In possession of penis which can be combined with vaginas which is how babby is formed.

That's a tautology

That's a sophistry.

That's a paddling.

Well, quite. This "policy" is being driven by the most shrill of Mail Mums. But Daily Dad does like to drink of the beer and look at teh boobies, so - like all pulpit pounders, ever - the rag and its site is rank with hypocrisy.

Similarly, I recall the Sun running its usual "Find the paedos, spill their blood" stuff in the same issue where they ran a "Phwoar, Charlotte Church wins rear of the rear" wankpiece, using a photo taken when she was 15.

Apropos, as government policy now appears to be driven entirely by Mumsnet.

A more shallow, spineless, hypocritical self serving bunch it would be hard to imagine... apart from every other politician, everywhere.

And all of that would be very insightful if Nokia's market share hadn't still been rising at the point when Elop told Nokia to grab its ankles and grit its teeth.

Elop surrendered from a position of strength. To continue the Greek analogy, he had an army with which to hold Thermopylae, and yet still chose to throw down his spear be a minion of Xerxes.

Volcanic eruptions in Siberia = entire planet dusted with nickel.

Eh, geologist comes up with geological theory. Funding running a bit low?

<GodwinsLaws>Except for Godwin's Law</GodwinsLaw>

More, in most civilised jurisdictions, you or anyone else can use a "nickname" perfectly legally for most purposes, as long as the intent isn't to defraud. The scale runs all the way from "McName -> MacName" through "Elizabeth -> Liz" to "Raymond Luxury-Yacht -> Throatwobbler Mangrove".

What jurisdictions are you aware of that allow minors to enter into binding credit contracts?

One nice new feature of Win8 is the inclusion of Hyper-V.

A selling point is that it helps you run other operating systems?

Bingo. Cisco could have poured $500 million down the drain just to shut Linksys down. But they'd have faced the possibility of the management and talent leaving en masse to form a new competitor, plus the costs of "regulatory capturing" the Gubmint TLAs to keep awkward competition questions at bay.

Instead they drained the life and spirit out of Linksys, the talent will have long since departed in a piecemeal fashion, and now they can safely render down the husk and sell it by the pound for kibbles and bits.

This is a lesson in embrace, extend (into the cloud) and extinguish.

On the other hand, there's a reason Cisco gear is expensive: it's enterprise class. [...] with prices that are borderline ridiculous

Pick a point, bucko.

Because this "program" isn't about making the product better, it's just about collecting some numbers - any numbers - that can be used in the sentence "Windows 8 is an astonishing success because X of our users figured out how to do Y within Z seconds."

I've yet to see anything released on Steam that doesn't support XP. I've only just switched to 7 due to a hardware failure, and XP wasn't a barrier at all, except for missing out on DX10/11 support. And that issue itself is really just an argument in favour of devs using OpenGL.

Glacial period, not ice age. We're in an ice age. We're due for a glacial period. Would you prefer that to warming?