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Well, it's a bit more than that. Once you've created the selection, you then have to use select-> border to turn the border into the selection, and then fill that border. (this presumes that you actually want to draw the outline of the box, as opposed to the filled-in square.

No it really isn't. You can do it that way, but you are making things harder for yourself. There is more than one way. Using your example image.. Start with your original blank world map. Make a transparent layer. Make a selection of the shape and size you want. Now we go a different way to the way you suggest. I found an easier way than I originally posted, but both work. Select the foreground colour for the colour you want the border of the box to be. Go to the edit menu, and select stroke. Choose any and all permutations such as line width, dash pattern, corner decoration etc, and stroke the selection. You now have your basic box. Job done. You can make each box have it's own layer, put them all on one layer etc.. If you don't want a border, just fill the box as normal. Solid colour, grad, pattern.. Up to you. Basic use of the paint bucket tool to fill a selection. As the selection is going to stay active on all layers, it is easy to make a multi layered semi transparent coloured grad fill with a solid border, put in a drop shadow, cut text out of the box so the background shows through.. you name it. It can be as elaborate or as simple as you want. You want a bump mapped translucent texture to fill the box with?why not. The only limitation is your ability to use the application. Which is pretty much the same no matter what you are trying to use. To illustrate.. Not pretty, but then I was aiming for fast. And the time and care you want to take over it is up to you. Too=k me more time to decide what I wanted to do than it took me to do it. http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/Jtde8le9YKqcjTYH7hKGEQ?feat=directlink

I'm not saying I would act any differently although I'm in the UK. But the future is our own fault if we don't stand up for the rights we do have.

I think the key point is that sentence is 'we'. Individuals getting busted for a causing 'a breach of the peace' and the like will achieve little more than saber rattling in the blogosphere and perhaps an if there well known something in a real newspaper.

If your want to achieve a regular google search on photographyt protest (and attending) better bet. I like the idea of getting together in large numbers and photographing 'forbidden' stuff.

And there was me thinking we'd moved on a bit from the dark ages of university snobbery propagated by those fortunate enough to go away to a nice university and run up debts from the bank of mum and dad.

Mum and dad didn't pay any of my university or living costs. I have a £24000 loan from the government, and I worked every summer.

others who had gone to Oxford, obtained a 2:1 in History

What were your A-level results? You can't (IMO) directly compare results from different universities.

So, sure, the plural of anecdote isn't data and all that, but I suggest you don't judge a book by it's cover.

I'm basing my opinions on what I see from my placement-student-colleagues. The ones doing "Computer Science" are usually fine, ex-poly or not. The ones who did IT stuff don't seem to be capable of anything beyond the most basic programming, and seem to have chosen the course because they couldn't get a place on a CS course. (That's fine though -- we have non-programming work for them to do.)

unless you went to MIT, just what are you bragging about anyway?

Some people have referred to Imperial College as the "MIT of Europe", but IMO it still has a way to go. I met a middle-aged MIT grad at a talk at Imperial, IIRC he now works at Google London, and walking round after the talk he was grinning and saying "this feels like MIT". But when I think of MIT I think of all the innovative projects MIT students do, and the fun ones done just for the sake of it. Imperial students do that too, but not as much. (Imperial has more students, too.)

that would help get rid of the laws like this http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=couple+pay+for+church+repairs

Where do you live that people aren't arrested for drunk and incapable? We have many arrested for DUI and public intoxication here. What you describe sounds like some fantasy land.

I think he's describing the UK. Drunk and incapable is unlikely to get you arrested unless you're causing trouble. See e.g. these articles, perhaps this one.

Driving while intoxicated is quite different, and you're certain to be arrested and charged if caught. The penalty is reasonably harsh, and it's socially unacceptable too -- being drunk in public isn't (unless you're causing trouble). (See here).

The same reason the Wii doesn't overheat despite the fact 700mhz processor could end up doing just that in the PC when they first came out- it's old tech, it can easily and more cheaply be built to be far more heat efficient through smaller dye sizes, better cooling systems and such.

Even the PS3 had it's problems:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Yellow+Light+of+Death&meta=&btnG=Google+Search

Although much less widely reported, so presumably effecting less people. It's unfortunately the manufacturers make when they rush to get cutting edge technology out the door ASAP.

