Not sure...

I still can't work out whether this is good or bad for adwords users and what it means for SEO.

I suspect (but have no proof) that impressions might rise with clicks remaining level - I believe that if the results returned stay on the page for more than three seconds it counts as an impression. If that happens then the click through rate will decrease, the cost per click to me will rise and Google gets more of my money for the same result..

Time will tell.

YMMV

@John Savard

Good grief man - are you for real??

Or a banker.

Shot themselves in the foot..

By playing the flute riff to a fluffy bear hanging from a tree.

No clue there...

Is this a trend?

Nobody seems to get 'hacked' anymore. They are 'targeted by rogue states". So not our fault guv.

It's not a bug, it's a feature...

Big Jobs iEnema.

Come on Lester,

Get the camera out.

A re-make of the good ship Navratilova perhaps?

iDon't care

Nuff said.

I just couldn't resist......

@David 105

Big Brother, in the absence of a Darth mandelson icon (a note to grammAr pedants, I don't capitalise the names of people I have no respect for)

There, fixed it for you...

I think.....

that the PFY is nearing the end of his days....

Nice one Simon.

Have a beer.

@dirk koopman

"Obviously those doctors have never been to Norfolk."

They were Norfolk doctors.

@Hollerith

If (yes) walk away romt he vehicle.

It's not easy typing with one hand, is it?

Not gonna work, this

Because our venerable and learned gubmint has already signed up all the l33t skiddies (sorry, 'naughty boys'), and placed them in a concrete bunker.

We lead the world! Yay!

I'll bet you a pound..

That they'll introduce some form of proportional pricing.

Thank you sir, if you'll just try and put your fingers through this slot....

Ok, stubby, that will be fifteen pounds 85.....

Paris, what else?

Ahh...

I'm a huge fan of the band previously known as "Pickled Dick" and am inordinately proud of my badge emblazoned with "I love Dick".

Then the bastards changed their name to "Mike TV" - what sort of name is that ffs?

What's the betting that

this report will be delayed until the gubmint can demonstrate the response it wants.

@Anonymous John

Damn right feller.

"No comment"

I must get new glasses...

cos I read that as "ferocious feline patio-heaters menace dogs, children.

Moderating staff??

Is our beloved moderatrix empire building??

Hmmm....

"My tom-tom took me up the bridle path"

Thank you Verity

mwah mwah

Now that's a good idea....

IIRC the sentence for armed robbery is much higher.

Nice bit of forethought there...

Hang on a mo..

This article HAS an IT angle yet is in Bootnotes.

Are you trying to completely confuse those gentle readers who can't quite get the concept of Bootnotes?

Yet again

we have the nonsense phrase "saving the planet".

Please explain to me where the carbon di-oxide in the so-called 'fossil fuels' came from.

Was it not from flora and fauna growing abundantly in a world much hotter, much wetter and with a much higher level of both carbon di-oxide and oxygen?

"The planet" did not need to "save" itself then, and it does not need to now.

Save humankind is what is really meant.

Here's why

"Quite why one would want to do this remains a mystery"

Come on, you know why.

Who amongst us has not spent days, weeks or even months in coding something that has no commercial application, interests nobody but themselves and could have been done in ten minutes with a spreadsheet?

I know I have.

Error message == Massive Fail

Stored messages are Ok to access, but tickertape message suggests that it is MY internet connection that needs looking at.

Absolutely

Priceless!

"very large objects up my bottom"

New keyboard please...

And so it begins.

Here in the UK we have Tesco. Used to be a grocer. Now, wants to take over every aspect of our life.

Cradle to the grave. With Clubcard points, naturally.

This appears to be Google taking the first [?] steps on that route.

On the bright side, it may not be too long before some creative startup appears that re-asserts Google's 'do no evil', citing Google as 'the evil one'.

Bugger off!

We're full.

@version

Top man.

"It's kinda like assuming that if you find an egg in the refrigerator ... then you must have had a hen in there too"

Nice analogy.

My round.

This is going to seem lame....

and I am truly not trolling or inviting flames...

but could someone explain to an old man :) how linux (as an open source concept) works?

I get the bit about thousands (?) of developers all inputing bug fixes et al etc. etc.

What I don't get is how the top bit - the full time developers - are funded.

Are there commercial donations of either money or developers or is it ad driven. I know there was one very wealthy guy who donated a lot of his kids money to a distro - was it kubuntu?

Seriously, this is a real question. Honestly. Cross my heart etc. etc.

@Jolyon Ralph

"the USA or other colonies"..

Such subtlety.

Perfect.

And then...

He'll be forgotten.

Anyone remember what happened to the "Natwest Two" (or was it three..).

UK = Epic fail.

Errr. sorry to be a wet blanket....

But as far as I can tell the case has not yet been heard.

And while I think it an excellent jape, would not hundreds of El Reg emails help to strengthen their [Horizon's] case???

Why?

This might be off topic, and I must be dense, but I have never been able to understand why the limit was set to one hundred and forty charac

Let's face it...

Nuclear is the only real option whether we like it or not.

There may be a case for small windfarms serving small communities that want them, but vast swathes of the countryside covered in [ugly/beautiful] windmills just aint gonna happen.

There were plans for a small (I think it was 6 turbines) windfarm a few miles away. You should have seen the fuss with world + dog + local mp all nimby'ing away.

Refused in the end.

@Mike 61

I had 300 people at my wife's birthday party and you could hear the music 2 miles away (so I have been told), but law enforcement did nothing until the reports of gunfire..

Nice.

Just nice.

Made me smile.

Brilliant!

The second picture is pure genius.

Twaddle.

"The plans would grant front line police officers discretion in deciding whether to give "occasional miscreants... the twenty first century version of a clip around the ear".

So we will see a return to the ratio of plod to people of yesteryear? When the local plod lived among the people he policed - by consent - and knew world + dog personally?

Didn't think so.

@AC 11:17

"Last time I checked, using a pseudonym isn't illegal."

A fair point, well made.

But since when do you have to do anything illegal to get on this particular database (Aaron, where are you).

And tbh, using a pseudonym AND getting fingered twice *is* a little sus...

Replicates?

If 13.5% are replicates (estimated) then surely this means that the [alleged] perps had at least two samples taken from them, at different times/places and that they were using a different identity.

Prima facie case for another chat with the boys [& girls] in blue perhaps?

Thank you, thank you, thank you

It's Friday, I've got my father's day Ska cd's on full blast, and you give me this.

Heaven.

Surely.that should read -

Steve Park, Ex Head of ICT at Manchester city council.