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  1. Re:already happening on Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors · · Score: 1

    Most dealers, if they're that desperate for a sale (and they usually are) will tax it for you in my experience. Doesn't matter if they're a big dealership or a little backlot in the suburbs, they'll get you taxed if it makes them the sale.

  2. Re:already happening on Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors · · Score: 1

    Have you tried the online system for taxing cars? As soon as your car insurance has been issued by your insurers then the DVLA has a record of it these days. Paying for your road tax online won't actually require you having your insurance document to hand as they already know you're insured!

    Failing that, why the hell didn't you ask the last owner to tax it for you and have the cost of it added to the price of the car?

  3. Re:Move along, nothing to see here on iPhone Nano To Be Launched By Christmas? · · Score: 1

    In the words of Lord Northcliffe, its original owner in the nineteenth century, "it was written by office boys for office boys".

  4. Re:Do you have a paper trail? on How To Spot E-Vote Tampering? · · Score: 1
    Having been a presiding officer at a polling station for a borough council election here in England, the solution for blind voters is simple. A plastic overlay with all the details written in Braille is put over the ballot paper so that the voter knows where to mark it accordingly.



    Simple and effective.

  5. Re:University admin on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 1
    From what I've heard from my other half who studies there, the uni is heavily reliant on international students, particularly from China, and desperately tries to avoid any negative publicity caused by student actions that may stop this money farm.


    Any university where the Vice-Chancellor has posted statements around campus stating that students have the right not be confronted by disturbing ideas clearly does not believe in academic freedom of thought.

  6. Re:Who cares? on African Americans and the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1
    All I wish for is for everyone to be treated equally, how can everyone be treated equally when one minority gets such great privileges over all others, they should have the same as everyone else.

    Too bad about the previous 200 years of whitefellas destroying their society and taking their land eh?

  7. Re:also LEDs are weapons of mass destruction... on Roleplayers Seek Removal of Nerf Gun Ban · · Score: 1

    No weapons on campus? That's gonna mess with the fencing club surely...

  8. Re:I loved the BBC Micro on BBC Micro Creators Reunite In London · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't forget Elite. Probably one of the best games ever made, and still well-loved. The Acorn port was damn good too...

  9. Re:Bad joke. on Beatles and iTunes At Last? · · Score: 1

    What would it take to reunite the Beatles? Two bullets.

  10. Re:I'm confused.... on House Declines To Vote On Telecom Immunity · · Score: 5, Informative

    The vote was to remove the immunity clause. Democrats voted for the removal, Republicans for its retention.

  11. Re:My two cents... on Bill Gates Proclaims US High Schools Obsolete · · Score: 1

    You're on a male-dominated degree and hoping to get a job in a male-dominated profession. Classes on feminism are a damn good place to meet Women of the Opposite Sex, plus if you play your cards right you come across as sensitive and modern boyfriend material. Think about it...

  12. Re:Slashdot's RSS blocking policy on Is RSS Doomed by Popularity? · · Score: 1

    Try Newsfire RSS reader on OS X- despite being set up to only ask for feeds every hour, I get blocked twice a week or so.

  13. Re:In some respects... on The Japanese/American Tech Deficit · · Score: 1

    Try asking the Scandinavians or the Russians then- I'm pretty sure they manage okay on Diesels.

  14. Re:In some respects... on The Japanese/American Tech Deficit · · Score: 1

    Try Australia- country with an even lower population density than the US, and yet they still manage to hold pretty well with European tech...

  15. Re:In defense of M$FT - have to disagree on one it on Every 5th Call At Dell Is Spyware-Related · · Score: 1

    Not on OSX mate- it's designed so that you only ever log in as Root to install software. It's pretty well impossible for spyware to install itself automatically without an Admin agreeing to it.

  16. Re:TV License in the UK on New Fee For Internet-Capable PCs In Germany · · Score: 1

    Then you only tune your TV into the console and when they come around to check, show it to them and AFAIK you don't have to pay.

  17. Re:Probably not that safe on Smart Cars Coming to Canada and U.S. · · Score: 1

    How exactly? It's only 8 foot long so to be hit between the cage on the plastic only would be pretty difficult...

  18. Re:I'm fine with it... on Walk of Game Honors Industry Paragons · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the earlier games- my vote's for elite.

  19. Re:Interesting... on Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004 · · Score: 1

    And the electorate willing, come October 9th will be pulling its troops out of Iraq as fast as they can manage.

  20. Re:Big brother-in-law, the insurance salesman on Pay-As-You-Drive Car Insurance · · Score: 1

    Big fucking do. Don't break the law and you won't get fined- it's that bloody simple. Try it next time. As for the taxes on motoring, it is still not high enough to pay for the social and enviromental costs of driving UK PLC has to pay for.

  21. Re:True story.. on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    Construction work in the UK has been in metric from the 1970s I'm afraid. My father's an architect and about two years after he finished his training had to move over to metric. As for materials for sale, well that's a more recent thing as sales legislation finally changed the other year. True story from my father- he was working for a large insurance company dealing with internal design and furniture and equipment layouts. The PHB of the IT division wanted to view some plans for some reason, so my father printed out a set of floor plans at 1:100 scale and hands them over to one of the PHB's minions. A few minutes later, the minion returns requesting "some measurements on the plan". My dad points at the scale, gets a blank response so marks in a few main dimensions and sends the plan back. A few more minutes after that, the minion returns and shamefacedly asks for them "in imperial". Cue laughter from the whole office of architects and surveyors.