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Yes, oddly enough, I looked long and hard for an article on British war crimes on mil.uk but couldn't find any...

Isn't that because the UK uses mod.uk for millitary (Ministry of Defense)?

You should have started the search here:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=war+crime+site%3Amod.uk

Yes, oddly enough, I looked long and hard for an article on British war crimes on mil.uk but couldn't find any...

Isn't that because the UK uses mod.uk for millitary (Ministry of Defense)?

You should have started the search here:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=war+crime+site%3Amod.uk

The S in SD means "Secure" which is an acronym for DRM ...

May I respectfully suggest that you acquire a dictionary and use it to find out what everyone else in the world means when they say "acronym"?

Common mistake. This depends if you're American or not.
The Oxford English Dictionary permits both Acronym or Initalism for this term.

I suggest reading this article for your full compliment of knowledge on this.

We can clearly agree that:

• If it’s made by initial letters and is pronounceable, it’s an acronym.
• Whether pronounceable or not, it is an abbreviation.
• If it’s made from initial letters and isn't pronounceable as a whole world, it is an initialism, but it also may be an acronym depending on your point of view.

Essentially we must follow Common Usage. Using Google as a basic margin with the term BBC (which is unpronounceable): BBC Acronym - 1,020,000 results and BBC Abbreviation - 212,000 results.

By the way, you probably don't know that the Collins English is published by HarperCollins, and therefore owned by News Corp. I guess you watch Fox News?

The S in SD means "Secure" which is an acronym for DRM ...

May I respectfully suggest that you acquire a dictionary and use it to find out what everyone else in the world means when they say "acronym"?

Common mistake. This depends if you're American or not.
The Oxford English Dictionary permits both Acronym or Initalism for this term.

I suggest reading this article for your full compliment of knowledge on this.

We can clearly agree that:

• If it’s made by initial letters and is pronounceable, it’s an acronym.
• Whether pronounceable or not, it is an abbreviation.
• If it’s made from initial letters and isn't pronounceable as a whole world, it is an initialism, but it also may be an acronym depending on your point of view.

Essentially we must follow Common Usage. Using Google as a basic margin with the term BBC (which is unpronounceable): BBC Acronym - 1,020,000 results and BBC Abbreviation - 212,000 results.

By the way, you probably don't know that the Collins English is published by HarperCollins, and therefore owned by News Corp. I guess you watch Fox News?

Shirky's no "Net Pioneer", he's a hack burped up by the "Silicon Alley" ripoffs central to what caused the .com Bubble to collapse.

Bzzt. Clay Shirky was around (and understood the internet as it was then) a lot before you claim he was a hack.

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=+author:shirky&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=1994&as_drrb=b&sitesearch=&sa=N&start=90

"net pioneer", arguable. I think all of us from back then think we were net pioneers. Maybe 'homesteaders' (I'm not going to argue for 'early settlers' with the *real* old guys).

(no one talks about "car crime," despite the huge number of vehicular homicides, etc.), because these describe a crime according to its impact / immediate level of fear or risk, rather than on the instrumentalities used to perpetrate it. And I've never seen "gun crime" to mean "theft of lawfully owned guns," only "crimes committed with guns as instrumentality."

Umm...actually, since you mention it....in the UK the phrase "car crime" is used often. And more often than not, it's used in reference to theft of cars or theft from cars rather than speeding, death by dangerous driving or "joyriding" (though it is also used for those...sometimes).

Anyway, "cyber crime" should be reserved for such time as cyborgs start committing crime, or we will find ourselves with a crime-description gap. (Robo-crime sounds too jokey, will never take off). And what if the cyborg commits a genitals crime with a gun...in a car! How will we classify *that* for the Annual Crime Survey?

In the 1980s, the VW Polo used to have an engine that cut out when stationary, the flywheel kept rotating, and restarted the engine when the traffic moved on.

Googling around, I came across an article on Stop/start engines, which seems to be what I'm thinking of.

