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Firefox 3.03 differs from 3.02 by a single bug fix (Not a security fix.): The bug, which appeared in the new 3.02 version, affects users who used the Firefox Password Manager to save usernames, passwords or domains with non-ASCII data not in 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format. The data is correctly stored , but it fails to convert back to Unicode, which is what Firefox works with.

Firefox 3.03 is now available. Click here to download

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Never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet, and her Microsoft browser.

Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from?

Get your own quotes:

Prologue Rabbit:

Quite some time ago - 2 years plus; I’m not exactly sure how long, I got an invite from a friend to join Facebook. I’d heard a lot about it but wasn’t really into social networking at that time: Times were good economically, and I was concentrating on getting a computer-building enterprise running. I wasn’t that fussed on spending hours posting my life online and getting chatted-up by lonely losers using the internet as a last-ditch attempt at getting a date with anyone they could find.

Anyway I eventually gave Facebook a try - And I found it so sucky at the time that after not long I closed down my account in protest. I kept a MySpace account going but abandoned it and forgot the login details.

More than two years later; having become a Twitter, FriendFeed, etc, user - I found that everyone and anyone was using Facebook. Yesterday I made up my mind to give them a second chance and opened an account: The new look Facebook is so much better, more user-friendly, and functional.

The Guts:

…And so to the purpose of this article; having released and dispensed with the drivel:-

I’m going to be honest and say that I’m not an iPhone owner or user. What? A geek without an iPhone?!: Dracula without fangs, a tree not made of wood! Well, approve or disapprove; I’m a Wintard and I use Windows Mobile on my mobile phone supplied by BT, and some Linux variant on my Sony Ericsson X750i, I think it is. I simply don’t see the point of buying an iPhone, and I have possible gripes with Apple - But that’s another story. Since I don’t own an iPhone I can’t tell you much about this App from experience: So I’m going to cheat and quote a little from TechCrunch.com:

“While previous releases of the Facebook application supported the News Feed feature, only mobile photo uploads and status updates were displayed. In version 2.0, the News Feed has been completely overhauled to match item-for-item with that of the site itself, throwing news posts, relationship and interest updates, and all photo uploads into the mix. Furthermore, users are now able to comment on any given bit of news, or limit the feed to only the categories they wish to peruse.”

Ah what the heck: Click the link below and read:

Facebook Rolls Out Version 2.0 of their iPhone Application

Yes; maybe it’s not standard practice to just hand over to another blog mid-story: A little deviation from the norm won’t hurt anyone nevertheless; plus I’ve done Michael Arrington, Greg Kumparak, and the rest of the TC crew a favour.

…And Finally…

Something else that’s hitting the headlines is the House of Representatives’  Web site - Which has been overwhelmed this week by a tidal-wave of visitors trying to e-mail their Congressperson and/or download George Bush’s Financial Bailout Bill that the House rejected. The site saw three to four times its normal traffic yesterday, 29th September,, according to Jeff Ventura, a spokesman for the House Chief Administrative Officer.

That’ll teach ‘em to vote “no”: DDOS ‘em as punishment, lol.

And now; Some advertising:

Due to slowing demand and bad economic forecasts, Apple’s shares have today been forced down to their lowest price since May 2007 at only $110. Morgan Stanley and RBC both downgraded their stock on the NASDAQ earlier today. (Monday 29th Sept.)

Being more specific about the reason for downgrading; firstly the Mac purchase intentions for desktops and laptops have suddenly moderated since August. Current and future growth trends in the PC market are related to those products with a price tag of less than $1000 - Which excludes all Apple products.

Basically greedy Steve Jobs (Jobsweh; the god of all things Apple.) has priced himself and his company out of the market in the face of an unexpected economic downturn: In the authors opinion it serves him right too: After all; a Mac is just a PC with an Apple logo on it and a high price tag.

…And the forecast isn’t good either for Apple; with the dodgy economy meaning less multiples for growth stocks - And that’s Apple included; so their drop in fortunes isn’t over yet by a long shot.

It may not be all doom and gloom though; as Apple is bringing out 2 ranges of new laptop within the following fortnight. If Jobsweh can control his overwhelming greed as the dollar-signs light up in his dark eyes and keep the price below $1000 then there might just be some hope on the horizon.

Jobsweh

So what do you think? Is Steve Jobs going to become a victim of his own greed? Suppose the new laptops have a price label greater than $1000; do you think that’ll put the final kiboshes on Apple?

