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  1. Re:Interesting... on New Tool Blocks Downloads From Malicious Sites · · Score: 1

    Linux handheld increasingly is a target though. Android is I believe the second most popular operating system on phones capable of being used for web browsing behind Blackberry (though IOS has the highest market share of actual browsing sessions), plus there is Palm's WebOS and a few others from other suppliers.

  2. Re:It's better the devil you know... on New Tool Blocks Downloads From Malicious Sites · · Score: 1

    Law enforcement does have a role to play, though obviously it is not the whole solution. These attacks are no longer carried out by script kiddies for the hell of it. They are well organised criminal gangs who do it to make money. The criminal gangs who ram-raid banks and shops selling high value items are something the police etc deal with, even though the banks and shops concerned take security measures to try and make life more difficult for them. These people, or at least some of them are raiding banks electronically, and law enforcement needs to deal with them. And even if your system is completely secure, you still need to deal with all the rubbish arriving at port 25 and at any web-forms you have on your website, so everyone is a victim.

  3. Re:What happens if you destroy it? on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 1

    How do you know it is government property, and not a car bomb planted by some White Supremist / Evangelical / Hindu / Jewish / other muslim hating terrorist?

    If I was in his situation, I would probably report it as a suspected car bomb.

  4. Re:Entitlement on Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves · · Score: 1

    Just things that originate in the UK and in the Republic of Ireland.

  5. Re:Don't put all your eggs in one basket.... on Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves · · Score: 1

    There are also copies at the British Library, the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales and the university libraries of Cambridge and Dublin, so if one set is lost, we still have the others.

  6. Re:Interns? on Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves · · Score: 1

    In Britain we have minimum wage laws as well, which means that interns have to either be paid the mimimum wage or be paid nothing at all. Incidentally, we do have interns in this country. They are sometimes called Work Experience Boys / Girls.

  7. Re:Public transport on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    My slashdot window only takes up half the screen on a 1920x1200 monitor. If I let it take up the whole screen, the lines of text would be so long that it would be difficult to find the beginning of the next line when reading things. However you can easily have a lot more vertical lines of text, which is why we generally put text on A4 portrait or US equivalent rather than in landscape format.

  8. Re:50 char pass on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 2, Informative

    If it is 50 all lowercase letters, that gives you about 5.6*10^70 possible combinations. If you have a supercomputer that can do for example 2.8bn combinations per second (fastest example on this page http://www.elcomsoft.com/distributed_password_recovery.html), then it would take 6*10^53 years to go through them all. In other words 50 characters is a pretty secure password.

    Add uppercase, numbers and all the symbols on my keyboard to the mix, and you have 3.6*10^99 combinations. You can work out how much longer that would take, but it makes no difference, the world would come to an end long before you did it.

  9. Re:Overly pedantic on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    You could travel much further in a boat. People in Europe managed to get across the Atlantic and colonise new territory for example.

  10. Re:Fox guarding the henhouse on BT Seeks Moratorium On Internet Piracy Cases · · Score: 2, Informative

    Time Warner Cable is a separate company from Time Warner movie studios. They de-merged last year.

  11. Re:law around the world... on Masterpieces Online — High Culture At High Resolution · · Score: 1

    If it is anything like English law, and it probably is given they are both implementing the same EU copyright directives, the photograph has a copyright separate from the underlying image, so you can't copy it, however you could take your own identical photo of the original painting.

  12. Re:Note that these images are not... on Masterpieces Online — High Culture At High Resolution · · Score: 1

    They were trying to sue under English law.

  13. Re:This is impractical on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 1

    They manage it fine in other countries that have these rules, such as the UK.

  14. Re:From the article on Seven Words You Can't Say On Google Instant · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unless of course you are in Zimbabwe were the white minority is being suppressed by the black majority

  15. Re:All the better on AT&T Introduces Satellite-Enabled Smart Phone · · Score: 1

    You can argue about the evidence. The court did look at the evidence and concluded he was with his phone at the time. That's not the point, the point is that the evidence was available for the court to look at, thereby proving that tracking does take place.

  16. Re:This is what happens when... on AT&T Introduces Satellite-Enabled Smart Phone · · Score: 1

    Just the one as far as I can gather, and the dish is pointing in the general direction of the US.

  17. Re:Yawn... on AT&T Introduces Satellite-Enabled Smart Phone · · Score: 1

    The groundbreaking tech is that you can get a sat phone you can fit in your pocket. Previous geostationary phones would fit in a laptop bag, and Iridium phones would fit in a laptop bag alongside a laptop.

  18. Re:Yawn... on AT&T Introduces Satellite-Enabled Smart Phone · · Score: 1

    Also, the additional $204 on the phone gives you a GSM smart phone running Windows Mobile. With the other option, you would have to buy a separate GSM or CDMA phone for regular city use, and that may well cost more than $204.

  19. Re:All the better on AT&T Introduces Satellite-Enabled Smart Phone · · Score: 1

    In England they are stored. I know this because they were used to prove that a murder suspect wasn't at the scene of the murder, which meant he was found not guilty.

  20. Re:How about just universal chip&pin? on Credit Cards That Think They Are Gadgets · · Score: 1

    For me the problem is that I tend to use my Amex for the airline transaction - for the cashback, and my Santander Zero Mastercard when I get their, as it has lower foreign currency fees.

  21. Re:How about just universal chip&pin? on Credit Cards That Think They Are Gadgets · · Score: 1

    You don't know his mother's maiden name and date of birth.

  22. Re:Obligatory IP Over Avian Carriers RFC on Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    SDHC goes up to 32GB. 16GB Micro SDs are certainly widely available and affordable. 32GB cards are also available but cost a lot more than two 16GB cards.

  23. Re:Integrity of house sales system on Criminals Steal House Thanks To Hacked Email · · Score: 1

    Whereabouts in the UK? Remember that Scotland's land law is completely different to England's.

  24. Re:bad story on £32k a Day For Birmingham Council Website · · Score: 1

    There are some parish councils in Birmingham. Do they not count?

  25. Re:In "believe anything written down" land on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    In any case, you don't want to look up firmament in an english dictionary. You should look for the Hebrew word it was translated from and find out what it meant when the bible was written, which isn't necesarily the same as what it means in Israel today.