Would it even be physically possible to get 10,001m^3 of gas through your meter in three months?

Any quad-band phone bought in the UK will work like that, and this includes all earlier iPhone models. It isn't for your benefit.

If for example you are a Verizon customer, and have their equivalent, something like the Samsung Fascinate, then it won't work outside of the US and possibly Canada, whereas the iPhone 4S will. There are other Verizon world phones, but not many, you have the choice of a few Blackberries and Motorola Handsets and the HTC Trophy.

It isn't Apple that is making things complicated, it is Verizon and Sprint that are making things complicated by using a different network technology from the rest of the world.

If both companies have their phones and fondleslabs banned due to violating the other's patents, it will force them to reach a cross licensing deal. That's what Samsung wants so it can sell its Galaxy range again.

iFanbois use their mobile browser a lot more than owners of other phones, so it is perfectly possible that Safari is used in 55% of visits from phones, even if it isn't on 55% of phones.

Tobacconists can stock up in Greece provided they pay UK excise duty on their stock.

The credit card company pays the merchant about 2-3 days after the transaction takes place. It costs shops money to take cash as well, so debit cards are actually the cheapest way to pay them.

I think it is because the existing process takes too long, giving the scammers plenty of time to milk the site and move onto the next one.

You might think you want a laptop with a touch screen, but there is the gorilla arm problem if you use such a machine for any length of time. I guess what people really want is a fondleslab with a keyboard dock for when you want to do some serious typing on it, like the Asus Transformer, or indeed the iPad.

and Xerox would get to sue Apple for copying their operating system. Copyrights live for a lot longer than patents. Ada Lovelace's copyrights have expired, but pretty much everything since then is still in copyright.

Well there are some people, called hermaphrodites, who have both male and female body parts.

If you are the NHS, you probably don't want to send stuff about breast cancer scans to men, or testicular cancer scans to women. There are genuine differences between the healthcare requirements of men and women.

The gender neutral version of he and she is "it". The only problem is that using that word suggests the person is an inanimate object, and is generally used as a form of abuse. BTW "they" is the plural version.

If Scotland becomes independent, then it will get its own two letter country tld anyway.

I guess it will still be much safer than sending them round the Horn of Africa.

They do know what they are doing, and they like to have people queuing down the street for the next Jesus Phone or Fondleslab. Having restricted availability makes their product more desirable.

In the EU, Amazon, who are based in Luxembourg, do have to collect VAT on sales to all countries in the EU. The difference is that there are only 27 different VAT regimes to deal with, not about 5000 as in the US where town councils can set their own rates and county and state governments can add their sales taxes on top of that. The rules about how to calculate it are harmonised across the EU. Each country is allowed 3 different rates of VAT but can chose to put different items in each band. You can get a single document from the EU website detailing the rates in all the EU countries and another document telling you which countries have changed their rates recently, so you don't need to check regularly with each national tax authority to find out what is happening.

Fandroids consider something like the Samsung Galaxy S2 to be comparable to the iPhone. They also point to the fact that mid-market models such as this phone exist, whereas they don't on Apple.

The USA has 788 prisoners per 100,000 population, whereas Iran has a mere 302 per 100,000. For comparison, the UK has 158, but that is an all time high due to the recent riots, usually it is about 146.

One of things you can use thunderbolt for is to attach monitors to it. In fact at the moment, it is about the only thing you can do. I'm not sure you can do that with USB 3.

The voice recognition in the "Communicate" translator app doesn't have any problem with my Scottish accent. Having said that, neither do most English people, even ones that can't understand a word of Rab C Nesbitt. So it might not understand Rab C, but it should be OK with Kirsty Wark.

The battery perhaps? It probably won't fail completely but it will lose a lot of its charge capacity.

Or indeed a store that sold records. No in that case Apple's actions would not be justified because they don't own a trademark in that field of business. The Beetles own the Apple trademark in the record selling business which is why the iTunes store has no mention of the word Apple anywhere, even in the company name.

Given that nobody else seems to be able to make a fondleslab of similar quality to the iPad and sell it for less than the iPad retails at, I'm not actually sure the margins are that huge.

