Interesting how this provides potential for both security and privacy invasion.

The UK government wants to stay in the US's good books.

The leaks are being reported on, but not in the UK's jurisdiction.

You have a problem with pressing just four keys to reach the *command line*? Don't do it, you're really not gonna like what happens next...

Nobody is suggesting that the W3C should abandon their current work to reguate gaming consoles, just that unifying the console world might be a good thing.

If the big companies agree, they might set up a consortium which meets the needs of the industry, which would presumably include keeping things cutting edge - but this could be accomplished by planning forward compatibility into standards, and/or bringing out a new set of standards every couple of years.

Committee's don't have to be slow.

Important and frequent optimisations in assembly often get injected into the C code directly. I agree that if you don't work in embedded systems, you will not meet many assembly-trained programmers, but embedded software is a huge market, and this is where optimising C programmers usually start out.

A person with nothing but an improvised shotgun is capable of murder, but incapable of a massacre.

In some cases, DOSBox on linux is a better way of getting old software to run on new computers than XP-mode on 7.