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  1. Re:But... on UK Criminals Use Drones To Case Burglary Prospects · · Score: 2

    I do find it funny that I can go to the park and fly my F450 clone with 10 inch props legally as long as it's safe, but my mate technically can't do the same with his tiny hubsan X4 without a 30 meter exclusion zone on take off or landing, purely because his has a camera on it.

    PS. Slashot is still around. Holy crap.

  2. DRM on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Just split up your encrypted files into 4mb chunks, give them names like Britney.aac and say you can't provide a key to these files on your own computer because doing so would be in violation of the DMCA...

    Not really trying to be funny here, who really "owns" a file if it is on your hard drive?

  3. Re:Then maybe I shouldn't say... on In the UK, Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook Is Terrorism · · Score: 1

    I actually tried this when I was a kid, all I got was a smelly lump of goo that didn't do much at all. Couldn't even get it to burn!

    Hope my parents aren't reading this! :D

  4. Re:BUT I'M STARVING! on Study Proves Having Fat Friends Makes You Fat · · Score: 1

    Wow, greasy action at a distance perhaps?

  5. Re:Are you confusing calories with Calories? on Harvesting Energy from the Human Body · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think you might be confusing kilocalories with kilogram-calories :)

  6. Re:Audi & Patents on Become the Fifth Space Tourist · · Score: 1

    "You weren't impressed because you realize all of that over-engineering is what makes your car require so much maintenance."

    Hmm. Let me see - drove out of the garage from new, and doesn't need to go back until it's either 2 years old, or it's done 20k miles. Long life service *grin*

    Although I do see your point. They replaced the handbrake with a switch thing which is presumably linked to a motor. One more thing to fail and when it does, I better have some wheel chocks handy!

    Over-engineered, yes - but doesn't seem to need much maintenance.

  7. Audi & Patents on Become the Fifth Space Tourist · · Score: 1

    ... As an audi owner and general geek I wasn't impressed at all with the fairly recent adverts proclaiming the sheer number of patents that were involved in designing my car. See here (not my blog).

    Seems like they are really going for this patent thing with this competition, too. I wouldn't be suprised if the winner had to write something about Audi's patents :)

  8. Availability in Europe on iPhone, Apple TV Headline MacWorld Keynote · · Score: 1

    Looks like we won't be getting it until the end of the year - but hopefully that will mean 3G instead of EDGE for those of us in the UK! I don't know if my Treo is going to last that long...

  9. Calm down, people on Researchers Find Potential Cure for Cancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's only a cure for cancer, not a new operating system!

  10. Re:Low quality, high price? No thanks! on Sony Reader Now Available · · Score: 1

    and I'd like to listen to music with my fingers in my ears!

  11. Re:Moo on Ladies and Gentlemen, the Electronic Toilet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Congratulations - you are now officially slashdot's leading toilet expert :)

  12. Re:MS LiveDrive vs. Palm LiFeDrive... on LiveDrive vs GDrive vs Personal Data Storage? · · Score: 1

    Unlikely to be a problem, since they both spell and pronounce their product's names differently...

  13. Re:Why blame eBay management? on EBay Sellers Seek Management Change · · Score: 1

    When you sell something to someone on ebay you're allowed to use their contact details only for the purpose of that one transaction - so how do you get the message out to your thousands of previous customers?

    I am an ex-eBayer and got caught by this - got accused of spamming by more than one person, ok, fair enough, I didn't read the fine print well enough. Now I earn a real living.

    Note before I get flamed - this was a single email sent out to my existing customer base - I was NOT a spammer.

  14. Veritas... on Symantec Labels Vicars' Software as Spyware · · Score: 1

    I used to work for Veritas supporting NetBackup and still use the product on a day-to-day basis. Every time I here someone refer to it as Symantec NetBackup I cry a little. Have Symantec had *any* good press recently?

  15. Re:Push email on the Treo? on How Palm's Treo Got Boost From BlackBerry Lawsuit · · Score: 3, Informative

    www.chatteremail.com - push email works really well with my home machine running Dovocot IMAP server.

  16. Re:will it? on Apple Planning Intel iBook Debut for January? · · Score: 1

    Chances are they will not dual boot, or at least it won't be supported. BUT Virtual PC will run at almost native speed just like VMware on x86 already does. Then having both environments side by side will be possible.

  17. Re:UK has had this kinda of tech for ages on SiteKey to Prevent Phishing · · Score: 1
    The parent didn't say anything about the card reader being connected to the machine.


    I imagine it's just like an RSA style device that takes it's seed from some data stored on you bank card which generates a string that you enter into a login screen for the bank.

  18. Re:Boot times disk/network bound on Intel Developer Macs Outperform G5s · · Score: 1
    I too have contemplated this. Why can't every operation be cached for booting? A boot should be a single load of a memory dump, exactly like resuming from a hard drive.

    Macs already do this, to some extent. Check here and look under BootCache.

    I remember one Panther pack (10.3.2 perhaps) that broke this on some machines, and boot times went to nearly a minute and a half on my powerbook.

    I think it's a great compromise between hibernation and normal booting.

  19. Re:New World Order on Pentagon Creating A Database Of Students · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, your life must truly suck!

  20. Re:Expose - Slowness on Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger · · Score: 1

    I will have to take a look at gvpe, as I've not seen it before. OpenVPN works and works well for my particular needs though.

    I did spend the last couple of days trying to get Openswan / IPsec working with Tiger's built in VPN support. Got it half working, in that it works OK until my Powerbook is behind a firewall doing NAT.

    Apparently I need all sorts of weird and wonderful patches and options to support NAT traversal, whereas OpenVPN "Just Works"(tm)

  21. Re:Expose - Slowness on Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger · · Score: 1

    Walked straight into that one, didn't I!

    I actually did wonder if it was something to do with having it running off the iPod - as the machine does feel somewhat slower loading apps. But of course Expose won't be hitting disk (I would hope)

  22. Re:Expose - Slowness on Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger · · Score: 1

    That's the driver I'm using. I emailed the authour and he says that he'll be able to release a Tiger version next week when he gets the DVD.

    I did try compiling it myself just now, but it failed horribly. I have a feeling it's because the xnu module I used from opendarwin.org is from the wrong branch or something.

  23. Expose - Slowness on Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've had Tiger on my 17" powerbook for a few days now - it's actually installed on my iPod so I can dual boot.

    One thing I have noticed so far is that Expose seems a lot less fluid than in Panther. Has anyone else noticed this, or am I going mad? The difference is noticable even with only a couple of windows on the desktop.

    Other than that it seems nice. My Vodafone 3G card works, and most apps that I have tried. The only thing I can't get working yet is OpenVPN - as the TUN/TAP driver isn't ported yet.

  24. Re:Skycar on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1

    Get off my show!

  25. Simputer! on What Happened to Simputer? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Simbot: I disguised myself as a Simputer so I could rule the Indians.

    Bender: But why?

    Simbot: Why? Why? I came here from a faraway planet ruled by a chavinistic Manputer that was really a Manbot. Have you any idea how it feels to be a Simbot living in a Manbot's Manputer's world?