Phil Ward

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• Commented on How to Defend Yourself if you are Carrying Only a Small Switch in your Hand are Threatened by a Man with a Very Strong Stick
  One for Harry and Paul I think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08BqaSuEE_w...
• Commented on Terror cops in Wales mistake jazz musician for terrorist
  Grangetown gets a lot of armed police raids due to gang and drug related violence. I'm not surprised the Heddlu (Welsh for police) acted in a heavy handed manner, they always do. Leanne Wood on the other hand is a...
• Commented on Another London photographer arrested for "terrorism" (i.e. "taking a picture of a public building")
  It's worth pointing out that he was arrested for what's known in the UK As a _KNIFE CRIME_ (!). He was caught in possession of an offensive weapon, banned under UK (case) law; a locking blade knife. Which is a...
• Commented on Comcast limits customers to 250 gigs a month
  Wow 250 gigs? British Telecoms latest budget broadband offering has a 10gig per month, down AND up limit......
• Commented on Scotland Yard wants DNA samples from 5-year-olds in case they grow up to be criminals; Oyster card records to become part of "war on terror"
  So, will Scotland Yard's experts be measuring bumps on top of our head, and checking the distance between our eye's and the thickness of our eyebrows too? Can we get the name of the ACPO's experts and have their certificates...
• Commented on Self-experimentation in Scientific American
  ARgh, don't feed Captain Cyborg, it only increases his voracious hunger for publicity. Which is sad, cos some of his actual science is pretty good, it's the self-publicising that gets on my tits...
• Commented on Shrine to bragging, deadly Internet "mall ninja"
  Man the guys at glocktalk and Ar15.com will love to see that NSFJojo's fame is spreading far and wide, it's been a classic injoke for years. Take a look round and you can see some brilliant pictures to go on...
• Commented on U2 manager blames silicon valley's "hippy values" for making him less rich
  The bbc version is great: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7215226.stm > "If you were a magazine advertising stolen > cars, handling the money for stolen cars and > seeing to the delivery of stolen cars, the > police would soon be at your door,"...
• Commented on Irish bureaucrats raided personal info database for blackmail, burglary, and curiosity
  Of course these all seem to be "relatively" harmless abuses of power. But it can get a heck of a lot worse. If we don't manage to avoid having a national ID card in Britain, I'll certainly want to be...