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This programmer probably didn't take the same thing twice in a row, but it didn't do him much good.

will it be fast just like a Civic?

Probably not, but it will cost a lot more. About 100 times more.

With reference to your comment:
"look a chinese car if they can put a guy in space they must make a decent car"

See the article about the Chinese Landwind and how it failed a crashtest miserably:

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22749- 1783784,00.html

Performance in space has nothing to do with performance anywhere else.

Slow news day?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,23509,00.h tml has a nice interface and a range of difficulties.

If this ever happens, the most expensive component of travel around the solar system would be for life support -- and inflight movies.

While we're at it, back in Forbidden Planet (1956), didn't they already talk about civilisations wiped out by "the monster from the id"? Also 50 years ahead of their time, truly +5 Foresightful, was that id as in RF-ID, by any chance?

Though modded funny, I did see this in a documentary recently. In south korea there are such "net cafes" which pay people a wage to obtain items so they can sell them on.

This is the clostest link I could find. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,195 10-1612407,00.html
"These retailers specialise in a practice known as "gold farming" or "mining". By employing cheap labour or automated tools, they pay players to gather gold and magic items within the game for little cost, then auction them in the real world at a healthy profit."

1. Jose Manuel Barroso, the former Portugal Prime Minister and now the current President of the European Commission was fairly unpopular in his own country, just before he was (conveniently?) named to the top EU job.
2. He chose people for some of the top jobs in Europe who quickly alienated European Members of Parliament with their ultra-conservative positions and had to withdraw their candidacy.
3. Predictably, he has supported the wackiest pro-big-business policies, to the point that it threatened open-source and free software and favored the european equivalent of the RIAA (look it up on google or /.)

And nor should you... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1486 281,00.html

No, only democrats pretend like we aren't helping Pakistan and only purchasing weapons or space vehicles...

We are already sending aid to pakistan. Bush has pledged $50 million. Much more will come from our government and our citizens who are free to up the ante.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1819953, 00.html

Now, go back to your hole!

The BBC isn't allowed under it's charter to make money from advertising. They are supposed to form a neutral point on everything, including corporate interest.

That hasn't stopped some companies muscling into the popular TV shows to get their product placed - and recently are increasingly underfire about the whole thing.

That said - if you do pay the BBC TV/Radio licence - doesn't that entitle me to use of any content that they carry? For example if Radio 1 play a song on the radio - since my licence payment has already reembursed the artist for it - shouldn't I be allowed to listen again and again?

And we try to prevent crime all the time, from signs to cameras to locks to tags to alarms to security guards. Without preventative measures, "shrinkage" can kill a business. So every time you go into a store you're watched and monitored. Why? Because they don't know you're NOT a crook.

Yes, DRM tends to assume you're going to abuse your "rights", but given current Kazaa and BT traffic levels, that assumption isn't too far wrong.

As to cars, you must not have seen this article. Just give it time.

I think religion can help you when life sucks and there is no way out.

But it made me a miserable doormat when I was Christian. I have often thought that societies where people were less religious were often happier. Either because they had a better life-style or lack of religion leads to a better lifestyle. One thing I can say for sure, is that it makes you take care of your life here on earth a bit better.

Here's a great article with statistics to back up the damage of religion;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1798944, 00.html

Just look at anywhere in the world with the most religious control, and you'll find more war and suffering.

I've read the times article (in print!) which is much better and contains diagrams. Here is the link to the eversion.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1801070, 00.html

The U.S. is pro-democracy, but only insofar as democracy is a means to guarantee a liberal and limited government. The UN is anything but, because of its member states, who are far more willing (indeed eager) to regulate, limit, and filter the internet. Other nations already have a voice--they just don't have ultimate control. And that's a good thing.

The U.S. is pro-democracy? - only insofar as it serves their intentions by giving it lip service. Historically the USA has been for Democracy only when the democratic process results in a government they find pliant or tolerable.

