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  1. 2 words on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1
    (Hardly Movingson riders cover your ears)

    Knee down

  2. Re:Too Many on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    Arf! Do you comprehend how truly vast the continental US actually is?

  3. Re:WeinerGate on Hackers Expose 26,000 Sex Website Passwords · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes. Research purposes. Honest!

  4. Re:TOS that bans servers on Why the New Guy Can't Code · · Score: 1

    Christ, you can get a VPS for $12/mo from Linode. There's no excuse for anyone who can be arsed to not put up a website to demo their shit.

  5. Re:Short Version of the Article on Dropbox Authentication: Insecure By Design · · Score: 1

    By logging into your dropbox account through this new invention they're calling the 'world wide web', whereupon you can unlink/relink the machine from which the credentials were stolen. This renders the lost certificate useless.

  6. Re:Autocratic Admin? on Ask Slashdot: Is the Recycle Bin a Good GUI Metaphor? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they really are that fast- it's night and day in terms of user interface response.
    Can't comment on the location of directories, I've got one in the laptop and haven't got the space for another drive!

  7. Re:Sarcasm? I hope? on Wikileaks' Assange Begins Extradition Battle · · Score: 1

    Hasn't been the 'block' or the 'cooler' since the 1950's!
    It's either 'the seg' (Segregation unit) or 'on the rule' (Rule 43/46(?) of prison regs that allow voluntary/compulsory segregation- usually used for 'vulnerable prisoners' eg. sex offenders).

  8. Re:What does this say... on Wikileaks' Assange Begins Extradition Battle · · Score: 1

    If the US is at war, then they should be held under the terms of the Geneva convention. If not, they should be held as civilians with the right to due process accorded to them.

  9. Re:Of course... on UK ID Card Scheme Data Deleted For £400K · · Score: 1
    Oooh, you're Andy Coulson, AICMFP.

    Or possibly Walter Mitty.

  10. Re:how about no on Obama Eyeing Internet ID For Americans · · Score: 1
    Because a birth certificate is sooo hard to forge.

    Besides, you've just admitted that a driver's license *is* an ID card- an identity document required to participate in a civic duty. Next!

  11. Re:If you're not going to read your forum ... on Why Creators Should Never Read Their Forums · · Score: 1

    There is no war game, simulation or RPG mechanic so utterly baroque that someone won't decry streamlining it as 'dumbing down' the game.

    That's a keeper!

  12. Re:Logic on Judge Berates Prosecutors In Xbox Modding Trial · · Score: 1

    I, and many like me, modded their xboxes solely to run XBMC as well as using it as your normal, everyday console.

  13. Re:blackmail on British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law · · Score: 1

    Sky, in this context, are an ISP who were ordered by the courts to provide data to ACS law.
    They provided the data in an encrypted format, it was ACS who failed to retain that encryption.

  14. Re:Waste on Ryanair's CEO Suggests Eliminating Co-Pilots · · Score: 1

    The coin-operated toilet, like the idea of removing co-pilots, is simply a crazy press release and is an easy way for Ryanair to grab some free press space and promote their latest sale.

  15. Re:Reading Comprehension? on UK Government Rejects Calls To Upgrade From IE6 · · Score: 1

    Apart, of course, from the departments that are. Like the Home Office, and other departments running a Fujitsu contract.

  16. Re:National Security Act on US Fears Loss of ICQ Honeypot · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bzzt! We do not, and never have had, a formal written constitution. If you have citations to refute this, I'd love to see them.

  17. Re:The downside of all this on UK Gov't Spending Details Now Online · · Score: 1
    You have to account for the money you spend anyway. From your point of view as a buyer, nothing will change.

    What will happen is the way the accounts get reported up will change, and this won't affect you in the slightest.

  18. Re:wow on UK Home Office Set To Scrap National ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Yes you can- that was one of the points of the ID cards. Indeed, you've still got ~100 days to enjoy passport-less travel from the UK to EU destinations.

  19. Re:wow on UK Home Office Set To Scrap National ID Cards · · Score: 2, Informative

    But it is part of the EU, which means national identity cards are accepted as an alternative to passports, where border crossings still check them.

  20. Re:But now on In UK, Hacker Demands New Government Block Extradition · · Score: 1

    The concern is that if he's tried over here, he'll get sent down for five years, be out in three, and end up with job at a security consultancy.

    Two and a half. Less time served on remand, which includes curfew/home detention orders.

  21. Re:yeah, let's blame the victims! on Electric Bicycles Surging In Popularity · · Score: 1

    Or how about that doctor who was convicted of slamming on his brakes to "scare" cyclists? Two of them couldn't stop in time, and they smashed into his back window.

    Then they're travelling too close. Or, to quote my riding instructor - 'only a cunt hits the car in front'.

  22. Re:Probably true, even. on UK Gov't Says "No Evidence" IE Is Less Secure · · Score: 4, Informative

    Home Office as in 'Office of Home Affairs'. A bit like 'Homeland Security'...

  23. Re:Satire? on Porn Industry Tiptoes Into 3D Video · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was sarcasm.
    HTH

  24. Re:False Dichotomy on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    Statutory Instruments (also known as regulation) are only usable when the act they are amending allows it- such as the one Mandy's been pirat^H^H^H piloting which allows a vast swathe to be amended without debate.
    With new acts, you could get round things by simply not commencing various orders, but alas it's not to be in this case.

  25. Re:False Dichotomy on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    Broadly, speaking, those are the options. And they've not much time to push legislative changes through the house, either. Exempting U18's is the easiest way, and probably the easiest to justify in that the government recently committed to exempting U18's from certain safeguarding provisions.
    The only other work-around is for ACPO to say they won't charge UKBA individuals for the offence, provided its only committed with the scanners whilst at work, but that's not entirely satisfactory for obvious reasons.