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I wasn't sure about the meaning of preternatural, but Google is my friend.

The first definition returned begins: Beyond of different from what is natural

How pertinent.

There have been boats built out of concrete for years, they aren't a new phenomenon, the hull has some flexibility. Replacing the steel reinforcing with fibres is an interesting development.

To find out more...
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ferrocement +boat&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Google?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=nds+emulato r

Nah - surely it'd be the Intel Boris. He always gives the impression of having two threads running simultaneously, but never quite being sure on which core they're running.

Please make sure your next generation of processors aren't as atrocious as the Prescott, as AMD is making you look pretty silly right now.'

I still haven't figured out why anyone would want to name a processor after John Prescott, British Deputy PM and Eater of Pies.

What's next? The Intel Widdecombe? The mind boggles.

Please make sure your next generation of processors aren't as atrocious as the Prescott, as AMD is making you look pretty silly right now.'

I still haven't figured out why anyone would want to name a processor after John Prescott, British Deputy PM and Eater of Pies.

What's next? The Intel Widdecombe? The mind boggles.

... not sure why we call it that

So do these guys

He noodled around with the plot for aver ten years before finding a way to re-use it without it being *too* damn obvious.

I hear this now and again, and wonder what the big problem with Douglas re-using these ideas is. Shada was never made. What was he supposed to do? Sigh, and think "Oh well, BBC strikes put paid to that story with all those nice ideas so nobody ever saw it, I'd better just come up with another idea instead."

If you're a writer and you come up with some good ideas/writing that doesn't get used in the end, I can't see the problem in re-using it elsewhere where it's appropriate, or if you really like the story/ideas you came up with.

Similarly, Life the Universe and Everything. Try googling for "Dr Who and the Krikkitmen" (but you probably knew that anyway, you Dr Who freak :-)

He could try a sling.

BS.

The BBC was found guilty of being biast against the government in the Hutton report, simple as that. Why don't you wonder off and read it first?

Secondly, the BBC isn't anywhere near as respected as it used to be. 10 years ago other broadcasters would look on in envy, as media classes throughout the world had complete modules on the running and business of the BBC, nowdays they're looked upon as a joke. Every single news report they have from Iraq is biased, bullshit. Seriously, really listen to the next report comming from Iraq, you'll see multiple digs towards the army, soldiers and the government.

These links don't exist for nothing

I really don't like the new Marvin , he looks kind of Mangaled(sorry for the pun) , and dosn't look entierly crap as he did in the TV-show which really added to the charichter.. Actualy come ot think of it , most of the new costumes are rather odd and make the charichters look like Jedi knights
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://ww w.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/gallery_photos/hitchhike rs_cast_gal.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.scifi.com/sci fiwire2005/index.php%3Fcategory%3D10%26id%3D122&h= 250&w=380&sz=22&tbnid=Wyl4kgno2gMJ:&tbnh=78&tbnw=1 19&hl=en&start=3&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmarvin%2Bhitch hikers%2B%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN
for example

Always handy if you're one of the sole survivors, and looking for ways to ducktape cockroaches :)

Something strange going on there with Google Maps - the postcode alone finds it, but it can't find the street. Try http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=ST5+4EY&hl=en

Ross Anderson's Critique

IBM's Rebuttal

Trusted Gentoo

IBM's rebuttal does a decent job of allaying some of the fears - for example, it states that it will not prevent you from running any OS & programs you wish to on your own computer (which, for the record, I believe - witness the Trusted Gentoo project and e.g. this this link). They state that their approach to Trusted Computing is not particularly well-suited to DRM, and on the face of it, I agree - there seems to be little attempt at restricting the user of a computer with the TPM from doing what they want. However, in my opinion, as a base for an utterly crippling DRM regime, distributors simply could not ask for a better setup, as I'll argue a little later.

