Mars is only about 10% of Earth surface gravity, so kate, posh-spice and the rest of them would float off.

Re: …And we still have no idea what these patents are

Odd that Android devices would violate the patents but iOS doesn't.

I wonder if MSFT is demanding a royalty for every ipod/pad/phone Foxconn make

Re: super

You mean it only made it to suffolk?

Re: Certs, the future of security...?

The SSL CA model never worked - it was based on the idea that companies which made money from selling the most SSL CA would be in charge of policing that only legitimate customers bought them

It's as crazy as subcontracting out the maintenance of a railway to a company that made a bigger profit by doing less maintenance - nobody would be that stupid.

Re: This seems like the opposite of open source...

No Mozilla is saying that this telco has signed root CAs for dodgy countries that allow them to fake being any site they want - Mozilla is going to stop trusting all CA signed by this ISP.

But how do you know you are going to the real www.grc.com if your ISP has sold root CAs to everybody+dog?

Re: Dynamic Balancing already exists

The energy stored in a flywheel all depends on storing a lot of mass at the outer edge of the rim, water probably isn't heavy enough. Mercury or molten lead would be good - but might have their own problems

Re: 51% to 49% is hardly a sweeping victory

Thatcher was a lefty.

Just compare her policies with the subsequent labour government - completely indistiguishable

Re: Ah, another patent encumbered format

"I also see no particular reason why something that represents man-decades of work shouldn't require payment"

But it's an international standard and requires payments even if you do all the work yourself.

The meter required decades of work by French astronomers - but you don't have to pay the French government if you use the international standard today

Re: Languages? Its not just that

> I guess 20 years ago, SW was less diversified, and the skill base was small.

Nope once upon a time software was more diversified

In college I couldn't get a job coding because I knew VMS and DOS - but business would have one of a dozen different mainframe/minis, or if they used PCs could have one of a dozen different databases, there was even a few Apple II based businesses.

Now I can hire a high school student, they are going to be comfortable in Windows or Linux, they will be able to program in either C#/.net or c/c+/gcc.

I have hired 18year olds with 5years of Linux sysadmin experience. Yes they don't have the professionalism of somebody with 30years of mainframe experience - but it does break the no experience=no job/no job = no experience bottleneck.

Re: err..

Apple products can't be sold in Iran because of American law, I doubt there is an Iranian law against it.

Contrary to what some Merkins beleive, Merkin law doesn't apply outside Merkia

IIRC, back in the day before Murdoch owned the UK government, some people got off on a charge of selling hacked sat keycards because the channel wasn't legally available in the UK - therefore they hadn't defrauded anyone of anything

Re: They bought a stolen laptop.

If he gave it to them - is he know in trouble for supplying technology to an axis-of-naughty country?

My XenServer update just asked me to confirm that not only am I not in Cuba but I won't let any Cuban national use it - a bit odd for a package developed in Cambridge

Re: Have they tried...

TPB do have standards - they don't want to be associated with criminals

Re: Every so often a market develops around something improbable

"I can be almost certain that the dollar / pound / yen isn't going to double or halve its value in that time"

Your euros might if they were in a Cypriot bank.

Your icelandic Krona pretty much did when they decided they weren't going to pay up

Your Iranian whatevers might become worthless if the USA decides you to impose some freedom.

Re: Non-scammable?

Is there any currency that supports chargebacks?

Remember this is a currency not a payment processor.

Re: why is it illegal?

>Because they entice/encourage illegal behaviour.

So do BMWs

Re: road congestion

Alternatively you could spend a squillion pounds on a high speed rail link to allow them to live in Birmingham and travel to London to sit at a computer

Re: Where does the carbon go?

It will all be turned into laser printer toner to keep up with the demand if you keep writing Flüssigmetallblasensäulenreaktors everywhere

Re: pointless stupidity

Alternatively if we burnt all the C to produce lots of CO2 and destroyed the nasty toxic oxygen we could return the planet to it's natural pristine state.

I for one welcome out blue-green algae overlords

Re: Well at least it's almost science

No it's more like claiming that Apollo was a major scientific experiment when they dropped a hammer and a feather and they fell at the same time - so testing that Newtonian gravity also worked on the moon.

