Budget ultrabooks, Chromebooks and convertible tablets are taking the netbook's place. They all offer higher profit margins and all cater far better to a specific need. Netbooks haven't died, they've just evolved in three directions.

If you want a ultra slim and light but cheap laptop with basic functionality, Chromebook, if you want a small light full featured laptop, ultrabook, if you want "pick up and use instantly", tablet.

irony: accusing someone of denial when they're actually saying there was collusion and that you'd expect collusion.

Peaceful protests can turn violent in minutes if they're not well managed and controlled. An example of this was The Tottenham riots where the police decided a peaceful protest didn't need many officers. A few people turned violent, there weren't enough police to stem it quickly, large numbers of people realised the police couldn't cope and saw the chance to riot and loot.

Quite often these protests are peaceful seemingly without need for large numbers of police largely because, almost paradoxically, there are large numbers of police there.

That attitude was great until the mob used it to control the unions...

You mean the FBI and police sat down with business owners to talk about a large-ish scale protest outside their premises directed at them? Screw that, if there's a mob outside your front door, why would you ever want advice and reassurances from police, it's not like it's their job or anything!

Police drawing up plans in case the OWS potentially resorted to criminal or terrorist behaviour ? How dare they! I demand a police service that doesn't prepare for any eventuality and is always taken by surprise!

It is rather shocking that the police didn't inform the leaders of an organisation that prided itself in having no leaders that they had vague threats of violence against them. Imaginary people have the right to information too!

I'd be more inclined to given them credit were it not for the fact that iphones and a large portion of android phones put heavy restrictions on what you can boot.

To me this is just another hysterical over-reaction by them.

Remember how trusted computing would destroy all our freedoms? Remember how MS put so much DRM into Vista that you had all sorts of restrictions preventing you from doing anything and if you tried to get around it, MS would remote into your PC and delete all your files?

One important thing worth noting was that Turing's clearance would've been removed even if homosexuality hadn't been a crime at the time. As the Enigma was still being used by the soviets and there were big examples of blackmail being used to get information. People who'd had affairs or held other secrets that would publicly embarrass or shame them also had their clearance removed.

There's also not terribly good evidence he committed suicide. He was known for handling toxic chemicals in a dangerous manner, didn't seem to be suicidal (his life was improving and getting back on track), didn't leave a note and chose a rather odd method for suicide. His family members are all convinced it was an accident.

Fingerprint information is probably much less harmful than your signature or even an employee ID number getting leaked out.

When I was at uni (middlesex university), every lecture and class had a register you had to sign. If you didn't sign most registers, you'd fail the course (regardless of how you did in exams or coursework).

People throw around "scary" buzzwords like biometrics but in practice this is no different from something a lot of British unis have had in place for a long time. It's just a harder system to cheat.

Because they're here to get an education, not to work or otherwise take advantage of living in the UK. If they're not attending the courses, they're not being educated, regardless of if they pass it or not.

The problem isn't that they can't handle a small woman, it's that they can't subdue her in a way that doesn't risk injuring her. Couldn't hear the video but it looks like she was thrashing around even when held on the floor. Very easy for her to slam her head against the floor when struggling or to twist around in a way that puts her arm at risk of dislocating or breaking.

It's surprising just how much much history I learnt from Asterix.

And I learnt about Orgies, very messy orgies.

Assange cannot be granted diplomatic immunity whilst bunkering down in an embassy. It wouldn't be recognised under international or British law (which was tightened up after a Libyan diplomat shot a British police woman from their embassy).

Diplomatic immunity is not a get out of jail free card.

Not a statistical average? Are you telling me I'm not normal?

It also has a TDP almost 4 times the maximum power consumption of the whole Wii U under load and is pretty costly.