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  1. I bought a Dyson DC01 when they where first released, it was an excellent vacuum cleaner probably around 1993/1994 after two years the motor failed, I rang the company up to see how much a repair would cost and they fixed it for free.

    Around 2004 we replaced it with a DC07 which we are still using.

    The company projects a good ethos and talks about the importance of engineering. A+ will buy again eventually.

  2. Re:Standard Operating Practice on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    It is at 2,933,450 signatures which is an indication of how pissed off people are.
    When it is at 17,410,743 then I will feel happy that it happens. Before then I will try and get more people to sign it.

  3. You think I would want to be rich and famous...

  4. Re:Yes... Vwery interesting... on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says It's 'Very Likely' The Universe Is A Simulation (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    I would also limit it to a single world and not simulate all the abundance of planets we had spread to just to reduce the computational load.

  5. Re:Linux support? on Intel Launches SSD 750 Series Consumer NVMe PCI Express SSD At Under $1 Per GiB · · Score: 2

    https://communities.intel.com/... Greater than 3.10 I am going to aim for 3.14 http://www.slideshare.net/Larr... ( Page 49 )

  6. Re:not a hoax. on European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout · · Score: 4, Informative

    I emailed 3 of my MEP's and I have received this reply form one

    Thank you for this. No, Andrew was not aware of this matter; but we have since looked into it and indeed discovered that although a great deal of confusion reigned over the vote in question the extra voters appear not to have affected the material outcome. At any rate, as you know, the final legislative votes will take place in plenary and not in committee, and my Liberal colleagues will ensure that we will table appropriate amendments.

    You may be interested, therefore, in my recent proposal to change the rules of procedure of the House to insist on roll call votes at every legislative vote at committee stage (see website).

    Thank you again for writing.

    Yours sincerely,



    Kilian Bourke
    Caseworker to
    Andrew Duff
    Liberal Democrat MEP for the East of England

  7. Re:Raspberry Pi on Doctorow: the Coming War On General-Purpose Computing · · Score: 1

    As an aside I have had a media server that the children use for the last 7 years ( since the youngest was 4 ). But just say no to televisions in their bedrooms.

  8. Custom Service on Kobo To Release Android Tablet E-Reader · · Score: 2

    Kobo have excellent customer service. I bought one for my son when I was in the states last year.
    My son broke the screen, I told Kobo that it was broken because of misuse and they still replaced it. Paying for both parts of the international shipping. If they where selling them to the UK or I was popping over soon I would buy a Vox.
    Kobo make good open standards systems. Maybe a little fragile and cheap feeling but they are cheap and have great customer service.

  9. Re:When photography is outlawed.... on Illegal To Take a Photo In a Shopping Center? · · Score: 1

    So I thought I had posted this but obviously I had not. This happened on the 10th of October this year at the Fulborn Tesco in Cambridge. I will not be shopping at Tesco for the foreseeable future
    I wanted to buy some anti-histamines and some painkillers so I ended up buying three tins of chocolates 6 packs of anti-histamines and two packets of paracetamol and two packets of ibuprofen. I did try to buy some more but something happened....
    I was using a self service register and they always annoy. So someone came over when I put the third pain killer though the till and they said I wasn’t allowed to buy more than two painkillers in a single transaction. So I completed that transaction and started another one for the next two packets. I completed that and had started another when I was told that I was not allowed to buy any more. I asked why and they said it was company policy.
    Basically I ended up being surrounded by the manager for the checkouts, the deputy manger for the store and a security guard. And they wouldn’t let me leave the store with the medicines I had bought, they kept on saying it was against company policy. When the store manager turned up I started recording this on my ipod, I told them I was doing this and they told me to stop because of company policy I refused. I was really shaking and felt very intimidated and unwell I also left my card in the card reader I was so shaken. I have about 10 minutes of audio where they will not let me leave the store with the items I had purchased. I did ask them to ring the police when the said they really were not going to let me out of the shop with the medicines I had bought. Eventually the manager said it was the medicines act and I think he said 1998 but I can only find an 1968 medicines act which googling implies that it limits the drugs that shops which are not pharmacies are allowed to sell. I did then give him the extra packets of paracetamol and ibuprofen but refused a refund as I just wanted to leave the shop. This has really shaken myself and my 10 year old son who was with me up.
    Even if I wasn’t allowed to buy the medicines are they allowed to stop me from leaving the building ? I did pop into the police station later in the day to ask if they were allowed to detain me and they said it was a civil mater. I also asked the police if Tesco had rung them and they refused to answer.

  10. Re:What's the open alternative? on Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles · · Score: 1

    Well they is an an alternative firmware and they support open standard book format. http://ebookapplications.com/ However I did buy a kobo for my son because it was cheaper....

  11. Re:What's the open alternative? on Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles · · Score: 2

    Buy something that supports epub. I would look at the Sony range, Kobo reader and the nook. I own a Sony, I have just bought my son a Kobo reader. Its worth knowing htat the DRM on epub is deflatable and code exists to allow you to easily remove it.

