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  1. Re:Scotland on Glasgow To Be UK's First 'Smart City' · · Score: 1

    It may have been published last week but it was carried out between July and November last year. According to the Sunday Times it stands at 34%, it can't have gone up 11% in the last week.

  2. Re:Scotland on Glasgow To Be UK's First 'Smart City' · · Score: 1

    The "latest poll" turns out to be 6 months old and from the people who failed to predict the last election correctly.

  3. Re:Just kick him out. on Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming · · Score: 1

    In the UK beggars have dogs because they get increased money from the government to help feed them.

    An urban legend put about by Daily Mail readers to justify not giving money to the homeless.

  4. Re:Leave the units alone on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    A pint is usually over 3 pounds these days, a pint in Britain hasn't been a pound since the mid 1980s.

  5. Re:Boggle on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    It's worse than that, fresh milk is most commonly sold in multiples of pints, UHT milk only comes in multiples of 500 ml.

  6. Re:Never mind just CO2 , what about HCFCs? on Global Warming Felt By Space Junk and Satellites · · Score: 3, Informative

    HCFCs generally have a shorter atmospheric lifetime than the CFCs they replace as the hydrogen carbon bonds are weaker than halogen-carbon ones. The problem is PFCs which are composed of hydrogen and fluorine atoms only. The bonds are so stable the most likely way they will be destroyed is by diffusing to the mesosphere & being hit by cosmic rays.

  7. Re:Next generation? on Our Weather Satellites Are Dying · · Score: 1

    You can't get the parts any more. They have been building more of the same since the 1980s but you get to a point where you have to redesign it.

  8. Re:As for preservation on Long-Term PC Preservation Project? · · Score: 1

    The UK plugs are larger as they have to hold a fuse. Most sockets are wired up on a ring main rather than a star configuration more commonly used elsewhere.

  9. Re:I would have thought the military would want Op on British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows · · Score: 1

    The submarines are British built & designed, as are the warheads. The only American bit are the missiles.

  10. Re:I've got a better idea on 1000-mph Car Planned · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they could try offering scientists and engineers an attractive salary and good career prospects instead.

  11. Re:Why so expensive on New State Laws Could Make Encryption Widespread · · Score: 1

    When full-disc encryption was forced on us I did a few tests. Disk access on my unencrypted obsolete 3 year old laptop was as fast as the encrypted new one purchased to replace it.

  12. Re:Only 2% reduction? on New State Laws Could Make Encryption Widespread · · Score: 1

    The Data Protection Act was first passed in 1984, 11 years before the EC data protection directive. The 1998 act was simply an update to close a few loopholes.

  13. Re:2006? on ISS Dodges Space Junk For First Time In Five Years · · Score: 1

    The Virgin Galactic spacecraft will not go into orbit and will not get very hign (110km). At this hight the atmospheric drag will clear out any space junk fairly quickly

  14. Re:Unless of course, you're.. on How Do You Deal With Sensitive Data? · · Score: 1

    There is absolutely no excuse not to use full disk encryption on modern laptops.

    My 3 year old unencrypted laptop has faster disk access than a brand new full disk encrypted one Both were at a similar price point when they were bought. That seems a good reason not to use full disk encryption.

  15. Re:Wow the guardian is gullible on Are Wikileaks Servers In a Nuclear Bunker? · · Score: 1

    The bunkers used for housing the nuclear missiles have the blast doors disabled in the open position to comply with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. These doors are big enough to drive a large truck through so these bunkers are effecively useless. The secure hosting company is based in one of the smaller buildings on site.

  16. Re:Free speech in the UK? on Students Downloading Jihadist Material Acquitted · · Score: 1

    The difference between Canada/US and England/Scotland is the very act of union you mention. Canada and the US are completely sovereign nations. No acts of union between the two.
    The act of union explicitly guarantees the independance of the Scottish legal system, there are 3 separate legal systems in the UK.

  17. Re:Ow. Bad for the US economy!!!! on Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools · · Score: 1

    Nope, just turn the key in the bicycle lock & Kaboom!
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/7097101.stm

  18. Re:Setting aside the humor, do they have a point? on Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux · · Score: 1

    First step should be to go straight to Trading Standards. PCWorld is part of Dixons who have been caught several times passing off waranty returns as new so they should be familiar with them.

  19. Re:They run fiber through a lot of weird places on University Taps Sewers for Internet Access · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unfortunately the Post office Railway closed in 2003. I wonder how long before it is turned into a cable duct? London already has telecommunication cables along a disused hydraulic power network.

  20. Re:I'm a mathematician, and I call BS on Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics · · Score: 1

    Without knowing how long you get for each question the comparison is meaningless. I can do the English one in under 30 seconds, it would take longer to read read the description and examine the diagram on the Chinese before even getting to the questions.

  21. Re:from the should-have-read-the-EULA-first dept? on U.S. Refuses to Hand Over Fighter Source Code to UK · · Score: 1

    The British Trident submarines & warheads are British designed & built. It's the missiles that are in the control of the Americans.

  22. Three actually on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're forgetting Harry Stanley, an "Irish terrorist" who turned out to be a Scottish guy walking home from the pub. They got away with claiming he was pointing a table leg at them despite the fact that they shot him in the back of the head.

  23. Re:ramsex.eu reserved on .eu Opens for Registration · · Score: 1

    It's reserved for the current EU-funded R&D programme, Framework Programme 6.

  24. Re:Yep on U.S. Army To Ramp Up Anthrax Purchasing · · Score: 1

    a.) The inspecors were in there for years befor ehe initially kicked them out.

    The UN weapons inspectors left in 1998 due to the threat of American bombing. The Iraqis didn't kick them out.

  25. Re:Oh yeah, that's why we threw their tea away on British Police Demand Access To Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    True, but if you're arrested and withhold information which you later rely on in court the fact you withheld that information may be taken into account when deciding if your guilty (or not)

    This doesn't apply in Scotland or Northern Ireland, only in England and Wales. Britain is actually 4 different countries with 3 different legal systems with some laws that apply in more than one jurisdiction.