Does that reasoning apply to sites that host pictures of actual killings/beheadings etc? Are the people hosting the site complicit in the guilt of the murders commited? Does that apply to news channels as well?

I prefer a passcode as I don't leave my passcode around on every surface that I touch.

All the big international companies end up reducing their tax bill by shunting money around and finding loopholes. I think you'll find that Microsoft is adept at avoiding tax bills. I remember reading somewhere that they end up paying around 13% tax.

Is it because all the stupid people use Microsoft?

Patching windows is a real pain. What I don't understand is that you apply all the available updates and then after rebooting, you find that there's critical patches to fix the patches you just applied.

You can end up spending hours checking for updates, applying them, rebooting and then repeating it because your time is worthless to Microsoft. With Linux, when you apply the updates, you get all the updates at once and you only reboot if a new kernel was installed. A job that takes many hours on Windows takes maybe half an hour on Linux and doesn't require constant user attention.

No, you can use a 2400dpi photo of the fingerprint on the glass: http://www.zdnet.com/apple-iphone-fingerprint-reader-confirmed-as-easy-to-hack-7000021065/. It's not trivial, but it's certainly not beyond a determined attacker.

Many thanks for your pity, but I'm English, not American. I appreciate that your comments probably apply as much to Britain as it does to the US (I presume that you don't necessarily mean South America, Mexico and Canada when you specify American), but I like to think that I don't just believe in the propaganda spewed out by governments and media outlets. I'm sure there's a good mix of sceptical and gullible people in the U.S., so it's a bit disingenuous to portray everyone as if they all think exactly the same.

I say! He just called us all savages.

Sir, I really must protest that although our savagery is debatable (I like to think of myself as a modern humanist rather than a knuckle-dragging savage), I do take exception to your surprising claim that we are all Muslims. I personally am not of a religious bent - I am a card carrying atheist (although the cards are just the normal credit cards and shop loyalty cards that most people carry around).

I am somewhat confused about what you mean by your "Asian militants" statement. Are all the militants coming to visit Britain (probably site-seeing - I do see a lot of Japanese tourists taking photographs of all manner of people, places and things) or did they all move here at an early age? My belief is that if someone has been living in a place for the majority of their life, then it's reasonable to designate that place as their nationality, so wouldn't they then become "British militants"?

I have met several Muslims who were absolutely outstanding chaps and in no way "savage", so I'm begininng to doubt your entire post as some kind of rant.

Good Day, Sir

Last time I was in Mexico (last year on holiday), I didn't notice any pro-US sentiments - just the opposite in fact. I don't think they've forgotten about all of their land that they lost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War

I appreciate that English is probably not your first language, but can you stop using the exclamation mark (!) to finish every sentence? It makes your comments look like they're written by a crazy.

Mainly foreigners who are accused of wanting to say it with guns and bombs, but there's no actual evidence and no judicial process or civilian oversight.

I'm thinking of starting a class-action against Quality Street as the toffee penny is not a chocolate. Also, why do they put so many of them in and so few of the green triangles? There's the other chocolate covered toffee, so I fail to see the need for the un-covered toffee penny.

That'd be neat, but there'd be way too much latency to get any kind of accurate time display on a smartwatch.

So, you're a professional DBA and you can't even write a few sentences without using entirely the wrong words? How can you loosen a wire transfer? Your competent what?

I'd hazard a guess that your fingerprints are going to be all over your phone. (Which is why it's the stupidest biometric to use for a phone)