Oh FFS
Why do google not check with a country first whether or not their privacy laws will allow streetview! It would save them a lot of money and driving around time. They deserve everything they get!
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Idiot.
Malaysia is a fantastic country which I've been fortunate to visit 6 times. It is a minority of states in which the dictat of Islam is truly upheld (Terengganu, as I saw it, being the strictest) - if you pick your head out from your copy of the Daily Mail and actually go out and look at the world, starting with those which offend your ridiculous 'principles' so greatly, perhaps you'd take a different viewpoint.
As at least one person above pointed out she was surely aware of the law when she broke it. This is what angers me when Brits go abroad to countries like Dubai and break their laws but have the audacity to claim their behaviour was fine.
"Why wait more than a year to promote Windows Mobile against the surging iPhone? And why does Android require a lesser Windows Mobile rival than the Apple product does?"
Android is less "polished" than the iPhone OS though is potentially more feature rich. WM is already pretty well set when it comes to that, so it'll take less to get something that, in MSs eyes, is competitive with Android. The iPhone OS however is all pretty and lovely which is going to take a lot more polish, hence a later release date. Of course neither are going to work - android fans will stick to android for its open nature, iPhone fanboiz will stick with that because,well, apple, and well, whoever else has WM thrust upon them will continue to have WM thrust upon them (does anyone choose it out of will?)
...I'd like to check one thing - how well known and used a store is home bargains across the country?
In liverpool it's a particularly well known shop - having been setup here - and therefore attracts a lot of customers (and before you all start bashing people for shopping in bargain stores it makes sense, given their cheaper prices for cleaning products, etc). More customers probably ends up leading to more shoplifters and therefore a higher representation in the 'league table'.
However given there are only 7 crimes represented in the list I hazard a guess that not all suspected shoplifters are listed - perhaps Liverpool store managers take a more no nonsense attitude which, coupled to the Liverpudlian "grass=scum" attitude, leads to a hugely biased representation.
...that's truly horrible! It looks like some sort of modern version of brum! I can see its eyes about to open!
And herpa!? Surely that would never sell well here - no-one wants to be reminded of that unfortunate one night stand whilst driving around in their shiny new car!
(And is that a vile shade of baby blue in the picture or is firefox messing up the colours in that image too? I though the macbook air was bright pink earlier)
Love it!
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I'm epileptic and thanks to the NHS I've received free treatment my entire life, had many MRI scans that in the USA would be deemed too expensive, am prescribed drugs deemed most effective rather than drugs from the pharmaceutical company which gives the biggest back hander. The only drugs I've ever had to pay for were some antimalarials and frankly that's fair enough (though unfortunately due to a combination of drug interactions and the region I had to take malarone which is bloody expensive!). I'm starting a new job in october which comes with health insurance but whereever possible I'm sticking with the NHS as despite its inperfections, if I were on twitter, #(I)lovethenhs. [I might get my nose done and some pec implants on the insurance though :P ]
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Someone has an iphone and an iMac and has generated the video by overlaying graphics from the two (the aspect ratio of the notes app is exactly the same as it is on the iphone, which there doesn't seem to need to be necessary or optimal on the itablet).
Less sure about the casing, but perhaps a snap of an iphone rejigged? They'd have had to move the button, airbrushed out the speaker and recoloured the bevel but hardly beyond the means of a good photoshopper!
I'm just not convinced apple would go for such a small button on a large device!
The developers pay to be developers, the users (sometimes) pay to use the apps; what business is it of Apple's whether said app gives the user seamless access to 'offensive conntent' or not? They're getting that through safari anyway.
Apple are going the very right way about making people hate them - while web 2.0 is allowing users to have what they want where they want it they seem to be bucking the trend by letting users have what Apple wants them to have, where they (probably don't) want it.
...to the McKinnon case - this seems more a case of wanton fraud rather than the McKinnon case which was more of a obsession of which the hacking was a byproduct.
I have far less sympathy for these guys than I do McKinnon (particularly given that he's been pretty let down by our country's crap extradition policy!).
..if you ignore your cat's repeatedly 'requests' for feeding. Though the severity of the cat's actions suggests that he'd not fed it in quite a while, the worst I've heard in the past was a little bit of insurance fraud and some drug planting - for a cat to go so far as downloading 1000 images to frame their owner neglect of the highest degree.
Perhaps he deserved it!
..from Thales on this? After all they're the ones who should know. Although perhaps they do know and are well aware that the system is far from perfect and are contracted to keep schtum about it. Perhaps the Government will admit it too, but I'm more confident that our porcine friends will fly during a rare lunar event where the face of the moon appears blue.
Bloody government, bloody ID cards.
The damage is done. They're not going to attract any new users and this debacle will serve as an excellent stick with which to beat IT budget managers in order to move to something less politically unstable.
If I were Davis I'd be distancing myself from this financially now - rather than falling rapidly over the edge to its death like it might've done it's going to slide slowly into the footnotes of distro history. Dignified or what.
"christ there was a story of a tory councillor being outed by some Irish thugs a couple of months"
Outed, or ousted?? I don't recall any tories being outed recently, the days of closeted 'family' Tory MPs frequenting popular cruising spots 'unaware of its usage' seems to have past. Well, at least we'll have one thing to look forward to if they make it in at the next election.
< I simply went into the bushes looking for my coat, Sergeant.
