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I bought a DVD a few years ago that I thought might be useful for my son in a few years...

Here's a preview: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-1873635453969513506

That is Bullshit; British Judges typically make court orders preventing the identification of accused/victim in most of these cases.

Goggle "cannot be named for legal reasons" and is used by the local paper in this case.

That legal reason is a court order; breaching it is contempt of court and the interpretation of [b]identification[/b] is drawn very widely including often town, villages, schools, parents and not just names. That court order is usually lifted for the convicted party (but not always) but very, very rarely on the victim.

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A little googling turned up Google books' own scans of the original book (from 1884, no less!) and I'd recommend it wholeheartedly:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=R6E0AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=flatland&source=bl&ots=B9O1Bn_kho&sig=iEnx2rKJ_0-bBrAKXWLDP_Jfle4&hl=en&ei=iWuzS-buHcKA4QbrvO3LAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false

And I think I'll go brush up on it myself :-) Thanks for the replies, my day gets better and better!

The side effect to this in the larger urban areas is that in response to heavy traffic, people seek out residential through streets as means around the major arterial streets, which are clogged.

One option (well known in Europe) is to block off some of the residential street junctions to cars(you can still allow cyclists and pedestrians, who both benefit from the less-trafficked route). If you do this carefully the slight inconvenience to the local residents is far outweighed by a big reduction in through traffic going past.

For example, you can convert a crossroads into two turns )( or put a barrier across a road at a T-junction. The route is then useless for "rat-running" (British slang term).

Here (StreetView) is an example (in case it's not clear to American (?) eyes, Fulham Road is the "big" road;-).

The other option is to make the alternative route unpleasant, e.g. speed bumps, low speed limit, narrow lanes, bits of single lane road etc.

you only ever see speedbumps in upscale residential areas.

The opposite here -- the rich people use their cars a lot more, and are much less likely to let their children go outside. More lives are saved putting the speedbumps in a poorer neighbourhood, and there's less opposition from selfish drivers.

Well, no duh!

Not really -- about five years ago Sony donated five PS2s running Linux to my university. Something's obviously changed their mind.

(There are papers and projects and stuff, some of them probably wouldn't have happened otherwise.)

You may have your work cut out informing all these guys of their mistake, but I'm sure they'll be grateful of your insight. As would lexicographers in Commonwealth countries, for that matter; it did occur to you that I may not be American, right?

Certain countries, including Australia support the Cultural Exception

I lived in France for 20 years, also a supporter of this, I wish we did in UK. In France, it meant that the continuous diet of brainless, braindead violent programmes and 'rich people behaving nauseously' (Beverly Hills xxxxxx) were present, but in limited quantity, There were and are a lot of local cops shows, Julie Lescaut, for example, more connected with the indigenous culture.

Finally, I have family in the West Indies and when the island switched from BBC to US channels (anecdotally, but many people said it) violence increased.

I know I'll get a lot of hate for posting this, but there is a category of cultural toxic waste and it does modify behaviour, however much we wish it didn't.

Either you're the luckiest man alive, or you're bullshitting. It's extremely easy to find examples of malware infected versions of photoshop from torrent and other wares sites. Just google for it.

I also know people who've picked up malware from downloading other files (e.g. mp3's) when using limewire for example to trawl p2p and torrent networks. So I'll see your anecdotal evidence and raise you one.

"Chavez has supporters right in the Obama administration. One is Obamas' "Diversity Czar" Mark Lloyd at the FCC. Talk about a scary scenario, having a guy like Lloyd in a position of power over the nations' communications!"

Jesus man, that's some scary shit. Imagine if something like that was the case under the Republic administration? like if Bush had links to Osama Bin Laden or something like that?

No, seriously, the reality is you can find people willing to make all sorts of links of varying degrees, there are plenty of conspiracy theories out there putting Bush administration down as the people behind 9/11. Do you believe them? if so then you're really a lost cause, if not, then the fact you believe this instead when it's equally insane shows you're so lost in your bias and hate presumably of the Democrats and Obama that you've lost all ability to be rational and objective.

Either way, your thinking is entirely irrational, you need to really start striving to be a little more objective and better at stepping back from your viewpoint and looking at alternate possible explanations, else you'll just remain one of those wing nuts than most the world points and laughs about because they can't believe anyone would be so ignorant. That's really not a good thing to be.

