fads can last a long time.

Books, plays, music, religion, drinking are all social fads

Re: The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

>I've always viewed the Internet as a 'Public Space' and treated it as such,

i think a number of celebs, several tabloid editors and a Lord Levison might have differing opinions on that

Re: What about councils?

If the police and council have no official record of it then it must have been put there by terrorist peados as part of an attack they were planning - in the same way that they disguise themselves as Japanese tourists and take pictures of Big Ben.

You should have gone door-door telling everyone to leave immediately and then called the bomb squad

@Okay

Or they could just declare it to be a security matter, and is covered under the existing "do whatever you want - that's why you're called the SECRET security services" law, and do it all anyway without bothering parliament.

Re: Julian Huppert did well

People who visited the reg also visited iamaterrorist.com

- Well actually they didn't, a one pixel tracking bug got downloaded from that IP address

That site hosts terrorist/child porn material

- Well actually it doesn't, it's the IP address of a huge CDN that hosts 1000s of websites, some of which point to websites which today we have decided are terrorist (like Al Jazeera) or to facebook pictures that don't have a 18 U.S.C. 2257 statement.

Still - links with terrorism/child porn should give us enough for a warrant to impound everything electrical they own for 3 years.

Unless they have brown skin of course ......

Re: "You've not needed it for the last 2000 years "

Did we need to monitor all phone calls to deal with IRA terrorism in the 70s?

Did we need to read everyones mail to protect children from the moors murders in the 60s?

Did we need to record everyones movements on public transport in the 50s to prevent Mau Mau guerillas infiltrating

London?

At least ID cards prevented a German invasion in the 40s

Re: Tax-avoidance is both legal and ethical.

Exactly and it should apply to everyone:

Why can't I claim back all the food I buy as operating expenses?

I should be allowed to declare that my home is registered in the Caymens and not pay council tax

I should be able to pay YAAC-Bermuda for the rights to my name so I make a loss on my salary and claim benefits.

Yes because got that 100euro DVD you bought, Microsoft Germany had to pay 110euro to Microsoft Luxemburg for that copy, who then had to pay 120 euro to Microsoft Bermuda for the rights to the name.

You should be thankful that they are prepared to lose all that money to sell Windows to you - it's a public service really.

Re: Google: Bringing the jobs home to the USA?

Except the jobs that will be "brought home" are the patent lawyers

Motorola was bought for it's patent portfolio, they will keep making handsets while the current models are selling but there's no point in doing R&D on a company that has no future.

The reason for the drop off in Korea is that following the Samsung-Apple spats it's now impossible to do business as an American company in Korea. It would be like buying a Japanese car in America in 1941

Re: Big intake of breath

And a sextant, compass doesn't do you much good in a vast featureless wilderness (or Australia)

Come to think of it - people using a sextant are the obvious explanation of why they can't pull out of a slip road without waiting for 20mins.

Re: Scary thing is ...

Who are ironically the same companies that were benefitting from the largesse of the apollo program

Real programmers use an analytical engine.

If it doesn't leak oil it's not a real computer

Re: Last man

And it's only on the last mission they decide to send a scientist.

It's like deciding that the first dozen robots rolling around on Mars should be tanks

Re: IN 2026 I PREDICT

No Apple will have patented all the genes and anybody with rounded corners will be fined.

This will lead to a huge boost in fitness and replace beer guts with 6-pack abs.

Re: Opt out?

1, it's opt-out for now. Just like computerised medical records, it's opt-out if you write to 6 different depts demanding that your records not be included.

2. anonymous in the sense that it only records your postcode, the procedure you went in for and the prescription details of any drugs you needed. The prescriptions are filled in at your local chemist with your name address, and clubcard number. Or at least that's what happened with a had-to-be-abandoned breast cancer trial here.

Re: Interesting.

Same reason that if you put in a zip code it doesn't recognise Google Earth centers you in the middle of the USA.

The mapping is so bad here in "the land above the land of the free" that a local company makes a very good living by driving around following all the roads and addresses and then selling the data to the city/fire/ambulance/police.

Re: I agree on the "re-think"

In the US you are generally allowed to use cell phones wile taxing - in the UK you can't use them until you are inside the terminal - because other aircraft may be being refuelled.

This is because US aircraft run on Jet-A (kerosene) which - if you have ever owned an AGA - you will know can only be ignited with a small nuclear device. British aircraft apparently run on a mixture of shaken Nitroglycerin and lithium tri-iodide.

Re: Missing the point

The point is that as soon as the airline fits WifI that they charge $15 for, or a pico-cell so they can add $5/min call charges - then suddenly all your gear is OK.

Now unless they also broke into my house, took my phone/tablet/laptop, tested them and replaced them without me knowing - we are in exactly the same risk situation we were before.

It's just that now they have a $$$$ reason for allowing them, while in the days of sky-phone and charge-for headsets they had a $$$ reason for banning them.

The same thing applies to underwear.

