monkeygrinder

The best way to apologise would be to commemorate his work. But the government has also rejected a petition to fund Bletchley Park.

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20409

Just to clarify, this is just an interesting article I found. I'm not the owner of an Electric bike. I have an old fashioned normal road bike. London is about to roll out electric bikes throughout the capital

There is more to this turf war. Microsoft and Citrix have pulled sponsorship of VMware's premier event - VMworld - and accused VMware of instituting new policies which restrict competition. http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=58C409AD-1A64-67EA-E4FE2386...

I agree. Reminds me of the dot com days of excess, and is a reflection that the company is massively over-valued. Still, it sure beats our office canteen special - Baked potato and baked beans, anyone?

I can't vote this up enough

"Each adult is free to make lifestyle decisions without the intervention of the state." I agree in principle, but the reality is people's lifestyle choices can impact the state - whether it be they turn to the government health systems to help break their addictions (I write this from UK where we have socialised healthcare) or crime rates go up, and the state has to increase the police force. There are so many issues, but it's interesting to see a government taking a more progressive attitude towards casual marijuana use.

But how can ISPs enforce this? Dream on!

This is great. I posted a similar thread comment a few days ago on websites and RSS feeds. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=745260 But this is a really great list for someone looking for new content.

it's still down!

Thanks. I'll add mine: Del.icio.us, http://www.dzone.com/links/index.html http://slashdot.org/ http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/ http://digg.com/technology

Also, whereabouts are you based? Be interested in seeing breakdown of location to common news sites. i'm in UK

Well put. Although European patent laws are a different kettle of fish.

There are two main parties in the UK - Labour and Conservative. Labour would be similar to Democrats, and Conservative is broadly equivalent to the Republican party.

What is more surprising is that the fate of a hacker has become a political election issue (it's almost election time in UK), which goes to show the growing appreciation of the importance of IT to government for critical services.

Good point, the attack has been traced back to an IP address in the UK. At this point they don't know the actual source, but authorities are investigating all possibilities. That raises a whole other conversation about law enforcement in UK and whether it has the skills or resources to aid investigation.