For a couple of years, I've been phoned up around monthly by some nice Indians claiming to be "Windows Technical Department" or some similar name, and that they've phoned up because I have serious issues with my computer. My first exposure to them was a couple of years back, when my dad fell victim (he'd got issues, and felt guilty about always ( Read more... )

Heard a theory espoused that shutting down the News of the World was to avoid all the potential damages claims for hacking (4000 odd people hacked, Murdoch had already paid off people for £100,000 for a couple who'd been hacked, so that'd get quite expensive).

Does it work like that? By closing a company does the parent company avoid those legal

I've started to realise how insidious it is. By dropping support for old web features it's actually obsoleting older webpages, thereby making the web a medium for the current only, if it gets it's way. Gone would be the web as an archive of what happened, current thoughts only would matter. I guess that's what Web 2.0 is, a new web based on ( Read more... )

Why oh why has such a buggy bit of software gone out of Beta ( Read more... )

Current UK voting system : Most popular candidate gets elected.

Proposed UK voting system : Most popular candidate gets elected if a majority don't hate them.

Isn't it that simple ?

I've not actually got a copy, so will have to paraphrase, especially as it's decades since I read it. However, the Art of War states quite simply that if you want your enemy to fight fiercely and to the death, the best way to achieve it is to surround them. If you want them to fight less fiercely and retreat, leave them a way out ( Read more... )

First Chuck episode included a brief cameo by Harry Dean Stanton as 'a' Repo Man !

Woke up this morning to a large ring of pidgeon feathers on the back grass. Assumed it was cats.

Came home this afternoon to another large ring of pidgeon feathers, about three feet from the first, with a happy looking sparrowhawk eating the pidgeon.

I wonder how large their range is, and what chance there is of more feathers soon !

I really hate unsolicited calls. Since registering with TPS a few years back, I don't get that many ( Read more... )

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