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Comment Re:Poor Summary (Score 1) 227

by gdr on Thursday November 15, 2012 @10:31AM (#41991207) Attached to: Climate Treaty Negotiators Are Taking the Wrong Approach, Say Game Theorists

" ... a minimum of €150 in the main pool had to be collected ..."

Actually 150 chips not 150 euros (otherwise why bother to contribute at all, the cost will be the same either way).

Comment Re:strange (Score 1) 173

by gdr on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @12:53PM (#41753839) Attached to: EC Sends Statement of Objections To Microsoft For Violating Anti-Trust Agreement

Wikipedia lists the operating systems supported for quite a few (but almost certainly not all) web browsers.

Comment Re:Compensatory depletion (Score 4, Funny) 158

by gdr on Thursday August 09, 2012 @10:59AM (#40931551) Attached to: Baskerville Is the Greatest Font, Statistically, Says Filmmaker Errol Morris

Every time I ever get an email or printout using Comic Sans it's from a woman. I got a name sign for my cubical in Comic Sans and I had to print myself a new one because I don't work in a f***ing kindergarten.

Comment Re:The answer... (Score 1) 559

by gdr on Thursday August 02, 2012 @06:50AM (#40853975) Attached to: The Tricky Science of Olympic Gender Testing

Exactly, and you could introduce suitable categories in to the paralympics for those who are "cromosomally challenged". The guys at the paralympics are experts at defining who does and who doesn't have a disadvantage due to various levels of disability.

Comment Re:This is what happens with kings/queens (Score 1) 253

by gdr on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @08:29AM (#40141035) Attached to: Microsoft Wrongly Gives Britain the Day Off

Sorry that should be the first sentence of the Wikipedia article: "His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936".

Comment Re:This is what happens with kings/queens (Score 2) 253

by gdr on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @08:25AM (#40141015) Attached to: Microsoft Wrongly Gives Britain the Day Off

First sentence of the article linked to (emphasis mine):

"His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6 c. 3) was the Act of the British Parliament that allowed King Edward VIII to abdicate the throne ..."

The Act did not remove the monarch, it allowed him to abdicate.

Comment Re:Pot, kettle, black (Score 1) 441

by gdr on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @04:14AM (#38352872) Attached to: North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek presents an argument why collectivism inevitably leads to this kind of feudal system.

Comment Re:Can we close Fox News yet? (Score 1) 268

by gdr on Friday July 08, 2011 @10:25AM (#36694298) Attached to: Voicemail Hack Scandal Leads To Closure of UK Tabloid

You do know that the original DW was canceled in 1989?

Comment Re:Can we close Fox News yet? (Score 1) 268

by gdr on Friday July 08, 2011 @07:49AM (#36692794) Attached to: Voicemail Hack Scandal Leads To Closure of UK Tabloid

Yes because the BBC wouldn't cancel a popular show that had been running for over 20 years on the whim of the Director General. Oh wait, they did with Doctor Who. The BBC is less accountable to viewers because they don't have to listen to them.

Comment Re:Some justification to fining Spamhaus (Score 2, Insightful) 378

by gdr on Wednesday June 16, 2010 @01:26PM (#32592196) Attached to: Spamhaus Fine Reduced From $11.7M To $27K

Newspapers are "opt-in" (you don't have to buy them) and they can still be sued for libel.

Comment Re:These numbers look about right (Score 1) 596

by gdr on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @01:32PM (#22490294) Attached to: Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize

50/3600 = 0.0139 ft lb per second not 0.0139 HP, you need to divide by 550 giving you about 20 mW.

Submission + - Main UK opposition party talking OSS

Submitted by

twofish

on Monday March 12, 2007 @02:38PM

twofish writes: "The user of open source software in European government got another boost recently when shadow Chancellor George Osborne told the Royal Society of Arts he wanted to create a level playing field for open source software in the UK. He has estimated that the British government could save more than £600 million a year if it used more open source software, according to this short article on the BBC website."

Submission + - UK Conservatives want Open Source

Submitted by

aileanmacraith

on Thursday March 08, 2007 @05:29PM

aileanmacraith writes: "According to an article on the BBC, the Tories want to switch the UK Government to open-source software. They claim that it will save 5% of the IT expenditure and open up competition. From the article:

'[Shadow Chancellor George] Osborne said that despite a government report in 2004 saying there would be "significant savings" in hardware and software if open source software was used, many government departments had not implemented it. "The problem is that the cultural change has not taken place in government,"'.
"

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