Why does Betteridge get the credit for this? It's been a rule for a lot longer than he's been around.

May be my perception, but I think the parents in the safer areas are the ones who are more likely to be anxious about their precious kids. I'd be a lot more surprised if this happened in a rough part of Detroit.

There must be hundreds of online message boards that support SSL and private messages, and operate outside of UK jurisdiction. Technically this would include facebook, except they're a bit too chummy with governments to actually protect this stuff. And if I PM a bunch of people on a forum about crochet or whatever it's not even likely to be flagged as suspicious behaviour.

Didn't realise there was a different sound if it doesn't connect at 56k. What should I be listening for if I ever have to connect to the internet in the 1990's again? Is it that change in pitch after about 17 seconds in this recording or something else?

Norway's Christians didn't have to apologise for Anders Breivik, and it's the same for Muslims now.

This was a possibility before. It's still a possibility. Crime happens. We know this. We'll never get 100% crime free. We just have to do the best we can, balancing the risk against other factors such as civil rights and cost.

It's unlikely that anything short of 100% surveillance would have prevented this, and the last islamist extremist attack in the UK was a nutter armed with a car and a machete. Is there really anything MI5 could have done to prevent that?

If so, why fix it? What are the tangible benefite of a new system?

Well, I was sceptical but now I'm sold.

What would using Lollipop do for me that whatever version of Android I'm currently using not? Is there a major benefit?

South Africa isn't a libertarian, pure capitalist state. You do need to be licensed just to charge someone for a ride.

The court denied this motion suggesting that because the hard drive failed, there was no evidence to destroy in the first place.

Okay I skimmed the article, but I couldn't find a comment suggesting that.

It seems more that there's no evidence that the defendant wilfully destroyed evidence. The plaintiff wanted the court to assume that there was harmful evidence on the hard drive, simply because the defendant had thrown it out. The defendant on the other hand threw it out simply because it was dying, and had no idea that it might be relevant in the litigation.

Well, I was using floppies well into the 90's. CD-ROMs were nice for large chunks of data but until I had broadband, sneakernet+floppies was usually a lot more efficient. Really the modern replacement is USB sticks, although they're not quite cheap enough to give away as floppies were.

Do you need that? Seems very specific. I was generally referring to those groups that are opposed to the likes of 4chan and 8chan. I guess I can use google to find some harassment by anti-gamergaters if you really want it.

Milo Yiannopoulos receives a dead animal,
Threatening phone calls
One person claims to have been fired, and another had someone complain to their boss
Threats against a gamergater's family

Quite honestly I find the whole thing depressing. #Gamergate has a lot of people talking about corruption in the games industry, but way too many of its members fixated on loud, pointless people. Anti-gamergate has this bizarre conspiracy theory that somehow 4chan, 8chan, and a large number of female and ethnic minority gamers, journalists and even a few outspoken feminists are working together in the cause of "misogyny", for its own sake.

People with a political agenda have grabbed both sides of the debate and made it about unrelated political issues.

Calling someone's mom and telling them their son has been making rape threats and harassing women on the internet is not doxxing.

No. This is fine. If any of them did only do that I wouldn't have posted, but it seems that this was not the case for any of them. Alanah Pearce seems to be pretty sensible with her reaction. Telling their parents means that we can reasonably assume that things are going to be kept in control.

Doxxing involves potentially setting off an online mob, or in some cases, interfering in their lives.

There's a reason doxxing is mainly associated with 4chan, 8chan and other pedophile websites.

Jezebel writer doxxes autistic kid.
Rebecca Watson promotes Doxxing.
Reddits ShitRedditSays subreddit digging up names of gamergaters.
A tumblr related website all about doxxing

Something about throwing stones in glass houses springs to mind here.