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  1. Re:Cool idea, but never happen... on NASA's Basement Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    That is because you are dumb enough to put them on poles all over the place in the first instance. In other saner countries like the U.K. the vast majority of the local distribution network is underground.

  2. Re:UK a US state? on EU Data Protection Proposal Taken Word For Word From US Lobbyists · · Score: 1

    Thing is the European Convention on Human Rights has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the European Union. So getting out of the E.U. won't help in that regard.

  3. Dont need to reduce overall traffic on Why Australian Telco's Plan To Shape BitTorrent Traffic Won't Work · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem the telcos have is not the total volume of traffic but to use a car analogy the "rush hour" effect. If by traffic shaping they can push the 20% to move some of their downloading outside the peak times, then it means they don't have to buy bandwidth that is going to sit unused 90% of the time.

    If the 20% all did their downloading overnight it would not be a problem.

  4. Re:Placebo Effect-iveness of faith healing on Interviews: Ask James Randi About Investigating the Truth · · Score: 1

    Yeah and please stop miss using the word Catholic. Many if not most Christian denominations consider themselves Catholic. Of the top of my head these include but are not limited to Anglican's, Lutherans, Eastern Orthodox, Coptic (and the rest of the Oriental Orthodoxy), and of course Roman Catholics.

  5. Re:Another city effect: Thunderstorms on Cities' Heat Can Affect Temperatures 1000+ Miles Away · · Score: 1

    Problem with that is in the UK you are almost *always* down wind of a city unless you locate yourself on the west cost of Scoltand.

  6. Re:Don't trust the cloud on Ask Slashdot: Linux Mountable Storage Pool For All the Cloud Systems? · · Score: 2

    SSH key's get stuck on USB keys for convince which get lost and you have zero control on the quality of the password used to secure the SSH key.

    None obvious usernames and enforced password quality are in my opinion more secure.

  7. Re:Roman Empire on America's Real Criminal Element: Lead · · Score: 1

    That's because they did not have taps (faucet if you are from the USA) with valves. The water flowed continuously and you paid a "tax" based on the size of the pipe supplying your property. There was a fair amount of corruption, you would bribe the official to install a larger diameter pipe than you where paying for.

    An additional consideration to take into account with lead pipes is that in hard water areas over time the insides of the pipes "scale up" forming a barrier between the lead and the water.

  8. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    I think you will find that in the U.K. a person's weight is routinely quoted in stones and pounds. Saying you weigh 180lbs is meaningless to someone from England or even the rest of the U.K.

    I never understood why Americans call the version of the Imperial system they use "English" because it is not one used here in England since before the uprising in colonies.

  9. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    Then get yourself a Metrinch set of wrenches then. You can then do metric, imperial, as well as BSF and BSW all with the same set. In addition it grips the sidewalls rather than the corners so deals with damaged nuts and bolts.

  10. Re:stupid observation... on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    There is a simple solution to that problem, use metrinch tools. You pick the right looking sized one and stick it on the nut/bolt and it magically works whether it is metric, imperial, BSF or BSW. You get the added advantage that they grip the side walls so even damaged nut's bolts are a breeze. Also because they do all sizes you need a fraction of the spanners.

  11. Re:Error of omission on UK Government To Spy On Computers of the Jobless · · Score: 1

    Not only is it not totalitarian to expect people out of work claiming Job Seekers allowance to be looking for work, it is actually a requirement to receive the benefit.

    In addition last time I had to claim it (about 15 years ago now) you also had show the evidence of the jobs you had applied for or you would loose the benefit.

  12. Re:Summary, summarized, analyzed on UK Students Protest Biometric Scanner Move · · Score: 1

    I used to work for one of the top departments in the university if question (Newcastle University). This was five years ago and even then registers at the start of all lectures, practicals and tutorials. Miss a handful and you would be asked to visit the head of school to explain your absence. If you where sick you where expected to hand in sick notes. The school was one of only a couple doing that.

    The school in question had the lowest drop out and the lowest failure rate in the University. It therefore comes as no surprise to me that they have decided to widen the scope to the whole University.

  13. Re:Islamic extremist values on Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence · · Score: 1

    Yes there was, but the people leaving the Great Britain at least to setup the colonies where not Roman Catholics; the only group that is actually persecuted at the time and even to this day.

