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Yep. This isn't the first time customs agents for various countries have "accidentally" stumbled across North Korean contraband. It's a no-brainer to conclude that US intelligence agencies are responsible.

http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/japan-seizes-suspicious-north-korean-cargo-transit-myanmar/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gQJd8FsHXjzf35GeBg4bV1JrRfHQ?docId=CNG.caf81bda72044be6c361e53dc743c2a8.3e1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8227991.stm

Re Savile:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/414677/BBC-paid-for-Jimmy-Savile-s-cash-gifts-to-children
The UK press seem to still be interested in the person but nothing around the issues going back many 10's of years seems to gain much press traction at all.
Look back at the Jillings Report
"Jillings report: Reaction to its release after 17 years"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-23223309
The Waterhouse Inquiry
Layers of celebs, politicians, police officers, legal professionals and business owners where offering cover..

Not for Prisoners of War. They can be held till the end of the conflict for the simple act of participating in the war as an enemy combatant. War crimes charges are a separate issue.

German POWs were held in the UK as late in 1948, 3 years after the war ended. France held prisoners for forced labor for 4 years. The Soviet Union didn't release all of their prisoners until 12 years after the war ended.

Forced labor of Germans after World War II
Life in Britain for German Prisoners of War

You may be pleased to learn that the US held Combatant Status Review Tribunals to determine the status of individual prisoners.

It is not a trivial thing to go to war. Al Qaida only preaches the glory of martyrdom for Islam, not of capture and imprisonment. They at least get to keep their lives. Prisoners taken by al Qaida are often tortured in hideous ways, and/or beheaded.

"The NSA" would not "rather" do anything, because "the NSA" doesn't make up missions for itself

The purpose of NSA (and any other government dept.) is to perpetuate itself. So if some politicians want NSA to "catch terrists", they will "catch terrists". Their real existence does not matter.

Back in the days of KGB, politicians in Soviet Union were always telling them to "catch spies". It did not matter that there were no spies to catch. But the KGB did catch spies in their internal security division. You know, local informants saying that their estranged neighbor or whatever was a spy, etc. etc. But numbers are numbers.

Another case would be Florida police force and war on drugs. They catch the "little guys" (users). They they make a deal with the little guys that if they snitch on dealers, and others, they will get reduced sentences. Since users and other small timers don't really know anyone except other drug addicts, they end up just snitching on other users. The police get more arrests. They look good. The little guys go in jail for a long time. Rehabilitation - none.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21939453

So, as long as NSA provides names to the list(s), they remain relevant. They remain the "doers" and the money keeps flowing. Hell, they even got the late Sen. Kennedy on the list and that was OK.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17073-2004Aug19.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23286231

Seems like NHS Surrey was being wound up, so I guess they simply didn't give a damn what happened to their PCs and data...
Nice professional job guys...
Since NHS Surrey is now no more, fine will be paid by another Gov department.

Of course, all this is just bullshit, the Gov taking your money out of their left pocket and sticking it back into the right...

Meanwhile, the people who were trusted with confidential patient data, and abused that trust, appear to remain unpunished.

Yeah, there are many other very lucrative fields such as theater, fine arts, sociology, Lady Gaga Studies (seriously, proof there is no hope for humanity), ...

Not really, that's a lovely media graphic and all, but the proper placement of the batteries is shown here, here and here

Anyhow, the batteries are kept below the passenger compartment, and the damage appears to be along the top of the fuselage (just in front of the vertical stabiliser) - I can see no visible visible damage around the area of the aft batteries.

Footage of starboard side
Footage of port side

Sky News showed the new plane — which was not carrying passengers at the time — had been sprayed by foam, but there were no signs of fire.

But there is! Scorch marks on the roof in front of the tail section.

Check it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23295115 [bbc video feed]

That location is above the in-flight food service area.

The batteries are located in the tail below the floor, and you notice that the door way to that area was opened, but there is no sign of smoke or fire damage there.

There is no route for flame from the battery compartment to the roof of the plane.
So I'm guessing the food service equipment caught fire, and it had nothing to do with the batteries.

Sky News showed the new plane — which was not carrying passengers at the time — had been sprayed by foam, but there were no signs of fire.

