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I was an M247 colo customer in Manchester for approx 5 years. I went to their primary DC many times, interacted with their staff. They're a hosting company. The colo racks are full…

"NO ONE KNOWS" - Really? No One? In a world of terrible link-bait headlines this one manages to impress with its idiocy.

Posting on Craigslist and some random websites is not an adequate defence against Theft By Finding charges. The person that removed this clearly valuable and not marked as abandone…

"breaks into"? Errm, they have the keys to the door. They own the house. No one broke in. Hotmail users give MS permission to look in their email when they agree to the T&Cs. So us…

A story about a petition with 2 signatures (2!) created by someone who's main qualification doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Slow news day huh?

Most of my friends aren't tech people, and most of them own iPhones because they like the way they look and feel. One of them just swapped to a Nokia because she liked the colour. …

$27778.92 per annum before taxes and expenses. There are an awful lot of people getting paid an awful lot more to paste bad themes into their employer's Drupal config. So it goes.

It was sarcasm. The joke was a reference back to Goodman's observartion in the original article: "the punctuation in the proposal is also consistent with how Dorian S. Nakamoto wri…

Double spaces in this statement. Double spaces in the original bitcoin announcements. Ipso facto my friend.

Since they opened the SDK you've been able to do most (all?) the stuff people were initially excited about. The problem is that all the excitement has long since died away so very …

There are very good procedural reasons for not paying out to random people that turn up at your offices. Try going to your bank's office building (not branch) and demanding cash. P…

Which is paid by everyone, even people that settle their transaction in case. I use a cash-back credit-card and effectively my fellow shoppers are subsidising my purchases, because…

New in the sense that they're newly available to the public. The agreement is dated Jan 2011.

I was responsible for hiring a development team for a company in England some years ago. The boilerplate contract we got from our solicitors[1] had this clause in. I fed back that …

I personally prefer systemd to upstart. I just hope that distros (in this case Debian) stick to a technical review and don't get drawn into ad hominem arguments. For many people it…

why don't tesla use charts comparing searches for "internal combustion engine car" vs "electric car". no one searches for the term "desktop ide" because the only people that call t…

It is interesting that YouTube isn't mentioned in this blogpost, despite there being good evidence that ffmpeg has been used there[1]. The fuzz testing they mention is based around…

Nice project! One tip for keeping the cost down - small LCD screens with composite inputs are available very cheaply on ebay (and elsewhere) if you search for rear view camera scre…

Am I the only one who would happily pay a little more to fly on an airline that didn't allow animals in the cabin? A load of stinking cats an their over-active sebaceous glands? No…

Are Google "hijacking DNS to sabotage projects like Namecoin?" - No. I doubt the people working on this give any thought to Namecoin, the user-base overlap is approximately 0%. The…

This is a logistical impossibility. Power plants, especially nuclear ones, are a nightmare to get past public consultations. They can eventually be forced through if the location i…

Minecraft is FAR bigger and more complicated than people give it credit for. Getting a terrain generation demo running in a browser is not even remotely the same thing.

"I have to invest a ton of money" did you miss the bit where this is an optional service? A service which you (and your competitors) should only use if you consider the value offer…

This is nowhere close to the PS3's swansong. The PS2 was on sale until Jan of /This Year/! So the PS3 will be around for a long time yet...