Not that easy

We know he killed them, he has admitted it himself in court. The question is whether he is mad or bad, and the emails would help determine that.

Re: Definition

The most common legal opinion on this question is that it remains real-time until it is read at the other end.

No you can't

Blackberry is the market leader in the pre-pay market. You can get one in Carphone Warehouse for £120 + a £10 top-up, or + £20 top-up if you pay cash. For a cash-strapped teen, that compares very favourably with £428 for the cheapest iPhone, and a Blackberry keyboard is better for texting anyway.

Maybe not

It is possible that the duplicates were submitted before the first pro death penalty petition was approved.

Re More meant ....

These proposed regulations are dead because they are not needed. Binning them was in response to the BT court case which shows there is already a mechanism to do what they wanted to do.

Re: Blackmail

The reason they are not facing a prison sentence is because it is an investigation and judgement by the SRA, and not by the Metropolitan Police and the Old Bailey. I guess someone who received one of these letters needs to complain to the police about it, and hope they do something.

I'm guessing

He is accused of attacking the Serious Organised Crime Agency, an English law enforcement body, so that's why he gets extradited to England; in the same way that someone in England who attacks the CIA gets extradited to the USA.

However, what confuses me is that the people who attempted to bomb Glasgow Airport were also extradited to England for questioning and I can see no link with England in that attack, so maybe it is something to do with terrorism laws?

Re: The way the money goes

Actually quite a lot more than 1%. Chinese companies only get about $5 for each iDevice they assemble. The retail channel takes quite a bit of the money, and the people in Cupertino who design it also get quite a bit.

Apple is a hardware company

Apple make their money from designing and selling hardware even if they don't make it themselves, and design some standard components into their product; therefore they are a hardware company.

Re: good timing

It has two USB ports. At some point, someone will release a Thunderbolt hub which will provide firewire and ethernet ports.

Indeed it can

Reviewed on this very organ only a few months ago

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/04/26/app_of_the_week/

It is free, it has voice recognition, in both directions so you can actually hold a conversation with someone using it. However it doesn't have offline support and doesn't support so many languages.

Is it really?

If you take a fondleslab that is 29.7cm long, the length of a sheet of A4, at 4:3, the width would be 22.275cm. At 16:9 the width would be 16.7cm. A4 paper is 21cm wide, much closer to the 4:3 ratio.

Re: >Even So

I would put ftp in the behind the scenes plumbing category, as it works behind the scenes to provide things to the file manager ui. Nevertheless, as far as I'm aware embedded devices have the cut down busybox version of ftp rather than the full version.

As an emacs fan, I can't imagine why anyone would want to install vi anywhere. Having said that, on a touch screen device, you aren't going to want something designed to be used with only a keyboard when it is much easier to tap the relevant spot on the screen to do what you want. For that reason, I'm not going to be installing emacs on my Glalaxy S any time soon.

With your BBC fetcher, you might have the same back end across all platforms, but the user interface to run it with a remote, a touch screen or a keyboard and mouse is likely to be different. As an example of a similar application, look at how podcast subscriptions are different on itunes for mac/windows vs itunes for idevices.

Even so

Are there any programs, other than perhaps some behind the scenes plumbing that you can, or even want to run on all those different systems.

Even if you could port the Android version of "Angry Birds" to run on the K Computer at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, would you even necessarily get a good user experience. I'm guessing the current No.1 supercomputer doesn't have a touch screen, an accelerometer, a magnemometer, a gps receiver, or any of the other things you tend to take for granted on a handheld device. It may however have a much larger screen, and possibly lots of them, and you might want to use those extra pixels to make the birds look even more angry.

How you warn them

When the user tries to log on, they get a message saying their account has been suspended rather than the usual inbox page.

Good advice

@Colin miller

This is good advice, but you also need to search .nhs.uk some of the time, eg if you want an EHIC.

Re: Illegal wire tapping

http://www.talktalk.co.uk/security/homesafe-demo.html

Under FAQs | How do I switch on HomeSafe

"How do I switch on HomeSafe?