Do not take children to Terry Hershy Park.
This really is quite odd though - grindr only shows distances for fear that it could be used to target homophobic attacks, yet this happily serves up a local paedo - sorry, sex offender - map with pinpoints for each one!
If you press on the pinpoint does it provide you with their crime, or as someone pointed out will the poor 15 year olds exchanging texts from their bedrooms be lumped in with the jozef fritzls of this world?
..this may be a stupid question but I don't see why Apple need to try and keep AT&T happy (for instance by banning google voice) - I would've thought it would be the other way around, the iphone must represent a big revenue stream for AT&T and I'm sure there are plenty of other US networks that would happily sell iphones (exclusively or not).
...and would like to further add that the only way I will be able to cope with the next election is if the Tory party are somehow eradicated in an 'accidental' Tory party conference incident.
The desire to punch David Cameron and George Osborn in their smug narrow grins is too much to handle!!
...it would be nice to have some sort of intermediate option available. I'd stick to the free version anyway - I don't find the ads that intrusive - but the potential iPhone app is quite tempting (as is being able to use a native, albeit text-based, linux client rather than having wine using up resources). But for now £120/year is just a bit too much - as matt suggests a £60/month version is more to my liking.
You can't have it both ways matey - if you want jurisdiction over your own health service so you can have free prescriptions,separate NICE decisions etc then you have jurisdiction over your own swine flu prevention/treatment measures!
I used the site on friday as I'd had a cold for days and had a fever, headache and a sore throat, as Mike Richards pointed out, to that site that meant I had swine flu. After all the hype about this site (advised by doctors, etc) I would've expected that it somehow performed decent differential diagnosis. Most of the questions pertain to whether you're dying of meningitis or are in a high risk group - only one question isolates the swine flu symptoms, and another seems to be attempting differential diagnosis (do you have brown phlegm - cue forceably coughing up into a tissue to find out).
What people need to get are thermometers as the severity of the fever seems to be the crux of the whole thing, and unfortunately it's not something the website can ask you as I guess only those with young children have thermometers suitable for this around. But if what I've got is swine flu then it's really not that bad - a day in bed with ibuprofen and paracetamol on alternation, and a bit longer on the sofa watching boxed sets.
...as tested in greenbank park.
Do you have to have the 3GS, or can you use it in reverse (work out your view from positioning/scaling a set of starmaps over your actual view - I guess automating this might be more than the iphone processor combined with your outstretched arm can handle without severe cramp setting in).
I decided against the 3GS as I didn't see a compass and video as crucial to my daily life, the rest of the 'new' features were os 3.0 features! I could probably cope without this, as long as I can play tap tap revenge to daft punk technologic.
When Liverpool changed their logo the unwashed masses had a right moan - getting out their student activist hats like they do for everything, claiming they wouldn't accept their degree certificates because they didn't sign up to this new logo. Tits.
However they did take the corporate branding a tad too far, with a many many paged document on using the logos ('give it room to breathe' was the phrase I remember the clearest).
Some British people are amazed that our American cousins are unable to cope with homonyms that are easily identifiable by their context and so resort to pronouncing them in different and, in the eyes of the British, horrible ways.
Has anyone in the UK ever heard of an electronic device accidentally routing bits down the A1(M) because it got confused (this being el Reg I'm sure there's at least 3 people who have a story on this one), or a policeman putting up signs after a road accident diverting people to the nearest fibre optic cable instead of down the A194?
And yes, that's -re, not -er.
I see your Yorkshire rhyme and raise you a Mackem one.
One Sunday mornin' Lambton went
A-fishing in the Wear;
An' catched a fish upon he's heuk
He thowt leuk't vary queer.
But whatt'n a kind ov fish it was
Young Lambton cudden't tell-
He waddn't fash te carry'd hyem,
So he hoyed it doon a well
Chorus
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An' aa'll tell ye aall an aaful story,
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An' Aa'll tel ye 'boot the worm.
Noo Lambton felt inclined te gan
An' fight i' foreign wars.
He joined a troop ov Knights that cared
For nowther woonds nor scars,
An' off he went te Palestine
Where queer things him befel,
An varry seun forgat aboot
The queer worm i' the well.
But the worm got fat an' growed an' growed,
An' growed an aaful size;
He'd greet big teeth, a greet big gob,
An greet big goggle eyes.
An' when at neets he craaled aboot
Te pick up bits o' news,
If he felt dry upon the road,
He milked a dozen coos.
This feorful worm would often feed
On caalves an' lambs an' sheep,
An' swally little bairns alive
When they laid doon te sleep.
An when he'd eaten aall he cud
An' he had had he's fill,
He craaled away an' lapped he's tail
Ten times roond Pensher Hill.
The news ov this myest aaful worm
An' his queer gannins on
Seun crossed the seas, gat te the ears
Ov brave an' bowld Sor John.
So hyem he cam an' catched the beast,
An' cut 'im in twe haalves,
An' that seun stopped hes eatin' bairns
An' sheep an' lambs an' caalves.
So noo ye knaa hoo aall the foaks
On byeth sides ov the Wear
Lost lots o' sheep an' lots o' sleep
An leeved i' mortal feor.
So let's hev one te brave Sor John
That kept the bairns frae harm,
Saved coos an' calves by myekin' haalves
O' the famis Lambton Worm.