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EdwardQ

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EdwardQ··on Self-driving cars to be on roads of Swedish capital Gothenburg by 2017
Sheepishly noted.
EdwardQ··on The 100% electric TRON motorcycle - $55K
I haven't done a painstaking trawl of the site, but I can't seem to find a corresponding red bike to race you're absurdly wealthy evil mate on...
EdwardQ··on 15 Current Technologies A Child Born Today Will Never Use
The Senna documentary last year cost me £12 in central London, around $19 at current rates - I can't imagine it has changed massively. I was as surprised as Axel Foley: "I could get blown for 12 bucks!"
EdwardQ··on How changing a single word increased click through rate by 161%
'Marketing team finally gets marketing'

'Atomic weight of cobalt 58.9'

EdwardQ··on Lulzsec: UK men plead guilty to hacking charges
Indeed, it even comes on the same day the British prime minister makes a speech where he takes benefits away from the young who are struggling to find work and uses the term "culture of entitlement".

This from a landed multi-millionaire and without a hint of irony.

EdwardQ··on Ceefax - A love letter
I used to work as a sub-editor for Teletext. Writing 35-character headlines for the analogue service was some of the best journalism training anybody could have. I still remember some of the best:

Spurs move right, said Fred's agent

Sizzling Gasquet batters sorry Fish

Fish Mardy from Del Potro battering

(we liked Mardy Fish losing badly at tennis, particularly if he also had a strop after)

For anybody with knowledge about British tennis out there, the following became a running joke which we rehashed at every opportunity.

Bogdanovic suffers first-round exit

That must have been used a mind-boggling number of times.

We also did subbing for Ceefax, with its extra paragraph - but I'll always have a bigger place in my heart for Teletext and its 40 x 24 character grids (for text, 35 for headlines).

Romantics ire after death of Ceefax

EdwardQ··on News Corp "totally hacked" pay-TV rival, leaked company emails reveal
You're right, we shouldn't be surprised but he's becoming such a caricature of his own evil who knows where it will end?

He makes that crazy statement Rumsfeld came up with about "unknown unknowns - things that we don't know that we don't know" seem like a proper sentence when you think Met Police are trawling through a database of 300,000,000 separate News International emails in East London as we speak, 11 million of which were deleted and then recovered.

EdwardQ··on Adobe Donates Flex to Apache
But is there enough incentive to make Apache, jump on it ?
EdwardQ··on Boeing Dreamliner experiences severe automated landing system failure
I agree that too much hero status is given to pilots who crash land planes, but this is about landing gear failing to deploy correctly from a spanking-new, all-electronic cockpit and plane.
EdwardQ··on Citigroup CEO’s personal data raided by hackers
You HAVE to take full control of your 'lively hood'. The Occupy hood in London is getting pretty lively also.
EdwardQ··on MI5 recruiting digital intelligence specialists, but £27k?
Subsidised housing? More like a brothel in Pimlico.