I really want to see the aurora borealis in my lifetime - and there are apparently occasions when it is visible as far south as 51 degrees north - the Southern UK. Failing that, I'll go to Norway and rent a special igloo.
There was one of these solar storms in the 1850s, I think, and it set telegraph wires alight, causing fires. Imagine what it would do today.

Nowhere on Earth is Eden.

These places are http://maps.google.co.uk/m?f=q&source=s_q&gl=uk&hl=en&g=Unit+2,+Crosscroft+Ind+Est,+Appleby-in-Westmorland+CA16+6HX&q=eden&oi=nojs

The Callanish stone circle on the Isle of Lewis is very picturesque. It's in a beautiful setting and the view out over Loch Roag from the stones is pretty spectacular. I think it might even be free to get in.

Afaict in most of britan we don't tend to have "pits that all the connections come out of", instead we have a big cable down the street and then houses teed off it. They don't want to cut off whole streets so a lot of live working is done.

They have special connectors that can make connections to live cores without exposing them so only the outer layers need to be stripped off live, still something I wouldn't fancy doing though.

You can find many oarts of the EON cable jointing manual ( http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=eon+cable+jointing+manual&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= picks up some of them, sadly though they don't seem to post up the index anywhere that i've found) on thier website and many of them have mentions of live working on cables.

What I know about rural England could fit in a thimble, so: is it such a harmless place that not a single parishioner owns a shotgun and is willing to use it?

Probably.

In any case, rural England isn't very far from urban England, and urban England will have police in cars, armed if necessary (i.e. only occasionally). That village is certainly rural, but it's only 8 miles from the nearest town (Melton Mowbray, home of the pork pie. The village is one of the places that makes genuine Stilton).

Wikipedia entry for the village
Village news

Here is the text from when it was active as the best I can do:

The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway - and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements. That is the bizarre - and scary - rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants - with no need for a search warrant. (See a TIME photoessay on Cannabis Culture.) It is a dangerous decision - one that, as the dissenting judges warned, could turn America into the sort of totalitarian state imagined by George Orwell. It is particularly offensive because the judges added insult to injury with some shocking class bias: the little personal privacy that still exists, the court suggested, should belong mainly to the rich. This case began in 2007, when Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents decided to monitor Juan Pineda-Moreno, an Oregon resident who they suspected was growing marijuana. They snuck onto his property in the middle of the night and found his Jeep in his driveway, a few feet from his trailer home. Then they attached a GPS tracking device to the vehicle's underside. After Pineda-Moreno challenged the DEA's actions, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled in January that it was all perfectly legal. More disturbingly, a larger group of judges on the circuit, who were subsequently asked to reconsider the ruling, decided this month to let it stand. (Pineda-Moreno has pleaded guilty conditionally to conspiracy to manufacture marijuana and manufacturing marijuana while appealing the denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained with the help of GPS.) In fact, the government violated Pineda-Moreno's privacy rights in two different ways. For starters, the invasion of his driveway was wrong. The courts have long held that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their homes and in the "curtilage," a fancy legal term for the area around the home. The government's intrusion on property just a few feet away was clearly in this zone of privacy. The judges veered into offensiveness when they explained why Pineda-Moreno's driveway was not private. It was open to strangers, they said, such as delivery people and neighborhood children, who could wander across it uninvited. (See the misadventures of the CIA.) Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, who dissented from this month's decision refusing to reconsider the case, pointed out whose homes are not open to strangers: rich people's. The court's ruling, he said, means that people who protect their homes with electric gates, fences and security booths have a large protected zone of privacy around their homes. People who cannot afford such barriers have to put up with the government sneaking around at night. Judge Kozinski is a leading conservative, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, but in his dissent he came across as a raging liberal. "There's been much talk about diversity on the bench, but there's one kind of diversity that doesn't exist," he wrote. "No truly poor people are appointed as federal judges, or as state judges for that matter." The judges in the majority, he charged, were guilty of "cultural elitism."

I don't know how well this stands, but hey, it's something!

FWIW, Voyager 1 is about 14-15 light-hours away now.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/voyager_agu.html "The consensus of the team now is that Voyager 1, at 8.7 billion miles from the Sun" http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=8.7+billion+miles+in+light+years 8.7 billion miles = 0.00147996943 light years

Had Charles Darwin discovered the animal, he'd probably have tried it. (ref).

