Sadly, methinks they're not turning the key in the direction I'd hoped.

The designated directory enquiries prefix for much of Europe? If I'm ringing for a pizza or a taxi I'm normally in a hurry, but I wouldn't exactly call it an emergency.

Assuming this to be true... well done Google.

Consider this my first and only use of the otherwise-hated FAIL avatar.

Obligatory coat picture.

I'm still confused though - they're both claiming the other one started it?

"Nothing like this has happened before." - poor fella

WHAT?!

Oh, you've gone for the 'Americanized' comma in the headline.

Please make it stop.

Ever since The Matrix, I've been ingesting red pills but I'm yet to wake up from this hellish dream-world.

Copyright infringement? Hard to say, but I'd still be delighted if they were banned.

"Are the millions of people who have bought ringtones breaking the law if they forget to silence their phones in a restaurant? Under this reasoning from ASCAP, it would be a copyright violation for you to play your car radio with the window down!""

Again, I have no problems with the above being declared illegal / punishable by death.

The main problem with the 'transition tool' - a.k.a the screen which says "Update your privacy settings" - is that by default, there are NO privacy settings applied! See the screenshot below, which shows that all of the settings are defaulted to 'Share with everyone', as opposed to 'Old settings':

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/375/transition.png

Which means that anyone who just clicks through it (or assumes that the default configuration will leave their privacy unchanged) suddenly finds they're sharing their teddy bears with the world. Zuckerberg, despite his protestations, is clearly a very public victim of this.

For a company who have so fundamentally failed to get a grasp on privacy, I guess we shouldn't be surprised that they missed something as fundamental as defaulting to the user's old settings, rather than defaulting to revealing everything to the world.

@Rob Kendrick:

Expensive, compared to what? Downloading albums illegally? Sure.

If, on the other hand, you want to listen to a whole host of new-release albums without having to shell out £7 a time to find out if they're any good, it makes its money back every single week.

Ironically, your TV license example is a good idea of exactly why Spotify works. How much TV would people actually watch if you had to pay per programme that you wanted to watch? Sure, there'd be some (infrequent TV watchers) who might find it beneficial ("£10 a month to watch TV? Bugger off") but an all-encompassing licence to watch everything on terrestrial telly is much preferable, shirley?

But, to bring the post back to its beginning, it's pretty hard to convince people to switch to a subscription model when they're already used to ripping all their music for free.

Sounds like a euphemism for the kind of mobile video I'm most interested in.

This smacks of revolution for revolution's sake. Hiding the menubar seems an arbitrary decision at best... they've tried to disguise this by bunging all of the main options onto the 'Tools' menu: https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:Fx-3.7-Tools-Menu-Phase-01.png

'NEW WINDOW' IS NOT A TOOL.

'EXIT' IS NOT A TOOL.

I could go on.

Some of the stuff on that wiki is really frightening: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Menu_cleanup

They're justifying removing menu shortcuts such as Reload, Close Window, Close Tab, or Delete(!), based on the fact that they're "already in the UI". Well yeah, sure, assuming we're all a species of super-users, but there's plenty of people out there who use those menus, particularly for accessibility.

So, time to find a new lightweight browser which focuses on usability and a small footprint, rather than bunging in gimimcky new features... hang on, isn't this why I switched to Firefox in the first place?!

"you have no idea what it's like to be entirely invisible on Google"

I have an idea that adding a question mark won't help. Unless you want to perform some kind of wildcard search. He should've changed his name to Robert Xzvygzax instead.

mayb that's wots makin da kids so illitrat.

...who remembers how rubbish 3D glasses were first time around?

How long until Sky announces smell-o-vision integration?

...although he's probably lost an irrationally-high number of votes from Joe Web 2.0.

...who's oddly intrigued by Browser 6?

The mental £100 barrier? It's all about how you phrase it. El Reg have shamefully gone for the expensive-sounding tactic (hey, why not point out that it's £600 for five years?)

Phrase it a different way. 30p a day to listen to pretty much anything you want (save for the notable exceptions that Michael posted above). Sounds rather more palatable now, doesn't it?

Yes, it's annoying that (by default) if you want to press F1, then you have to press Fn-F1. There's a simple switch in the bios to change this though: Advanced -> Function Key Behavior -> Function Key First

I've had the machine for about a month, and it's a solid performer. Games-wise, it might not be bleeding edge, but it's pretty damn competent. (I can easily play Left 4 Dead with the graphics ramped up to the max; the missus can play The Sims 3 without moaning that she can't make out her characters blinking or something like that)

The only small issue for me is keyboard flex - it's noticeable, if not particularly restrictive.

Something doesn't schmell right here. He claims he didn't know the two guys who mugged him? Then why (if you follow the Google car along the entire length of the road) was he cycling merrily alongside them for close to 2 minutes (assuming a 20kph speed limit)?

Still, great to see Big Brother finally scoring a kill (or a wrist-slapping at least). Now we just need the service to become real-time, and we'll all be totally safe.

So this game launched in 2006 then? And Stephen Fry is the Sheriff of Nottingham?

Evil Bill, because he probably makes £75.39trillion in just 15 minutes

...thank the lord.

"Jailbreak" by Thin Lizzy, please.