That and the RROD fiasco cost Microsoft dear whiping out most of an entertainment and devices divisions entire year's profit at the time, so they're not likely to want to run that cost again.

So to answer your question, yes, you can, as much as you can expect any of the current gen consoles or a PC of equivalent spec to also last that time period realistically.

For bonus points, try to find a copy of Pulgarasi [wikipedia.org], a giant-monster film directed by a man who was by North Korean intelligence on the orders of Kim Jong-il, the director of said film.

Here ya go, for free, at google.

Mice shouldn't *need* drivers! This is one of the things that annoys me most about OSX. It isn't so noticeable with the touchpad, but if you use an external mouse with the built-in HID drivers the acceleration is totally crazy, and there's no option to change it.

If you don't believe that it is crazy, consider the fact that there are several commercial three third party solutions to this problem, one of which is a completely new HID driver (which unfortunately breaks other USB devices).

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=osx+mouse+acceleration

As you can see, my views on Kubuntu's lack of polish is a fairly common one.

I went out of my way to do a few google searches, here is just a short sample of them:
Ubuntu unpolished
Kubuntu unpolished
Vista unpolished
OS X unpolished

Seems the view of all software lacking polish is a fairly common one. I also did more than just look at the first page of results.

As you can see, my views on Kubuntu's lack of polish is a fairly common one.

I went out of my way to do a few google searches, here is just a short sample of them:
Ubuntu unpolished
Kubuntu unpolished
Vista unpolished
OS X unpolished

Seems the view of all software lacking polish is a fairly common one. I also did more than just look at the first page of results.

As you can see, my views on Kubuntu's lack of polish is a fairly common one.

I went out of my way to do a few google searches, here is just a short sample of them:
Ubuntu unpolished
Kubuntu unpolished
Vista unpolished
OS X unpolished

Seems the view of all software lacking polish is a fairly common one. I also did more than just look at the first page of results.

As you can see, my views on Kubuntu's lack of polish is a fairly common one.

I went out of my way to do a few google searches, here is just a short sample of them:
Ubuntu unpolished
Kubuntu unpolished
Vista unpolished
OS X unpolished

Seems the view of all software lacking polish is a fairly common one. I also did more than just look at the first page of results.

BP Oil Leak Response
www.BP.com/OilLeakResponse
Info about the Gulf of Mexico Leak. Learn more about how BP is helping

Right next to the words "Sponsored Links"

Your making it out like they bought top spot in some underhanded way, if you've got the funds outbid them and you can have top spot too!

Ooops, I meant here

Two tramlines cross at this intersection for added amusement value.

Not everywhere is set out in a grid. Here's a six way: http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=k&ll=53.852938,-1.684717&spn=0.001737,0.003299&z=18

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=k&ll=53.852938,-1.684717&spn=0.001737,0.003299&z=18

I was going to explain, but Wikipedia explains better:

"So far as first cost is concerned, third-rail systems are relatively cheap to install, compared to overhead wire contact systems, as no structures for carrying the overhead contact wires are required, and there is no need to reconstruct overbridges to provide clearances. There is much less visual intrusion on the environment.

However as third rail systems present the hazard of electric shock, higher system voltages (above 1500 v) are not feasible. Very high currents are therefore used, resulting in considerable power loss in the system, and requiring relatively closely spaced feed points (sub-stations)."

So if you want to run heavy trains with a useful acceleration, or go at high speeds (>160km/h), you need overhead wires. Third rails are also susceptible to snow, ice or leaves. For underground systems the extra tunnel height required for wires is probably the main motivation for third rails.

This isn't correct worldwide: "Furthermore, third rail systems must either be fully grade-separated, or, if they operate at-grade, they must implement some kind of mechanism to effectively stop pedestrians from walking onto the tracks at grade crossings." -- in England, there are just the usual warning signs at grade crossings. (Obviously the third rail doesn't continue across the crossing! example).

How do you compile a compiler written in the language it compiles...

Enjoy

Google Maps sent us along a poorly-marked bus lane in Glasgow a couple of months ago. Not that I entirely blame Google as we were also using Tom Tom sat nav and it told us to follow that route too. And, as I said, the lane was poorly marked. Fortunately there was a kind police officer waiting to give us a helpful fine. It's good that they're making an effort to punish ruthless criminals like myself.