It's only "tired out" because you refuse to listen to it. What is wrong with cameras in a public place? As I said above, would you prefer to switch off all logging on a server until after you start having problems? I doubt it. Seriously, what's your problem with having cameras in already very public places?

Would you also pay £200 million for your server logging, when it fails 999/1000 times?
Or if it logs the wrong thing or perhaps happens to murder the wrong person?

Look at the first link. It's costing TWO MILLION POUNDS to solve ONE CRIME. It costs about £5,000 for the Fuzz to solve a crime. And half of them move around less than a CCTV camera.

It isn't so much the CCTV, but what it is being used for, that the real crimes it records are being ignored, and that it is constantly misused due to a lack of controls.

Hope that helps you to understand.

The perforce shops that I've worked at all had private branches for developers. It's not unusual.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&q=perforce+private+branch&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Given that it gives what you want, without the need for rewriting history, I'd say the Perforce shops you have seen have missed a useful trick.

a game that looked like a pair of binoculars

Sounds like Tomy's "Tomytronic" games. Those things are pretty great actually ... especially the tank one. The 3D effect is decent and I used to play them for hours without the fatigue that the virtual boy apparently suffered from.

Speaking of google, you do realize that Google Maps already has routing options based on whether you're walking, biking, or taking public transit?

Google's directions for anything except driving are pathetic in the UK. Where public transport is an option it's missing most routes -- it doesn't even have trains, so to get from Reading to Maidenhead Google suggests a 90 minute bus ride -- with one bus per hour, including a change. The obvious option is the train, there's one every 15 minutes and the journey takes 14 minutes. In London the "transport" overlay shows the London Underground lines, but doesn't show the other rail lines, which are essential for any route planner.

There's no cycling option for Google Maps UK, but since the map doesn't have any bike paths it wouldn't be any good anyway. It doesn't have footpaths either, which can make for some inefficient walking directions.

CycleStreets gives you three cycle routes: a fast (may use busy roads) one, a medium one, and a leisure one (very few roads, take some little kids with you). It also gives the profile of the route, and tells you what kind of road you'll be cycling along (e.g. dedicated cycle path, cycle lane on busy road, road with no cycle path etc).

For general public transport routes over the whole UK http://www.transportdirect.info/ is the best option, although there are better options if you know you need to use a train, or if a local/regional organisation has provided their own route planner. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/ has an excellent journey planner for London, including all public transport (bus, tram, tube, train, boat), cycling and walking.

you say? Submission by anyone you say? Finally I can get those self righteous morons in Portland to ride into the river.

There isn't a river in Portland. Plenty of sea, though.

(Note: the app in question only has UK maps.)

Nope. Click on "News" tab on the left:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cambrioleurs+aspirateur+monoprix&hl=en&source=lnms&tbs=nws:1&ei=H7icTI6wG8KBlAe0-ISnCg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&ved=0CA0Q_AU&prmdo=1

Same 24 results. I guess the number of news outlets that bought this reached the saturation level. :-)

I still do not know if it is true or not. My initial reporting was to raise doubt and concern, not to reject the story.

I do "smell the hoax", but I still did not taste it.

It does look like it: http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=cambrioleurs+aspirateur+monoprix&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Perhaps Americans get offended when they see French websites?

oh yes clearly there are very many photographs of such.

Seriously though, I'd love to see a picture of that... do you have one?

What would cost even less is some "big government", with some planning and software development on a national level (or on a local level, but allowing the software to be used by anyone).

There are 152 principal authorities in England (e.g. Birmingham City Council), and they all have pretty much the same information on their websites (e.g. a Google search for 'recycling' throws up many of these sites. They do all need to exist -- recycling methods vary depending on the area.).

There are another 26 principal authorities in Northern Ireland, 32 in Scotland and 22 in Wales, which have the same requirements, except the site needing to be available in Gaelic or Welsh in a few areas (I'd guess less than 30).