So to re-cap, it seems that if you are running Trusted hardware, there are no restrictions on what you can do on your computer in isolation; you can install Linux, run any number of Open Source apps, etc. But the keyword here is in isolation, and it is here that the dangers of Trusted Computing are revealed. For you see, Trusted Computing enables the usage of remote attestation wherein a server may request a hash of all software currently running on your computer. This hash is, for all intents and purposes, unforgeable, and if you disable your TPM (as IBM stress that you can, and again for the record, I see no reason to disbelieve them), no hash will be sent. The server may then assess this hash of software (or note that no hash has been provided, in which case it may well treat your computer as Untrusted) and decide, based on what software you are running, to simply not serve you with whatever material you requested - for example, it may decide that it will not deliver MP3's to your computer unless it knows for a fact that the receiving application is one that is known to encrypt the content as soon as it is received (so that e.g. it simply cannot be viewed while not running in Trusted mode) and which will take every step to ensure that once received, the unencrypted content never leaves your machine (e.g. by being written to CD, e-mailed , etc.). As you can imagine, the above scenario is not at all far-fetched as the **AA/ other media distributors are positively *creaming* themselves at the thought of stamping out casual file-sharing or even making backups for your own use in some of your other devices.

So we are left with the situation where someone who does not use Trusted hardware (and is thus unable to respond to attestation requests) or those who do run Trusted hardware but whose software fingerprint is not deemed acceptable by the server will simply not be granted access to certain material, rendering such people at a big disadvantage. And it's no good buying hardware free from Trust chips from China or such places on the "black market"; this offers no advantage at all as Trusted hardware, as mentioned, does not stop you using your computer the way you want in isolation; the problem only occurs when you try to interact with other computers.

So far, this sounds unpleasant but not too bad (although I would urge you to read Anderson's linked essay for some more imaginative and serious abuses), but if we allow ourselves to follow the slippery-slope, we end up at the state where ISPs will not allow your computer to access the internet at all (for surfing, e-mailing, anything) unless you are running Trusted hardware and software. Obviously, the social, political and legal barriers to this occurence are non-trivial, but we've all seen ridiculous Acts qu

SpreadFirefox is offering prizes for photographic proof of your most amazing spectacles to celebrate.

MSN and Yahoo spider my site. Google doesn't know anything about it. Why? I'm really curious about this.

Actually, a quick search on Google Groups by date suggests that the phrase in a marketing sense was first popularized by Steve Jobs... but when he was at NeXT.

I suspect that the phrase transferred to Apple with him. It was certainly widely used around the launch of OS X.

You can see here, that it was a well entrenched NeXT slogan by late 1992. The earliest quote from Jobs using it as a slogan I could find was in January of that year.

Why yes, I do have too much time on my hands.

Cheers,
Ian

They also mis-placed Ponders End railway station.

Brimsdown is the next station north, which oddly is now Ponders End.

It's also got some strange problems:
Elmstead Woods Station

Nowhere near the railway line and infact the totally wrong road, it's not even on Station Approach (Zoom to read name). Now when i try searching for "Elmstead" it gives one result elsewhere, "Elmstead Woods" doesn't exist.

Okay, the map data may be "Map data ©Crown copyright. Licence number 100026920". However the search should still work.

There are motorway-class A roads to which motorway regulations do not apply, but they are just called the Ax, instead of the Ax(M). An obvious example is the A282, the road which connects Essex and Kent and which is often mistaken for the M25. It looks like a motorway, has a hard shoulder and everything, but the road signs are green instead of blue, and if you are suitably insane you can try cycling on it. You can't cycle on the A1(M).

You'll notice that stretches of A-road which are upgraded to motorways always have a parallel route, often constructed out of one of the carriageways of the original A-road, precisely for traffic which is not allowed on motorways. The A1000 in Hertfordshire (shown here in yellow) is a good example.

The world according to Google.

Hey, so there really IS something on the other side of that big lake!

Who knew?

Even worse is their glasgow maps which include lots of really bizzare errors.

example
For example the west end of the city has Inverquhomery Road instead of Great Western Road. University Avenue is called chewton way ?!?!

