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  1. Re:Not really on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    Or a policeman having to commandeer a vehicle to stop a crime?

    What?

    If that's a serious concern then forget speed limits - we need to install a Yakety Sax button on every dash.

  2. Missing info from the summary on First Portions of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was in an 86pt font.

  3. Re:i like cyanogenmod..but... on Meet Focal, the New Camera App For CyanogenMod · · Score: 2

    "catty calling the cattle black"

    Whaaaaaat.....?

    This has to win an award for the most mis-heard idiom ever.

  4. Re:If you need in vehicle infotainment... on The Rise of Linux In In-Vehicle Infotainment · · Score: 2

    Going to show my age here. But when we went on long holiday trips with my mum as kids (from the UK down to the south of France over a couple of days) she kept us entertained by giving us a couple of pillow cases with random entertainments in it - board games, card games, i-spy quiz things, books, anything. Every hour or so we'd take out something new and that shut us up for a while. Looking now it's a 32hr round-trip managed with 2 stops (one on a Ferry for an hour) each way - and she was doing this by herself with just me and my brother for company.

    In-car AV entertainment is easier - but it's by no means essential.

  5. Re:Double the delay every failed attempt on PIN-Cracking Robot To Be Showed Off At Defcon · · Score: 1

    I had a similar problem with a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland. They lock you out of your bank account after 3 failed attempts to enter the correct password for a given customer number. Unfortunately because this number was similar to one for another account I kept mistaking the last few digits when typing it in. A few tries using my correct password and it'd lock up and tell me to phone customer services (up to a 15 minute phone call) to find out my account wasn't locked at all. I asked but (understandably) they wouldn't unlock the other account at my request.

    I must have done that at least 5 or 6 times. How annoying must that have been for whoever that account belonged to?

  6. Quite interested to read this article... on Former WaPo Staffer Rob Pegoraro Talks About Newspapers' Decline (Video) · · Score: 1

    ...now, if only I could figure out which of the 9 randomly linked words in the summary actually points to it.

    If Rob Pegoraro is this bad at getting traffic perhaps he should have been fired.

  7. Re:MRO's images are totally awesome on Mars Curiosity Rover Shoots Video of Phobos Moon Rising · · Score: 1

    Thanks for posting that third link - I hadn't seen that image before. As you say, words can't do it justice. Incredible.

  8. Re:Just curious? on SpaceX Grasshopper Launch Filmed From Drone Helicopter · · Score: 1

    You're quite right! If you look closely in the second half of the video you can clearly see the smoke is traveling backwards into the engine. I'm surprised nobody else has noticed that yet!

  9. Re:Ok.... on Ikea Foundation Introduces Better Refugee Shelter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also, why the hell would you want to make things more comfortable in a shelter? You do NOT want to give people a reason to stay longer.

    I know, right!

    I heard that back where those refugees came from there are loads of free bullets. Why can't they eat them?! You don't even have bend down to pick them up, they're flying right around in the air at head height!!

    But I guess that's not good enough for them. That's why they're coming over here into the middle of desert, stealing our barren landscape.

    So selfish.

    Excuse me while I go buy a new iPad.

  10. Re:Snowden is never leaving Russia on Snowden Offered Asylum By Venezuelan President · · Score: 1

    It is telling that an (apparent) opponent of Snowden would hold up extrajudicial killing as an example of 'justice'.

  11. Open goal for pirates? on UK Passes "Instagram Act" · · Score: 1

    So, I download the latest Hollywood blockbuster, re-title it giving it an absurd name, removing credits/publisher marks and maybe blurring/replacing the lead's face. Then I re-upload 'Deep Groat: Sub-Prime Deposit' (a.k.a Catwoman -it's a modern classic) on the Pirate Bay.

    Our good UK subject comes along, downloads it and thinks 'Never heard of this!?' No idea who made it, no way of finding out.

    That 'film' is now in the public domain?

  12. What a waste of time! on Smithsonian Releases 128-Year-Old Recording of Alexander Graham Bell · · Score: 2

    They should have just taken some grainy photos of the disc and let Reddit sort it out.

