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Closest I have is an RSS feed for TheRegister set up on my Kindle. I do occasionally buy computer magazines, but find they're usually too general to be of any real interest to me.

You fight like a dairy farmer.

Leaving your laptop on a train, or USB drive, is fine however.

First time in Assassin's Creed that I jumped off one of the towers. Mirror's Edge - not a particular moment, just the whole game.

The sleeper must awaken! Muad'dib! Or alternatively: 'In His House at R'lyeh Dead Cthulhu waits dreaming, yet He shall rise and His kingdom shall cover the Earth.'

You're on to me... Can you just wait where you are for thirty minutes or so? The helicopters take a while.

It's a shame really that 'because it's an evil person who is torturing their own citizens, starving them, killing people and preventing basic human rights' is not considered a better justification than 'maybe they've got WMDs'.

Oh I'm neither shocked nor surprised, just dissappointed.

One possible conclusion - they sanction torture, therefore they are actually evil. It's quite a scary thought.

I was thinking the complicity of our government in torturing suspects, which has only come to light relatively recently and has, to be honest, probably received less attention than the faked moon landing conspiracy. Of course saying that I do suppose X Factor is closely related to torture, so yeah, that'll do.

I'm not that fussed about the compensation, the big question that worries me is how the hell did this happen in the first place? Actually strike that, I think they should get every penny of that compensation and more - the only bit of it that disgusts me is that they'll be no public inquiry into how this evil was actually perpetrated upon the victims.

Hilarious. Again, you're giving them too much and too little credit in one. If they're smart enough to find the supposed leaks and informers, then they're quite capable of figuring out that killing them will only help the conspiracy theorists. Instead, with the supposedly massive resources at their disposal, it would be much easier to discredit them and not kill them. On the other hand if they're stupid enough to kill the supposed leaks and informers, I doubt they'd even be able to track them down in the first place - and that the information would even remain secret enough to allow a conspiracy to form (rather than just being public knowledge) to begin with. Humans are very good at pattern recognition in events, pictures, everything. Unfortunately you get the problem that people spot patterns where there are none. When you look at some of the genuine conspiracies which have occurred in the past, and the effectiveness of secrecy in some instances (just check the list of documents released from the National Records Bureau after 30 year secrecy ratings are dropped) these conspiracy theories are simply laughable. It's the conspiracies that no one's heard about that scare me, the ones which make it out there with youtube videos are simply good comic relief.

The big problem is that you are assuming far too much competence on their part. I'm not concerned that the government might try and manipulate me in some way by using the data they doubtless have, I'm concerned that they might decide I'm somehow an anomaly and therefore a risk, and so haul me in for months without trial purely on the basis of data they have gathered. Very slim chance of it at the moment, but I wouldn't guarantee it'll stay that way. As to the various conspiracy theories you're spouting - again, you're crediting them with too much and too little competence. If they were capable of enacting such massive conspiracies as they're accused of then they'd certainly be more than capable of making them undetectable. If the leaks that people claim were real, and the evidence were even remotely plausible, then there would be many, many more leaks and we'd have failed conspiracies popping up non-stop. If there are any conspiracies going on I will assure you that we do not know anything about them. That's kind of the point.

Usually a book will be available on about five devices at any time. I think the problem with a Kindle would be that there's nothing to stop the kids, if they get it onto wifi somewhere, buying books through the Amazon 1-click buy site. Not such a problem if you're buying one for each kid and getting them to set up their own accounts, but a bit more of an issue if you've got the school account details in there. It might be better to go with another ebook reader, without an integrated store attached. I used to have one of the original Sony eReaders which felt a lot more substantial than my current Kindle, and comes with a cover. Your best bet in a school situation would be to get classic books which are out of copyright, there are plenty of them out there. With these you don't need to worry about DRM at all, can let kids use the books however they want, aren't paying for them and could have a repository of books on your fileserver for kids or teachers to grab as they need them.

Lego Universe?

'fraid not, it's supposed to be the end of the week that makes you glad it's all over. Just think how nice it'll be raising that lovely pint of Liberation ale at the pub tonight, and forgetting about it all for a few days.

Many cheap netbooks actually come with a webcam built in, as well as skype pre-installed, so that'd probably be the best option. Lets him carry it easily (the smaller ones will fit relatively comfortably in a coat pocket). Throw in a budget headset for if he wants to call you while out and about, and again as p858snake said a broadband dongle, and you should be fine. The MSI Wind seems to be one of the cheapest, comes with a webcam built in and a decent battery life.

Bit out of date - nowadays shouldn't it be 'no place like ::1'?

I read your e-mail. There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. In case of zombie invasion, follow me (actually a bag rather than a t-shirt, but I still love the slogan)

Domain Controller with 2012 Errors and Connectivity Problems Might be worth killing the vNIC, removing it and throwing in a new one. Also, are the VMWare tools fully up to date?

There are a few others worth looking at Little Brother: Little Brother » Download for Free ManyBooks - ManyBooks.net - Ad-free eBooks for your iPad, smartphone, or eBook reader Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg - free ebooks online download for iPad, Kindle, Nook, Android, iPhone, iPod Touch, Sony Reader

I used to beleive that facebook's lack of any sort of privacy understanding was purely due to incompetence and misunderstanding, in the same way that I used to believe that google's hunger for personal information was at least partly altruistic. I am rapidly coming to understand that in fact there are fundamental flaws in the structure of these things, which are not to the benefit of users. It has got to a point now where you are almost forced to use facebook in order to keep in touch with people - and so you end up with this shallow little profile which you daren't put anything risque on in case it's seen by someone who might take offense. You end up with all of these 'friendships' which are based on nothing more than the occasional throwaway comment on someone's status or the sending of an odd chicken now and then. There is no depth to these things, and no actual relationship being built. Everything on the system is designed to make you view relationships as simple, one-dimensional things based on a few shared jokes, and to turn you into just another bland little profile who can show and share everything with the world, because nothing you do is going to offend anyone. Facebook is not your friend. Sorry about the rant.

No problem, glad to hear it's fixed.

Fraudsters rather than thieves, but they should definitely be facing the same court as any other fraudster.

It's always surprised me that they don't generate a short hash of the transaction to enter into the pin thingy instead, rather than making you re-enter everything.