Posts by Shadowfirebird

KIlling ID cards and the NIR - the Tory and LibDem plans

I keep my fingerprints on the end of my fingers

...so I can't actually see the logical need for people to carry a card, myself. Ditto passports.

Of course the database is the really worrying thing, so nice to see (both) opposition party(s) pledging to ban it.

Whether they *would* is another thing, but nice to see it all the same.

TechCrunch dubs Linux a 'big ol’ bag of drivers'

This is not a title

Well, Google are pretty serious about this, aren't they, because they've been ignoring Chrome for Windows and concentrating on making sure that the Linux users have the most up-to-date version of Chrome that they can.

Wait, what?

DARPA: Can we have a one-cabinet petaflop supercomputer?

Can we have an intelligent one-petaflop cabinet computer?

Simple enough question to answer, I would have thought. "No."

I'll take my payment now, please.

Disney punts hetero luuurv to wide-eyed kiddies

@Citizen Kaned

There is no norm, you boob ("standard pattern or type; customary behaviour"). The idea has absolutely no use in this context.

Even if we are to assume that far more hetrosexual relationships take place than any other sort (which I suspect is true, but how on earth could you prove it? Ask everyone in the UK while wiring their genitals up to socket*?) are you honestly suggesting that everyone should care about that and modify their behaviour accordingly? That children should be taught that anything else is somehow weird and deviant?

Yes, for my money, *most* childrens entertainment should show heterosexual relationships. But, all??

* And even then you would have to discount the answers from the masochists.