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  1. "Peter Kirkham, a former investigating officer in the Metropolitan Police, directly contradicted claims from Home Secretary Amber Rudd last week that "by the end of this year there will be as many armed police as there have ever been.""

    In 2010, there were 6,976 armed officers in England and Wales. That had fallen by 2014 to 5,875.

  2. Why the power went out is unimportant on British Airways IT Outage Caused By Contractor Who Accidentally Switched off Power (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    The more important question is why it took the best part of two days to get things up and running again.

    As for the power outage - A UPS test to check if power transferred to battery/generator that failed maybe?

  3. Re:What's next? on A New Amiga Arrives On the Scene -- the A-EON Amiga X5000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2


    Nope, with an SD card. You'll need to supply your own tape recorder:

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next


  4. From a TV listing in The Times:

    "By train, plane and sedan chair, Peter Ustinov retraces a journey made by Mark Twain a century ago. The highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector."

  5. Insincere Dave Says... on Google and Microsoft To Crackdown On Piracy Sites In Search Results (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That should put an end to copyright infringement once and for all!

    Well done to all involved!!

  6. Re:Microsoft's collaboration problem on Microsoft Teams Launches To Take on Slack in the Workplace (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    SharePoint is where documents go to die.

  7. Re:What about a stripped down iMessage? on Apple Explains Why iMessage Isn't Coming To Android (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Perhaps this new fangled email thing they have nowadays would fit the bill?

    I believe they even have it on computers now.

  8. "Florian Mueller said...."

    Who dug this idiot up again? Next story.

  9. Danger on Why Buses Need To Be More Dangerous · · Score: 1


    All buses should have a polar bear as a passenger.

    The added excitement and danger would make bus travel more attractive to potential customers.

  10. Re:is this really still an OS anymore? on Microsoft Unhappy With Beta Testers, Demands Answers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1


    "1. But I use windows for gaming! Steam has more than 200 titles that run just fine in Linux. Popular indie games and mainstream shoot-em-ups alike. they even offer steam machines as a platform if youd rather not fuss with Ubuntu."

    I think your numbers are a bit out of date there, it's now 1652.

    https://steamdb.info/linux/

    Hopefully with Vulkan supplementing OpenGL the increase in Linux games will continue to accelerate.

  11. Re:This is good for America on Putin's Internet Czar Wants To Ban Windows On Government PCs · · Score: 1

    "While our competing companies in Russia or spending their cycles mounting the CD drive from the command line and rebuilding the kernel to fix GPU failures, we'll be adding the innovation customers in a free market would choose to buy."

    Perhaps we could innovate a functioning grammar checker?

  12. Re:Android security? lol! on Google Fixes Rooting Vulnerabilities In Android (csoonline.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    "No one will get these fixes."

    Not even the people who are mentioned in the article you're replying to? The ones with Nexus devices that the fixes were pushed out to on Monday?

  13. Re:Ask Slashdot : on Google Fixes Rooting Vulnerabilities In Android (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    You can disable the auto retrieval of MMS though.

  14. Re:Backdoors and Encryption on Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Type Clinton into the search box, it's the second story right after this one. http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/12/06/2252209/hillary-clinton-urges-silicon-valley-to-disrupt-isis

  15. Re:NSA boogeyman on Snowden Used the Linux Distro Designed For Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Just because your paranoid it doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

  16. Re:'may dissuade customers from buying items from on Amazon: We Can Ship Items Before Customers Order · · Score: 1

    "You've never ordered Himalayan salt bricks form Amazon then."

    Pfft, lucky guess.

  17. Re:Already There on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 1

    You don't seem to understand how the I.Q. scale works either. Oh dear. Perhaps this will help others understand why giving you firearms isn't such a good idea my primitive friend.

  18. Re: Already There on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 1

    You don't appear to understand how the I.Q. scale works either. Oh dear.

  19. Re:Already There on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: -1, Troll

    "I live in zero fear. Do you "live in fear" because you buckle a seatbelt in a car? No, you do so just as a precaution."

    Very few people are killed by criminals carrying seatbelts.

    I don't carry a gun around with me because I don't live in some fantasy wild-west world where having a shoot out is going to have any kind of good outcome.

  20. Re:Already There on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "You already live in that world. The only question left is if every sane and law abiding citizen should also be able to get a gun to protect themselves."

    Maybe you do.

    If you live in so much fear you feel the need to protect yourself with a gun you may want to consider moving to a more civilized part of the world.

    To many people guns are things you see on television, or occasionally carried by specially trained armed response police.

  21. Re:It's true. on What Apple Does and Doesn't Know About You · · Score: 1


    "Put the cash on the table for an iPhone or iPad: your deal is done."

    You forget the "Create ITunes account" bit.

  22. Re:Dear James Cameron: on UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations · · Score: 1

    " Dear James Cameron, You might ring Barbra Streisand and ask her how this'll work out for you. Love, The Internet "

    This thing goes deeper than you can imagine.

  23. Re:choice doesn't *require* bad defaults on Is Choice a Problem For Android? · · Score: 2

    "So either apps don't get written for android or if they do blah blah blah belm"

    Lol. Nice troll there Ian.

    http://www.phonearena.com/news/Androids-Google-Play-beats-App-Store-with-over-1-million-apps-now-officially-largest_id45680

    "Android's Google Play store has just officially reached over 1 million apps and it is now finally outgrown the Apple App Store and its 900 000 applications."

    I suppose you think PC software has to be tested on every individual PC in the world too?

    Insightful my arse.

  24. Re:Yes, and? on Report: Britain Has a Secret Middle East Web Surveillance Base · · Score: 1

    Finance has no relevance any more. What??

  25. Re:linux has bugs? on Misinterpretation of Standard Causing USB Disconnects On Resume In Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yet you still choose it as the base OS to run your appliance on. Presumably it's still better than any of the alternatives.

    All software has bugs. I'm sure plenty of device drivers written in brightly lit offices by people with smart haircuts and shiny shoes have some absolutely horrific code too. I doubt which floor you work on has any significant effect.