Agreed, it they're actually doing that then there's no excuse other than wanting to wring as much money out of their customers as possible without spending any on developing more games.

Re: false security theatre

Don't forget the guy who had a picture of a cartoon gun on his t-shirt. That was just as dangerous as a real one.

Re: Too many stores

Telford is the same, 2 Game stores within 2 minutes walk with a HMV about halfway between them, and a GameStation 2 doors down from one of the Games. Apparently both of our Games are closing leaving only the GameStation.

@ac

"Google has been fined for breaking the law for example."

I'm sure that fine really hit their multi-billion dollar bank account hard. They won't try that again in a hurry.

Why stop there? All scoring should be removed from every game or sport everywhere. Can't have people attempting to judge their progress against their previous attempts can we? Let alone comparing themselves to anyone else.

"If the police find evidence of such a conspiracy, then this just got a WHOLE load more serious than illegal intercepts - maximum sentence of life imprisonment..."

...or, a brown envelope changing hands in the local park followed by a dropping of charges, a pat on the head, and a complimentary lollipop for the inconvenience.

Same here

2 Game stores, although 1 is staffed by late middle-age men in shirts and ties who have likely never played a game in their lives while the other is staffed by actual people.

It seems that non-gamers go to the 'posh' one to talk to the smartly dressed men who advise them on which one their grandchildren would like for Christmas. The actual gamers (like myself) go to the other store to talk to staff who actually know what they're talking about and will go out of their way to help you. I got a very good deal out of them when I tried to buy a handheld console on sale only to find out that that particular sale ended the day before. They spent a good 15 minutes working out a way to sell me the same items for the sale price even though the till kept telling them no.

There's also a GameStation only 1 door down from one of those which seems to only stock second hand DVDs now. Very disappointing.

Re: "The second victim died a day later due to excessive blood loss."

Yes, about an armful.

Re: Things have taken an even more dangerous turn in recent years.

It's the same as copywrite, something intended to protect the creator and ensure that they benefited from their work, now twisted into yet another money-making scam for the big businesses.

Re: What's surprising me...

Actually, in the UK you can't say anything you like. If you say something negative about someone or something, even if it's true, it can be classed as slander.

Re: double post

So every news story should only ever be reported once? What about those of us who don't scan all available news sites for new stories?

It's been a long time since the police were held accountable for any of their actions. One could piss through your letterbox and still somehow claim that it was 'pertinent to their enquiries'.

Wrong person, the woman with the herd face was from the Moos of the World.

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."

The government needs to keep paying the salaries of politicians and bureaucrats. As those salaries increase and more and more consultants/middle managers/advisers/spin doctors get hired then more money needs to be brought in to keep them all well fed and happy.

Since the largest repository of money resides in the pockets of the proles the government continues to wring as much of it out of them as possible while maintaining a pet police force and a firm grip over liberties to reduce the chances of an uprising that overthrows the bunch of overpaid time wasters.

If they're so brief that the iDevice is ignoring them as noise then why does it highlight the pressed keys as normal?

Also, what are you typing your one-page letters on, a normal keyboard? There are only three errors made in that video and when using a touchscreen keyboard that offers no tactile feedback that seems to be a perfectly normal error rate.

If it's as light as it looks you wouldn't need screws, just a piece of sticky-back plastic.

@adnim

Same here, I develop in Firefox then check through IE6/7/8, Chrome, Safari and Opera to ensure everyone can at least use the basic functionality. The amount of time I waste ensuring that each browsers "quirks" are attended to, verges on farcial.

Until other countries are forced to fall in line and copy them.

I for one agree with you. The classic companions didn't need to be in love with the Doctor, why do so many of the new companions have to fall for him. (Well OK, it may be understandable to get a bit of a crush on the awesome guy with the sexy ship, but it doesn't need to be their defining characteristic).

Get another few companions in, who can have the adventures and be entertaining without constantly mooning over whether the good Doctor has noticed their new outfit.

@Lee Dowling

"if you need ABS, you're driving too fast / close in the first place anyway"

You've obviously never driven onto a patch of black ice and felt the ABS kick in to prevent you from gliding at 5 mph into the van in front of you who has just stopped to let someone out.

She did have an address, it was the scrapyard where the TARDIS was parked. And presumably she was at school so she could learn like a human child and fit in. At the time they didn't know how long they would be living there.

This article has nothing to do with iPhones. While all phones have their flaws I don't understand why you feel the need to try and hijack this comment thread to attack apple.

Don't forget...

Someone also needs to say "it's a million to one shot, but it just might work."

"If you are a rickshaw peddler and a fat person sat in your rickshaw charging them more is not discrimination, it is a surcharge."

But think of the wear and tear savings that come with having your front wheel pointing up in the air.

There are several fake pages on Facebook that claim to only allow you to view their content if you spam, um, I mean recommend the page to at least 10 of your friends. They also provide a handy javascript snippet that you can paste into your address bar. The script opens the share link on the page, ticks all of your friends that pop up and submits it. So stupid people have been conditioned for a while to run any scripts that a page tells them to in order to get access to 'premium' content.

You're still asking me to eat an entire lettuce a day, every day for a week. I'm pretty sure I'd get bored by the third day.

Wasted food? Really?

So if I want to make a mixed leaf salad I should buy a dozen different lettuces, take a few leaves off of each one and then throw the rest away? Seems more efficient to buy a bag of pre-mixed leaves so the rest of the lettuces can go to other people. Instead of me ending up with one salad and 5.8 lettuces that I have no use for.

RE: My Alter Ego

I didn't say anything about Tanuki, I said dogs. I don't know what breed they were, but I'm pretty sure it was a Channel 4 documentary about illegal poaching and the trade in animal products.

I don't support PETA in any way, I think they're a bunch of headline grabbing, hypocritical twerps. I do, however, support animal rights.

Actually, they're pretty accurate about that. I've seen covert footage of chinese fur farms where a particular breed of dog was bred in cages for their fur. The dogs were stunned by a blow to the head then skinned alive, the fur coming off quite easily. The skinned dogs are then dumped in a pile and left to die from the shock as it's cheaper than taking the time to kill them.

Actually, I believe it's just titled "Who"

Of course he won't. It'll be declared a sexual assault, he'll go to jail, have his name put on the sex offenders register and his life will effectively be over.

There's a reason that the fans are calling Rory "Time's New Roman"