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  1. Re:He is lucky he did not get shot on the spot on Carrying A Gun-Shaped iPhone 'Makes It Much Less Likely You'll Catch Your Plane' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Armed police have been in London airports long before 2001.

  2. I thought it was a bit of a damp squid.

  3. I was at a security meeting last year where it was seriously suggested that we make correcthorsebatterystaple a default password because it was unguessable.

  4. Re:I wonder... on Google's Self-Driving Cars Now Know When To Honk (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure whether it's the law nationwide but in many places you're only supposed to use your horn to alert other drivers of your presence.

  5. Re:When the ahole doesn't see the light turn green on Google's Self-Driving Cars Now Know When To Honk (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Haven't really noticed - but then again western Washington, Seattle in particular, has always had drivers who will wait until they're 150% sure the light is green. You can tell if someone is out of state because they're the only ones honking their horn.

  6. ...but they need to be able to do it on FBI Warns That Car Hacking Is a Real Risk (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Do any of the three letter organizations really want secure systems? Or just ones that look secure but really have enough holes so that they can monitor the use?

  7. Re:This is what happens when govt runs media on End of an Era As Pioneering BBC3 Becomes an Online-Only Station (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Aren't they showing the O J Simpson one? And the Walter Presents was a less specific comment to the effect of that there's plenty of interesting TV throughout the world and restricting a channel to just the output of its home country seems a waste.

  8. Training rather than being walked to the door? on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost everyone I've known who has been fired or laid off has been walked to the door straight after being told - possibly there was a side trip to pick up anything personal - and the idea that they'd be training their replacement seems absurd. The only time I can see it working is when someone leaves a company for external reasons, such as changing location.

  9. Re:chip/signature on To Secure ATM Transactions: Ditch the Card (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    It is silly, but it's also the line that many of the US card issuers are saying publicly - that it's a bonus because it's not yet another PIN to remember.

  10. Re:This is what happens when govt runs media on End of an Era As Pioneering BBC3 Becomes an Online-Only Station (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the comment means that the BBC buys in some overseas programming, rather than "recycles". Personally I like to see some foreign TV, the Walter Presents collection is quite interesting.

  11. This man is a terrorist!!! on Collecting Private Flight Data On the World Economic Forum Attendees With RTL-SDR (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm guessing that once the story is widely known there'll be calls to arrest him, even though he's using publicly available data and equipment and not doing anything wrong.

  12. There's plenty of people in the UK selling bigger shoes [a joke which only works if you read it aloud].

  13. Sounds like PubWatch on Pre-Crime in the UK: Businesses Crowdsource a Watch List (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    PubWatch has been running in UK pubs since the 1990's, it's a voluntary organisation where landlords share photographs of troublemakers between themselves and with police. They probably include video by now.

  14. Re:Should've used protection. on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it's an open structure wouldn't the grain run out?

  15. Cost? on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    There would be so much to change that the cost would prevent it - just think of how many road signs there are for example.

  16. Re:And we care why? on Confirmed: Microsoft Says It Will Open Source VB 6 · · Score: 1

    Is it from the darkside?

  17. Re:I fricken' hate this myth on Confessions of a Computer Repairman · · Score: 1

    But most of the other machines do last forever, or at least long enough that they get replaced for a better version rather than because they've failed.

  18. Re:It makes sense on Western Washington Univ. Considers Cutting Computer Science · · Score: 1

    That's something for the help desk to solve.

  19. Re:Why can't they install Firefox along side ie6? on Internet Explorer 10 Drops Vista Support · · Score: 1

    Many businesses would say there's no excuse for surfing the web during working hours.

  20. Re:Large organization doing something simple on NYT Paywall Cost $40 Million: How? · · Score: 1

    Isaac Asimov had an anecdote about being commissioned to write a story in the morning, wrote it at lunch time and gave it to his manger, who told him to wait a couple of weeks because if it was found it didn't take long people would assume it wasn't worth reading. And software can be viewed that way - if there's only six people working on a project then it's not taken seriously enough, you need to make a new department out of the best people from the other departments. And get more consultants.

  21. Re:Can this be real? on Man Pays $200,000 To Save Fake Online Girlfriend · · Score: 4, Funny

    Most of those guys end up blowing 99% of that on women, drugs, and vehicles..

    And the rest just waste it.

  22. Re:Can this be real? on Man Pays $200,000 To Save Fake Online Girlfriend · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Probably the majority of it was in the last few months, and may have been for what he thought was a ransom. I don't have $200,000 laying about but if I truly believed that my girlfriend was being kidnapped I could get it within a couple of weeks by loans and remortgaging.

  23. Re:"Framework" isn't just a buzzword... on Drupal Competes As a Framework, Unofficially · · Score: 1

    As Lean hasn't been mentioned I'm going to assume you're not serious. Those A3s aren't going to write themselves.

  24. What's so special about Red Dwarf? on New Red Dwarf Series Threatened By the Twitter Era · · Score: 1

    I must be missing the point because I don't understand why this is such a big problem for Red Dwarf and not for any of the many other sitcoms that are recorded in front of an audience.

  25. Re:Wonderful! on Pumpkin Pie increases Male Sex Drive · · Score: 1

    Pieagra?