Listed below are comments made by _Ewan_ between Thursday, 21st October 2010 and Tuesday, 8th February 2011 (20 Hours Ago) .

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• BBC iPlayer apps, coming soon to Android and iPad 5:35pm on 08 Feb 2011 for technical reasons we can't bring the app to every single Android device
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  I'm sorry, but that's a deliberate untruth and you know it. There's no technical reason the earlier Android devices couldn't have an iPlayer app, as was clearly demonstrated when someone else wrote one. The reason for requiring 2.2 is your insistence on using Flash as a half-arsed, utterly broken, and completely pointless attempt at DRM. Not 'technical' at all.
• Why does the US so often back the bad guys? 3:12pm on 05 Feb 2011 Mr Obama seems to genuinely believe that it is not the place of the leader of the world's only superpower to pick and choose the leaders of other countries. That is a value consistent with the American Revolution. So is his other instinct, pulling him in the opposite direction. He believes it is the USA's job to promote what he sees as universal values, and he grows more forthright about this day by day.
  
  There's really no conflict there. If it had any genuine respect for democracy the US would promote democratic systems, but not then seek to influence the outcome of elections, nor complain if people freely choose a government the US doesn't like.
  
  We in Europe expect the US to work with whatever government we elect, and people in the rest of the world should be able to expect the same.
• Cyberwar or cybermirage? 11:29am on 04 Feb 2011 Remember the Y2K bug that was going to devastate computer systems when 1999 became 2000?
  
  Yes, and I remember the massive efforts that went into finding and fixing or retiring broken code. Y2K wasn't a disaster for the same reason that polio isn't much of a threat in the UK - a lot of successful preventative work.
• Android topples Symbian, but Apple gets the cash 10:28am on 01 Feb 2011 There will again be speculation that Symbian is for the chop, and Nokia could do the unthinkable - and switch to Android.
  
  You have heard of MeeGo, haven't you? The embedded OS project that Nokia are heavily involved in, and the successor to their Maemo project?
• R1 Newsbeat's alcohol week 10:25am on 27 Jan 2011 find out if shop broke the law or if someone over 18 bought the alcohol on their behalf - which is obviously also illegal
  
  It will do nothing of the sort. The third possibility is that an adult has bought the drink, then given it to the young person. This is distinct from 'buying on behalf of', and is completely legal unless the young person in question is under five years old.
• Google and Amazon: Morality and the web 11:52am on 11 Nov 2010 There's a big difference between the two situations; it's one thing to provide an opposing point of view, but quite another to try to prevent people you don't approve of making theirs heard.
  
  The BBC report also describes the paedophile book as offering "advice to help them abide by the law". I, for one, am all in favour of paedophiles abiding by the law; it sounds much more appealing than the alternative.
• Tea Party not so mad 01:08am on 31 Oct 2010 Try asking these people about the 'Ground Zero Mosque' or gay marriage and you'll see how far their commitment to personal freedom and small government goes.
• Big bucks for broadband? 9:27pm on 25 Oct 2010 It's all very well to dismiss some of the money as "licence fee payer's cash", but who took the decision to spend it on this - the BBC or the government?
  
  The credit for the decision should go to whoever was responsible for it.
• Last night's Six O'Clock News 02:30am on 22 Oct 2010 Another vote here for "you've got nothing to apologise for". It's amazing that some commenters here have the nerve to describe what you did as 'bad manners' - these weren't some unfortunate protesters who just happened to be in the back of the shot, they were deliberately gatecrashing the report. Holding a placard doesn't make them any better than the fools that caper around behind other reports pulling silly faces. They deserved everything they got, and more.
• Apple podcast: Steve sounds off 00:36am on 21 Oct 2010 Anyone that follow Rory on twitter will have seen this from him a few hours ago:
  

  installed FaceTime on my mac but it seems to have grabbed very old version of my contacts...and impossible to add new ones

  
  Which seems to me to be a typical Apple experience - it 'just works', unless it doesn't. And then you're stuffed with no way to fix it.

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