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  1. Re:Playing with fire on 70 Laptops Got Left Behind At An Airport Security Checkpoint In One Month (bravotv.com) · · Score: 1

    Rule #3 don't have any critical documents or anything else you would miss on a laptop when you travel through security.

  2. Re:What danger ? on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And a woman might well have a high pressure device fitted to her shoes that would significantly increase the chances of breaking the glass. I guess some men might as well, but stilletto heels are far more likely on a woman than a man.

  3. Re:TSA Prescreen is your friend on 70 Laptops Got Left Behind At An Airport Security Checkpoint In One Month (bravotv.com) · · Score: 2

    Which is kind of funny given the USA has been finger printing all foreign visitors for quite some time.

  4. Re: Going to be dead on arrival on Nikola Motor Company Reveals Hydrogen Fuel Cell Truck With Range of 1,200 Miles (valuewalk.com) · · Score: 1

    If gas turbines are so great remind me why their are diesel versions of the T-80, and that the T-84 and T-90 which are it's successors are all diesel?

    So the reality is that the gas turbines are not really a good solution for tanks. It's like the overlapping wheels of Tiger tanks. Yes better performance in theory, but the real world pokes it head in and you are better off with a simpler more reliable design.

  5. Re: Going to be dead on arrival on Nikola Motor Company Reveals Hydrogen Fuel Cell Truck With Range of 1,200 Miles (valuewalk.com) · · Score: 2

    No American tanks have turbines. Everyone else stuck with much cheaper diesel's, that dont break down at the first sign of a bit of sand, require far less maintenance and are much cheaper to run.

  6. Re:Disturbing, but practical on French Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Visiting Pro-ISIS Websites (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Professing support for a terrorist organisation probably carries a custodial sentence in France. Certainly it does in the UK. As would possession of an Daesh flag.

  7. Re:How much... MORE THAN YOU THINK on British Film Institute To Digitize 100,000 Old TV Shows Before They Disappear (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know where those figures come from but they are a pile of rubbish. The digital master of a movie could probably be held for well under a $100 a year. An LTO7 tape has a raw capacity of 6TB and costs around 120USD, keep in a cool room has a shelf life of over a decade. Consumes *ZERO* power during that time. A huge 10000 slot library so it can be recalled without human intervention will consume around 1kW of power. Though to be fair a single frame would consume pretty much the same.

    Whoever came up with that $12,000 a year needs the sack for gross incompetence.

  8. Certainly under UK law that would be fine provided they didn't direct the botnet to actually do anything.

  9. Re:Hard specs, please. on India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 2

    And in 400 years we will have literally boiled the oceans, and the earth will become unlivable on much sooner than that.

    Ultimately we will *have* to get much of our energy from solar if we wish to continue to live on the planet. Thermodynamics is a bitch.

  10. Re:Kitchen device on Amazon Said to Plan Premium Alexa Speaker With Large Screen (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Right so how exactly is this different from a Fire 7" tablet, and perhaps a Bluetooth speaker nearby? Well other than having a bigger speaker in an integrated unit that is.

  11. Maybe the responsibility should rest on the buyer, but legally they are not. It's the responsibility of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs to collect VAT on imported goods, and the responsibility of the the seller if they are anywhere inside the E.U. Quite what happens if a good destined for the UK enters the EU at a port outside the UK is anybodies guess.

  12. And those people need to eat less than someone who exercises. However you seem to have missed the "AND/OR" bit of the statement.

    Everyone who is "overweight" who eats less and maintains the eating less will over the long term loose weight and it will stay off.

    Everyone is "overweight" who maintains the same level of food consumption but increases their exercise and maintains that increase in exercise will over the long term loose weight and it will stay off. I note here that a Tour de France cyclist will typically eat around 10,000 Calories a day and they are most definitely not overweight.

    People do "Yo-Yo" weight gains on diets because they loose weight on a calorie controlled diet and then when they get to their target weight go back to over eating. It might be that gut microbes can have an effect to how fast they put the weight back on, but if they maintain the reduced calorie intake they will not put the weight on.

  13. Tablets on Buying Stuff On Your Phone Still Sucks (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Never brought anything on a phone, brought quite a bit on a tablet though. Seems the article does not think there is anything between a full desktop/laptop and a phone, which surely everyone on slashdot is going to be puzzled by.