Our current pretender, Mr. Bush is allied with Musharraf, the Pakistani dictator who overthrew a democratically elected government. The Bush Admin has expended great efforts stretching the truth about N.Korea, Iran and Iraq, while hiding the truth about Pakistan's exportation of nuclear tech to other countries. Up until recently the Bush Administration was happy to ally with one of the world's present day devils, Uzbekistan's Karimov, and even after last May's Uzbek government's Andijon massacre of their protesting citzenry, which was described by one of the protestors with "They shot at us like rabbits", equivocated before supporting the EU demand for an International Inquiry. While this was going on, they had actively tried to destablize Chavez in Venezuela, who won his election. Then there is the Abdullah love pecks.

Are these allies of ours liberal and limited governments? The only reason the Bush Admin presently loudly touts democracy, is that it's the only even half-assed rationale left for Bush's War Upon Iraq. It certainly wasn't waged to get our real enemy, the 911 perps, many of whom have licked their wounds received from Afghanistan battles up in Pakistan.

And this is only our present Administration. The Pro Democracy spin is hype. The American Government is comprised of powermongering control freaks, the truth notwithstanding.

Yeah, so The USA is better than the Dynastic Maoposeur gang's Great Firewall of China, and mainliand's i-net policy of Hu owns Yu; so all your posts are belong to the People's Republic, but the US government is still insidious, and still without a clue. I was spooked to see how a weird-assed robot with a dot mil DNS resolution made a jump across two web domains on a previously invisible thread, in the temporary weblogs, only to have both providers(1 UK and 1 US based) erase its tracks on the permannent logs. Especially since the pages had nothing whatsover to do with "terrorism". One was a satire about Mike Savage's and Alan Ginsburg's frolicking relationship from the past, and the other some political cartoons.

The great terrorist hunters of the Naval War College , investigating adolescent humour poking fun at right-wing homophobia in their herculean attempts to probe and root out the evil doers. They aren't called Rear Admirals for nothing; In The Navy...

The USA politicians want control of the internet only for the sake of control, and for the advantages they can then provide to their cronies.

I know what a traditional streetcar is. This article was about disguising buses and calling them streetcars.

It's here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1520060, 00.html

Just imagine Election Night

Register anonymous. If your girlfriend were the type to ask "what do you have to hide" - i.e., if she suspected you - she'd also be the type to want to see your absentee form. One could equally pose a current equivalent of this scenario where your girlfriend poses the question "Why don't we vote absentee?", and when you refuse, asks "What do you have to hide?". In fact, such a situation could be much harder to avoid; at least if you register "completely anonymous", you have the excuse that your registration is set up that way, and it would take at least an election to change it. How would you explain refusal to vote absentee? "I like booths"? This would argue against absentee voting; yet, proportionally few people would say that we shouldn't have absentee voting.

In the current incarnation of voting, barring fraud, you have the ability to choose whether you're completely anonymous (voting in the booth), or only anonymous to those you choose to be anonymous to (absentee voting). In the system which I read about, "in the booth" gets further broken down into "completely anonymous" and "anonymous to all except those who you choose", and both booth and absentee gain the ability, if you choose the lesser anonymity, for you to check on your vote.

Going further, what's the point?

If there's a contested entry, you have them check the paper record that you confirmed.

By the way - off topic, but I thought you might be interested in this (summary).

The driverless busses are coming!

You are one of the stupidest people I've ever seen on Slasdot. Congratulations.

Either you believe in God (like most of the world) or you believe that humans evolved - and that therefor believing in God makes your procreation more likely.

So you can't believe in god and evolution? Strange, because I know plenty of people who do. And how does not believing in god reduce procreation? Evolution by its nature requires procreation. Evolution happens in increments and those increments are generations and generations don't occur if reproduction doesn't occur.

And which god do you have to believe in to make your procreation more likely? Just the Christian one?

