I think often it is a desire to help by someone who misjudges the ability, desire to learn, and time someone is prepared to put towards solving a problem. I have heard people advise owners of old XP-based laptops to upgrade to linux because its free. The people giving the advice often enjoy tinkering, see time spent getting it working and learning the new interfaces as fun, pick up new tech easily, and assume that the others will be the same. The person receiving the advice may see the time spent as boring, difficult, and wish they'd bought a new copy of windows (or a new laptop) instead.

but think of the time it will save the NSA

You're thinking of angry birds

I could do with a "+1 same here" rating

That's a good point - since it was last sold in 2010 they have done more than enough to cover their legal obligations.

The graphs on this page illustrate this.

Or if you are a privileged group - If he was a Muslim and he suggested that homosexuals should be killed (never mind just not get married) everyone would be falling over them selves to protect his right to believe this.

I'm sort of playing devil's advocate here because I hate pop-up ads, but you could put up a pretty strong argument that people accessing free (advertising supported) sites with adblock are the parasites.

I don't know what the solution is. i wouldn't mind seeing a few unobtrusive adverts, particularly if they are relevant - but turn off adblock and you often get those annoying pop-up adverts that tell lies like "you computer is infected, click OK to quarantine the virus", or ones where hitting the close icon on the window launches a pop-up or download.

One good thing about the cameras is that it will make it harder for those motorcycle traffic cops to deliberately place themselves in a blind spot to "keep an eye" on your driving. Not that I'm doing anything wrong but it makes me very nervous when I see a motorcycle come up behind then disappear except when I look over my shoulder - I think "what if I have to take evasive action?".

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I am seriously worried about the future of IT in the UK. A few years back we used to have half a dozen trainee graduate programmers a year. Now management outsources this work. The people who specify requirements, verify architecture, check for quality, etc are people who used to be trainee programmers a couple of decades ago. From what I have heard this is pretty typical for the industry. What will happen in a couple of decades time? Will we have to go to Indian companies for the whole system, specification, build, compliance, etc? They are the only ones with entry-level programmers gaining experience now, so it seems likely.