Posts by Optimist

MYSTERY RADIO SIGNAL picked up from BEYOND our GALAXY

Wow!

spɹɐʍʞɔɐB writing is spammers' new mail filter avoidance trick

I have found that if the display name of the recipient is correct, it is less likely to be spam.

Quantum computing is so powerful it takes two years to understand what happened

You don't need a quantum computer to tell you that the factors of 143 are 11 and 13!

Britain's housing crisis: What are we going to do about it?

The statement that only 2 or 3 per cent of the land area is for housing is misleading. The important point is that nearly 12 per cent of the land is classified as "built-up". Since this is the UK figure which includes underpopulated areas such as the Highlands of Scotland, the situation in England is far more critical. Some areas should never be built on, like flood plains, and for food security reasons we should protect farmland.

The truth is that there are simply too many people for the space available. So we should be reducing immigration from the present level of ove 10,000 a week, and take steps to discourage large families.

EU justice chief blasts Google on 'right to be forgotten'

Why all the fuss

The ruling only applies to searches via European gateways. So if you want to know what is actually on the web, use the US Google gateway. If you want search results suppressed, use a European one.