But there is! Scorch marks on the roof in front of the tail section.

Check it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23295115 [bbc video feed]

I assume some people can't access the video, or would prefer not to: http://imgur.com/DSuowjU

Sky News showed the new plane — which was not carrying passengers at the time — had been sprayed by foam, but there were no signs of fire.

But there is! Scorch marks on the roof in front of the tail section.

Check it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23295115 [bbc video feed]

We could call a vote of no confidence in congress.

In Luxembourg, we did exactly that. But the bad news is that even though the Prime Minister stepped down, he will still be running in the elections to replace himself.

... and we have a sufficient number of elderly (or just disconnected...) people who don't grasp the seriousness of the matter that he might actually win. Weird world.

It looks like this has hit the press in a large way, which is why nearly every major technology site is covering it:

New York Times

CNN

Reuters

BBC

The end result of this decision should be to allow Amazon to continue selling ebooks at below cost if it wants to.

"Man shoots own son in 'burglary'
A US man mistakenly shot dead his 15-year-old son while investigating what appeared to be an attempted burglary next door, police say." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19756499

If only his son was carrying a gun amirite!?!

The question is whether you need a gun in the scenario when they break in when you're in it. In the cases this has happened in the UK in recent years the burglars have all attempted to flee, because it's natural instinct for them to do so when discovered in someone elses territory.

Some of them have still come off worse being stabbed to death with a kitchen knife by the home owner before they managed to escape (despite outnumbering the home owner 4 to 1) or being crippled by a cricket bat. See here for example:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-15211250

I think Americans are so used to having guns around that they fail to realise how little chance there is of their family coming to any harm whatsoever when guns are removed from the equation to the point that you're probably more safe having to resort to hand to hand combat than you are if there is a high risk that the criminal robbing you also has a gun.

I'd rather fancy my chances here in the UK knowing all the items in my house I could grab as a weapon on my way downstairs to confront a burglar than I would in America with a gun where the burglar upon hearing me may be waiting round the corner to shoot me first before I can shoot him. I stand more chance of defence in melee regardless of who gets the jump, than I do with a firearm when there is a chance that he has the jump. That is again of course assuming he doesn't just run when he realises he's awoken me because the knowledge a burglar has of the fact that he's in a building that's alien to him against someone who knows it inside out and has the drive to fight to defend his family alone is enough to send them packing.

But that never gets in the way of uninformed comment, does it!

Here's what the BBC says as of 14:46 BST

Things are now back to "normal", with no other consequences than delays caused by switching to manual handling rules (mainly increasing aircraft separation), that reduced the number of flights in UK airspace for the time the system was unavailable. They're claiming it was due to a "rogue flight plan" that required the rebooting of the entire system. Must be running on Win Me.... ;-)

btw the BBC report illustrates with a pic of a controller apparently monitoring traffic over NW England, which wasn't particularly affected by the outage!

Yes, a typo, but not in the code, in the data:- “The problem was apparently caused by a "rogue flight plan", resolved by a re-boot of the computer system at Nats' Swanwick, Southampton, control centre.” See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23241791 Fascinating!

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Thomas Jefferson was an American revolutionary. While you seem very keen on spilling the blood of patriots and tyrants, you aren't really addressing the real issue. In fact, as far as I recall you just completely ignore or try to assume it away every time it comes up. The problem involves this lot, and their brethren:

At Least 4,000 Suspected of Terrorism-Related Activity in Britain, MI5 Director Says
Muslim Gangs Enforce Sharia Law in London

They have been actively plotting attacks, and used other means as well, to try to force their way of life on ordinary Britons. There have been many arrests and convictions in the UK as a result. A sample:

Bomb plot: Life sentence for Irfan Naseer, ringleader of Birmingham men planning wave of UK suicide attacks
London terror bomb plot: the four terrorists
7/7 London Attacks

Some of those cretins are quite willing to spill not just the blood of patriots and tyrants, but the blood of innocents as well. This has been amply demonstrated in Russia, Afghanistan, and other places.

Russia school siege toll tops 350
Acid attacks, poison: What Afghan girls risk by going to school

Although you may think it wrong, the surveillance by GCHQ is a meaningful part of the security services efforts to protect ordinary Britons. You don't offer anything to replace it.