I've not heard "biscuits" for breasts, but maybe it's regional British slang (there's lots, and I've lived here all my life and still sometimes find new words that only people from the north/west/Wales/Scotland use).

"Baps" makes a bit more sense (see).

I guess you have never heard of the term supercruise then. If it's ok for airplanes to cruise at supersonic speeds, then it's also ok for a cruise missile. And general consensus on the net does not agree with you.

That's charmingly naive. You seriously think that Cameron will hold to his promise to cancel ID cards?

Not a Tory*, but "Dave" was absolutely right that a referendum post ratification would be pointless. They were idiots for promising one in the first place.
On the issue of the ID card; both opposition parties have pledged to drop the card and it has stopped being a vote winner to the extent that even Labour have rolled back the extent of the scheme. Now that cuts are needed it's an obvious, symbolic, target, but I'll keep donating to no2id to keep the pressure up to try and make sure that the NIR is dropped as well as the card.

*I live in a lib-dem\tory marginal & am a member of the Pirate Party UK. I'll probably vote Lib-dem.

That's charmingly naive. You seriously think that Cameron will hold to his promise to cancel ID cards?

Funny, but almost correct! There are indeed studies of the effect on ocean circulation being conducted to look at the effect of plonking a big turbine into a strong tidal force :)

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate_t?hl=&ie=UTF-8&text=There's+a+sucker+born+every+minute&sl=en&tl=ja# ykoso kyban goto bun umare no

But they didn't go to any great lengths, did they? It wouldn't have been difficult to find a picture of a real Lamborghini. But they couldn't be arsed. Doesn't really conjure up your image of a bunch of busy bees who could achieve great things if only blah blah etc, does it?

Can anyone explain to me why they seem to hate their new generation so much??

Because they're the ones causing all the trouble! Going round stabbing old ladies, each other, dealing drugs, raping people, being antisocial.

At least, that's the impression you get if you read certain major newspapers.

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It's yet another class issue in Britain, as you can see from some other comments (e.g. nOw2 below, "the type of "youths"" -- he means the class).

Can anyone explain to me why they seem to hate their new generation so much??

Because they're the ones causing all the trouble! Going round stabbing old ladies, each other, dealing drugs, raping people, being antisocial.

At least, that's the impression you get if you read certain major newspapers.

Examples
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It's yet another class issue in Britain, as you can see from some other comments (e.g. nOw2 below, "the type of "youths"" -- he means the class).

Hi, please point out a reputable news source from this list I'll wait.

If you have nothing constructive to say, say nothing. You sound like a moron.

Did you mean South New Jersey? ;-)

I met an American from New Jersey at the weekend, it had never occurred to him that there was a Jersey before there was a New Jersey.

(FWIW, actual Jersey seems to have broadband available everywhere, but it's a little more expensive than in the UK. It looks like there are three companies, and you can pick one of them, regardless of which company originally installed the wire to your house.)

Depends on who put them there perhaps? Many nations just dumped left over explosives after wars at sea, the Irish Sea is full of ships that were loaded with explosives, grenades, etc, just towed out and sunk. Have a read of "Munitions Dumped at Sea: A Literature Review" for example.

Its in Billingham, very near Middlesbrough. I'm only surprised they didn't put it nearer the coast, or further away from Middlesbrough.

It's speculation, but fairly well grounded. The article cites Tory leader David Cameron having appointed Google CEO Eric Schmidt to a committee of "top talent". But the links go deeper than that, with Steve Hilton, probably the most influential person in British politics right now, being married to Rachel Whetstone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hilton
http://www.google.co.uk/corporate/execs.html#whetstone

False positives, hey?

Here's one:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&hs=diJ&q=KB71033+site%3Amicrosoft.com&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=&oq=KB71033+site%3Amicrosoft.com

Here's another:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/71033

Where exactly is this strangely numbered KB71033?

There is no such thing as the Star Wars Holiday Special. There is no such thing as the Star Wars Holiday Special. There is no such thing as the Star Wars Holiday Special.

My god, the memory burns in my mind.

There is as ever an xkcd about that..... and because noone ever listens

Huh, insitefull?

Sark666 can't pick a random number either, he just thinks he can.

Don't believe me, it's easy to tell a list of 'random' numbers generated by a human from a real list of random number.

