Comment Re:No kindle for me.. (Score 1) 528
I guess you have already forgot when they deleted every copy of George Orwell's 1984 from every kindle. If they bow like that to companies then they will bow even easier to government.
Comment moderated questions (Score 1) 372
Only certain questions will be selected and they will probally be ones he already has an answer prepared for.
Comment Bacteriabook (Score 1) 164
cant be long now.
Comment The Cook County, Illinois, Coyote Project (Score 2, Informative) 222
http://urbancoyoteresearch.com/Coyote_Project.htm
seems like a much more likely reason than pest controll
Comment 1 cyote (Score 1) 222
not going to make much of a difference to the citys rodent problem is it. they are probally going to need 1000 or more to have any effect.
Comment more expense (Score 2, Funny) 213
yet another nearly redundant cold war era satelite is now in orbit.
Comment Yes but (Score 1) 89
they havent released any receipts to show proof of what the money was spent on rather than simply the projects that got the money.
Most of the money wasted will be on lots of small cost projects that are under £25,000 so will not get published.
Comment I didnt see anything (Score 1) 257
when i try added a coma or any other way to change the search i still got the same results. but then right below it is yahoo finance and tesco finance.
I dont think there is anything biased here as google users are more likely to use other google services therfore pushing it to the top.
Comment Re:Not really a new concept... (Score 1) 151
Computers just aren't as customizable nowadays.
That is because there is more profit to sell a new laptop to the consumer every few years than to sell a few parts to keep their old laptop working.
Comment number of droppings decreasing (Score 5, Funny) 145
This can mean only one thing. The rabbits are now super inteligent and hiding their droppings.
Comment Truthy (Score 1) 180
sounds childish even though it is an old word, and will therfore not be taken seriously by many people.
Submission + - BSA's "Shockingly Misleading" Piracy Claims (michaelgeist.ca)
An anonymous reader writes: This week the Business Software Alliance published a new
study
which purports to estimate the economic gain from a ten percent
reduction in piracy of business software. For Canada, the BSA
claims
that the reduction would create over 6,000 new jobs and generate
billions in GDP and tax revenue. But Michael Geist reports
that the BSA claims are based on nothing more than the economic gains
from a ten percent increase in
proprietary software spending. The BSA now admits its
estimate is based on the presumption that every dollar "saved" by using
unlicenced software would now be spent on proprietary software.
Comment Why is there so much bad press at the moment. (Score 1) 206
Many people are reporting that it doesnt do what they want and is missing lots of functions that it needs as well as all the security vulnerabilities.
of course lots will be missing this is a very early release. If you want to judge it at least wait till the first consumer release in october.
Comment In other news (Score 1) 646
Sugar companys have vowed to protest this change to prevent their name being draged to the ground.
Comment How many people actually claimed the bounties. (Score 1) 114
There is no mention of how many people claimed the bounties even if they were able to. I think some of the people simply reported the bugs when they found them and did not claim any money.