I’ve not posted for a while as on Thursday night I was hit by a (biological) virus. When I woke up on Friday it didn’t appear to be too bad; just everything ached, and all my normal body functions were a bit out-of-kilter; so I did something that I’ve done before and regretted: I carried on regardless.

- Once again I regretted it: Friday lunchtime I could hardly make it to bed, but managed, and today (Sunday); this afternoon, I’m recovered just about enough to post again so that people don’t start assuming that I’ve abandoned this blog.

It felt like a bad case of flu, but didn’t seem to last long enough to be flu. If nobody’s named it yet then I’m going to name it “Pseudo-Cystitis/Influenza Malefactorus”; because the initial symptoms feel like the start of contracting cystitis but those symptoms go no further although they last throughout the infection, following which the entire abdomen feels like it’s made of lead accompanied by severe influenza-like symptoms for 2-3 days. My friend had this about 2 weeks ago to a lesser extent. - So bewarned; if you think you’re contracting cystitis and your hips start to ache go straight to bed and take it easy for a few days or it’ll flatten you.

Just in case you weren’t aware; Blog Orlando was running in the USA I think it was Friday and Saturday. If, like me, you were unable to watch the live stream then fear not, as bits of it have been recorded and are still available for download  even though the live-feed has obviously been discontinued.

In the news today; Jason Calacanis predicts possible doom and gloom for the economy, WalMart take away the music, and a possible end to Apple TV as you know it?

Keep watching this blog for more interesting stories, technologies, sundries, miscellaneous, news and views. -  I’m off for a snooze.

Enjoy.

I know that I’ve spoken a number of times, here on this blog as well a in comments on other blogs, about the deplorable state of the internet infrastructure in a large percentage of the world - Particularly the UK.

A Post of Politics

In a proposed initiative announced earlier this week; British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to unveil plans to allow low-income families in the UK to connect to the internet. The plan is to accomplish this by sending such families a voucher worth up to £700, (About $1350) depending upon the families’ means as assessed under the strange, outdated, and in places unfairly applied, British Law. These vouchers can be used to pay for broadband charges, software, technical support, or even computers themselves. This scheme is intended to be run over the next three years; and is primarily intended to assist poorer children and their parents to keep up with the recent use of computers in classrooms in UK schools which is seeing school reports, homework, and study materials being posted online at an ever-increasing rate.

“To ensure we are prepared for the times to come, the Government will fund one million more households to get online, enabling parents to link with the teachers at their children’s school and helping young people with their homework and coursework.” According to Brown.

It is also intended that the initiative will keep teachers and parents in constant touch with one another; rather than just by means of the three school reports per-year as under the old system.

Knowing the nature of rip-off Britain as I do; I foresee a lot of exploitation by British businesses in charging unacceptable prices for these services to the unwary possibly computer-illiterate bearers of these vouchers. I see larger companies capitalising upon this opportunity by offering their old stock in exchange for vouchers: Using this as a means to clear yesterday’s technology without any loss of revenue on the original marked-up price. I foresee amateur computer “technicians” taking advantage of this scenario; taking people’s computers to a professional repair shop, adding their own profit and charging the customer a fortune, then claiming vouchers as payment.

I foresee more of the following too:-

Part One (Above)                                       

       Part Two (Above)                                                      

This kind of behaviour by supposed “professionals” is utterly diabolical, completely unethical, and also totally illegal: Nevertheless it does happen - That was a real Channel 4 TV programme about a real con-artist operating in the UK some time ago. I have plans to do something towards preventing the British public from being ripped off; although unfortunately I currently have neither the resources not the ability to provide any sort of similar service to Mike Quigley (Above); despite the fact that my service would be totally ethical and not rip the public off as this cowboy did.

- And Queue Advertising…

As many of my readers may be aware; I build computers: I operate under the name of “Kustom Komputa” and have been trading as such in a rather limited capacity since early summer 2007; building computers for associates, friends, neighbours, and acquaintances mainly. I have several years experience in computers and also have qualifications in both analogue and digital electronics. I once again state that unfortunately I don’t offer a technical support service or a visiting computer repair service, other than a similar support service under the terms of the Kustom Komputa warranty to my customers where the customer has their faulty computer picked up by courier and returned to me for repair should any hardware component malfunction during the warranty period. I also only deliver to addresses in the UK currently.

