24bit PNGs compress much worse. It really is an issue for the web, images form the majority of the payload for most websites, and whilst people on /. might be use to several Mb/s broadband the reality is many people don't have that. Even in the UK mobile speeds are very low outside of cities. And when you compare evena jpg at fairly high quality to a 24bit PNG there's no practical difference visually so there's just no reason to clog up the web with PNGs. Obviously I'm just referring to photos - PNGs are great for logos/icons/etc.

I'm not saying that understanding why you should do things isn't important, it is. But what I am saying is that a graduate should be able to come out of a course with skills that they can directly apply as well as understanding why to use them. And I'm not talking about the latest fads, but given that university curriculums normally take 2 years to get approval, and if it's a second year course you're looking at another two years to graduation, this means people are already four years out of date when they graduate. Four years will encompass massive shifts like responsive design, rather than javascript flavour of the month.

It's also about people learning useful skills. Lots of universities are teaching web design using dreamweaver! The university curriculums are too slow to reflect the latest tech in an industry that changes completely every year. It might not be the perfect solution with regards to pay, but it's certainly a step towards graduates coming out of uni with useful skills.

The slippery slope may sometimes be a fallacy but the reality is it happens regularly, look at RIPA - legislation brought in to tackle serious crime thatended up being used by councils to watch people walking dogs to see if they let them poop on the pavement.Or the NSA employees who were spying on their exes using the NSAs vast reserves of data they used to spy on people.

You're right the university professor isn't the right guy, and good spot on the British English! Try adding salisbury or wiltshire to that search. But to be honest you will still get a lot of results, even using terms like -film -university etc I still have loads of results that have not been delisted by google, the chances of us working out which ones have changed is pretty remote. I think we can let that go given the time that has passed! Just don't waste any more tea please...

if you search just "will brooker", in quotes, it also says some results have been omitted, so it may be the scam keyword is not a crucial factor and that search is actually just returning results for "will brooker" rather than '"will brooker" scam'

Thanks for checking, part of the problem of course is that I cannot see what has been removed to be able to tell whether or not it should have been removed!

Perhaps, but I can easily see situations where people do stupid stuff like getting drunk and making fools of themselves, but not causing harm to others. These are the sort of situations where I feel it's reasonable to censor their own search results. But where someone's actions have impacted on other people, especially where they've caused harm they should not be allowed to remove them.

That's interesting, it's certainly relevant to anyone looking to work with him, however it's difficult to know what has been blocked without being able to see it in the first place

Try googling: "will brooker" scam

Whilst it's a good idea for most people to be able to hide some embarrassing stuff about them, sadly it can be used to hide information that should be public. For example I know of someone who owes me a considerable amount of money, and several others. He deliberately ran up the debt with no intention of paying. Whilst trying to find information about him the other day Google showed that it has hidden a results because of the right to be forgotten. I know that he's done this so he can get out there and con more people with less chance of being found.

Sure they'll benefit from all the free publicity, sometimes you can't help but think people do more harm to themselves than good

I think it was a bug in the last version, a recent update sorted it out - it was bloody annoying though!