be destroyed for carbon credits.

  3. Re:California company obeys California court order on Twitter Reveals User Details In UK Libel Case · · Score: 1

    South Tyneside Council has nothing to do with Ryan Giggs as far as I'm aware.

  4. Re:California company obeys California court order on Twitter Reveals User Details In UK Libel Case · · Score: 1

    It is a civil case, so the police will not be involved, but even if they were, they could only trace future posts as the IP data would only tell them that the person was posting from somewhere in the Tyneside area. That doesn't really narrow things down any, because very few people outside of South Tyneside are going to care what these officials are up to.

  5. Re:California company obeys California court order on Twitter Reveals User Details In UK Libel Case · · Score: 2

    This case isn't about Ryan Giggs. It is about some officials at South Tyneside Council who deny allegations of ballot rigging, drug taking and expenses fraud.

  6. Re:California company obeys California court order on Twitter Reveals User Details In UK Libel Case · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well it is English people using the Californian court system to sue English people.
    Now they have the information they requested from Twitter, they will go back to England and take a similar action against the ISP. Then they will commence libel proceedings against the Twitter account holder; but if the tweets came from a cellphone connection - and twitter has a higher than average proportion of its visits from cellphones, the telco will only be able to say approximately which county the tweet came from, as lots of users share the same public IP address behind a NAT connection. For everyone else, there is the insecure Wifi defence.

  7. Re:UK citizens are such pansies on Twitter Reveals User Details In UK Libel Case · · Score: 2

    England is the go-to country for defamation lawsuits. Scottish courts are nowhere near as generous with their damage awards.

  8. Re:Take it to court on NYSE Sends Cease and Desist Letter To News Organization · · Score: 1

    Neither are trying to be a stock exchange, and neither are claiming to be in any way related to NYSE, so there is no trademark violation.

  9. Re:absurd on NYSE Sends Cease and Desist Letter To News Organization · · Score: 1

    I don't think Andy Warhol required any permission for his paintings of Campbell's Condensed Tomato Soup, nor did Banksy for is painting of Tesco Value soup.

  10. Re:There may be something they don't want you to s on NYSE Sends Cease and Desist Letter To News Organization · · Score: 1

    Well the actual active floor of the NYSE these days is a computer data centre with lots of air conditioning tubes, cables, blinkenlights and so on. The real activity takes place on bank trading floors. They put their trades on their computers, and they go to the NYSE computer for processing.e

  11. Re:my workaround on NYSE Sends Cease and Desist Letter To News Organization · · Score: 1

    Slashdot doesn't let me do big ascii art diagrams, but something that slopes up then drops down to the floor suddenly like /| would be the best indication.

  12. Re:Take it to court on NYSE Sends Cease and Desist Letter To News Organization · · Score: 1

    Claiming a trademark on it is perfectly fine. It means that Nasdaq and the London Stock Exchange can't use the photo in any of their promotional materials. Newspapers quite often print trademarks when publishing stories about the trademark owner. That is a perfectly legitimate use of a trademark. Nobody is going to pick the Washington Post and mistake it for the New York Stock Exchange.

  13. Re:wrong name on Twitter Prepared To Name Users · · Score: 1

    No, but if you were to mention his alleged relationship with a Big Brother actress, or the alleged existence of such an injunction, that would, in the event that such an injunction were to exist, be in breach of it.

  14. Re:Maybe but that isn't the point on Can Egypt's Telecom Giants Be Sued In the US? · · Score: 1

    I agree about it being the wrong jurisdiction, however Verizon shares are quoted on the New York Stock Exchange, and there will be lots of small shareholders having their shares as part of asset recovery orders all the time. All it means for Verizon is a new entry in the shareholders register and they have to send their dividend checks to a different person.

    What happens is, whoever sued Vodafone would, if they won the case, be awarded a sum of money. I don't have an opinion on whether they would win the case or not. If Vodafone didn't pay up, then they could get an asset recovery order. If they went for the Verizon shares, they would be given them, and could either keep or sell them on the stock exchange as they wish.

  15. Re:Maybe but that isn't the point on Can Egypt's Telecom Giants Be Sued In the US? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but Vodafone's Verizon shares could be seized without impacting Verizon itself.

  16. Re:Shut up with the bitcoin stories on Increased Power Usage Leads to Mistaken Pot Busts for Bitcoin Miners · · Score: 1

    I've seen photos of similar houses in England. They don't need to be completely demolished, but do need to be stripped to the outside walls and re-built inside. As American houses tend to be built to the same standards as English garden sheds, I could well imagine that it is cheaper to demolish the whole thing and start again.

  17. Re:Maybe but that isn't the point on Can Egypt's Telecom Giants Be Sued In the US? · · Score: 4, Informative

    One of the companies is Vodafone, who own 45% of Verizon, so there are plenty of US assets to get hold of.

  18. Re:Where is this going to end on Tweeter To Be Prosecuted, Twitter Now Censoring? · · Score: 1

    Reporting proceedings in parliament however is exempt from all these things, so I can report that John Hemming, MP for Birmingham Yardley, reported in parliament that the footballer in question is Ryan Giggs.

  19. Re:Where is this going to end on Tweeter To Be Prosecuted, Twitter Now Censoring? · · Score: 1

    The public interest defence is in addition to the defence of truth. That is the reason Simon Singh was acquitted of libel against the British Chiropractic Association for saying that Chiropractic doesn't cure asthma. It is in the public interest to have an open scientific debate, and scientific debate shouldn't be settled in the court room.

    Truth is not a defence against a breach of privacy claim, but that is completely different to libel.

  20. Re:Where is this going to end on Tweeter To Be Prosecuted, Twitter Now Censoring? · · Score: 2

    It is, but the burden of proof is on the person making the statement to prove that it is true.

  21. Re:Where is this going to end on Tweeter To Be Prosecuted, Twitter Now Censoring? · · Score: 2

    The European Convention on Human Rights has the right to privacy at No. 8, and the right to freedom of speech at No. 10.

    Human rights are not an absolute thing, one right contradicts another, and you have to find a balance. He we have decided that the right to privacy and the right to protect your reputation against untrue statements is more important that the right to free speech.

  22. Re:Slashdot is not UK based on Tweeter To Be Prosecuted, Twitter Now Censoring? · · Score: 1

    He says it in the print edition of the paper, only available in Scotland; not on the web edition which is also available in England where the court order was made.

  23. Re:Sounds like someone 'famous' is out of cash on Twitter Sued By British Soccer Player · · Score: 1

    No, but you can get injunctions against untrue statements.
    From my brief perusal of Twitter, either every premier league footballer is having it off with every female celebrity in the country, or the majority of the claims are false.

  24. Re:Sounds like someone 'famous' is out of cash on Twitter Sued By British Soccer Player · · Score: 1

    Why on earth would it be thrown out?

    Step 1 - get a Norwich Pharmcal order against Twitter
    Step 2 - get a Norwich Pharmcal order against The ISP identified in Step 1
    Step 3 - either contempt of court proceedings or libel proceedings, or both, against the person identified in Step 2
    Step 4 - profit

    Note there are no question marks anywhere.

  25. Re:Install a firewall on Ask Slashdot: Android Security Practices? · · Score: 1

    The phone hacking scandal employed default password vulnerability on people's voicemail boxes. That was server side. The default pin to access your voicemail is 0000 and most people don't change it. I disabled my voicemail many years ago.