"OK. The way to distinguish real random sequences from human-generated ones is to look for a place on the list where there are at least six heads or tails entries in a row. Almost everyone who tries to fake the tosses fails to include a run of such length, yet it is almost a statistical certainty that it will occur in a sufficiently large number of tosses. Using 200 flips, roughly 98% of the entries should have such a sequence of at least six consecutive heads or tails."

goggled distinguishing "human generated" random number list from real random number

Here I'll make it easy
google proxy

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fthepiratebay.org%2F&sl=es&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8

oops i am typotastic this fine day... "shot yourself in the foot" is what it should have said

those little "heat islands" do not cause actual global warming at all, just the localised heating of the area due to the better heat retention properties of urbanised areas over rural area.

here is a prime example of one such poorly sited weather station in my own city of Edinburgh and this one is on a main bus route situated next to a carpark at my own doctors surgery

and a better street view of it here

oops i am typotastic this fine day... "shot yourself in the foot" is what it should have said

those little "heat islands" do not cause actual global warming at all, just the localised heating of the area due to the better heat retention properties of urbanised areas over rural area.

here is a prime example of one such poorly sited weather station in my own city of Edinburgh and this one is on a main bus route situated next to a carpark at my own doctors surgery

and a better street view of it here

wow.. you are entering into a debate about global warming and you don't even know what the CRU is?

well let me inform you, it's the Climate Research Unit..... they pretty much supply ALL the data for global warming enthusiasts world wide.

due to a hefty data breach a massive amount of emails and even some entries made by the poor coder who was commenting how the numbers didn't add up and things were all balls

also the were many many many emails between "respected" climate researchers" which showed them chatting about how they "played the numbers" and 2used tricks" to make up for the fact the global temperatures haven't been going their way and thus they played the numbers, used selected numbers from selected stations and ignored others then conspired.. YEAH they actually did, to perpetuate the falsehood of their finding... heads rolled and resignations came..

a quick google of CRU would have helped

and BTW i live in Scotland, where we have oil BUT we are also pretty much the European leader in renewables and very very high up there in the world stakes

also changing from global warming to climate change is a cop out.

more and more evidence is coming forward that shows a SHIT load of people are blowing smoke out their asses about the human cause of "global warming" and an awful lot more people are profiteering by the spreading of utter FUD about it too.

and the global warming hero Al fucking gore.. the rankest of all the hypocrites... spreading FUD AND a major shareholder in Occidental Petrolium and also making a fortune from the carbon con. ther are some facts about gore that may surprise you
br. always odd how when the smell of bullshit is often along the same path as the smell of hypocrisy and money

lol... it doesn't deny climate change, what it does do it show where source material came from

And my science link didn't sat where it came from? If you want me to believe that then you didn't read it.

also i think you'll find that little things such as the CRU data leak which showed them to be a bunch of number fiddling and lying turds also throw doubt on the human cause of any climate change.

Where did I say anything about CRU? Without googling it I don't even know what the CRU is.

now where you have people fiddling numbers and using dubious sources i think it's not unreasonable to have reasonable doubt.

Oh, I agree. Let's take for instance where deniers are saying we're in a cooling trend. If fact the 2000s were the hottest decade on record. The only way to make it look like there's been some cooling is by using 1998 as the starting date. Because of El Nino that was a hot year and temperatures spiked as shown by this graph. There is no cooling, in fact the 2000s was the hottest decade.

however i think it you google a little you will find the net awash with 3660 hits for "IPCC student dissertation climbing magazine"

And if you google Syed Hasnain new scientist magazine ipcc you'll find about 200,000. The first one is the link I provided with the two following also from "New Scientist". I don't know, maybe they were both used, so I'm willing to let that go for now.

there also happens to be an ASSLOAD of people making truckloads of money out of ittwinned with a mass of rank hypocrisy

And just as above, about "people fiddling numbers", there are lots of people who could make tankers full of money out of disproving Global Warming. Coal, petroleum, and other fossil fuel industries stand to lose a lot of money if their products are regulated and or taxed. Now which has the deeper pockets, Exxon-Mobile or Greenpeace?

