I believe this rules out all Android devices with CarrerIQ agents from being used to handle payment card numbers. There's no obvious mention on CarrerIQ's website of PCI compliance or how they protect the user's data. It probably also contravenes SOX, HIPAA and and host of other industry regulations. Bye bye lots of commercial use of Android handsets, especially Blackberry.

I suppose a model for this is how passengers or crew are moved to and from large ships during travel since they can't easily slow down or change direction. How's that done at the moment?

Please God NO... it's bad enough seeing so-called news sites like the BBC peppered with scare quotes in headlines. Please don't start doing it here.

I hope this means that the Richard Feynman Messenger Series of lectures that are only available with Silverlight on the Project Tuva websites are soon going to be made available to Linux users.

FaceTrackNoIR have been doing this on the PC with just a webcam for a while. It's especially good in simulation games. http://facetracknoir.sourceforge.net/home/default.htm

So far FF4 has been great. I've moved back from Chrome. Only hiccup was the DirectDraw fonts under Vista but it was easily solved.

I cycle and it rains here a lot so I want a hydrophobic coating on my lenses so the rain runs off. But it's also often cold and humid so I don't want fogged lenses and that needs a hydrophilic coating. Which one do I really want, or do I need different coatings on either side of the lenses?

In 2,000 years time will researchers claim to have found the locations of Lilliput and Blefuscu?!

There always was real competition, tut when IE was bundled it because the majority of users' default browser and since people don't like to change they're unlikely to choose another browser simply because they now get the choice on startup.

It's been a while since I last looked at this, but a company in Sweden came up with an, arguably, better method to both Google and Bing for 3d maps.

It's a shame the wording of the summary is wrong because on first reading it sounded like the satellite will be bathing its surrounding in infra-red light to detect nearby objects like space debris, which I thought sounded quite fascinating. Then to discover it's just an infra-red telescope made it far less interesting.

Wasn't it a member of a political party in the UK who said

"Today is a good day to bury bad news."

See this page http://www.vcalc.net/Keyboard.htm for why keypads are the reverse of phones. Basically it's because both phone and keypads are descended from earlier devices; keypads from mechanical calculators, which in turn were descended from cash registers which had the highest numbers on the top row, and phones from rotary dials.

Won't anyone think of the gallons of ink and hundreds of trees that will be wasted by people printing pages to test this?

Like a password, you should change your PIN regularly. If it's copied from a terminal then you're only vulnerable for a short time.