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  1. Re:Oldest Profession on Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't that the 14th of February?

  2. Re:At least... on Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day · · Score: 1

    The English for starters. OK Guy Fawkes day isn't actually a holiday, but we do observe it. Although I suppose what we are celebrating is the fact that the attack failed.

  3. Re:ext3 on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 1

    I'm an accountant, and until Sage http://www.sage.co.uk/ start supplying software that works on Ubuntu, I need to have Windows somewhere on my computer. It is in a Parallels virtual machine at the moment.

  4. Re:ext3 on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 1

    Which means you need to use either FAT, which I don't trust for large filesystems, or NTFS, and I'm not sure to what extent I trust the NTFS3G drivers.

  5. Re:CC # Worth? on How Much Is Your Online Identity Worth? · · Score: 1

    UK employers very rarely do credit checks, and if they do, it would be a UK credit check which would show no history. The credit agencies in the UK don't give you scores, they just give you data which you can use to create your own score.

  6. Re:Yes, if latency is not a factor on Pigeon Turns Out To Be Faster Than S. African Net · · Score: 1

    They generally use motorbike couriers for that sort of thing. They can carry about 10TB or so of data. Time taken depends on traffic and distance.

  7. Re:The whole thing is ridiculous... on How Wired's Hiding Writer Was Found · · Score: 1

    It's not, because people on the run often do try to get information about who is tracking them down.

  8. Re:Explain this to me on Microsoft Letting Patents Move To Linux Firms · · Score: 1

    If you apt-get install something, it will most likely pull down a load of dependencies. If you then apt-get remove it, it might not always remove those dependencies - as you may need them for something else.

    Of course it is still much cleaner than having all the dependencies inside your .msi package, and Revo possibly breaking something else when it removes it.

  9. Re:Explain this to me on Microsoft Letting Patents Move To Linux Firms · · Score: 1

    If you are arguing about whether cash in the bank exists or not, this is Parmalat accounting, not Enron accounting - ie showing forged bank statements to the auditors. I am pretty sure that wasn't happening, and apart from the possibility of forged bank statements, cash generally isn't something you can argue with.

  10. Re:German Tmobile and "France" Tcom? on In the UK, T-Mobile and Orange To Merge · · Score: 3, Interesting

    and T-Mobile owns 93% of Era which is the third largest operator in Poland.

  11. Re:Monopoly? on In the UK, T-Mobile and Orange To Merge · · Score: 3, Informative

    There aren't going to be any more spectrum auctions for a while. Three got in by bidding in the last auction, and they aren't exactly that new to the market. Hutchison Wampoa, the Chinese company that owns Three was the original owner of Orange.

  12. Re:Monopoly? on In the UK, T-Mobile and Orange To Merge · · Score: 1

    The only other major one I know of is TalkTalk, which is owned by Carphone Warehouse, and uses Vodafone's network.

  13. Re:Not a Great Analogy on China Considering Cuts In Rare-Earth Metal Exports · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or alternatively we buy our hard drives from Chinese manufacturers, which I think is what they want to happen..

  14. Re:Monopoly? on In the UK, T-Mobile and Orange To Merge · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you read the summary, it is about 37% of the market. There are more cellphones than people in the UK. Pretty much everyone has a cellphone, and a lot of people have more than one - eg work cellphone and personal cellphone.

  15. Re:Shame on you Facebook! on Trapped Girls Call For Help On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Well 0118 is the area code for Reading in England. 999 is the emergency number in Britain (along with 112 which is the EU-side emergency number), so it would probably get you through to Berkshire / Thames Valley emergency services.

  16. Re:Someone's head is going to roll...... on Thieves Clear Out NJ Apple Store In 31 Seconds · · Score: 1

    I'm typing this reply on an ex-demo MacBook from PC World. The fact that it was £150 cheaper than new ones made me less bothered about the scratches on it.

    It has a serial number on it, and I would be very surprised if Apple weren't able to trace back exactly where this machine has been from it.

  17. Re:"Perps?" on Thieves Clear Out NJ Apple Store In 31 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Or to put it another way, the people who show up in court are suspects until it is proved that they are the people in the video.

  18. Re:Amazing? on Thieves Clear Out NJ Apple Store In 31 Seconds · · Score: 1

    It looks very similar to the jewellery shop raids you see in London every other week. They are very well organised and very rarely get caught, but I guess it is easier to turn jewellery into cash than it is to turn MacBooks.

  19. Re:You're not kidding, check out CNN's take on Thieves Clear Out NJ Apple Store In 31 Seconds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And surely Apple is going to know what the serial numbers of the machines are?

  20. Re:Public domain content here. on Amazon Offers To Return Pulled Orwell Ebooks · · Score: 4, Informative

    They are public domain in Australia, but not the US. Copyright in Australia expires 50 years after the author's death, in this case 21st January 2000. In the US, it won't expire until 70 years after the author's death, which is 21st January 2020. Most likely the copyright term will have been extended again by that time, so it won't actually expire.

  21. Re:hire a lawyer IS a practicle step. on How To Survive a Patent Challenge? · · Score: 1

    Once you've got the notarized signed letter, you don't need to mail it to yourself.

  22. Re:hire a lawyer IS a practicle step. on How To Survive a Patent Challenge? · · Score: 1

    It may be $105 to file the provisional application, but it will cost about $10,000 to get a patent attorney to prepare the application for you. If you don't spend that money to get the wording right, you may as well not bother.

  23. Re:European Commission SUCKS on Slow Oracle Merger Leads To Outflow of Sun Projects, Coders · · Score: 1

    It is going to be another three months.

  24. Re:Evil. on Google Patents Its Home Page · · Score: 4, Informative

    They have a trademark as well, but if Nike were to take the design of one of the items of clothing, and replace the Adidas logo with their own, that wouldn't infringe the trademark, but it would infringe the design patent.

  25. Re:Hmm on Google Patents Its Home Page · · Score: 1

    They have their search buttons at the side of the box, not underneath.