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  1. Re:Print to PDF on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Automatically Sanitize PDF Email Attachments? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Converting to JPEG? You're a terrible human being.

  2. Boom on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The idea of having your kids not be able to blow their brains out with your gun seems like quite a good one...

  3. Says man who failed to comply with data protection on Google Glass and Surveillance Culture · · Score: 5, Informative
  4. Re:Business as usual, but it still seems absurd on Senate Cybersecurity Bill Stalled By Ridiculous Amendments · · Score: 1

    In the UK, bills have a short and a long title. You can't tack things onto a bill if that's not what the long title is about.

  5. Don't really get the American system on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Perhaps it would be better to move away from graduation based on everything together, to passes in individual subjects? Allow pupils to excel in the areas they can.

  6. Re:What's a good free calculator for Android? on Octave and Gnuplot Coming To Android · · Score: 1

    MathScript is pretty damn good https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.funmath.mathscript don't know if it can do everything you list, but it can do a lot (and theoretically you could program anything you want in python). There's also a free trial version which has all the features (I think), but nags after a while https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.funmath.mathscriptlite

  7. I 6th Python, and 2nd this book. Got the physical copy out from my uni library: is excellent.

  8. Re:Not hundreds of different types on Expect Hundreds of Thunderbolt Devices, Says Intel · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what I was going to write. Well done sir.

  9. Re:Military using common GPS? on US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing · · Score: 1

    It was Tomorrow Never Dies.

  10. Re:Not too surprised... on Brits Rejecting Superfast Broadband · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We've got 30Mbit Virgin, its excellent and plenty fast enough between four of us. Didn't see any point paying the extra for 50 or 100 yet. Maybe in a year or two.

  11. Re:Says the manufacturer of cells on London Needs 70,000 Cells For 4G · · Score: 1

    Actually, cable now runs at 100Mb/s

  12. Re:Hyperbole on China Praises UK Internet Censorship Plan · · Score: 0

    Its believed about 5 people died due to the rioting. If police or citizens had been armed, it would have been a lot more. 53 died in the 1992 LA rioting

  13. Re:In my experience it depends on what you want on Bing More Effective Than Google? · · Score: 1

    The major customisation Google does for my results is: if a possible result is a band, then I'm probably searching for the band, and want the last.fm and wikipedia pages at the top.

  14. Re:beam in thine own eye on Facebook Locks Down Social Gift Giving Patent · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, would you like people snooping on your private life, and then making money publishing it. Or in at least one of the gagging orders, it is alleged blackmail took place.

  15. Re:SOL on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements? · · Score: 1

    Come to the UK, do a computer science degree, and do just computer science! Same goes for virtually any subject.

  16. Re:Year of the Hacker on WordPress.org Hacked, Plugin Repository Compromised · · Score: 1

    Yep "criminals". Slave owning, native killing, tax dodging "criminals".

  17. Re:The laser on Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon · · Score: 2

    Tbh, lasers like this are incredibly impractical for anything other than missile defense. For attacking, there are a million better ways. Such as missiles!

  18. Re:It's OK on Rooted Devices Blocked From Android Movie Market · · Score: 1

    HTC have a thing to plug into your TV and stream video from Desire HD to it (and other DLNA devices), only up to 720p though http://www.htcaccessorystore.com/uk/p_htc_item.aspx?i=208287

  19. Re:What's that about two wrongs? on Steve Jobs: 'We Don't Track Anyone' · · Score: 1

    Android very clearly asks permission to use your locations. Google use it to make their database of cell towers, which you use when you can't get GPS. Its pretty clever really.

  20. Re:Missed Day One? They're up... on EVE Online PVP Tournament Streamed Live · · Score: 1

    Go look in settings for ship shake iirc

  21. Re:so? on UK ISP Disconnects Customers For File Sharing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "The UK is very big, so local monopolies are very common" - entirely wrong, the UK is rather small and local monopolies are rare. In fact this is the first one in the UK I've heard about.

  22. Re:Where does a cop get £160,000? on 40 Million Identities Up For Sale On the Web · · Score: 1

    EU data protection: we can request any data on ourselves :) Also holding the information itself is probably illegal.

  23. Re:Allegedly. on Murdoch Paper Reporters Eavesdropped On Celebrities' Voicemail · · Score: 1

    "Executives at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.-owned papers (including current Tory spokesman Andy Coulson) allowed reporters to hack into phone conversations of celebrities and then paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover it up." -This much is definitely true, they have already paid several celebrities, whose phones they hacked, settlements. The question is whether or not the executives knew, and how widespread the practice was. The Guardian says it has evidence of 27 (I think) journalists involved in the hacking. It would be amazing if they didn't know the techniques used by their employees to gain scoops. Particularly interesting is one former executive of the Times (another News Corp paper) saying as much.

  24. Oops on A Look At the Tech Behind Burnout Paradise · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who tagged this as government?

  25. Re:Why? on EU Sues Sweden, Demands ISP Data Retention · · Score: 1

    Or it could mean bare arms in the sense: "to bear arms for king and country" as part of an organized militia!