Either way, what is the advantage of not believing in God? OK, choose a religion that doesn't cramp your style, perhaps, but either way, belief is provably better.

Wow. "Belief is provably better"? Talk about an oxymoron. You're saying that it is provable that belief (lack of proof) is a better thing? Simply amazing. So you think, rather than seeking out the truth and reality and fact of the world around us, we should just "believe" in things? That's idiotic. Belief is ignorance at its essence. "Belief" in god or "belief" in creation or "belief" in evolution is all equally wrong. Belief has no business in any of it. There is either evidence to support something or there is not. The difference being that there is significant evidence supporting evolution and none - in fact the basis of it relies entirely on accepting the lack of evidence - with religion or creation.

Why do you want to make people unhappy?

I don't. I'm agnostic. I don't go around making people unhappy by cramming my religion down their throat, hanging them, shooting them, crucifying them or trying to take away their freedoms and instruct them how to live their lives based on my religious "morality".

(You do know that happiness commonly maps to religion, right?) Why do you want to make them more likely to die? (You do know that religious people (at least certain faiths) live longer, right?)

You do know that's bullshit, right? You do know that populations in which creationism is the overwhelming "belief" have a higher rate of crime and death and pregnancy and STDs, right? You do know that everything you just stated is fucking head-in-ass backwards and baseless, right?

"RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today."

They need robots to do stuff because of this..

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1729573, 00.html

But it sounds like we also might have a few less nukes because the president is now going to be given authority for pre-emptive nuclear attacks.

Since we've pulled a vietnam in Iraq, we'll just use nukes on Iran. A dead citizen can't make a live terrorist.

We'll probably use those neutron bombs so that we don't do damage to the oil. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1776 250,00.html

There's almost certainly a feature that forwards politically incriminating emails to the Chinese authorities.

F*ck Yahoo.

There is an informative Times Q&A piece at http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075- 1776999,00.html which says that the trademark GMail (or similar) has not been awarded in either the EC or the US, although both parties in this dispute have applications in.

If you really really want to know a lot more, Search Engine Watch has some information and links to heavyweight PDFs at http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050912-1406 54

Dinosaurs have been depicted as bird-like for at least the last 20 years. Even since the 90s, Jurassic Park (the original anyway) tapped noted palentologists to give the dinosaurs what was then a contemporary view of them - fast, warm blooded, very bird like. Many contemporary depictions of dinosaurs have them behaving in a birdlike manner or looking like birds (to the point of having rudimentary or even full fledged feathers).

True enough but the story cited in the /. report is not about the general anatomical similarities between preditory dinosaurs and birds which is well documented. It is about the debait about the extent to which predatory diosaurs were feathered which has been debated. AFAIK (In no paleontologist my knowledge of these matter comes largely from documentaries and science journals) it has until now been assumed that feathering was limited to a numer of smaller raptor species. If it is indeed true that irrefutable evidence has been found that even the largest flesh eating dinosaurs such as T.Rex, Allosaurus etc... were feathered that is indeed news. I was not aware that this has been common knowledge for the last 20 years. I for one look forward to seeing that proto-T.Rex fossil, has anybody seen images of this specimen?

Well then you had better get to work creating affordable fuel cells.

Widely held concerns that caffeine promotes dehydration during exercise, resulting in a negative effect on performance, have now been dismissed. A review paper by Ron Maughan, a professor of human physiology at Loughborough University, and Griffin, published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics two years ago, states that: "Any evidence that caffeine promotes the loss of water from the body has been overplayed. It makes no difference if people drink tea, cola, coffee or water when they exercise."

Professor Lynn argued in a letter to The Psychologist this month that the differences between the sexes were explained by a link between IQ and brain size. He said: "Men have larger brains than women by about 10 per cent and larger brains confer greater brain power, so men must necessarily be on average more intelligent than women."

I have to say, Richard Lynn deserves to be written off, especially when studies have shown that bigger brain size doesn't necessarily MEAN better intelligence.