Please do enquire with Kustom Komputa about a new PC if you find yourself on this scheme. I build each individual computer for the benefit of the customer that will own it. I will build tower-only or I will supply peripherals and/or operating system as part of the package. The website is overdue for an update; but please don’t let that put you off.

Alternatively; if you’re feeling adventurous, you might try this:

Enough advertising for the time being: Let’s get back to the issue of this proposed Government incentive. Despite being well-intentioned this is once again too little and too late; something that we in the UK have come to expect from any government in power at any time:

The Real Politics Part

Despite this bringing the possibility of allowing some of the less-well-off families in Britain access to the internet it neither answers the matter of limited broadband access nor does it answer the matter of substandard infrastructure throughout the UK: It is still the case that in many rural areas of the UK those with internet access have to rely on a dial-up service through their telephone lines at 56k on an old-fashioned dial-up modem simply because there is no alternative other than the expensive satellite broadband services. The reason for this is because the companies that deliver services such as cable have in their own immediate interests only wired up the urban and suburban areas to benefit from their services. BT themselves, despite being able to deliver broadband services of up to 8mbps to customers virtually on the doorstep of their exchanges, are nevertheless unable to offer decent connection speeds to anybody living more than about a mile-and-a-half or more from the exchanges. This means that over 40% of the population of the UK are still unable to benefit from speeds above 2mbps; with many unable to access anything faster than 56k dialup due to location and/or financial reasons.

The fact is that were this 1998 this would be acceptable; although barely so. In reality this is 2008 and the situation is totally unacceptable. It has been brought about by the failure of the current Government to address the matter of proper investment in technology and the infrastructure of the World Wide Web in the UK. At the risk of sounding like a politician; although hopefully without the echo-chamber effect of the hollow words of a politician; I feel that it is time for the British people to get up out of their comfort zone and lobby Parliament to gain and institute the necessary investment.

The British as a nation have become complacent and have lost all enthusiasm for keeping Britain great; in fact it appears that they’ve given up - Because the politicians that are supposed to be setting an example have also given up leading and have set about doing as little as possible for as much money as possible.

This has set the tone for rip-off Britain - because our politicians are leading by example; ripping off Britain in the first place.

The latest round of pay-rises in the House of Commons would themselves have partially paid for a renewed internet infrastructure rather than putting wealth into the pockets of the “elite” who are supposed to be running this country on our behalf; not on theirs.

Unless further investment occurs in this area soon; the UK could end up as a third-world nation! Is that what you want? Then get off your arse and do something about it: The politicians aren’t going to do it for you; all they care about is how fat their wallet or purse is: they make token gestures but fail to address the real issues. Nothing has ever been achieved better than by people power: Politician-power is artificial synthetic crapola that fails and fails again; yet tells you that it’s working.

A new Government would be a change; but we’ve surely learned over the last century that neither Labour nor Conservative are any good. How many times do they have to fail over and over again before someone gets this point? I’m not saying that any party has all the answers; but surely it’s a fallacy to keep doing the same old thing in the same old way and expect different results? - I thought that was the definition of insanity rather than the definition of politics! perhaps the two have become identical? What’s your take on it?

According to reports from sources such as Cnet, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 7 has been delayed until the second half of next year. (2009) Microsoft’s partners were expecting to get their hands on at least a beta 2 version early next year; however a Microsoft spokesperson indicated that things had been delayed somewhat.

This delay doesn’t bode well for Microsoft; who have given the surging competition every chance to get ahead of them with regard to their respective launch dates - Microsoft seem to have learned a valuable lesson from their hasty launch of Vista, though, and won’t be rushed.

Despite their cautious approach; Microsoft has given ground to their competitors - And maybe too much ground perhaps: Apple’s iPhone is selling at great gusto, and Google are ready to launch their Android-based smartphone - In fact they may have already done so by the time you read this. What do you think? Have Microsoft lost already?

The software giant hasn’t said much about WM7. The best we can gather is from leaked documents that suggest the inclusion of advanced touch and gesture recognition technologies, as well as advanced speech-control facilities. Other improvements are expected to include an improved browser that brings the rendering engine of Internet Explorer 6 onto Windows Mobile, allowing phones running it to display rich Web pages and web-based flash content.

Is this good enough in the face of the competition though? Will it be worth the wait, and most of all will it sell after their rivals have already launched their own offerings?

