Posts by Colin Stratford

Visitors no longer welcomed to Scotland's 'Penis Island'

Has anyone looked at the picture of the island upside down? "Penis Island" seems quite apt...

Facebook engineer bashes Google for Gmail block

@Doc Spock

Well now you've published the URL, it is of course publicly accessible. But if I'm not much mistaken, only the owner of the video/picture/album can access that URL, and it is not predictable. So yes, if it is marked as 'Friends only' then non-friends will not be able to access it (unless you actively publish it using the URL).

So the owner chooses to publish or not, independent of the privacy status. Which is fine by me - it is very useful for sharing albums with non facebook users. As I trust them, I am not concerned about the URL being further forwarded - a privacy risk that is fully transparent.

Microsoft assembles unlikely band of brothers against patent trolls

Where's the troll?

All I see is a niche technology company protecting the IP for the products that it sells. I've never heard a definition of patent troll that covers that....

Want to leave work early? Torch a filing cabinet

...it's not an oxidizer either

It's just oxygen, one of the three essential elements of fire.

DIY satellite TV installer shoots wife dead

@ Eh

:-))))

@ Anonymous Coward (15:34)

What sort of moron would shoot through his wall from outside? There's all sorts of stuff in the living room you could end up hitting, the telly for one thing...