Waving your hands and saying no system is perfect isn't helpful. Polemics against the monarchy in a story on the UK are misplaced, and overthrowing the monarchy does nothing to protect Britons. What would you do to replace the surveillance to keep British subjects from harm? If your answer is something along the lines of, "Don't cause offense to the rest of the world. Pull back into a shell." then you have just demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of the problem. The ideology of the extremists is an aggressive one; they mean to take over the world even if it takes 1,000 years. So we come to the question again: what would you do to prevent British schools and football stadiums from being drenched in blood, besides advocating the overthrow of the monarchy, which is in no way helpful at all?

OK maybe not mandated but there was the DfES Primary Schools Whiteboard Expansion project (PSWE) which resulted in whiteboards springing up in our local school. I am glad you have found yours useful but they don't suit every pupil still I take your point, there are much worse example of equipment problems like the scandalous contracts some heads have been duped into signing for IT and photocopier equipment.

Ummm ... second link in TFS. This one here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23233573

Look at the caption under the "Post Office" picture. It reads:

The Post Office previously said it had "absolute confidence" in its branch accounting

also this from the body:

"The review underlines our cause for confidence in the overall system."

I suggest you try ctrl-f or cmd-f (looks like a clover on a mac keyboard) before doing the citation rant.

I think a lot of the motivation for these changes comes from the criticism of the existing ICT course from Ofsted the education regulator but probably more from the speech Eric Schmidt made about the UK throwing away it's engineering legacy. He said "I was flabbergasted to learn that today computer science isn't even taught as standard in UK schools"

They were missiles.

I think you may be remembering an episode of 'Spooks' (MI5 on this side of the Atlantic). Probably just as fictional as this "credible" threat.

Nope.

The prime minister gave his personal authorisation for soldiers to be drafted in to boost security at Heathrow airport and other sites in London, says Downing Street.

A total of 450 troops have joined 1,000 extra police officers in patrolling the airport as part of a tightening of security at sites across the capital.

The heightened security is linked to intelligence concerns that al-Qaeda may try to use surface-to-air missiles in the UK or US this week.

A few years ago the UK government leaked the story that there was a crack team of Islamic terrorists equipped with surface to air missiles ready to launch a "spectacular" attack. These extremists had based themselves in west London near Heathrow airport and were planning an imminent attack. In response the government sent 400 troops and tanks to the airport. Strangely no arrests were ever made and no missiles were ever recovered and the whole event was quickly forgotten. When did this happen ? about 5 weeks before the invasion of Iraq.

Now look at how the death rate has changed over time - it dropped dramatically by 1990, and remained at that lower number even as the number of ascents soared. So talking about the death rate going back to the 1950s is quite misleading.

Video streaming? Only if you get proper authorization first!

Re 'Those countries have denied doing so."
http://www.france24.com/en/20130705-spain-says-it-was-told-snowden-bolivian-flight
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/05/3486761/how-the-hunt-for-edward-snowden.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2013/0705/Faulty-lead-linked-Snowden-to-Bolivian-jet-European-officials-say
France apologises in Bolivia plane row
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23174874
"France has apologised to Bolivia for refusing to allow President Evo Morales' jet into its airspace, blaming "conflicting information"."

Those countries have denied doing so.

Except that France has already apologized.

Yes, and each incarnation leaves gullible first adapters with expensive toys laying around that they can never use. Or maybe they buy up few movies 3D and watch them over and over again just to convince themselves it wasn't such a dumb purchase after all. (Like laserdisks).

The problems of 3D TV are never going to be solved with a flat image plane. We've been through this before. When manufacturers have to warn kids away from their product (even if the warnings turned out to be overwrought), you should probably realize that there is something less than optimum going on. And when movies that were never shot in 3D start appearing in 3D you know the effect is all computer generated an guaranteed to be sub-optimum. In fact if you need special glasses to view 3D TV you know its less than optimum before you even see it.

This idea will work someday, when we get multi-planar TV sets or holographic displays that you can actually walk around and view from different angles. That's not likely to be a technology you hang on your wall. Because faking depth really doesn't work very well, and the resistance to wearing the glasses is significant.

