This article, about a women demonstrating that biometrics can be faked (although she got caught in the end), reminded me of this one, which ought to be trotted out any time anyone suggests using fingerprints to protect anything even slightly valuable.

(I read that fingerprints don't match between identical twins, so the other obvious objection to ( Read more... )

If the worst should happen, and ITV were dismantled or taken over by an overseas company with less of an obligation to create British programmes, it would leave a huge hole. That really is thinking the unthinkable.

Would it? Frankly I'm not sure I'd notice. The last thing I watched on ITV was Law And Order UK which they stopped showing half way ( Read more... )

So Barack Obama may or may not have allusively compared her to a ( Read more... )

Does anyone agree with Helen Mirren? Or Anne Widdecombe (do the Conservatives reject the label “the party of law and order” now then?)

What's she asking for? A cup of tea?

...well, why not? Hasn't she heard the REM song?

Maybe it's just me but I think I'd much rather have sculptures than paintings, and even if you don't share my taste, at £1.5M per statue we could have over 60 solid gold Kate Mosses scattered around the country for the £100M required for two paintings.

You might vary the model a bit: I think a larger-than-life solid gold statue of Sir John Major ( Read more... )

I think the spread of online video is one of the worst things to happen to the web for some time.

There's certainly some good stuff out there, and spending the occasional hour poking around Youtube can be amusing, and there are things that just don't make sense in any other medium; but an awful lot of content seems to have migrated into video ( Read more... )

Blair's expenses claims “accidentally” shredded

Can we please declare a moratorium on the phrase “do you see what I did there”? Even when used ironically.

The content creation business is actually tremendous. Especially when you readers click on the ads surrounding this story. Can you see them?

Not without making an effort, no; my brain appears to be really good at filtering out the most popular styles of web advertizing.

Unless, that is, you count the whole article as an advert: Mark Shuttleworth ( Read more... )

Gutter rag bounces legal system into allowing it to broadcast extreme pornography?