Re: Gotta love techies

CCTV isn't purposed specifically for sexual exploitation. Upskirt videos are purposed as pornography, and produced without permission of the subject. I don't see how you're making this logical disconnect.

Re: More PC over-reaction

I think it's both. Making a cheap joke of another ethnicity is tasteless and bigoted. Doing so with the social power and privilege of whiteness behind you is racist, as it makes it an extension of years of institutionalised oppression.

Re: Any phone manufacturers with the headphone slot at the bottom?

The galaxy Nexus has the headphone jack at the bottom.

Still, let's wait and see what Apple actually produce.

Re: Ken MacLeod's wet dream

Not as far as I know. Laser launchers rely on powerful lasers (which exist), high density steam propulsion (which exists, and Britain pioneered, albeit differently), and super-light, yet super strong materials to build the vehicle with (some exist already).

It's a more tractable problem than the space elevator, IMO.

Re: Church of Mamon?

I think that's way, way, waaay deep in the South. In Uncle-Daddy and Aunty-Momma country.

@me n u

You've never read any of the books, have you? Dalton and Craig hit closer to the spot with the brutal, heartless and sometimes vengeful aspects of the character. I grew up with Moore, and enjoyed those films, but they aged terribly and marked Bond as high camp. I like that this incarnation of the franchise tends more towards story and character development than the old, "we're-stuck-for-an-idea-so-we'll-change-location-to-Jamaica-for-no-good-reason," approach.

Hmm, I live in Germany

I'll tell you what, when I'm out with Germans, pissing, shitting, farting and fucking are *just* as key to their humour as mine (I'm English).

As with any nation, some people are dour cunts who seem to think smiling sincerely will somehow put a crack in their face, and others are lively, and full of wit and conviviality.

That said, I live in Munich. Tight arsed bastard Central.

BNP?

Never mind the BNP - there are plenty of other crazies to worry about: Xenophobic religious and political groups; their xenophilic counterparts; opportunists who'd probably befriend them long enough to rip them off, screw them over and probably start a fight we couldn't win...

Aliens are probably better off staying away and switching to tight-band communication. We're far too mental/dangerous to be let out of our box.

Mrs bin Laden

I'm pretty sure I heard something about ObL having a teenaged wife? Like, the kind of young where, had they married in the EU or USA, it would be illegal.

But then, how much of that is true. He's been a decade-long lammist, he's not exactly gonna be on This Morning with Philip & Fern (which makes it easy to make up bollocks about him).

29 here

Admittedly, I was late to the party, so I had Frontier Elite II on the Amiga. Oh, the homework that never got done due to that game...

I reckon Raspberry Pi should look into getting backing from a media organ, possibly the BBC, like Acorn back in the 80s.

Stallone movie

There was already that ghastly Sylvester Stallone vehicle. Maybe it should be done properly though...

Yes

Yes, the battery can be changed. It slides out the bottom, over the SIM and microSD slots.

And...

This arse-about-face attitude differs from modern British politics how, exactly?

Oh, give it a rest!

A load of middle class toss, if you ask me. Classical music makes you smarter, more mentally healthy... Please! Don't get me wrong, it has its artistic merits, but I feel that the arguments that listening to classical music makes you somehow a better person is nothing more than divisive, classist, elitist hot air.

NASA's link

NASA's link to the erstwhile BNSC now directs to what appears to be the homepage of UKSA: http://www.bis.gov.uk/ukspaceagency

Maybe

But that's what the good people at XDA, et al, are for :-)

Thing is...

Every generation says that, but the fact of the matter is, we're all prone to rose tinting our youth. My mum often bangs on about songs from her day having good lyrics. I pointed out Toots & The Maytals "Bam Bam". Conversation over.

I know for a fact that, in among all the screw-faced Jungle I listened to as a teen, was more than a few cheesily bad songs.

Word.

When I joined Facebook a couple years ago, one of my first thoughts was, "who the FUCK would put their home address and phone number on a social network?"

I didn't realise the answer would be "millions of people worldwide."

You can't blame Zuckerberg for this one. This is straight up dumb-fuckery.

Hear, hear!

Never mind the British scientists and engineers working on more important things than what the Skinny Jeans Brigade will next fall over themselves to part with 500 quid for...