Posts by Iain 25

Pointless

Dwell time for tubes in stations is generally less than 60 seconds. That'll be just enough time for your laptop/tablet/phone to communicate with the router, receive an IP address, say "connection UP" ... before the train goes back into the tunnel and connectivity goes (literally) into a black hole.

Location, Location, Location

Point of pedantic order -- by the time Ive was born Chingford was no longer in Essex but was in London, having become part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest with the creation of that Borough in 1965.

Good work!

So basically a case of (electronically) waving hands and telling the drone "these are not the satellites you are looking for".

Go Iran! Clever stuff guys.

As they say on That Interwebnet ...

"Pictures or it didn't happen."

OTT?

Couldn't she have done something a little less drastic, like ... ooh I dunno, pull the plug out of the computer? Confiscate the GTA DVD. Or just exercise some general parental discipline?

How unexpected

One of the images in these results is not quite like all the others: http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=Robots (slightly NSFW).

Electronic trail

@dunncha:

That's the purpose of the middle-men mules. They're gullible / unscrupulous / desperate (or all 3) individuals who get told "If you let me transfer £6000 into your account electronically, you can keep £250 for yourself, and you give me the balance in cash".

The electronic trail stops with them.

Language, Timothy

"We have ensured those policies have been underscored with all our associates across the bank."

When did American corporations stop speaking English? What's wrong with saying "We've reminded all staff not be idiots".