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This guy gets it!

about 11 hours ago on Must have apps for Mac? 3 recommends

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Better Touch Tool – Expanded Multitouch options
Alfred – Universal Search
NewsFire – RSS

about 11 hours ago on Must have apps for Mac? 2 replies

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Incredibly unlikely that a person has, doubtful that a programme has, but possible on both counts.

about 11 hours ago on President Obama defends NSA program in 'Charlie Rose' interview 2 replies

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Seems to be holding up ok.

about 12 hours ago on What's your phone/tablet/pc combo? What's next? 1 reply

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iPhone 4 (5S in September) – On me at all times
Blackberry Curve – Work
iPad 2 – At home, with me on long journeys
Nexus 7 – In my jacket pocket a few times per week, with me on most journeys.
MBP (2009) – At all times when i’m not on the move (and when i’m on trains).

about 12 hours ago on What's your phone/tablet/pc combo? What's next? 1 reply 1 recommend

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These could range anywhere from a guy searching for maps of New York and how to build a pipe bomb to actual within hours threats. Impossible to guess the skew.

about 15 hours ago on 'Over 50' terrorist plots were stopped by surveillance efforts, says NSA director 3 replies 29 recommends

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Plus if we know what it’s made of we can better predict how it will react if we try to alter it’s orbit (or go Bruce Willis on it).

about 18 hours ago on NASA needs help finding the asteroids we'll be visiting in 2025 1 recommend

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I’m definitely going to get my family onto this (all working in the education sector).

1 day ago on Microsoft offers Surface RT to schools for as little as $199 9 recommends

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With regular (annual) updates going forward being important.

1 day ago on Microsoft offers Surface RT to schools for as little as $199 4 replies 4 recommends

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For school use there’s more of a need for web browsing, videos, books (Kindle) and some education apps plus word processing. The first three are available, the latter two should be part of Microsoft’s strategy going forward.

1 day ago on Microsoft offers Surface RT to schools for as little as $199 2 replies 28 recommends

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This is not a $100 free-for-all (dear God that was mental that summer/weekend).

1 day ago on Microsoft offers Surface RT to schools for as little as $199 1 reply 12 recommends

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To elaborate, it’s in a similar vein to Apple’s Back to School offer, get rid of last year’s iPods when people are buying laptops (generally) and gain customer loyalty by throwing them a few hundred dollars of savings.

1 day ago on Microsoft offers Surface RT to schools for as little as $199 1 reply 18 recommends

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Clear out of stock before a refresh in conjunction with a good PR move?

1 day ago on Microsoft offers Surface RT to schools for as little as $199 1 reply 55 recommends

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Unfortunately they’re institutional purchases only.

1 day ago on Microsoft offers Surface RT to schools for as little as $199 14 recommends

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If you look at the Geekbench scores then the latest MBA would wipe the floor with the 2009 MBP (I have the 15" 2.66GHz version). It’s a significant step up (more than double the score), but I’m personally waiting to see what the 15" options will be.

1 day ago on MacBook Air review (13-inch, 2013) 1 reply 13 recommends

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More than email? More than Whatsapp?

2 days ago on Apple claims it can't decrypt FaceTime and iMessage data, details extent of government requests 2 replies 22 recommends

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You’re right, but it’s a tricky one. Written in full it would be “the Government Communications Headquarters”, but we shorten it to just GCHQ when referring to it as such.

2 days ago on Fake internet cafes and keyloggers: British intelligence reportedly spied on major world leaders during 2009 G20 summit 1 reply

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Awfully British title.
Royal power limiting document and religious container of the blood of Christ…

2 days ago on Jay-Z giving away 1 million early copies of new album to Samsung owners 3 replies 16 recommends

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I do expect them to spy on foreign leaders, it’s their job. Anyone who knew about GCHQ (and they’re based in my hometown) assumed that they were doing this anyway, this is just confirmation.

2 days ago on Fake internet cafes and keyloggers: British intelligence reportedly spied on major world leaders during 2009 G20 summit 2 replies 6 recommends

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We’d likely have to arrest him and then have a lengthy public legal battle to extradite him to the US. Which is not what the government want right now.

2 days ago on Fake internet cafes and keyloggers: British intelligence reportedly spied on major world leaders during 2009 G20 summit 1 reply 4 recommends

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As has been mentioned, this is the role of GCHQ, they monitor the communications of everyone. The only negative here is that now names have been named so certain individuals will lose face, but the grand scheme of things hasn’t changed.

2 days ago on Fake internet cafes and keyloggers: British intelligence reportedly spied on major world leaders during 2009 G20 summit 1 reply 4 recommends

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Well, GCHQ seem to have been here.

2 days ago on Fake internet cafes and keyloggers: British intelligence reportedly spied on major world leaders during 2009 G20 summit 2 recommends

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Everyone does it though. The US surely do it, we know the Chinese and Russians do it. It’s just prudent.

2 days ago on Fake internet cafes and keyloggers: British intelligence reportedly spied on major world leaders during 2009 G20 summit 2 replies 6 recommends

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Well, the brunch tomorrow should be a touch more awkward now…

2 days ago on Fake internet cafes and keyloggers: British intelligence reportedly spied on major world leaders during 2009 G20 summit 1 reply 43 recommends

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It’s a removal of a relatively low skilled, low productivity job. However it does provide employment and in a situation where we don’t have a fully utilised workforce and non-perfect mobility of labour (to move to higher skilled more productive jobs) it’s not a win-win situation.

2 days ago on Will you smile back when human holograms greet you at the airport? 1 reply 1 recommend

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Dystopia is a bit of a stretch surely.

2 days ago on Will you smile back when human holograms greet you at the airport? 1 recommend

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People tend to screw around less in an airport security line in my experience.

2 days ago on Will you smile back when human holograms greet you at the airport? 4 recommends

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I saw one of these in Luton Airport in Feb 2011, they’re a nice enough “trick”/distraction but were/are just a localised version of the irritating repetitive PA announcements.

2 days ago on Will you smile back when human holograms greet you at the airport? 3 replies 1 recommend

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I don’t have any personal experience, but that’s what they say. Definitely makes the 256 an even more attractive prospect.

3 days ago on new macbook air ssd 128 vs 256 speed

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http://www.amazon.com/gp/promotions/details/popup/AWT354OR7BM1U

3 days ago on Pay in full when pre ordering from Amazon?