As a footnote to this, can I recommend Stuart Ashen’s talk about Hareraiser, a lacklustre kind-of follow up and contender for “worst video game ever”:

https://youtu.be/ouvi-fwrfIY

I didn't expect it to be this Ashens, but now I think about it I totally should have.

Nice read, thanks !

But as you go back in time, it becomes increasingly unlikely. At some point it is so unlikely it can be disregarded. And the point of the article is that point is closer in history than you might expect.

This is not going to be a five year parliament given the outcome. It might not be a five month parliament.

Site seems to be down, here is a text-only cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Z4ZDqEM...

It ought to work with Handoff and let you open iOS Safari's current web page in Chrome. Currently you get a popup with the Chrome icon but it doesn't work because Chrome isn't 32-bit(!)

I thought that Handoff was broken. Still broken in the sense that no error message is shown for an invalid exchange.

>she's navigating it through the corridors of power and dealing with all the vested interests for and against it.

Yes, but she doesn't seem to know what "it" is.

Well he did approvingly quote some nonsense that the reader would only work on a 'live finger' (presumably it is supposed to be able to detect the presence of a soul?).

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/09/12/5s-fingerprint-s...

Well, to be fair, in this case it was a live finger.

The article is misleading - this is a technique for use on human cell lines, not on humans.

They do actually do this in the UK

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9994089/DVLA-made-10m...

This is how car parking companies get your home address from your number plate to write you threatening letters.

  The agency sold the details at a rate of around 50,000 a week, totalling 2.4 million in a year, to approved companies that give out parking fines and clamp cars.

Key here is probably "approved company". Even though: I admit it's a slippery slope.

If they just sell such information to any shyster that asks (and pays) for it there probably would be quite an uproar and it would almost certainly be counter to the EU data protection directive.

Approved company usually just means a BPA registered company, This is a trade organisation made up of parking companies that has no government affiliation at all. It's so parking companies can make a formal set of rules they agree to oblige to self regulate with and avoid the government making real laws to stop these people.

It really doesn't mean anything.