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• Commented on London cop's unprovoked attack on G20 <s>protestor</s> BYSTANDER who then has fatal heart attack
  I think WalterBillington is secretly a Chelsea fan. Looking at someone who lives in London supporting Millwall as "unusual" or a deliberate act of "police-baiting" is like wondering what on earth those crazy people from New York are doing supporting...
• Commented on London cop's unprovoked attack on G20 <s>protestor</s> BYSTANDER who then has fatal heart attack
  I think WalterBillington is secretly a Chelsea fan. Looking at someone who lives in London supporting Millwall as "unusual" or a deliberate act of "police-baiting" is like wondering what on earth those crazy people from New York are doing supporting...
• Commented on London cop's unprovoked attack on G20 <s>protestor</s> BYSTANDER who then has fatal heart attack
  I think WalterBillington is secretly a Chelsea fan. Looking at someone who lives in London supporting Millwall as "unusual" or a deliberate act of "police-baiting" is like wondering what on earth those crazy people from New York are doing supporting...
• Commented on London cop's unprovoked attack on G20 <s>protestor</s> BYSTANDER who then has fatal heart attack
  "Millwall supporters are your classic hooligans, and classic police-baiters." Sounds like WalterBillington is a Chelsea fan to me :). You're really basing a whole lot on the fact he supports his local team - Millwall is a London based football...
• Commented on London cop's unprovoked attack on G20 <s>protestor</s> BYSTANDER who then has fatal heart attack
  "Millwall supporters are your classic hooligans, and classic police-baiters." Sounds like WalterBillington is a Chelsea fan to me :). You're really basing a whole lot on the fact he supports his local team - Millwall is a London based football...
• Commented on London cop's unprovoked attack on G20 <s>protestor</s> BYSTANDER who then has fatal heart attack
  "Millwall supporters are your classic hooligans, and classic police-baiters." Sounds like WalterBillington is a Chelsea fan to me :). You're really basing a whole lot on the fact he supports his local team - Millwall is a London based football...
• Commented on EU ready to screw up European Internet with Telcoms Package
  #1 You would think so. There's a whole lot wrong with it but it does really quite good work at its job which is letting the whole of Europe operate as close to a single economic area as possible (free...
• Commented on Replica Monty Python hand grenade causes bomb scare in London
  Replica hand grenade found underneath a metal grate in a busy city. Bomb squad called to investigate. Seems fair enough come to think of it....
• Commented on Quarter of all British govt databases are illegal
  #10: This is a fair comment - illegality in a public body is a massively serious issue. The reason for "almost certainly" illegal is that you'd need a court judgement to decide if they conclusively are one way or the...
• Commented on Ganging up Ikea shelves for a striking, cheapass wall-o-books
  I'm thinking it's "cheaper than getting someone to build it for your" but still, at over £1000 it's hardly pocket change. That said, of course it looks nice, it's a wall of books....
• Commented on E-Voting's Continuing Scandals
  #63 Gurduloo Precisely, and I thought they were just about the archetypal "voting machine" and this is me saying they should have been kept. The more functions you build onto a voting machine the more loopholes start to (unintentionally, we...
• Commented on E-Voting's Continuing Scandals
  I was pointing out how simple an automated counter actually is, the clickers I was thinking of are these things: http://www.wildco.com/pctr/182B40.jpg You just press the button and the number goes up by one, fancier models even let you click another...
• Commented on E-Voting's Continuing Scandals
  #12 Gilbert Wham "Bit like a more sophisticated bus conductor's ticket machine maybe?" Bit like a less sophisticated bus conductor's machine if you think about it, those devices are seriously impressively complicated. At its lowest you're talking about a...
• Commented on Hi-rez Tetris after two weeks
  There's a game available on Linux called "Bastard Tetris" where the game deliberately gives you the least suitable tile. That means that if you leave a 4x1 vertical gap in 4 otherwise complete rows you'll never, ever get the long...
