But conservatives have never really rolled back debt. What they do is replace this kind of spending with tax breaks for the rich and the fossil fuel industry. The net result is the same, except that the wealth gap gets even worse. Granted JT seems to have lost focus and direction recently, but PP is nothing but a nasty little mini-Trump who appeals only to people's resentment and their nastiest instincts. It'll be a worse mess if he gets in.

Exactly. It more down to the fact that they are enhancing their own properties with data collected by scraping and processing other people's work. This does not set a precedent for you or I posting a link to another website on a page that we control.

But now you'll get your news back (on Google properties at any rate), and the news services will benefit to the tune of $100 million. Win-win, eh?

In order to join the suit, you have to fill in a form which includes your full name, address, and email. We should check with Alanis Morissette to see if that's ironic.

I don't think "the British lost a whole empire because they cared what people think". The partly lost it because they gave it up, as the realization slowly dawned on them that dominating and exploiting other people was not glorious but shameful. Western enlightenment culture, born out of the wealth and privilege paid for by exploiting empires, itself allowed the development of humane and liberal principles which eventually led to the repudiation of empire-building. But they also lost the empire because of the financial and military damage they incurred in two world wars.

A burk is a prat or a fool. UK slang, now very out-of-date and rarely heard.

I was thinking of things like this: https://www.cyclingweekly.com/... in addition to the pollution from slow-moving traffic. Compared with more bike-friendly cities like the one I live in (Victoria, BC), it doesn't look much fun. But point taken -- there are much worse places to ride.

There are dickhead cyclists and dickhead drivers. Also, ALL cyclists and ALL drivers occasionally do stupid things by accident. Even more important, almost all cyclists are also drivers (they have cars, they pay road tax, they drive). Rather than turning things into a war between different interest groups, it makes more sense to learn to drive and ride defensively and considerately, and (if you can do it without upsetting or insulting people) encourage other people to avoid bad behaviour on the road. I don't like to see cyclists taking up half the road by riding in pairs or groups so they can chat with each other, or cyclists who blow through red lights; and I don't like to see drivers blocking the bike line by turning into it and stopping, or pushing their nose out into it when leaving a parking lot. But it's best to assume these are thoughtless mistakes rather than consciously defiant or transgressive behaviour.

There have been quite a few studies like this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... that demonstrate that relative to driving, the health benefits outweigh the risks; in other words, even in scary urban riding contexts like London, you're going to live longer and be healthier as a cyclist than as a driver.

From the perspective of someone who uses the GIMP daily, Photoshop utterly sucks, on the rare occasions I try to use it. Mainly it's because I don't use it daily and I'm not used to it, so I can't find anything and the workflow seems unintuitive. That's the thing with complicated software: you have to use it enough to get comfortable with it. You stick with Photoshop; you probably need the small number of things it does that the GIMP doesn't do, whereas I don't. I'll stick with the GIMP because I can't afford Photoshop, I don't need that small number of things, I don't trust Adobe not to fill my system with unwanted crap, and I absolutely hate their horrible update processes.

It doesn't "mark its death" at all. Lots of us continue to use the GIMP daily, and are more or less happy with it, while simultaneously being a bit annoyed by the decision to try to push the native file format on us through the interface. Since the menu option to overwrite the opened file was added, it's much less annoying. It's such a common thing on Slashdot to announce the complete failure of a long-term project just on the basis that the poster and his friends (if he has any) are annoyed by one or two changes that didn't suit them. There should be a word for it. The GIMP is a very useful, highly functional, stable and reliable piece of software. It's not perfect, but nothing is. Get some perspective.

As previous commenters have noted, this is no help to Turing himself. But it's useful as a reminder for us to look around at the legal systems we have now, and try to imagine who we are currently terrorizing and prosecuting and shaming and bullying in ways that, in fifty years, a government is going to have to issue another pardon or another apology for. What's the current equivalent of the vicious homophobia we're now finally becoming collectively ashamed of?

http://www.ach.org/ (Association for Computing in the Humanities) http://sdh-semi.org/ (Society for Digital Humanities)

I used to be mainly a Delphi developer, and switched to Qt a couple of years ago because I thought Embarcadero had dropped the ball on the need for cross-platform compilation (basically Mac support). But in the last week, they've announced Delphi XE2, which if the hype is to be believed, lets you do Windows, Mac and iOS development in one IDE (with Android and Linux coming soon). So don't discount Delphi -- I'm thinking of going back to it, because it really was the best IDE and language I've ever used.