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  1. Re:You know theres something wrong... on New CCTV Site In UK Pays People To Watch · · Score: 1

    On the plus side you'll be able to pay $2 to skip the ads...

  2. Re:One difference on New CCTV Site In UK Pays People To Watch · · Score: 4, Funny

    By linking to their site from here you just violated their "no linking" policy found here: http://interneteyes.co.uk/terms-conditions.html

    "Linking to our site
    You may not link any other site to our website."


    Whoops - and now I have as well

  3. The CC in CCTV? on New CCTV Site In UK Pays People To Watch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I always thought the CC in CCTV stood for 'Closed Circuit', meaning the pictures are not being broadcast.

    I know they're not being broadcast over RF but shouldn't making them available to anyone via a website be classed as 'broadcasting' therefore making it Open Circuit TV or just 'TV' ?

  4. obligatory on Microsoft Phasing Out FAST Search For Linux, Unix · · Score: 1

    That was fast..

  5. Re:Watching the presentation live... on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well it is bleeding edge hardware....

  6. Re:Mandelson - Palin Cage Fight on Secret UK Plan To Appoint "Pirate Finder General" · · Score: 1

    He came in through the back door ;)

  7. Re:Bloody idiots on UK School Introduces Facial Recognition · · Score: 1

    You're thinking too logically. This is the UK education system we're talking about. Hell the government loses half the populations details in the post - this isn't going to be much more advanced than a PC sitting in an office.

  8. Re:Bloody idiots on UK School Introduces Facial Recognition · · Score: 1

    I said nothing about being required to wear one.

  9. Re:Bloody idiots on UK School Introduces Facial Recognition · · Score: 1

    Replying twice as I've just thought of something else.

    "What if they deliberately obscure their face or object to the system?"

    In todays multicultural Britain, what if a Muslim wearing a Burqa wants to enroll at the college?

  10. Re:Bloody idiots on UK School Introduces Facial Recognition · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not only that - but who has the time to "quickly and effectively print data off from the system showing who was on site" when there is a bloody fire alarm. When I was in school we were told to leave everything and get out, not wait for a laser printer to warm up or an epson stylus to clean its printer cartridges.

  11. A comparison on Ireland's Largest ISP Settles With Record Industry · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder how people would react if the postal service were allowed to hold envelopes up to a light, say "theres a CD in there which could have illegally copied copyrighted data on it!" and then after doing that 3 times, stop all mail to your house without having to provide any actual evidence or give you a chance to prove your innocence.

  12. Crackberry Forums on (Useful) Stupid BlackBerry Tricks? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe ask in the Crackberry Forums (a Blackberry user site)

  13. Re:Civil disobedience is also cheap on UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes · · Score: 5, Funny

    "But who's going to install it? people of a political bent who oppose your wiretaping. The sort of people who will be first against the wall when the military coup comes."

    Curiously enough, an edition of Slashdot that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future listed the people who installed such software as "a bunch of people of a political bent that opposed the governments wiretapping who were the first against the wall when the military coup came."

  14. Re:Jacqui Smith's police state on UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes · · Score: 1

    "Jacqui Smith MP, is one of the worst of them."

    Indeed.

    Public Can't Wait To Be Truncheoned Across The Jaw, Says Smith

  15. Re:You have suggested... on Every Email In UK To Be Monitored · · Score: 1

    s/terrorists/politicians/g

    There - fixed it for you.

  16. Re:Tearful on "Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Quote: "I mean, the metaphor I've used is ... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets."

    Wow.

  17. Re:What a geek can do on Wiretapping Bill Passes Swedish Parliament, 143 to 138 · · Score: 1

    "Just a week ago France became maybe the first large rich country to start systematically blocking websites at the country level."

    Um - China is very large and very rich :)

  18. Blimey... on Richard Stallman on OLPC · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next thing you know he'll start using a web browser to view websites. :O

  19. Re:I wonder the same thing on Microsoft Launches IT Superhero Comic · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Captain Copyright! :D

  20. Re:But what about the power? on Hacking Asus EEE · · Score: 1

    Yes he did - half way down ish he describes the process of fitting an 8 switch DIL package that he can access from the memory upgrade panel.

  21. Re:Some information... on Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott Gets Axed · · Score: 1

    Morons

    There - fixed that for you...

  22. Re:Wow... on New Zealand Police Act Wiki Lets You Write the Law · · Score: 1

    This might be true: If there are 0 elephants in New Zealand, tripling that would still result in 0 elephants in New Zealand.

  23. Standards? on Microsoft and Novell Open Interoperability Lab · · Score: 1

    ...or they could just both make sure that their products implement and adhere to standards correctly.

    Though given the recent OOXML ISO happenings, maybe more companies will need these labs to make their products work together...

  24. Re:Great on Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK · · Score: 1

    "Phfft. You can forget me ever visiting the UK and spending my vacation dollars."

    It's ok. We don't accept dollars anyway.

  25. Re:Much Ado About Nothing on Does Google Own Your Content? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Indeed:

    From http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/terms.htm l:

    Google claims no ownership or control over any Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through Google services. You or a third party licensor, as appropriate, retain all patent, trademark and copyright to any Content you submit, post or display on or through Google services and you are responsible for protecting those rights, as appropriate.