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  1. Re:WfW in VM on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    But would you be able to directly address the pins on a parallel port from a virtual machine?

  2. Re:Finally on Apple Faces Large Penalties In EU Tax Probe · · Score: 1

    You can read it in more detail here - http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

  3. Re:Finally on Apple Faces Large Penalties In EU Tax Probe · · Score: 1

    And that factory isn't where they are saving the money.

    They have a company called Apple Operations International. It is registered in Ireland, and all the staff that work for that company are based in Texas. Under Irish law, the company does not pay any tax because it doesn't do any business or employ any people in Ireland. Under US Federal and Texas State law, it doesn't pay any tax in the US or Texas because the company is registered in Ireland. That company makes a huge amount of money, two thirds of all the profits the Apple Group makes, and doesn't pay tax on it anywhere in the world. Not the very low 12.5% Irish tax rate, not a specially reduced rate. Absolutely no tax whatsoever.

  4. Re:Finally on Apple Faces Large Penalties In EU Tax Probe · · Score: 1

    Ireland doesn't actually get that many employees out of these deals, maybe one person to sign official documents, and another person to answer the phone / email and open the mail.

  5. Re:Finally on Apple Faces Large Penalties In EU Tax Probe · · Score: 1

    The legal basis is EU State Aid regulations, which prevent governments doing this sort of thing without permission from the EU.

  6. Re:more direct connection to producers on Why a Chinese Company Is the Biggest IPO Ever In the US · · Score: 1

    alibaba.com targets the wholesale market; but there is also aliexpress.com which is for the consumer market and you can buy items individually there.

  7. Re:Safe deposit box on Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes? · · Score: 1

    I have an HP Microserver with the Xpenology software on it. It serves as a Time Machine for the Mac, it has some iSCSI targets which are mounted on the Windows Machines as backup drives, and Synology Cloudstation serves as a DropBox like service which means that my most important documents can be synced remotely.

  8. Re:Safe deposit box on Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes? · · Score: 1

    On Windows, you want C:\Users and C:\ProgramData. ProgramData is a hidden folder.

  9. Re:NSA probably already has this technology on The Challenges and Threats of Automated Lip Reading · · Score: 1

    I spelt it out in words because I was talking about English. Obviously French is completely different.

    When saying either of those words, first the tongue moves down from the top of the mouth, then you say a vowel, and the difference between them is at the back of the mouth where you can't see. Then you have the "n" which is the same in both words.

  10. Re:NSA probably already has this technology on The Challenges and Threats of Automated Lip Reading · · Score: 2

    You can't for example tell the difference between "nine" and "ten" by lip reading, and often either could be equally likely in the context.

  11. Re:Guess I'll have to use google wallet or paypal on Amazon Is Killing Off Its Free P2P Money-Transfer Service WebPay On October 13 · · Score: 1

    Which is free in the same way that sending a Western Union transfer reference to someone is free. You still need to get the money to and from the Bitcoin exchange.

  12. Re:Can we please cann these companies what they ar on California Declares Carpooling Via Ride-Share Services Illegal · · Score: 1

    In London, they are registered with Transport for London as a minicab company. Taxi drivers are unhappy with them their because only taxi companies are allowed to have meters. Minicabs (a cheaper licence) are supposed to quote the price of the journey in advance and charge that amount regardless of how long it takes them.

    Addison Lee, the largest minicab company in London, has an app that is a bit like Uber's. However the difference is that when you enter the details of where you are, and where you want to go, it shows you the price of the journey on the screen, and if you press the "accept" button, that is what you will get charged. They generally seem to be cheaper than Uber and get you to your destination quicker.

  13. Re: Can we please cann these companies what they on California Declares Carpooling Via Ride-Share Services Illegal · · Score: 1

    Your cost in this situation is either $0 (the marginal cost of taking the friend, as you are doing the journey anyway), or $3, your friend's share of the cost.

  14. Re:Fire = Zune on Under the Apple Hype Machine, Amazon Drops Fire Phone Price To 99 Cents · · Score: 1

    More to the point, the Amazon App Store has to compete with the Google Play Store. While all the most popular apps may be on Amazon, local / niche apps generally are not, things like the apps for my local bus service, public cycle hire service, theatre group etc. They are only available on Google Play and Apple App Store. While individually these apps may only have an installed base of a few thousand, almost everyone is in the market for a similar sort of app somewhere in the world.

  15. Re:It's not apple this time! on Under the Apple Hype Machine, Amazon Drops Fire Phone Price To 99 Cents · · Score: 1

    Well Amazon are planning to sell the Fire Phone through O2 in the UK. Problem is that most people in the UK buy their phone separately from their airtime contract.

  16. Re:it was 2 years ago on Microsoft Shutting Down MSN Messenger After 15 Years of Service · · Score: 2

    It is still available in China, but not for much longer, hence the announcement.

  17. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    No, it is owned and managed by an Irish company which happens to have only one share holder which is an American company.

  18. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    The directors of Microsoft Operations Ireland Ltd are obliged to follow Irish law, not US law. The US parent company could vote them out of office at the next AGM of the Irish company, but if they were sacked for refusing to comply with Irish law, they would have a claim against the company for wrongful dismissal.

  19. Re:Got one of these once on TechCentral Scams Call Center Scammers · · Score: 1

    Windows $[4+4]

  20. Re:It's about hotel taxes on Airbnb To Hand Over Data On 124 Hosts To New York Attorney General · · Score: 1

    Provided you don't get Carbon Monoxide poisoning from a faulty heating system for example. In England, I know that if there is a problem with that, I contact the local council's Environmental Health department, not the police, if there is a problem with that. I've no idea what the rules are in other countries were I go on holiday.

  21. Re:Waaah. on New EU Rules Will Limit Vacuum Cleaners To 1600W · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because the sort of things you see on sale in Best Buy in the US are the sort of things you can only find in museums in the UK. Things like stove-top kettles and top-loading washing machines.

  22. Re:Never mind the quantity, feel the quality on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Antivirus, Exactly? · · Score: 1

    Two things, if the police catch an active criminal, it stops them from committing more crimes in the future. Secondly, people are less likely to commit crimes if they think there is a good chance they will be caught.

  23. Re:question: does IE support adblock and noscript? on Microsoft Considered Renaming Internet Explorer To Escape Its Reputation · · Score: 1

    It does support adblock. Don't know about the other things as I hardly ever use it.

  24. Re:lawful interception... on Apple Begins Storing Chinese User Data On Servers In China · · Score: 1

    If the collect payments for the service using the Chinese banking system, then the Chinese government can use their normal legal channels to get the data they want.

  25. Re:Specifically: problems with public domaining. on Larry Rosen: A Case Study In Understanding (and Enforcing) the GPL · · Score: 1

    The GPL guarantees that you have those freedoms, public domain does not.