However if they don't use Flash for the front end, then they could use the same Visual Studio to authour it that the probably use to develop the back end.

Now that Microsoft have largely cleaned up their act regarding security, Flash is the No. 1 malware vector. That and the fact they still haven't released a 64bit version for Windows.

The reason they want to see the original is so they can examine the anti-counterfeiting features of the card. That has nothing to do with the data on the card which is the same on both the original and the pdf.

They are registered as an electronic money issuer, not a bank, that means they are required to employ "fit and proper persons", and maintain adequate capital, but you don't have any comeback if they go bust other than that they "should" have enough money in "low risk" investments to pay back everyone. It didn't work for Crown Currency Exchange though.

"TalkTalk are advertising basic broadband for £3.25 a month.

"How the f*** can they manage that?"

By not actually providing anything in return for the £3.25 per month. In any case I think you have to buy other services from them to get that deal.

Have any of these left large areas of land uninhabitable for the next 300 years? I agree that on a headcount basis some of these examples were worse than a nuclear meltdown, but my argument is that you should look at other things as well.

Show boys vs hide girls

It is a bit like "Heads I win, tails you lose". He doesn't like women and wants to be able to hide their posts. There is no difference between the two, that is the point.

Re: need help here

In future, reduce the TTL on your dns records, but it will mean a higher load on the dns server.

Re: mobile comments

Use m.theregister.co.uk if you are using a mobile device, then the comments will fit perfectly to your screen width.

Not all of them

There are lots of good hackers who do amazingly cool things with computers, like program a graphics calculator to show Star Wars.

It's the script kiddies, who aren't even proper hackers, who need to go to jail.

Re: Very nice but

Acer offer such a thing. It runs Windows 7 starter, and I don't see why you couldn't put linux on it. The problems are that Windows 7 isn't really designed for a touch screen interface and you have to tap really precisely to get it to do what you want, and battery life isn't that great.

Re: Demistifying new technology

I had to go to the Reg Standards Converter to find out how many Linguine that was. Apparently it is about 10.7.

Re: Android

But Android is designed for touchscreen devices. Will it work with a TV & Remote?

The current situation is that Android is excellent on phones, not so good on fondleslabs and absolutely useless on laptops.

Yes, seriously

There are cures for certain types of cancer with varying degrees of effectiveness, and people are not allowed to advertise them. You go do a doctor and they recommend the appropriate treatment, so you get a treatment recommended by a suitably qualified person rather than the one with the best TV ad.

No

It is only terrorism if you threaten violence, serious damage to property, to endanger someone's life other than your own, to create a serious elf n safety risk, or to attack or disrupt an electronic system.

Re: terrorism definition

From the Terrorism Act 2000

"(1)In this Act “terrorism” means the use or threat of action where—(a)the action falls within subsection (2),(b)the use or threat is designed to influence the government or an international governmental organisation or to intimidate the public or a section of the public, and(c)the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.

"(2)Action falls within this subsection if it—

"[..snip...]

"(e)is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system."

So yes, what Anonymous did most certainly is "terrorism" according to the law of this country.

Re: Huh

I think he wants you to look at the £111 / £152 Amazon Kindle

This is why you might want it

On a fondleslab, and this applies to decent Android variants as well as the iPad, you can be reading this site in less than a second from picking it up off the table. With a netbook, you have to switch it on, wait for it to boot up, click on the browser shortcut, wait for it to load up, then you can go and visit El Reg.

The petition should achieve something

Yes the subject of what to do with the rioters will be debated in parliament. Tomorrow in fact.

However, the possibility of withdrawing their benefits might not have been discussed without this petition. Given that the website has now crashed under the load of people wanting to sign it, it might not have managed to get the 100,000 signatures, or even if it has, David Cameron might not be able to get on there tomorrow morning to see if it has, but that possibility should now be discussed.

As to what to do with them once they need food, I suggest opening up a few workhouses for them.

Re: Fake batteries

If it is described as a Sony battery, and it isn't made by Sony, then it is an illegal fake. If it is merely described as a battery suitable for use on a particular Sony laptop, then provided it does work it isn't a fake, it is a compatible product. It may violate some patents, but trading standards doesn't get involved in that.