Given that they are keeping the blacklist secret surely WikiLeaks is already going to be on said list.

The ORG surveyed ISPs on what they will be implementing rather than what the government is asking them to do which (and I think this sets a far more worrying precedent) is not subject to public scrutiny and, given the lack of information even from 'rebel' ISPs, may well be classified under the Official Secrets Act as it is in Australia.

Who needs tools? A heavy stick can be a formidable and lethal weapon and can easily slip through a metal detector. I suggest the immediate registration of everyone who owns or has access to a tree or bamboo plant.

Considering how many on-line references there are for music lyrics, old games and movies it would be very difficult for any moderately popular work to become orphan. Stripping meta-data off, say, an MP3 of Wonderwall by Oasis wouldn't make it suddenly unidentifiable. Nor would removing the credit sequence at the end of Blade Runner.

The Chrome beta track for Android now supports WebGL.

This is maintaining the scarcity of digital goods - i.e. when you lend someone an eBook or music track you can't use it yourself or lend it again until the original borrower has returned it.

Do I need to point out the irony of that statement or was it intentional?

Odd that everyone is complaining about their land-grab of photographs and very few are mentioning their permitted use of your username and likeness which seems a lot more objectionable to me. Facebook is full of invasive and misleading ads for dating sites that would just love a cache of readily available real names and profile photos to attach to their fake users. I'd much rather they nicked my spur-of-the-moment snaps than used me to defraud lonely and desperate people.

Microsoft have been in a very similar position when the BBC wanted to put their iPlayer video streaming app on the XBox 360. It took an awfully long time for Microsoft to agree not to put it behind the XBox Live Gold pay-wall (a sticking point because the BBC is expressly forbidden from charging a subscription to UK viewers) but in the end they allowed it.

You're not the only one with issues. Chrome crashes every 5-10 minutes on one of my laptops (a Windows 7 64-bit machine) which is down to a known compatibility problem with a DLL that's part of the Killer NIC drivers and some other software (bfllr.dll). This problem has been knocking around for a while but Google have done nothing to address it and Killer just try to blame it on browser extensions and ignore the problem.

I suspect the most popular use for hosts is actually to stop pirate software *cough*Photoshop*cough* from dialling home.

When the aliens finally discover Voyager 1 and want to see what's inside... will they have to slide something to unlock it?

I used the first version of Badaboom which was pretty good until I upgraded to an unsupported nVidia GPU and then had to wait several months for a new, almost abandonware version that would cost me again. The focus was definitely on speed rather than video quality. PavTube is a good replacement since it supports Blu-ray as well as DVD though there isn't much of a speed difference apparent between GPU transcoding on a GTX580 and CPU transcoding using a 3.2GHz i7.

Siri is considerably less intelligent outside the USA too. I've never had any problems searching for a local business using Google. After spending 10 minutes trying to over-pronounce the name of someone I was trying to call and being told that a pair of random words do not exist in my list of contacts I wouldn't rate its speech recognition particularly capable when there is road noise in the background compared with Android's equivalent.

Now Facebook will be able to mass produce drinks coasters with impunity.