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Comment Re:Diminishing returns (Score 1) 1719

Those homicides are the reason we have security gaurds with guns at the entrances to Banks and not elementry schools.

Aside from an armed courier making cash drops, I've never seen armed guards at any of the US banks I've been in. Bank personnel are trained not to resist robbers, just cooperate and get them out of there quickly.

Comment Re:Why do the Beeb bother with IP geolocation? (Score 1) 373

Before they went with IP location, they experimented with a challenge/response system to verify UK citizenship:

Which number Elizabeth are we up to now?

What do you call potatoes that are thinly sliced, fried, and sold in foil bags?

Translate this sentence into cockney: "hello friend, I have a stomachache"

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