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  1. Re:Adecco admits it was "a mistake" "make it right on How I Got Fired From the Job I Invented · · Score: 1

    I can see them passing the blame to an outsourced marketing company contracted to create and promote the competition.

  2. Re:The IP is his trademark(s) that mark his busine on How I Got Fired From the Job I Invented · · Score: 1

    If only Joseph Priestley patented soda.

  3. Re:The "capital of CCTV cameras" thing is bollocks on UK Police Now Double As CCTV Cameras · · Score: 1

    Don't they also include the London Congestion Zone cameras & bus lane cameras & traffic light cameras in their CCTV numbers - after all these are cameras watching the public.

  4. Re:first on Linus Torvalds Promises Profanity Over Linux 3.10-rc5 · · Score: 1

    and it wasn't even a radioactive penguin to get superpowers.

  5. Re:This needs to be applied evenly on NHTSA and DOT Want Your Car To Be Able To Disable Your Cellphone Functions · · Score: 1

    and most/all of that equipment is used when the patrol car is stationary and doesn't require operator input (typing, etc) they're passive display. Most sensible law enforcement deploy cops in pairs - one to drive and the other to monitor & operate the tech.

  6. "Pass it to a passenger" on NHTSA and DOT Want Your Car To Be Able To Disable Your Cellphone Functions · · Score: 1

    If you're driving and you "need" to be contactable - then give your phone to a passenger and they can handle your calls for you.
    As they're in the car with you then they can see what you're doing and so distract you less while keeping the caller occupied.

  7. Re: Not-so-accurate source on BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? · · Score: 1

    Per household consisting of members of the same family.
    So a shared student house (where each student has a separate tenancy agreement) with a TV in each room is supposed to have one per student. If they have a joint tenancy then its a single license as they're classed as a single household.

    Portable devices are covered under the household license, unless they are then connected to fixed cabling. So a battery powered portable TV in a holiday home is OK as long as its not plugged into anything. As soon as you do that then its no longer a portable device and requires a license at that address.

  8. Re:Tip of the iceberg on Verizon Ordered To Provide All Customer Data To NSA · · Score: 1

    Location information is embedded in the cellphone transmissions - even if its just as basic as approximate direction and distance from the transmitter without GPS.
    So , they'll know that a particular handset frequents 2 locations - so that will likely be home and work.
    Check the location addresses against tax returns, property records, etc. and thats your name and your employers name.

    Think using a burn phone is safe and you turn it on & off at a location which isn't linked to you? eg. walking to the subway station, switch on outside #3387; walking back from the subway, switch it off outside #3387 - so they potentially link that cellphone with #3387
    Where was it bought, credit added to it, etc. Those locations will have CCTV.
    Do you have another cellular device on you at the same time as the burn phone? Those are now linked.
    Ever posted a pic from your cellphone of your cat? Did you disable GPS tagging?

    You're already leaking data all over the net, whats a few lines to join up the dots to make the picture :-)

  9. Re: Not-so-accurate source on BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? · · Score: 4, Informative

    No you don't. You only need a license to watch or record broadcast TV live (or near live - a few seconds diff)
    So:
    live retransmitter sites - license required.
    on-demand sites - NO license required.
    iPlayer to watch something live - license required.
    iPlayer to watch something broadcast yesterday - NO license required.

    http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_tv_progs/tvlicence

  10. Re: T1s still work for us on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? · · Score: 2

    Major users will still want the security provided by a physical link.
    Wireless comms can be more easily jammed than a cable - which tends to need something like a backhoe/JCB to disrupt.

  11. Re:The real insanity..... on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    Fortunately you can do most of the stuff on Server 2012 without the GUI installed, or remotely and so not have to go anywhere near the abomination of their UI.

    Seriously - who puts a Touch based UI on a server?

  12. Re:It is said... on Iron In Egyptian Relics Came From Space · · Score: 1

    Why did they have to become a Powerslave to the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son?

  13. The Pirate Bay - Using MS arguments on Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8 · · Score: 1

    The Pirate Bay is one of the top accessed website in the world, the media companies repeatedly refuse to work with TPB in allowing TPB access to their content and information to keep their content on par with other media release platforms.

  14. Re: I can't wait to see this battle on Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Their customers can use the YouTube website - same as everyone else who doesn't have a pre-built app installed or for their platform. Just because you can hack YouTube's website and write a wrapper around your hacks to provide the content doesn't mean its legit.

    Isn't accessing web content through means other than the published API or intended URL a hacking offense with prison time after conviction?