Otherwise it's like repeating the Michelson-Morley experiment in Houston to check if the aether exists in the confederacy

Re: Probably an Idiot

Possibly even more worrying that the secret inteligence services of a european nuclear power is staffed by such weapons-grade morons.

On the other hand it is nice to discover we have something in common with the French

Re: What’s the point?

> The royalty revenue will continue as long as the copy is available, and, if that is for ever, why should that be a problem?

Because the library load royalty ( a few pennies) goes to the author.

When a library buys a hardback, the 20quid goes to the publisher - and a few pennies gets passed on to the author.

Re: RIP Mrs T

There is a typo:

I have to agree, it is only a shame that the later governments left a whole generation still with the attitude that the state owed them a living this time on bailouts........

Re: At least two sides to this story

That's true - when Darfield main closed I begged our dad to move to Canary Wharf and become a foreign exchange dealer but he were just to workshy and feckless to leave Barnsley and spent the next 20years looking for odd bits of part time work

Re: I await RyanAir's response with interest

Don't forget the http recycling fee charged on all those bytes you dump on their servers

My cell phone company over here in the off-world colonies adds a $7.95 "system access fee" to my monthly bill

Re: Privatised Education

No just privatize the loans. Then the banks can take the decision if it's worth the risk of giving you the loan to do media studies in Barnsley or whether they should only fund engineering at Imperial.

Funnily enough that would see an immediate return to the socialist 80s system of rich Annabel's doing art history at Cambridge and clever kids from comprehensives doing engineering at Imperial - but decided by the market.

Re: The drop out rate

So did the uni close the unproductive physics dept for failing to achieve it's "student output curve goal scenario" or did they just tell them to pass everyone?

Re: It ain't what you do, its where you do it.

There is at least a reason behind it.

If you just want N warm bodies for your management training scheme then requiring a degree means you have fewer CVs to read through and at least a reasonable chance that they can read and write.

If you want a smaller N, then requiring a degree from a top tier uni means that somebody else (their admissions tutors) has already done the sorting for you. Assuming you want a mixture of clever students, people with the right daddy and good rowers/rugby players - which is what most of British management runs on anyway

Re: It's looking that way in the U.S. too

It's much safer than having humans touch it.

There is less chance of cross-species transfer from lawyers

Re: Mostly harmless

>western leaders held accountable???

To be fair, one of the leaders convicted by the ICC was european = Admiral Doenitz

So if you lose a war against the Americans you can expect justice

Re: HOW DARE U CENSOR ME

A perfectly encrypted message would be indistiguishable from random noise.

Similarly a perfectly random stream of gibberish would allow for perfectly encrypted messages.

Perhaps the OP is actually just a source of random OTP data?

Re: RSVP ..... to a Real Live Phish BetaTesting UKGBNI Intelligence Services .....

>part of the US military, governmental and globo-corp establishment

Those are the most paranoid - who has most to fear from the NSA reading their email? The CIA/army/FBI and other agencies that compete with them for funding and political power

Re: NO

Industrial diamonds are synthetic and fashion accessory is subject to fashion.

Until the mid C19 diamonds weren't the most prized gemstone - rubies were - it would only take somebody with a bigger ad budget than de Beers to make diamonds worthless

Re: Beano

Just think of Eire as an offsite backup of the UK

Re: Devious and Disgusting

>if in the court's opinion the subject looks underage, even if you can prove that they are not.

So what about Angus Young - ACDC's not-so-young school uniform wearer?

Re: Try reading the damn article

It did indirectly.

Banking is a global business, if a British bank's shareholders ask why it isn't making the 10% returns that it's American competitors are by selling subprime mortgages, Mayfly futures and magic bean funds - it has to start doing more than lending only to the nice 40year old couple who want a tiny mortgage.

Re: Bollocks

The generation currently retiring might have - but the previous generation didn't.

Most women didn't work so the longest living half of the pensioners, paid no tax and no NI, many of the men were manual workers who paid no NI before the 60s

If you are in the generation that partook of WWII it's likely you were a massive net loss to the welfare system

Re: Mixed lessons from history?

At least we had the decency to hire the Nazi scientists and get them to build copies of their rockets instead of doing the copying ourselves.