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  1. Re:DRTFA on After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out · · Score: 1

    I don't know how different Java is to .NET in terms of exceptions, but with .NET you get an SQLException thrown, but the Message property would just contain something succinct like "Incorrect username or password". There are also a properties giving you access to the actual error codes from the SQL Server. You can also still look at the StackTrace property to get the full stack trace if you want.

  2. Re:Share and Share Alike on OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers · · Score: 2

    The problem with OpenSSL Rampage is that a major part of their approach is basically to rip everything out of OpenSSL that isn't relevant to OpenBSD, which is generally the code relevant to platforms OpenSSL supports but OpenBSD doesn't.

  3. Re:A Contest? on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 2

    Access to space has always been a pissing contest. You would even be in space if it wasn't.

  4. Re:In the US the people running the organization on Swedish Fare Dodgers Organize Against Transportation Authorities · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Chapter 23 of the Swedish Penal Code is titled "On Attempt, Preparation, Conspiracy and Complicity".

  5. Re:ANOTHER DEAD BODY! SWEET JUSTICE! on Robbery Suspect Tracked By GPS and Killed · · Score: 2

    They're SO-15, they're a specialist armed unit (formed when they combined SO-13 with Special Branch). They only get deployed when they explicitly need armed officers.

    Also we don't have "metro police", that would British Transport Police, who are responsible for policing railways nationally, railway property, London Underground, and various other things. They're not routinely armed.

  6. Re:There's actually some validity to the GP's post on The Technical Difficulty In Porting a PS3 Game To the PS4 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Alternatively they're really good programmers who got explicitly told "make this run like shit off a shovel and don't worry about portability - this will only ever be on PS3". You can say "but we should really write portable code", but if SMT still tell you to ignore portability then you're left with either doing what you're told or quitting.

  7. Re:ANOTHER DEAD BODY! SWEET JUSTICE! on Robbery Suspect Tracked By GPS and Killed · · Score: 2

    It rarely happens. A beat officer is unlikely to ever find themselves facing a suspect armed with a firearm in the UK. Most gun crime in the UK is gang-on-gang, they seldom use guns against the police. Which isn't to say that it never happens, but when it does it's noteworthy simply because of its rarity. The other times you get armed suspect will be hostage type situations, at which point armed officers automatically get deployed anyway.

    The only place you'll find routinely armed police officers in the UK are at airports, MOD plods (civilian police responsible for policing MOD property), and the CNC (Civil Nuclear Constabulary - responsible for policing nuclear establishments in the UK).

  8. Only if their machine was part of the University's Active Directory infrastructure, as far as I know. Just being on the same network wouldn't be enough.

  9. Re:Anti-competitive on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 1

    Extremely hard, actually; it gives me an anxiety attack (things my mobile phone is never used for: making phone calls). My phone at work is on DND on the time for a reason.

  10. Re: Anti-competitive on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 1

    I'll actually just switch if I do get round to doing it. I'm not interesting in playing their games. If they have a better tariff they should have moved me to it in the first place.

  11. Re:Anti-competitive on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 1

    It's usually an option in the UK, not across the board on all contracts. Mine gives me 100 minutes and 500 text for £22.50 and I have 1GB of data on top of that which costs another £10. I can almost certainly get it cheaper, but it would take effort and mean switching provider. I probably should do it at some point.

  12. Re:Recruiting policy on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He's the CIO for a county council, when he says "staff" he means office staff and he's talking about Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows for the desktop. His entire IT department probably fits in one fairly small room. I'm frankly impressed they haven't just outsourced the whole of their IT management; it's how councils here usually seem to work. Come to think of it's it's quite possible they have and he's actually the only person who works for the council directly.

  13. Re:Microsoft Opened Themselves Up for Lawsuits on Why Microsoft Shouldn't Patch the XP Internet Explorer Flaw · · Score: 2

    I know people love car analogies, so that is a little like people suing Ford for no-longer making parts for their Model T. You have to stop supporting legacy products at some point; madness lies down the alternative route.

  14. Re:One question for the users on Amazon Turns Off In-App Purchases In iOS Comixology · · Score: 1

    I don't see how. It's always been possible to buy and view comics via the Comixology website. All they've done is remove the ability to buy via the app.

  15. It doesn't really make much difference... on Amazon Turns Off In-App Purchases In iOS Comixology · · Score: 1

    In-App purchases for Comixology haven't worked properly for me for ages, so I've always tended to buy via the website anyway.

    What I'd really like them to do is automatically download subscriptions when my iPad is plugged in and on WiFi. And also keep downloading when the screen turns itself off, under the same conditions.

  16. Re:Ukraine on Former US Test Site Sues Nuclear Nations For Disarmament Failure · · Score: 2

    Odd that. US has no problems with anyone they can call an ally beefing up their military. They complain when we talk about reducing ours (not that I mind - I work for a company that counts the MOD as one of its major clients).

  17. Re:Ukraine on Former US Test Site Sues Nuclear Nations For Disarmament Failure · · Score: 1

    Japan also has a pacifist constitution. They maintain zero offensive capabilities, bar offensive capabilities that could be repurposed. There's not much defensive about a nuclear weapon (aside from MAD arguments).

    It amuses me that we (the UK) have actually detonated about the same number of nuclear weapons as China.

  18. Re:Ukraine on Former US Test Site Sues Nuclear Nations For Disarmament Failure · · Score: 1

    Several of those countries probably don't even want them. Germany is even getting rid of nuclear reactors for power generation.

  19. Re:I can't use cloudflare, connection is insecure on Private Keys Stolen Within Hours From Heartbleed OpenSSL Site · · Score: 1

    I think my preference would be to always attempt the check and in the case of a soft-fail to indicate that there was a soft-fail so the user can still make an informed decision. Or at least a semi-informed one.

  20. Re:I can't use cloudflare, connection is insecure on Private Keys Stolen Within Hours From Heartbleed OpenSSL Site · · Score: 4, Informative

    Chrome turns the "check for revocation" option off by default, it seems.

  21. Re:It's a start on Windows 8.1 Update Released, With Improvements For Non-Touch Hardware · · Score: 1

    I have two monitors; the sidebar is on the right hand one. It mostly gets used as place to dump things I don't need to look at continuously while working or generally doing "stuff".

  22. Re:It's a start on Windows 8.1 Update Released, With Improvements For Non-Touch Hardware · · Score: 1

    I actually still use Windows Gadgets on Windows 7 - mostly an analogue clock and a set of CPU, GPU, disk, and network monitors.

  23. Re:Europe, here I come! on European Court of Justice Strikes Down Data Retention Law · · Score: 1

    These are bachelor's level (undergraduate degrees).

  24. Re:Europe, here I come! on European Court of Justice Strikes Down Data Retention Law · · Score: 1

    And the Dutch. They even teach entire university courses in English there.

  25. Re: TCO on UK Government Pays Microsoft £5.5M For Extended Support of Windows XP · · Score: 4, Funny

    Leave it on a train, probably.