What it MAY mean is that if men have bigger brains, they're probably better at throwing things...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4277359. stm

This is why the Beeb quite simply 'rock' and why the license fee is worth every penny.

This is rubbish. I don't pay the licence fee because I don't have a television. Note that (if I did have one) I wouldn't have to pay the licence fee because I watch their programmes: merely owning a television which is capable of receiving their programmes makes me liable to pay. It matters not that I only watch Sky or MTV, I have to pay the TV tax for owning a TV.

This move from the BBC paves the way for them to collect the TV tax from people like me who have a PC for everything *but* watching their programmes. I don't like their stuff, but I would still be required to pay for it as soon as they can classify a PC as a device which is capable of receiving their programmes.

If this sounds paranoid, read this If the BBC were truly about modernising, they'd get rid of their antique and ridiculous soviet-style taxation-based payment methods, and move to subscriptions. That way, we'd all get a choice about whether to pay or not regardless of where we live.

Hung by his jawls until cleansed...

Summers was punished for being right, remember that. The numbers drop quickly for the fairer sex when socialization of boys is commonplace or less cadence is given to flapping one's gums in a coherent manner (anybody see another change in educational standards in favor of mindless babbling?).

Sry, but the boys need the ego boost, you misandrous and unholy lot. North America is lagging in yet another area...

Just move your business to ethiopia, Ethiopia Leapfrogs into the digital age train and hire them, and ultimately you'll have cheaper prices than both Asia and India.

There will always be some country more desperate for jobs, who are willing to work for cheaper, so programming as an industry is dead for Americans. Soon there will be more than enough Africans, Chinese, Indians, South Americans etc to do all the programming the world will ever need, as long as we don't use patents we will have plenty of innovation.

But strangely enough when they shot one of the 'identified' terrorists it turned out that he wasn't one after all.

He was not identified as being one of the failed suicide bombers. He was seen coming out of a house that the police had under surveilence as it was known to have connections to the failed suicide bombers.

Yes, they shot him. Yes, they fucked up big time. No, at no time has it been claimed that he was positively identified as one of the four failed bombers who were caught on CCTV.

Even stranger is the fact that apparently all cameras where off during this little incident...

The police claim that no footage was available from the cameras. Several newspapers have since disputed that claim. Metronet (the company responsible for those cameras) have issued a statement saying that they are not aware of there being any problems with them. Pictures of the man lying dead on the floor of the Tube carriage have been printed in most UK newspapers, shown on TV, etc.

You can google for your own sources, but here are a couple to get you started: Yahoo news and the Times

Don't get me wrong, I am in no way defending the actions of the police; as I say above, they fucked up big time. An innocent life lost is a tragedy no matter which "side" is responsible for it. However, your claims are simply wrong and are in no way insightful.

Link at times online

To me as a European, the fact that you have the DMCA in the USA seems absurd. The PATRIOT act seems absurd.

You mention not being able to say fire in a movie theater being absurd. How about not being allowed to say anything that might lead someone to do something violent, or writing anything construed as promoting violence or terrorism? This is law in the UK and Netherlands and is on its way to the EU.

How about having all of your telephone/cell traffic saved and archived for one year, and all of your internet traffic archived for 6 months? Sound crazy? Absurd? Luckly it is still a proposal, but that sure makes the USA PATRIOT Act library records section look good.

I am pro-freedom everywhere and not trying to defend America. Just be aware of contollers who want to rob you of your freedom in Europe as well.

There was a recent article in the New York Times about this and now there is this article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1730079, 00.html

NO! That is a recipe for continuation of the status quo. They BOTH need to feel the heat NOW. Otherwise the Dems will take over and think their social agenda of increasing the loss of our freedoms for different reasons was the cause of their "success" at the polls. You wind up in a perpetual seesaw resulting in the steady elimination of all rights equally between the two. You repeatedly trade bully one for bully two, then reverse and repeat.

