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  1. Have a look here on Best Pre-Paid Data Plan For a Visit To Germany? · · Score: 1

    http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/germany.html

    They have details of all the networks, and links to their websites (mostly in German).

  2. Re:Go go Nanny State... on Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking · · Score: 1

    Whereas the Republicans take the complete opposite stance. You can't abort an unborn baby, that's murder. But once he's out of the womb, then all bets are off.

  3. Re:Best way to get a Nokia N900 in the USA? on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 1

    In Britain you can buy an unlocked version from the Nokia shop, and there is one in most large towns, and use it on any network. In the US, you would be able to use it on any GSM network, which I believe means T-Mobile or AT&T.

  4. Re:What's the big deal? on Apple's iPhone Developer License Agreement Revealed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can write software for Windows Mobile without any sort of developer agreement, and I can distribute .cab packages to my customers through my own store or any other store that wants my business.

  5. Re:If you post before this on 50% Efficiency Boost From New Fuel Injection System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    64 mpg isn't that amazing. My car manages about 65 miles per british gallon on diesel. 64 miles per american gallon on petrol is better than that, but within the realms of the possible.

  6. Re:Steps... on Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When I bought my first computer, I had a choice of an Intel Pentium, Intel Pentium MMX, AMD K5, Cyrix 686 and the IBM branded version of the Cyrix 686. Within each of those models, I could chose different clock speeds.

    Now, I have a choice various types of Atoms, Celerons, Pentium Dual Cores, Core IIs, Core i5s, Core i7s and Xeons, and that's just from Intel. Do we really need that many different product lines from the one company?

  7. Re:Set a budget on Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers? · · Score: 1

    But if you want hardward virtualisation, either buy AMD, or check the Intel model numbers very carefully.

  8. Re:Near Anagram for Duracell on Energizer USB Battery Charger Software Infects PCs · · Score: 1

    But then IT people generally don't install drivers for a USB battery charger.

  9. Re:This is just a reminder. on Why Broadband In North America Is Not That Slow · · Score: 1

    You don't have to set up a new company for every country in Europe either. For example, the iTunes company I buy downloads from is based in Luxembourg, and they serve the whole of Europe. They do it that way for tax reasons as Luxembourg has the cheapest sales tax (15%) for downloads. If I buy physical CDs, they are generally shipped from a Jersey company, because their sales tax for that sort of thing is 3%. Books come from the UK because their sales tax for books is 0%. Microsoft and Google have their main bases in Ireland because they offer the lowest Corporate Income Tax rate.

    With telecoms companies, your business is where your cables or radio masts are, so tax rate shopping is a bit more difficult, and it probably makes sense not to have to pay tax on the same profits in two different juristictions.

  10. Re:This is just a reminder. on Why Broadband In North America Is Not That Slow · · Score: 1

    The ex-Soviet countries drag the average down. If you look at the EU15 countries, the average is much closer to the US.

  11. Re:Cross platform? on Microsoft Demos Three Platforms Running the Same Game · · Score: 1

    There is no way you are going to run that game in Pocket IE for Windows Mobile 6.1.

  12. Re:Display models? on Some Newegg Customers Received Fake Intel Core i7s · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The display models would come in real boxes with correct spellings, possibly with some disclaimer about the parts inside not being real.

    Also the parts inside would probably be real ones that failed quality control so they would look a lot more realistic.

  13. Re:Scope on Law Prevents British Websites From Being Archived · · Score: 1

    Browser caches are permitted under the EU Copyright Directive.

  14. Re:tap-proof? on Researchers Convert Mouth Movements Into Speech · · Score: 1

    As an example, the lip movements for "nine" and "ten" are exactly the same, and it is pretty difficult to work out which one you intend to say from the context of the conversation as usually both could be equally valid.

  15. Re:News on the BBC is not free (if you live in UK) on BBC To Make Deep Cuts In Internet Services · · Score: 1

    Yes. You can get BBC Radio for free, and everything on the website except for the live video streams.

    The only thing you have to pay the licence fee for is broadcast TV including broadcast TV streamed on the internet, but you also have to pay the licence to the BBC to watch broadcast TV from anyone else, such as ITV, Channel 4, Sky etc.

  16. Re:Also America isn't a Democracy on Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn · · Score: 1

    Canada is a constitutional monarchy, which means that the Queen has very little real powers to do anything. The only time she would step in is if the elected representatives were unable to form a government.

  17. Re:It's their lawn on Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn · · Score: 1

    There was a court case about that in Mole Valley, England, yesterday, and the court said he was free to do that.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/8545119.stm

  18. Re:Everyone in Canada will end up on this list on Detecting Anonymously Registered Domains · · Score: 1

    It is the same for Nominet, the .uk registry. I believe EU law requires them to do that.

  19. Re:There is a far easier way to 'break' CAPTCHA on Scalpers Earned $25M Gaming Online Ticket Sellers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That probably works for creating hotmail accounts to send spam from, but not if you need to solve hundreds of thousands of capatchas in the space of a couple of seconds at 7am when the tickets are released for sale.

  20. Re:Electric Shock on How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages? · · Score: 1

    Just switch it off and on again. That might fix it. Or at least that's how most people try to fix a broken photocopier when it does something like that.

  21. Re:I have no problem with this at all on Schooling Microsoft On Random Browser Selection · · Score: 1

    When people get a new computer, yes. But existing users who get the browser choice update over the next month or so as they run Windows Update, only people who have Internet Explorer as their default browser see this screen.

    I've only seen it on one of my machines, a Parallels virtual machine which has IE6 as the default browser. My other machines either have Firefox as the default browser, and I got the browser choice update but nothing happened after that, or they don't run Windows.

  22. Re:I have no problem with this at all on Schooling Microsoft On Random Browser Selection · · Score: 1

    Those who prefer another browser to IE will have already installed one, and they won't see this screen.

  23. Re:do not fix! on Schooling Microsoft On Random Browser Selection · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't think it comes off worst at all. People usually look towards the right of the screen for the "go away and stop bugging me" button, and that's where Internet Explorer is 50% of the time.

    Remember that the yellow exclamation mark in the system tray telling people they need to reboot is an annoyance when they just want to get on with their work. Then when the computer finally does reboot and they really really want to start doing whatever it was they turned on the computer to do, they get this annoying thing about web browsers.

  24. Re:Sweet spot on The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work · · Score: 1

    If you have physical access to your machine, you can usually self-sign a spoof site and tell your computer to accept it as a real signature.

  25. Re:Wikipedia + google calculator on Project M Could Send Every Scientist To the Moon, By Proxy · · Score: 1

    It is certainly the case for UK cellphones, and I would imagine it is the same for any country that uses GSM networks.