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  1. A week late on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 2

    In the UK the traditional date for launching fireworks is 5th November (to commemorate the failure of the gunpowder plot)

  2. Re:Please repeal! on Senate Set To Vote On the Repeal of Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Unless you are one of those obscenely overpaid executives I don't understand why you would ever take their side.

    Who would have thought that so many of them have /. accounts?

  3. Fear of bees? on Why So Many Crashes of Bee-Carrying Trucks? · · Score: 1

    If trucks transporting bees are statistically more likely to crash than other trucks (although an example of two doesn't suggest so) then you'd have to consider what might cause that and maybe it's drivers being just a little bit nervous about there being a few million bees just a few feet away.

  4. Re:No, Thank You, Dear Government on UK Government Pushing For 'Trusted Computing' · · Score: 1

    If the UK government were to only allow devices with the trusted computing built-in both the hardware and software they'd be instantaneously removing access for everyone who is used to using mobile devices to access those services.

    Other than the "bread and circuses" impact it would have I think that a government would perceive that at a good thing.

  5. Rock and a hard place on Facebook Is Building Shadow Profiles of Non-Users · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So, sign up and have some control of the details they hold (maybe that should be illusion of control) or don't sign up and have no control of the details they hold on you.

  6. Definite conjecture on Comet May Have Missed Earth By a Few hundred Kilometers · · Score: 0

    You don't look at the sun directly through a telescope so I assume then that we're talking about a large number of shadows crossing a projection.

    Strikes me that there are a lot of possible interpretations.

  7. Spoils my plan on NASA Sues Apollo Astronaut To Return Moon Camera · · Score: 1

    When I was a kid my dad always said that if I wanted a camera there were plenty perfectly good ones left behind on the moon.

    Well, obviously there aren't as many as he thought.

  8. Do you believe in coincidences? on BlackBerry Outage Spreads To North America · · Score: 1

    I suspect that people will fund it strange that it would happen at the worst time it could but the truth is that it always will if your infrastructure doesn't incorporate the redundancy to cope with the issues that are going to occur.

  9. Re:About bloody time on British Coalition Partner Attempts to Block Web Censorship Powers · · Score: 1

    Hadn't thought of that.

    *looks at mod points spent on article*

    Yeah, that must be it...

  10. Re:About bloody time on British Coalition Partner Attempts to Block Web Censorship Powers · · Score: 1

    I think the "full disclosure" is a bit unnecessary when you post AC. Fair enough if you use AC to confess a BNP vote but Tory is no big deal. Well, unless you're in Scotland that is.

  11. Just remember the song... on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    Because it's the same one whenever claims violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics...

    "I fought the law and the law won"

  12. Welcome to the world of tomorrow on Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying · · Score: 2

    I already don't like it.

  13. Re:So Metric will change..again. on Graphene and Quantum Hall Effect Could Help Redefine Metrics · · Score: 1

    Well, to be fair, while there are multiple definitions of "pound" there are also multiple definitions of "meter".

    Although in terms of what's in the article, I don't think "gram" can ever be used in other contexts but "amp" is a contraction of more than just "ampere".

  14. Promising news on Scientists Restore Lost Brain Function In Rat With Synthetic Device · · Score: 1

    I've been ataxic for 5 years because of a damaged cerebellum and every day I wish I wasn't. Things like this present the only possibility that I could ever have unimpaired movement again but this is just a small experiment that's unlikely to be practically realized within my lifetime. So good news for people that end up with damaged cerebellums in the future.

  15. Re:What if light travels at slightly less than c? on Faster-Than-Light Particle Results To Be Re-Tested · · Score: 1

    I'd be surprised if they weren't designing a neutrino-based network already. Either neutrinos move faster than light or neutrino detectors have less lag than fiber-optic NICs. It's a win-win.

    Yeah but these are called the "ghost particles" for a reason. Neutrino detectors must only detect a small fraction of the neutrinos passing through so I'm skeptical they'd be any use for a network. Almost as skeptical as that they're capable of super-luminal speeds.

  16. Re:That thing from the Fifth Element? on Jupiter-Sized Alien Planet Is Darkest Ever (Barely) Seen · · Score: 1

    More importantly, does that mean Leeloo's coming to Earth?

  17. Already punished... on Spam King Wallace Indicted For Facebook Spam · · Score: 2

    Accessing half a million facebook accounts must have subjected him to more torment than I could bear.

  18. The real story... on AptiQuant Browser/IQ Study Was Likely a Hoax · · Score: 2

    AptiQuant CEO: "Shit we've offended all the IE users and there's uncountable legions of those bottom feeders. You, minion! Spin something!".

  19. The evidence I see says not on Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas · · Score: 1

    Or maybe my unshakable beliefs that there is no deity and in the process of evolution through natural selection is not shared by even a meagre 10 percent of the population.

    So hands up! Which of you is letting the side down?

  20. Re:Yay. on Peter Adekeye Freed, Judge Outraged At Cisco's Involvement · · Score: 1

    If the U.S. authorities wanted him arrested, the easiest way would have been to respond to one of his multiple and very recent requests to enter the U.S.

    ...or just wait to see if he goes back to the UK because the one-sided extradition treaty there wouldn't be stopped by some pesky local judge.

  21. Are they just the ones that got caught? on News of the World Investigation Expanded to 9/11 Victims · · Score: 1

    As the continuing revelations over the NotW practices come to light I have to wonder if they were the only newspaper indulging in this... or just the only one to be caught.

    Is anybody checking for unusal data clean-ups among other newspapers?

  22. Re:Surprise! on UK Police Database Abuse 'Hugely Intrusive' · · Score: 2

    Slight correction to subject, it should be "!Surprise".

  23. Re:a comm. alternative on Could PSTN Go Away By 2018? · · Score: 1

    The copper is already strung up. Someone will find a use for it

    In the UK that's often by grabbing any that's easily accessible and selling it for scrap. And not just unused wires either, railway signaling has been affected by this.

  24. Re:Great, who's going to listen to my calls now? on Los Alamos Fire Idles NSA Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Aside from the fact that it wasn't really the NSA (or maybe the DOE eavesdrop)...

    Wouldn't the other people in the important design project meeting be witnesses so such a call? So which isn't real? The meeting or the girlfriend?

  25. Re:Not slashdot too! on Silver Pen Allows For Hand-Written Circuits · · Score: 1

    It's similar to the difference between a old style ink pen and a ball-point pen -- they both serve the same purpose, but the ball-point pen is much easier to use with less mess.

    Granted, but that analogy fails a bit because hand-writing with a fountain pen is just so much more elegant than with a ball-point; well assuming that one can avoid ink blots. I don't think elegance is that important when hand laying circuit links; just don't have them too near.