WhyDoesEveryNewFeatureHaveToBeNamedLikeThis?

It just makes it seem doomed from the outset.

Seriously, a laser travelling at the speed of light...who'd have though it.

But surely this is a RoTM(tm) article? An autonomous army of these could do a lot of damage...

Well, what do you expect? A street view of Stoke would just be like that entertaining pic from London, but on 80% of streets...

iPhone flavour then, surely?

And there was me hoping it had set fire to Apple's marketing department...

Living dramatically increases your chances of dying!

Whether social networking damages your health or not is a bit irrelevant...however, the lack of communication in real life is a bit worrying. It's easier for the government to spy on electronic comms...

So, one of the guys at my college, who actively supports the BNP and is openly fascist can now be arrested? And if I jokingly send 'terrorist' emails, I will get arrested?

"Actually there are no extremist Christians...wanting to blow us up in the name of their respective gods???"

No, there are extremist Christians wanting to blow up Muslims in the name of their god.

Can't be very safe if you have to wear a hardhat when the roof is open.

What about kids drawing on condensated windows? Happens all the time on school buses. So when the bus drives past, anyone who looks is now a criminal?

Of course, they're a disgusting peadophile for looking at a bus with children in.

It has lol in the name!

I'll get my coat.

Is down. As of 15:38 GMT. Google uses this for malware checking...so as it's down, all pages defaulted to infected status, I presume.

Yeah, I know, you'd have thought Mac fanbois would have died out years ago...

I can't say I'm surprised. Whatever the truth is (the kids were failed because their work was rubbish/it was the wrong format/the examiners are lazy) the way 'IT' is taught in schools is awful. Edexcel's IT course papers are verging on the impossible to decipher, or are so vague that you feel you could get marks by doing anything at all.

Then there's the course content...Databases (MS Access) Spreadsheets (MS Excel) and naff 'eportfolios' made in Dreamweaver. The multimedia unit would be ok if I had actually been given any experience in using Flash beforehand.

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If it's going to be a laser guided bullet, some well positioned mirrors would mess it up a bit...

I'll get my coat. The one with the mirrors.

Jamendo is similar to Magnatunes, and does pretty much what you're suggesting. All nice and free, lots of it CC...you can even get the music via P2P, if anyone seeds it.

Judging by previous government records with data, there'll be a whole lot more people able to access the database, and not many of them will be official...

But will it run Crysis?

That's what we'll be saying when it doesn't work...

I use Windows, and Vista at that. I do patch regularly. I have firewall and AV. I don't expect it to keep me safe, so I try to be careful when browsing. I've had an XP computer for the past few years, and done the same. I can't remember the last malware/virus infection I had. Then again, I've also used Ubuntu for the past year, and liked it a lot. Didn't get any viruses on that either.

Maybe I'm just lucky.

Penguin, save me from the flamers!

Portable? No.

Could be better...where's the flag, the footprints, the base on the lander...and where are the moon people?

He would talk less crap than most politicians.

Well, if management is so crap, it'd be best to go into that instead of IT...

Surely Apple would want this released for their OS /first/, however many people run Windows...meh, more fool them.

Please tell me there's a good reason for a debris emergency hotline being called this...

Spot on...as I'm taking my Applied ICT A-Levle (Applied? hah!) I wonder whether I'm just wasting my time. At least I'll get a bit of paper to wave at employers...

'sold at a ridiculously low price'

Well, if the iPhone is low priced to you, I want your salary...

Looks like that Astrophysics degree I'll be taking will be consigned to the back garden and amateur astronomy...

On topic, science GCSEs are crap and haven't got better...I looked at the textbook for the current double award, and it had got easier than the one I took...last year. No point getting kids into science if they aren't taught anyhting worthwhile (wiring a plug in physics classes? Par for the course...)

Typical. First the Death Stars, and now Super Star Destroyers...You can tell Imperial hardware is running Vista.

Mine's the one with SW FTW on the back.

Well, that gets all bankers then

"They are the most serious world wide phenomenon currently affecting us"

Right, so they *nearly* crashed into one police copter. In Cardiff. And that makes them a serious world wide phenomenon. Right. If you're being sarcastic and I'm missing it, please correct me, but surely global warming/climate change/terrorism/earthquakes/volcanoes etc are more serious? I've never actually heard of anyone dying/having their car taxed/having their liberties removed over UFOs...

Sunbelt use Internet Explorer!

– the sector employs 40,000 people in the UK.

Well, if piracy gives people jobs, what's so bad about it?

I'm just gonna have to make a vignette of this out of those little Danish bricks...

That makes the US Microsoft-Land.

I'll get my EU-made Sony (TM) coat.

It should have read "mooosestepped"?

Off to America then!

As a student, who's failed miserably to get part time jobs, I'd like to know exactly how all these people intend young people get experience...unless we're given the chance, which happens to be given by good qualifications...

Good on the guy for getting the cert...10 months to pass is good going imo.

Another petition about soemthing important Downing Street will ignore. Look at Iraq: millions of people protested, but they were...ignored. Well, I'm screwed...I want to go into Astrophysics...looks like the US beckons...

This is all made better by McDonald's *shudder* being allowed to give employees qualifications equivilant to A-Levels..."Hi, I've got a qualification in being a fast-food service executive".

And here I am, wanting to go to uni and study Astrophysics...off to the USA methinks.

Amazing, everyone here is assuming M$'s support of HD-DVD will be a good thing...

Now, this reminds of something the UK government intends to do.

And it has the same dificencies: it provides a single portal for any security loopholes to be exploited. Woohoo. At least it may be marginally more secure than something the UK government implements...but that's not very difficult.

Paris, cos I haven't used her as an icon yet.

Its very simple...a guy from Apple sneaked into M$'s office, planted a few extra zeros on the estimated time calculation bit of Explorer, and waited for the Leopard orders to come flooding in...