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  1. Re:Ukrainian hackers? on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually, it was last weeks NCIS:LA "Zero Days", which aired 3/25/14, and involved the NCIS techies corrupting GLONASS to divert a missile aimed at San Francisco. See TVRage

  2. I'll never see these ads. on Tesco To Use Face Detection Technology For In-Store Advertising · · Score: 2

    From what I've read elsewhere, these will be placed inside the shop.
    All Tesco petrol pumps have "Pay at Pump" where a card reader is built into the pump, so there's never a need to go into the shop.

    Besides, Asda is usually a little cheaper in my area.

  3. Re:Hmmm... on Car Hackers Mess With Speedometers, Odometers, Alarms and Locks · · Score: 1

    GP probably intended to say "Required to read within +10%/-0%".
    In addition, no MOT == no insurance (also compulsory in UK), leaving the vehicle owner open to prosecution resulting in large fines, disqualification from driving, and possibly even confiscation & destruction of the vehicle.

  4. Re:Impeach Obummer. His hope and change sucks! on The CIA Is Closing the Office That Declassifies Historical Documents · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're all wrong. Bush and Obama (and all who came before for at least 100 years) are just FIGUREHEADS!
    The real power is not with elected officials at any level, but with the jobs-for-life civil servants.

    For proof I direct your attention to the BBC docu-drama "Yes, Prime Minister!"

  5. Re:The quality conrol problems... on Upside-Down Sensors Caused Proton-M Rocket Crash · · Score: 1

    Before we Americans point too many fingers, let's not forget NASA is not immune to similar mistakes.

    The company I work for made the Mass Spectrometer that NASA used to sift the spacey stuff from the deserty stuff, once they'd scraped all the bits up.

  6. Re:The EFF's argument makes sense. on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 2

    But she is being asked to enter the password, not share what the password is. So she can tell her lawyer, who will go over to the laptop and type it in without anyone looking. Thus its unlocked, and the police don't know the password.

    Unless of course the police installed a keylogger before making their demand ^H^H^H request.

  7. Bitcoin is dangerous on Bitcoin Used For the Narcotics Trade · · Score: 1

    Says the Senator for Paypal.

  8. I'm waiting... on LimeWire Sued Again, Publishers Seek $150,000 Per Song · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For an artist to sue their own record company for $150,000 per song.

  9. Re:Missed opportunity on UK Space Agency Launched · · Score: 1

    Nah, They should have used the British Experimental Rocket Group. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quatermass_Experiment (How do I embed the URL into the text like that?)

  10. Re:FFSSP on Is Playing a DVD Harder Than Rocket Science? · · Score: 1

    NASA bought "modded" DVD players (ie: region-free converted) from a firm in England for use aboard the ISS.

  11. Re:first post! on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 2, Informative

    People learning a fictional language?!? WTF?!?

    Try telling that to folks who speak Esperanto

    IIRC, there are now more Klingon speakers than Esperanto ones.

  12. Re:Still the same color scheme on Ubuntu 9.04 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, too bad they don't include any other themes, or any way to change it. Someone should look into that.

    1: Go to www.gnomelook.org or www.ubuntu-art.org
    2: Download a theme you like.
    3: Open System/Preferences/Appearance from the menu.
    4: Click Install & navigate to file you downloaded in #2.
    5: ???
    6: Profit!

  13. RIP on D&D Co-Creator Dave Arneson Dies of Cancer · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are in a small wooden box, there are no exits. (Yes, I know it was already used for Gygax)

  14. Saw this coming 14 years ago! on No More D&D PDFs, Wizards of the Coast Sues 8 File Sharers · · Score: 1

    Back in 1995, WotC sponsored the program booklet for that year's Worldcon, held in Glasgow, Scotland. Due to a typo, over 5000 such booklets were printed claiming to have been sponsored by "Wizards of the Cost".