These are not exactly obscure parts of Glasgow. The university has only been there for 500 years you would think they could get Uni Avenue right.

And they can even tell you how to drive there from the Shetland Islands

It may not have Edinburgh Waverly station, but it does have Edinburgh Waverley Station. Is that close enough for you?

it's nice that in london, it shows the tube stations right on the map.

It doesn't do this for the metro, in DC for instance. That would definitely be a useful feature to have when planning trips and the like

bristol temple meads works for me. Interestingly the first three places listed on the left are pubs..

The directions are clear until you come to a roundabout (see steps 2 and 4).

"Turn left" is an interesting way to say "turn right". Could make navigating through Milton Keynes a little tricky.

It's a lot better than Autoroute on the laptop was, that one suggested to me that I turn left off the clifton suspension bridge to get to the road 70m below.

It also knows a lot about blocked off roads, enough to suggest an almost viable route between two roads. I say almost, as it did add one illegal U-turn:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?spn=0.009552,0.01578 0&saddr=nugent+hill,+bristol&daddr=Dove+Street,+Ci ty+of+Bristol,+Bristol,+BS2&hl=en

And best of all it's free! If sending text messages is free for you, of course.

Look at something like this route (Leicester to location in London). It takes you ¼-way round the M25, much much longer than continuing to the end of the M1, and slower too! Insane!

There seems to be a red light district between Manchester and Birmingham though -- search "brothel" ;)

Read the FAQ!

How much does it cost?

Google is not charging users to send a query or receive results at this time. However, your mobile operator's standard rates for sending and receiving text messages still apply.

The Mobile Google Local UK seems to be coming along too. At present the searches result a broken page, but the actual search results seem to be there.

The US version seems to work fine.

On the one hand, it knows about the mighty Hings, the Food of the Gods. On the other, I'm more than a little disturbed by the Google ad that 'helpfully' suggests I could find cheaper Fish & Chips on eBay. Doesn't really bear thinking about, that one.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=ba160bh&hl=en

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=56.828125,-6.2395 25&spn=0.180420,0.314500&hl=en

I can't remember that HREF stuff ;?

We've also got Google SMS now, which is actually useful.

Damn. Mine isn't on. Imagine suggesting I need to go all the way to Silverdale for a fish supper.

World leader in search engine technology, my ass. :)

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=51.478210,-0.1683 97&spn=0.043884,0.056873&hl=en/

It even found my local chippy. Go Google!

Does it .. Really .. are you sure .. fancy placing a bet on that

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+m egabit&btnG=Search&meta=
your confusing a megabit with mbps(megabits per second), which is 1,048,576 bits(otherwise known as a megabit) transferd per second.

If you click on link to this map button, it will update your address bar to point back to this location: then you can past it into slashdot.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Clermont+FL&ll=28. 453774,-81.702533&spn=0.010085,0.015664&t=k&hl=en

Here is something

idiot? never mind...

Google_search_of school_computing_club

Maybe I just need
Google_how_to_build_a_club

I feel I need one or two recruits to really get underway, otherwise the research is not directed, for academic research see /dev/null, and I really believe in "learning by doing", and communities of one are hard to keep going!

Google_search_of school_computing_club

Maybe I just need
Google_how_to_build_a_club

I feel I need one or two recruits to really get underway, otherwise the research is not directed, for academic research see /dev/null, and I really believe in "learning by doing", and communities of one are hard to keep going!

And now I am curious. Is it possible to combine my love of a crustless PBJ and deep-frying? I've heard of twinkies being deep-fried...

If it's possible to deep-fry something, then it's already been done in Scotland. And even if it isn't.

I wonder if anyone's tried battering and deep-frying a bottle of Irn Bru?

Obdisclaimer: I am a Scot, so can say what I like about the Scottish diet. :-P

e.g.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3Abreach
or
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3Abreech