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  1. Re:FlexCar on MIT Offers City Car for the Masses · · Score: 1

    The news that they're going to have to include car rental taxes may be raising the price too much for the concept.

  2. Re:hmmm on Cell Phone Jamming on the Rise · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When you only hear half a conversation you are subconsciously assuming that it's intened for you - there's no one else listening, so it must be for you. If you see two people talking, then you know you're not involved, and don't have to listen.

  3. Re:Of course it was on BBC "Not In Bed With Bill Gates" · · Score: 1

    Having a license entitles you to own a TV, there's nothing about being entitled to watch video over the Internet - if you're using theiPlayer there's no way it can check your license.

  4. Re:why not... on BBC "Not In Bed With Bill Gates" · · Score: 1

    Because they have to use something which can't easily be copied.

  5. Re:I hope they get slapped on Google Caught in Comcast Traffic Filtering? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They get fined, and a month later my bill goes up a couple of dollars to pay it off. No real penalty.

  6. Re:No, just not proven on Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Not Universal · · Score: 1

    I think the OP is pointing out that the headline of "Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Not Universal" should be something like "Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Not PROVEN TO BE Universal" and that it's a comment about the poor editing of this story, rather than expressing confusion about the content.

  7. Re:STOP POSTING NOW! on Amazon Patents Including a String at End of a URL · · Score: 1

    PICK has had the @SENTENCE command for a very long time and as it reads the characters you typed to run the program I think it's pretty much prior art - now if you were to patent "putting characters in an ordered sequence ON THE INTERNET" it would b e adifferent matter.

  8. Re:TANSTAAFL on United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality' · · Score: 1

    In this case you'd have two baggage holds, "priced" and "free", seperated by a movable barrier. Luggage goes into whichever hold they're tagged for. When it's time for the luggage to be unloaded, it's the "priced" compartment which is emptied first. The only delay would be a slight one in loading, but luggage is already being sorted once it's collected, so it wouldn't be much of a change.

  9. Re:TANSTAAFL on United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality' · · Score: 1

    One reason it's not popular is that most luggage is a black rectangle - if you could only approach when you saw yours there's be a surge of people for each piece that shows up.

  10. Re:Where's the theft? on The Pirate Bay Takes Over Anti-Piracy Domain · · Score: 1

    French Connection, UK - no misspelling at all.

  11. Re:Ill gotten gain? on The Pirate Bay Takes Over Anti-Piracy Domain · · Score: 1

    In the UK the law, the last time I looked, was that for unsolicied goods you can: 1) contact the people who sent them and they have a certain length of time to colledt them, at their cost, or else the goods become legally yours; 2) wait to be contacted, if the senders don't contact you after a longer length of time the goods are yours.

    In both cases you have to keep the goods untouched, so if it was a case of cigarettes you couldn't smoke them, though you could play a CD.

  12. Re:Hotmail fails to trans,it attachments... on Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit · · Score: 1

    Actually it just looks at the file extension.

    Create a text file, change the name to something.exe, and try to send it - you'll get a pop-up saying it's an executable file and Gmail won't send it. But if you do the same thing with an executable, changing the name to something.txt, you can send it fine.

  13. Re:Stop it already - Let Kirk rest in peace! on Simon Pegg to Play Scotty · · Score: 1

    Usually it's "for the kids" - all the actors in the old series are, well, old. and they're not hot. Get young, and hot, actors in the roles, and make sure they're ones who are in the news and gossip magazines, or at least have the potential and personality to be in the gossip magazines as soon as they're in this summers blockbuster.

  14. Re:Who??? on Simon Pegg to Play Scotty · · Score: 1

    Dr Who has been pretty much a sucess.

  15. Re:I hate to be the one defending Microsoft, but.. on Mom Blasts Ballmer Over Kid's Vista Experience · · Score: 1

    But at some stage the upgrade stops - my Mac can't be upgraded to the version of the OS above the one it has, the hardware won't support it (or the OS won't support the hardware).

  16. Re:Buyouts on A Google Blunder- the Sad Story of Urchin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Another reason is that the buyer wants to get the customer base, so they can then slow down and phase out the earlier product and offer an 'upgrade' to their main product. Buying a company for this reason can be cheaper than advertising, etc, to get new customers.

  17. Re:free as in beer? on Microsoft Releases IIS FastCGI Module · · Score: 1

    You're not missing much, most free beer turns out to be Miller Lite or something like that.

  18. Re:It doesn't "remotely shut down vehicles" on Stalling Cars Via OnStar · · Score: 2, Funny

    So Google are going to buy OnStar?

  19. On CD November 8th on Adams' Dirk Gently Serialized on BBC Radio · · Score: 2, Informative

    The full series of 6x30 minute episodes will be released on CD November 8th. Many of the recent BBC releases have had additional material, or slightly longer scenes, so still worth getting if you enjoyed the broadcast. My page about the programme - http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/dirk_gently_s_detective_agency.html will soon have better cast lists, and links on it.

  20. Re:Slashdotted on Adams' Dirk Gently Serialized on BBC Radio · · Score: 1

    Not /.ed, there's been problems with the Listen Again streams and the process for creating them over the past few months. Currently a lot of programmes are in mono, or a very whooshy 22kHZ sample rate rather than their usual 44kHz.

  21. Re:Podcasting on Adams' Dirk Gently Serialized on BBC Radio · · Score: 1

    First of all check my page for The Goon Show, http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/goon_show__the.html, which will give you a good idea of what still exists, then if you have any missing ones contact the BBC about them, via their treasure Hunt page, http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/treasurehunt/, or http://www.missing-episodes.com/ to see if copies are known to exist which the BBC doesn't want.

  22. Re:Poor guy!!! on Adams' Dirk Gently Serialized on BBC Radio · · Score: 1

    If you're going to stab someone it's best to have your dirk sterilized.

  23. Shada (was: Excellent book) on Adams' Dirk Gently Serialized on BBC Radio · · Score: 2, Informative

    Elements of it were taken from "Shada", a Dr Who series which was never made for the TV due to industrial action, but many years later an audio version was made, available from Big Finish, and often broadcast on BBC7 - my page at http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/shada.html gives the dates when it was last on.

  24. Re:Podcasting on Adams' Dirk Gently Serialized on BBC Radio · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the BBC doesn't own most of the 'entertainment' programmes and have to negotiate which can be podcasted or sold on CD.

  25. Re:Pointy-haired management, check. on What is the Best Way to Start a Paid GPL Project? · · Score: 1

    Why does that scare you? For a simple Point Of Sale suite (where a product is scanned, invoice created, cash register controlled, warehouse stock updated, etc) every versions of Windows are fine.