• Commented on Calling Tech Show Bloggers: Please Cover Al Gore's 'Off the Record' Keynote Speech
  #10 mhains: I heartily agree, I'd be happier with "so everyone around the world can find out what Al Gore has to say" or some other, you know, productive and beneficial for humanity aim. It's all fine and well to...
• Commented on Twins commit perfect heist?
  It's not the "perfect heist" it's merely a very, very good one. There's nothing stopping fingerprint evidence or, shock horror, being caught trying to sell the loot narrowing things right down. As it stands there's "not enough evidence to secure...
• Commented on Verizon doesn't understand simple math
  #30 Spot on. It would not benefit anyone in that call centre to let a customer pay 100x less than the company wants them to pay. I'm sure they understand the difference, he explains it enough. Of course the customer...
• Commented on Shirky: "What will replace newspapers?" is a plea to not be living through a revolution
  #6: jphilby "For another thing, they couldn't be trusted: most of the really important things going on, they failed to cover in any depth, IF at all, IF it was unbiased. As Jon Stewart just so brilliantly pointed out: old...
• Commented on Color me Mac Mini
  That's still $100 less than getting the black Macbook instead of the white one ;). That's a lot of work to get your Mac Mini coloured but it's an expensive process and something's got to give. As I understood the...
• Commented on Rocking chair designed to look like abdominal muscles
  It does look pretty gynaecological to me. Fit some stirrups to that (so that your feet don't hang off into space) and I'd feel weird sitting there as a man....
• Commented on Wine-cellar encapsulated in a staircase
  I wouldn't really be sure about having a spiral staircase in my house. Sure it's a wonderful structural feature but it's not so good in the mornings before you've had your first cup of coffee. That's obviously safe if you...
• Commented on 60 Bags: Shopping bags biodegrade in just two months
  Reusable bags are always better. That's very simple and obvious. But paper bags really aren't better - just think about why they got replaced with stronger, cheaper, waterproof plastic bags with handles. It actually takes more energy to produce a...
• Commented on Secret message hidden in Lincoln's pocketwatch
  I suppose it doesn't affect the watch's operation so it's alright but are you really supposed to scratch your name and a message into things you're repairing? Is it one of these things which is ok because it's a famous...
• Commented on UPSO's recording of a broken radio station
  I think the recorder had the right idea when he turned the camera to look at the poor soul who had to listen to it (well, "had to"?). It's not really so much about the sound or the journey. It's...
• Commented on Excellent podcast on privacy risks of RFIDs
  #4: Exactly, I instinctively echoed your comment on the Oh El Ee Dee page. Sounds like he might own a lead torch. I read that the best computing people think in a consistent way? That's exactly the kind of people...
• Commented on Excellent podcast on privacy risks of RFIDs
  That's a godforsaken mispronunciation of R. F. I. D. Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, and it's not an acronym either. It's just four letters, honestly. I'm trying and failing NOT to make a pirate joke about...
• Commented on OSX on Vaio P
  #14 Exactly. The way ZuZu was talking about it it was as if you could open the Sony P up and it would be full of extraterrestrial crystal computing bits or something. A Sony is a regular computer. This one...
• Commented on Vaio P benchmarked: solid-state version much faster
  #4: Pretty much, it's the same underlying technology but the solid state drives you see demanding eyewatering prices have been heavily optimised for use as a system drive, they're faster, they're built to last longer, wear levelling, caching, power saving...
• Commented on FCC raids gang-sponsored pirate radio station in Florida
  "that ran ads for gangs and provided information on where to get drugs and prostitutes." I'm going to be honest here - this does seem to be a pretty valid use of the FCC's powers. I'm going to admit that...
• Commented on Excellent public speaking advice
  Scientific presentations are helped enormously by having charts, graphs and diagrams to point the viewer to. That can be A4 sheets handed out before the talk begins or a series of PP slides as you present. Either way, charts are...