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  1. I emailed them... on HTC Dragging Feet On GPL Source Release For "Hero" Phone · · Score: 2, Informative
    I sent a message to HTC and got this response:

    Dear Sir, I have sent a communication to our head office to have this source code released on the developer website. It will be available soon at developer.htc.com. We will work to release this as soon as possible. Best Regards, HTC Europe Customer Care

    However, this isn't really good enough. Let's hope that the combined might of slashdot will be able to sort it out!

  2. Re:Its just stupid on Federal Summit Eyes Crackdown On Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    what if I'm catching a bus, or am on a train? what if I've pulled over into a layby or car park? I agree that texting/phoning while driving is wrong, but that's a silly solution to it.

  3. Re:I wish they'd focus on the news on EU Publishers Want a Law To Control Online News · · Score: 1

    actually, it's only with a TV connected to recieving equipment that is used to recieve TV broadcasts... you don't need to pay if you have a radio or PC, or even a TV only connected to a VCR, DVD player and games console (but NOT recieving live TV footage)

  4. Re:liberty on Dot-Communism Is Already Here · · Score: 1

    Yeah... except when the chilians voted in a socialist government and the CIA helped overthrow them and replace them with a capitalist dictator, that's definatley letting people leave.

  5. Re:But does it work? on Court Orders Breathalyzer Code Opened, Reveals Mess · · Score: 3, Interesting

    but why were you driving while over the limit anyway. Driving a car is dangerous, not just for you, but for those around you, by being under the influance of alcohol you are risking killing someone. Why take the risk? if you need to drive don't drink any alcohol.

  6. Re:Hmm... on Adblock Plus Maker Proposes Change To Help Sites · · Score: 1

    yeah, as long as you don't then distribute those derivitive works...

  7. Re:Something doesn't quite make sense, here... on The Pirate Bay Seeks Interesting Route To "Pay" Fine · · Score: 1

    no, because I live in a country in which very few ATMs have withdrawal fees and none have balance checking fees. I can even check my balance from anywhere in Europe for free and withdraw money from anywhere in Europe for a very small fee (some ATMs allow me to withdraw anywhere in europe for free).

  8. Re:Public education... on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately for you, the English language is not defined in a centeral academy like french, it changes and evolves with useage.

  9. Re:Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer on Phorm "Edited and Approved" UK Government Advice · · Score: 1

    I emailed her a few days ago regarding a similar issue, she responded within 3 hours. Her voting record is good and I'm really impressed, first response I've got out of the House of Lords

  10. Re:Too much government on UK Government To Back Broadband-For-All · · Score: 1

    without the farmhouses, we wouldn't get food, remember. Not everyone can live in the city as it would mean that basic things such as food would not be available... without food, we die. Why shouldn't the people that do an extremely important job (arguabely, more important than a 9-5 office job) be able to have modern conveniences such as the internet and public transport? Also, FYI I don't live in a farmhouse, I have relatively good (8mbps) broadband... though I do wish my country would cut down with the survailence

  11. Re:Too much government on UK Government To Back Broadband-For-All · · Score: 1

    No, if it was up to the "free market" then people in rural areas wouldn't get served, while the cities would just get faster and faster. This is what's happening at the moment and why the government needs to step in. It's like public transport, it's great in cities but terrible in rural areas and if the government didn't step in, could even be non-existant. Utilities, like the internet or public transport occasionally need the government to step in and deal with it, otherwise people wouldn't be able to get them (see Rural Electrification Act, it took government intervention in the USA to get electricity everywhere).

  12. Re:There is some bad news too on Did the Netbook Improve Windows 7's Performance? · · Score: 1

    The app store works fine... if you use it on the iPhone, you just can't sync it up with iTunes (but that's not linux's fault, it's the fault of apple who seem to think that cryptographically signing the database for the sole reason of blocking interoperability is a good thing)

  13. Re:What about ... on What Features Should Be Included With iPhone 3.0? · · Score: 1

    Exchange works fine, it even works with RPC over HTTP, like outlook from an external network... OTA updates, contacts, calendar & email, only thing that doesn't work is tasks

  14. Re:Hello Moto on Qt Becomes LGPL · · Score: 1

    No, we're the People's Front of Judea!

  15. Re:All that trouble... on Windows 7 Beta Released To Public After Delay · · Score: 1

    you do have to modify the iTunes installer in order to get it to install on XP x64, it runs fine, but the installer has a hardcoded check on it, so I'm thinking you probably haven't tried it on XP x64.

  16. Re:Its just a service pack for Vista on Windows 7 Beta Released To Public After Delay · · Score: 5, Funny

    the title of that article is: Microsoft exec: Windows 7 is no service pack

  17. Re:What a bunch of dicks. on Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested By Amtrak Police · · Score: 1

    the BTP do have the powers of real cops, at least on railway tracks, in railway stations, in light freight depots, on trains or when requested by a member of another UK police force (all home office forces + MDP + CNP), they are basically real cops, only with a different jurisdiction (railways, rather than a fixed area)

  18. Re:State monopoly. Good only at first. on FCC Cancels Free Internet Vote · · Score: 1

    The license fee is optional, if you don't want to pay it you don't have to... you just can't have a device that receives television signals and not pay it.

  19. Re:Step two on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 1

    2) Follow the checklist and eliminate the 1% error that kills 28,000 patients a year.

    I know this is /. and you're not expected to read the summary. But could you at least read the title?

  20. Re:An infinite number on The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker · · Score: 1

    0 is a number, or at least it's a number that belongs to the integers, reals, and complex numbers, but not the naturals

  21. Re:You would still need a VPN tunneler on Apple Allows Lotus On iPhone (After Banning Competitor) · · Score: 2, Informative

    the iPhone has a VPN client, only thing is, you can't select the port it runs over, but meh, it supports IPSec (Cisco), PPTP and LLTP

  22. Re:Legislation is not free on Two Bills of Interest Advancing In Congress · · Score: 1

    yeah, but as the GP said, it's like the Rural Electrification Act, I might not be willing to pay the cost of installing a DSLAM/The Cable Equivilent, then linking it to the infrastructure and paying the monthly fee, but I would be willing to pay just the monthly fee for the internet access, this bill isn't providing free broadband for all, it's allowing everyone to get broadband if they are willing to pay a fair price.

  23. Re:Great! on RealNetworks, Film Industry Headed To Court · · Score: 2, Informative

    or... chose No Compression on the drop down list in DVD Shrink

  24. Re:trams! on Researchers Test Drive Bus With Automated Steering · · Score: 1

    DLR drivers can actually drive the train, I've been on one in which they do, controlling speed and braking etc however it's used rarely, mainly when there is a problem further up the track

  25. Re:I've seen this... on iPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do · · Score: 2, Informative

    no, that's the screenshot function the phone has, press power + home button and it takes a screenshot