Hmmm, in my country 'Liberal' is a term for right-leaning conservative.

Creating a login, Winston Smith (not your real name), and using tor to access facebook isn't sufficiently anonymous?

1st world problems.

Visa in my country has been quick to upgrade their pos terminals for contactless payment. Who needs an iPhone?

Cumberbatch's main claim to fame is playing a camp version of Sherlock Holmes.

I liked the Robert Downey Jr version, so couldn't see why so soon the Americans had to make a TV series with Jonny Lee Miller, nor the BBC with Benedict.

But then Moffat ruined Doctor Who also. :)

AFAIK, Chinese businesses don't pay a cent for international postage - yay, communism!

Under international treaty, the receiving country delivers said small packages for free to the consumer.

Hamburg to Berlin, well it's sender-pays.

Yep the 2 biggest groups, by sales, here are

(1) US ebay sellers.
(2) Amazon, who ship books but not their complete inventory OS.

Now they can just deliver to a regular US address.

Personally I'd look forward to all those special offers, e.g. when HTC were recently having a one-day US-only sale on their new Android tablets.

I was thinking of emigrating, any suggestions? :)

i.e. Go home, Yanks! :)

I must have missed that one - which Back To The Future movie was that in?

pretty much.That's what shits me about wikipedia.

When you navigate to a page and there's a header saying that the page is scheduled for deletion. Hello? I found the page useful and anyone else searching for information on the topic may also.

It's particularly annoying when a wikipedia article references another page. "examples of X are A, B and C". You navigate to B and it may or may not be there if some wiki-editor was in a bad mood.

For the purists. debian do 99.9% the right thing but give the user the discretion to add 'nonfree' at their whim.

For example, I downloaded the mini installer iso to attempt to install debian on my machine.

It couldn't connect to the network to complete the install! Culprit - My usb wifi dongle, which worked fine under Ubuntu. Acquiescing to load a firmware and I was up and running.

My otherwise 'pure' system is thus tainted but this wifi dongle has served me 5+ years already, so the pragmatist favours working hardware. :)

http://www.gnu.org/distros/com...

HTML, JS, CSS are all W3C standards, so why should a web developer care what software the user browses with?

Idealism I know but hopefully we are done with the age when shitty non-compliant browsers had to be coded against specifically.

but for reference, the Mozilla Developer Network has extensive compatibility tables about what features are supported by what browsers.

That's not to say one shouldn't test on a variety of platforms but "Best works in Chrome" should be a thing of the past...

As we speak, there's an election campaign in the state of Victoria.

A pornography ring has been discovered, allegedly, in the Premier's office (same party as the PM).

Justice moves slowly, so any investigation won't conclude until after the campaign.

Doesn't the Android driver employ some kind of binary blob? Maybe Qualcomm are tired of expending resources on it.

If freedreno becomes good enough for everyday use and can be retrofitted to work with Android then Qualcomm can reduce their software division.