There is nothing you or I can do to stop the pendulum of the bi-polar polity, other than convince enough people who will vote to actually change it. There was a chance at a third party with clout, but Buchanan, the Republican loyalist to the end, took the FEC money and trashed them in 2000. Demcorats still blame Nader, the fools, they should be blaming Buchanan, Perot and Ventura.

In the current circumstances, the best that can be achieved is an evenness of parties, and the abrasion that comes with it. I think that a large part of the economic boom in the 90's was due to the great friction between the parties. Neither side had enough power to suck their vigorish off of the top, and the free market that could, did. The equities traders screwed it up, but equity traders should be dealt with. If they didn't venture for capitalisation of the business, they are leeches, sucking from the valuation of the compensation provided to the producers of the product.

An Abridged Listing Why I Beat Upon Republicans Presently

The republicans have gained the upper hand in large part by betraying both their core ideology and the Dreamtime America. NeoConservatism's maturation can be traced from marxism to trotskyite CIA stooges to Scoop Jackson DemoHawks to Reagan to the Son of Bush. They have never given up the marxist trait of spewing rhetoric, the truth notwithstanding. The self-confessed American traitor, David Horrowitz calls Kerry and Fonda traitors, and is given stature within the Right. The putrescence of moral relevancy oozing from the partisan defense of a president who fixed the intelligence and the facts around his policy of familial vengence, and took America into an unrighteous conflict without contemplating the aftermath. a president who sings sweet songs of liberty and democracy, yet gives aid to dictatorial destroyers of democracy, has liasons with leaders loathsome of liberty, and goes out on ManDates with Saudi Princes who come to the USA laden with extra baggage.

When did conservatives begin to support due process of law applied inequally to humans? That is a high crime against America, yet they still repeatedly remind us that a stained blue dress is impeachable? Why not decry Blood-Stained Iraq Sands?

Bush's SCOTUS nomimee Roberts is a dangerous and activist judge who DOES NOT adjudicate using original intent, and all the country can think about is which way he'll decide on abortion cases. His assent in the Hamdi v Rumsfeld appeal is frightful. It posits that a president is above the very law that legitimises his power, stating this is a function of war power, in a war upon unstated enemies, of an indeterminate duration. Why hasn't anyone asked Roberts just what the hell he was doing during that ongoing criminal enterprise: The Reagan Administration? This is ano

Timothy McVeigh: killed 168, injured "at least" 500

19 arab terrorists: killed over 3000, injured how many thousands more?

Oh, and for the reference you complain about in your follow-up, try Nail bomb was not meant to kill, says suspect. He's fighting extradition on these grounds:

Mr Osman's Italian court-appointed lawyer, who was present at the interrogation, said that he had insisted that he thought the attack was "a gesture" intended to cause alarm, and not "to kill or maim".

Why don't you go offer him some "therapy and understanding"?

-paul

The WMDs, which clearly did exist (we even have records he used them) don't need airholes, and are easier to hide harder to find

1) Pro-war hawk, Bush appointee, former devout WMD believer, and head of the WMD search David Kay acknowleges that no such weapons existed at the time of the invasion. The search teams are no longer operating.

2) The inspections teams were on the same track; the IAEA was reportedly close to declaring Iraq nuclear-free, while UNMOVIC was working on verifying chemical weapon destruction quantities based on the amount of residual chemicals in the destruction zones. The residuals were evident, but the quantity of source material was unknown. Both have now stated that they believe, just like Kay, that there were not WMDs in Iraq. In short, every inspection team sent to Iraq has reached that same conclusion.

3) The highest profile Iraqi defector in history, Hussein Kamel (Saddam's son-in-law), in addition to giving a bunch of humiliating information on Iraq that he later got assassinated for (exposing Iraq's biological warfare program and leading them to the information, pointing out that UNSCOM's head's personal translator was a double agent, etc), informed the teams that Iraq *had* destroyed its chemical and biological agents in order to try and get the embargo lifted and limit inspection team knowlege of how much their scientists knew.

