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  1. Alternate Link? on Dawn Drops To 1470km Orbit, Snaps Sharper Pictures of Ceres · · Score: 1

    Anyone got an alternate link to the photo? Cos you beggars have killed NASA's servers yet again...

  2. Re:Good luck with that Virgin... on Virgin Media To Base a Public Wi-Fi Net On Paying Customers' Routers · · Score: 1

    I've disabled the wi-fi on their router and use a second router behind it for my real home network...

    Oh and I've also disabled remote access so they can't change it back either.

  3. Re:If they're going to invade our privacy on In Baltimore and Elsewhere, Police Use Stingrays For Petty Crimes · · Score: 1

    in the UK, there's one police force who only turn up to even numbered houses when burglaries are reported... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

  4. repaginating? on Italian City To Dump OpenOffice For Microsoft After Four Years · · Score: 1

    Heck, I have issues with MS Word where documents I create that are fine on the shared printer near me are completely messed up when someone else opens it and their default printer is not the same...

  5. And charges for their customers? on US Busts Insider Trading Hackers · · Score: 1

    Why have they not been charged?

  6. Re:Fed up on Study: Ad Blocker Use Jumps 41 Percent · · Score: 2, Informative

    currently running adblock plus and I never see ads... something is wrong with your settings.

  7. Re:Bullcrap on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    I don't want to waste my time re-installing my OS/reconfigure my preferences every couple weeks.

    I call BS...

  8. $6 Billion? Peanuts... on Does Elon Musk's Hyperloop Make More Sense On Mars? · · Score: 1

    compared to the current £32 billion (way under estimated) budget for HS2 between London and Leeds / Manchester http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

  9. not convenient... on Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? · · Score: 1

    OK, I have the luxury of having a bus service that during peak time runs past a stop only 300 metres away from my flat, BUT... it goes all the way into the city to the center where I have to walk 300 yards to catch the next bus out going past where I work... that runs every ten minutes as well so I paek time there is a maximum ten minute wait in the middle... unfortunately, with all the windy route and stops, it takes some 40 minutes (on bad days) getting to the center and the outgoing one takes some 40 minutes (again on bad days) getting to the stop closest to work... (that's as long as 90 minutes!!!) and it costs me some £5.00 a day for the privilege..

    Car takes me some 15 minutes on good days when all lights go green, there's naff all other traffic and there's no crashes, road-works etc., takes 45 minutes on bad days and I'm able to use the many back roads I know...

    cycling ALWAYS takes 35 minutes whatever the traffic...

  10. Re:abstracting electricity? on Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train · · Score: 2

    the problem here is that you HAVE to do a spell as a PCSO before you can apply to become a real Policeman... this one was especially jumped up and keen and had probably read the charge book and remembered the abstraction of electricity charge and decided to try and get a 'gold star'...

  11. He encountered a promotion hungry plastic plod... on Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train · · Score: 1

    They have to do time as a PCSO BEFORE they can be considered for training as a real Policeman... this one had been reading the law books and looking for anything to make a mark with...

  12. Re:Nevermind the bollocks, here's David Cameron on Cameron Asserts UK Gov't Will Leave No "Safe Space" For Private Communications · · Score: 0

    they 'gave' us a referendum on switching to Alternative Voting as a sop to the Lib Dems, but they managed to make the explanation of the system and the question on the referendum so confusing that most people stuck with the status quo which is what the tories were backing... while Labour actually wanted PR

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Re:But Nazi, Communist, ISIS flags are OK? on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what a "Communist" flag is. I never knew Communism was a country.

    Any flag that has a hammer and sickle featured in it? https://commons.wikimedia.org/...

  14. Re:Where are the round-abouts on "Vision Zero" Aims To Eliminate Traffic Fatalities In San Diego · · Score: 1

    throughput may go up, but t1) there is a limit to that and pretty soon you find yourself putting traffic lights all over the roundabout just so each entrance gets it's fair share... also pedestrians hate roundabouts as cars tend to come off them at high speeds if they've been designed for throughput... to cater for pedestrians means putting in things like double stage Toucan crossings which mean pedestrians can be faced with waiting for well over 4 minutes total just to cross two arms... Crap like this with traffic lights all over it plus double stage crossings https://goo.gl/maps/1EAbn

  15. 5G! Wish my provider would get their act together on 5G Network Speed Defined As 20 Gbps By the International Telecommunication Union · · Score: 1

    and get 3G working properly...

  16. Re: Are all U.S. Laws enforced in the U.K.? on Sunday Times Issues DMCA Takedown Notice To the Intercept Over Snowden Article · · Score: 1

    if this goes to court, I'm pretty sure there will be a discovery phase in which the Sunday Time's servers and computers used to edit the story will be seized and gone over with a fine toothed comb... plus any backups made.

    This will blow back very badly on the Sunday Times if they are found in a court of law to have been changing their story.

  17. And on a related note... on Leaked Document Shows Europe Would Fight UK Plans To Block Porn · · Score: 1

    Virgin Media in the UK just turned their safe filter ON and I had to click the no box on the page they were displaying to disable the filtering...

    who knows what the heck they're really filtering behind the scenes... all IS related sites? anything anti-government?

  18. Re:Banksters on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1
  19. Re:just what we all love on Amazon Decides To Start Paying Tax In the UK · · Score: 1

    actually there ARE taxes on sales... it's called VAT and is charged at 20% of the price... Amazon can't avoid the VAT bill

  20. Re:Sudafed on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 2

    When will the US stop deluding itself and simply purchase bulk poppies from farmers in Central and South America who simply want a source of income? This will reduce the number of people who trade in the black market and reduce the opium available for heroin production

    Because then the CIA would have no source of 'black' income and means to bribe officials/governments with...

  21. Re:satellites on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 0

    satellites would fail quite quickly as their reaction mass ran out or their reaction wheels failed...

  22. Solar powered wrist watch... on Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working? · · Score: 1

    n/t

  23. Re:Marketing Failure on Future Holds Large Updates Instead of Stand-Alone Windows Releases · · Score: 1

    My guess is businesses will continue to use WSUS to manage the rollout and testing of updates, without the hassle of major version updates.

    Those the the overhead to maintain a reasonably large IT department will be able to, but small business will see themselves getting hit with things breaking whenever an update is applied.

    There has to be a good way of rolling back an update to regain functionality.

  24. Re:Intractable issue on The Ambitions and Challenges of Mesh Networks and the Local Internet Movement · · Score: 1

    have every mesh node have a rate limit which automatically flags up to nearby nodes that it is being approached and so the other nearby nodes have to route around that mesh node.

  25. Problem, Reaction, Solution... on French Version of 'Patriot Act' Becomes Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    First they create the problem, then they generate the reaction, they they offer the ready made 'solution'

    Perfect use of Hegelian Principle...