Now I'm not saying we have to do whatever it takes to stop Global Warming. I don't even like that term and prefer Climate Change. What I would like to see is alternative energy sources developed and for the US to work on them before we become has-beens. While China is busy building new coal fired power plants they are also busy building massive wind farms and installing solar energy systems. Mexico and the Philippines are using geothermal energy and so can the US. By one estimate, SciAm's A Solar Grand Plan, solar energy can provide 69% of the US's electricity and 35% of it's total energy by 2050 using just a part of the Southwest. And the NREL's Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the Unites States lays out the wind potential of different areas of the US. The Rockies from Canada to northern Texas for instance contain enough potential energy to supply all 48 continuous states with electricity. However they aren't the only places. On the West Coast from British Columbia to Southern CA then east through AZ and NM to west Texas there's good wind sites. To the east from the Appalachians in the south up through the Northeast there is good wind potential both on-shore and off-shore. NIMBYs, notably the deceased Ted Kennedy, did whatever they could to stop offshore wind farms. In 2007 California, already mentioned for solar and wind power, got 4.5% of it energy from geothermal sources.

Also don't

"We relied rather heavily on grey [not peer-reviewed] literature, including the WWF report," Lal says. "The error, if any, lies with Dr Hasnain's assertion and not with the IPCC authors."

But Hasnain rejects that. He blames the IPCC for misusing a remark he made to a journalist. "The magic number of 2035 has not [been] mentioned in any research papers written by me, as no peer-reviewed journal will accept speculative figures," he told New Scientist.

"It is not proper for IPCC to include references from popular magazines or newspapers," Hasnain adds.

so there's a remark apparently taken out of context however the person who apparently made the comment cant distance himself enough from it and damns the IPCC for using it.

however i think it you google a little you will find the net awash with 3660 hits for "IPCC student dissertation climbing magazine"

the fact this guy ALSO distances himself and damns the report are just more bullets for my gun as it were my friend

Why doing it on wikis is wrong

I report google

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=firefox+exploit

5 seconds of searching returns what looks like 3 seperate examples of unpatched bugs being exploited in the last year just on the first page.

it's been done, there's been ubuntu for the zaurus for quite some time, it got the nickname zubuntu, and is still undergoing casual development, it can also be used to run android on zaurus

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=zubuntu+zaurus

# any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
# imitate uncritically and in every aspect; "Her little brother apes her behavior"
# copycat: someone who copies the words or behavior of another
# caricature: represent in or produce a caricature of; "The drawing caricatured the President"
# anthropoid: person who resembles a nonhuman primate

You can thank me for the free English lesson later.

The EFF DES cracker from 1998 could crack DES in 2 and a half days. Now, 12 years later, they've just equalled that performance?

OK, the people in TFA used 176 FPGAs rather than 1856 ASICs, which is presumably slightly cheaper.

So perhaps a better comparison would be the FPGA-based COPACOBANA codebreaker, which used FPGAs and took a week to break DES back in 2006.

This is not a "breakthrough", it isn't even novel.

(By the way, that EFF DES cracker page was the first result on a web search for "des cracker", it's not exactly hard to find).

Quite. In fact, the first thing that I always do after installing Firefox is to set http://www.google.co.uk/ as my homepage, I then carry out all searches (unless for some reason I make a deliberate choice to carry out a search using a different search engine) from there.

There are lots of things that a iPod Touch with a larger screen would be useful for, like web browsing,...

Except that you have no flash, no adblock and no ability to load another web-browser which competes against Apple because their store policy won't allow it.

...book reading

Reading in direct sunlight is going to be next to impossible. No information as yet on whether it is possible to load your own content onto there.

...and movie watching.

Just so long as you're happy encoding all your movies from XviD into Apple's preferred format. Want another media player that supports that codec? No sorry, Apple won't allow it. Fingers crpssed you don't get the infamous "Invalid Public Atom" Quicktime error as Apple still haven't got around to fixing that one yet.

Finally the $499 one has only 16Gb which isn't going to leave you much space once you've loaded up some music, books, pictures, applications and movies. Better suck it and upgrade to the one with more memory. Ouch.

It's sexy kit, but flawed in a lot of ways.

Firearms licenses.

The infamous "away" place that you mention is actually called NIMBY. Look it up on Google Maps.

According to Google Maps there are lots of NIMBYs in America, a couple in Central Europe, and none at all in Britain. Which almost defies belief. Even amongst such notoriously humourless vampires as lawyers, I'd have expected there to be at least one practice specialising in planning disputes and glorying in being "NIMBYs".
Of course, while we've got a grand total of one atmosphere for the planet, one hydrosphere and one biosphere, even if it's not in MY back yard, it will eventually come back there.

