Serious crime is laundering drug cartel money through the City of London (as has been recently proved), but the City of London police don't want to police it's square mile. Money talks, and the bankers have bought all the "justice" they want.

That's BT for you, instead of investing in the network, they flog the life out of the old crap they have to avoid investing in the network, and give more money to shareholders.

I've been a tester (and Mageia user) since before Mageia 1 was released, having decided to take the plunge in the new forked distro instead of staying with Mandriva.

I think the distro is working well especially considering it's small community. Only recent "controversial" changes have been like changing the log files from easy read text files to binary rubbish, but I think many distros are doing that now, and using the new Grub2 still needs some ironing out of small issues.

Having standard connectors could cut costs for car manufacturers. If you've ever replaced a car radio for your own instead of cheapo car radio, you run into the problem of needing different adapters to connect into a cars wiring loom.

How difficult is it to have manufacturers use ONE connector for +ve, GND, +VCC (for memory backup), and maybe one aux wire for security. Then there's the speakers connections! The car radio manufacturers have standardised more or less, but the car manufacturers have not.

Cheaper food for how long, until the company that has the GM patent has 50% of food production, 80%, 100%? It's a one way ticket to economic disaster, let alone the long term health and ecological impact that nobody knows.

Nature wants bio-diversity, not the junk that GM is.

Siri says "Let me check for the answer.. while I inform the FBI of your request."

Bitcoin attacked? Sounds like the central bankers are worried people turning away from their paper rubbish with their unlimited quantitative easing.

1) SSD's for the OS / storage by default.

2) Ability to have a second hard drive if you need that kind of storage, without the machine needing to balloon in size.

3) No "Trusted Computing", because I DON'T trust the hardware manufacturers or Microsoft.

If you thought the Intel Pentium that displayed a users processor ID was bad, then you wait until the "Trusted Computing" platform is fully implemented on motherboards. Already manufacturers are colluding to make it very hard to find a modern (as in has USB3) motherboard without the TC garbage. Then there's Microsoft trying to lock down every desktop and laptop with "secure boot", to cripple Microsoft's "free" competition (still no squeels from the EU on that).

I hate mobile phones being locked down installing who knows what transmitting who knows what, now the manufacturers are trying to control the pc market too, makes it easier to track people.

BLUE = Bill Loses Ubuntu Encounter ?

If Google told on Microsoft, I have no problem with that. Now, Google should inform on Microsoft on trying to control the entire PC market and squash Operating System competition with "their" hated "Trusted computing" platform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing ..

Based on Microsoft's track record, how can you a) Trust Microsoft b) Trust ANY company .c) Leave control of your hardware to a corporation that does bidding of governments / media cartel - especially if they are foreign governments.

I bought a DSLR with a 35mm sensor. After a brief flirt with a digital compact when my film camera broke down, I decided on full frame as the APS-C type dimentions looked really weird compared to film, and even more so on a computer monitor.

The only problem is 35mm sensors cost many hundreds more than an APS-C sensor. but you got paid back for it with lovely images in the dark with much less noise.

One thing that the switch to digital has done, is to allow more experimentation in photography, as you are not watching how much money you're burning up on negatives that might be wasted shots, and also having to write down / remember what the settings were for that negative to have got a certain effect. In digital it's all in the EXIF.

I do wonder at people claiming they get brilliant multi-megabyte photographs from their mobile phones, when the sensor is the size of a pinhead.

"Your Cloud Provider (Probably) Isn't Spying On You"......

But your government probably is.

Let's see. With cash, it's in your hand. In the digital world, you could have a certain company beginning with P (who think they are a bank but aren't) who decides that it doesn't like your haircut, then suspends your account without notice so the money you need for your business is now frozen. You might get it back some day, who knows when.

If you don't want to take cash in store, don't cry when a card company stops payments and your cash flow freezes up. Litigate for the money? After your business has collapsed?

Cashless will never happen, although it's many governments wet dream as it will be able to track everything you spend your money on, and that's what they want.