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Kelly MacDonald in Trainspotting sort of thing? I can see where you're coming from, aye, I can, laddy. (Oh, and it's "pished" :))

Slashdot, cmon: It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jHTjCdqdLNQC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&source=web&ots=x1R9fMr28Q&sig=BbAWUCkJiqgRv78cbGLtuycnf8I&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA47,M1

Goofy (in the UK at least) tends to mean front teeth that protrude. But, with a little reworking, your joke could be number one over here. :)

I mean look:

A terrorist:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=A%20terrorist&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Not a terrorist:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&q=Not+a+terrorist&btnG=Search+Images

Problem solved. NEXT!
 

I mean look:

A terrorist:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=A%20terrorist&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Not a terrorist:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&q=Not+a+terrorist&btnG=Search+Images

Problem solved. NEXT!
 

because its worked sooo well for the UK government.

honestly, CD are too easy. simply google for "lost cds uk" and see what a total balls up various government agencies have made of giving all our data away freely,

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=uk+lost+cds&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a

hell teeth, it should of been easy enough to encrypt it on the CD as a minimum, or VPN it without using a disk.

yes, they are easy to use - but too easy and too insecure in idiotic hands (though that goes for just about any storage medium I suppose).

but I agree with you totally, I'll not entrust a HDD to parcel force, its bad enough buying one on the 'net anyhow and they are professionally packaged.

Don't forget the Green Goddesses.

One of photos published by the Sun which is supposed to have come off the camera is exactly the same as the first photo that shows up when searching google images for the Abdul al-Hadi al-Iraqi.

Internet Explorer does a very similar thing. We all know how to get around it. Whats your point?

That is why China, and Russia, and Venezuela, and Iran, and North Korea and all the other countries you invaded and explored are getting together for the day that we going to destroy your pathetic country and take our revenge!

Boy, that's SOME COALITION you got there.

well in the UK "Jammy" is slang for "Lucky" - and yes, she is.

so what does this mean for the other **AA cases on the go? whilst its good news for Jammy, having legal weight behind the concept that "making available" is flawed no doubt helps everybody else as well.

am I right?

the main link is already dead (for me) but you can see more here..
http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=Jammy+Thomas&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&hl=en&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=1&ct=title

so she is facing retrial, but already the previous damages award is dismissed as "wholly disproportionate". I wonder if the **AA will offer her a lower fine, something negligible to admit liability and end the case? I mean, its a dirty tactic - but probably well within their remit. they make the money from people who fold and they try to avoid court cases they think they may not win - but they obviously thought they'd win this one first time round and the evidence is unchanged.

of course, the lawyers will win regardless...

Lots of supermarkets do. In Drumchapel in the north-west of Glasgow there is a large B&Q and a large Sainsbury's, both with their logos on the roof and clearly visible to people in aircraft flying into Glasgow Airport (Google map, when Runway 23 is in use (that's slightly to the west). Down near the Clyde, a little to the east, you can still see the name painted on the roof of the old Yarrow shipyard building. It's pretty faded now, presumably because Yarrow is gone (thank you ultra-right economic policies of the 80s - Americans, Palin will be your Maggie Thatcher).

It's presented at install time, you can get a refund if you don't accept it.

Actually scratch that..thte eula is available here, and doesn't mention anything about refunds, that's pretty shitty.

There was a paper in nature recently titled "Improve your jihad: nuclear weapons" as part of their weekly jihad improvement segment.

Google says: No results found for "Improve your jihad: nuclear weapons".

I'm gonna hazard a guess that that query threw up a few red flags somewhere in Fort Meade, Maryland. Just maybe.

There was a paper in nature recently titled "Improve your jihad: nuclear weapons" as part of their weekly jihad improvement segment.

Google says: No results found for "Improve your jihad: nuclear weapons".

GASP! They nuked the article! CENSORSHIP!

There was a paper in nature recently titled "Improve your jihad: nuclear weapons" as part of their weekly jihad improvement segment.

Google says: No results found for "Improve your jihad: nuclear weapons".

