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  1. Re:Didn't knew they even had computers on South Korea Begins To Deprecate ActiveX · · Score: 4, Informative

    South Korea is a very advanced and prosperous country, with income levels broadly similar to the European average. They most certainly have computers.

  2. Re:Good operating systems Dont. on Why We Should Stop Hiding File-Name Extensions · · Score: 1

    OSX doesn't really use file extensions. They are optional.

  3. Re:Half way there on TurboTax Halts E-filing of State Tax Returns Because of Potential Fraud · · Score: 1

    In the UK, you are required to file a return if you have more than £300 of income from offshore investments, or you have rental income. But the vast majority of people manage fine without filing a tax return.

  4. Re:Simple solution on Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today? · · Score: 1

    I use my index finger for both the left and middle buttons, and my middle finger for the right button.

  5. Re:Telegram on WhatsApp vs. WhatsApp Plus Fight Gets Ugly For Users · · Score: 1

    With Whatsapp Plus, you need to be able to trust both.

  6. Re:MINIMUM on Google Thinks the Insurance Industry May Be Ripe For Disruption · · Score: 1

    In the UK, insurance coverage has to be a minimum of about £5 million. As far as I'm aware, there have only been two cases where the judgement claim was higher than that. Both were where the driver went onto a railway line and crashed into a train.

  7. Re:Most plans wont cover that much. on Google Thinks the Insurance Industry May Be Ripe For Disruption · · Score: 1

    You get fully comprehensive insurance rather than third party insurance. Bizarrely, it is often actually cheaper to get fully comprehensive cover, and even when it does cost more, it is usually only a few pounds more.

  8. Re:MINIMUM on Google Thinks the Insurance Industry May Be Ripe For Disruption · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the insurance company will pay any judgement claim.

  9. Re:It's about cutting labor on Google Thinks the Insurance Industry May Be Ripe For Disruption · · Score: 1

    In the UK, the vast majority of insurance policies are sold through web-based comparison services, and Google is by no means the only one, or anything like the most popular one.

    We have for example comparethemarket.com , gocompare.com , moneysupermarket.com , uswitch.com , moneyfacts.co.uk and loads more of them.

  10. Re:Data about where and how people drive? on Google Thinks the Insurance Industry May Be Ripe For Disruption · · Score: 2

    Google doesn't know if I am the one doing the driving.

  11. Re:Time to abandon normal phones? on FCC May Permit Robocalls To Cell Phones -- If They Are Calling a Wrong Number · · Score: 1

    And 07624 is Isle of Man mobile (01624 is Isle of Man landline). Those calls get charged at international rates.

    It is correct to say that mobile numbers begin with 07. As you pointed out, it is not always correct to say that numbers beginning 07 are mobile numbers.

  12. Re:Time to abandon normal phones? on FCC May Permit Robocalls To Cell Phones -- If They Are Calling a Wrong Number · · Score: 1

    In other countries, it usually costs more to call a mobile than a landline, and mobiles have different area codes, for example in the UK, mobile numbers begin with 07, whereas landline numbers begin with 01 or 02. In the USA, you can't tell the difference between a mobile number and a landline number by looking at it, and the call cost is the same either way. The recipient of the call has to pay the difference.

  13. Re:Time to abandon normal phones? on FCC May Permit Robocalls To Cell Phones -- If They Are Calling a Wrong Number · · Score: 1

    The UK's equivalent is worse than useless. People who sign up to it get on average twice as many nuisance calls as people who don't sign up to it - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

  14. Re:Ada Engineer... on Which Programming Language Pays the Best? Probably Python · · Score: 1

    If it was Rupees, it would be quoted as 2.5 lakh, and tech salaries in India are a bit higher than that.

  15. Re:Zoo what? on Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her · · Score: 1

    A dating site where the majority of the women on there are not even looking for someone. What use is that to anyone?

  16. Re:It's the OS, Stupid on Apple's Next Hit Could Be a Microsoft Surface Pro Clone · · Score: 1

    You can get a Thunderbolt / Ethernet adapter for the MacBook Air. The problem with an ethernet jack is that the Air is too thin for it.

  17. Re:Subway trains? on London Unveils New Driverless Subway Trains · · Score: 1

    Or Glaswegians. The underground line in Glasgow is called the Subway.

  18. Re:I've been wondering why this took so long on London Unveils New Driverless Subway Trains · · Score: 1

    Start with the Victoria Line. The trains there could be converted to driver-less operation within a week. Trackside barriers are a red herring. If someone jumps onto the track, there is nothing the driver can do about it anyway.

  19. Re:Well... on London Unveils New Driverless Subway Trains · · Score: 1

    There are a lot more than 8.3 million people during the day time when people travel in from other parts of South East England for work and shopping.

  20. Re:I'm sorry... on Only Two States Have Rules To Prevent Cheating On Computerized Tests · · Score: 1

    We need to have the government regulating school tests so that they are a consistent standard, and people can rely on them as a measure of the student's ability.

  21. Re:Wondering why it took so long... on A Garbage Truck That Would Make Elon Musk Proud · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of hybrid buses in use, not as a trial, in Reading, England - http://www.reading-buses.co.uk... . They currently run on three of the routes, 17, 21 and 26.

  22. Re:Low hanging fruit on A Garbage Truck That Would Make Elon Musk Proud · · Score: 1

    Except that if there is a major incident near one fire station, all the fire engines from that station will go to that fire, and at the same time, some fire engines from other stations will go to that station to provide cover for any other incidents that take place at the same time.

  23. Re:Get an Arduino MCU on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    Well you can get computers that can take parallel ports, and run Windows 8.1. Maybe not at Staples, but they do exist. I'm using one at the moment, which I got from John Lewis. I upgraded it to Windows 7, but it did have Windows 8 when it came out of the box.

  24. Re:Get an Arduino MCU on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    You can get PCIe / Parallel Port expansion boards.

  25. Re:Every new employee on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    My office could have X11/Linux on the desktop, given that the only application that we run on the desktop is Windows Remote Desktop.