  14. Re:800C? on "Self-Healing" NAND Flash Memory That Can Survive Over 100 Million Cycles · · Score: 4, Informative

    It was a bit more than intelligence reports. They (that being the British) actually had a group under surveillance as they where planning attack using liquid explosives. They had video footage of them planning it all and testing there methods of concealment and talking about it. This was played on national TV news here in the UK after the trials.

    In the end they had to swoop early as they had shared their intelligence with the USA, who then threatened to blow the cover unless they where arrested immediately.

    The problem at least initially is that they where not sure that they had all members of the cell, and whether there where other cells going to be carrying out a similar operation, hence the initial draconian restrictions.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_plot

  15. Re:You're ignoring facts. on Why Iron Dome Might Only Work For Israel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You are ignoring the fact that when the IRA finally decided to sit down and talk they had been severely curtailed in there ability to carry out operations by the British and Irish governments.

    The final hammer blow was actually 9/11, because the war on terrorism meant that the USA had to finally stop harbouring the bastards, stop any fundraising on behalf of the IRA and stop refusing to extradite them because they where "political refugees" rather than terrorists.

    I believe that French where also pretty happy in relation to some of their terrorists which the USA had been shielding as well.

  16. Re:Best Missile Defense Shield on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 1

    Even Hamas are not so stupid as to use chemical weapons. The first rocket that lands in Israel containing chemical weapons will in short order lead to the flattening of the territory that fired it.

    You don't get to "gas a Jew" ever again and live.

  17. Re:Fair != Cheap for one party on Motorola Wants 2.25% of Microsoft's Surface Revenue · · Score: 1

    I am quite sure that Microsoft don't even need to offer FRAND patents to get the rate lowered. Other patents such as say those on say FAT would probably work as well :-)

  18. Re:Must be nice on Wayback Machine Trumps FOI Tribunal · · Score: 3, Informative

    They must be referring to the "license fee" which unlike a tax is not collected by Her Majesties Revenue and Customs (here after the HMRC) on behalf of the treasury.

    The license fee is collected these days by the BBC, but they subcontract it out. Admittedly it is payed into the consolidated fund, but comes straight back out in it's entirety to the BBC.

    Technically it is not a tax, though the Office for National Statistics does classify it as a tax, and most people might see it however incorrectly as such.

  19. Re:Must be nice on Wayback Machine Trumps FOI Tribunal · · Score: 5, Informative

    No because the government has virtually no power whatsoever over what the content provided by the BBC; excepting that the Foreign Office pays (or at least did in the past) some money to the BBC to run the World Service and sets the amount of the license fee.

  20. Re:good vaccine on Scientists Move Closer To a Universal Flu Vaccine · · Score: 2

    I must be missing something where malaria has been defeated. Perhaps you might like to inform the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation they are wasting their money.

    However in general you are right.

  21. Re:This is interesting on AMD Licenses 64-bit Processor Design From ARM · · Score: 1

    Really I have an IBM Storewise and SVC that beg to differ.

  22. Re:Get out of Greece now. on Journalist Arrested In Greece For Publishing List of Possible Tax-Evaders · · Score: 1

    Really, I must be missing something about the peachy economic conditions in the U.K. then.

  23. Re:The real story... on UK Gov't Official Advises Using Fake Details On Social Networks · · Score: 1

    Yes because giving false information when filling out a tax return etc. is a criminal offence. Telling facebook you where born on some other date is not.

  24. Re:The real story... on UK Gov't Official Advises Using Fake Details On Social Networks · · Score: 2

    I grew up in the country in England, and in my area that was done once or twice a year. The rest of the year the foxes where still hunted by hounds on a more or less weekly basis.

    The issue is that we need to control the fox population given we have removed all their natural predators. As the government independent scientific report at the time found, hunting with dogs was not more cruel than shooting, and poisoning was not good for other wildlife. One the has to ask what is the rational basis for banning hunting foxes with dogs?

    As a animal cruelty issue, there is far more cruelty of domesticated animals and pets by orders of magnitude that there was from hunting with dogs so why concentrate on this?

    The reality is that it was indeed does as a class warfare issue.

  25. Re:How long? on Wayland 1.0 Released, Not Yet Ready To Replace X11 · · Score: 2

    Really, perhaps you might try using a search engine. The xrdp and x11rdp combination provide an X11 server than spits out RDP and the necessary middleware. More than five years old...