Please won't somebody think of the children?

Because over 99% children will spend the majority of their lives as adults.

Think about whether you want them to spend their adult lives with the government watching everything they do online.

Bjork?

I thought the mothership had picked her up long ago.

Windows 8 suffers from one big problem - MS wanted in on phone and tablet sales.

I was being shown windows 8 laptop by a salesdroid over xmas and I was stroking the screen trying to get it to respond .

"It's not a touch screen" the droid said

"It's a touch screen user interface" I replied

Hey microsoft!

Did these people boot this laptop?

Does the Windows license cover use by a third party without permission of the license holder ?

The logical extension

Would be to outlaw VPN connections without a permit. Otherwise this law is useless.

And probably violates Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Have we reached saturation?

Perhaps people have realized that they dont need a more powerful or a better user experience when all they do is turn it on and double click the browser.

When all your computing needs are prefixed with "http:" why would you need to upgrade before it breaks ?

Deckchairs on the Titanic

While selling news in tomorrows chip wrappers is a business heading for obsolescence, the business of gathering news and distributing it to the public is not going to go away. IMHO PCC really needs to look at reforming itself into a standards body for all news business, not just those who press ink down onto mashed up trees.

Should have been android

Seriously, is it some mark of status in the IT world to regard Google as your competitor ?

I think Nokia hardware is great, let down by their OS. An android N97 would be fantastic. But no, "Google is our competitor." says Nokia. Rubbish. HTC, Samsung, LG, Sony - they're the competition.

This will turn into a coalition of losers.

Warriors of Rock failed for a reason

Its called the Pro Guitar Controller.

Frankly anybody interested in these games is salviating over the pro guitar and GH had a bad year with warrior of rock.

Top down IT procurement at work

My GF used to work at the DWP and from what she's told me their IT provision is disgustingly and inflexible. Requirements are determined and written at a level far higher than the actual lowlies who sit at the keyboard, and consequently they never get a system that makes their job harder.

The whole thing needs redoing from scratch with proper stakeholder involvement. And by stakeholders I mean people who do the actual claims processing, not managers who get nice food from contractors during sales meetings.

I know why

The Kinect is being sold at a loss, with MS making money back from licensing for the titles. If people start buying it without buying any of the games then they lose.

What they don't want is other people write (for example) a sign language reader and packaging it up with the hardware they've sold at a loss.

Waste of time.

100 years time ?

Put that in context - could the late Victorians have envisaged what was required for project Apollo ?

"The construction of the balloon would require a considerable increase in rubber from our plantations in the colonies. Also the gentlemen space travelers would have to be from the gentry classes because her majesty would surely request an audience upon their return ."

Typical

There was always a demand for multi territorial licenses. But the rights holders loved parceling up rights by territory and selling them individually so it never happened.

It seems obvious now but it never occured to people that some were pirating material [from abroad] simply because you couldn't buy it .

The Phantom Menace took three months to get a UK release. Thanks to the threat pirates we got an official theatrical release of Revenge of the Sith within days.

Paging Mr Bin London....

Of course, all this goes out the window in an emergency or terrorist attack, when the plod become heroes again.

Whats the betting something will "slip" through net soon ...?

Anti-GATSO?

Can you stick one of these in your car and not trigger a speed camera?

Reduce Illegal File Sharing

Make it legal, then illegal firesharing drops to 0.

I dont care how tech savvy you are

But how much in the pocket of big business you are.

Lets see if you can oppose idea's in government that you opposed in opposition (re: mandybill)

Not handset skype though

This is probably the same as 3's skype offering, where the Voice to IP is actually done by the carrier and not the handset.

And Skype is well known to let security and law agenices in through it's revolving back door.

Bye Byte Automatic Update

I'll avoid this the same way I avoided WGA - shut off windows update completely.

Let a third party package handle virus and firewall until I can get wine to run newly released DX games.

One time passcode

Could they not send a one time code to the hardholders mobile and verify that?

Liberal leanings of the tech sector ?

Funny how any leftish leanings of any group get highlighted as political bias, but nobody every poitns out the rightish leanings of the finanicla world.

Use an image key

Easy, make an image key. Require them to scan an image of a prime ministerial pardon absolving you of all crimes committed .

Make sure your "key" includes the signature of the current prime minister.

Flying Motorcycles?

Galactica 1980..... *shudder*

Become an accessory.

Since storage has been ruled illegal surely handing over these to the police upon request makes you an accessory ?

Requires a change of attitude not just perspect.

Solving the problems of identity and privacy, yes, this checks all the boxes. There's no way the Sir Humphries of this world will let that through - they want the Police, Intelligence and "commercial partners" accessing this data.

The purpose of the ID card is not just to provide someones identity but to record it as well. And recorded information is useless unless it will be read again. Its the reader list that forms the core of the problem with the scheme.

OS upgrade

If you really want the slide out qwerty keyboard get the old G1. The 1.5 update is being pushed out to those as well so the spiffy new OS features will appear on both phones.

If you've got a unlocked one on another network though you'll need to root it and update it manually.

So rare I might buy one.

Serious these things are like hen's teeth in my local high street. Buy one, keep it unopened for 5 years and the sell the little retro goldmine on ebay.

Google is a SERVICE not SOFTWARE

What's happening here is that advertisers have paid to advertise on google and then made the assumption that that meant advertising on PC's in browsers.

Do any of these advertisers know that their adverts will show up when you google in a mobile browser ? Do they want to turn of their adverts for anyone looking on a Samsung or Motorola ?

Paris because she knows a service when she gets one.

We have to send an agent from MI6

Just so that the head scientist can claim that he's been expecting them .

The cost would naturally be cheaper without espionage

The original US stealth demonstrator was built in the 1970s as project Have Blue, which eventually evolved into the F-117 Nighthawk. Improvements in stealth technology ( F-22, F-35 etc) have come about because of increases in computer power since the design of the F-117 - and how much more bang per buck to you get out of a computer since the 70s?

Trying to duplicate a 30 year old technology is naturally going to be cheaper than creating it first yourself - that's the price you pay for being first. Technology gets cheaper as it gets older.

Paris because the first caveman to wield a stick was a genius but now even she can do it.