What's with the pixelated bottoms

I anybody really offended by a bum? I'm not talking about goatse but just normal buttocks. They even did it on the X-factor, whereas I would rather they pixelated Louis Walsh into oblivion.

Drop the exit(0);

That way you pass back the return value of printf().

You never know, he might have taken stdout with him.

Many thanks to DMR who has enabled me to make a nice living - sort of, I write Verilog.

Please stop calling it Silicon Roundabout

There is no Silicon being produced there. There isn't even much Silicon being produced in Silicon Gorge or on the Silicon Fen but they do stuff that is close enough.

Both emails?

Can't believe it. There has only ever been one email sent to an emailer and that was from Alan Sugar complaining about the lack of emails.

Why do you even need to do a survey

Surely you just divide the output of the drinks industry by the size of the drinking population.

> United States Mint Police, who are equipped with bicycles

They are also equipped with a handy army base complete with soldiers, guns and helicopters etc.

I don't imagine they are going to have a problem with looters any time soon.

Holy CRT Batman!

See title

Turn your Ipad into a laptop

And have two batteries to worry about.

While on the subject of worries: padding usually makes a good thermal insulator as does the glass screen. How does the heat from inside the iPad get out? Did you check the temperature is gets too when playing video / minting bitcoins?

It is rocket science

The R in DARPA stands for research, that means things won't be predictable. This is how we make progress or are we all so old we have forgotten that we had to learn what we know.

I'd prefer NFC outside my phone.

Why does this have to be in a phone or use the phone network. I'd like a little tag on my keyring that works when I've driven to a cream-tea shop in Cornwall with no mobile coverage.

Out of the two things that you always take when going out, which one always works? Your keys or your phone?

Is this a bad thing?

So you've left your machine connected to the internet and some use is made of it to benefit someone. Sounds just like SETI but without the hassle of installing it. If you actually need the CPU cycles you will notice it and remove it surely?

Please do Chuckie Egg

Or tell me where to get hold of it again.

So now it's OK to drink (coffee) and drive.

And by the looks of the video it's OK to stare out of the side windows while driving around busy urban streets. And that's some serious smearing when the wipers operate, pretty bad for a new car.

Maths

ACS:Law was fined £200,000 but it was reduced to £1,000 because it had ceased trading. Yet here we find Andrew Crossley has a house worth £700,000 and he had gone bankrupt. I would have thought he could sell the house to pay the fine and still have £500,000.

"That word is way out in front"

Doesn't know his biology - way out in front is cock

Wooton Dusset ???!!!?!?!?!!?

Come on if you're going to make up English village names at least make them suggestive.

I used to be a VIA fan

back in the days when they were the only way to get a fanless system to play MPEG2 but they have dropped the ball too many times for me to like them anymore:

* Rubbish opensource support.

* Vapourware announcements .

* Slow IA32 exection.

And now I'm using an ASUS AT3IONT-I to drive my TV, it does H.264 at 1080p60 with real de-interlacing.

So this is 23% better power? - not if you can't buy it yet.

That's not four wheel drive

Good luck trying to get out of a muddy field.

And there was me thinking about buying one

Seriously late adopter, but we just borrowed one for Wii fit after an ankle injury and will buy one when the lenders return. Now we'll wait.

RTFA you nutters

It's just using the DIMM socket for power and mechanical mounting. Nice if you are tight on space and have spare DIMM slots.

"used to be part of the landscape"

"It was like somebody chopped it up into little pieces and just flung it everywhere,"

Surely that means it is still part of the landscape?

Don't forget the water regulations

The picture on the first page shows that the shower head will now hang a couple of inches lower. If the shower had been fitted correctly it would not be possible for the head to end up in water and now it can.

You should also add the cost of getting it fitted by a plumber as well, probably greater than the cost of batteries over the lifetime of a normal radio (environmentally and fiscal).

One more thing, you should add some sort of strain relief on the hose side if you want it to last.

A few improvements

Ditch the accelerometers and use the capacitive sensor to measure area coverage, they're wipe clean aren't they? Could do with a nice picture of Natalie Imbruglio for encouragement. Will it run on an iPad?

The next gen phones with force measurement could also give you a report on your jiz momentum.

Runways

Plenty of runways are over 400' long. This thing should be able to take off going across rather than along.