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Comment: Re:Will they pull out of the UK (Score 1) 186

by kailoran (#36603474) Attached to: Google Pulls Paid Apps From Taiwanese Android Market
This is specifically addressed in the PDF at the site you link to, at 3.39:

Do downloads of electronic books or music from a website, or the purchase of ring tones and screen savers for mobile phones fall within the cancellation exceptions referred to above?

3.39 We consider that these examples are likely to constitute services, rather than goods as the consumer does not receive physical goods. The right to cancel are therefore those that apply to services.

Earlier they state that services that start before the end of the cancellation period are exempt in general, so it does in fact seem that there is an exemption for download-only software sales.

Comment: Re:Bait & switch (Score 1) 364

by kailoran (#34833308) Attached to: T-Mobile Slashes Fair Use Policy, Says Download At Home

3. As per UK contract legislation all T-mob customers who are affected now have 30 days to terminate the contract if they do not like it. Very few will do though - most phones on T-mob are subsidised so to terminate the contract one has to pay the balance on it (at the outrageously inflated "not-locked-in price).

What's the point of this legislation then if it doesn't protect you from inflated termination fees? Can't you always just cancel the contract and pay up?

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+ - The Pirate Party wins 2 seats in EU parliament

Submitted by while(true)
while(true) writes "The Swedish Pirate Party has secured around 7% of the country's votes in the election to the European Union parliament. This means it likely has enough votes to claim 2 seats in the parliament. The Swedish Pirate Party has as it's only agenda "to fundamentally reform copyright law, get rid of the patent system, and ensure that citizens' rights to privacy are respected"."
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+ - Swedish Pirate Party headed for Brussels->

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castrox
castrox writes "The Swedish Pirate Party gets 7.1% of the Swedish votes for the European Parliament. This means that the Pirate Party holds one seat out of a total of 18 representing Sweden. Here's to hoping they can make a difference. The make/female vote is 12/4%. The voters for the Pirate Party are also mostly under 30, but still has a big support older voters. The vote for the Pirate Party is much considered to be a protest against the sitting government and the EU."
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Comment: Re:No malloc( )s (Score 2, Informative) 587

by kailoran (#28142713) Attached to: Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support
Not only did you not get the joke, you also have some misconceptions about how the Java GC works. There is no counter, instead the program state is analysed for unreachable objects. Also, memory is not freed immediately, but some unspecified time later (i.e. during the next GC cycle)

Comment: WTF, intellectual property? (Score 5, Insightful) 71

by kailoran (#27804585) Attached to: Originality Vs. Established IP In Games
Why is everyone using "intellectual property", a catch-all phrase for trademarks, copyrights etc instead of just saying "ideas", "stories" or "settings"? I don't want to sound like RMS but it's really a dumb use of the term. The LoTR game is not based on IP, it's based on a story that happens to be protected by copyright.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies, tempered by editors. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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