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Reminds me of the contracts we sign with off-shore development companies to write the software at one rate and then fix bugs at a higher rate. Won’t be long till tokens spent on se…

As someone already said, parents used to be concerned that kids wouldn't be able to solve maths problems without a calculator, and it's the same problem, but there's a difference b…

For me the idea of any kind of interface in vehicles should tend toward audio anyway. Anything that takes your attention away from the road, wether it's tactile or touchscreen is a…

I did something very similar but for the price of wood from sellers here in the UK but instead of Platwright, which I'd never heard of at the time, I used NodeRED. You just reminde…

This headline is misleading. According to the article schools CAN still use Chromebooks but they cannot enable the tracking functionality on them. "From 1 August 2024 onwards, Dani…

Oh Canada ...

and how many times has AP avoided accidents the driver wouldn't? The stats arn't that simple any more are they. There are plenty more news articles, especially in local news, about…

I'm surprised FIFA never gets scrutinised in this was, it's an £80 game each year and to make any kind of impression you need to buy packs. I watched my son once where he literally…

It's not really the start of the protest, ORG have been doing some great stuff recently with Blocked.org.uk (which is where the data for this campaign comes from)

YOU NEED TO GO AND SEE YOUR GP ... RIGHT NOW. Please, go and see them, tell them what you just told us and they will help you.

Do you go to any of the tech events in Sheffield? I co-organise ShefPHP and sometimes go to some of the others.

If you're coming to the UK, don't limit yourself to just London, there are equally vibrant tech scenes in other cities like Sheffield (where I live), Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, …

Shopping around for broadband in the UK is not difficult, broadbandchoices, MoneySavingExpert, uSwitch & MoneySupermarket are 4 places I know off the top of my head where you can t…

It could, but the title says they have done it, which they haven't.

It doesn't really matter how safe a constituency is, there was an election, we voted, this is what we got. To change that people will have to change the way people vote. Maybe one …

"We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear …

Carl Sagan once famously said "We live in a society dependent on science & technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science & technology" Nowhere is this more true t…

Doesn't Google's "Safe Search already do this?

I really hope this takes off, there have been several efforts to bring PKS & PKE to the browser than have unfortunately just withered & died. WebPG ( http://webpg.org/ ) is the bes…

To be fair to the DWP, this is their old site. One of the things the British Government is doing properly at the moment is their digital strategy, their new web site gov.uk has won…

Didn't The Register do one called Salmon Days too?

You can tar a whole language as bad because some of it's users use it to write bad code, otherwise you'd be talking about all languages.

As other people have mentioned Penn & Teller don't have a problem with people copying their ideas & improving them or performing them in a different way. The problem here is that t…

Thanks for the reply, I'm gathering info for a project to see if I can't do something about these kinds of things ... a huge task I know, but I feel i can make a start in at least …