  15. Why not just list the number of bugs per version? on To Avoid Confusion: Oracle's Confusing New Java Numbering Scheme · · Score: 1

    Or do we not have numbers that go that high?

  16. Isn't that the law in Texas already? on N. Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent "Unfair Competition" · · Score: 1

    I thought Texas had a law similar which Tesla were complaining/campaigning against.

    I do wish they'd hurry up and start making their space cars (why else would Musk invest in the company, but to get cars he can drive on whatever planet he ends up on with SpaceX)

  17. Re: Why not? on UK's 4G Network Selling Subscriber Tracking Data To Police, Private Parties · · Score: 1

    While the data has been anonymised, studies have shown that identifying information can be obtained from it.
    eg. If you know where I live and where I work - then you can search the data for those locations, you've got a pretty good chance of getting my phone from the dataset. Then with that, you can now see where else I've been with my phone switched on. If there are some suspicious locations then you pull up the phones that were also in that location, search for their 'common sites' and you have their home, work, bar locations.

  18. Re:Scientific progress on Europe Needs Genetically Engineered Crops, Scientists Say · · Score: 1

    Depending on the genes they use, you can transfer an allergic response from one substance to another as the transfered gene is the one responsible for the allergen. But, due to the legislation sponsored by Monsanto - you can't label the food as containing the allergen.

    In creating the GMOs they use certain resistance marker genes which are also embedded so they can easily wipe out the produce which does not contain the modifications. This then gives the resistance to the product, and possible transfer to other organisms - thus producing more problems as a wider population of organisms develop resistance to the weapons we have to wipe them out. But of course, Monsanto can always sell us more 'RoundUp Ready' crops. Or 'RoundUp Ready Plus' once everything is resistant to RoundUp.

  19. Re:Summary by someone who never saw the original? on Classic BBC Sci-fi Series Blake's 7 To Return On Syfy Channel · · Score: 1

    It went downhill before 1979 - which is how she got in.
    You don't remember queuing for bread during the bakers strikes? (limited to one loaf per person in most shops - go shopping with the kids so they can get a loaf too)
    The power outages during the earlier coal strikes?
    The mountains of garbage during the public sector strikes?
    Lets not forget the lorry drivers strikes and the other transport strikes.
    20% inflation and strikes for 25% payrises.

    Welcome to the Callaghan government.

  20. Re:Remove non-libre software. on Linux Fatware: Distros That Need To Slim Down · · Score: 1

    You know you won't have much software left :-)

    No GNU - thats available through Cygwin & MinGW
    No Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, OpenLDAP, Firefox, Thunderbird, Chrome, X11 (Xming on Windows), Eclipse, Java, Android SDK, Emacs, etc.

  21. Re:Statistics 101 on How That 'Extra .9%' Could Ward Off a Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 2

    Which is why you'd make the O-rings out of different compounds, and install no set with all the same type.
    Locate the diesel generators in 2 or 3 power houses around the site.
    2+ server rooms on site with replication between them (with additional replication off-site).

    But how much resource do you throw at the problem? Its easy for us after the events to decide if NASA should have used O-rings of differing compounds or Fukashima have multiple power houses on different levels.

  22. Re:Lesson: Licensing costs suck on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    You don't even need Windows Server - they've bolted it into Windows 8 Pro too (seems to be as a Virtual PC replacement).

    Can someone hit me with a lInux penguin or something - I seem to be supporting Microsoft.

  23. Re:Lesson: Licensing costs suck on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 2

    FreeBSD (on which pfSense is based) has Hyper-V support since last year, but as pfSense and other firewalls are slower in their updates the current releases are still using FreeBSD 8.1. the beta snapshots of pfSense 2.1 use 8.3 which can include Hyper-V integration.

    Currently it installs fine using the legacy network adaptors (so you only get 100MBit links).
    If you want full OS intergration and to use non-legacy network adaptors then you need to use the latest 2.1 beta & install a rebuilt FreeBSD kernel with Hyper-V support.

    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has Hyper-V support out of the box.

  24. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 0

    No need to brake, just lift off the accelerator as you approach the lights, when you get closer to the lights than your stopping distance then you accelerate through the lights as you won't be able to stop safely, remembering to stay below the posted maximum permitted speed. Remember - its a maximum (at optimum conditions), not a requirement.

  25. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 2

    So they adjust the timing on the lights crossing the junction, so it gives the red jumpers time to clear the junction before allowing the cross traffic over the junction.
    Its not exactly rocket science to adjust the timing of the OTHER signals rather than the one people are jumping.