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  1. I was looking for a video like this on Transforming Any Flat Surface Into a Control Panel With Sound · · Score: 1

    Years ago, before youtube was really popular, I saw a video of a man doing a similar thing but couldn't find it recently!

  2. Fixed the title for you on Apple Wins Injunction Banning Import of HTC Devices · · Score: 1

    Apple Wins Injunction Banning Import of HTC Devices _In the US_

  3. Not really on Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? · · Score: 1

    I have a public PGP key on my website (http://mshenrick.dyndns.org - currently down), but I've never used it, as I rarely get emails from people, just companies, and my emails aren't that sensitive, or the ones that are, are from websites and they don't support encryption

  4. Copyright violation? on In Australia, Even Private Facebook Photos Are Public · · Score: 2

    Isn't any digital creation automatically copyrighted by the owner, unless they waiver it, so the photos were copyrighted by the user

  5. Handsfree=OK, Hands=very dangerous! on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Apparently you are only just getting a law preventing holding a phone while driving. I assumed you got one about the same time it was banned in the UK. I have seen a test done on several programs, including Mythbusters, and, while handsfree might be OK, holding the phone is very dangerous!

  6. Don't call it a 720, or a 1080 on What Microsoft Should and Shouldn't Do For the Xbox 720 · · Score: 1

    Don't call it an xbox 720 or 1080, or people will assume they're talking about its resolution, whereas the current xbox does 1080 anyway

  7. Re:What is with the UK and all this surveillance a on UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER · · Score: 1

    I'm from the UK, and whenever I hear about police brutality at protests I always think 'Why does this news always come from America?'

  8. Explanation (It's quite clever) on Kindle Touch Gets World's Simplest Jailbreak · · Score: 5, Informative

    for the lazy, the title just contains HTML code to create a button, which runs DD to the MP3 (minus the title tag) to a script, as the author tag is the script source, which is then executed. If you open the properties of the MP3 (OS X's 'get info' works, or you could cat it) the source is pretty well commented

  9. Use 2 computers on Big Brother In the Home Office · · Score: 1

    My Dad works at a company, maintaining their servers. He has his own personal computer that is nothing to do with work, and he is provided with a PGP encrypted Windows XP Dell Latitude, that tunnels everything over a VPN to his work.It probably is monitored, but since it's being provided for free, don't complain. Use a different computer!

  10. They now ruin songs on The Rise and Fall of Kodak · · Score: 0

    They've taken to ruining songs (like 'Give me everything' by Pitbull, Ne-yo, Afrojack and Nayer) by inserting lyrical product placement

  11. Will it mess up my homeplugs? on Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc With Home Electronics · · Score: 1

    I use 'homeplugs' - those devices where you plug in an RJ45/CAT5/Ethernet cable and it sends the data through your power lines. I assumed smart meters did the same thing. Does anyone know if (UK) power meters interfere?

  12. I thought slashdotters would know that on The Myth of Renewable Energy · · Score: 2

    While I'm taught in RS/RE, science and geography lessons that renewable energy will never run out, obviously it will. Wind power: caused by vacuums caused by sun. Waves: caused by moon movement caused by big bang. solar: caused by sun. Also note, the energy cannot be destroyed, so in theory solar makes the world slightly darker, and turbines slow the wind down slightly. However, it will last so long that it's near finite to the human mind I thought slashdotters knew this!

  13. Unplug the cable? on Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You · · Score: 1

    Unplug the cable? Unless it's a new one, but all the emtal in prisons means he probably won't find an open wifi net anyway

  14. i thought on manufacturers did this, not google on Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment · · Score: 1

    i thought on manufacturers did this, not google. this is why its great that you can root. I have a G1/dream. apparantly it can't run >1.6 I have 2.2

  15. stop filtering by referrer on Google Not Reciprocating On IFrame Usage? · · Score: 1

    I hate it when websites filter by referrer and claim you are stealing their bandwidth. Really? It's just a hyperlink. If you're going to complain don't put it on the web! I use a Firefox add-on to spoof the referrer, to the wikipedia article on referrer spoofing, and sometimes sites claim I'm stealing their bandwidth, and recaptcha doesn't work, but luckily the extension has an exceptions list

  16. I can't use it for unblocking anymore on Google Not Reciprocating On IFrame Usage? · · Score: 1

    at school, they proxy through EMBC, who block stuff. If they want to block something themselves, at one time they had an inhouse smoothwall (dansguardian/squid) server, but they now block it by using the remote administration tool, by looking at the window title. eg notdoppler.com, which is unblocked at school, is closed automatically when a window with 'notdoppler' in it opens. I used to have a HTML page in my documents with 2 frames, a 1 pixel blank one, and Google. Now since google blocks frames (it seems to be IE that complies with that request, and I can't use Firefox, as since they upgraded to Windows 7 you can't run EXE's of removable media) so I have to put in the URL in the source directly everytime. I hope no more sites doing this, or since as I said it seems to be IE that complies with that request to block framed Google, I find a way to override this 'safety'

  17. Re:and what about xerox's stuff? on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 1

    and who ( well, more implied) claimed to have invented smartphones, tablets, videocalling etc. and was lawsuit trigger happy against any competitiors

  18. My fingerprint has been 'on the grid' (kind of)... on Florida School District Begins Fingerprinting Students · · Score: 1

    ...for 4 years! I'm in UK school year 10 (14-15) and most of the secondary schools I know of use fingerprints for the canteen, along with a photo that pops up at the checkout, in case you, er, steal someones finger. its mainly to speed things up and you cant lose your finger easily however I seem to remember hearing that it is a checksum that is stored, so the fingerprint cannot be got out of the system

  19. i cba to update! on Mozilla Contemplating Five Week Release Cycle · · Score: 1

    can't they just make it auto update by tiny amounts frequently! since ive switched to os x i miss linux package management and cant be bothered to update every 6 weeks!

  20. flash mobs are a threat to the country! on Essex Police Arrest Man Over Blackberry Water Fight Plan · · Score: 1

    so basically, harmless flash mobs are illegal now

  21. Agent X? on Queen Elizabeth Sets a Code-Breaking Challenge · · Score: 1

    Well anyone whow atched series 4 of Chuck know Agent X is Hartley Winterbottom/Alexei Volkoff. Code cracked :P

  22. he just doesnt like android on Galaxy Tab 10.1 Judged 'No Match For iPad' · · Score: 1

    it seems the reason he doesn't like it, is he doesn't like android. many people do, so I assume if you like android devices, you'll like this

  23. jupiter broadcastings solution on Open Source Alternative To Dropbox? · · Score: 1
  24. video on SIM card? on Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops · · Score: 1

    small correction: I think the first article meant he removed the micro SD card, not the SIM card

  25. how sly on YouTube Introduces Creative Commons Option · · Score: 1

    how sly, they only let you choose a license that allows commercial use, meaning I have to put that my videos are CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 in the description, and aren't tightly integrated with the editor etc.