Well, I did, and it means what I thought it did; your point, however, remains obscure..?

{{Original research}} !!

What about the very first hit on Google, eh?

The truth is everywhere!

Common Sense Media called Eragon's dialogue long-winded and clichéd, with a plot "straight out of Star Wars by way of The Lord of the Rings, with bits of other great fantasies thrown in here and there".

which is a qualified way to say "I didn't like this movie and feel like it's derivative, but I don't want internet trolls to tear my facts to pieces." And then there's Rotten Tomatoes. If you haven't been to RT before, let me introduce you: Every movie is simultaneously completely derivative and startlingly original, steadfastly boring and dangerously exciting, and a total rip off of some French movie you and I will never see.

I understand the urge to compare the thing. But if I have to search for a specific comparison, if it isn't in the top 10 results for the thing, then I can safely say that it is Not What I Was Talking About.

You haven't been listening then. Eragon is so close to Star Wars it's comical.

This isn't the first time that a server has been lost. Or found.

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.folklore.computers/browse_thread/thread/6289e24b593eaf16/17ac734391deebbb?lnk=gst&q=server+behind+drywall#17ac734391deebbb

Don't any of these people remember reading newsgroups 7 years ago? It's not rocket science.

Linux / Unix

Sorry, it's common parlance in Plan 9 world. However, I didn't know it was so insular until your post.

When you consider the topography and the age of the site

An important point. Population distribution in Britain is very uneven. Half the population live within approximately 80 miles of Kinder Scout (Derbyshire), but that of course excludes the biggest (and most horrible and self-centred) city ; 95% of the population live in about 50% of the country (which is where the mobile phone masts get put. Go to a less populated area, et voila, there goes your signal, down the tubes.) ; whole tracts of the country have only tiny villages spread thinly around the coasts and along some valleys (who's going to put fibre in to service the couple of thousand inhabitants of Fort Augustus, 30 miles each way from anything resembling a large town?)

Just think of the impact of tearing up 50 yards of a 200 year old cobble stone street. How do you put a monetary value on that?

I'll ask my friend on the local Council's Finance Committee. They have to deal with maintenance of the several miles of cobbled street in town. Where the streets are used for light traffic (cars, delivery vans), the cobbles are re-laid every 30-odd years ; where the traffic is heavier (I'm thinking specifically of the #20 bus route) it's about 15 years. It's just standard maintenance.

Not to mention the 200 year old sewer lines that go with the street.

200 year old sewers? Well, there are a few multi-millennial sewers in Rome, so there could be some multi-century ones. But the big period of sewer building in Britain didn't start until 150 to 170 years ago. Picky, picky.

Seems to be called "liquid droplets suspended in a gas". Perhaps these physicists don't know the real term either. One of those articles is even called "Drying of a liquid droplet suspended in its own vapour". *sigh* I don't have to be a degree level physicist to be able to find out physical terms. You should perhaps learn to use google, and concentrate more when reading definitions.

AOL used to censor e-mails that mentioned Scunthorpe. (Notice letters 2-5). Link for Americans and other aliens --> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Scunthorpe&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=13&iwloc=addr The next thing will be a soundex filter. Goodness knows what they'd do if you wanted to fly to Fukuoka (via Phuket International, of course) to buy some Shiitake mushrooms?

See above - you're confusing what you're aware of (that there's a correlation) with real hard science done to detect and attribute the signal of anthropogenic warming from the background variability caused by Milancovic cycles, solar output variations, volcanic production of sulphate aerosols and all the rest of it. Here's a trivial Google search to start you off on your journey of discovery into the wonderful new panorama of hitherto unsuspected areas of scientific endeavour. Happy reading...

Following up the second part of your post: It's 3.3x10^-12 seconds per millimetre. That puts this particle at about a third of the speed of light.

You just need to drop a dll into the program files: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=red%20alert%202%20wsock32.dll&hl=en&meta=

I am going to read this, it sounds rad as hell. Google Books!

They do make strips with individual switches for each outlet now ...

