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  1. Re:meet the new Bus, same as the old bus on 'Pop-Up' Bus Service Learns Boston Riders' Rhythms, Creates Routes Accordingly · · Score: 1

    But does this bus go where you want it to go, or would you need to take the bus to the central bus station, and another one back out in almost the same direction to a stop not particularly far away from you?

  2. Re:All I'll say... on Thousands of Europeans Petition For Their 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    In the UK, the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act means that past offences get wiped from your record after a certain period of time depending on the nature of the offence. In some cases, it is never wiped from your record.

  3. Re:As someone who... on Google To Close Its American Moto X Factory · · Score: 1

    The two launch markets for the MotoE were the UK and India. That appears to be where they are most popular, not USA.

  4. Re:A very useful payment system ... on Sifting Mt. Gox's Logs Reveals Suspicious Trading Patterns · · Score: 1

    Well no end user deals with Visa directly. You have to go through an intermediary, usually a bank, and Paypal is one of the intermediaries you can use.

  5. Re:Gox used margin trading & fractional reserv on Sifting Mt. Gox's Logs Reveals Suspicious Trading Patterns · · Score: 1

    People deposited fiat money with MT Gox in exchange for Bitcoins, however MT Gox did not have enough Bitcoins in stock to give them out to all the people that bought them, so the Bitcoin denominated account balances at MT Gox were liabilities with limited assets to back them. They relied on the fact that most people would not withdraw their Bitcoins, therefore it was a fractional reserve system.

  6. Re:Gox used margin trading & fractional reserv on Sifting Mt. Gox's Logs Reveals Suspicious Trading Patterns · · Score: 2

    The difference between banks and MTGox is that while banks also use fraction reserve, the full liabilities are backed by assets in the form of loans they have handed out, and security on the assets of the borrowers such as property. At the time of the financial crisis, those assets and collateral were not sufficient to cover the fractional reserve liabilities, but at least they had something, unlike MTGox which had nothing to back the fractional reserve liabilities.

  7. Re:well IMO on Sifting Mt. Gox's Logs Reveals Suspicious Trading Patterns · · Score: 1

    Governments do generally recognise that you can steal things other than legit currency.

  8. Re:A very useful payment system ... on Sifting Mt. Gox's Logs Reveals Suspicious Trading Patterns · · Score: 1

    The problem is that you still need PayPal or a similar system (such as BACS, SWIFT, Visa etc) to get your fiat money to the exchange.

  9. Re:Can't turn them off? on London Police To Wear Video Cameras In Pilot Project · · Score: 1

    No, the police can do a "stop and search", and arrest if they find something.

  10. Re:Can't turn them off? on London Police To Wear Video Cameras In Pilot Project · · Score: 1

    A helmet cam would only show footage of the cubicle door, Not particularly interesting.

  11. Re:now I never looked into it on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 1

    My water bills tell me I use about 47 cubic meters (approx 61 cubic yards) of water per year, so a cubic yard would last me about 6 days.

  12. Re:And with that yoiu get POWER! on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 2

    Desalination is usually done by reverse osmosis. You need a pump of some description to do that. A solar array could provide the electricity to run the pump or power some sort of steam engine.

  13. Re:Premature much on Consumers Not Impressed With 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    I have a 9 year old Canon IP8500 on my desk for photo printing. Everyone is really impressed by the quality of the photos it produces, and I realised last year after replacing its worn-out printer head that it is getting pretty elderly.

    The thing is, printers haven't really improved in the last 10 years. They now have ethernet and wireless/airprint as standard whereas my museum piece has USB only. But they a lot cheaper, a generally worse quality. If I had to replace my printer with something the same quality, I would have to get an A3 printer, which wouldn't fit on the available space on my desk.

    The cost of consumables for my printer works out about the same as taking the photos to Snappy Snaps for printing, and the resulting quality is about the same, but I much prefer a trip to the paper drawer 4 meters away to a trip to Snappy Snaps in town during opening hours whenever I want to print photos.

  14. Re:Ummm... on Investors Value Yahoo's Core Business At Less Than $0 · · Score: 1

    The Yahoo services I still use are uk.finance.yahoo.com; and sometimes the equivalents from other countries. It hasn't changed, and that's a good thing.

    Also the Yahoo Weather app on my phone. It has changed, in a good way.

  15. Re:Ummm... on Investors Value Yahoo's Core Business At Less Than $0 · · Score: 1

    I don't know why you would want to add 9 + 40 to get the value of Core Yahoo.

    Yahoo Inc (value $a) owns Core Yahoo, of unknown value $b, plus shares in YJHI (c%) and YAHI (d%).

    To get the value of Core Yahoo b, you take a - ((9 * c/100) + (40 * d/100)) to get the result.

  16. Re:Maybe Alaska will be interested... on Tesla: A Carmaker Or Grid-Storage Company? · · Score: 1

    With a car battery, or a laptop / phone battery, you care about kWh per cubic cm. With a grid storage battery, the amount of space it takes up isn't that much of an issue, but you do care about about how much of the kWh you put into the battery you get back out, and how much it costs per kWh of storage.

  17. Re:... really 13 years to update? on UK Government Pays Microsoft £5.5M For Extended Support of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    How much of a security risk is this lab microscope? Yes the lab tech will email the images to the doctor responsible for the case, or copy them onto a shared network drive, so there is some outside connection, but the risk can be managed.

  18. Re:Big Ugly Dishes on Ask Slashdot: Experiences With Free To Air Satellite TV? · · Score: 2

    FreeSat in the UK uses DVB-S and DBV-S2 for some (most, possibly all?) HD channels. I believe the pay service from Sky uses the same system as it is possible for a free channel to broadcast to both from the same channel, they just need to transmit two sets of EPG data.

  19. Re:It's not just about the latest technology on Apple Patent Could Herald Interchangeable iPhone Camera Lenses · · Score: 1

    The good thing about my phone camera is that it takes OK photos and it is in my pocket, where as my Canon SLR which takes amazing photos, tends to be in my camera bag at home.

  20. Re:WOW!!! Way to much time on their hands! on Introducing a Calendar System For the Information Age · · Score: 2

    The birth of Jesus is "year one", not "year zero". We go from 1BC (or BCE if you prefer) to 1AD (or CE) with no year zero.

    We do know for a fact that we got year one wrong in our calculations. The Bible says Jesus was born during the reign of King Herod, and King Herod died in 4BC.

  21. Re:Um no on Introducing a Calendar System For the Information Age · · Score: 1

    All the calendars I've looked at seem to agree that there should be 12 months in a year of approximately equal length, and apart from the Muslim calendar, a year is approximately the length of time it takes for the earth to rotate around the sun and the Muslim calendar is only about 11 days shorter than that.

  22. Re:Nope on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Camera Device For Use In a Small Bus? · · Score: 1

    Most (but not all) cameras can't see infrared either.

  23. Re:Probably the home router... on Whatever Happened To the IPv4 Address Crisis? · · Score: 1

    It is most likely to happen if you change ISP, or your ISP is taken over by another company that already serves your area. For example, my ISP Telefonica O2 has been taken over by Rupert Murdoch's Sky. At some point in the next couple of months, I will be moved over from the O2 network to the Sky network, and get a different static IPV4 address.

  24. Re:Skim software on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Yes you can, but you still need the actual chip in the machine for it to work. What they do is get the card details and the pin, then create a mag strip card with those details and use it in an American ATM to draw cash.

  25. Re:It's about time. on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    If you accept card payments via Paypal for example, the fees are 3.4% for cardholder not present transactions and 2.75% for chip & pin transactions.