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  1. Re:So? on Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio · · Score: 2

    Monitoring Police radio traffic is illegal in the UK, and has been for a long time...

    We do not have an explicit constitution that gives us freedom of speech, but we do have the right to speak freely

    You have the right to freedom of speech, unless it offends someone, or slanders someone, or your government objects, or it is considered terrorism, or....

    See: Abu Qatada, Terror suspect, in several countries, but we cannot expel him, and he is out on bail... in the USA he would be in Gitmo and have no semblance freedom of speech

  2. Re:So? on Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio · · Score: 2

    You cannot intercept police radio traffic, this is illegal in most of the world ...

    The exception is the USA, currently

  3. Re:Any rational programmer is anti-JS on Ask Slashdot: Making JavaScript Tolerable For a Dyed-in-the-Wool C/C++/Java Guy? · · Score: 1

    As always learn the basics of all the usual suspects, learn at least one if depth, preferably more than one

    Then use the most appropriate one for the current project ...

    The OP is of the "I'm a C/C++ programmer, how do I use Javascript to program in C++ ..." school ...

  4. Re:Going down in flames on Ask Slashdot: Making JavaScript Tolerable For a Dyed-in-the-Wool C/C++/Java Guy? · · Score: 1

    Go and have a look at Scheme or Haskell, and you will start to appreciate that the languages you know already C/C++/Java are nearly identical in comparison, and Javascript isn't so stange after all ...

    It's a bit like saying you are worldly wise but have never left the USA, and you are new in Canada and it's very strange ...

  5. Re:Depression on Water Droplets In Orbit On the International Space Station · · Score: 1

    We now have private companies nearly able to take people on joyrides into near earth orbit, which 6 or more governments can already do ...

    They are simply catching up with where we were in the 50's and 60's ... but (a bit) cheaper

    They have no plans to do any more than joyrides, because that is what people are willing and able to pay for ...

  6. Re:Depression on Water Droplets In Orbit On the International Space Station · · Score: 2

    The furthest man has ever been from the Earth is into orbit around the moon ... and we last did that 40 years ago ...

    24 people have been out of near earth orbit ... and none of these were in the last 40 years ...

    Moon rocket : Retired
    Supersonic Passenger Jet : Retired
    Fastest Production Aircraft : Retired

  7. Re:Melt on Lake Vostok Reached · · Score: 1

    ...and they started drilling at 11,444ft above sea level so the lake is actually 1,656ft below sea level.....

  8. Re:Melt on Lake Vostok Reached · · Score: 2

    They almost reached the lake in 1998 ...stopped to find a way of drilling without contaminating

    Try this :

    Go to the top of Rees Peak in the Rockies near Flagstaff, Arizona
    Arrange the temperature to never get above -10C and go down to -80C
    Do not get supplied regularly, and not at all in Winter
    Strip all the moisture from the air
    Increase the Wind speed so that it always blows at a minimum of 10mph and often goes up to 60mph ...and see how quickly you can drill ...

  9. Re:how about more people? on Aussies Could Use Elephants To Fight Invasive Species · · Score: 1

    Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada - Have a surprising large amount of water, or have it piped in, and quite low populations

    The Middle east, had very low disbursed populations, except where water was available, now the few cities have very expensive desalination plants paid for by oil money ...

    Australia has a vast centre with low to no rainfall, that supported an extremely disbursed population, and can and does support small scattered communities, but there is no way of building large communities without water...

    The amount of water available in central Australia is very low, you don't get scrub, and trees, you get true desert vegetation ... crops are not an option ...

  10. Re:Avast runs fine thanks... on Symantec Identifies Android Trojans That Mutate With Every Download · · Score: 1

    Norton Mobile, slow you phone down and annoy you, for a cost, to protect yourself against stupidity...

    How many viruses can infect my phone if I never download the crapware that they need to do this ...Dancing Bunnies do not interest me

  11. Re:Airplanes? on The Engineer Who Stopped Airplanes From Flying Into Mountains · · Score: 1

    It didn't ...

    Airplane : USA Only
    Aeroplane : The rest of the world ...

    By the way Red Hot Chili Peppers seem to think it is spelt Aeroplane ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroplane_(Red_Hot_Chili_Peppers_song)

  12. Re:The reason on Wikipedia Chooses Lua As Its New Template Language · · Score: 1

    Javascript is a well known scripting language and has been made into a reasonable one because it is used a lot ...but it is not a good language

    Lua was designed as an embedded scripting language, and is very good at it, but is not a general purpose scripting language

    Now look at the the scripting languages people use outside Web sites and JavaScript is almost unheard of ...there is a reason for this

  13. Re:Wrong problem on Wikipedia Chooses Lua As Its New Template Language · · Score: 2

    The problem you are seeing is with the editor you are using ....not with MediaWiki..

    Try dragging a URL into a text editor and it will fail ...what a surprise ?