Well done Mozilla! According to my blog stats; Firefox 3 is making some impressive progress in terms of popularity. I must say that I’m rather impressed at their showing. The statistics show that more of my visitors are using Firefox 3 than are using Internet Explorer 7.

While 21.8% isn’t a fantastic figure; it is nevertheless 0.5% more than IE7.

In fact the cumulative statistics indicate that aall-in-all 57.9% of viewers are using Internet Explorer; while 36.3% are using a version of Firefox. In other words for every 8 of my viewers who are using Internet Explorer there are approximately 5 viewers using Firefox. That’s not bad at all, considering that IE ships as the default browser with Windows and therefore is, theoretically, the obvious choice for Windows users; who make up over 80% of my audience.

The open-source community will no doubt be pleased at such an achievement; and Microsoft had better hope that their Internet Explorer 8 browser is even better than it seems from the beta; otherwise they could be beaten into second place in the browser-races!

Intel’s 7400-series Xeons: Up to six 45nm cores + up to 16MB of Level 3 cache!

Intel has at last launched its six-core range of Dunnington CPUs amidst leaked rumours that have been rife since earlier in the year. An added extra for server technology is that a server motherboard can combine up to 16 of these chips in a single machine; giving a total of 96 cores in one box!

On the lower end of the range is the Xeon L7455 with 6 cores clocked at 2.13GHz and 12MB of Level 3 cache. Each of the 45nm cores amazingly only uses around 11 watts of power; a fact that is sure to please environmentalists.

Top of the pile is the Xeon X7460 with 6 cores clocked at a nippy 2.66GHz each. It also has 16MB of Level 3 cache, and a TDP of 130W -  As a result it can get rather warm; but is nevertheless relatively efficient. Five other 7400-series Xeons have also been released; bringing the total to date to 7. These are listed below:-

CPU           TDP           Cores           Speed           L3 cache

X7460             130W                  6                  2.66GHz                16MB

E7450              90W                   6                  2.4GHz                  12MB

E7440              90W                   4                  2.4GHz                  16MB

E7430              90W                   4                  2.13GHz                12MB

E7420              90W                   4                  2.13GHz                  8MB

L7455              65W                   6                 2.13GHz                 12MB

L7445              50W                   4                 2.13GHz                 12MB

Overall this entire range of chips demonstrate excellent increased power efficiency; which, combined with their relatively standard clock-speeds should give good overall performance.

In this day and age many people tend to worry about the security of their external hard drives: If an external disk gets stolen it’s not just the physical cost that one might have to worry about.

Korean company IOTEK has a digital solution to external hard drive security in the form of the ezSECU ez850

It is a SATA HDD enclosure, with an LCD Touchscreen that will ask for a PIN number to access the data on the drive inside it. According to the manufacturer; even if the drive is removed from the enclosure, it’ll still not be possible to access the encrypted data without the PIN. The enclosure measures 80×130x23 mm, and compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Linux and Mac OS X.

This portable drive works by means of USB 2.0. It appears as “Data Locker” on tomsguide.com The cost is about $150.

On September 12th 2008 the integrated circuit or IC became 50 years old. “So what..?” You ask:

Well the integrated circuit has come a long way in only 50 years. When you think that the first IC, measuring about 3 X 21 mm odd, consisted of a single transistor and a few other components combined to make a Hartley oscillator which produced a sine-wave trace on an oscilloscope; then compare that with the processor in your computer which combines millions of transistors into complex circuitry; all built on a small piece of silicon and surrounded by a metal envelope, and you’ll see what I mean.

The first integrated circuit was demonstrated by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments on 12 September 1958.

The integrated circuit itself consists of a germanium strip, which you can see in the middle of the glass slide. It measured 7/16in by 1/16in.

In 1958 Texas Instruments was researching a new idea called the ‘micromodule,’ in which the components of a circuit all had the same size and shape, but still didn’t address the problems concerning high numbers of transistors.

In July 1958, Kilby confined himself to his lab alone where he came up with the idea of fabricating all of a circuit’s components with a single block of the same material.

Kilby went on to develop the first handheld electronic calculator at Texas Instruments in 1967, and collected a prestigious set of awards, including the Nobel Prize in physics, the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology.

Had the integrated circuit not been invented; our computers today would be absolutely massive boxes containing complex hand-soldered transistor circuitry, pouring out heat, using more natural resources, and costing a fortune. That dedicated pioneering scientist 50 years ago brought us out of the electronic dark-ages and greatly assisted technological evolution.

