Go ahead, put it out there. But remember... Finders keepers losers weepers.

Unless I'm gravely mistaken, they've got some excellent talkers working there. I don't see the business case, but apparently someone managed to convince the management enough for this to make the news. Nokia aren't not exactly first to market, so they better get it right. Because they've got some fantastic competitors in Tom Tom, OpenStreetMaps, Google and yes, even Apple. Unless they "Get it right" and come up with a bloody good reason for people to switch from their cost-free-and-good Android Google Maps, they're just throwing money into a bottomless pit.

"It would suck?" It's pretty hard to lose 100 million unless you have it. So, he had more than most people make in a lifetime, and even got to enjoy it for a while before he lost it. He was lucky enough (this kind of money doesn't just come from hard work and talent, people) to have a taste of something that other people can't even begin to dream of, and now he lost it? Boo fscking hoo.

I make my own chili paste/sambal from fresh chilies. It also makes for an awfully good excuse for the periodic trip to the Asian supermarket, as that's the only place that sells the peppers by the kilo instead of per packet of two.

Samsung: "Apple products are better than ours!" Apple: "No, Samsung products are just as good as ours!" We've come to live in interesting times, where insisting that your product is NOT better than that of the competition is what makes it more competitive in the market place. I guess I'll start selling pieces of cardboard in a rectangular shape with rounded corners. I'll make sure to tell the courts that BOTH Apple and Android multi-touch are better than mine. I'll make a fortune!

Stupid eh? Go ahead, make vaccines mandatory. But that doesn't restore the faith in vaccines. I'm all for vaccination (my kids are both vaccinated, the first one has autism), but you know what? I think parents have a point when they're acting suspicious. Call it paranoia, but vaccines ARE being short tracked by big pharma so they're first-to-market. You think there's not a lot of profit to be made in vaccines? Think again. Everything that potentially can be sold to every new baby born on the planet amounts to a lot even if there's only a few cents to be made on a shot.

Faith in vaccines has taken a hit due to mr. Wakefield giving them a bad name. Even if there wasn't anything wrong with them in the first place, faith in them needs to be restored. And in all fairness, there are a few things lacking to make vaccines deserve that faith.
We can't allow Big Pharma to short-track vaccines, bypassing safety procedures. Parents AREN'T being properly informed properly of possible risks associated with the vaccine (handing them a flyer AFTER the shot is common), so any incidents will be blown out of proportion. Quality control on providing this information is lacking. Parents should be made to sign forms proving they've been informed of risks BEFORE the vaccination. I've never seen blood being screened before any vaccination - this should be made standard, to help ensure the vaccine is well tolerated for groups of people considered to be at increased risk. "Whoops sorry" after mutilating an otherwise perfectly healthy person, even with financial compensation, is not good enough.

People should be allowed to have their children vaccinated against one bug at a time, rather than be presented a cocktail. That should sort out the suspicion against the MMR vaccine. Right now, people aren't being offered this choice, even if they're willing to pay for it themselves.

You're free to call parents stupid. But some of these so-called "stupid" parents have informed themselves a lot better about the subject than you have. As long as vaccines are being short tracked to be first-to-market, being marketed to potentially *everyone* (at a nice markup), risks aren't being assessed properly, parents aren't being properly informed about those risks, and without proper procedures in place to ensure necessary information is being communicated... parents are damn right to be suspicious.

Solve these problems and you'll see vaccination rates rise again.

The rules are simple and clear: If you're not watching or recording live TV, you don't need a license. Catch-up and on-demand services are exempt. I don't have a TV and don't watch live TV. With an hour of content being uploaded to youtube every *second*, I've got all the content I want. TV is dead to me. I've had it with being treated like a criminal whilst I'm doing nothing wrong. What these thugs are doing is even worse than stopping and searching pedestrians at random and demanding to see their driving license: What they're doing is akin forcing pedestrians to drop by at the Driver's and Vehicle Licensing Agency periodically, and force them to waste their time to prove that they DON'T own a car, when perfectly acceptable alternatives are available. I wonder how this ever had a chance to be signed into law. These thugs should be put in their place and the whole TV license should be abolished.

Here in the UK, anywhere near a home network you'll also find that your mobile phone will detect BTOpenZone Wi-fi. As Wifi is relatively short range, it stands to reason that this "open zone" network is just piggybacking on the network wifi of their subscribers as it doesn't cost them anything but a bit of software inside home routers that they'd provide anyway.

This isn't panic. It's more of a "Houston, we have a problem" sort of situation. You've got a problem, you deal with it. "Panic" means people going "AAAAAAAAAHH!" After screaming for a year and a half, they must be getting pretty hoarse. On the other hand, the must have been screaming "AAAAH" for just about long enough to warm up a cup of coffee. So my advice would be, by now, Keep calm and have a cuppa.

"Do you know your Java from your CSS and your HTML?" Whoever wrote this, doesn't.

Use whatever you want, so long as you keep the password on a little piece of paper somewhere. If you don't, may I suggest "pencil" is a good one.

Upload your photos. All of them. To flickr, facebook, whatever. The good ones will survive. The great ones will be shared. The ones you're ashamed of will go viral and you'll never get rid of them again, no matter how much you want them to.

Even do it at home if you wish to

Don't fall for it, it's a trap. Before long, it will be expected from you. At home, I don't get paid for the hours I put in. At home, I don't receive any recognition for the work I've put in. Using home-made stuff at work puts the ownership of your stuff in question. I choose to keep home and work separated. At home is where I work on MY stuff.

1) 200K lines is not such a formidable size. If your average module size is 1000 lines of code, that's 200 separate modules.

What are these "modules" that you are speaking of? And "separate" - could you elaborate? I've seen code where one couldn't help to ask the above questions. Asking the architect about what modules the system had yielded the answer "It's complicated, you'll just have to get used to the system". Which meant, committing the full 200k lines to your brain and needing to understand the code as a whole, rather than as pieces and modules. In the end I found out there's a design pattern they followed. The official technical name of that design pattern is "big ball of mud".

The problem with peacekeeping weapons is that they're still weapons. The only reason nukes are effective as peacekeeping weapons is that nobody so far has been willing to take responsibility to use them between superpower countries. That doesn't mean an irresponsible a-hole won't show up at some point.

So here's a crazy idea. If you want to keep peace, look at solutions THAT ARE NOT WEAPONS to accomplish it. I reckon that if the army budget would be invested instead in education, foreign student exchange programs, international sports events etc, this would prove to be FAR more effective to promote peace than weapons.

Either that, or stop claiming to be offering "freedom from fear". You can't have both.