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  1. Craigslist Killers on Police Stations Increasingly Offer Safe Haven For Craigslist Transactions · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Great idea. Working through my backlog of WIRED magazines and was only reading about the bizarre case of the Craiglist Killers last night.

    http://www.wired.co.uk/magazin...

  2. Re:Scratch on Ask Slashdot: Resources For Kids Who Want To Make Games? · · Score: 1

    As a volunteer on a UK scheme teaching coding to 11 year olds, I heartily recommend Scratch also.

    Nice demo of the sort of things possible : Ms Pacman http://scratch.mit.edu/project...

  3. World's biggest song contest ? on Data Analyst Spoils the World's Biggest Song Vote · · Score: 2

    Surely can't beat the Eurovision in terms of biggest song contest ?

  4. Re:No on Ask Slashdot: Is Samba4 a Viable Alternative To Active Directory? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The basic samba code has indeed been around for decades, and it's great.

    Do be aware that samba4 release candidate 4 only got released on 30th October 2012 and as the announcement says "This is the first release candidate of Samba 4.0.0! This is *not* intended for production environments and is designed for testing purposes only.".

    http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-announce/2012/000277.html

  5. Now overturned. on Primary School Girl Told To Stop Photographing and Blogging School Meals · · Score: 1
  6. Games on a tablet/mobile on Video Game Consoles Are 'Fundamentally Doomed,' Says Lord British · · Score: 1

    Ever tried playing a FPS on a tablet or mobile ?

  7. Swatch internet time on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    Been there, tried that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

    Sold the watch at a car boot sale. Waste of time. Pun intended.

  8. Re:How is the location data obtained? on Open Source Geographic Tracking? · · Score: 1
  9. Is it a two-way thing? on EU Committee Says No To Bank Data Sharing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder whether the Federal Reserve + CHIPS systems, through which similar transfers are cleared in the US, share pertinent data with EU governments?

  10. Depends on what's expected on Should You Be Paid For Being On Call? · · Score: 1

    If expected to respond with more than just a phone call (e.g. get dialled in within 30 minutes or onsite within 60 minutes) then should get paid, because this limits what you can do while oncall. That might include staying at home, or abstaining from beer, or cancelling trips out with the family.

  11. Bah, can generate cash easily, as soon as it wants on Wikipedia On the Brink? Or Crying Wolf? · · Score: 1

    Just allow banner ads, income assured, revenue comes flooding in.

    Would upset wikipedia users though. Can't have everything.

  12. Whole section of opening sequence missing on The Simpsons Come to Life · · Score: 1

    The bit where the view pans across the Springfield population. Would have been great to have that sequence in there.

  13. What is the likelihood of IPv6 never happening? on The exhaustion of IPv4 address space · · Score: 1

    Could it end up going the way of New Coke and completely failing?

    With the widespread use of NAT routes everywhere, is that glut of IPs really needed? Will workarounds be used instead of IPv6 implementation?

  14. Re:Delta of Danube - So? on Deadly Version of Bird Flu Found in Romania · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So it's killed 60 people in the last few months. Passive smoking kills 30 a day. Why the big deal over the bird flu?

  15. "Music OCR" terminology confusing on Searching for a Decent Scanner? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not to be confused with the old HP ScanJet models which themselves would play a tune using their stepper motor.

  16. Standard Microsoft Email on ESR Gets Job Offer From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Microsoft have a standard recruiting letter they send out. Keith Peters got the same letter, see his blog. About time they changed the wording : Keith also turned down Microsoft.

  17. That's not hardcore enough on Das Keyboard: Hit Any Key · · Score: 1

    True ubergeeks will get the model with the caps lock / numlock etc keys blacked out.

  18. Use of apostrophe on Intel Sonoma UK Launch Party · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Benny, Benny, Benny. "Intel held it's UK Sonoma Launch Party" - no need for an apostrophe here. Get a copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and get yourself back on the right track!

  19. Kinda Similar on What You'll Wish You'd Known · · Score: 1

    To this speech, often thought to have been written by Bill 'The Borg' Gates, but actually by Charles J. Sykes.

  20. Better article on the feat on Math Whiz Breaks Calculation Record · · Score: 1

    Can be found on the Times Newspaper website, includes the number itself, and the corresponding solution.

  21. Ugly on Nintendo DS Gets Sleeker Final Design, Same Name · · Score: 1

    It's an ugly beast. That latest pic bears more than a passing resemblence to the original Game&Watch dual screen games.

  22. Worryingly, google broken on day of announcement on Google Sets IPO Pricing · · Score: 1

    Google search site appears to be broken though. Shame this should happen on the very day of their IPO pricing announcement.

    "Server Error
    The service you requested is not available at this time.
    Service error -27."


    Wonder what -27 actually means?

  23. Virus attack on LG CD-ROMs Destroyed by Mandrake 9.2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How long before this code is lifted and put into a virus?

  24. Re:Yeah, and it'll stop paraphrasing too. Not. on E-Mail Controls in Office 2003 · · Score: 1

    Come to think of it Steve, I've taken a photo of it with my digicam, here's the jpg.

  25. Details on IMDB a year ago on Film Distribution Comes To The Internet · · Score: 1

    See details here on IMDB. It's got a quite an early review, given back in November 2002, on there. One of the reviews says "The film is shot with what looks like a video camera and then blown up for the screen. The results are dire.". Sounds like a duffer.