Wyre Piddle

Worked for me on http://www.google.co.uk/.

http://www.google.com/ isn't working for me, but http://www.google.co.uk/ is.

Indeed. With any flammable fuel there is always the potential for problems to arise leading to fire or other danger. We think we've got petroleum products fairly well sussed but every now and then something goes wrong. The key is to learn from mistakes and make future use of any given fuel or technology better and more idiot-proof.

GIANT PAELLA

JM2CW..

I was with Demon since '94 and left them last year when service degraded to the point where I was seeing >50 ADSL resynch's per hour.

Whilst trying to resolve the connectivity issues, I experienced all the problems as stated above and received nothing of worth from Demons "helpdesk" for three months. After which, I cancelled my contract and switched to another ISP.

After the switch, with the same equipment on the same phone line, I have a 3x faster service and no disconnects.

I suggest that anyone considering Demon as an ISP first do a search for Demon Internet Review and read the plethora of complaints that are currently associated with this (now) dire company.

Actually, there is a fundamental reason for that. The problem is that, at least presently, we use TTL logic that requires distinct and stable detection of on and off states. Without that, errors creep in and things go wonky after that. It's the way we have designed every bit of digital electronic gear to date.

There is a large body of research on analog VLSI and neural systems, e.g. Carver Mead's book is 20 years old now.

A quick google ( http://www.google.co.uk/search?rlz=1C1CHNG_enGB347GB355&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=iphone+market+share ) shows iphone passed Windows mobile in 2009, and had 3x market share of Android as of June this year.

Do get your facts right or you look as bad as the fanboys.

Depends on how frequent the hoops are on the road I guess. You could afford to paint solid white lines as a visual cue, perhaps with accompanying warning text.

OK you've got us beat. Ours is only £ 113,742 which is 181 202.38 US dollars

... Tara Fitzgerald.

We are just getting round abouts where I live,

The norm in Britain, where they've always been popular, is to call them a "roundabout" (all one word). I recall an American friend taking a detour to "the only roundabout in New England" just so he could have a laugh about how difficult his countrymen found it to handle the idea. That was 1990 or 1991, so I gather that things haven't changed much.

people are constantly stopping at those things when no one is there, or trying to go even though they don't have the right away.

Confusion, fear, uncertainty, doubt ... leading I hope to reduced driving speeds. Sounds to me as if the roundabout is working as intended. It's their job to make drivers think harder and pay closer attention to the actions of other road users. That generally leads to lower speeds, which in turn leads to fewer accidents, less injury and damage in each accident, and (this is the bit that people find counter-intuitive) higher throughput of traffic.
Did someone lie to you when you were a trainee driver, and leave you with the impression that driving was meant to be easy or fun? Probably - it's in the nature of driving instructors to do that - I certainly do so when I'm trying to teach the wife to drive. But you know it's a lie really, don't you?

I remember when I was student at university, about 5 years before I started to learn to drive myself, meeting a car driving around a roundabout in the wrong direction. The meeting was head-on, and I climbed off my pedal bike, leaned in through the drivers window and told him just what a plonker I thought he was, before pedalling off into the distance. Even where we've had roundabouts for many decades, people still get them wrong and so you have to treat them with caution.

Try this little beauty for size : Swindon's "Magic Roundabout". Think that'd go down well in your neck of the woods?

Man goes blind due to Google Trends!

Well see, that's a problem for me.

Don't get me wrong, I totally agree with you.

What I find so bizarre is that despite these glaring flaws and omissions, websites that review the products don't call it out on that failing and still give it a glowing (often maxium 5* or equivalent) review.

The first three sites from this list are classic examples.

I have a paper map of central London on my wall at home (I like maps). If I've switched the computer off I might try and find a place on it.

You try: here's a view of Central London. Without using the search function, find "Shoe Lane". (It's somewhere within the area bounded by the green roads, but you'll need to zoom in so you can see all the street names.)

They probably do, but they don't necessarily use your terminology for it, especially in non-English-speaking places.

In the UK that's called a "filter". The green arrow(s) might point left, right, or straight ahead, depending on the junction, and there might be more than one arrow (even three arrows).

