The Z3 and Z4 are great accomplishments, and Konrad Zuse is poorly remembered, but that's nothing to do with the Baby being the first machine to run an internally stored program. It was one of the first Von Neumann architecture machines, which is why it's significant.

An article for the Daily Mail is not the same thing as a public declaration of Government policy.

Perhaps we could, I don't know, wait until David Cameron actually announces this policy, rather than just believing everything you read in the Daily Mail, particularly as the Daily Mail are so hilariously biased on this subject in the place. Not to mention it's the Daily Mail.

This is like this news stories you see where they tell you what someone is going to "announce" later. If we already know what they're going to say, why are you telling me before they've said it?

Whack job zealots? This is the UK. Most people quietly giggled at this, then went and did something more interesting, like Christmas shopping or the pub.

The only people who'll pretend to be outraged by this will be the Daily Mail, and we'll all giggle at them when someone makes a joke about them on Have I Got News For You.

The census is supposed to be an accurate snapshot of the state of Britain, if people lie on it, they should be prosecuted.

Does that include all the people who insist on putting "Church of England" but haven't been inside a church their entire adult life and don't even know if they were ever baptised?

They wouldn't, obviously. Linux has tools like Puppet & Chef.

I use FreeBSD on NTP servers as it keeps time better than Linux, but damn it makes me wretch every time I have to use the utterly hateful FreeBSD installer.

I couldn't get FreeBSD 9.0 to boot via. iLO virtual media either.

Are you kidding? "Region free" hacks for DVD players were there from the very beginning. The very first player I bought (and it turns out the only one I ever bought, and which I still have!), back in something like 1997, was a Samsung DVD 709. I bought it specifically because it was trivial to put it into "regionless" mode and play Region 1 DVD's even though I'm in Region 2 (Bless you, Play247.com).

These days it's even easier; you can walk into a supermarket and pick up a cheap Asian player that can be put into "regionless" mode with the remote that's in the box. Hell, sometimes they're even advertised as such.

The good reason not too is that I don't need to log in at 3am to type the root password and watch it fsck should it need an unclean reboot. Use XFS.

Roast beef should never, ever, be well done. Any more than a fillet steak should never be well done. A roast joint of beef should be as pink in the centre as a rare steak.

Not since POSIX invented time_t. time_t is 64 bit long on most systems these days. You'll only be in trouble if you're still running a UNIX with a 32bit time_t in 2038; the chances seem remote.

The license is non-transferable but AMD as a legal entity is. Not only that, but Intel rely so heavily on patents owned by AMD that they'd never even consider attempting to revoke the x86 license.

I can't see anyone touching them with a ten foot pole unless the price is REALLY beneficial.

You can't see why anyone might be interested in acquiring their vast patent portfolio, x86 license and cross-licensing agreement with Intel?

Let's all just hope they don't do a Lucent and the patents end up being held by a mysteriously well funded holding company...

If everyone wants to live in South East, what's the point of building a high speed rail to a place where people don't want to live?

Because then you increase the probably that people will want to live in those places rather than the South East, and that businesses will want to establish offices in places other than London.