I wouldn't worry. I'm sure the risk of your company ending up at the centre of a series of Therac-25-style problems is a million-to-one against.

Has anyone actually done this? For me, Google returns exactly one hit -- your comment. Nice googlewhack, but not exactly a valid citation.

(ooohh, you mean without the quotes!)

Two people arrive at a 4-way stop at right angles to each other. Who has the right of way? Regulation: The person to your right.

Solution: Use a roundabout instead of a 4-way stop.

Yes because replacing every single 4 way intersection in a residential neighborhood would be so simple, or in a city. EVERY intersection within 6 blocks of me is a 4 way stop, in at congested, 200+ year old city with small houses and tiny streets.

One alternative is to designate one of the roads as more important than the other. Traffic on that road doesn't have to stop at all, traffic on the other roads gets "Give Way" (i.e. "Yield") signs.
Most quiet roads in the UK are like this, "Stop" signs are very rare (generally only at blind junctions). Busier junctions either have a roundabout or traffic lights.

Example (a rare use of a Stop sign, probably the trees/walls restrict the view -- the next junction to the east has the normal Give Way signs and markings).

Something like this. That looks like an expensive version (with a bridge), often they just widen the road a while before the junction, then provide a space between the lanes for drivers going straight over the major road.
(The speed limit on the big road will be 70mph).
The next junction north on that road is a roundabout, then the next is a T-junction-with-bridge-and-roundabouts (crazy).

I'd like to invite you to the UK:
Double mini roundabout (treat it as two separate roundabouts. I lived close to that, buses were good at jamming it up when car drivers weren't paying attention. It's needed because both roads are busy, and both are as important as the other.)

The Magic Roundabout. A road designer's wet dream -- they managed to get the traffic to go round the central circle in the opposite direction to normal. There are multiple routes between any two roads, too.

We like putting traffic lights on them too, but there's so much congestion they're generally needed (many lights on roundabouts say "Peak Time Only", and are switched off when it's not busy).

I'd like to invite you to the UK:
Double mini roundabout (treat it as two separate roundabouts. I lived close to that, buses were good at jamming it up when car drivers weren't paying attention. It's needed because both roads are busy, and both are as important as the other.)

The Magic Roundabout. A road designer's wet dream -- they managed to get the traffic to go round the central circle in the opposite direction to normal. There are multiple routes between any two roads, too.

We like putting traffic lights on them too, but there's so much congestion they're generally needed (many lights on roundabouts say "Peak Time Only", and are switched off when it's not busy).

As you say, the camera platform (actually, the entire s/c) can't slew that fast.Cassini was turned so that the ISS imager was pointing backwards at closest approach. Check out sims (further up that thread) that were done showing a big black square of sky that suddenly fills with Enceladus at extreme close-up. This was the only way they were able to get images of this quality.

could end up like this

http://finance.google.co.uk/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:LNUX

Bruce Edwards Ivins (the Anthrax suspect) aka Jimmy Flathead aka
jimmyflathead@yahoo.com

From: jimmyflathead@yahoo.com (jimmyflathead)
NNTP-Posting-Host: p-903.newsdawg.com

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.literature/msg/d305ab96c3af13b9?hl=en

p-903.newsdawg.com = 64.209.5.103
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OrgName: Global Crossing
OrgID: GBLX
Address: 14605 South 50th Street
City: Phoenix
StateProv: AZ
PostalCode: 85044-6471
Country: US

NetRange: 64.208.0.0 - 64.209.127.255
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Global Crossing [NSA-affiliated IP ranges]
Phoenix AZ US

64.208.0.0 - 64.209.127.255
64.210.0.0 - 64.210.127.255
64.211.0.0 - 64.211.223.255
64.212.0.0 - 64.215.255.255

Oh, he is long dead, but here is a snippet of his family history that should give you a warm fuzzy feeling next time you're asked.

Sorry for the ad-site, but I was in a rush. Find a better one here.