"HomeSafe is free to all TalkTalk customers and all the features are switched off by default. To switch them on and set up Virus Alerts, Kids Safe and Homework Time log in to your TalkTalk MyAccount."

It is not illegal if you have to specifically ask them to do it. There isn't even the argument that it was buried in small print that you didn't notice.

Just one thing

iTunes EU Sarl is based in Luxembourg, so they charge 15% Luxembourg VAT not 20% UK VAT.

Re: Don't understand

When their sales monkeys call you every other day to sell you space in the directory, and try to get you to "upgrade" your listing by paying to have it in bold letters and in a different colour background, they will also try to sell you this new fangled email thing that lets customers contact you directly from their site even outside office hours. They already try to sell you a single page "website", so I guess it will be an addon to that package.

Re: The assets that back Bitcoin

Mortgage derivatives were backed by the homes of those people who borrowed money on the mortgages. That sounds like a pretty solid asset backing, but it wasn't. Still better than nothing though.

Pounds and Euros are backed by the fact that HMRC will accept them as payment of tax liabilities, legal tender laws force people to accept them as settlement of debts, the fact that the Bank of England and European Central Bank control the supply of them to maintain value, and the assets and tax raising abilities of the government.

Bitcoins are backed by the idea that a greater fool will come along later and buy them off you. That isn't backing at all because nobody is forcing them to accept bitcoins.

Re: Evening work

and all stock models too. They won't sell stock with Snow Leopard pre-installed after Lion comes out.

Won't be The Sunday Sun

The Sunday Sun" is a local rag in the Newcastle and Middlesborough area owned by the Mirror Group. They also own the Sunday Mail" as the Sunday counterpart to the Daily Record in Scotland, so the Daily Wail calls their Sunday rag The Wail on Sunday.

I'm guessing either "The Sun on Sunday", or maybe even "The Sun".

Re: @Vic

The Amstrad of today brands its product as "Sky Plus". Suralan's computer hardware company goes by the name of "Viglen".

Not quite

The problem the MPs had wasn't so much that they win, more that they didn't want to be seen to be doing something that could prevent a future expenses scandal from coming to light.

Getting the law right is difficult. Clearly we want the press to be able to expose future expenses scandals and similar, even if they have to resort to slightly underhand means to do so. That is in the public interest. Hacking into a murdered girl's phone to make her parents think she is still alive is clearly not in the public interest and should be punished severely. How do you draw the line? How do you define this in legislation? It isn't that easy.

Maybe so

But nevertheless, my £6.99 Currys Essentials hdmi cable gives me a perfect picture, as does the £2.50 one I picked up at a computer fair. A £120 Monster hdmi cable would give me an equally perfect picture.

Yes there is

It is either murder if done with intent, causing death by dangerous driving if done with a motor vehicle, or manslaughter in all other cases.

Copying a film with your phone is copyright infringement which means they can sue for the loss of income caused by people watching the crappy cam copy rather than the original. Those damages are probably negligible. If you sell the copy for money, trading standards can take action for selling counterfeit goods. And from the two cases cited here, they can take criminal action even if you just upload it to The Pirate Bay, though it isn't considered to be a very serious offence, probably because it isn't.

Yes

Attacking military and law enforcement installations is terrorism, so they can hold him for 28 days.

Re: Verizon

It won't work on Verizon because they use CDMA and EVDO. The five bands might mean it gets a 3G connection on T-Mobile US as well as the more usual usual AT&T.

That bit isn't the problem

We have mysupermarket.co.uk, which lets you compare prices at Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda and Ocada, and send the shopping trolley to the cheapest supermarket.

The problem is that you just can't predict what I am going to buy from looking at the movement of stuff in my fridge. How does it know that I'm running down stocks because I'm going on holiday next week. How does it know I have a party next week and need to order up lots of stuff, and that I don't need to re-order that stuff again for a while. How does it know that when a particular thing runs out, I want to replace it with something different, because I buy different things depending on my mood and get bored of eating the same thing every day.

I would have to stand in the kitchen and tap all this information into my fridge so it could make the appropriate purchasing decisions, and it would be much easier just to do it myself.