Re: Shurely not THE Adam Hart-Davis?

Yup, it appears to be he http://www.hd.org. Now, that wasn't hard to find was it?

Re: "technical issues"

If both machines have auto-install patches enabled, then they'll both get fubar'ed at the same time.

However, that is a good reason to enable the nag-me-to-install-update option...

Re: Fines should come out of the council management remuneration pool...

Glasgow CC also has one of the largest populations, at 600,000 or so. What is the executive per 10,000 residents ratio for all councils?

Re: What's the point?

Each to their own. Yale locks are a menace if you regularly walk out your door, thinking your keys are still in your pockets/the jacket you're currently wearing etc. The pat-down-your-pockets when you try to lock the door behind you is more effective, IMHO.

Re: What's the point?

I read on a Police website somewhere (and it might have been for car sat-nav, rather than phone), that you should set your home location to somewhere near your house, but not actually at your house.

This way, if someone should relieve you of your car and house keys, then when they press the 'take me home' button on your sat-nav, they won't be able to burgle your house at the same time. If you can't find your way to your house once you are in the neighbourhood then (assuming you haven't recently moved house) then you really shouldn't be driving.

Re: Baffled

I suspect that if a business makes its WiFi available to all and sundry, then its owners are liable when someone accesses kiddyporn via it. However, Cloud/FON/OpenZone et al will have sufficient logging to point the finger at registered email address (which isn't verified, but that's a different matter...)

Re: The police already knew about these guys - too many possibilities, too few resources

Or

5) MI5 knew about them, but judged them to be low-level background noise, two of several thousand. There are higher priority targets, and not enough resources to keep every person who attracts MI5's attention under surveillance.

Re: Midi

I don't know about the Speccy, but the Dragon used one tone for a 0 bit, and a second tone of double the frequency for the '1'. Both bits were of the same duration. As long as MIDI allows the representation of pure sine waves at arbitrary frequencies, then you can MIDI it.

Re: Safety is never a joke

Standing astride the well head, surrounded by wet concrete doesn't strike me as terribly sensible either.

Re: This "problem" will only get worse

Most (httpd)server logging assume that the IP address the request came from is enough to track its owner. With NATs the (httpd)server also has to log the TCP Port number.

With the Port number and time, then the NATs logs (in theory) can be checked to see which customer (unless that is also a NAT; say an open wifi) the request came from.

Re: Hack what, exactly

Or, say, unlock all the doors and then have your friends wearing balaclavas turn up in a Luton with blanked-out number plates.

Re: Peas v pancakes?

If you grind the chickpeas in a food processor, then you can make pancakes from them. However, I doubt if I'd do it as part of this experiment, as Lester can't really afford for anything to go wrong. There's no eggs in them, as chickpea flour can be used as egg replacement (as a binder) for vegans.

http://moroccanfood.about.com/od/tipsandtechniques/ht/How-To-Make-Chickpea-Gram-Flour.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chickpeaflourpancake_5094

Will it? In my case I'm paying for 16Mb/s:1Mb/s but my ADSL modem reports that it synced at 13:1. I assume that's the limit of my phone line. If I move from ADSL to SDSL, will it be 7:7? And would most customers be happy with this?

and a second one

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22263706

Re: Already exists!

Unless you have a wireless pass-card car, where the doors unlock if the handle is pulled whilst the card is beside the car. And the engine starts when the the 'start button' is pushed and the card is (again) nearby.

Re: Hmm

Asda's SmartPrice bottled water is 17p/2litre

Re: Way over the top

Buried in the letter sent to VM is "Oh, and despite my wife telling you our sad news as well.",

which (to me) means that Mrs Boyden did tell VM that her father had died, but VM forgot to cancel the subscription.

Re: Research Bad News & Laboratory Products

Err. T-flash has a storage of 200 megabytes / mm^3. A 3.5" hardrive full of them has a nominal capacity of 73 TB. That assumes the same amount of actual storage cells per unit volume.

I'm not sure how much of a t-flash card is the cells, the controller, connectors and packages, nor how well this would scale to a 3.5" enclosure.

Re: Moons

The detection of exomoons is beyond our current technology. However, the detection of exoplants was beyond the then-current technology of the early '80s. Thus we might be able to detect them in 30 or so years time. IIRC, every credible astronomer says that exomoons almost certainly exist.

Re: LENR emerging soon

"long wait list of customers starting this April", would that be the 1st of the month?

Re: It Wasn't That Long Ago...

And no doubt there were hidden ANPR cameras in the area...

EU law

IIRC. this is an EU directive, but has been implemented ~1year early in the UK, as a result of certain company (who shall remain nameless) taking the piss.

Re: Just another blinkenlights

Tower block tetris, from 13 years ago http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/718009.stm, also mentions one from 1995.

Re: Why is it

I assume that its because the PRS works on the (false) basis of 1 radio = 1 listener. Does seem a bit of a rip off tho.

Re: javascript trouble

Hold down the mouse button; the URL changes on the mousedown(); and the URL is followed on mouseclick(). You should be able to see the URL changing before your very eyes! (Or so it does with Google)

Re: To the tune of "Oh Canada" (and with some artistic licence...)

That also works to "O Tannenbaum", aka "The Red Flag", the Labour Party's anthem..

Re: Surely Not Invisible ... to mesh radar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistatic_radar#Forward_scatter_radars

Fordward scatter radar can detect when an object passes close to the line-of-sight between an Tx and Rx;

it is a proposed method of detecting low-flying stealth aircraft.

Re: Cal me thick, but...

Have you ever looked at a road that's being fully dug up?

Normally there are cables and pipes running everywhere about 3" down.

It would be tricky to fit such a large box underground, even if you set aside the access to it, as others have pointed out.