A BBC show on "what makes us human" identified genetic differences between human and chimps that coded for increased brain complexity (connections). When this gene was put into mice, they had more complex neurons. (Not Algernon moment yet however).

Show (for UK only) is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b036mrrj/Horizon_20122013_What_Makes_us_Human/.

Too late. We've been broadcasting a wealth of signals out to them. At about 85 light years out, they'll be listening to Hiter's Nuremberg rallies.

Seriously. Learn about the inverse-square law.

Here, let me help you:

Inverse-square law.

You're welcome.

Too late. We've been broadcasting a wealth of signals out to them. At about 85 light years out, they'll be listening to Hiter's Nuremberg rallies. By the time they find out that we've even invented nuclear weapons, they'll be well on their way.

They may be concerned when they see we have achieved space travel. Their concern will drop as they watch our space programs dissolve into obscurity.

Having colonies out there is a better chance that not having them at all. They may only be interested in the easy farming of over 7 billion humans (or as they'd say 7 billion delicious servings of human), and less interested in the thousands on other worlds. And there's a chance for those colonists to move elsewhere or defend themselves, once they see the broadcasts of an invasion of Earth.

I would hope any colonization ship would have the ability to continue moving, in case the new home planet were found to be unsuitable.

There is more than one way to pay for some things. NHS does well in many respects, and overall Britons seem to be reasonably happy with it, but there are problems there, as there are in Canada, and other government run programs.

Don't leave patients in ambulances to hit A&E targets, hospitals told
NHS starves 1,165 to death
NHS waiting times getting longer due to cuts, health chiefs warn
Surgeons raise alarm over waiting
NHS waiting times 'rise by 6 per cent for routine operations'
NHS Accident And Emergency Waiting Times Reach Nine-Year High
The frightening truth: NHS managers are incentivised to ignore problems

Well, he's had his passport revoked, is being hunted around the world, and is being vilified in almost all public media.

Snowden isn't being hunted around the world because his passport is revoked. He is in Russia. Snowden isn't being vilified in "almost all public media." It is quite the reverse - he is being hailed as a hero by Chinese, Russians, many Europeans, and others across the world.

Well, at least he took refuge in Russia. What use do they have for four laptops full of NSA secrets?

Russia warns Ireland it will retaliate in spy row
Ireland Is Training Base for Russian Spies
As many Russian spies in UK today as in Cold War: Soviet defector
Canadian navy officer sentenced to 20 years for being Russian spy
10 in US held as spies for Russia
Russian spies in Australia at 'near Cold War level'
Germany jails Russian spy couple
Belgian diplomat suspected of being Russian spy
Finnish academic charged of aiding Russian spies
Spies in Sweden mostly from China, Russia, Iran
Estonia shaken by new Russian spy scandal
Georgia: Russian Spy Ring Smashed in Tbilisi -- Officials
Spain-Russia spy row leads to diplomats' expulsion

Russian warplanes breach NATO airspace - British and Norwegian jets intercepted Russian military aircraft ... close to the U.K. and Finland
Russian spy plane flies by Swedish military drill

This report comes after the newspaper wrote on 22 April, 2013 that Russian fighters had made dummy attacks close to Swedish territory during the Easter weekend.

RAF catches Russian bombers in UK airspace
UK jets shadow Russian bombers
Russian bombers’ secret UK missions ‘not a friendly act’
Russian subs stalk Trident in echo of Cold War - ... hunting down British Vanguard boats in a return to Cold War tactics
Russian around - A DESPERATE hunt was on last night for a Russian nuclear submarine lurking off the coast of Britain.

Well, he's had his passport revoked, is being hunted around the world, and is being vilified in almost all public media.

Snowden isn't being hunted around the world because his passport is revoked. He is in Russia. Snowden isn't being vilified in "almost all public media." It is quite the reverse - he is being hailed as a hero by Chinese, Russians, many Europeans, and others across the world.

Well, at least he took refuge in Russia. What use do they have for four laptops full of NSA secrets?

