Wait .. are you telling me there are still people who watch TV ?

It's not the BBC

Never mind the BBC and the NHS getting away with it. At least they do a bit of self-flagellation.

The teflon-shouldered masters are the CPS, who happily shrug off criticism that they refused to action police prosecutions because 'the witnesses weren't very reliable'.

Seriously ?

I'm astonished that anyone would give a toss what LinkedIn does. It's instantly apparent from the invitations it generates what sort of people make it up.

You are Dilbert's PHB and ICMFP.

Parties are illegal

Political parties are organisations which aim to improve the election prospects of members in return for their voting support in parliament.

It is difficult to understand how this differs from bribery.

They do nothing to help the country and force a blinkered view on parliamentary decisions without which the MPs - who we allegedly elect as individuals - would be free to consider each case on its merits.

Far from funding parties via the state, as has been suggested recently, we should ban them and imprison any MP who admits to being a member of one.

What's with the 'full screen app' thing ? Do users really want to go back to the early '80s ?

The most frustrating thing about my phone is that I have to make one app disappear to look at another and am never quite sure if it will remember what it was doing or start afresh. Usually, it does the opposite of what I wanted - hardly surprising as there's no way to indicate the difference between 'move aside' and 'i'm done'

But, but

If they won't tell us how they calculated it, how do we know they're not lying ?

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Why not copy ? The rest of the design world does, and likes it.

http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html

So .. the police sacked the blogger and now prosecute the journo who identified him ? So did they want him identified or not ? And if the source of the evidence was criminally obtained, was the sacking illegal ?

Transformers movie

I did watch it, not having experienced the series except in toy shops. It's not a pleasure I feel the need to repeat.

But it made me wonder why the movie player app didn't have a downvote button (or even an upvote). Isn't that sort of thing all the rage now ?

@mad jack

Just tried this (firefox/debian) and although it offers Rapport it doesn't force me to dismiss it, or even nag excessively. It's just some of the noise in the advertising border.

Can't really see why it's a problem.

"Ominously, the enormous promotional expenditure for Nokia’s Windows Phone was accompanied by generally warm reviews. Astroturfers emphasised the unusual design of Windows Phone’s Metro UI, rather than the functionality that is missing. "

Fixed for you.

not really the users they care about

It seems they're not doing this to support the poor dear users who won't be able to use facebook, but because the ISPs don't want to handle the support calls.

legal bullshit

Since when was 'But I'd look a fool' a 'legal reason' ?

It's about time people stopped hiding behind this 'legal reason' stuff.

And it's about time commercial companies who deal with public authorities expected to have their dealings made visible to the real owners : us.

We delegate the job of doing boring stuff to councils so we don't have to do it. That doesn't mean they have any reason to hide their activities.

Micro USB is supposed to be rated for more insertions than mini USB, but I keep coming across people whose charger socket has broken. For something that's got to be charged every night, they're pretty fragile.

The phone manufacturers are also starting to produce more weatherproof phones - there have been a few over the last few years but there are more on the market now than ever before - even smartphones are getting there. A £400 quid phone is just too much to lose to a rainy day or an accidental fall, and covering the charging socket with a rubber bung just doesn't cut it.

@JohnMurray

Every transformer I ever met was bidirectional. The very term 'mutual inductance' implies it.

Does the electricity industry use some special ones ?

drones

It's all very well moaning about Assange, but without Wikileaks (which, like it or not, would be of very little consequence without him) we'd still be believing the utter crap the US and other governments fed us. I could almost imagine some of you still do.

I have serious doubts about the Swedish prosecuter's honesty, but regardless of that, we're a lot better off with Wikileaks than without it.

Forget Assange and whether you think he's a nice man. Chase the people in positions of trust who continue to abuse their position by covering up their crimes - murdering civilians, fiddling banking systems et al.

First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

If Microsoft has to offer open source to compete with Linux, then open source has won. Open source is what the fight is about, not the flavour of operating system.

Wow, office work you can do with a pen. Revolutionary.

Resilience ?

Er .. I don't think they're testing the resilience of the "industry". Everyone knows that's crap, anyway - but then what can you expect from a bunch of short-term-thinkers and economics grads?

What they're testing is the resilience of the technological infrastructure, which hopefully is at least marginally better.

@Mike Flugennock

Mike, you read the wrong bit ..

'In this 8000 seat organisation '

'Take 700 sites all over the UK all with multiple numbers of computers '

'yeah you get the odd person complaining but we also get a lot less hassle.'

No, really - it is a BOFH article. It's just that the corporate dick-wagglers and jobsworths are hiding in the comments.

more fail

Pity they can't fix the existing interface first. The wretched instant search still paints the search results, then blanks the page until you click search. Time was when I went to google for an uncluttered page, not a heap of crazy flashing jumping previews.

@Leeroy

Didn't Microsoft already do one of those ? The slate, or somesuch ? I remember something that was merely a remote screen to a real PC.

Sank without a trace.

@Sirius Lee

"Fund managers want entrenched products and a focus on keeping it that way."

Nobody ever got rich betting on a dead donkey.

This could work.

After all, Microsoft always does best when it copies Apple.

Gonna have to do better than that

It would seem the DBA needs all the help he can get. Bring on the beardy guy ..

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In other news, all charities are to be closed down

.. after a burglar used his donated shoes to escape from PC Plod.