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Photos: Google Earth issues stark climate change warning
Photo Under the worst case scenario high emissions would lead to a drop of 77 million tonnes in China's annual agricultural output, bringing food production beneath the basic requirements of 300kg per person. [22 May 2008]
Job interviews: So you think you've got them sussed?
Comment Maintain eye contact and engage the person opposite you. Nobody wants to waste time in an interview that's going nowhere. However good you think you are at job interviews, it doesn't hurt to go over the... [15 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Ageism, broadband row, ID cards…
Comment How do we know that the original ID card is actually with the right person? Trouble is, people always asks what's the point because you're only one person and then don't get involved themselves. I have... [31 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.09.07
Round-Up Installing Linux is hardly a hassle free experience for the average person in the street. However, in typical laid-back, Mediterranean style, they can't even be bothered to man the picket lines in person... [28 Sep 2007]
Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide: The Online Privacy Issue
White Paper A person may be able to hide his or her visits to offbeat, or off-color, websites from his or her spouse, but can't hide them from Google and Yahoo. Debating online privacy isn't merely a philosophical exercise. [10 Aug 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Man vs machine - who's smarter?
Comment Sure the web stores and knows more than a single person or group of humans but it is purely mechanistic and certainly not creative. Written in Helsinki Airport, edited in Shrivenham and despatched from my home on a new... [19 Jun 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 9
Comment I know I'm a newcomer and don't understand the society anywhere near as well as a Chinese person but kindness is universal and I've seen a lot of it here. I think I'm in the middle of nowhere - the wrong... [18 Jun 2006]
CIO Jury: Cash-strapped year ahead for IT
News The straw-poll of silicon.com's 12-person CIO Jury IT user panel shows budgets remain squeezed as two-thirds anticipate they will be given no extra money in 2006 and just a third look forward to an increase in resources. [16 Dec 2005]
Digital Blunders: 'My son's filthy email to granny' and other howlers...
News She never mentioned it in person. How he did it, I don't know - the 'L' is nowhere near the 'N' key. Here is the latest selection of gaffes and howlers - though a word of warning, while the last one is... [01 Sep 2003]
When were you most glad you had your mobile?
Comment We want you to let us know when you were most glad to have your trusty mobile phone about your person. Isn't it reassuring to know that if you get lost in the middle of nowhere there's still a chance... [17 Apr 2003]
Microsoft: The loveable software company
News Children can read biographies of each of the counsellors on site, and decide which person they want to speak to. The NSPCC has been trialling the service in some parts of the country for the last 11 months, generating a... [27 Mar 2002]
Skills crisis is toughest IT challenge say CIOs
News We identify the business development, identify the appropriate person and then embark on retraining," Coyle said. Y2K has disappeared and ecommerce has come from nowhere to be extremely dominant,"... [02 Aug 2000]
Database Nation: Privacy now!
Comment In Sweden, both the caller and the person being called are forced to listen to the advertisement, and new advertisements are played during the phone cal itself. But in Italy, that country's privacy ombudsman ruled only... [10 Feb 2000]
