Every time RNG in Android crops up I can't but think of this discussion...
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=42265

No. Because when I do want to view one of them its often when I'm out and about visiting friends and relatives and something comes up in conversation that I want the picture or video of someone or some event of. Locked up in my home system its worth nothing and trying to download them from my home server when I need them interrupts the conversation.

"have you seen Dave recently?"
"Yeah he's lost a lot of weight"
"really?"
(15 minutes pause waiting for crappy 2G with 1 bar download)
"yeah look here is the picture of Dave last month a Sam's BBQ."

Offloading doesn't give me instant access to my entire data collection on the go in poor 3G signal areas...
(granted I only need about 300 GB for that including all the family videos and photos of weddings and Christmases and stuff... hand have a portable hard drive to move stuff when I need to but its increasing every year and a hard drive is one extra thing to carry about...)

Just because I can carry all that data with me doesn't mean its the only copy of that data...

The hard bit these days is naming and indexing and finding the files I want when I want them.

I see what you did there however it is real VB.Net (ok 'object' was something like activeNode but otherwise its good) but most here will probably declare that it should be illegal because its not a 'real' language. Unfortunately we don't use C# as the programs were migrated from a proprietary variant of VB from our vendor before .Net was around and management wanted to limit the amount of re-engineering and have more bugs as a result.

Probably but they need to generate those lists of blocked pages somehow and scanning for combinations of keywords and phrases of pages previously checked by the filter seems a good strategy so as not to have to index the entire web.

...the code from an API for a commercial system we use at work and uses a tree as its primary data structure will get blocked cutting us off from the support documentation and forums. It has frequent use of lines such as...

object.parent.getChildren(0).InsertNode()

which will probably trip some word based filters depending on how strict they are.

He also chose to go public with it on the day the country is distracted by the pending birth of the royal baby.

I suspect that a lot of the recent discussions that didn't seem to go anywhere were him trying to pre-empt the day of the birth...

It will be the same but it will be USB thumb drives filled by the kid who has parents with the filter off for their own use or has the knowhow to use VPNs or one of the many other ways to get around any such filter.

And I wonder how many legitimate sex education and health sites that teenagers/young adults (lets not call them children given they are already developing interest in the opposite sex) should have access to will be blocked.

basically... http://www.amazon.com/review/R1AZQ4UV06BPYP/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B004DGJR1U&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=1036592&store=apparel
every... http://www.amazon.com/review/R4Q3F1BHEF0SY/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00BW6KCTU&nodeID=541966&store=pc
single... http://www.amazon.com/review/R29XIUFKFQU7GU/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B0056CDWO8&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
product... http://www.amazon.com/review/R3I4QW83V6IDOF/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1426303947&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
has... http://www.amazon.com/review/R1DWPSCYNW2H5Z/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B008GVM9K4&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
reviews... http://www.amazon.com/review/R3MLO42ERB2S0U/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B002MSN3QQ&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
that... http://www.amazon.com/review/R1B7351D396PEW/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000UZQK8Q&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
are... http://www.amazon.com/review/RRMNZB68Q2IZE/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B0032BWTSU&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
suspect... http://www.amazon.com/review/R1L2F14KVVLR4E/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B004JO1YQC&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=

(You really *HAVE* to read the last one!)

Yeah but we do it in a fair, non discriminatory, way to every country and just to be doubly fair include the individual countries and regions within Great Britain in those stereotypes. The kilt wearing, strong accented Scot. The Welsh singing abilities. English bowler hat wearing, stiff upper lip gent. The welsh and/or northern Scots are also reported to be fond of sheep. Middle England is said to be full of Morris Dancing Faggots. London is full of pansy office workers to list just a few...

disclaimer: any views expressed in this post are not my own, rather samples of those that can easily be found on the internet, on TV, in newspapers or in comedy clubs
(Not Posting AC as I have Karma to burn and curious if this goes anywhere ;) )

http://www.hardwarebook.info/PC_Gameport_with_MIDI

nuff said.

Back in the day you had 'game ports' that were really a MIDI port combined with a joystick port. Two different devices via one connector isn't a new idea!

And you could have both connected at the same time so even the two at once isn't new!

http://www.hardwarebook.info/PC_Gameport_with_MIDI

yet another patent that isn't novel or new...

There is no target.

The published data was both factually correct and public knowledge due to court filings so there can be no expectation of privacy.

All the individual managed to do with this case is to make it even more widely known and at any interview will now also be the guy who tried to get unpleasant information himself removed from Google and failed.

True, which is why this case isn't about "Right to be forgotten" which is related to the closure of your personal online accounts and not any data published and subsequently indexed by a third party.

The obligation that Google, news sites etc. does have however under various EU data protection laws is that any information that they hold about you must be accurate and corrected if found not to be. Also they can not to publish information that could be otherwise considered private and not in public knowledge. Generally (with some exceptions) they also have to provide you with any personal information they hold about you as an individual, and can charge a reasonable fee for providing such information.

Unfortunately for the individual involved the information published and indexed is correct and is publicly available due to court proceedings and being published in a newspaper etc. so they have no obligation to remove it or change it in any way.

For every recording he used in his video how many did he have of people who didn't care in the slightest he was recording?

Selective editing can pretty much twist any story.

Given the choice of trusting The US Government and Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc I know which I would choose...