Comment Re: Globalism strikes again (Score 1) 153
Poundland is getting purchased by steinhoff group, thats south african i belive.
Comment Brits of /. (Score 1) 178
BBC One's Watchdog episode on later today has a segment on so called "hover boards".
Comment Re:Pointing at the wrong topic here (Score 1) 77
The stadium is the home of Derby County football club, it used to be called Pride Park(like the rest of the complex) but got renamed due to a branding deal with a drinks company with a name that shouldn't take much guessing.
Comment Re:As a UAV flyer myself... (Score 1) 77
Another issue is the Ipro stadium (used to be called Pride Park) in derby is on a complex of mostly privately owned businesses with a fair bit of foot traffic (thing pizza hut/costo etc.), so even it flying over roads only a single malfunction could cause injury.
Comment Re:Why does the FBI continue to engage in witchcra (Score 1) 262
Urban Legends revealed had a version where cops used a colander, a ton of wires and a photocopier and they simply pressed copy when they considered him lying, copying a sheet that says "hey's lying"
Comment Re:Cheapest solution: 3 (Score 1) 142
Three cap unlimited plans when roaming to 25Gb
Comment Re:Good luck with that Virgin... (Score 1) 113
I can confirm that as i have remote access disabled, had an issue and the "tech" on the other end told me the device names of the 3 computers connected even going so far to say which one was via ethernet.
Comment Re:What a waste of money (Score 1) 54
Totally agree.
This would explain why the UK gov has horrid IT systems, if they funded O/S projects they could have the public help out to create an IT system that actually works.
I bet it's oracle that they use to send out the letters to the deceased.
Comment Re:automatically install firmware updates (Score 1) 278
Do you mean like the chromebooks dual partition?
That could work, have a small stub loader that can check if its ok.
Comment Re:Well I Guess Charlton Heston was Wrong (Score 1) 135
Soylent Green is made of heavy metals, not people. Though admittedly the latter made for a better movie.
Lead lined coffins?
DOJ Vs. Google: How Google Fights On Behalf of Its Users 78
Lauren Weinstein writes: While some companies have long had a "nod and wink" relationship with law enforcement and other parts of government -- willingly turning over user data at mere requests without even attempting to require warrants or subpoenas, it's widely known that Google has long pushed back -- sometimes though multiple layers of courts and legal processes -- against data requests from government that are not accompanied by valid court orders or that Google views as being overly broad, intrusive, or otherwise inappropriate. Over the last few days the public has gained an unusually detailed insight into how hard Google will fight to protect its users against government overreaching, even when this involves only a single user's data. One case reaches back to the beginning of 2011, when the U.S. Department of Justice tried to force Google to turn over more than a year's worth of metadata for a user affiliated with WikiLeaks. While these demands did not include the content of emails, they did include records of this party's email correspondents, and IP addresses he had used to login to his Gmail account. Notably, DOJ didn't even seek a search warrant. They wanted Google to turn over the data based on the lesser "reasonable grounds" standard rather than the "probable cause" standard of a search warrant itself. And most ominously, DOJ wanted a gag order to prevent Google from informing this party that any of this was going on, which would make it impossible for him to muster any kind of legal defense.
