While the context is obviously important and I don't think the one quote he gave is a fair representation of what he was getting at, I can't help thinking about the old argument 'if you've nothing to hide you've nothing to fear', which put another way is 'those who fear persecution should be persecuted' and it seems to me that companies like google need to be extremely delicate in handling these issues to avoid that particular slippery slope....

When the old lady in question is the US military it's reasonable (IMO) to describe their lack of self defence as a dereliction of duty. I don't beleive your argument can sensibly be applied to a nationally organised military service whose whole purpose for existing *is* self defence... well that and invading other countries who have lots of oil, depending on who you listen to.

That's just about the most retarded thing I've ever seen written anywhere. The amount the UK spends on healthcare is more than the GDP of some small countries. If we wanted to reduce healthcare costs why would we waste effort offloading healthcare costs one person at a time?

I have to agree, I can see it kinda making more sense to have a touch interface like a keyboard and a screen. Of course this would be a really odd thing to work out as it'd probably mean totally redefining how we interact with computers. Would the point and click aspect be on the screen or the touch pad? What would you display on the screen vs the touch pad etc etc....

From 1801 to 1921 Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Oscar Wilde lived between the 1850s and around 1900 and was undeniably British (though not English obviously)...

...are pictures of the women they were chatting to that made their brains stop working properly.

I'm assuming the tom tom app downloads the maps and stores them locally on the iphone. Issues with the googlemap app that comes as standard are that it needs an internet connection to display the map so sometimes if you're in an area of patchy 3G signal you get a blank grid instead of a map. Otherwise it would be pretty pointless buying this in my opinion.

That explains why I feel like some of the trolls around here would fail a Turing test....

Am I the only person here thinking that cloning a card containing biometric data means very little? I mean, unless you're gonna have plastic surgery too it makes little difference who has measurements of your cheekbones and ears. Not that I like ID cards mind you and I'm also nervous of biometric data being collected on me, but I'm not sure it's as much of a big deal as it might be.

I can attest to this seeing as I have (freely) had access to and worked with this data while doing my PhD at a British University. In fact I think I still have a copy of it on a DVD somewhere.....

TFA says he hacked in, try reading it.

It kind of worries me that he hacked in and took the hi-res images. We run a gallery of biological images and it costs us a lot of money and effort to digitise our 80-100 year old collections in order to make them useful to the public and scientific community. We do want our images in the public domain and we do want them used, but we need to have the cash to keep doing this work as a small charity so clearly there needs to be some balance. If someone hacked in and took our hi-res images it might jeopardize our ability to add other images on our already shoe-string budget. If he gets away with that I'd be quite upset to be honest...

Almost right, the theory is in fact the reverse of your statement: linkage

My iPhone 3GS definitely heats up when using GPS, noticed it this weekend while lost on the way to a wedding...

I met my wife and all of my previous girlfriends from the last 10 years at aikido classes. My sister-in-law has met her last 3 boyfriends playing hockey, seems like a shared interest is a useful thing when trying to meet people.