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  1. Re:Basically on Skype Founders File Copyright Suit Against eBay · · Score: 1

    Maybe by going to www.skype.com and downloading something?

  2. Re:If Microsoft wants to get more respect on The Credibility Issues of MS's CodePlex Foundation · · Score: 0

    They are entirely founded. Microsoft is a public corporation which is required to make money for its shareholders. It doesn't say anything about doing anything to benefit the common good, though it is allowed if the shareholders also benefit financially.

  3. Re:So essentially they want people to pay on ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song Samples · · Score: 1

    If you switch to your mac, it reformats your ipod/iphone to hfs format from fat format. You should back up your itunes library on your pc, restore it on your mac, and then sync it with your mac.

  4. Re:We need someone to take them on on In Britain, Better Not Call It Bogus Science · · Score: 1

    And it is the European Court of Human Rights which is run by the Council of Europe, an entirely separate institution to the EU, and includes countries which are not members of the EU, such as Russia.

  5. Re:We need someone to take them on on In Britain, Better Not Call It Bogus Science · · Score: 1

    That was for not getting legal aid to defend themselves. That violated their right to a fair trial, and their right to free speech, because fear of expensive libel trials would discourage people from participating in debates on such issues.

  6. We need someone to take them on on In Britain, Better Not Call It Bogus Science · · Score: 3, Interesting

    McDonalds used to sue people who claimed that their food wasn't very healthy, until the McLibel two took them one, and won on most of the points. McDonalds won on a few minor points but decided not to enforce the judgement as that would just give them even worse publicity.

  7. Iridium? on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Very slow and very expensive, but as they have lots of satellites in polar orbit, you just need a clear view of the sky. Maybe use it only where you can't get a cellphone connection.

  8. Re:ROI on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 1

    Does your laptop have a separate numeric keypad? If not, you probably hardly ever use the numlock, so it won't fade so quickly.

  9. Re:ROI on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 1

    I guess mercury pollution is preferable to arsenic pollution.

  10. Re:ROI on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 1

    The issue with LED bulbs is that they fade when they get older.

    Look at the LEDs on your keyboard. If you are like most people with a desktop machine, the num lock is on all the time, and you never use the scroll lock. Even after a year, the scroll lock light will be about twice as bright as the num lock light.

  11. Re:ROI on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 1

    Don't use the cheap rubbish your electricity company sent you. Get some decent ones, and you will find they light up a lot quicker.

  12. Re:does CLR kill it? on Taking Showers Can Be Harmful To Your Health · · Score: 0, Redundant

    He's on Slashdot, so probably neither.

  13. Re:GREED on Insurance Won't Cover Smartphones, When Pricey Alternatives Exist · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How many $300 iphones would need to break before it became more expensive than an $8000 text to speech device? And I'm pretty sure a $200 ipod touch would do the job just as well.

  14. Re:Upgrade or Else on Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The XP virtual machine is not accessible from outside as it talks via a NAT router. Any attack would need to come from the Windows 7 host machine, but if that was pwned, there are many other ways to attack the XP virtual machine.

  15. Re:What is secure about signatures? on New Standard For EU-Compliant Electronic Signatures · · Score: 1

    Britain follows the you can invoice by plain text if you like approach. Dead tree invoices don't need to be signed either, and they usually are not.

  16. Re:It's Just Form on Is City-Wide Wi-Fi a Dead Idea? · · Score: 1

    But that gives you about a 50 meter range at best. You would need hundreds of these to cover even a small town.

  17. Re:4G? WTF? on Is City-Wide Wi-Fi a Dead Idea? · · Score: 1

    I have nine wifi networks within range of me, and they are all secured in some way or another. It may only be WEP, but that is enough to definitely make it illegal. All the wifi routers the ISPs send out are secured by default now.

  18. Re:4G? WTF? on Is City-Wide Wi-Fi a Dead Idea? · · Score: 1

    Underground railways - called "Subways" in America and Scotland. Only the one in Newcastle has cellphone coverage of the ones I know about.

  19. Re:4G? WTF? on Is City-Wide Wi-Fi a Dead Idea? · · Score: 1

    I pay £7.34 per month for unlimited data on my 3G cellphone. That is much better for me than trying to find a wifi hotspot and log into it.

  20. Re:I hope the Music industry pays the connection c on Japan's Cell Phones May Get DRM, At Music Industry Behest · · Score: 1

    You say he is the Japanese Prime Minister, even though Prime Minister might not be his actual title.

  21. Re:I hope the Music industry pays the connection c on Japan's Cell Phones May Get DRM, At Music Industry Behest · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you are translating into English, you use an English word your readers will understand. Slashdot readers understand what the RIAA is even if they live in England and answer to the MCPA. Most slashdot readers won't understand what some Japanese acronym is, or even recognise MCPA.

  22. Re:Such as? on Incorporating Human Behavior Into Wall Street Mathematical Models · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, but I'm pretty sure there was no government intervention involved in the tulip bubble for example.

  23. Re:Such as? on Incorporating Human Behavior Into Wall Street Mathematical Models · · Score: 1

    The Federal Reserve played a part, but it only has about $2tn in Assets. The Royal Bank of Scotland is about double that.

    The problem was, Americans send some green bits of paper with pictures of former presidents to China, Saudi Arabia etc. In return they send their oil and manufactured goods. Having no particular use for the green bits of paper, they lend them back to America, and they use them to buy yet more oil and manufactured goods, and so the cycle continues.

    Federal Reserve credit is much cheaper now than it was in 2007, and it isn't really helping, or rather it probably is, but it isn't anything like enough.

  24. Re:NO! Not again! on Incorporating Human Behavior Into Wall Street Mathematical Models · · Score: 1

    It mentions Keydata Investments in England, but doesn't mention that they were shut down for tax evasion, and subsequently it has been discovered a lot of investors' money has been lost in fraud as well.

  25. Re:Such as? on Incorporating Human Behavior Into Wall Street Mathematical Models · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure. We had a real estate bubble, the 2nd most recent in a long sucession of bubbles. Bubbles happen when people are behaving irrationally, and they burst when people start being rational again.