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  1. Re:Law in the UK? on 14-Year-Old Boy Placed On Police Register After Sending Naked Picture To Classmate · · Score: 1

    The police determine the guilt/innocence of a suspect? And they determine the remedial and/or punitive measures to be taken?

    No, they don't. What made you think that?

    No-one's been found guilty of anything. Events occured. The police were inolved. They have made a record of this.

  2. Therefore he's a guilty perv and she's completely innocent.

    Except he's not guilty of anything and she's also been recorded in the same database.

    [The boy's] details - along with those of the girl involved and another teenager - had been added to a police intelligence database and could be stored for at least 10 years.

  3. Re:What if it were not digital? on 14-Year-Old Boy Placed On Police Register After Sending Naked Picture To Classmate · · Score: 1

    No, but it's a start.

  4. Re:Won't someone think of hurting the children?? on 14-Year-Old Boy Placed On Police Register After Sending Naked Picture To Classmate · · Score: 1

    ..and it looks like the girl wasn't listed for spreading the pic. So much for consequences if you've got the right genitalia, right?

    Wrong.

    [The boy's] details - along with those of the girl involved and another teenager - had been added to a police intelligence database and could be stored for at least 10 years.

  5. However, his mother was told her son's details - along with those of the girl involved and another teenager - had been added to a police intelligence database and could be stored for at least 10 years.

  6. Perhaps you should read the article:

    his mother was told her son's details - along with those of the girl involved and another teenager - had been added to a police intelligence database and could be stored for at least 10 years.

  7. Re:Damn - I misread it on Completely Paralyzed Man Walks In Robotic Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    I don't get it.

  8. *Completely* paralyzed? on Completely Paralyzed Man Walks In Robotic Exoskeleton · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Completely Paralyzed Man Walks In Robotic Exoskeleton

    Not to take away from the achievements that are the subject of the story, which are frankly brilliant, but is someone who clearly has control over their upper body completely paralyzed?

  9. 97%? on Brain-Eating Amoeba Scoffs At Chlorine In Water Pipes · · Score: 1

    It happens rarely, but 97% of people whose brains start swelling because of this amoeba end up dying.

    And the other 3% end up not dying? I like those odds!

  10. Nation? on Police Body Camera Business All About the Video Evidence Storage · · Score: 0

    Body cameras are the fastest growing segment of the police video camera business. The two largest police body camera manufacturers today — Taser and VieVu — say they've shipped devices to 41% of the nation's 18,000 police departments.

    Any particular nation?

  11. Environmental factors on 60,000 Antelope Died In 4 Days, and No One Knows Why · · Score: 0

    They're looking into environmental factors

    Yeah, I think it was probably something in their environment as well.

  12. Re:Programming on You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    By that standard, this post is is in code.

    Syntax error at line 0

  13. Re:Do you even computer? on "Extremely Critical" OS X Keychain Vulnerability Steals Passwords Via SMS · · Score: 1

    It is then possible to intercept a user's password and send it to the attacker via IrDA or any other means

    There. Much more relevant.

  14. Re:Programming on You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    In other words, any web developer who has not worked through their own proof of the Fermat-Euler theorum is not qualified to call themselves a good programmer.

    I've got a remarkable proof of it, but $('#paragraph').css('margin-left') < 12;

  15. Names on Netflix Open Sources Sleepy Puppy XSS Hunter · · Score: 1

    Netflix has released a tool it calls Sleepy Puppy.

    Whatever happened to names that were at least tangentially related to the function of the software?

  16. Re:AUTONOMOUS CARS NOW!!! on Self-Driving Golf Carts May Pave the Way For Autonomous Cars · · Score: 2

    Yes, just like ALL cars are STILL REQUIRED to be PRECEEDED by a man carrying a FLAG.

    Oh, no, wait, they're not, because progress.

  17. Re:Millis started the site http://hardware.slashdo on Gaming Computers Offer Huge, Untapped Energy Savings Potential · · Score: 1

    I blame Firefox et al for dropping the protocol from the address bar.

  18. Re:Given the choice on Shape-Shifting Navigation Device Points You In the Right Direction · · Score: 1

    Smash a window so you can escape from the interactive play?

  19. "Shape-shifting"... on Shape-Shifting Navigation Device Points You In the Right Direction · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not really what I think of when I hear "shape-shifting." A regular compass shape-shifts as much as this thing does. It just... moves.

  20. Re:Entrapment on Secret Service Agent Pleads Guilty In Bitcoin Theft · · Score: 1

    Nope.

  21. Re:My 60th way to write better python on Book Review: Effective Python: 59 Specific Ways To Write Better Python · · Score: 1

    Classy.

  22. Re:However.... on "McKinley" Since 1917, Alaska's Highest Peak Is Redesignated "Denali" · · Score: 1

    Call me Popocatépetl.

  23. Sad on Neurologist and Author Oliver Sacks Dead at 82 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let us all doff our wives as a mark of respect.

    Err... yeah, that comes out sounding worse than I meant it to.

  24. Re:A simple solution on The Coming Terrorist Threat From Autonomous Vehicles · · Score: 2

    Going back to the main point: that changes everything.

    No, it doesn't. There are people willing to blow themselves up for their cause, and there are plenty of ways for people to blow things up without killing themselves.

    As far as furthering terrorist aims goes, autonomous vehicles are a solution in search of a problem.

  25. Re:A simple solution on The Coming Terrorist Threat From Autonomous Vehicles · · Score: 1

    I'd put a suitably bound large dog or pig in the passenger seat.

    It's been done.