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clickclickdrone writes:
Computer hacker Gary McKinnon, who is wanted in the US, will not face charges in the UK, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer QC said the chances of a successful conviction were "not high".
He announced the decision some three months after Home Secretary Theresa May stopped the extradition.
Mr McKinnon, 46, admits accessing US government computers but says he was looking for evidence of UFOs.
The US authorities tried to extradite him to face charges of causing $800,000 (£487,000) to military computer systems and he would have faced up to 60 years in prison if convicted.
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clickclickdrone writes:
Development on a video game funded by the crowdsourced funding site Kickstarter has stopped as all its programmers have quit.
More than 1,200 people backed Haunts: The Manse Macabre when it ran a funding campaign via Kickstarter in June 2012.
It pledged to produce a horror game but that has been mothballed after running out of cash and staff.
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clickclickdrone writes:
The UK Home Secretary has just announced that Gary McKinnon will not be extradited to the US for hacking charges. She has cited grave concerns in recent years about the handling of UK->US extraditions. This was the last chance to extradite him so now it will be down to UK justice system.
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clickclickdrone writes:
A couple of competitors to the Rasberry Pi have been in the news this week. The Chinese MK802 has a higher spec but an equally high price but now VIA have announced their own bare board system, the APC which should ship at $49. Both systems run Android in contrast to the Rasberry Pi's Linux.
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clickclickdrone writes:
A good idea, combined with the right technology, can change the world. 25 years ago, the BBC dreamt up an inspired scheme. However, in the case of the Domesday Project, it was the tech that doomed it.
The premise was straightforward enough — create a 20th century version of William the Conqueror's 900-year-old page-turner, the Domesday Book.
Instead of land rights and livestock, it would chronicle life in 1980s Britain, based on photographs and written accounts submitted by ordinary people.
It was an incredibly ambitious undertaking and, in many ways, the Domesday Project was a success.
The BBC received more than a million contributions and the electronic version was released commercially.
However, the system was based on laserdiscs, a BBC Master computer and a trackball and over the years, the ability to access the data has been all but lost. Until now...
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clickclickdrone writes:
One of the first batch of Apple personal computers has sold at auction in London for £133,250 ($210,000).
The Apple I came with its original packaging and a signed sales letter from Apple co-founder and current chief executive Steve Jobs.
The computer, one of only 200 of the model ever made, originally sold for $666.66 when it was introduced in 1976.
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clickclickdrone writes:
Seems Nokia (increasingly irrelevent?) are a tad peeved at HTC arriving in town at the same time as Nokia World and are trying some spoiler tactics. http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/15/nokia-crashes-htcs-london-event-with-red-balloons-hate/
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clickclickdrone writes:
Despite killing off the bulk of the cast in season 3, the BBC have announced season 4 of Torchwood and with a nod to overseas sales, they are going international location wise. A ten part series is promised with locations in the US and elsewhere in the world unlike the previous seasons which stayed resolutely in Wales.
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clickclickdrone writes:
Thieves in the UK stole a GBP20 limiter from an electrical substation. The result? Power fluctuations as high as 400 volts caused numerous appliance failures and a number of thankfully small fires in Bolton. A child's baby alarm even caught fire damaging blankets and putting the baby at risk. The incident has triggered a lot of discussion about the merits of switching off and unplugging everything overnight — possibly an overreaction but we do tend to assume our mains delivers what we expect.
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clickclickdrone writes:
A chain of websites belonging to Johnston Press, the largest owner of regional newspapers in the UK is starting a trial to see if people are willing to pay £5 per quarter for access to all their content. Non paying users can still access a subset of the articles though. This follows on the heels of Murdoch's expressed wish to start making people pay for online news. Johnston Press have over 300 newspapers in their fold so this will be one to watch.
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clickclickdrone writes:
The BBC and others are reporting the launch of a new range of computers aimed at older (60+) first time computer users with no experience of the Internet. Using a build of Linux with a simplified interface called SimplicITy, the new machines provide basic email, web browsing and chat. To help users get going, it even includes 17 tutorial videos by Valerie Singleton, a well known face in the UK to people of that generation.
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clickclickdrone writes:
The BBC is reporting that Road trains that link vehicles together using wireless sensors could soon be on European roads.
An EU-financed research project is looking at inexpensive ways of getting vehicles to travel in a 'platoon' on Europe's motorways. Each road train could include up to eight separate vehicles — cars, buses and trucks will be mixed in each one. The EU hopes to cut fuel consumption, journey times and congestion by linking vehicles together. Early work on the idea suggests that fuel consumption could be cut by 20% among those cars and trucks travelling behind the lead vehicle.
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clickclickdrone writes:
The Pirate Bay 4 have been found guilty according to early reports. No links yet. Discuss.
