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US puts Assange charge in too-hard basket - report

Wednesday 27th November 2013 10:00 GMT pr783

It was only the rape charge has was scared of. He was never really scared of extradition to the US, for if he had been, he would scarcely have come to the UK, the US's closest ally, a country with a much more watertight extradition deal with the US than Sweden has.

The risks of extradition from the UK to US were always at least as high, and by any reasonable standard much higher, than those from Sweden.

Sweden's extradition treaty to the US specifically excludes political offences, which means spying. Even now Sweden is refusing to extradite to the US a US citizen accused of spying on Americans on behalf of Cuba.

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FLABBER-JASTED: It's 'jif', NOT '.gif', says man who should know

Wednesday 22nd May 2013 16:06 GMT pr783

Re: Apologies to Izzard

The American pronunciation is more like "toe-may-do".

The "herb"/"erb" thing is funny, though doesn't really make a lot of sense because it's not like we pronounce the "h" in "honour"... and I think "erb" was the original pronunciation (taken from French), although if you go back enough centuries, all the "h"s in French were originally pronounced, so in that sense, "herb" with "h" is original.

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Wednesday 22nd May 2013 15:28 GMT pr783

Acronyms' pronunciations are not based on the original words

Why does everyone think that? It's never worked that way.

ROM isn't "Rome". WYSYWIG isn't unpronounceable. CUNY isn't pronounced with an "s", even though it's the City University of New York.

Normally, a C before E, I, Y, or a G before E, I, Y, is pronounced soft - like S or J respectively. That said, there are so many exceptions (to the G rule especially) - "get" and "give", for instance - that it's difficult for Team Jif to rely on the rules of the English language to support their case.

But all these people saying that "Jif" means we have to say "Jraphics" are lunatics.

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Sinofsky shows off Windows 8 on ARM and Office15

Friday 10th February 2012 11:43 GMT pr783

Minicomputers?

Actually, a minicomputer is somewhere in between a mainframe and a microcomputer. A PC is an example of a microcomputer.

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California Do-Not-Track web privacy law moves forward

Wednesday 4th May 2011 15:12 GMT pr783

IE 9 has DNT, too

You write: "Microsoft offered the option of creating lists of blocked sites in Internet Explorer 9 while leaving the way open for an header approach in IE."

Actually, IE 9 already implements the header approach. Once you add a tracking protection list, IE 9 will start automatically sending the "DNT: 1" header to all those sites that aren't allowed to track you.

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