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  1. lock out? on PIN-Cracking Robot To Be Showed Off At Defcon · · Score: 1

    surely you are locked out after 3 unsuccessful attempts on Android?

  2. sales figures? on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    where are the sales figures for Windows 8 compared to other OS?

  3. Re:Seriously? on Ripping CDs Set To Be Legalized In UK · · Score: 1

    It was illegal in the UK? I would have thought that of all places, it would have been illegal in the US. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction I guess...

    I tried to check this - can you point to a reference that confirms that format shifting is legal in the US?

  4. Re:Not a problem on UK Sticks With Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    A serious understatement. While the UK does have the very occasional tremor, they're so minor that nothing more than a single roof tile has ever moved*.

    * I'm just assuming this. The point is that they are incredibly minor compared to earthquakes experienced by most other countries.

    Lincoln Cathedral destroyed by earthquake in 1185: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Cathedral

    There is not reason why this could not happen again.

  5. Replacing 70s systems with 90s system on Federally-Mandated Medical Coding Gums Up IT Ops · · Score: 1
    ICD-10 is not exactly new: from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD-10

    .

    "Work on ICD-10 began in 1983 and was completed in 1992"

  6. The original is in the London Science Museum on Hydraulic Analog Computer From 1949 · · Score: 1
    The computer in the article installed at the LSE is now on display in the London Science Museum:

    http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/I033/10303308.aspx

    Phillip's Economic Computer, 1949. The machine was conceived by Bill Phillips (1914-1975), a New Zealand-born engineer turned economist. Phillips designed the machine to demonstrate in a visual way the circular flow of money within the economy. Approximately fourteen machines were built, and this particular machine was used as a teaching aid at the London School of Economics. It ran until May 1992.

  7. Re:3 dB on Firefox 3.5 Beta Boosts Open Video Standard · · Score: 1
    from wikipedia:

    A decibel is one tenth of a bel, a seldom-used unit.

  8. Re:Anecdotal problem on Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension · · Score: 1

    I disabled it and had no problems like that.

  9. Did Microsoft ever pay the fine? on Intel Receives Record Fine By the EU · · Score: 1

    It's one thing to slap a fine on the company, quite another to get them to hand over real cash - did it ever happen?

  10. Re:Erm.....What the hell? on Microsoft To Disable Autorun · · Score: 1

    In Vista you can go: Press Start button, type "word", hit enter. And you open MS Word using a CLI-like interface.

    I just tried this - you get WordPad, not Word.

  11. Re:Potato Blight for computers on Conficker Downloads Payload · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >Yeah, because obviously the answer is to have a hundred different systems >with a hundred different sets of vulnerabilities. That will be much easier >to keep patched. well, actually, this really is the answer - you never get rid of vulnerabilities but you can put enough variation in them that specialised viruses become less effective.

  12. Re: 'when-you-have-to-use-gas'? on An Alternative to Alternative Fuels and Vehicles · · Score: 1

    What happens when you 'when-you-have-to-use-gas' and you find out you have used it all up?