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UK Police To Allow Gun Users To Renew Licenses With iPhone App 271

Posted by samzenpus on Friday June 18, 2010 @02:00PM from the there's-a-gun-for-that dept.

Sussex police are creating a number of iPhone apps for the public, including one to renew your gun license. Unsurprisingly, the plan has some anti-gun groups upset. Lyn Costello, of Mothers Against Murder and Aggression (MAMAA), said, "This isn't suitable, especially in light of what happened in Cumbria. We've got to be extra careful giving gun licenses. We have this attitude that gun murders don't happen very often so it's OK to be lax, but it is not OK and we've got to do everything in our power to stop it happening again. We can't put money before life and if you start to do that we are losing our humanity. It is a really stupid idea.''

Comment Non-factual stuff (Score 1) 61

by Maarten on Wednesday January 20, 1999 @06:20AM (#2037415) Attached to: Linux Kernel 2.2.0 Press Release Draft

Hi,

read the following:

Already legendary Linux performance is significantly enhanced. High end SMP
support scales well, supporting up to 64-bit processor systems.

What has SMP-scalability to do with 64-bit processors?

and:

Projects such as GNOME (GNU Network Orientated Model Environment), KDE (K
Desktop Environment), and Enlightenment all take advantage of the Linux
kernel, and allow users to completely customize their Graphical User Interface
(GUI). This makes for quick and easy interaction with hardware and software
through desktop icons, menus, and keyboard shortcuts.

These have nothing to do with the Linux kernel. In fact, both GNOME and KDE run on a myriad of platforms.

About publishing stuff like this on /., see it as a wider proofreading audience. As long as people give sensible comments on it (and I don't mean stuff like 'this doesn't belong here', 'this should not have come out yet'), it can only help on improving the press release.

Maarten

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