  12. Re:Deadlier than the terrorists on Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable · · Score: 1
    That is not what they mean, different frequencies are stopped by different amounts of tissue. eg X-Rays are stopped by bone.

    The skin image I believe is a product of the scatter. That radiation is an absorbed by the skin is because of the high frequency compared with X-Rays. I believe the accuracy of the image is a product of the frequency as well.

  13. Re:Deadlier than the terrorists on Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable · · Score: 1

    Indeed you would expect most cancers to be skin cancers as you say most of these are less serious than other forms.
    I have just been though airport security and the security really felt if it was for show and not for functionality.

  14. Re:Deadlier than the terrorists on Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One comment was that because all the radiation is "reflected" off the skin then the effective does at the skin is much higher than that of a normal X-ray which is distributed across the body.

  15. Re:NetApp on NetApp Threatens Sellers of Appliances Running ZFS · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is lots of things I agree with in this post however.... They do just work and they keep on working

    uptime 10:07pm up 634 days, 2:48 15108652057 NFS ops, 2183855307 CIFS ops, 3315 HTTP ops, 0 FCP ops, 0 iSCSI ops

    Ontap 8.0 in 7 mode does support up to 90TB in a single aggregate. However given that I am evaluating systems that scale to petabytes in a single filesystem....

  16. Re:And nothing of value is lost on UK Newspaper Websites To Become Nearly Invisible · · Score: 2, Informative
  17. Re:Maybe I'm missing something on Exam Board Deletes C and PHP From CompSci A-Levels · · Score: 1
    You realise that A levels are for 16-18 year olds and while I feel it sad that they are removing C form the list of languages.....

    I learned C for my A levels 25 years ago... and it was well worth it.

  18. Re:And 1/2... on Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly · · Score: 1

    Sorry: just wanted to add that petrol is £1.20 a litre in the UK right now which would be $1.82 a litre or 6.84 dollars a us gallon or 8.21 dollars per real gallon.

  19. Re:Don't limit the perception of those screens! on New Color E-Reader Tech To Challenge E-Ink Dominance · · Score: 1

    If you are reading at more than 120 pages an hour then you are doing something wrong. Most books are 300 or 400 pages.....
    My Sony reader gets lot of use and the display is worth it...

  20. Removing DRM on DRM and the Destruction of the Book · · Score: 1

    I have bought over 1200 ebook/stories. I do buy stories with DRM attached but only if I know I can remove it. Here are some links:

    mobidedrm http://darkreverser.wordpress.com/ This removes the DRM from mobi books

    ineptkey http://i-u2665-cabbages.blogspot.com/2009/02/circumventing-adobe-adept-drm-for-epub.html This removes the DRM from epub.

    calibre http://calibre-ebook.com/ An open source book management system that also does format conversion.

    I have never shared any of the books I have bought although I suppose I would in theory be willing to lend one to someone.

  21. Re:Perhaps on NIH Spends $400K To Figure Out Why Men Don't Like Condoms · · Score: 1

    PS I'm sure your wife appreciates being referred to as a 6.8-7. In the future, you can probably just go ahead and round up to the 7...

    Also remember people have a tendency to date others of the same relative beauty...

  22. Re:I know this isn't the point.... on Newspaper Crowdsources 700,000-Page Investigation of MP Expenses · · Score: 1

    It's one of the more reputable newspapers in Britain. Has a moderate left wing stance and a well educated readership.

    I doubt very much anyone else reads the Guardian.

    I vote liberal and It's the only paper I generally read ( Okay sometimes the Independent...)

  23. Re:kindle price on Kindle Pricing, Business Models and Source Code · · Score: 1

    The sony prs 500, and 505 are not touch screens only the 700 is and I bow to your knowledge about Kindles.

  24. Re:kindle price on Kindle Pricing, Business Models and Source Code · · Score: 1

    The iRex ILiad has a much bigger screen(8.1-inch (diagonal), compared to 5 or 6 inches), it is also touch sensitive and therefore costs more...

  25. Re:This is more about BT Vision than bandwidth on BT Wants Cash For iPlayer, Video Bandwidth · · Score: 2, Informative

    I recently switched provider to Be, and experienced a doubling in download bandwidth, and a trebling in upload bandwidth, for 25% less per month including a fixed IP. Plus BT claimed that "it was not possible to get faster speeds on my line". Funny that, considering you need a BT phone line to sign up with Be. But now I'm not with BT broadband, I can't get BT Vision. So there was no net neutrality in this case. All their stuff was prioritised already.

    I am just about to move house but I have used Be for the last two years. I have called them a couple of times with technical questions and they have always solved them quickly ( under 20 minutes ). Even canceling my service with them easy.
    I have 18Mbits/second down and 1.5Mbits/second up. They are a great service provider.