Russia warns Ireland it will retaliate in spy row
Ireland Is Training Base for Russian Spies
As many Russian spies in UK today as in Cold War: Soviet defector
Canadian navy officer sentenced to 20 years for being Russian spy
10 in US held as spies for Russia
Russian spies in Australia at 'near Cold War level'
Germany jails Russian spy couple
Belgian diplomat suspected of being Russian spy
Finnish academic charged of aiding Russian spies
Spies in Sweden mostly from China, Russia, Iran
Estonia shaken by new Russian spy scandal
Georgia: Russian Spy Ring Smashed in Tbilisi -- Officials
Spain-Russia spy row leads to diplomats' expulsion

Russian warplanes breach NATO airspace - British and Norwegian jets intercepted Russian military aircraft ... close to the U.K. and Finland
Russian spy plane flies by Swedish military drill

This report comes after the newspaper wrote on 22 April, 2013 that Russian fighters had made dummy attacks close to Swedish territory during the Easter weekend.

RAF catches Russian bombers in UK airspace
UK jets shadow Russian bombers
Russian bombers’ secret UK missions ‘not a friendly act’
Russian subs stalk Trident in echo of Cold War - ... hunting down British Vanguard boats in a return to Cold War tactics
Russian around - A DESPERATE hunt was on last night for a Russian nuclear submarine lurking off the coast of Britain.

Well, he's had his passport revoked, is being hunted around the world, and is being vilified in almost all public media.

Snowden isn't being hunted around the world because his passport is revoked. He is in Russia. Snowden isn't being vilified in "almost all public media." It is quite the reverse - he is being hailed as a hero by Chinese, Russians, many Europeans, and others across the world.

Well, at least he took refuge in Russia. What use do they have for four laptops full of NSA secrets?

Russia warns Ireland it will retaliate in spy row
Ireland Is Training Base for Russian Spies
As many Russian spies in UK today as in Cold War: Soviet defector
Canadian navy officer sentenced to 20 years for being Russian spy
10 in US held as spies for Russia
Russian spies in Australia at 'near Cold War level'
Germany jails Russian spy couple
Belgian diplomat suspected of being Russian spy
Finnish academic charged of aiding Russian spies
Spies in Sweden mostly from China, Russia, Iran
Estonia shaken by new Russian spy scandal
Georgia: Russian Spy Ring Smashed in Tbilisi -- Officials
Spain-Russia spy row leads to diplomats' expulsion

Russian warplanes breach NATO airspace - British and Norwegian jets intercepted Russian military aircraft ... close to the U.K. and Finland
Russian spy plane flies by Swedish military drill

This report comes after the newspaper wrote on 22 April, 2013 that Russian fighters had made dummy attacks close to Swedish territory during the Easter weekend.

RAF catches Russian bombers in UK airspace
UK jets shadow Russian bombers
Russian bombers’ secret UK missions ‘not a friendly act’
Russian subs stalk Trident in echo of Cold War - ... hunting down British Vanguard boats in a return to Cold War tactics
Russian around - A DESPERATE hunt was on last night for a Russian nuclear submarine lurking off the coast of Britain.

Not forgotting (seeminly multiple) countries closing their airspace on the chance that you might be on board.

Yes, the Israelis routinely spy on their sugar daddy. That attitude is but one of the many reasons that Israel is one of the worlds least popular countries, almost break even with North Korea. I don't think you should use them as an example of why that's OK. Incidentally the USA is less popular than the EU.

I wonder why those who advise upon security matters allowed the purchase of such kit? Things have changed a bit of late, witness the fuss about Chinese companies and associated hardware http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19988919, anti trade, xenophobia or real security worries?

Courtesy of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review show on BBC Radio Five Live, The Moviegoers Code of Conduct. Also available as a poster!

Courtesy of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review show on BBC Radio Five Live, The Moviegoers Code of Conduct. Also available as a poster!

Quite.

Bears, tigers, lions and wolves escape from Ohio zoo

We did it!

Quite.

Bears, tigers, lions and wolves escape from Ohio zoo

Ah, a radio show transcript. Isn't it funny how the wisest people on earth all have radio shows rather than jobs where they have to do so much as put on clothing for the camera?

You've never listened to Radio 4, have you? (Sorry if that doesn't work wherever you happen to be.) I recommend The Life Scientific, which is quite a pleasant talk show where scientists (duh) come on and talk about their particular fields. Plus, it's hosted by an actual scientist and, in a breaking move for the Beeb, one that hasn't been in a boy band.

