Could you not...

...could you not have the balloon under a cage of some-sort, with the launch platform atop it? Then use a counterweight to keep the balloon the right way up?

Although imperceptible to the eye

Is it totally transparent to the brain? Is there any risk of triggering epileptic seizures with this..?

I've had a go on one...

Tried out the augmented reality with the cards - was technically impressive, and amusing, but my eyes very quickly got tired focusing on the screen (while wearing prescription glasses). The screen-size is also ridiculously small, reducing the appreciation of the 3d effect.

I'm still to be convinced by all the 3D hype, and certainly wouldn't pay what Ninty are asking for something so small, but it's good to see novel tech out there.

Not how I expected it to end...

...I thought it was going to be "and sure enough, they had. He got up, packed his laptop and headed for the door before being intercepted by two of NYC's finest in their donut-sugar-frosted uniforms for inadvertently stealing the credentials of their sergeant..."

(Or maybe a mark had narked, y'know, something resulting in the bloke leaving Starbucks in cuffs)

It'll arrive through the browser?

Knowing them, via IE6...

Mens rea also

Mens rea was also one of the points, I thought? The CPS contend it's a "strict liability offence", meaning that you, El Reg, are also potentially committing the same crime as Chambers by repeating the tweet.

According to some solicitor-commentators, case-law shows mens rea to be required.

I was under the impression...

I was under the impression that S19 only applied if they reasonably believed the evidence would be lost if they failed to seize it. As such, a reasonable promise to deliver a copy of the evidence to the station should suffice rather than the seizure of the film.

Feels like the police-on-the-ground are actively resisting having their control of photography being eroded.

So who didn't?

Which companies refused to co-operate?

There is another way...

...they could, you know, MODERATE! It's not like they don't get enough money in to pay a moderating team and add better alert buttons, with more stringent bans in place.

He's also got Stephen Fry on-board, he offered to pay the fine.

Good luck to the guy. It was a bloody stupid ruling.

Like most people...

As if most people are fully law-abiding anyway.

Everyone bends and breaks the law in one way or another, and as long as no-one suffers from it, who really gives a shit?

A woman without a clue, clearly.

"I won’t re-heat my views on the hackneyed, oven-ready arguments that were marshalled in opposition to ID cards. Except to say if you were a law abiding citizen you had nothing to lose and everything to gain from something that carried little more information about you than your supermarket loyalty card."

Yes, sure, nothing to worry about...

Razer Naga

I need the buttons. It's why I also have a Nostromo...

I'm disappointed in The Sun!

Where was the picture of an octopus with an identity-concealing black-bar across it's eyes...?

I tend not to play 'em for more than a week online

So for me the solution is to simply only buy 2nd hand copies.

Thanks EA.

Wah! When we refuse to fix our stuff, people make us! NOT FAIR!!!

Well, that is about the size of the blog post really, isn't it?

Isn't it a matter of targetting?

I'm sure most people searching wouldn't spell it correctly anyway, so they'd throw "icelandic volcano" into Google and hey-presto, malware results.

You can't undo our scheme, you can't!

It'll be, like, expensive! We've obligated you into spending money whether you scrap it or not, so if you scrap it, you'll be wasting money! Hardly a governmental thing to do, eh?

Yeah, right. Dirty trick.

I would have thought the outrage would be about...

...the poor quality of the merging. It looks like they've not even tried matching the tones, many of the placements are off. Content aside, it's really not very good.

Bye bye bookmark

Scrub one news source of thousands off my list.

How ironic

A Computing organisation refusing to recognise electronic means...

According to Smith...

...on HU17 he's said he never agreed to make the site for the journalist.

I'm more worried about...

...the "orphaned works" section.

It didn't take long for them to say they'll ignore it:

From The Times:

"Despite the judgment, Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, said that police would continue to use the powers, which allow them to stop and search people without having to suspect them of involvement in terrorism."

So "lalala we can't hear you" then, just like with PHORM...

The Broadband Tax

BT: "Look, we've got this thing. It intercepts what people send across the internet and gives them adverts on the basis"

UK.Gov: "Erm, that's illegal under RIPA"

BT: "You want us to upgrade our infrastructure?"

UK.Gov: "Yes"

BT: "Then pay for it"

UK.Gov: "No"

BT: "Well we're not paying for it, it might dent our profits. So let us do this and we'll get some more money, see... and some of that money we may spend on infrastructure!"

UK.Gov: "Hmm, ok."

*later, after the PHORM PHIASCO*

Uk.Gov: "So about that infrastructure?"

BT: "We're still not paying for it. The profit margin is too small"

UK.Gov: "Well, it was the public that stopped you using PHORM."

BT: "Yes..."

UK.Gov: "Let's pop a tax on their ADSL lines. Won't pay by PHORM? They can pay direct. Either way, they're paying".

That's how it seems to me.

No choice?

You mean Opera will over-ride any auto-update options set to "no"?

Does he really need a glove?

That's clearly Clark Kent in the photograph!

Carrier Pidgeons and semaphore?

"'We'd be reduced to carrier pigeons and semaphore if we didn't have some form of communications,' Smith explained", really? So what about, y'know, radio?

"Businesses need to ensure that their staff are ready to recognise the National Identity Card"

A real one, or a fake, cloned one? Do they get the reader kit that no-one else seems to be getting?

Have a look in their comments section

You'll see someone claiming to be that police officer, behaving most unprofessionally.

Sounds like copyright infringers should get that guy...

..."RIAA, please prove that the accused cost you $10,000, as this is what you claim in damages".

Start button NOT needed

You actually don't need to use the start button to shut down windows. Alt-F4 on the desktop, followed by choosing "shut down" does the same job. So does CTRL-ALT-DEL, then clicking "Shutdown" within the shutdown menu.

Sorry. Pedant attack.

"the seized items have been handed by police to FACT for computer forensics investigation"

FACT are in a position to take criminal evidence for analysis? I thought that was a job for the Forensic Science Service.

Given that there are two craft..

...I'm thinking Twatdangle would be perfect for the launch vehicle. The plane'd be Twatdangling beneath.

NoScript FTW?

Is NoScript any good at halting this attack vector, oh lords of El Reg?

@Those who say it's not copyright because it's facts

The errors are not facts. The errors are essentially pieces of fiction. West Yorks Police allegedly copied the errors... therefore have copied intellectual property.

Unless you can show the errors to not be errors, but to be facts...