You can't give your education back. Where as if I can't pay for my home they can take it away from me. Given that a degree is unnecessary for most jobs anyway, I don't see why you should be able to claim bankruptcy to dump your education debt while getting to keep your degree. Seems like it would make more sense to quit telling kids they must get a university education.

You probably don't have much going on I your life. However those of us that deal with lawyers and governments still post the odd letter every now and again.

Except Google is selectively picking areas based on maximising profits rather than providing universal access so it's the same problem. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jo...

Comcast wants to selectively serve areas and be the pipe + content provider. Google wants to selectively serve areas and is a pipe + content provider. Sorry but tell me again where the improvement is?

The problem is broadband in the US is bad enough that too many people are willing to accept one bad deal to avoid another.

The UK gov only supporting ODF would quickly fix that.

Except many programmers don't do just 8 hours and even if they did, I'm not sure you can imply that's healthy. I don't think anyone ever thought it was healthy and it's a reason women who had life long jobs in factories often had nasty legs. Even if you weren't coding it's impossible to be moving about all evening so even combing a few hours of sitting at home with sitting all day and, if you drive then you've easily spent the bulk of the day on your ass even if you're active most of the evening.

It's a great shame that he died so young but let's be honest, this isn't exactly surprising. If you're a developer it seems this outcome is far more likely than you'll live to be happy and fit into your 80's or 90's.

What's sad is some people will throw away their youth working excessive hours for some employer that won't care about them only to die in their 50's and they won't be famous enough to get all the kind messages like Jim has. Though I'm sure Jim rather be alive than having people saying nice things about him now.

We should recognise programming isn't necessarily a safe job and demand better rights.

Except it appears card crime has gone down rather than up. Though if you're aware of a country that saw crime go up since using chip & pin feel free to share. Don't worry you still have dollar coins to fight against.

As a normal users, I'd say maybe you're wrong because the beta bitching is getting on my nerves. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Can you name one law that stops 100% of the people from doing something? I don't think there are any because anyone determined enough will do it. But to say filtering Pirate Bay hasn't stopped a lot of people or that filter google wouldn't stop most people is a bit silly. Most people are barely technical enough to use their computer as it is.

Excluding jQuery would exclude all the incompetent JS developers so on that point alone it's a wise move. But likewise it maybe that they don't want things like jQuery used because jQuery almost certainly doesn't test for Samsung TV sets. Yes they may use android with WebKit but if they opt to do something different and that causes problems then who is going to fix your app or will you get snotty when it's pulled? It is a bit heavy handed but I'd say it's a bit more reasonable given it's not a desktop browser where people almost expect things to break. They expect their tv to just work.

If they wanted to they could. It wouldn't be favourable but what else could they if an internet company that has offices in the EU doesn't want to play by the rules? They can't make them close up shop until they sort out the problems.

You're welcome to give it a go.

They are there for tax avoidance reasons. But Google Ireland is certainly a company and if Google wants to retain it they need to play ball. I can't see their investors being happy if Europe decided to block their services.

I never use Froogle (actually Product search now). It's always been like shifting through a pool filled with shit to find a gem.

That's right but I'd say the reason they ride bikes is at least partially because it's healthier because dodging stagecoach buses isn't exactly fun.