I am not a postman but come off it, they're not "randomly" going on strike they are fighting for their working practices (whether you agree/sympathise or not is another matter altogether). Also how is it the Royal Mail's fault for what happens when packages go outside of the United Kingdom? They can give best endeavours tracking but are totally at the mercy of La Poste or whoever it's gone to.

do you understand the geography of the area he did it in, the way he moved around the area and the speed at which he did it? The police were very close to him but the nature of how shootings were reported (as people were found, not as they happened) meant they were chasing shadows. In that area there are normally tens of ways to get to the same place via various C road (i.e. single car width normally) and an experienced taxi driver would have a distinct advantage.

I was in one of the neighbouring villages at the time, the frightening thing was that you didn't know which town he'd pop up in next.

Both his weapons were legal, he was never deemed a risk and no-one suspected he would do it. You can legislate all you like but you'll never legislate against the completely unexpected or unimaginable in my opinion.

well aren't you a lovely soul. tell us all what you enjoy so we can rip the shit out of that.

watch it yourself and make your own opinion - that's what I'd do. Too many people hating for the sake of it to be honest

Juliet was saying it worked about unplugging the vending machine. then she said about going dutch, it was a bleed between timelines if you will.

I don't want to discus this.

what everyone conveniently forgets about BT is that they have a government-levied "maximum" installation charge for phone lines. From that they have to provide you a line whether it's up a mountain or whatever when costs could go into thousands of pounds to give you that line, then you want cheap ADSL on top of it. The likes of Sky etc use the infrastructure for broadband and pay little in exchange so BT still foots the majority of operating costs for PSTN and ADSL services. The exception of course is when new equipment is needed at the exchange and people complain to the Daily Mail because they don't want to pay for a new DSLAM or 5 miles of copper or whatever.

So from these costs they have to make decisions about who gets lovely "super fast" (or whatever it's called) broadband and who gets the bare minimum. Having worked in the industry it's hard to find people that "take little interest" it's sadly about the bigger picture.

Personally having grown up in a rural area I still have fresh and painful memories of dialup, but that's another story...

it's different but not as different as you'd like. if someone in my office had a serious contagious illness (or even a bad cold/H1N1) I'd much prefer it if they were at home rather than making me ill. I wouldn't even care if they were playing WoW whilst wrapped up in a duvet or something.

From reading the article it just seems like the author(s) were determined to find fault in it, no matter how good the game is. I got MW2 in December, it's a good game and I don't care if they think the reviewers were "shoved around". I played it myself and enjoyed it, there's my "review", I don't need a website with an agenda to tell me how to spend my money and what to play online.

The ratio of development:marketing is not how you measure how "good" something is.

aka the noisy killer...

Problem 1: Poor Controllers, Problem 3: Ergonomically Hellish Controllers, Problem 4: Unreliable controllers. That and the fact power through RF is mentioned twice - this could have been a lot more concise without losing a lot of the facts.

you started it!

I've recently taken delivery of a BlackBerry Bold when I was originally in the market for an iPhone. It turns out it did all the things *I* wanted and none of the things that the iPhone did that I didn't want. I didn't want a touch screen that I'd grease up and scratch, I don't need to tilt it to drink a pretend beer or shake imaginary dice, I wanted a phone that did SMS, email and instant messaging perfectly.

Success in this market won't come through emulation, it's through giving your users what you want. The Palm just looks like a HTC or somesuch copy of an iPhone to me.

I work for a Telco. We flag to clients when they accrue silly spends to foreign numbers. This happens around the $100 mark generally. Why did this go unnoticed for so long? Incidentally this is completely the responsbility of the end client. Anyone could ring Bulgaria for hours on end and then blame "teh criminalz!!!11". Secure your equipment better.