Industrial farming is to blame here, with farmer spreading manure over their fields and having it washed down by rains into rivers and the sea.

It's a bit more subtle than that. At a low level of manuring (etc), pasture and meadow are perfectly capable of retaining, absorbing and recycling the nitrates, OM, phosphates, etc. But at the levels that modern industrial agriculture units can produce, you'd probably need more land to spread the manure onto than you'd need to stock the same population of animals on at "traditional" stock densities. Which means that your industrialised farm needs to add industrial toxic waste management facilities as well. And many farmers can't afford (or choose not) to invest in the necessary facilities.

Unfortunately, no efficient way to transform these algae into biofuels has been found to this day...

Two points : (1) "algae" covers, if I recall correctly, something like 20 phyla and I don't know how many thousands of species of organism ; (2) whatever is done with them will probably still involve another set of biochemical processing tanks on each farm, and will simply change the details of the chemical engineering that new generations of farmers will have to invest money and learning into. Both significant costs.
It would be a stretch to say that I sympathise with farmers, but I do understand that their job is changing rapidly, and I'm sure that many of them don't like it. "This too, shall pass."

The researchers suggest these problems can be overcome by situating algae production ponds behind wastewater treatment facilities to capture phosphorous and nitrogen -- essential algae nutrients that otherwise need to come from petroleum

Someone, somewhere, doesn't have a clue about basic chemistry. Most likely the reporter/ PR flack who wrote this story up and then failed to get his version checked by the original specialists for the science (not the English, nor the style, but the science).

Nitrogen and phosphorus are both essential elements in the diet of anything (including nitrogen-fixing bacteria and archaea ; they just happen to be able to take their N2 neat), but neither of them are found in petroleum, except in the most trivial of amounts.

What the reporter meant to say, I suspect, is that nitrogen and phosphorus are essential nutrients which are often produced or made into a metabolisable form using energy from petroleum (and in the case of nitrogen, also hydrogen from petroleum). And I'm sure that's what the researchers actually said. But the reporter fluffed it.

That said ... using "waste" water to supply these nutrients kills several birds (OK, dinosaurs) with one stone (of unspecified type ; trust me, I'm a geologist : the type of stone doesn't matter in this case. I know it's not normal to hear a geologist say that, but this time, it doesn't matter!)

Where is this "away" place that such wastes were sent to before. I've looked on a map, and I've looked on Google Maps, and I've not found "away". It must be a popular place : "put it away", "throw it away", "just go away and never darken my doorstep again" ; but I can't find it on a map.

Oh, Bowdlerisation! Google maps have spoiled my joke.

"Sedantary behaviour", originally a medical term, has found its way into normal British English. Looking at Google Trends it's in everyone else's English too.

Nightclubs in London have been bombed: Link another.

At some clubs your ID will be scanned when you enter. At many, you will be searched (patted down) for weapons etc. How much security there is depends on the clientèle -- sometimes it's very thorough. However, this is usually to stop people taking knives (or guns) into clubs, rather than bombs.

I think small villages have been targeted in Northern Ireland, although that might have been by accident. For some reason, this doesn't make the news outside the region. This should be a national (or European) embarrassment, but nothing much seems to happen. There are even walls between streets in Belfast to keep the Protestants away from the Catholics, and vice-versa.

You're probably new here, but if you'd RTFA, you'd see that:

It seems their bots completely ignore the rules specified in the robots.txt, despite me setting it up as per their own guidelines on their site

Come to think of it though, isn't this what happens to most people who try to interoperate with Microsoft?

Amusingly, if I Google for "bing robots.txt" I get a link to a bing page titled "Bing - Robots.txt Disallow vs No Follow - Neither Working!" which has already been elided from history by Microsoft. CLassy.

The policy in the UK has been Managed Retreat for several years now.

Just compare
the cn version with the one that the rest of the world sees

Erm... Google images search for tiananmen square tank man in china:

http://images.google.cn/images?hl=en&safe=active&um=1&sa=1&q=tiananmen+square+tank+man&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&start=0

And on google.co.uk:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&safe=active&um=1&sa=1&q=tiananmen+square+tank+man&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&start=0