Posts by David 164

It only Israel, they can obviouse dish it out in the form of Stuxnet, so they should be able to take it as well. If they cant then they should not be dishing it out.

Do not get to excited, he will not actually force schools to implement the new curriculum, and it will certainly not be ready by next year not in actually schools anyway, as that would go against his other policies.

He does not reward schools that teach IT or ICT or whatever you want to call it well, as ICT or technologies subjects does not count towards the school league tables places, which meant that schools have cut these department budgets even further and invested that money into subjects that does count toward league table places, many of them were already waiver thing anyway, there are wood and electronic labs at my old school which goes unused because they do not have the teachers who can use the equipment or teach subjects or the money to hire them, they were thinking about converting them into normal classrooms. Some schools have few if any dedicated ICT teachers, the ICT classes are often taken by part timer who also do other subject such English or History.

He also have not said where he is going to find all these programmers to teach kids how to programme according to his speech he has less than 9 months to find them, hire them and train them, 3 computer science graduates were trained as teachers last year, I am shit poor at maths but even I know that not enough teachers to cover a 1000+ schools.

He also have not committed any new funds to help encourage computer science graduates to choose teaching as a career option, we already have shortages in this country and train them, to allow schools to hire them and even some new tools for them to work with, not everything is free, and why there is some great free teaching material on-line, there is little quality control, so some fund to developed course materials would be required, the last thing we want is kids being scared of by poorly written on-line articles or poorly organise sites.

It sad where you hear about students who have produce Iphone apps failing or getting low grades because their IT teacher did not understand the programming language that use to build it or any programming language and the student had to teach him the basic Objective-C to get his low grade. and waste time commenting every line of code.

Also just to add why would google even store files on individual computers, surely for a company the encourage other companies to store all there files in the cloud Google themselves would be doing the exact same thing, if not to an even greater extent than its customers.

So Google has monopoly, big deal, they are not illegal after all.

Google so far have not ask a single company to install its search engine, in fact Bing is currently installed a default on some phones.

It sound like the senators are worried that Federal trade commisson may find nothing to take Google to court over, which would be bad for the campaign contributions from Microsoft.

I am looking forward to being able to cut down on the amount of cards I carry.

Nokia and Apple settle there case in a licensing deal this year.

This is a good deal.

An will hardly cost Google a cent once everything is taken in to consideration, take credit, money reserves, and divisions it will most likely dispose of in the long either to get regulators approval or because it not in Google interest to maintain them.

AN it good deal for Moto shareholders in the short term but that all they care about.

SLS is not needed.

The exploration of Mars, and finding out where that Methane is coming from. An the Webb telescopes are far more important projects for NASA and for humanity.

Scrap the SLS, keep everything else.

The problem then becomes how do they market that OS, Google will surly move against anyone which tries to market an OS as Android without there software on the devices. Which means they will have to re-market there product as another OS, and consumers will think it a completely different OS and even a new one and so far every new OS introduce to the tablet market has been a complete failure.

The tablet market is evolving similar to what happen to the mobile market in 2007 Apple dominates, Android come in slow and steady, with numerous products which failed to take off, but slowly over the next 4 they come to own over 50% of the market. People often forget that Android currently has around 25% of the tablet market at this time and growing.

An we have to see how successful Amazon underpowered hardware and an obsolete OS will truly be, I do not think they will be as successful as many people think they will plus they risk destroying there successful Kindle reader market before it as really taken off.

Will not make a damn bit of difference to the conspiracy nuts.

I wonder if this will shut up those conspiracy theories. Probably not but I can always hope.

Why not invest the money raise from the 4g auctions into our broadband infrastructor

So what are they planning on doing with that 4 billion they are expecting to raise from the sell of 4G here a idea how about they invest it in the country broadband infrastructure, provide FTTH to the home in cities and towns across the country or are they planning on saving it for tax cuts which they will announce just befor the next general election.

So more rights for a criminal, do not they have enough already

So we are talking about a criminal, may be in the past, but she was a criminal, wanting the right for crimes to be forgotten. Should we then give the right for rapists crimes to be forgotten, paedophiles. Sorry but if you commit a crime then there is punishment and one of those punishments is that employers and anyone else can find out about it, and with the age of the internet that does not necessary means a expensive criminal record check.

There should not be a right to be forgotten for criminal, what ever there crime was, what ever the age they committed it, there must always be a record of it.

It was not the idea that was the problem.

There were several big problems with this programme.

GPs., Doctors and generally the health profession.

MPs

Over optimistic time tables. (there was not way this was going happen in 3 years like the original plan was)

No central authority taking command of the project from the beginning to end. An not enough leadership and ruthlessness n that leadership to drive through the programme. Which is why it was constant delayed.

Constant changes to the programme by everyone.

There is nothing wrong with the idea of a single IT system being rolled out across the NHS able to handle all of the patient data (prescription, medical conditions, appointments, test results) on single platform, it could be highly efficient and save money and time. It was the implementation that went wrong. An that everyone thought.

Sadly Langley plans for a more divided up NHS, with many more people taking on patents from the NHS, a central computer system would make the new make up of the NHS more likely to succeed.

They should use the money from the auction to provide rural FTTH coverage

The government should follow the Australia approach. Use the money from the sale of the 4G licenses to provide FTTH through the rural areas of the United Kingdom, and what left should be use to increase the coverage in Urban area, to fill in any 2G gaps left by the private companies. An may be projects like the London underground could also receive money.

How ever I suspect George and his cronies have only one plan for this money and that tax breaks come the next election.

This is a non story

"Horowitz then skates over the fact that people sometimes use either their real name or an anonymous handle depending on how they want to present themselves online. This can sometimes involve serious political or personal reasons, a lengthy list of which is provided by the Geek Feminism blog here."

This was the whole point of circles, where each circle effectively have there own profile. Creating a simple option to allow different circles to see different names would solve this problem.

Then of cause once they release the brands pages this will be solved. As long as they make sure it reasonable easy to get those type of pages.