    [Seriously though, this is awesome.]

  13. Re:Is there an "ignore user" feature on Slashdot? on Two Changes To Quirky Could Change The World · · Score: 5, Informative
  14. Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot on Ask Slashdot: Science Books For Middle School Enrichment? · · Score: 1

    It's is a biographical history of the 1950s woman who's cancerous cells (HeLa) are now used throughout the world as a research tool. It's an interesting look into the development of scientific research ethics (there was no consent given at the time), civil rights, biological patents and commercialisation but in an incredibly readable way. I would think the upper-end of your age group would quite enjoy it.

  15. Re:Also on Slashdot.jp on Ask Slashdot: What Magazines Do You Still Read? · · Score: 1

    Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice won't get sex with robot again.

  16. Also on Slashdot.jp on Ask Slashdot: What Magazines Do You Still Read? · · Score: 2

    Can you sex with robot? 9% say yes!

    If you're looking for an answer to the slow decline of Slashdot.org here it is: .jp has the news that matters!

  17. Re:shockingly on Nano-Suit Protects Bugs From Vacuums · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Insects breathe through their skin. Covering it in a polymer is like putting a plastic bag over your head: You might not be dead yet, but lifeless-huskiness is just a few moments away.

  18. "Slashdot was unable to reach executives..." on US Gov't Blocks Sales To Russian Supercomputer Maker · · Score: 1

    Since when did Slashdot start doing real journalism?

  19. Re:Less buzzwords, more substance, please? on Book Review: MODx Revolution - Building the Web Your Way · · Score: 1

    Bootstrap: CSS made simple!

    It makes a lot more sense if you interpret "simple" to mean "generic".

  20. Entirely object-oriented. on Book Review: MODx Revolution - Building the Web Your Way · · Score: 1

    Well, there's one big object will all of the functions in it.

    That's OO right?

  21. Re:I'll remember the pain. on Why Are We Still Talking About LucasArts' Old Adventure Games? · · Score: 1

    I guess I don't mind because I think I spent weeks getting Wing Commander Privateer to run on my computer from with a floppy with custom config.sys & autoexe.bat files. There were others, but Privateer was the one I remember the most frustration with.

    This. I remember a group of 3 of us sitting over a 486 fiddling with config.sys and autoexec.bat files for hours on end. Adding and removing HIMEM.SYS, EMM386. Rearranging the order things were loaded to squeeze the last bit of memory out of the machine.

    It was like that scene in Apollo 13. But with snacks.

  22. Re:Margaret who? on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 1

    Ah right, well I'm with you on that one.

    I never liked the woman but I still find comments along the lines of "at last, shes gone!" a bit strange since - as you say - she's been irrelevant for a long time not to mention incapacitated by Alzheimers. She was 'gone' when she lost power. I guess we can recognise the end of her as a living political icon (both positive and negative) but that's just paving the way for even more mythologising of who she was.

    North Korea is far more interesting, I'll grant you that.

    Top quote so far from John Major: "She made the wind".

  23. Re:I'd be pretty pissed on British ISP Bombards Users With Deleted Emails · · Score: 1

    Ah right, I get you. I didn't realise the folder support might not be there - it would probably cause more trouble than it's worth pulling individual folders separately and trying to remove duplications (multiple-tagged). Since they've apparently already copied over the All Mail folder for all their users you're right that the simplest fix would be pull the Trash and remove anything that is in there from the user's accounts.

    Seems like the sort of thing you'd test before migrating all your live user accounts.

  24. What I want to know is on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 1

    What does Yvonne Lee, Community Manager at Dice.com think about all this?

    Haven't heard from her in a while.

  25. Re:Margaret who? on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 1

    I was a bit surprised to see it here too - but find it hard to believe you can't see it being newsworthy "anywhere". Not even in the UK?

    Would you really prefer another story about Bitcoins?

    Can't see her without seeing the Spitting Image puppet of her. Enjoy.