Do it once, the police keep a recording of the call. When they arrest anyone, take a voice recording of them and run it against all the recordings you have.

No, because NSA didn't have all the photos. Perhaps some which match those in official documents, in a good light, at some angles, but even they're not going to be able to compete with the billions of photos of people on facebook. Also, their "match or no match" is not as useful as "this person is known to these people"; there's a whole network of people they can hit up/monitor to find where someone is.

Why not write an android app to support their widgets..uh, tiles...uh scopes, that way, more than 17 people can try it. Having said that, the answer is probably because they don't want people saying "why would i have a phone that can just do that when i can get an android app which does everything else as well, and on a non-pokey phone".

What is it with ubuntu and its silly little interfaces? Still scratching that `gotta look different from the rest` itch, right? They've not figured out that nobody cares what the bit that loads the apps looks like, it's the apps that count, huh?

I think that was a kind of "we're religious, we don't really understand it" thing.

And now, because of that, there's this:

http://www.theguardian.com/sci...

That is NOT what a Chinese Room is!

Sarcasm is just a lie with an attitude problem, isn't it!

If i'm paying for support, I get support. If someone thinks I'm an asshole, fine. I don't care about them. If I don't get the support I think i'm entitled to I'm going to complain. It's important to always make sure you get the name of whoever you're dealing with, and make a note of the time/date of the call. That way when you complain about them there's some chance of their managers knowing who it was calling their paying customers assholes or whatever and they get fired.

Nice one, Centurion. Like it. Like it.

What if you live, say, 20 miles from the capital? If that happened in London it would stop about *15% of the UK population from being able to use one! Perhaps that malware will be useful in re-enabling the damned things!

*I guessed that, but I think it's close.

But will this be free? That really killed it list time around.

Yep, that's valid everywhere in the world because one law applies everywhere.

Up us! UP US!!! Why does everyone get that wrong?

They spelt "bomb" correctly?

The rites of spring by stravinsky has no "real life applications" other than the usual art stuff. You know, making life bearable in a pointless, hateful world where the best thing you can say about it is that you're going to die eventually, and beyond that everything in the universe is going to ultimately run out of energy and go dark and cold for ever and ever and ever. I mean, you're right; it would have been better had it improved the speed of an internet search or something practical like that, but sadly, no. Just pointless art.

Why not? It'll just appear that the user is using too much data. They'll either run out of data, get charged more or the use will figure out that their data/battery is acting unusually and sort it themselves. However you look at it, the problem will take care of itself!