There are a number of ways to access sites blocked by your ISP for whatever reason, but a “tunnel” connecting you directly to the site that your ISP cannot observe, by a Virtual Private Network (VPN) looks a more secure option than using a proxy. Hola is the most straightforward Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution… Continue reading Secure web browsing using Hola VPN

If you think Terminator was a flight of fancy, think again. It is the future – we have almost certainly doomed ourselves. We keep striving to develop smarter computers to do more things to make our lives better or to make more money. The point of Artificial Intelligence is that it allows computers to learn.… Continue reading Humanity Doomed by Artificial Intelligence?

Answers to blatantly leading questions in a Co-op Group survey earlier this year, designed to justify a more “commercial” business model, still needed to be twisted to present the impression the profiteers were after. The survey should be titled, “You Spoke and We Had Already Decided”: http://tinyurl.com/pfhqs5z Trying to pander to the notion that people… Continue reading Co-op Carpet Baggers are back!

I hope my comrades on the Left do not argue Britain should not act against IS. IS is clearly a danger to us, here, and it is morally right to tackle them anyway. If you don’t think so, you haven’t been paying attention! Ultra Lefties who would rather use British involvement as an opportunity for… Continue reading Socialists shouldn’t shy away from dealing with IS

Russia is playing a blinder over the Ukraine and will get just what it wants. I don’t believe they have – or ever had – any intention of full scale invasion and/or annexation in the way they took the Crimea. The Ukrainian economy is in crisis and the ethnic mix will always make the country… Continue reading Russia playing a blinder over Ukraine

As soon as I heard Google’s Chromecast was available in the UK I had to have one. I knew useful apps are in their infancy (although BBC iPlayer and YouTube both work very well), but I particularly wanted a Chromecast to stream (“cast”) videos, music and pictures I already own and store on my own… Continue reading Chromecast – casting local content

During the summer I had to have a plaster cast on a leg and went to hospital several times for it to be changed. The Plaster Room is usually a fairly subdued place, but on one occasion it was quite distressingly different. There was the general bustle of activity, the noise of harmless circular saws… Continue reading Mercy for the Utterly Helpless Seems Too Much to Ask