and it's clear that there'll be a whole bunch of kids - appreciative, we hope - glued to a new games box on Crimbo morning.

Or more likely, frustrated kids waiting for an inevitable system update to download!

I use mine until they die. I've not yet bought a phone when I already have one that works.

The old, dead, ones get used by the kids as pretend phones... or spaceships.

Twitter already is https

The UK government mentioning twitter as one of the things they want to monitor the "who" on makes me smile, given it's already encrypted...

I find Cameron wearing a poppy while selling arms far more offensive.

The MC Act simply isn't designed to handle social media. It was to protect telephone operators, then users, then covered email. All one-to-one communications. It really cannot handle a virtual soapbox without stepping on free speech.

ARMA?

It's technically an FPS, but pretty hardcore.

This explains...

..why all of a sudden my Xbox360's dashboard looks like The GUI Formerly Known As Metro. At least there the big bulbous buttons work with the "hand-mouse" on the Kinect.

It's not how I fancy my PC though.

perhaps if they got off their backsides...

...local government wouldn't feel the need to provide the service.

Clearly privatization failed to fill this particular gap.

I bought this tablet a couple of months ago, and of course did due-diligence searching rather than say "want shiny". One of my criteria was that it must support the Google's store (having found GetJar rather lacking on my phone), and found myself having to discount a lot of kit (mainly cheaper brands) because they weren't able to access Play, which obviously can't be counted by Google.

TLDR: Google's stats are hardly authoritative because they don't count the cheap slabs.

The young, sight-impaired?

It's not just old people that get issues with their eyes. These phones would be handy for the visually-impaired teen, or the middle aged mother with premature arthritis. Give disabled folks a thought too!

Handy list, duly tweeted.

Could you not...

...could you not have the balloon under a cage of some-sort, with the launch platform atop it? Then use a counterweight to keep the balloon the right way up?

Although imperceptible to the eye

Is it totally transparent to the brain? Is there any risk of triggering epileptic seizures with this..?

I've had a go on one...

Tried out the augmented reality with the cards - was technically impressive, and amusing, but my eyes very quickly got tired focusing on the screen (while wearing prescription glasses). The screen-size is also ridiculously small, reducing the appreciation of the 3d effect.

I'm still to be convinced by all the 3D hype, and certainly wouldn't pay what Ninty are asking for something so small, but it's good to see novel tech out there.

Not how I expected it to end...

...I thought it was going to be "and sure enough, they had. He got up, packed his laptop and headed for the door before being intercepted by two of NYC's finest in their donut-sugar-frosted uniforms for inadvertently stealing the credentials of their sergeant..."

(Or maybe a mark had narked, y'know, something resulting in the bloke leaving Starbucks in cuffs)

It'll arrive through the browser?

Knowing them, via IE6...

Mens rea also

Mens rea was also one of the points, I thought? The CPS contend it's a "strict liability offence", meaning that you, El Reg, are also potentially committing the same crime as Chambers by repeating the tweet.

According to some solicitor-commentators, case-law shows mens rea to be required.

I was under the impression...

I was under the impression that S19 only applied if they reasonably believed the evidence would be lost if they failed to seize it. As such, a reasonable promise to deliver a copy of the evidence to the station should suffice rather than the seizure of the film.

Feels like the police-on-the-ground are actively resisting having their control of photography being eroded.

So who didn't?

Which companies refused to co-operate?

There is another way...

...they could, you know, MODERATE! It's not like they don't get enough money in to pay a moderating team and add better alert buttons, with more stringent bans in place.

He's also got Stephen Fry on-board, he offered to pay the fine.

Good luck to the guy. It was a bloody stupid ruling.

Like most people...

As if most people are fully law-abiding anyway.

Everyone bends and breaks the law in one way or another, and as long as no-one suffers from it, who really gives a shit?

A woman without a clue, clearly.

"I won’t re-heat my views on the hackneyed, oven-ready arguments that were marshalled in opposition to ID cards. Except to say if you were a law abiding citizen you had nothing to lose and everything to gain from something that carried little more information about you than your supermarket loyalty card."

Yes, sure, nothing to worry about...

Razer Naga

I need the buttons. It's why I also have a Nostromo...

I'm disappointed in The Sun!

Where was the picture of an octopus with an identity-concealing black-bar across it's eyes...?

I tend not to play 'em for more than a week online

So for me the solution is to simply only buy 2nd hand copies.

Thanks EA.

Wah! When we refuse to fix our stuff, people make us! NOT FAIR!!!

Well, that is about the size of the blog post really, isn't it?

Isn't it a matter of targetting?

I'm sure most people searching wouldn't spell it correctly anyway, so they'd throw "icelandic volcano" into Google and hey-presto, malware results.

You can't undo our scheme, you can't!

It'll be, like, expensive! We've obligated you into spending money whether you scrap it or not, so if you scrap it, you'll be wasting money! Hardly a governmental thing to do, eh?

Yeah, right. Dirty trick.

I would have thought the outrage would be about...

...the poor quality of the merging. It looks like they've not even tried matching the tones, many of the placements are off. Content aside, it's really not very good.