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  1. Just the same with other public transport. on Why Airlines Make Flights Longer On Purpose (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A train journey that used to be under 60 mins 20 years ago now takes 75 mins

  2. Re:huh? on Facebook Ordered To Explain Deleted Profile (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Does Facebook have some contractual obligation here? They can delete anyone's account anytime they want, can't they?

    If they are magically a public utility now, we'll have to have words with them about many, many more things than just this,

    As so many pople use them, like the Post office and Teleco's, I think they are a public service, and therefore they DO have a public obligation.

  3. 0.5 seconds breaking time would dropped the speed to about 30mph

  4. where are the tree coming from on China Reassigns 60,000 Soldiers To Plant Trees In Bid To Fight Pollution · · Score: 1

    It takes a few years to grow even a 1 metre tree, so where are they moving them from?

  5. About time Google or Netfix brought the Cell towers, as if 5G is as fast as predicted it will mean Telecos and cable cos have lost the lot.

  6. Intel Management Engine (ME) on Germany Preparing Law for Backdoors in Any Type of Modern Device (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Intel Management Engine (ME), also known as the Manageability Engine. Intel have been putting a back door on their chips for the last 10 years at least. So what are law enforement worrying about?

  7. Locally a man fell down a drain. on Justices Ponder Need For Warrant For Cellphone Tower Data (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    He had his phone on him (used it) and the rescue services quickly found him, as the cell towers tri-angulated on the signal.

  8. Its called a dishwasher. You put for plates etc in; add a tablet and press a botton and they come out clean about 90 mins later - its very good robot

  9. Just don't tell anyone on Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One Else Will (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Like a small in a valley community in Wales - just do it. They put a repeater TV ariel near a mountain top, with the person who owned the areas help, and nobody has questioned it for 50 years. Apparently getting a mobile repeater is going to be more of a problem because the power that is needed, but they might just blanket the valley with Wifi.

  10. If you buy a movie on a disk can you make an mp4 and put it on your phone?

  11. Should be zero. People waiting for the lights to change will have to wait another .03 secs.

  12. data is never lost on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the data has not really gone. There is always a shadow, difficult to get at and needs very expensive equipment but its do able.

  13. Then there is the barter system or other types of coinage, including sea shells.

  14. Re:German cars on Montana Lawmakers Propose 85 Mph Speed Limit On Interstates · · Score: 2

    Most politicians are very afraid of getting rid of laws as they know that we really don’t need most of the laws they make, which means we don’t really need politicians, and they would all be out of the job.

  15. paying share holders too much on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 2

    This is because the power co's have been paying their share holders too much money, and not renewing the hardware.

  16. Re: Constable country on Millions of Spiders Seen In Mass Dispersal Event In Nova Scotia · · Score: 1
  17. Constable country on Millions of Spiders Seen In Mass Dispersal Event In Nova Scotia · · Score: 1

    That is nothing I have seen fields covered in spider gossamer around Flatford Mill, in Constable (the painter) country ata bout this time of year. I have been told that spiders on these 'balloons' can escape earth gravety

  18. Great the taxers will follow on Hungary To Tax Internet Traffic · · Score: 1

    The problem with this is that other countries will see this as a good idea and we all end up paying more tax.

  19. Why not use the same way they was used in colonised the planet 500 years ago. With the best endeavour ships were constructed and people got on for the new lands. Some didn’t make it, some new towns didn’t make it, but humans did and we now colonise the whole planet

  20. more censorship on Google Starts Removing Search Results After EU Ruling · · Score: 1

    Never trust a politician anyway.

  21. South African Dictatorshiop on A Dispatch From Outside the Prison Holding Barrett Brown · · Score: 1

    When I first read this I thought it was about a south African dictatorship, not the land of the free.

  22. APNR is old news on It's Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car · · Score: 0

    IT WAS A COOL, QUIET MONDAY EVENING in northeast England when the computer first told them about Peter Chapman. The clock read a little after five, and two officers from Cleveland police were cruising in their patrol car. A screen lit up next to them: the on-board computer was flashing an alert from the local police network. The message told them the target was a blue Ford Mondeo and gave them its registration number.

    It was only a few minutes before they came across the car and pulled it over with a sounding of their siren. Inside was Chapman, a 33-year-old convict wanted for questioning in connection with a string of offences, including arson and theft. The officers verified his identity and took him to a station just a few miles away.

    At 5:07 p.m. on October 26, 2009, just 20 minutes before he was arrested, Chapman had driven past an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera stationed next to the road. As his car passed, the camera recorded its registration number, together with the time and location, and sent the information to Cleveland Policeâ(TM)s internal computer network, where it was checked against a hotlist downloaded from Britainâ(TM)s central police database.

    There was a hit: a request to detain anyone driving Chapmanâ(TM)s car had been entered into the system three days earlier. Once the computers had processed their searchâ"a matter of fractions of a secondâ"the command to apprehend the driver was broadcast to local officers, who stopped and arrested Chapman as soon as they were able.

    This feat was made possible by the continuous operation of a vast automated surveillance network that sits astride Britainâ(TM)s roads. The technologyâ"known as License Plate Recognition (LPR) in the US, where it is also usedâ"captures and stores data on up to 15 million journeys in the UK each day.

  23. bedroom spy camera on BitTorrent Unveils Secure Chat To Counter 'NSA Dragnet Surveillance' · · Score: 1

    This of course does not stop the NSA / MI5 etc. breaking into your house and putting a few bugs in.

  24. More fool, the government. on UK ISP Adult Filters Block Sex Education Websites Allows Access To Porn · · Score: 1

    As we are getting more like Iran & China in our internet censorship more and more we will turn to VPN, and the harder and harder it will take the likes of GCHQ to read our internet words.

  25. adverts are too late on Twitter Will Track Your Browsing To Sell Ads · · Score: 2

    and that the main problem with adverts they are using history and history is to late, as most people have moved on to otherthings.

    Now prediction advertising....