Good god it appears to be the phrase of the year "We are just modern slaves". Top of the shop of abuse of the term is Sepp "I'm a nutter" Blatter who in reference to someone who is paid about $300,000 A WEEK said that it was just like modern slavery.

These people aren't slaves because.... THEY COULD QUIT. It might be tough, it might be hard, but either quit and get another job or work out a constructive way of fixing it.

Don't compare it to the physical ownership of another human being and the sort of destruction of human rights that entails.

Yes, the abrasive in toothpaste can help to polish out the scratches, but really (especially as these are valuable/irreplaceable discs) you should just get it done professionally.

I can't vouch for any particular company, but Googling "disc resurfacing service" turns up plenty of fairly economical options. There's no point spending a few hundred on a professional resurfacing machine, nor is there in risking doing it yourself with toothpaste or metal polish and a microfibre cloth, when you can pay a couple of dollars a disc and have them done by someone who knows what they're doing in a machine that probably cost a thousand or more.

In the UK we sort-of use the kilopound (k£?). "It costs five kay" means it costs 5000, and could be written as £5k. We
write "£5M" to mean £5000000, but it's always spoken as "million", not "em".

Incidentally, Google tells me that (UK£ 5) * Boltzmann constant = 1.34958567 Ã--
10-22 m2 kg s-2 K-1 U.S. Dollars. And there are lots of non-technical uses of "£5k" in the
search results, whereas "$5k" is either UK sites or technical US sites.

[Apologies for the £ mess, there's no way to get that symbol to work correctly on /. -- even &sterling; doesn't work any more. Bring on the Unicode!]

It's quite sad that Apple feels the need to steal the name of animals for their company. A simple Google search reveals there's already a Leopard. The company Steve wants to buy reveals the same thing. Even MSN knows about it, so Live Search isn't left out.
How about a little due diligence, Apple? Or is the plan to just lie, cheat, steal, and discredit mammal opponents in the eyes of CIOs and the press? What about the new, nicer, more open Apple we keep hearing about? Is that just more underhanded marketing building on the goodwill of truly open companies?

we have not known that there is ice on mars, only speculated that it is likely.

No, really, it's been known for years.

The moons of the gas giants are hardly giant balls of ice, though many do contain "ice", although that ice may not be water.

No.

You should obviously look to the UK for this kind of product:
http://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk/argtec.htm

Also films, sprays, etc:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=number+plate+speed+camera

But it seems like a lot of effort to save a few seconds getting to work in the morning :-S

yeah, the difference being that if you search without the quotes, google returns a shedload of results. Cuil still returns nothing:

cuil search

google search

A couple of issues with Nebuad's cookie based opt-out... First off, they can't check if you've opted-out without messing with your traffic, unless they wait for you to visit a site that accesses their cookie domain (faireagle.com). Secondly what happens if a remote website tries to opt you in:- Nebuad's opt-out opt-out page is here - http://www.nebuad.com/privacy/optout.php clicking on the opt-out link sets a couple of faireagle.com cookies (o=9 in a.faireagle.com and b.faireagle.com) However, if you search for Nebuad's opt-in url in google - http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&hl=en&q=site%3Anebuad.com+optin_done&btnG=Search&meta= and click on Google's cache of "www.nebuad.com/privacy/optin_done.php" Then check the faireagle cookies to see if you are still opted-out!

I see no advantage to using wma.

And I see no ships.

'the cloud' is old networking/telephony terminology. Describing interconnection of two sites, you'd diagram the systems at either end, and their local links, but once the links enter the network you don't know or care how the routing happens (generally). This part of the network was 'the cloud' (and was diagrammed as a cloud).

By inference, cloud computing would be where you know the computation is happening somewhere on the network, but you neither know or care exactly where.

See this thread back in 1995 -
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/bit.listserv.techwr-l/browse_thread/thread/d6384bd640275c43/14da0963ed1c294a?hl=en%0Eda0963ed1c294a

Or the first diagram in RFC 1587 (1994):
http://rfc.dotsrc.org/rfc/rfc1587.html

I joined a telecoms company the year before that and the term was in use there, can't vouch for earlier.