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Listed below are comments made by evergrowingbrain between Friday, 28th August 2009 and Wednesday, 25th November 2009.

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Microsoft and Murdoch: Teaming up to bash Google? 11:41am on 25 Nov 2009 If only a search engine, instead of excluding sites, only included trusted sites.

Imagine a search engine that would get you the truth, a verified correct answer - where hitting the top link would provide you with something useful, accurate and true, instead of a horrendous racist image (for example).

Thats the one I'd use.

Google pride themselves on covering vast swathes of data, even if it is useless/wrong/offensive.

Why do I need 10kazillion results, when only one of them might be any use, and any number could be out to trip me up?

(btw - if this exists, do let me know - Wolfram Alpha would love to be there, but is way off. wikipedia is too easily "hacked")
Lily unites musicians against file-sharing 2:37pm on 25 Sep 2009 Step one - download lily's first album illegally - lily makes no money.

Step two - buy lily's first album from a second hand shop - lily makes no money

Step three - buy lily's second album from a record shop - lily makes about £1.50.

if i'd never done step one, she'd have made nothing.
why is step two legal? can i still lend a friend a CD? can I lend them a download?

how many middle men are there in step three? (about 8 quids worth). if the industry look a look at itself and its methods, they might realise that they have forced this problem on themselves.
Trek power comes to Intel 2:07pm on 25 Sep 2009 Maggie, you are a fine correspondent, and worth every penny of my excellent value licence fee.
Will you pay for a Digital Britain? 08:50am on 24 Sep 2009 why are people talking about 100% availability of broadband when there are still properties in this country without electricity?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/8223305.stm
Will T'Orange be good for shoppers? 11:31am on 10 Sep 2009 Do you really think the operators will start pulling down masts?

The coverage in my area (south London) on O2 is shocking - i'd love to be able to use a different operators mast in addition to my own, then I could use my phone in my own house. (really should have checked before signing the 18 month contract!)

Offcom really should have forced a single infrastructure for each type of network, to work much like the national grid, or the gas network (not like the rail network though).

there must be loads of places which have great coverage from all the suppliers, because they have 4 masts all next to each other...
All eyes on Spotify 1:44pm on 07 Sep 2009 People saying £120 a year is cheap - remember you are renting music - not buying it.

As soon as you cancel your subscription, you can't get what to any of that music any more.

CDs may not last for ever, but I'll keep buying one or two a month, and they'll last nearly as long as I will, if I look after them.
SPOTY 2009 starts to take shape 1:12pm on 03 Sep 2009 The BBC should make a stand and stop referring to Darts as a sport. (same goes for snooker). They are games.

It is a cacophony of riches this year. all totally deserving.

I'm sure it gets asked every year though - where does "personality" come into it?
What makes a tech story? 08:27am on 02 Sep 2009 The beeb needs to remember that if someone else is already doing it, they don't need to.

I use the Tech pages to see the big stories, and to know what my boss is going to ask me about (when it is IT Security related especially).

If I want product reviews, detailed security blogs or games news, I know where to find it.

Techrepublic
The register
All the AnitVirus firms
SANS
PC Magazines
Techcrunch
Schneier
Microsoft
MilW0rm

and many more.

For the record I loved reading about Spinvox - reminded me of when Homer Simpson "built" a robot for robot wars...
What can music teach telly? 1:32pm on 30 Aug 2009 I have no evidence - just my opinion. "People" could be 2 or a million - I don't know...

Anyone who has itunes, also has the ability to ilegally download. Many of them choose not to, as they do have a sense of morals, and know it is the right thing to do to pay.

The availablitiy issue is different to the problem of the copyright theft issue. I downloaded Phsychoville as it was in better quality than iplayer and I could watch it on my TV. As a licence fee payer I don't consider there to be a moral problem with that.

I didn't rip off the Arctic Monkeys album (I could have) because I know it is wrong to do that and I see it as a value product, worth paying for.
What can music teach telly? 2:03pm on 28 Aug 2009 As i've mentioned previously...

It is a small and uncontrollable world, with the internet enabling instant access to everyone.

Charge a fair price, and make it available simultaneously on all media, and it will work.

Most importantly, make it a good product, and people will pay.

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