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  1. Re:Failure on Postage? on London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game · · Score: 1

    From my understand a legal document is only considered "legal" when it is signed, sealed and delivered (know this is true for contracts<snip>

    That's not true for contracts under English law, which is what's relevant here. All that's needed for a contract to be valid under English law are offer (one side proposes terms), acceptance (other side agrees), consideration (both sides benefit) and intent to create legal relations.

    That's not to say there's no point signing a contract with witnesses: an oral contract may be valid, but proving that it exists can be tricky.

  2. Re:Hardware is easy to find on Retrieving Data From Old Amstrad Floppies? · · Score: 1

    The fault on my family's 3 inch Amstrad drive was my youngest sister pushing the foil from an Easter egg into it. I think it was not long after that that I bought my first Amiga.

  3. Re:Abbreviation: on Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References · · Score: 1

    Well "Paris, France" appears to count as a reference to Paris Hilton.

  4. Re:Bad precedent on US Court Orders Company to Use Negative Keywords · · Score: 1

    You can't form a chain called "Golden Dragon restaurants" and try to push that Manhattan restaurant out (but you can try to buy it). Unless you're McDonald's.
  5. Re:"x terrorist" label starting to piss me off on China's Cyberwar Against India · · Score: 1

    Not everyone who commits a crime or act of aggression is a fucking terrorist.

    Quite correct. That term should be reserved for rapists.

  6. Re:"Reliable but confidential" sources? on China Wants US-Owned Hotels to Censor Internet · · Score: 1
    The summary would be slightly clarified by replacing "on" with "about":

    Brownback said he got the information about Internet filtering from 'two different reliable but confidential sources.'
  7. Re:Repairing em' on The Mac In the Gray Flannel Suit · · Score: 3, Funny

    Any story involving one person, a soldering iron, and a Perl script has to end in disaster. You surely know the axiom about the three most dangerous things in technology: a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware engineer with a compiler, and a user with an idea.

  8. Re:Not voltage on Taser International Wins Lawsuit to Change Cause of Death · · Score: 1

    On the basis that P=IV, there's a disparity by a factor of more than 350 in those figures. 50kV * 133mA = 6.65kW. Now it's not DC current, and they may be citing peak voltage and current rather than RMS, but I find it hard to account for such a large factor, and it raises additional credibility issues.

  9. Re:Are the trademarks in question really generic? on Google To Be Sued in UK For Trademark-Linked Ads · · Score: 1

    Auto is a longstanding (maybe even old-fashioned) American synonym for car. The context is a British magazine.

  10. Re:Are the trademarks in question really generic? on Google To Be Sued in UK For Trademark-Linked Ads · · Score: 1

    Auto Trader isn't at all generic because here we call them cars.

  11. Re:Letter of apology on Java SE 6 For Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Not that you'd have let facts get in your way even if you knew them (and perhaps you did), but all the OS X Java ports are done by Apple.

  12. Re:Censorship or bandwidth problem? on Cuba Lifts Ban on Home Computers · · Score: 1

    But due to Genuine Windows Disadvantage they might not have the service packs, and so might be rather open to worms.

  13. Funding on Memristor — 4th Basic Element of Circuits · · Score: 1

    Of course it is, but you won't get the funding to continue development if you don't make a whole lot of might and could style predictions.

  14. Re:GET OFF MY LAUN! on Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork · · Score: 1

    Actually South Americans generally call people from the USA estadounidenses, yanquis, or (in some areas) gringos. They're also rather keen on the phrase "Nuestra América".

    I live in Spain and have a number of friends from the USA and a number from South America, mainly Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. The latter understand what the former mean when they say "Americano", and tolerate it, but they don't like it.

  15. Re:GET OFF MY LAUN! on Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course we do. You USians (at a guess) may have forked it, but ours is the original and our decisions are unquestionable.

  16. Re:Put that in your will! on Post-Suicide Account Cracking? · · Score: 1

    You could list your accounts in a file readable only by root (owner root, group narpak, permissions 420). Crucially you can still touch this file. Then have a root cron job which checks when the file was last modified. If more than two weeks ago, e-mail you a reminder to touch it. If more than four weeks ago, e-mail it to your executors. You could probably also touch it in your .profile so that you wouldn't have to manually touch it.

  17. Goodness Gracious Me on Kraken Infiltration Revives "Friendly Worm" Debate · · Score: 1

    Why am I reminded of the Buddhist pest controller from Goodness Gracious Me?

  18. Quack on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    That sounds like a lot of effort when you could just weigh them against a duck.

  19. Re:Wow, time for some EU dissolution... on Second Galileo Test Satellite Now in Orbit · · Score: 1

    The main objection, AIUI, is that the money wasn't budgeted for Galileo. It was budgeted for CAP, but wasn't used. Conventionally if you find that you have a budget surplus somewhere, you congratulate yourself on lowering costs rather than looking to see where to spend it.

  20. Re:Two?!!? on Second Galileo Test Satellite Now in Orbit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Texas?

  21. Ssh on Second Galileo Test Satellite Now in Orbit · · Score: 2, Funny

    Simple: as far as English politics is concerned (and UK politics to a lesser extent), once you pass outside the M25 you enter a deserted wasteland which extends as far as the Channel, the North Sea and the Irish Sea (or possibly the Atlantic, but no Londoner has ever travelled that far to check).

    On the other hand, I wouldn't tell them. Just keep quiet and maybe they won't interfere with your life too much.

  22. Re:Haskell, too on Ruby and Java Running in JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Prolog in Javascript is available too. I first ran across an earlier version of this in a compressed form as an entry to the 5k competition: show off what you can do with 5k for your entire website.

  23. Precisely on Party Ideas For Math Nerds? · · Score: 1

    You've hit the nail on the head. Great fun for everyone else to watch!

  24. Re:Well... on Party Ideas For Math Nerds? · · Score: 1

    What's purple, commutes, and has a non-infinite number of worshippers?

    A finitely venerated abelian grape.

  25. Re:Logical positivism to the rescue... on Is Mathematics Discovered Or Invented? · · Score: 1

    No, it's actually a simplification, the Newtonian limit of p=gamma m v.