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

    Risk is higher for a debit card because if it is compromised, direct debit payments for bills will bounce while you get it sorted out.

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

    Or at an ATM. It is the only time I have ever used my credit card at an ATM.

  3. Re:"Must accept harmful interference..." on L.A. Building's Lights Interfere With Cellular Network, FCC Says · · Score: 1

    Only if they are aware there is a problem. Mostly they will look, see it is lighting stuff which is legal to import, and make sure the importer has paid the appropriate import tax on it.

  4. Re:Epic-scale photovoltaic on India To Build World's Largest Solar Plant · · Score: 1

    A lot of Indian electricity is used for air conditioning, so in that respect, output from a pv solar panel will very closely match demand.

  5. Re:Relation to Debt Crisis? on EU Commission: Corruption Across EU Costs €120 Billion · · Score: 1

    And corruption in China is absolutely nothing compared to the level of corruption in India.

  6. Re:... meanwhile in USA ... on EU Commission: Corruption Across EU Costs €120 Billion · · Score: 1

    You can find out how much the campaign contributions are, but finding out how much they cost you is much more difficult. A $1m campaign contribution would normally bring more than $1m of benefits. How much more is the unknown number.

  7. Re:The real point of what Detroit has to offer... on Detroit Wants Its Own High-Tech Visa · · Score: 2

    The smart companies will move further south because Detroit is one of the few places in the US where you go south to get to Canada.

  8. Re:Radioactive paranoia on Mexico's Stolen Radiation Truck: It Could Happen In the US · · Score: 1

    And while not every hospital does cancer treatment, a lot of them do, certainly all the bigger ones unless they specialise in something else.

  9. Re:... Yes I'm looking at you Apple on South Korean Court Rules That Phone Bloatware Must Be Deletable · · Score: 1

    This law says the apps have to be deletable, not that you are not allowed to put them on in the first place. No harm in putting the Apple maps app on there for example, if you can delete it and replace it with the Google Maps one or whichever other one you prefer.

  10. Re: Murica Fuck yea! on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 1

    I think it is fair. My claim was that fuel costs about the same per mile/km in Europe as it does in the US, even though per gallon/litre, it costs a lot more.
    The majority of cars in Europe are diesel, France for example is 90% diesel, and people who drive more miles tend to choose diesel cars as the additional cost of buying the car is offset by the fuel savings; therefore a very large majority of fuel sales in Europe are for diesel. The choice of diesel is one of the reasons why miles per gallon is much higher in Europe than in the US.

  11. Re:MEGA Windows sync client on Kim Dotcom Just Launched His New Music Service With His Own Album · · Score: 1

    I have copies of my insurance certificates on Dropbox, Google Drive and Sky Drive. They are pretty important, but the NSA will already have a copy of the email the insurer sent to me enclosing them as pdf attachments, and while there is some risk that someone else could use them for a spear phishing attack on me, I figure it is less risk than the risk to me of losing them, and there is a good chance that the circumstances that could cause me to lose them might also be circumstances that cause me to have to make a claim on my insurance.

  12. Re:Murica Fuck yea! on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 1

    If I go to Volkswagen US for example, the most fuel efficient car I can find is a Golf with a fuel efficiency of 23mpg in the city, and 30 mpg on the highway - http://www.vw.com/en/models/golf/gallery.html

    At Volkswagen UK, the most fuel efficient car I can find is an Up Blue Motion with a fuel efficiency of 56.5 mpg in the city, and 78.5 mpg on the highway - http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/new/up-nf/which-model/engines/overview

    Converting the American car to British gallons gives 27.6 mpg city and 36 mpg highway

    In the city, the British car is 2.45 x more efficient, and on the highway, the British car is 2.61 x more efficient. Therefore in pence per mile, the British car is slightly cheaper than the American car, even though British petrol is much more expensive.

  13. Re:Murica Fuck yea! on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 1

    Petrol costs about £0.54 per litre in the USA vs £1.27 in the UK. Diesel is about £0.61 per litre vs £1.34 in the UK. In both cases just over twice as expensive.

    However, per mile, it probably costs about the same in the USA as in Europe as American cars tend to be less fuel efficient. Also, Americans drive more miles as they live in a bigger country and things are more spread out.

  14. Re:Who are Accenture? on Accenture Faces Mid-March Healthcare.gov Deadline Or 'Disaster' · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Andersen Consulting split off from Arthur Andersen a few years before the Enron scandal.

  15. Re:Cry me a fucking river... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 1

    We have the European Convention of Human Rights - http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/Treaties/Html/005.htm
    But it doesn't include a right not to incriminate yourself.

  16. Re:Cry me a fucking river... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 1

    Jaywalking isn't a crime in the UK. You can walk pretty much wherever you like, except on motorways, and cars have to get out your way.

  17. Re:Leave it to a politician to blow hot air on Irish Politician Calls For Crackdown On Open Source Internet Browsers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Microsoft, Google and Apple all have their European bases in Ireland. Firefox has its European base in the UK, and Opera is based in Norway.

  18. Re:Not interesting on Irish Politician Calls For Crackdown On Open Source Internet Browsers · · Score: 1

    And in any case, such a bill would have to go through the EU parliament, not the Irish one.

  19. Re: Freakin' Riders. on Incandescent Bulbs Get a Reprieve · · Score: 1

    Buy halogen bulbs then. They meet the efficiency standards though they are not as efficient as CFL bulbs.

  20. Re:It will never work on Japan To Tax Online Sales Of Foreign-Made Content · · Score: 1

    The same way that the police it in Europe. The money is paid using local credit cards, so they can get the money off the bank before it reaches them if needs be.

  21. Re:contradiction? on British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    The MI6 building is outside the congestion charge zone, and always has been. The zone ends on the other side of the bridge in Westminster. All of the roads leading to it on the south side of the bridge are outside the congestion charge zone, and two of the three roads leading to Vauxhall bridge on the north side are outside the zone, so it is very easy to reach the building without entering the zone.

    Of course if they want to go spying within the congestion charge zone, they will have to pay the charge, but that is the same regardless of where their offices are located.

  22. Re:contradiction? on British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    What happens to the points on your licence? Get caught speeding 4 times, and you usually get banned from driving.

  23. Re: Now we're in trouble... on British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    The main reason for speed limits was to reduce demand for petrol during the oil crisis.

  24. Re:Send yourself a password reset on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 1

    That doesn't work with for example PayPal, because they ask all sorts of other security questions. I suppose it is very possible for someone to hack into an email account and then try to use that to hack into their paypal account and other things attached to it.

  25. Re:24/7 ? on Mars One Studying How To Maintain Communications With Mars 24/7 · · Score: 1

    The week is an arbitrary unit that has nothing to do with rotation or orbit of the sun or the moon. Different communities have had different week lengths throughout history.