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  1. still dropped by more in the US than UK on U.S. Gas Prices Continue To Fall · · Score: 1

    we've dropped about 10p in last 3 weeks, yes once again we're getting stuffed royaly in the UK.

    (£1.30 a litre is the cheapest I can find anywhere. $7.63 a US Gallon)

  2. Tom Sharp's Riotous Assembly on NY Times: 'FBI Foils Its Own Terrorist Plots' · · Score: 1

    Seems someone at the FBI has been reading Tom Sharp's Riotous Assembly..... now if ALL the threats are suddenly undercover FBI/CIA each not knowing each other actual status, and trying to outdo each other to gain credibility with the others you have the main plot line exactly!

  3. Fbw and lack of feedback ... on Fly-By-Wire Contributed To Air France 447 Disaster · · Score: 1

    The sticks dont follow either ie if rhe copilot pushes forward the pilot gets no feedback on his stick this is happening. This was an issue here not fbw itself.

    Other factors at play also of course

  4. UK/Europe on US Unhappy With Australians Storing Data On Australian Shores · · Score: 1

    has the same issues, even "Safe harbour" isn't useful to us as NSL dolled out under Patriot Act etc make a nonsense of this.
    We'll keeps our own data thanks until you get some decent data protection legislation thats worth anything

  5. Re:Kodak's Future... on Kodak Sues HTC and Apple · · Score: 1

    going the way of SCO (and look where that ended up) - as already stated. Seems the accountants now running the place have only one place left to try and find some income. Sad.

  6. Well done BBC on Solo Explorer Begins Bicycle Journey To South Pole · · Score: 1

    For keeping childrens TV interesting and alive and keeping the spirit of this long live tv programme going for over 53 years!

    this is a prime children's tv program doing a challenge to raise money for a charity called sport relief

    Well done and we wish Helen God speed

  7. Fracking already linked in the UK on Earthquakes That May Be Related To Fracking Close Ohio Oil Well · · Score: 1

    Fracking has already been linked as the most likely cause of earthquakes in and around the seaside town of Blackpool. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-15550458.

  8. UK as well please on US Bans Loud Commercials · · Score: 1

    Good, can we now have sense from Ofcom to force Sky and I note certain freeview channels to do the same.

  9. Data Protection legislation on Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    is required (ala UK/EU) and of course a Data protection commission with real teeth (ie unlike the current UK situation).

    So that's personal data sorted from a policy and law requirement. Now to get to the issue if greater security. - involves constant testing/pen testing/patching and machine sure a decent ISO27001/2 standards are used, which means the application AND the backend infrastructure.

    All you can you can is mitigate risks, not completely remove them.

    Clouds don't make this any better worse, just mean you have to be more careful as to how you define security, check/audit and continue the process with vendors of your choice, just like any sub-contract be it manufacuring widgets, off-shoring call-centres and so on. You'll still need a large percentage of man-hours to manage the relationship which alot of people don't take into account!

  10. Re:Just a matter of time... on MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners · · Score: 1

    just plain old bad driving, you could make the yellow (amber) light last 2 minutes and you'd still get people trying for a darwin award when the light goes to red.

    the lights green, whats going to happen to it... its will at some stage turn to a red light, it's not rocket science. If you drive with no anticipation towards a green light this is plan ole bad driving - end of.

  11. Re:Just a matter of time... on MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners · · Score: 1

    not in the UK I live in.

  12. take a British invention and make it BIGGER!! on Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator · · Score: 1
  13. video AND audio recording on Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015 · · Score: 1

    I live just a few miles north of Oxford and whats more worrying to most is the fact that the camera will also record audio which seems to be a major shift in whats going to be held and who is will be accessible by.

    Student discussions is one thing, but if conversations containing commercial or political (local or national) nature is being recorded inadvertantly and help who can get at this stuff - newpapers won't need to 'hack' voicemails anymore just give the taxi drivers a few quid!

    I hope along with the cameras there are BIG signs reminding you that you are being recorded for video AND audio.

  14. Re:So that's Google's master plan on Android ICS Will Require 16GB RAM To Compile · · Score: 1

    or use several AWS instances ;-)

  15. startup time or time to be usuable? on Early Speed Tests For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    surely we should bne thinking about time to be usuable once logged in? We all know Windows doesn't start alot of things till after user login (first used in NT4), so this is what we should be measuring, not how quick it gets to login screen. Reading the article they COULD be using this test but it's not clear.

    Also things like with WIndows you NEED some sort of anti-virus installed as well so again not that real world, but looking encouraging and we'll see how many of the extra features not yet implemented impact this.

  16. Re:Perspectives from a British CS graduate on British CS Majors Doing Badly In the Jobs Market · · Score: 1

    yup we need more detail on the Comp Sciences split - Computer Studies, IT, Business computing, Computer games != Computer Science
    I know several Computer Studies courses you can pass without getting anywhere near writing code or understand programming at all.

  17. Computer scienceS - NB last character on British CS Majors Doing Badly In the Jobs Market · · Score: 1

    From what I can see this data include Computer Studies and Computer Science, These are diff degrees in the UK. You can quite easily get a Comp Studies (esp from a ex-poly) without touching a line of code and just know how to drive Photoshop. dreamweaver etc.

    The data needs more detail to split out a proper Comp Sci degree from the Studies degrees

  18. UK does mobile fingerprint already on Police To Begin iPhone Iris Scans · · Score: 2

    One small step ahead of the kit readily available the UK police for a while now.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8549875.stm

    Of course we've got decent Data Protection Legislation and one dat we'll get a DPC with teeth to enforce them !

  19. Re:UK govmt still hugely IE6 on IE6 Still Going Strong In China · · Score: 1

    yup I meant SSL V3 - thanks for the correction.

    Still horrendous that many of the UK gvmt are still on IE6, usually as they have so many stupid apps written that break if up don't use IE6. yes IE7 or 8 break the apps as well cos the devs used so many IE6 specifics.

  20. UK govmt still hugely IE6 on IE6 Still Going Strong In China · · Score: 1

    Still using alot of IE6 even pre SP1 so SSL v2 doesn't work and they are wanting to use more and more 'cloud' solutions in their IT strategy #fail

  21. slashdotted? on Google's Slideshow of Interesting Things · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh dear we seem to have broke Google, ah well back to work then ;-)

  22. see also BBCs iPlayer P2P version on Bittorrent To Replace Standard Downloads? · · Score: 1

    Probably 'cos everyone (!) remembers the P2P version of the BBC's iPlayer http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/08/isps-to-bbc-we-throttle-iplayer-unless-you-pay-up.ars and the wonderful effect it had on many an ISP in the UK.

    Using P2P distribtuions for very large traffic usages is still a bad idea for the same reasons as it was three years ago.

  23. Re:200 text messages a day?! on Texting On the Rise In the US · · Score: 1

    in the Uk unlimited txt plans aren't unusual, or even for pay-as-you-go have very small per txt fees even free if you top up by £x per month

  24. Welcome to the year 2000 USA! on Texting On the Rise In the US · · Score: 3, Informative

    For me in the UK I would prob say this happened around the year 2000 if not before. So this prob means litres, kilograms, meters and ISO paper is just around the corner for the USA soon then :-)

  25. honey bees mssing on German Airports Use Bees To Monitor Air Quality · · Score: 1

    oh so that's where all the bees have gone to....http://viewzone2.com/lostbeesx.html