Yahoo is planning another redesign; and it’s already happening. In keeping with others such as social micro-blogging site Twitter - which started to implement a phased series of changes to its site design last week - Yahoo; allegedly the most heavily-trafficked site on the internet, is already moving ahead with redesigning its home page. The changes are to be initially tested on a small group of users in alpha form, and will eventually move on up through beta, to a full-scale overhaul at a later date.

Yahoo plans to invite a random sample of of around 1% of its audience to test the alpha upgrades. The tests will be conducted in Britain, France, India and the United States, according to a Yahoo executive.

Tapan Bhat; senior vice-president in charge of “front doors” - The main destinations at Yahoo, such as Yahoo.com. My Yahoo, and the Yahoo Toolbar - explained that the last redesign two years ago took six months to fully implement. Yahoo are aiming to deliver on past promises from around a year ago. “We are going to put what matters to you most at your fingertips” Explains Bhat.

The new Yahoo home page will feature a tab on the left hand column of the page with  links to the user’s favourite sites. It functions as an alternative to navigation methods such as bookmarks, link bars, and browser tabs.

“For the first time, we are going to marrying Yahoo.com and MyYahoo to take the best of both,” Bhat promises.

Yahoo is using a new technology it calls the Content Optimisation Knowledge Engine to enable its computers to determine what the most engaging content may be to a specific user, and to present that, combined with relevant advertising tied to users’ particular interests, to users, based on their prior surfing habits.

Yahoo is taking a rather cautious approach with this personalisation, in the knowledge that less than 15% of its current users subscribe to My Yahoo; its existing personalisation service.

Flickr, a Yahoo company, is already offering some of its pro users in the UK a beta of its new look homepage: This author is currently running the new look Flickr homepage on her Flickr profile.

- Also, as an incidental point, users in the UK subscribed to BT/Yahoo Broadband service are able to sign up for a pro account on Flickr free of charge, provided that, and for as long as, they continue to subscribe to their BT/Yahoo internet services. (That’ll at least partially make up for BT’s Home Hub 2.0 con in a manner of speaking perhaps?)

Have you started to trial Yahoo’s new designs; and if so what do you think of them?

Lisa Jackson (Witches Sky) always and without fail makes great videos; and she’s doing YouTube a favour by putting them all on their site. Having just seen her latest work I think it would be a good idea to feature this talented artist’s product yet again on this blog.

This  work is Lisa’s ode to the autumn equinox: The end of summer and the beginning of winter. Seen from a Pagan perspective it is a point at which the darkness takes over from the light in the eternal unceasing balance of the seasons. It is the point at which the aging Goddess leaves her lover to his death and all chances of her fertility end as she becomes a widow and begins to take on her crone phase.

Lisa has an excellent eye for natural beauty. She combines this with her great natural artistic talent and produces synchronised and flowing; at times touching, and always enthralling, pieces that exude quality combined with her special touch of uniqueness. Informative, entertaining, edifying, and enlightening.

I leave you with “She is Dying”.

It started with a follow request: I asked Rich Menga of pcmech.com to follow me on several social media sites such as Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace, etc… I even tempted him with the offer of a topless photo of me: I sent him, online, a picture of me with the top half cut off…

To cut a long story short he asked if I’d send him a packet of John Player Special cigarettes - Which aren’t sold in America:

Getting them there was quite a feat: The first lot I sent never turned up; so 2 1/2 weeks later I sent a second mini-parcel which was better wrapped and didn’t appear to be a pack of ciggies. The disguise worked, and whoever realised, in whichever country’s postal service, that they were cigarettes and “tested” them the first time - was fooled by the disguise the second time; and about a month after the whole thing started they arrived safely - At PC Mech’s PO Box.

A week later and they finally got to Rich; who made the following video regarding the purpose of the internet, using the cigarettes as a prop.

…And so people; please take your seats, having bought your popcorn and ice-lollies, as -

kkomp.com proudly presents:-

The Purpose of the Internet

A PCMech film starring

Rich Menga

Cert 15

The End.

Contrary to popular rumour; Microsoft may have not yet pulled the plug on the Gates/Seinfeld advertisment series.

