Posts by Demosthenese

Supremes poke Schwarzenegger's 'violent' game ban

Anyone for a game of ...

hangman?

Microsoft earnings up over 50%

Hmm...

That is one long document you have there. Are you rewriting the bible?

Google versus Facebook: stop your photocopiers

Meh

Can anyone point me at a web app with the facilities of Photoshop or Gimp, and Inkscape so I can join in this web-centric jamboree?

Googlegate: Mapping a scandal of global proportions

Hmm...

'Surreptitious' - my android phone has made it quite clear that it can geo-locate using local wifi-networks. The idea that this was a clandestine operation is nonsense.

'with this geo-validation of IP addresses it could now give you an ad for a clothing store two streets away'

except with dynamic ips - which most are - this information is out of date quickly.

'If you or I were to wander around London recording the contents of communications from politicians, retailers and the general public, it is fair to assume we would be arrested and prosecuted in short order.'

Why? Under what law is it illegal to record public conversations? Am I legally obliged to forget everything I have overheard?

ARM chippies cooperate on Linux

canonical based in IOM

Canonical is registered in the Isle of Mann - not the UK.

Sun sat sends stunning solar snap

Why...

Because hotter bodies give of shorter wavelength light (bluer), cooler bodies give off longer wavelength light (redder).

google for black body radiation.

Pistol fired on Olympic honour campaign for Turing

Meh

I'm not seeing a strong connection here between Turing and the Olympics that would justify him being honored in this way.

The myth of Britain's manufacturing decline

Confused

I think you are confusing rule 34 with Godwin's law. Rule 34 applied to Thatcher and Hitler - God help me! I need to bleach my brain.

New cig peril: Third-hand smoke coats puffers in poison

Nazis

You do know that Nazi Germany was the first government publicly to identify the link between cancer and smoking and the first to introduce smoking bans - for pregnant and young women.

Buggy home routers expose O2 customers to hijacking

Roll your own

ZOMG!!! I'm with O2.

However, I never took their router out of the box. It seems that for building routers that 'If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing yourself.'