Scientologists need protection from misinformation and misrepresentation?

Surely they can't be serious?

The different URLs (containing the numbers 02, 03, 04, 06 and 07) are just part of the same widget. Click the tabs at the top to access them.

(Incidentally, there's another one at settings_manager05.html that doesn't appear to be accessible by clicking the tabs.)

Doesn't Adobe's Flash settings widget work in Linux? It seems a bit drastic disabling Flash cookies for the whole internet when you can set preferences individually for each website you visit.

Section 508?

No, really, they're all clueless. Just a few months ago the IWF created a furore by blacklisting a page in Wikipedia because it contained a suggestive image. The way they went about it was seriously flawed. Specifically:

• The blacklisted URL was that of the HTML page linking to the image. IIRC, the image itself was still freely accessible.
• The blacklist was unable to trap simple modifications to the URL (e.g. replacing an individual character with its escaped hex equivalent)
• The same page was still available on Wikipedia's secure servers, Google's cache and various other places.
• Blocked URLs are routed through the IWF's proxy servers, but because they obviously don't know anything about XFF headers, it was impossible for Wikipedia to identify genuine traffic for the entire period this block was in place.

And all that over a 30-year-old image that had never been ruled illegal anywhere. They're all morons.

Why?

• Because airports have these screens installed anyway
• Because not all your passengers have mobile phones
• Because some of your passengers are technologically illiterate
• Because one bit of chewing gum stuck to your poster could ruin things
• Because people are already used to seeing departure information on TV screens

Take your pick

Tail wagging the dog? Very unlikely.

QR code is an open standard. They can be used freely, in other words.

The popularity of QR codes in Japan is at least partly due to their ability to store Japanese text which is very difficult to type in on mobile handsets.

What's wrong with a big TV screen showing a list of flight arrival/departure times? Wouldn't that make life just a little bit easier?

Did you know the Andromeda Galaxy covers something like 7 times the apparent width of the moon?

Maybe 1972, although 1971 was also a busy year.

Is this relevant?

For some reason I read that as "loose lips pink slips".

I guess what the government has realized is that cock-ups are inevitable. By outsourcing this work they can put someone else in the firing line next time it all goes wrong.

Nothing is going to improve until we take a stand against this culture of state-sponsored snooping.

Back in the '80s, there were nowhere near as many computers around.

Today even my mother has a computer. The margins may be smaller, but the market has grown considerably.

One is behooved to concord that perspicuity is indubitably the sine qua non of all linguistic pereginations.