Sure, I'm not suggesting the NOTW shouldn't be held responsible. But it just seems a little hypocritical for tabloid readers to spend years avidly reading the kind of intrusive stories described by the OP, only to then turn round and act horrified when they discover they were created using dodgy practices.

What about the morons who kept buying the paper every Sunday to read those kind of idiotic stories?

Perhaps it's a case of getting the newspapers we deserve?

Palm had OnBoardC as well, a full C compiler and editor. . I wrote the prototype for a PalmOS text editor in it.

As I understand it, Nokia has maintained their numerical share by selling low-end smartphones, especially in emerging markets, while completely ceding the high end 'proper' smartphone market to iOS and Android (ie. the part of the market that buys apps and actually uses the 'smart' bit of a smartphone).

Hence their massive drop in profit share and the fact that (in my experience at least) commuter trains are now a sea of iPhones, Blackberries and Android phones with only a few Nokia low-end phones around.

I have here as evidence, a SOny Ericson P1i, which is a wonderful phone... Wow, somebody actually liked the P1i? That thing was horrible: slow, buggy, appalling UI design. Even my awful Windows Mobile Samsung i600 felt like an upgrade after that. UIQ died off for a lot of reasons, I don't think Signed by Symbian was one of them.

Don't most GPS devices do that? My base model TomTom (in the UK) does all of that - I'm not sure about the last one, but when I used it in the US it gave me directions out of a giant mall parking lot.

Indeed. And the best way to stop the H264 guys exploiting their huge market share with high royalties is to have one or more "good enough" free alternatives widely available.

It's relatively common in the UK. This story is the most recent one I remember - young photo journalist prevented from taking photos of army cadets in public by a policeman who says something like "I don't need a law to be able to stop you". I've seen plenty of other similar stories.

If it is known that I have a boy, there is 1/3 probability that the other is also a boy.

I'm confused. Say we took 900 families with two children, one of whom is a boy. Are you saying that we would expect 300 of them to be (boy,boy) and 600 would be (boy, girl)?

Also (here in the UK at least), authors get something like 2p every time one of their books is borrowed from a library.

I think 2p per download on the Pirate Bay would be a lot of money :-)