Aircraft doors open outwards. The pressure inside the cabin far exceeds that outside when at height, which is how the windows and doors can blow outwards if they fail.
The impossibility of opening them is caused by the control systems, which can be disarmed in an emergency. Opening the doors in flight is a little-used technique to clear cabin smoke, but there are several things in place that have to be turned off to allow it to happen. Mr Lemmeouttahere, being pissed, would have found those things quite tricky.
Back in legal land, the airport authorities deemed the tweet to be unthreatening, as did South Yorkshire Police - but they had to hand it on to the CPS as a matter of course. It was only when they got hold of it that the anti-terror folks got in on the act.
Been with NTL/VM for nearly 10 years. In all that time we've had precisely one bit of shonky service, in Oct 2010 when the local students arrived our broadband became practically unusable of an evening.
Being a networky type, I already had some monitoring in place. Firstly they came out and replaced the old cable modem (which apparently shouldn't have been working since they upped the signal strength for 50Mbps services) as it kept rebooting, and that sort-of solved things until the students arrived. Then it went pear-shaped from 6pm to midnight.
I tweeted about it. Their support guys from Twitter were bloody brilliant - I sent them some graphs, and their reply was "you're absolutely right, your head end is oversubscribed, we're fixing it in 6 weeks". True to their word, they did - and offered me a substantial reduction on my bill. I cashed it in for a TiVo instead (which has also been excellent).
It would have been better if there was no problem at all, but one service outage in 9 years is pretty good.
Oh, and we recently ported a BT number over to them. Absolutely, totally, completely pain-free.
The term "compliance" is bandied about in data lifecycle management briefings and product notes like confetti at a wedding. However... The first question organisations (or individuals) need to ask is a completely non-technical one:
With *what* are we expected to be compliant?
Internal policies?
Industry "Best practice"?
Statutory law?
Also there's a trade-off, particularly for the public sector - the need to ensure that Data Protection laws are followed (that is, only keeping what is necessary particularly pertaining to individuals) but at the same time ensuring that this does not make Freedom of Information requests impossible to fulfil. You might find that statutory law means some piece of data has to kept for 7 years, but if it isn't going to be used (and pertains to an individual) it should not be retained. What a dilemma.
And when that FOI request arrives, all this data has to be produced, at which point the individual is likely to ask *why* you were keeping it.
So, before thinking about the technicalities, think about the reality - what do we need to keep, why, and for how long?
Hey, Mr Anonymous Coward, let's see whether you actually read TFA...
Google - Android Market.
Apple - App Store
Amazon - Appstore
I think you'll find that Apple's beef is with Amazon, not Google. OK, so the Android Market begins with A, but that's where the titular resemblance ends.
This is doomed to fail from the outset - determining what is "infringing material" is all but impossible in any automated system. The FP rate will be *enormous*.
"how will you ever know that your mates on Facebook or the celebs you follow on Twitter are really care about these things"
How do you know that the attractive, personable, 20-something couple who approach you in the street about environmental activism really care about these things when they're often getting paid for it? Come to that, if the subject comes up in the pub, how do you *actually* know that your friend really cares, rather than simply being a sheep?
...one failure and the whole anarcho-military-aerospace-industrial-government complex will come down on them like a ton of deorbiting ESA space truck debris.
It was just a diversion. They do this so some dodgy bastard can nick small items like mobile phones from the trays... Thankyou, Heathrow security, for diverting my attention last year and letting some light-fingered member of staff (or a passer-by) walk off with my phone.
'What is next? Apple telling their customers that they can only get software for their Mac or Mac Book from iTunes also?'
How long until you have to pay top whack for Mac OSX Pro which will allow you to install "other" software, ie. not downloaded from iTunes? Not too long now given the OSX App Store's launch.
We poor "home" or "consumer" folks will have to make do with the App Store, and Apple will take a cut from every download. Want to install your own software from DVD or CD? Pay the cut up front on your OS costs.
I'm sure I'm not the only reader of El Reg who's simultaneously a parent and a technically literate Internet user. As an experienced hosting and network engineer of almost 15 years, and a parent for 7, I can see quite clearly that:
* most readers of El Reg know that a global filtering system is doomed to fail. False positives only have to happen once (or worse, more than that) to drive a bus through the whole argument. False negatives are even worse.
* most parents are perfectly responsible for their own children.
* too many Daily Fail readers and their ilk big up the "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" so loudly that those parents who aren't technically savvy get taken along, because explaining the technical difficulties behind such a scheme in terms they understand is very, very difficult - it's far easier to follow the soundbites.
As a parent, my main worry when my kids get a bit older isn't that they'll stumble across some porn when using the Internet at home (and remember, kids, The Internet is rather more than just The World Wide Web). It's that they'll be exposed to something using a mobile phone by a friend. I just hope that they'll be comfortable enough to talk about it to me when they do, and let me deal with it rather than some "parent by proxy" system which kids can work around.
To cap it all, a pair of technical question (which you should write to your MP to ask): Who would be responsible for the system, and how would they enforce it in multi-occupant properties? You know - family homes, with multiple age ranges?
I think a less sensationalist approach to the whole issue by all concerned would work wonders, personally.
SPAM is a trademark of Hormel, Inc, and has nothing to do with UBE/UCE. Nor does it have anything to do with representative government, and in fact I'm going to lobby my MP through 38 Degrees to ban it because it's horrid. That is all.