AFAIK there is no established FAA standard for thongs so they should be removed before take off

Re: Their deaths

Yes - our argument has always been about which "creator"

Having visited some areas of the south, we beleive it must have been Cthullu

Re: Clever police

>Immigration and Customs fine lorry drivers for delivering immigrants

And yet don't fine the channel tunnel or ferry operators.

In the same way they fine small ISPs but not the owners of the cable or satelite.

Remember the golden rule, those with the gold make the rules.

>The majority of churches don't say women shouldn't be on TV

No they graciously allowed women to speak in church after 1962 and in 1994 allowed them on the altar during concecration.

Re: I'm on the train...

Just leave it there.

What you perceive as the rail network is nothing more than a vast one-dimensional network for moving data around the civil service.

Really it should be obvious - the pathetic attempt to disguise it as a public transport system isn't fooling anyone.

His views on women were a bit 1920s ! But so are those of the majority of churches and yet we let them carry on.

Having spoken to other people who knew him professionally - I don't think racist is fair. Just very anti-european, specifically anti-German. And anti- the hypocracy that we must have a race relations act, saying you can't say anything about race - championed by a succession of governments who are all rich white eton-educated anglicans.

Re: Since nobody seems to have mentioned it ....

Nope Darwin is way up north. If you were heading to Darwin your map is very wrong.

It is slightly surreal when your GPS prints 999 as the distance to the next turning because it ran out of digits !

Re: Could be interesting

>> Disclaimer: The brakes we installed in your car might not work every time.

>Then you would not buy it.

You received a statement that the code in your car's ABS, and the processor it runs on - was proven correct?

That must be one pricey car.

judge and jury ?

That's the nice thing about these cases - even if it never goes to trial you can bankrupt the person with legal bills, they lose their business because you impounded everything electronic they own for 3years, and then after it's all dropped they are still on your system as a "suspected whatever" so get refused any sort of job that needs a police check.

Actually bothering to have a trial and a conviction is almost unnecessary

Re: OMFG

SMS will often get through when there is almost no signal

There have been lots of cases where people have been rescued from the local mountains here or from boats where they couldn't get a phone signal. But since 911 can't do SMS they have had to text a friend and ask them to call 911

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/indonesia/1322755/Girl-in-Bali-sends-text-message-SOS.html

@Strictly speaking the rudder weakness is universal to all ship.

And yet they laughed at my 1000,000 ton battle jetski

Re: The Death Star as a government infrastructure program would make a lot of sense

They have thought of that.

A new law will raise the minimum age for a pilots license to 21.

Re: @ BilboBaggins & @ Michael Luke

>I believe the engines of the aeroplanes which hit Pearl Harbour had "FORD" written on them.

Hence Churchill's genius in having Lucas supply the Luftwaffe

Re: Going for the FHM demographic?

You know you a middle aged home-owner when you look at that picture and think.

"She's going to make a hell of a mess of that cheap Ikea wooden flooring with those heals."

That's because you are an un-reconstructed old-fashioned sexist el'reg reader

The modern metro-sexual caring-sharing new-man looks beyond the jpeg artifacts to imagine the real women within.

Re: micro server is not new

Because in 2006 picking ARM meant using a processor for cell phones with that weird Linux stuff to run our business? That sounds like a career limiting risky move.

Today using an Arm and Linux means getting off that legacy COBOL-era Wintel platform into the bright new dawn of Android, iThingy, Cloudy goodness makes me look like a cutting edge dynamic thrusting rockstar.

Re: 5000 signatories

How many signatures do you need on a Number10 e-petition thingy ?

Re: All they need to do to fund it is...

They would just convert themselves into coffee shops.

An even more slavish cultish and addicted congregation - and no taxes

Re: I thought...

Ancient Tantoonie proverb say: Man with planet destroying death star don't need no treaties.

Re: @ BilboBaggins & @ Michael Luke

I think you will find that the USSR had a not insignificant role in the victory over Nazi Germany.

(Comment not applicable in France - where a Mr de Gaulle personally won WWII)

Re: @ Michael Luke

Except with the Storm Troopers marksmanship - they would aim at France and hit Britain

Re: All joking aside..

So America sends 10x as much on their army as they do on booze?

That's your problem - right there

Re: Ugh, Gillard

Australia as a haven for out of date white racist, sexist homophobic rednecks - inconceivable .

Re: "unreconstructed"?

They already live in Australia - where the fsck could you exile them to ?

perhaps they could ship them to England and have them a lap behind?

Deyyyyyy 382 and the inmates have to produce a working health service.....

If you had the US election by phone in votes you could make a profit

Re: I can fell the anger rising within me

>the left-leaning Labor Party (are there any others?)

Are you reading theregister.co.>>>UK<<< ?

Re: A "fully operational" battle station in US hands...

>What could possibly go wrong....?

Well a bunch of desert dwelling "freedom fighters" in robes could fly an aircraft into it and due to some cost saving code violations in the thermal protection have it be completely destroyed.