It's Incredibly Rare For A Grand Jury To Do What Ferguson's Just Did, as in it basically never happens. So how "lucky" is Darren Wilson?!

The National Bar association doesn't seem to impressed with the decision either!

Interesting reads here (How Darren Wilson avoided criminal charges for killing Michael Brown) and here (New photos of Darren Wilson released as 'secret' letter written by police officer is revealed).

Oddly though, the Medical Examiner, who normally takes photos of the deceased, did not take photos of Brown. His/her reason? The battery was flat on his/her camera.

Sometimes these things happen, but it strikes me as a little strange that he/she didn't have a spare battery, spare camera, or even a camera phone... and presumably didn't ask if anyone else at the scene had one either. Thus leaving a _slight_ evidence gap... which someone far more suspicious than myself might suggest is the kind of gap you need if you want to [ahem] massage the facts after the event.

Someone did manage to find a working camera to get photos of Darren Wilson's injuries though. Wilson has said that he had been hit twice by Brown and was of the opinion that a third punch "could be fatal if he hit me right". IMHO his injuries don't look... well, they're practically invisible, let's be honest! That's not to say he wasn't in a compromised position and felt in fear of his life, but I'm not completely convinced he was in any danger of being punched to death.

Interestingly, immediately after the Browns death, a photo was circulating on the intertubes purporting to be of Wilson's injured face, apparently worded to discredit the idea that Brown was a "Gentle Giant". This picture has itself since been discredited... but I only just found out today, so I thought it was worth mentioning!

For what it's worth, I am really really not taking sides here. I'm perfectly happy to believe that Brown wasn't exactly a pillar of society... his apparent intimidation of a local shop owner and, I believe taking of goods without paying, immediately prior to his encounter with Wilson, do kind of suggest that. But I am very firmly of the opinion that officers of the law must be held to higher standards than the general public.

You have a problem with people being allowed to protest?

Complete and utter pure speculation on my part, but I'm guessing the looters are opportunistic criminals anyway, so they're good at spotting a chance to break in, steal, and get out quickly and whilst no one is really looking. And if you're a peaceful protester, you're not likely going to be looking for trouble, and likely you'll avoid that because you don't especially want to either be injured or arrested.

I did see one video clip of a bunch basically rioters... and it looked like probably 30 people, all with hoods up and faces covered, basically on a rampage. Probably a mix of looters and disenfranchised youth. They're moving quickly. Breaking what they can.

Despite my disgust, I know there's not a chance I'd be leaping in there to stop them, mostly because there's too many, all on a charge. They'd probably not even notice me... and they'd be gone in a minute, moving on to the next target.

[cynicism...en-gage] Canonical would probably invent a new disease rather than just use an existing one! ;)

You don't even need to work that hard - just press F12 and edit the live page and print! I can't believe how dumb Walmart are... or maybe I can.

More like:
K5: You have 20 seconds to comply.
K5: You have 19 seconds to comply.
K5: You have 1 hour 48 minutes and 34 seconds to comply.
K5: You have 4 minutes to comply.
K5: You have 29 days, 6 hours and 13 minutes to comply.

I've not checked if things have changed, but I seem to recall that Ubuntu only enable TRIM on known good drives. The reason being that there were a number of problematic drives that would result in data-loss if TRIM was used.

So.... maybe Apple are being cautious?

Like moons are made from cheese, comets are made of whale-meat.

I use mine primarily as a wireless router, but also as a Transmission bit-torrent client, and there's also Apache and NodeJS running albeit not dealing with much traffic. Oh, and it's doing DNS duties too. My record uptime is almost 200 days... I decided to power it down before going on holiday!

Funny the things you notice running slow though - for me, it's how slow PHP syntax highlighting is in Vim. JS is fine, but with PHP you really notice it lagging.

I know it's not really a fair comparison, but it is interesting that MS have now released a freemium tablet/touch version of Office for iOS and Android, but not for Windows 8. Obviously, it does make sense for MS to produce iOS and Android versions first since Win8 does already have the full desktop version, and there really aren't that many Win8 tablet users (relatively speaking)... but on the other hand, how much market share does Surface need? The Surface 3's are solid machines, but they're unlikely to win on price-point over Android or on desirability (at least to consumers) over iPads. So MS *really* needs businesses to buy in to Surface. If they don't... then that'll be that I guess?

I have my own domain, and my personal email goes to a traditional firstname.lastname@domain.tld, but when I sign up for anything, I'd prefer to use a unique address, so I have a prefix for such things, let's call it "xyz" and then +supplier-name, so xyz+amazon@domain.tld. When I sign up for something, I add a white-list entry for that address. Anything not white-listed (e.g. xyz-foobar) goes straight to spam.

I *do* forget to add white-list entries sometimes, but that's fine because I do check and manually clear my spam. If anything is in spam, I know to be extra cautious.

Anyone removing the plus from one of my email addresses won't get anywhere because it won't be a valid address. Anyone replacing the bit after the plus with something random will end up in the spam bin, so I'll be more likely to spot.

The only snag is the bit after the plus does tend to be obvious, e.g. "amazon", so I prolly should use something a bit non-guessable. But in practise, spammers aren't being that clever so it's not been a problem for me.... thus far at least!

It's staggering just how many websites don't allow plus-addresses. In the UK alone, I have these on my plus-address shit-list:

• carphonewarehouse.com
• ebuyer.com
• novatech.co.uk
• whsmith.co.uk
• racbenefits.co.uk
• parking-quote.co.uk (APH Airport parking)

And a load of smaller sites that I can make exceptions for 'cos they're small businesses and all... but that said, their web-devs are still crap.

I keep meaning to build a plus-address name and shame website just to highlight the amount of derpy devs there are.

It's limited to displaying peppers though. If you like viewing your peppers with hardly any bezel, then this is your lucky day!

I can't help thinking, that just for the comedic value, it would be worth having a box full of AOL CD's just so you (and by you I mean *I*) could prank mail them to someone. Everyday. For a year! Oh the fun!!