  14. Re: Why does Iceland the country care? on Iceland is Suing a Supermarket That's Using Its Name (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And English is not their language so what right do they have to demand someone else change their language.

    Let's but it another way Sun had a trademark on the English name for the star at the centre of the solar system, and Oracle still enforce a trademark on the name of an island in the Malay Archipelago.

    What a bunch of thieving bankers have to complain about is beyond me.

  15. Re:Home Office, Food Standards, Health and Safety on 48 Organizations Now Have Access To Every Brit's Browsing Hstory (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not going to defend it but my guess is that as both the Health and Safety executive and the Food Standards Agency both have investigatory powers they have been granted access to further that aim.

    Imagine a the trail from the rollercoaster ride at Alton Towers in 2015 showed that emails where being exchanged and web searches where being done about dodging Health and Safety regulations for example.

    One can also imagine investigations about food safety from E.Coli 157 or Salmonella etc. having an internet related component.

    All that said most web browsing history in the UK is to some extent obfuscated by NAT. That is you have no idea who behind a particular IP address actually did the search or browsed that site.

  16. Re: Odd name for a supermarket on Iceland is Suing a Supermarket That's Using Its Name (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Fine we stick to our own fish stocks which we have for decades. You want to trade in the EU stick to *OUR* rules over trademarks. Simples really.

  17. Re: Why does Iceland the country care? on Iceland is Suing a Supermarket That's Using Its Name (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Problem with your example is Canada is the Canadians name for their country. Iceland is not the name that they use in their native lanuguage for their country, leaves them on a sticky wicket legally in a third country where English was invented as a language trying to overturn a decades old trademark. Want to trade a a foreign country abide by their rules or go home.

  18. Re: Why does Iceland the country care? on Iceland is Suing a Supermarket That's Using Its Name (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well they are a British supermarket, so the European bit of the trademark may well be lost in due course due to Brexit. However there is zero chance of them prevailing in the courts. Besides which Iceland is *OUR* name for their country not their name, so technically they gave *zero* legal legs to stand on.

  19. Re: Supermarket on Iceland is Suing a Supermarket That's Using Its Name (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    On the other hand Iceland the supermarket is based in England, and what is spoken in England is English without any qualification. What the rest of the world speeks can be qualified as American English, Canadian English etc. but imposing that requirement on English people is a extremely insulting.

  20. Re:Yes, eventually on Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Right because growing lettuces in a greenhouse is not farming. There are thousands of hectares in the UK that are "under glass" right now growing crops that are consumed by humans and the amount of land that is "under glass" has been expanding rapidly over recent years.

    Note "under glass" also includes plastic, and is used to indicate a more controlled environment than an open field.

  21. Re:Correction: funding per 'household' not taxpaye on BBC Planning 'Netflix of the Spoken Word' to Take Radio Content Global (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Thing is that the BBC recently did a deprivation study where they invited people to opt out of using *ANY* BBC service and the BBC would refund their license fee for the period of the study.

    This was of course offered to a self selecting group of people who thought the license fee was a waste of money. I for example would not be interested in taking part in such a study period.

    The result was after just nine days of being deprived access to any BBC service 69% of the sample group of people who though the license fee was a waste of money and would rather not pay it did a complete U turn and where now happy to pay.

    http://www.radiotimes.com/news...

  22. Re:WTF?!?!? on China To Build a Solar Plant In Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They where proposing to use sugar beet for biofuels as a method to speed up decontamination of the land in Belarus (noting that much of the contamination fell in Belarus and not Ukraine). New Scientist article on the subject.

    https://www.newscientist.com/a...

  23. Re:obama job killer on Canada Plans To Phase Out Coal-Powered Electricity By 2030 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This a thousand times over. Nothing Obama did killed coal. Cheap fracked gas killed coal. Just like cheap North Sea gas killed coal in the UK.

    Heck it is cheaper to just burn the fracked gas instead of coal in a conventional coal plant than burn coal, let alone compete with a combined cycle gas plant.

    Unless you want to stop fracking for gas in the USA, and good luck with that, coal is never combing back.

  24. Ultimately the USA needs to export. If the other countries EU, Japan, China etc. demand something for access to their markets the USA will have little choice but to comply.

    As an example show me a laptop that is not RoHS compliant that you can buy in the good old don't need to listen to anyone else USA?

  25. Re:The answer is no, this is pointless on Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? · · Score: 1

    I have upnp turned off on every router that I can. It is basically the biggest heap of junk there has ever been.