According to Gizmodo.com:-

“From a trusted Crispin Porter source, we’ve learned that some sites have jumped the gun and that the Microsoft Gates/Seinfeld ads have not been axed. It’s true, Microsoft apparently asked the agency to focus on the new “I’m a PC” spots. And it’s true, the agency has gotten plenty of “I don’t know what this means” response in their measured statistics of the Gates/Seinfeld ads. But no one has pulled the plug on the dynamic duo just yet.”

There are more Seinfeld/Gates adverts in the pipeline then: That’ll come as a relief to Apple; who thought the Softies might be about to produce something that would be more effective in countering the successful Apple advertising campaign.

But according to other reports; Microsoft are ready to step up a gear after their ads which have got everybody talking about Microsoft. In the next series Apple’s strategy is ripped into with a Microsoft engineer resembling a character in Apple’s ads appearing with the words “Hello, I’m a PC, and I’ve been made into a stereotype.”

The renewed campaign carries the theme “Windows. Life without walls”. Microsoft intend to turn Apples own tables on them; by using the image of the PC that the Apple ads have attempted to generate - but against Apple.

It appears that Seinfeld has no further part to play in the forthcoming advertising campaign; at least initially and for the foreseeable future; although Bill Gates is set to remain very much a player, along with Eva Longoria, author Deepak Chopra, and singer Pharrell Williams - These stars play regular PC users who confirm their happiness at running PCs utilising Microsoft software. (I really do hope that they’re not still trying to convince the public that Vista is any good though; otherwise the new ads will be about as effective as a Windows ME salesman giving away a pound of apples with every purchase.)

Also starring in the Advertisments are 60-plus other Microsoft employees (Including and extra to Bill Gates.) - An unusual example of how; in a few cases, being company-employed can make you rich - all of whom publicly display their email addresses: Spammers take note.

Microsoft want to take back the initiative from Apple and be positively realistic about the benefits of the PC. Apple have tried with some success to negatively caricature the PC; but Microsoft want to reverse this without dragging Apple through the mud. If it works it could strengthen the flagging dominance of Microsoft as a market-leader possibly; but having said that the proof of the pudding is in the eating - Microsoft are going to have to ensure that Windows 7 is a markedly better than and totally bug-free operating system compared to Vista; which is still being compared to ME as a total flop.

Advertising agency Crispin Porter; who produce the Microsoft series of advertisments ,appear to have thusfar acted true to form by first getting everybody talking prior to the main thrust of the campaign designed to reverse the tactic used by Apple of PC mockery whilst glorifying the Mac.

What do you think about this strategy?

I’m so glad that I found this story in the news today: It somewhat dismisses my growing cynicism about the retarded state of today’s, as well as tomorrow’s upcoming, generation:

A 12-year-old boy in Beaverton, Oregon, USA, has developed a new piece of technology that could dramatically revolutionise the generation of green energy: The device that he’s created is a new type of solar cell that absorbs both visible and ultra-violet light from the sun. He calculates that this device is 500 times more efficient than existing commercial solar cells.

This kind of thing goes to show that not all of today’s youngsters are retarded mindless thugs without respect for society and authority. Of course the young person in question lived in America; where education is decent and personal achievement and advancement is encouraged and rewarded; rather than treated with a punitive contempt as it is in the UK, in addition to which the UK Government seek every disincentive available through taxation and discouragement which stifles any desire to achieve in such a way; as in doing so the political status-quo in the UK ensures that all rewards at the end of the day end up with the Government; who are more of an elite body of toffs that are totally uncommunicative with their people or with reality; and appear to live within some delusional bubble amidst the corridors of beauracratic supremacy and authoritative dominance in a world of their own.

Back to the topic; and the young developer, William Yuan, received a $25,000 (£12,000 Approx.) scholarship for his research. The UK equivalent would be a pat on the back, a question of proceeding further in lieu of tearing through layer upon layer of red tape in search of and in uncertain hope of a UK Government research grant for continuation of development, and a higher tax bill if there is any way possible to levy higher taxes as a result.

Is it any wonder that all genius comes out of America, while at the same time the inventor’s British counterpart injects more drugs, then hangs around the streets and mugs another pensioner to pay for his next meal before his parents come home at some point? The UK is a pit of shame; a depraved society, and it will continue to degenerate as long as those in authority remain aloof and uncommunicative to it all within Whitehall.

What do you think? Will the UK crash and burn as its society implodes as it evolves backward? Leave a comment why not?

Back on the topic of the research of this child-prodigy; you can check out the original press release here.

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