Saddam's refusal to cooperate with inspections

The IAEA and UNMOVIC heads themselves described good cooperation from the Iraqi government. Blix - the more harsh of the two organization heads - stated that "Iraq wwas guilty of only small infractions". Most of the Iraqi complaints were of the US spying to gather information for war, which turned out to be true. And lets not forget the peace initiatives.

active promotion of terrorism

The closest thing Iraq did to active promotion of terrorism was giving money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers to compensate for Israel's policy of destroying the families' homes. Of course, Saudi Arabia did the exact same thing. Beyond that, there was very, very little that could be construed as supporting terrorism (a lot of misinformation went around on this subject: read up on Ansar al-Islam (more), Ramzi Yousef (mirror), Abu Nidal, and Salman Pak).

Now, if you want countries with clear, major ties to funding terrorists, you need to look at Iran and the United States.

Illegal attacks on peacekeepers

Oh, this is just rich. The No-Fly Zones were not UN-accepted; the French, Russians, and Chinese considered the joint US-British "No Fly" enforcement to be both illegal and counterproductive violation of Iraq's airspace. Then, before war began, we began bombing essentially at will to try and goad Iraq into attacking the US. The reason we were able to start the war with a ground assault was that our air assault began long before the war started.

That's like the story where a city council was about to send bailiffs to recover an overdue library book from a mobile library.

Touché! :)

For those that don't know;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,564-160964 6,00.html

Both Sony and Microsoft have other divisions that make enough money that they can afford to run their gaming divisions at a loss for quite some time.

SONY, the Japanese electronics company, stunned investors yesterday with a dramatic cut to its earnings forecast and its first back-to-back quarterly loss in four years.

Full text here

It was reported in the news as the the Metropolitan police force as in this statement. They may recruit from SAS for their fast response teams and their operatives but they are as far as I know not an operative unit under the SAS. SAS is the military special forces in Great Britain.

The Metropolitan police is by far the largest policing force in the Greater London [Map] district and lately incorporated also The Royal Park Constabulary into their forces. But they are not a military branch, they are the civilian police though in certain cases they may definitely make joint operations.

The incident that lead to the unfortunate death of a most likely innocent Brazilian man is now being investigated by the Metropolitan Police Service Directorate of Professional Standards which would correspond to Bureau of Internal Affairs in some other countries.

The nice thing about ham is it's long range with little power and equipment requirements. In the event of a real emergency, it's nice to know that there are some extraordinary geeks with the ability to communicate quickly and clearly. In an emergency, things don't always work correctly. Microphones get lost or broken. Injuries result in a loss of the ability to speak. Who knows what might go wrong? Particularly due to the fact that Morse Code operators beat out the most popular method of handheld text-based communcation (short of e-mail or IM, anyway), I think this skill is highly undervalued. Personally, I like the idea of a bunch of knowledgable nerds out there, who can communicate almost as fast (or faster) with only pulses of noise than most of us could communicate with a microphone.

Yes, of course,

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"

=

"Iraq's WMD pose an immanent threat to the US, requiring we invade immediately"

Or maybe you're equating a lie about sex to Bush's lie "we are doing everything we can to avoid war with Iraq - it's the last resort", while he (and the British) had spent $700M of Afghanistan war money instead trying to goad Saddam into counterattacking our hugely escalated air war in his country? Lying about starting the Iraq war without even the rubber-stamp Congressional approval?

What other kinds of bold new logic springs from your mind?

That means increased training and increased staffing and therefore increased staff costs - who wants to be the one to search a possible terrorist?

The return to service on London Underground was delayed last night after Tube drivers refused to carry out security inspections on trains. The drivers argued that police or army officers should give the all-clear before services could resume. The Rail Maritime and Transport union said that drivers had been asked to carry out security inspections on Tube trains, which was "completely unacceptable".

