Comment Re:What else can they do (Score 1) 159
Bury something in the EULA about not being allowed to hand down iPhones to your kids when you upgrade.
Comment Maybe, but a bit of a way to go yet (Score 1) 173
Comment Re:I still have me BBC (Score 2) 157
Syntax error at line 10
Comment It's an experiment in the future of "Television" (Score 1) 85
Everything is ultimately headed over IP. BBC3 is a good brand with which to pioneer this with it's relatively young and tech-savy demographic. Once "smart" TVs start living up to their name you'll be able to watch it just as you do now over DVB.
Comment Didn't we used to shove 7 year olds up chimneys? (Score 2) 187
Whilst their siblings worked in the mills because they were small enough to crawl into the machinery and would be lucky if they came out alive?
Sure, we have moved on from child labour, but it took time and social / economical development to achieve. Why should we then suddenly impose our current position upon a developing nation?
Comment "911, what's your emergency?" (Score 1) 46
Fire!
"What's happened?"
Well...
Comment Do people actually learn to code anymore? (Score 1) 78
Or are they just perfecting COPY / PASTE?
1) Google "How do I do X in Y?"
2) Click result in position #1
3) COPY
4) PASTE
5) GOTO 1
Comment Re:Really...? (Score 4, Funny) 138
What do they do? I would have thought this is one business that could almost be run in the cloud with no human involvement (apart from the tweeters)...
C*O and Senior Management: 20
Middle Management: 10
Administration: 5
Devs: 2
Legal: 4063
Comment When you're not making money from it anymore (Score 4, Insightful) 45
/thread
Comment Like when comparnies change their Privacy Policy.. (Score 2) 92
...and make no mention as to what happens to your data that they captured under their previous privacy policy.
Comment Because they're scared of standards based web apps (Score 1) 260
being the future?
Comment MEMO (Score 1) 124
From: legal@google.com
To: larry.page@google.com, sergey.brin@google.com
Subject: Self driving cars
And you thought building a search engine created previously unheard of legislative scenarios.
Comment Forget barriers - just a punative penalty fare (Score 1) 389
If I ran a transport network, I wouldn't bother with barriers - just occasional ticket checks / smart card validation and upon failure it's a £1,000,000 fine.
Comment Doctor, doctor, I'm suffering from fine tuning... (Score 1) 33
...of my motor skills.
That'll be RSI in your thumb.
If you haven't already you'll soon develop a callus on your little finger where your smartphone normally sits.
Comment Re:How does one prevent this ? (Score 2) 120
They know every website you've visited that has a "Tweet" or "Follow Me" button on it, so could easily target ads based on that - doesn't involved reading your browser history at all.