  14. Re:Raw- or OOP-base Lua? on Wikipedia Chooses Lua As Its New Template Language · · Score: 1

    Roll on Apache 2.3 it has Lua scripting built in ....forget implementing Lua in PHP, if you really want to you could implement PHP in Lua ...

  15. Re:Uhh, goats? on Aussies Could Use Elephants To Fight Invasive Species · · Score: 1

    The thing Australia is lacking that goats need is water ...

    The Elephants are few enough in number that it can be supplied, and they can be managed to only eat the invasive species, goats eat everything ...

  16. Re:how about more people? on Aussies Could Use Elephants To Fight Invasive Species · · Score: 3, Informative

    Have you been to Australia?

    The majority of people live in big sprawling cities by the coast, for the reason that the rest of the country is an arid desert ...

    Any city built inland would run out of water very quickly .... Imagine Las Vegas, but without a water supply ...

  17. Re:Piracy: Free Advertising on Angry Birds Boss Credits Piracy For Popularity Boost · · Score: 2

    A good musician can make music on any instrument, but a virtuoso is normally only proficient on one instrument ..

    A professional should be able to design in any package, but a designer with in depth knowledge of a particular package will be able to use it to produce the same more quickly and in a way that is easier to maintain ...

  18. Re:That's unpossible! on Angry Birds Boss Credits Piracy For Popularity Boost · · Score: 1

    Nothing, it is worth every penny most people paid for it.... it is a free game

    You can buy it to get rid of the Ads, but I got bored with it before the ads became annoying, like most of these games

    But it has a limited life, like most games, and no amount of new editions will make it last for ever

    The reason copies are easy is because it is a relatively simple game to copy, and very invasive so a version that works as well and does not as for all possible information is a draw ...

  19. Re:Dying from lack of surprise... on White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    The Founding fathers were universally, Rich, Owned land and property, and slaves ...

    They mostly wanted to keep dictators (and royalty), out of positions of power

    The document they wrote was the Constitution, which had to have the Bill of rights added to it to make it actually preserve most of the freedoms people are talking about ...

  20. Re:Legality? on Foreign Data Unsafe From US Patriot Act, Says American Law Firm · · Score: 1

    Powerful - Maybe? China has Jets, Tanks, and an active space program as well as a well trained army ...

    Advanced/Technical - Probably?

    Enough Nukes to kill most everyone - Yes China has enough to do this as well ...But then so do the UK and France ...and they have very technically advanced (but woefully underfunded) armies ...

  21. Re:let me answer that with a question on DARPA Targets Computing's Achilles Heel: Power · · Score: 1

    Computers have been faster than brains for most of their history, the thing that seems to matter is not speed but connections ...

    Computers still have relatively limited numbers of these (compared to brains)

    More of what we have now does not seem to be the solution, we are just getting power-hungry behemoths, that are very good at hyper-complex tasks but still no good at what we think is simple...

    Moores Law has a limit, we are nearly at the atomic scale and Quantum effects are becoming more and more of an issue ... more of the same is not an option

    We also have AI researchers who are using relatively simple but highly connected machines that can outperform most supercomputers at some tasks .....

  22. Re:Zeig Heil on DHS Sends Tourists Home Over Twitter Jokes · · Score: 2

    Try a French, German, etc ... speaking country instead ... where there is a similar level of Xenophobia in a small number of people ...

    What we call Anglo-Saxon were actually made up of Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisii and Franks - i.e. most of northern and mid Europe

    The people of the USA, are a mix of the same people with a proportion of Eastern Europeans, Africans, Spanish, Mexicans, and of course Natives ...and they are still quite Xenophobic ...

    It's nothing to do with speaking English, or Being of Celtic/Nordic stock ... it has a lot to do with any division of them and us ... (e.g. Japan is very friendly to foreigners, who are a minority and not considered a threat, but have a long history of suppressing the Ainu, who to westerners look the same as most Japanese)

  23. Re:let me answer that with a question on DARPA Targets Computing's Achilles Heel: Power · · Score: 1

    Exaflop computer

        - limited by power constraints (as per this article)
        - limited by connectivity (nowhere near as many connections as a neurone)
        - limited by lack of unit repair (has downtime when repair needed)
        - limited by possibility of rogue programs, and damage

    Slow neurones and the slow links between them don't actually seem to be an issue ...?

    Seems more limited than a brain to me ...?

  24. Re:Alarmist on Foreign Data Unsafe From US Patriot Act, Says American Law Firm · · Score: 1

    If the USA nuked anyone for *almost* any reason, then they would really know what being a globally shunned would be like

    Forget agreements, they would be cancelled overnight ...

    Nuking a nuclear country is not an option, Nuking a non-nuclear country is counter productive ... that leaves no-one ...

  25. Re:Business Opportunity on Foreign Data Unsafe From US Patriot Act, Says American Law Firm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Two words Julian Assange ...No US server, no connections to US companies, all hosted in US unfriendly countries ...

    He tried this, and look what happened ...