Bob Crow, the RMT union's general secretary, said: "We don't believe drivers should be checking trains until police or army officers have given the all clear.

"We obviously apologise for any delays this will cause, but the threat is too serious for such crucial inspections to be done by untrained staff."

The union said that it had been kept in the dark over security plans and called for a review of the arrangements that would involve the trade unions.

Put the crack pipe down troll. The IRA learned back in the 80's that they can't operate in US borders.

Good thing they have other people to operate for them then, isn't it?

Um, sorry to bother you with facts, but Condi is bad because she was really bad at her job as National Security Advisor.

Example 1: 9/11, and intelligence agencies not playing well together. That's her job. Example 2: Ignoring Richard Clarke. Example 3: No WMDs in Iraq. Example 4: Allowing DoD to ignore State's reconstruction plans, completely screwing up the postwar.

Also, middle class is not poverty. You seem both very race-focused and very ignorant of Condi's background. She's apparently a trained classical pianist as well as an ice skater. Both of these are impressive accomplishments, but they don't mean she'll be good as Secretary of State. Talent is not fungible.

This reminds me of a newspaper article I read the other day. You possibly fall into the category of "competent jerk". People prefer a lovable fool, that's just the way the world works.

Fortunately being likable really isn't that difficult. Just a case of saying please and thankyou at the right times, and being patient with people, even if you know they're being morons.

well, there's this little article right here that talks about personality altering brain parasites..

The age limit for buying a knife will rise from 16 to 18. Anyone selling a knife to someone under 18 faces up to six months in jail and a fine of up to £5,000. Couples who marry under 18 or students on catering courses will have to ask adults to buy knives for them.

Giving head teachers the power to search children they suspect of having weapons in schools was criticised by teachers unions, which said that school staff must not be expected to search teenagers for knives.

• Changing a study under pressure from a funding source
  • In studies such as this one, you can see that the study was aimed to please Microsoft.
• Dropping data from analysis
  • I find it humourous when companies show off that they can handle millions of transactions per second with their Windows servers, but go down once or twice a week do to patches and virii. Amount of downtime needs to be included in the result dataset.
• Overlooking others' use of flawed or questionably interpreted data
  • If Windows Server 2003's Samba is faster than samba.org's, than why is Windows not questioning samba.org's previous performance tests?
• Withholding details of methodology or results
  • After may hours of searching, I still have not seen a "Materials", "Methods", "Results", "Discussion" sections. Could someone please give me a URL?
• Circumventing minor rules protecting human subjects
  • Cases in point: millions of virii out there, yet hardly any for linux and bsd systems.
• Failing to present data that contradicts one's own previous research
  • Looking at the data given from the above URL, I see that Microsoft never repeated the experiment, nor any of the other trials. I have repeated it, and I have got much different results. So this leads me to believe that some of their data must be getting ignored, although they need to give out more information before I can point out exact reasons why the linux box in their case was unusally slow. (Hint to people repeating this study: when installing samba.org, try using the -O2 or better when compiling!)
• Unauthorized use of confidential information
  • MSN has a privacy legal notice that is quite long, and I believe selling my email addresses is no where in there. However, my msn_spam_target mailbox on my server is my biggest mailbox.
• Using another's ideas without permission or giving credit
  • They used BSD code for Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT 3.1 & 4.0 without obeying the "If you advertise your product, you must mention that you used BSD code." part in the BSD licence. (Note: BSD removed this clause because no one was obeying it anyways).
• Questionable relationships with students, subjects, or clients
  • They have that questionable relationship with Thailand
• Not properly disclosing involvement with firms whose products are based on one's own research
  • Case in point: the last ad campaign
• Ignoring major rules protecting human subjects
  • Case in point: Slammer virus
• Falsifying reseach data
  • I would state that Microsoft has manipulated data, but they only seem to copy their government