If science isn't your bag then give "In Our Time" a try. The topics are much more varied but you do get Melvyn Bragg (chancellor of a University and a fellow of more British academic institutions than I care to list).

You'd think a FEW of them would, I dunno, work as scientists or something.

When one's radio obligations consist of barely more than one morning/afternoon per week, one generally finds plenty of time to pursue a career in whatever.

tl;dr Having a face fit for TV is not a pre-requisite for wisdom and there are a great number of radio shows hosted by the wise ones; I wouldn't be surprised if there were fewer on TV.

Here is a BBC podcast on the subject of the Right to be Forgotten: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/law/law_20130625-1630a.mp3

Have a listen, it is informative. As you can see it has nothing to do with what you suggest.

Vanderhoth is dead on. Ripping a DVD is against the law in the US. The Digital Millenium Copyright act expressly forbids breaking encryption to access content. There are exceptions for security researchers. That said, DVD ripping by ordinary individuals for format shifting and back up is not prosecuted in and of itself. Share the stuff? You can get in all kinds of legal hot water. Lawsuits and prosecution.

Ripping a non-copy-protected Red Book cd that you own is perfectly legal -- provided you do not share the file. No encryption. No crime. First sale doctrine applies.

I travel to and from the US from overseas frequently. Only once in 20 years was I ever polled concerning the contents of my laptop. The US Customs agent asked me if there was any x-rated material on it. I answered truthfully that there was not. He was trolling for a demeanor hit and would have probably looked at my content for illegal porn had he not been satisfied by my confident negative answer. By the way, having even US-legal porn on the laptop can still get you in big trouble in the Middle East so be aware. Even silly rags like Maxim are trouble. Also mind what you eat, kids. Traveling to Dubai? Skip that poppy seed bagel in Sydney airport.. Really.

Bottom line, however? The posters are generally right. US Customs is not concerned about the technically illegal DVD rips on your hard drive. They probably would do nothing even if they found them. But, and here's the thing. If you are going to feel guilty and worried about that questionable content then leave it behind. You will ruin your flight. Your nerves might show as you cross the frontier and draw unwarranted attention. The fact that you even asked this question shows that this is a source of anxiety for you. You have your answer. Go in peace. Walk in beauty.

Not hard to find. This looks like it has some interesting personal accounts...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6729683.stm

...just pick a random european country

As an European I disagree. Try to home school in Germany. Try to run a Church the government don't like (say a Baptist church) in France. Try to (legally) buy a gun in Romania. Try to run a political organization the government really hates in Spain. Banning a political party isn't an alien idea to The Council of Europe.

A pregnant asylum seeker I knew here in Norway asked the Norwegian Child Welfare Services (Barnevernet) for help. She foolishly assumed they at least would try to help her before taking her child. They came to the hospital when she gave birth and took it. Other cases have reached the international media.

I'm not claiming that the USA is Heaven. I'm not claiming Europe is Hell. Here in Norway I can (within some limits) home school, run an unpopular church, buy a gun and run an organization the government don't like. While crime speech is illegal our courts have usually chosen an interpretation that bans less speech then what is possible using other interpretations. Claiming that a random European country have more liberty than the USA is still horribly wrong.

Snowden whereabouts 'unclear' as Cuba flight leaves without him

"The request was confirmed by Ecuador's foreign minister on Twitter." Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23023576

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20754182

RCJ: Why is there this gap between the BBC's offering for Apple and Android - I've heard talk that it's all about the fragmentation of the Android ecosystem?

DD: "It's not just fragmentation of the operating system - it is the sheer variety of devices. Before Ice Cream Sandwich (an early variant of the Android operating system) most Android devices lacked the ability to play high quality video. If you used the same technology as we've always used for iPhone, you'd get stuttering or poor image quality. So we're having to develop a variety of approaches for Android."

“The number one device contacting us is still the Samsung Galaxy S2, which can't handle advanced video”

Daniel Danker - head of app development for the BBC on why the iPlayer app came out first on iOS despite work started for Android first with more people.

Pretending that fragmentation isn't a problem for Android is probably the only bigger problem for Android than the fragmentation.