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Posts by G Wilson
24 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2010
Apple's iPod: ten years old
22,000 'freetards' escape Hurt Locker piracy suit
Sky wins TV riot battle
Thursday 11th August 2011 09:46 GMT
Sky journalists
I've not been anti-sky news for a while, because I'm often impressed at the nerve of their journalists. I'm thinking Holly Williams in a street in China confronting armed "police" on their behaviour, and Lisa Holland attempting to put herself physically between a rape victim and her Libyan captors.
Sky journalists act is if they're competing to see who can get the riskiest story. We need more like them, and less of dense journalists reporting what they saw on TV...or just making stuff up to sound important.
Sunday Times accused of blagging Gordon Brown's records
Friday 15th July 2011 07:23 GMT
The retraction is here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/jul/14/corrections-clarifications1
"• Articles in the Guardian of Tuesday 12 July incorrectly reported that the Sun newspaper had obtained information on the medical condition of Gordon Brown's son from his medical records. In fact the information came from a different source and the Guardian apologises for its error (The Brown files: How Murdoch papers targeted ex-PM's family, 12 July, page 1; When Brown decided that the Sun was out to destroy him politically, 12 July, page 2)."
Wednesday 13th July 2011 08:58 GMT
Won't someone think of the children?
The "Damian McBride thing", if it is indeed the result of hacking, is a pretty good example of why such practice is entirely warranted in the right circumstances. That's why there's a public interest test in the UK that weighs against prosecution in such cases - and that same test would apply in the investigation of Brown's purchase.
Corrupt politicians want newspapers to shut the hell up about corruption.
Tuesday 12th July 2011 11:43 GMT 
Good for them
The investigation into Brown's finances and purchase of a flat from the Maxwell empire (at an absurd price) is unconnected to the story about Brown's child.
If the British press is legislated into a cage where it can't investigate possible corruption among public figures, we will be in a very unhappy place indeed. Except for politicians and bureaucrats on the take.
'Dirty' Hari defends radical interview mashup technique
Friday 1st July 2011 14:22 GMT 
Them darn kids
The internet really does make things different - Hari's past works appear to getting combed-through on a scale that past plagiarists would probably not have experienced.
But so many of his stories - like the one where he claims to have laid both an "Islamist" and a "Nazi" - are so resistant to fact-checking, it seems doubtful he'll ever have the credibility to write on such a trust-me basis ever again.
Student suspended for posting random satire on YouTube
Rumbled benefits cheats offer sensational excuses
Monday 30th May 2011 11:20 GMT
"Is it coz i is gay?"
Indeed. And so unlikely does it seem that anyone ever, as part of a real conversation, put these words together in this order:
"I never noticed her leaving the house twice a day in a fluorescent jacket and a Stop Children sign."
- that it looks like the miscreants of Parliament are producing propaganda to encourage hatred of the poor, while continuing to demand receipt-free expenses for themselves.
Zuckerberg: Give me your children
Schmidt explains the Google way to self-erasure
TomTom sorry for giving customer driving data to cops
Thursday 28th April 2011 08:57 GMT
"Anonymous"
That's because you're assuming that "anonymous" in corporate excuse-making language actually means what you think of as "anonymous". But the range of what consists of identifying information is wider than names and reg numbers. If data shows my car parking in my drive and repeatedly driving to my office, that's not anonymous. It's surveillance.
There is no reason at all to store this kind of data, let alone pass it on. Boycott Tomtom, IMO.
Programmer gets 8 years for theft of stock trading software
Monday 21st March 2011 10:53 GMT
Volume?
It's high *frequency*, not high volume.
These are systems that can see potential trends develop before that information is available to private investors, so execute orders based on information the entire market doesn't have, and possibly create price movements that otherwise wouldn't happen. Nothing to do with "investing", not much to do with liquidity, but - arguably - looking like a parallel of insider trading.
Child abuse cop slams ICANN
Threat to third Fukushima nuke reactor
Republicans believe in 'climate change' but not 'global warming'
Thursday 10th March 2011 14:13 GMT
Look harder (but not very)
They may not use the C-word, but they believe the bollocks (often watering down with waffle about "compatability" of religion and science
http://www.thecsm.org.uk/Groups/87274/Christian_Socialist_Movement/About_CSM/What_we_stand/What_we_stand.aspx
"We believe that all people are created in the image of God."
Anon Mail commenters to stay anon
Adobe Flash: 20m phones flip Steve Jobs the bird
Rescue mission begins for Hitchhiker's Real Guide
Assange lawyers fume over leaked rape case docs
Manchester cops hit Twitter - spoof feeds fall down stairs
Friday 15th October 2010 12:44 GMT
Bring on "The Cuts"
It's so unlikely the police will ever accept that such propagandizing is not part of policing, it appears the most effective way of slowing them down will be starving them of the funds they waste.
(If they can bring themselves to sack the assorted marketing-driven idiots rather than getting rid of actual police, that is...)
Police told terror ads too terrifying offensive
Wednesday 11th August 2010 13:00 GMT
Moronicus policicus
Every time it's suggested police should actually do more low-level things like "increase patrolling on foot", ACPO will offer up some jabberer to point out this would distract from important stuff like "fighting international terrorism". And that fight consists of this kind of tosh?...
The problem this story is scratching isn't so much the rise of our own stasi, but something way more prosaic (and alarming in its own way) - UK police are confusing their prized "operational independence" with just "independence", and are morphing into a spinning, market-researching, advertising and political campaigning body. Only, being a bunch of middlebrow Express readers, they are, by-and-large, incredibly bad at it - and probably can't be trusted to keep their policy positions and subsequent prejudices distinct from their policing duty. Ms May, while pushing for elected police chiefs, ought to be prohibiting police-led campaigning of all stripes. Eliminating ACPO, which appears to do little else, would be a grand start.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