(I think a green arrow means opposing traffic is held at red lights. A normal green circle doesn't stop you turning, but you must give way to oncoming traffic.)

I thought most people in the UK read the BBC News Website daily and rarely go to newspaper Web sites? I know I do and if I want to read other angles on a story, I go to a UK news aggregator like UK Google News or News Now. I never used The Times Website before it went paywall and I'm sure that's the case for almost everyone else out there too. It'll be interesting to see what happens when The Sun goes paywall - that demographic might not be smart enough to realise where the BBC/Google/NewsNow sites are :-)

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&&sa=X&ei=W0lATMH0NdS7jAfDpd0G&ved=0CBYQvwUoAQ&q=2.5+ringgit+per+liter+in+dollars+per+gallon&spell=1&fp=270cd07514528d23

2.5 (Malaysian ringgits per litre) = 3.54278077 U.S. dollars per Imperial gallon

You guys aren't very good with units, are you?

FRACTALS, are your children being exposed to visual ACID?

Google sometimes 'locks down' your account for up to 24 hours, due to various criteria that aren't very well specified - e.g. http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=7226841f0bdafc8d&hl=en - hence it's a good idea not to have all your eggs in one basket.

It has also been known for Google to disable accounts - http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-has-disabled-my-gmail-account/7871/ - for no clear reason. Of course, if you pay for Google Apps premier edition, you do get a support phone line for this sort of thing.

If I were an absolute pedant I'd point out that turbines are supposed to have enclosed blades.

I'm no pedant, but there's nothing in the definition of a turbine that says they have to be in enclosures.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=define:+turbine&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=rvI-TOmQNIjw0wSH-oyYBw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbine

Sure enough the wind powered generators in the countryside are indeed powered by turbines; the turney bladey things you see are turbines.

(:| ) = Zippy.

the old MSF Rugby signal in the UK (now moved to scotland)?

Darmstadt in Germany, I thought. But it seems that I'm wrong and the UK still produces a time signal from Anthorn in Cumbria.

Now, why did I think it was Darmstadt?
The manual for my radio-adjusted watch said it used a station in Germany, but that's probably DCF77 in Mainflingen. Which is around around 20km from Darmstadt ... but the watch manual says "This watch is designed to receive the time calibration signal transmitted from Mainflingen, Germany and the signal from Rugby, England." So I can't blame the Friendly Manual.

WTF is this? Its not the heavy ion centre. A puzzle indeed.
(I see the name Messel in the same area ... is it the fossil pit? Yes, looks like it is. Now that's getting me thinking holiday-wise - I watched the 1999 solar eclipse eclipse from Dachau Concentration Camp, including a diversion to go Archaeopteryx-hunting at Solenhofen. And a damned fine holiday it was too.)

But why had I associated time signals with Darmstadt? Dunno. One of the rare geographical hiccoughs that gets stuck in my brain from time to time. Oh well. Worse things happen at sea.

OR, you need to brush up [thegateway.org] on the very basics of corporate saving face [wikimedia.org] methods. Oh yeah, A letter. They really fought this tooth and nail,

OR, you need to brush up on the meaning of "for example", and follow GP's advice about 2 seconds googling before digging yourself in even further. He didn't say, or even imply, that the letter was the full extent of their efforts, so your cutting sarcasm about how much signing the letter taxed their PR team doesn't do much except make you look even more stupid.

Oh look, first two links from the 2 seconds googling, they went to the High Court for a judicial review.

OK--perhaps it will have little effect on anybody taking decisions, but it won't take more than a few minutes of your time, and if it can drive stories in the press etc, so much the better.

1. Create an account at that rather lame new government site about repealing unneccessary laws to save money.
2. Search for Digital Economy Act, or go to http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Ayourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk+digital+economy. Vote up some of the many threads that you find. Comment in support of each of these threads.
3. Start your own thread asking for the repeal of the Digital Economy Act.

Really, you only need to use the [citation needed] meme when there's not a veritable mountain of information readily available on your search engine of choice, otherwise you don't look uninformed, you look lazy.