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Comment Re:Spain, Italy and Greece (Score 1) 353

by zou258 on Friday April 13, 2012 @05:10PM (#39679495) Attached to: Portugal Is Considering a "Terabyte Tax"

In France, this idiotic law was passed more than two years ago under the name "private copy tax". See
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copie_priv%C3%A9e
http://www.chere-copie-privee.org/ (sorry it's all in French)

1Tb USB external HD -> tax=20euro
100Gb USB stick -> tax=12.50euro

As a daddy who uses hard drives to store family camcorder vids, I strongly resent this.

Comment Old news (Score 2) 64

by zou258 on Sunday June 12, 2011 @05:15PM (#36419778) Attached to: NASA's Aquarius Launched To Help Map the Oceans' Salt

The Aquarius/SAC-D salinity-sensing instrument is not exactly brand-new. It is an L-band microwave radiometer based on the same principle as the one on the SMOS satellite launched in October 2009. Still, it helps to have more satellites monitoring the oceans.

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