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Comment Re:I notice those three things... (Score 1) 142

Even more? Yes, the UK already have an overzealous filter, "voluntarily" implemented by every ISP and blacklists provided by the "internet watch foundation".

No, not every ISP. Look around you.

AAISP is one I know that doesn't. IDNet says they 'monitor' the list but do not implement it.

Comment Re:Definitely... (Score 1) 719

Well TBH it has been tried but it'll need help from COngress, so it's not 100% Obama's fault.

Bollocks. He's the Commander in Chief.

Here are some legal orders he could issue for a start:

1. All military personnel to leave Guantanamo Bay within two weeks. All doors to be left unlocked.
2. USAF to repatriate Guantanamo detainees to their country of capture.
3. All drone operations support squadrons to return to CONUS within one month.

Congress has no involvement in the issuance and execution of military orders.

Change? Just do it.

Comment Re:one word ... (Score 2) 298

If American bookstores are really that bad, they deserve to die.

I can tell you that UK bookstores are even worse. I received a Book Token a few years and went to Waterstone's to use it.

Of course there was nothing on the shelf worth buying and they flat-out told me, twice, that a book I wanted to order was no longer available. I showed them the Amazon listing on my phone; nope, Amazon must be lying to me.

I gave the voucher awa as a gift and ordered the book on Amazon

Comment Re:Elon does it again (Score 1) 71

The rapid progress his technology companies are achieving is nothing short of breathtaking. He pushes limits so far, and so hard, that those nearly impossible limits have been powerless to push back

Space-X hasn't achieved one single thing that hadn't already been done by at least two predecessors each, two decades or more ago.

Comment Re:Targeted ads are better than untargeted ads (Score 2) 177

I'm not sure why I should hate targeted ads. I actually see ads for things I'm interested in... instead of random stuff

Because its all a form offensive psychological attack, in which the advertiser believes he can overpower you and often does. Why participate in that?

Targeted ads are just a refinement; like a 500 lb JDAM instead of a 2000 lb Mk83. It'll still destroy you just as well.

If you need a thing you'll go out and search for it. If you don't need it, don't subject yourself to psychological attack.

Comment Re:why? (Score 1) 41

When I type 'ommadon' into my browser, how is it supposed to know if I mean to google on the string 'ommadon'*, or visit the host names 'ommadon' on my local network**, or resolve the gTLD 'ommadon'***?

If browser developers hadn't conflated the address field with the search field it wouldn't be a problem.

Your DCP or static confg sets the search domains. If ommadon doesn't exist in any of those ( that is, not your NAS box ), try to resolve .ommadon. as a eponymous host in that gTLD.

Comment Just too expensive (Score 1) 68

My 'local' hackerspace ( in a town about 10 miles away ) is expensive; basic membership is 25 UKP per month just to enter the place. And that doesn't cover costs of events or projects.

Hackerspaces might be good value for a student who could call in every evening, but for middle-age wage slaves who could avail once or twice a month it's uneconomic. But perhaps we're not their target demographic.

Comment Re:Pebble Owner Checking In (Score 5, Informative) 120

The E-Paper display and 7 day battery life got me.

Yes, E-Paper and not eInk. If it was the latter your battery life could perhaps be several weeks.

E-Paper is a clever marketing term for ... a Sharp monochrome LCD display. It still requires a low current to maintain the display, even when the graphic is static.

Comment Re:not a fan (Score 0) 514

[Pegg:] Probably some film student who wanted to demonstrate his or her knowledge of film terminology

Oh my, if only I was as informed about visual effects as Mr Pegg.

First, it's not a film term; it comes from photography. Lens flare indicates poor composure highlighting the flaws of the lens.

The first lens flare meme in filmed entertainment that I recall was in Babylon 5's CGI scenes, and we mocked that even though we loved the show and we weren't film students.

So now Mr Abrahms has discovered the technique for emphasising 'immediacy' and no-one may criticise.

Comment A milestone! A breakthrough! (Score 2, Informative) 201

Ease off the hyperbole.

1991: The first recorded successful scramjet test, when a modified Russian SAM was used as a booster for an engine which achieved supersonic combustion for 5 seconds.

1992: Another similar test, with French funding, pushed that out to 15 seconds.

2002: HySHot demonstrated the first controlled flight with supersonic combustion ...

2013: A milestone! A breakthrough!

Comment Time to start taxing revenue instead? (Score 4, Insightful) 176

Corporation Tax is, of course, only levied on the profits disclosed by the company's annual return. So only profitable companies have to pay 23% of their net as tax.

But this encourages the Big Boys to simply shift their profit to other, overseas, divisions, through 'franchise payments' and other mechanisms.

Perhaps it's time to say that any company making over 1 million in annual revenue will pay, say, 5% on its revenue above that level. No discussion of profits. It is much easier to determine how much money a company took-in. What money landed in its UK bank accounts is what is taxed.

Comment Re:Theresa May co-opted more like (Score 2) 91

A traceroute showed the connection going around in a circle amongst a dozen or so routers near Milton Keynes before heading back to a server hosted in the exact same exchange I was connected to.

Reminds me of a line-test number that was available in BT exchanges up until the early 1990s ( wish I could remember the actual number ). It was three digits you dialled for an immediate ring-back-on-hang-up to test the line. However, certain people began to notice consistent delays in the ring-back... in terms of several seconds. Other people on the same exchange at the same time did not encounter such delays.

It was withdrawn soon after and functionally replaced with the 17070 'engineering test' menu.

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