Amusingly, on Google Street View, the Google camera car drives along the bus lane too.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=north+hanover+street+glasgow&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=14.014358,29.267578&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=N+Hanover+St,+Glasgow,+Lanarkshire+G1,+United+Kingdom&ll=55.862477,-4.249649&spn=0.006539,0.014291&z=16&layer=c&cbll=55.862373,-4.249695&panoid=RQxr9I0-59dioMIPrJWSqQ&cbp=12,11.52,,0,22.57

Trust me, we're doing fine. There was an exceptional amount of snow last year, several inches (gasp!) in some places, and way back in 1968 we did have hurricane force winds that took the roofs of several houses and killed 20 people.
I'd contest that the former was too insignificant to qualify, and that the damage from the latter was too localised to count either.

I could be overlooking several significant events, but I honestly can't think of anything else remotely significant since 1900 (an arbitrary cutoff), bar a couple of small border towns getting flooded because they were built on the flood plains of small rivers. Feel free to correct me there, though.

It also only works for google.com - or at least, going to https://www.google.co.uk/ redirects you to http://www.google.co.uk./

It also only works for google.com - or at least, going to https://www.google.co.uk/ redirects you to http://www.google.co.uk./

Here you are

For me, the URL when searching goes to https://www.google.com/ after that edit, however google then redirect me to http://www.google.co.uk/ :(

Try using the page for advanced search instead https://www.google.com/advanced_search. That does not get redirected for me (www.google.com gets redirected to www.google.fi automatically, which I do not want).

The SSL service only seems to work with https://www.google.com/ attempting https://www.google.co.uk/ or .de .it .com.au etc lands you back at http://www.google.whatever/

For me, the URL when searching goes to https://www.google.com/ after that edit, however google then redirect me to http://www.google.co.uk./ :(

so why is it that if I go to https://www.google.co.uk/ig it gets redirected to http://www.google.co.uk/ig ?

presumably G will fix this soon? hello Google?

so why is it that if I go to https://www.google.co.uk/ig it gets redirected to http://www.google.co.uk/ig ?

presumably G will fix this soon? hello Google?

Perhaps this explains the appearance of a giant pair of scissors in the sky when performing the iron pyramid experiment.

I'd forgotten about that! Maybe it also explains the giant pliers on Google Street View:

Perhaps you haven't come across it because its usage varies by geography/region/dialect? I'm sure in the UK people use "mooted" periodically - mooted turns up on the BBC site a bit.

I fiddle with stuff, too. I have a board marker at the moment, although that's annoying since whenever the top comes off it smells bad. Someone took my biro though :-(

I'm trying to stop fiddling with noisy stuff. A hairband (I have long hair) is quietest. The foreign coin I have on my desk is worst.

A friend's son was given a thing-to-fiddle-with ("fidget toy") by his teacher. It's meant to help him concentrate in class, but without distracting other children. (See here.)

BTW if you google "PC" on Apple's site (the same link I gave 2 or 3 posts above) you'll see that almost every instance, not only in their marketing pages but also in most of their semi-technical content, refers to Wintel. Yet they once took pride in how much they helped forward the progress of the PC. That's what I was getting at.

I am not able to legally install whatever software I want to and use its computing abilities to its fullest just because their manufacturer decided to intentionally cripple it.

Regardless, you're playing semantics.

Heck, Apple are the ones playing with semantics as they usually avoid sticking the "PC" label to anything but Wintel - or Linux/Intel, to a much lesser extent. And the question whether jailbreaking is legal or not is in a murky state of the law as agrif explained.

What a strange method. Simply x/1.175 removes VAT.

(429 / 1.17500) * British pound = 536.085702 U.S. dollars

Every time I catch someone double-dipping on their expenses, I wonder how on earth they make the same mistake over and over. Is it a game to rob the tax man? Are they stupid or is it just above them?

Yeh... Woefully inaccurate

MS was found guilty under anti-trust law...there is no such thing as a 'convicted monopolist'

Beg to differ.

Some guys hunted the van down

Despite Branson being an irritating beardy nirk, I do have a modicum of respect for him, and in this palaver he has generally done the sensible thing of shutting up about things that he doesn't really understand.

