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  1. Re:Do they still use geostationary satellites? on SatPhones — Why Can't They Make It Work? · · Score: 1

    Inmarsat does. The preferred configuration of it is to put a receiver on the roof and use it inside like a landline. Very useful if you live or work somewhere where there is no other option, but if there is another option, you are going to use that instead of a sat phone.

  2. Re:"The cloud you can depend on" on Amazon Says Hardware, Not Hackers, Caused Outage · · Score: 1

    So the likes of amazon.co.uk and amazon.fr are not showcases for their flagship technology then?

  3. Re:The answer is: "No way, that's stupid." on Canadian Supreme Court To Decide If Linking Is Publishing · · Score: 1

    If I call the police and "link" them to the address of a burglary in progress, am I committing burglary?

    No, you are telling them that a burglary is taking place. With libel, it is the act of telling someone something (that is untrue and damaging to their reputation) that is the offence. So I can see how linking to a libelous statement made by someone else could be the same as making the statement yourself. You are bringing the statement to the attention of a wider audience.

  4. Re:Apt Analogies on Canadian Supreme Court To Decide If Linking Is Publishing · · Score: 1

    Saying that Cowboy Neal eats babies for breakfast is clearly libelous. Is pointing someone in the direction of such a statement made by someone else libelous? I think it could be.

  5. Re:Nobody should own more than /24 on Protect Your Pre-1997 IP Address · · Score: 1

    He means people like the Ford Motor Company. They should be getting a handful of IP addresses from their ISPs at their various sites around the world, not an entire /8.

  6. Re:Why so much regulation? on Protect Your Pre-1997 IP Address · · Score: 1

    But then you will have speculators holding onto IP addresses just to make money out of them and not actually using them. This could easily be the next speculative bubble.

  7. Re:Seriously? on Protect Your Pre-1997 IP Address · · Score: 1

    If the IPv6 enabled model costs more, how do you get that past your resident bean counter, given that currently the IPv4 only model will perform exactly the same task in exactly the same way as the IPv6 model.

  8. Re:Seriously? on Protect Your Pre-1997 IP Address · · Score: 1

    My desktops and laptops certainly support IPV6, and most of my servers do. However, I'm pretty sure my printer and my scanner don't. A lot of mobile devices don't - eg Android and IOS v 4, and very few routers do, certainly if you are talking about consumer grade routers.

  9. Re:how long before they force you in to arbitratio on UK Copyright Blackmailers Rebuked By Court · · Score: 1

    No, because in England, you can't agree to exclude the jurisdiction of the court.

  10. Re:Can't wait for the same on supercaps on Video Shows Why Recharging Kills Batteries · · Score: 1

    No it wouldn't, because you would have bank-made paper energy caused by the credit multiplier effect, just like you do with money at the moment.

  11. Re:Assange gets arrested. on OpenLeaks — 'A New WikiLeaks' · · Score: 1

    Except that of course these days there isn't much practical difference between a newspaper such as www.guardian.co.uk and a news channel such as news.bbc.co.uk . Offline, obviously the Guardian prints stories on bits of chopped up dead trees and couriers them out to newsagents, whereas the BBC broadcasts them on to peoples' television sets, but in the online world, they both do much the same thing - upload text and pictures onto a website as the news comes in, supported by some videos and podcasts.

  12. Re:common good on EC Calls For End To Mobile Roaming Charges · · Score: 2

    Looking at the big operators in the UK -

    Telefonica also has networks in Ireland, Isle of Man, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy and Spain

    Everything Everywhere (Orange / T-Mobile) also has networks in Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Armenia, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Moldova, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Switzerland)

    Vodafone also has networks in Albania, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Nothern Cyprus, Portugal, Romania, Spain, France, Poland and Slovenia

    Three also has networks in Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland and Italy.

    In each case, they charge their sister companies more for roaming fees than they charge their own customers for using the network.

  13. Re:This isn't an end to the cases on UK Copyright Blackmailers Rebuked By Court · · Score: 4, Informative

    The judge did insist that the claimant be the copyright holder and the defendant be someone actually involved in the alleged infringement rather than someone who just sat back and let the infringement take place. That could make things a bit difficult for ACS:Law.

  14. Re:No, here's why on WikiLeaks Took Advice From Media Outlets · · Score: 1

    A lot of the stuff will be boring mundane stuff that is either already public knowledge, or it is already public knowledge that things like that exist; like for example, discussions about the most appropriate way to help a country following a natural disaster.

  15. Re:Good idea on Bill Calls For Wi-Fi Base Stations In All Federal Buildings · · Score: 1

    Depends on the land law in your particular juristiction. In England, the Queen owns all the land and you are granted a licence to occupy it in perpetuity. In Scotland, you own it. Although in reality it makes no practical difference either way.

    I have to pay property tax in England even though I rent the place. My landlord doesn't have to pay property tax on it, because he has rented it out to me. The tax is payable for the benefit I receive from local services provided by the council, not "rent" for "ownership privilege". The government has the right to seize possessions and sell them to collect unpaid tax, and that includes real estate if you own any. That is just a debt enforcement mechanism, not a sign that they "really own it".

  16. Re:Use Thunderbird on Web Bugs the New Norm For Businesses? · · Score: 1

    Outlook 2003 and later certainly don't load images by default.

  17. Re:Bush was right after all on Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet · · Score: 1

    Somali pirates attack container ships off the East coast of Africa. They do it for financial rather than political reasons which is why they are called pirates and not terrorists, but nevertheless it does happen.

  18. Re:Well, we've finished with the hard part on Sahara Solar To Power Half the World By 2050 · · Score: 1

    You share power in the same way that you share oil and gas, by selling it to the highest bidder.

  19. Re:Computer expert? on Wikileaks DDoS Attacker Arrested, Equipment Seized · · Score: 1

    That happens if it was modded "under-rated"

    If someone mods it "Troll", and 4 people mod it "under-rated", you could end up with "Score: 5, Troll")

  20. Re:Not the format on Aussie Government Gives PDF the Thumbs Down · · Score: 1

    Yes. It costs money, whereas their photocopier already has a scan to pdf facility.

  21. Re:for example ranking top 10 songs on Google Faces EU Probe Over Doped Search Results · · Score: 1

    No. I have my own listing of lists of top 10 songs, and I want you to put that at no.1 rather than an actual song.

  22. Re:Relevance on Every Day's a Tax Holiday At Amazon · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are probably told to hate VAT because it was invented by France rather than because it is socialist.

  23. Re:Taxation without representation on Every Day's a Tax Holiday At Amazon · · Score: 1

    You could argue, as most of the rest of the world where there is VAT rather than sales tax, that customers pay the tax, and they have the votes. Californian companies in any case don't get votes in California or elsewhere. Combine that with tax discrimination laws so that California can't tax Californians differently from citizens of other states, and I don't see any problem.

  24. Re:A big deal on UK Police To Get Major New Powers To Seize Domains · · Score: 1

    "Thieving Gypsy Bastards" doesn't refer to a specific identifiable person, so isn't covered by libel laws. It may be covered by racial hatred laws though.

  25. Re:Just out of curiosity, on UK Police To Get Major New Powers To Seize Domains · · Score: 1

    I think you are looking for mod.uk. Nominet isn't responsible for allocating those domains. The Ministry of Defence is.