While I'm quite enjoying what Anonymous/Lulzsec are doing, I hope it does not compromise the criminal investigations that are to follow.

I wonder how long before bars are allowed to pay a little extra to game the system e.g. tell males the bar is full of women or vice versa.

I can see promotions working quite well with this system too - "The next two men to come to this bar will get a free drink- hurry!"

It would be nice if the control was a lot more fine grained within each access type e.g. Do you want to allow the app internet access to a specific URL (for example for high scores) and block any other internet access.

It unnerves me a little to see most apps requesting access to your contacts, internet etc without a more detailed explanation why.

Fair point, but history has repeatedly shown that you cannot wade into another culture and change it within a short amount of time, no matter how wrong you think it is.

The US and other countries (mine, the UK included) think that they can, which is why we have so many terrorists running around.

I guess this demonstrates Microsoft's skill in making it extremely difficult to move from their systems, even a few years down the line.

Surely the money they will spend moving back to Windows could be used to pay people to finish off the missing interoperability they are complaining about?

Surely the money they are now going to invest in switching back could be used to finish off writing whatever missing drivers and interoperability are left to do? I guess this demonstrates Microsoft's 'long game' of making it extremely difficult to move from their system.

A BBC article mentions that any DNA sample would be contaminated.

If you modded the boiler so that it fully or semi bypassed the gas meter in order to provide cheap/free heating then the boiler manufacturer and gas companies would complain.

The prosecution argument is that modding an Xbox allows you to bypass that thing known as 'purchasing' to enable you to play games.

Another misleading tabloid headline from Taco et al.

Short story: Someone notices a perhaps too-fast result for a particular benchmark test with IE 9 and modifies the benchmark code which then throws IE 9 performance the other way. One *possible* conclusion is that MS have done some sort of hardcoding/optimisation for this test, which has been thrown out by the modifications.

Nice quote. Thankfully someone seems to understand why all this shit is happening, it's a shame those in power don't listen.

There ought to be an automatic expiry based on the activity of the account.

E.g. after 2 months inactivity the account is put on hold (no reminders/messages sent to linked friends), then after say 18 months further inactivity the account is removed.

There would still be a period of shit the relatives and friends would have to go to through with getting messages etc but at least the issue could naturally resolve itself?

Exactly, he may as well glue his iPhone to a DSLR. As well as getting much better quality images he will probably not suffer reception loss by holding his iPhone 'incorrectly'.

It would be cool if he had managed to link his phone (I'll use a generic term here) directly to the memory card slot of a DSLR, so taking a picture would go straight to the phone memory. Or alternatively use wireless transmission from the camera to automatically send the pic to his phone and from there upload it to his blog/facebook page. In fact, there's a challenge for you Android coders!

They probably could, but it is still sheer stupidity to post things like that on Facebook or any other site for that matter: Loose lips sink ships!

I didn't realise Moore's Law was purely the driving force behind CPU development and not just an observation on semiconductor development. Surely we just say Moore's Law held until a certain point, then someone else's Law takes over?

As for Phlogiston theory - it was just that, a theory which was debunked.

Trashed all our XP pc's at work this afternoon except for a few (includng me) who disabled the auto update. How did this one get past QA?