The CAA have for quite some time (since 16th April) posted reasons for the discouragement of flying in volcanic ash, which cites this PDF from a 1993 publication. Which boils down to "ash fucks engines, windows, instruments and paintwork and can generally fuck your plane out of the sky".
So, for a long time (since 1993, if not earlier) the advice has been "don't do that".

Now, there's a general question of why the engine manufacturers, instrument manufacturers, and aircraft manufacturers didn't long ago get their communal posteriors in gear and come up with some more nuanced guidelines than "don't do it". Maybe something like "don't do it at more than one part in 10^15 of ash suspended in air for more than 10 hours of accumulated flight time before stripping down all the engines and replacing the pitot air-speed sensors" (numbers are for illustration only). And the general question has a general answer, "no one considered that the question was important enough to deserve more attention".

There's also a failure of communication here too - us geologists have long (centuries) known that Iceland is a hotbed of volcanic activity, and we didn't think to slap the CAA (and international equivalents) around the face and ask them some awkward "what if?" questions.
But then, we don't generally get the CAA calling us and asking what the consequences of a loaded jumbo jet crashing into a volcano would be. The two fields don't really impinge on each other. Except with a CFIT (when the Terrain normally survives better than whatever does the Controlled Flight Into it; "CFIT" is aviation lingo for "Controlled Flight Into Terrain", but dressed up so as not to scare the paying sheep in the passenger cabin), or as we now know, with a volcano erupting close enough to a major airways nexus for the ash cloud to affect it.

Hmmm, a question occurs : were there any aviation bans associated with the Grimsvotn eruption of 1996/8? No reports that I know of.
What about the Grimsvotn eruption of 2004? Ah, 59 flights cancelled from Schipol and numerous more diverted. That's an unprecedented new meaning of "unprecedented".
I'm slightly surprised to read that report myself - I've known that Grimsvotn has been erupting irregularly for over a decade (it's on the to-do list if I can persuade the wife to come on holiday to Iceland ; but don't tell her!) ; I hadn't heard about the flight impacts until just now. But then, I'm a rock-doctor, not a joy-stick jockey. I had been feeling slightly contrite that my subject (Earth) and my colleagues (rock-doctors) may possibly have not given sufficient reasonable warning to the aviation industry (apart from throwing planes out of the sky, burying military and civilian airbases, etc, etc), but it look as if the Earth has been throwing lumps of rock at planes over the north Atlantic for years. That puts the ball squarely back in the aviation industry's court over why they hadn't foreseen this eventuality.

Oh well. News item : Humans get given plenty of warning of natural events, and humans don't pay the blindest bit of attention.
Well, that's unprecedented (in the new meaning, see above). Sudbury. Manicougain. Nordlingen. Toba. Vesuvius (multiple times). Laki. Krakatoa (west of Java). Tunguska. Galunggung (and it's associated Gliding Club). Nevado de Ruiz. Redoubt. Hurricanes ad nauseam preceding Katrina. Grimsv

a) http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bitlocker+vulnerabilities [google.co.uk] Wasn't so hard, was it? ;)

Yeah - the first hit is a /. story on just that topic, and I really like how Google has taken part of the single most relevant comment in it to illustrate it in search result list:

All of these "BitLocker" vulnerabilities aren't actually BitLocker vulnerabilities, they're full-disk-encryption vulnerabilities. They apply just as much to my FreeBSD GBDE protected partition as they do to BitLocker, there's nothing new or even interesting in this article. (The summary "No Real Threat To Decryption" is misleading, because there is nothing about decryption in there.)

b) http://www.macforensicslab.com/ProductsAndServices/index.php?main_page=document_general_info&products_id=260 [macforensicslab.com] The official (secret, not for publication) microsoft training documents for forensics teams can be found online if you know where to look too.

Jesus, do you even read the links yourself? This article describes how to disable a password/smartcard boot lock, and how to make sure that contents of the disk is not changed in any way (which is important for forensic investigation, because if even a single bit is written to disk, that's tampering with evidence).

Heck, it even explicitly says "this won't decrypt the files" several times!

