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  1. Re:Anti-Competitive Apple on Opera Mini Not Rejected From iPhone (Yet) · · Score: 1

    Or saying that operating systems are only a small part of the entire software industry and therefore MS is not a monopolistic company.

  2. Re:Making money on How To Make Money With Free Software · · Score: 1

    In the case of most banks, your sentence should be modified to "they had some money and gave ten, twenty, or more times that amount of money to people"

  3. Re:More like... on How To Make Money With Free Software · · Score: 1

    Yet you don't say the name of that Scottish play yourself...

  4. Re:That's right, mods on Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet · · Score: 1

    I would suggest that while meeting ten different clients can be done in one or two outfits, appearing every day in front of the same people in the same outfit doesn't work so well.

  5. Re:It's always been required... on Passport Required To Buy Mobile Phones In the UK · · Score: 1

    You can get almost any phone on PAYG (or if not exact models, equivalents). You tend to pay most of the cost of the phone up front, rather than it being free or cut-price with a contract. Calls are more expensive per minute, but it's ideal if (like me) you don't use your mobile that much.

  6. Re:It's always been required... on Passport Required To Buy Mobile Phones In the UK · · Score: 1

    "Hi, my good neighbour. I'm going away for a week but I'm expecting a parcel - can I address it to your house and pick it up when I get back?"

  7. Re:if they did away with the need for the computer on CNET UK Credits Claim That Apple Will Release Networked TVs · · Score: 1

    That's standard apple practice. They don't really do anything new, they take old ideas and do them well. Mostly.

  8. Re:BUILD YOUR OWN on Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University? · · Score: 1

    In all seriousness - which is more efficient, having one piece of paper stuck up on my wall per term or having to turn on my computer every time I want to check my timetable?

    Most students will probably end up printing it anyway.

  9. Re:Positive Changes on Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Speed limits aren't to protect you. I couldn't give a fuck if you kill *yourself* while driving too fast. However, if you're driving too fast and kill someone other than yourself...

  10. Re:Ten quid a month on Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors · · Score: 1

    Watching TV over the net isn't violating the license terms, as I understand it. The wording is eomthing like "equipment capable of receiving broadcast television".

    Compare, say, Radio 1 with Virgin Radio. The music played is fairly similar, but you get a lot more music on Radio 1 due to not having any ads. (You also get a lot more live stuff, and so on.)

  11. Re:Positive Changes on Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors · · Score: 1

    When I got old enough to understand the value of what presents I was getting, I discovered that my parents (and, after they split up, each parent) spent about £50 per birthday and christmas on me. I then tended to think carefully about what I wanted that was in that region, rather than just asking for lots of general things.

  12. Re:Positive Changes on Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors · · Score: 1

    Put differently: I personally prefer to work when at work. I'm not really fond of doing nothing in that situation.

    I have a colleague who can work extremely efficiently, when he puts his mind to it. He only ever puts his mind to it when he's received a warning from my supervisor. Otherwise, he's the laziest cunt I've ever met.

    That same warning to me would not have quite the same effect. I'd probably get less done, not more. People are not the same; this very basic fact eludes too many people.

  13. Re:Positive Changes on Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors · · Score: 1

    I never got taught how to jump a bike.

    Last June, a week after starting a new job, I had the same uncomfortable lesson. Except mine then involved a month and a half off work with a severely broken collarbone.

  14. Re:Positive Changes on Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors · · Score: 1

    I had the same sort of problem with the phrase "were you born in a barn?" when I left a door open. The town containing the hospital I was born in is a rather shitty town, so I tended to point this out...

  15. Re:Positive Changes on Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not all plants are trees.

  16. Re:Positive Changes on Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors · · Score: 1

    ...This seems amazingly well thought out. Nice.

  17. Re:Best quote ever on Dispelling Myths About Geomagnetic Reversal · · Score: 1

    Let's see... A current commercial airliner will probably have all the following:

    GPS type systems
    Inertial reference systems (two primary, one backup, each system having internal redundancy as well, on the aircraft I deal with)
    Maps and windows
    Magnetic backup compass
    Gyroscope-based instruments for attitude control etc
    Radio to talk to air traffic control operators
    Mk 1 Human Eyeball.

    Oh, and pretty much all the above are at least once redundant, if not more.

    So yeah, as the parent said, even if magnetic changes affected GPS systems, and that doesn't seem possible, it wouldn't be that much of an issue.

  18. Re:A few things on Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? · · Score: 1

    I was recommended by a theoretically knowledgeable non-lawyer to sign a probably unenforceable contract at my current job. Amongst other things, the wording in this contract attempted to enforce periods of notice that were not within the legal limits and attempted to stop you having any interests in anything else whatsoever. (It could without changing the wording at all be interpreted to state being interested in, say, football was against the contract.)

    We're of the opinion in my case that the entire contract is so bad that if they ever wanted to enforce it, and they are virtually certain not to, they'd lose. This may not be the case in most situations.

  19. Re:Lets see it... on Dispelling Myths About Geomagnetic Reversal · · Score: 1

    Except for the problems of the victims, whose problems escalate rapidly before becoming completely irrelevant - they don't get solved!

  20. Re:Biased view of the world have we? on Report Says China Will Demand Source Code · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly confident you'll agree that whilst many will be voicing their own (agreeing) views, some will be pandering to the groupthink.

    It should also be mentioned that people of a certain mindset do tend to congregate in places with a matching groupthink.

  21. Re:Open Source or Else on Report Says China Will Demand Source Code · · Score: 1

    "Who is going to win", if known for certain, is already "who has won". Especially if rigged.

  22. Re:refund on Wal-Mart Ends DRM Support · · Score: 1

    Depends how big each left is. I know some places where to go right you need to go left, then right, then left, then left. And only the last of them is a right angle.

  23. Re:In Massachusetts? on Wal-Mart Ends DRM Support · · Score: 1

    Taking a single you'd bought from you could be classed as petty theft. Hence the grandparent's point.

  24. Re:refund on Wal-Mart Ends DRM Support · · Score: 2

    A second wrong may seem justified, but it does not make a right.

    Morality is, of course, completely relative.

  25. Re:Why is that even possible? on Greek Hackers Target CERN's LHC · · Score: 1

    While you claim to be learning about hadrons, the rest of us know you're purely studying hardons.