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  1. Don't you have laws against wasting Police Time and/or perverting the cause of justice ?

    http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/p_...

  2. Old school AA on US Army Wants Weapon To Destroy Drone Swarms · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The solutions presented seem overly complex and over engineered to me.

    Given shotgun are effective against small fast targets like birds I would expect a rapid fire automatic shotgun to be at least effective against the small & miniature infantry support drones. Also using air burst ammo for existing grenade launchers.

    Against larger drones then use rapid fire AA guns with air burst cannon shells.

  3. "Going equipped" on RFID-Blocking Blazer and Jeans Could Stop Wireless Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    Until you get charged with "Going equipped for stealing" an offence under the Theft Act. Since blocking RFID will block most shop security devices. Perhaps Blazers will become the new uniform for shop lifters.

  4. Power failure to the computer on Computer Error Grounds Flights In the UK · · Score: 1

    Not a computer failure as such, according to my source.

  5. UK Private Hire License on Court Orders Uber To Shut Down In Spain · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, in the UK private hire vehicles must be licensed, as must the driver and the operator.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/...

  6. C is like the Humble Brick on How Relevant is C in 2014? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if you are building a house, a supermarket, a factory or a major civil engineering project you will needs some bricks.

    Building Software is the same

  7. Doesn't Matter on Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter that it is a fake and the world knows it, it panders to the internal political audience to hang their hat on.

  8. European Data Protection on Terrorists Used False DMCA Claims To Get Personal Data of Anti-Islamic Youtuber · · Score: 1

    Under the European Data Protection Directive (EU LAW) personal data is protected from unauthorised disclosure.

  9. idiosyncratic is understatement on Building All the Major Open-Source Web Browsers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Idiosyncratic builds is not limited to just browsers and is probably the biggest problem faced by Open Source projects today.

    I use open source tools daily and yet with 20 years development experience I have yet to fine one open source project that straightforward to build.

  10. Those are Baby steps on White House Wants Ideas For "Bootstrapping a Solar System Civilization" · · Score: 1

    .. and are questionable boot strapping projects.

    The biggest cost and therefore barrier to Space exploration is launch costs. These needs to be side stepped.

    Launch a design prize for low cost probes to be sent in their dozens, hundreds or perhaps even
    thousands to the asteroid belt on low energy transfer trajectories. These need to include cheap & reliable ways to analyse the asteroids for useful materials.

    Have a second round to design low cost extraction 'bots' to follow up the analysis probes to 'mine' those materials. These could hoard the supplies or even again use low energy transfer to Earth/Lunar Lagrangian points.

    Sell futures to fund the next step based on the value of those materials.

    We don't need (and probably don't want) full functional Von Neumann machines.

  11. Re:So the UK can charge him? on How an FBI Informant Led the Hack of British Tabloid "The Sun" · · Score: 1

    Or will the UK once again prove to be a lapdog of the US government.

    I'm not familiar with this meme, would charging him or letting him off make the UK a lapdog?

  12. "Finds Fault" is faulty reporting on MIT Study Finds Fault With Mars One Colony Concept · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is how good science is supposed to work, peer review to find faults and ongoing refinement until certainty is attained.

    If this was not a challenge it would not be Science.

  13. Phased in on UK Government Tax Disc Renewal Website Buckles Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    Or they could just waiting until their old tax disc expires/ receive their renewal notice before swapping to to the new system.

    The majority of people whinging on twitter are just idiots.

  14. Depends ... on Are Matt's Robot Hexapods Creepy or Cute? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Depends on if you've watched Stargate, Replicator

  15. Sucks to be a criminal... on School Installs Biometric Fingerprint System For Cafeteria · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should not have broken the law then you would not be on the National Criminal database.

    I've never broken the law and therefore not on the database.

  16. Poor implementation on The MOOC Revolution That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    Having signed on for numerous online courses over the years, I've found the majority are very pooly implemented, over engineered and badly paced.

  17. Legal Deposit on Top EU Court: Libraries Can Digitize Books Without Publishers' Permission · · Score: 1

    Natural extension of Legal Deposit which has existed in English law since 1662.

    It ensure that the UKâ(TM)s published materials are systematically collected and preserved for future generations.

  18. Volcanoes on Northwest Passage Exploration Ship Found · · Score: 2, Informative

    These two vessles started off their military life as Bomb (Motar) ships which were traditionally named after Volcanoes, in this cases Mounts Terror & Erebus in Antarctica. (Unsurprisingly Wikipedia is wrong to claim Erebus was named directly after the Greek deity)

    The nature of Mortar ships means they were built with disproportionately strong hulls for their (Ketch) size making them particularly suitable as Polar exploration vessels as the age of strife subsided.

  19. NOT Netgear or HP on TechCentral Scams Call Center Scammers · · Score: 1

    It is very doubtful these were Netgear or HP, the scammar lie when they call and claim to be from all sorts of Companies, I've had them claim to be Microsoft, BT and Google.

    If you type practically any brand name plus the word support or help into search engines you get the adverts for these scammers at the top of the results.

    Try it, it works for "HP Printer Support" and "Netgear Router Support" in Google. Moving the adverts from the right to the top of the organic search result list has just played into these scammers hands.

  20. Stolen scripts and rushes on BBC and FACT Shut Down Doctor Who Fansite · · Score: 1
  21. Bitcoin on Bookies Predict the Future of Tech · · Score: 1

    For "BitCoin to account for more of world GDP than the £/$ by 2015" would be a growth rate of many orders of magnitude.

    So if any body believed this to be true (I don't), they would invest in Bitcoin not bet on it.

    I want the odds that the Bitcoin ponzi will have completely collapsed by 2015.

  22. WTH is Bill Nye? on How Did Bill Nye Become the Science Guy? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Massive cultural assumption or what. What about international science presenters like David Attenborough or Brian Cox

  23. The nature of responsibility on BPAS Appeals £200,000 Fine Over Hacked Website · · Score: 2

    If fact the negligence in this case was the fault of an external IT contractor who stored the captured data on the website CMS, after the requirements has been change to specifically exclude this feature because of security concerns. However the DPA doesn't take this into account. Data loss is an absolute offence, no negligence is necessary. If the organisation loses the data they are guilty.

    The size of the fine is not a reflection of the degree of negligence but a result of the damage done . In this case very serious damage because the extremely sensitive nature of the data and who was able to access it.

  24. Anonymous not anonymous on BPAS Appeals £200,000 Fine Over Hacked Website · · Score: 1

    Anonymous because

    1) 'James Jeffery' defaced the the site with Anonymous logo and anti-abortion rhetoric.
    2) Posted claim on @Anonymous on twitter
    3) Was 'Ratted Out' by FBI informant Sabu.

    Hacker Makes Anonymous Look Like Assholes By Attacking Abortion Provider In Their Name

  25. Who is funding this stuff ? on Alleging 'Malpractice' With Climate Skeptic Papers, Publisher Kills Journal · · Score: 1

    It make me wonder who is funding this stuff and more importantly why?