Try again?

a) http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bitlocker+vulnerabilities Wasn't so hard, was it? ;)
b) http://www.macforensicslab.com/ProductsAndServices/index.php?main_page=document_general_info&products_id=260 The official (secret, not for publication) microsoft training documents for forensics teams can be found online if you know where to look too.

Considering recent Jobs' statements on Apple's moral responsibility, there's some objectionable stuff on Street View.

Yes, bringing a collection of a hundred DVDs is far easier than storing those hundred on 64GB of flash memory.

Pray tell what kind of quality you'd have to rip down to to get 100 movies onto 64gb of flash memory, some of which is already used by the OS and apps.

I think most people would rather keep their cheap, rather small, perfectly portable DVD wallets and not end up with abysmal quality, and have to spend hours and hours and hours for the privalage I'm afraid.

I could understand your argument if anyone actually carried their DVDs around in their original standard DVD sized cases, or if anyone owned an automatic disc loading and ripping device, or had the will to literally spend days manually loading, unloading, and ripping their DVDs. But right now, it's far too time consuming and dull a job, for most, particularly when you can just buy a cheap DVD wallet to carry the lot around with you.

Your sarcasm was misplaced- carrying a hundred DVDs around really is easier than ripping them to flash memory, and you wont have to try and destroy the quality to squeeze them into 64gb of storage either.

Seriously.

Only on /. does a reference to the Packer's 'Cheese-heads' require a link to photographic proof that you aren't joking...

Some of us aren't aware of every aspect of American culture, and appreciated the link ;-).

Maybe you don't know about cheese rolling.

If it is a simple site then why is it taking so long to load? Page loads should be nothing. I had VBulletin running on a shared host (second cheapest option) and in theory it wasn't totally up to the job and even the largest page full of posts, with each preson having a sig image and avatar along with images in some posts took 2 seconds to load. I can't see her site being punished for speed unless it is poorly coded.

Also if she is a local business then she'll almost certainly get better results when locals are searching which will matter. It's irrelevant if the Chinese can load her site fast and something that should help a lot is getting her listed in the Google local business centre. http://www.google.co.uk/local/add

Site rank isn't a one off thing. Everyone is trying to outdo each other so either way, unless you are someone like Nintendo, you need to be vigilant and protect your ranking on all search engines.

With the growth in mobile phone usage things like local business will mean a lot as Google grabs your location on their mobile page and then factor that in while searching. She doesn't need constantly changing content either but well written relevant content. It is getting harder to rank well without researching and doing everything that's necessary and that's because ther are so many people that are doing anything and everything to rank high.

I'll stick to my Nexus One, which handles this scenario just fine and - surprise! - doesn't kill battery while doing so

Yeah right. If I google for "nexus one battery life" I get a page full of sorry stories about how bad the battery life is on a Nexus One. The very first link from TechCrunch says: "But I’ve found battery life to be woefully brief, even by iPhone standards".

And the second one says: "I am experiencing poor battery performance with this phone. Nothing close to what is advertised. Please don't humour me with battery saving tips, tried them all. Still no joy. I have to charge my phone twice a day". I've not bothered looking any further.

So I refuse to believe your flim flam as evidence points to the contrary.

The braggart loses, no matter how we slice and dice his comments.

You missed another way. I'm pretty sure BT Openreach have put more fiber between Boston and Washington than Verizon have...

Article 50.3 of which geneva convention or protocol?

link

A particular group of civilians, as soon as they are used as cover by a non-civilian, cease to be civilian.

No they don't. They are still civilians, and the law dictates that a commander must choose actions that minimise risk to the civilians, that he must be able to justify any civilian deaths as being proportionate to the military value of the target in terms of the larger war, and that, given alternative choices that achieve the larger objective, he must choose the military action that minimises civilian casualties, even to the extent that it may increase risk to his own troops. link and link

We have special rules for people who recover the wounded

Medical staff are explicitly protected and may not be targeted. Apart from that, I can find no law that protects soldiers in an active battle from being targeted because they are attempted to recover wounded comrades. However, both parties to the battle have a duty afterwards to search for the wounded and to provide medical care to the wounded, regardless of which side they fought on. link

Is that enough - http://news.google.co.uk/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=uk&hl=en&q=wikileaks ? Over 500 news articles :)

And one here in Wetherby too!

We do, in Edinburgh at least