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There are two aspects to the current debate: - The 'child porn keyword' web search filter mandated on all UK ISPs with no opt-in or opt-out - The 'opt-out porn block' which will be…

Why would installing them on only new devices make a lot of sense? It doesn't achieve the stated goal of "protecting the children" if they are using any one of the millions of devi…

Sloppy effort on behalf of the developers. Andreas (author of the blog post) was right to deny it permission to use his Twitter account the first few times but gave in eventually b…

Okay, so you have given a few examples of sexism. So why do you think we shouldn't talk about this? Don't you think that what you've just described, being more prevalent in the US,…

Tweets in a timeline, on the Twitter feed in the web client, all have the retweet/quote/reply/favourite actions per-tweet so I would expect that they mean each and every tweet disp…

I like www.mind42.com - a decent web based mind-mapping tool that allows you to share the mindmap with other people. Also it's free, which is a plus. I like mind-maps for any kind …

Edit: Apologies, my bad. Misread.

The Arab Spring.

I'm looking into that suggestion. Thanks for the advice. :)

That's what I recalled from when I read through it before signing (evidently not in close enough detail...) However, the phrasing is: "any invention wholly or partially made by the…

Yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing - I signed this 3.5 years ago fresh out of university and didn't pay enough attention to the small print, I realise that now - I'll contact some…

I've been considering a 13" Air for a while now - incidentally the one advantage of the 13" Air over the slightly more powerful 13" Pro is the screen resolution: 1440x900 on the Ai…

I'm a software engineer in the UK and I have signed an employment contract with what I assume is standard IP section for the UK: everything I create while working for the company; …

The scourge of the off-by-one error strikes again.

http://www.unicodesnowmanforyou.com

That's actually more depressing than if this were real.

Sounds like you've got a real use case for the Opera face gestures then? http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/labs-introducing-opera-fa... (April fool 2009 but maybe now more realist…

Not needing a middle mouse button. Like on a trackpad.

Indeed. The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.