...let's hope the publishers pass some of the profits over to XH558's owners, or the book is all we'll have. If anyone reading this article thinks they'd like to support the VTTS Trust, go here:
http://www.vulcantothesky.org/donate
and give them lots of lovely money to keep 558 flying!
...in Hong Kong during the "nobody can fly to Europe" days, to replace a Touch Pro that the numpties at Heathrow T3 security managed to make me lose. I wanted a Desire but couldn't find one.
I like it. It's taken me a few days to get used to the capacitative screen - I've been a stylus/keyboard user for years - but it does exactly what I want it to. I do find that HTC Peep manages to hog the CPU a bit on large updates, but I can live with that.
Only problem I have right now is that I can't find a case to fit it into...
"mainstream users have stayed clear of it because of the lack of a clear business need for the technology"
That day will come. Unfortunately, when it comes it's likely to be a Big Bang moment - to persuade the beancounters right now that they need to transition to avoid future pain is itself a painful process. That pain, however, is nothing compared to the chaos that will likely ensue when we really *need* to move to IPv6 and the beancounters start telling us to do it yesterday :(
I've moved my number from Cellnet (original contract started back in 1993) to Orange, to Vodafone and now O2. Who collects the termination fee and who gets paid, as Cellnet eventually morphed into O2?
Maybe every call I make has a small quantity of money being passed perpetually between all the companies involved... and mine's a simple one, I know many people who change networks like they change their pants - once or twice a year :)
I think you'll find that the "_something_" is "innocent"... but you knew that anyway. Irony, see, we all understand that. Except them thar folks from over that thar pond.
But the "until" should actually be "unless". The difference is very, very important:
Apart from the baseless rumours and unfounded, indeed unconfirmed, allegations about which you know little (or nothing) and can do even less.
I wonder how long it will be (in all seriousness) before people have to be vetted and approved before they can have children? After all, the majority of abuse of young people happens in the home and is perpetrated by those adults closest to them.
@Dan 55: possibly. Also listed as suspects were many, many people whose credit cards had been cloned or otherwise fraudulently misused, whose careers and lives were wrecked (and in some cases lost, sadly).
Yes, Ore uncovered a lot of diabolical behaviour and gave a lot of people a criminal record (and rightly so), but the collateral damage to those guilty by association was (is) a high price to pay.
Stealing, eh? Let me just get this big bag of bits that I have here (they were megabits but I broke them up so you can have more of them) and put them in an email to you. There, my conscience is salved.
Personally I find Adblock (and occasionally NoScript) particularly useful for switching off those nauseatingly CPU-consuming JSON heavy Flash widgets (sometimes described as adverts) which nail my CPU to the floor and render my PC all but useless. Maybe, just maybe, if the people who wrote them (who I believe are called "programmers", but often refer to themselves as "web designers" because it sounds less dull) got the bloody code right more often and didn't screw the pooch in terms of browser performance then they wouldn't be as damned intrusive.
Do you describe people who ignore adverts in paper magazines, or fast-forward (or use autoskip) the ones on recorded TV, as thieves also?
And remember, there is rather more to The Internet than The World Wide Web.
Before you ask, I'm a specialist in Internet infrastructure. You know, the sort of stuff that moves drivel, sorry, content, from place to place. The sort of kit you really, really rely on.
Now, before you post another diatribe, please go and polish that last JSON call you wrote and make it really efficient, rather than preloading mountains of content into my browser just so I don't have to wait 10 more milliseconds for a div to display, there's a good lad.
Mine's the one with "Juniper" across the back. Yes, the one next to the Cisco bodywarmer.
PS I happen to think that the workers referred to ITFA are on a hiding to nothing - blow up factory, lose jobs, no money. Don't blow up factory, lose jobs, no money. Not a prticularly tasty choice, is it?
But for the other 10%, for instance where someone moves house and doesn't update their details (you know, like the one explained ITFA) then... well, just then.
I've had one of the 3M "joystick" mice for about 3 years, and it is utterly fantastic. I used to whinge and whine about pain and discomfort in my forearms, and it went away after a few weeks of discomfort in my shoulders (which this mouse creates as you change mouse methodology, but goes away as they learn how to move).
I was also single, and I'm now married to a 20-something blonde Swedish pilates teacher, just because of the mouse.
OK, the last bit is made up. But it's still a life-changing device IMO.
Gullible member of the public (which all MPs are, after all) falls for scam on social networking site. Film at 11.
What's more newsworthy is the fact that millions upon millions of people continue to fall for the "Look at this!" "Free Pr0n!" "You won a million zloty!" messages that they get from umpteen different sources. But, because they're not famous, this is somehow non-news.
Nope. It means people who are scared of the NetApp CLI will now be able to do horrendous things using a mouse, instead of typing. Wizards notwithstanding, someone with little experience is likely to make very poor or sub-optimal decisions on aggregate/volume setup.
Like, for example, putting all their disks into one aggregate and putting Vol0 in that aggr. That plays merry hell when they come to the time they need to shrink aggr0... and can't.
"It was an issue for constituents, not the Government. We are checking all that and I am assured there's no evidence that confidentiality of constituents was affected," the former Home Secretary told The Telegraph."
Considering this account is the one advertised for constituents to use, I'd say that their confidentiality *was* affected - although one suspects the Lads from Lagos don't have too much interest in the state of the paving stones in Blackburn town centre.
"Initial plans are only for a mild hybrid with a lithium-ion batter pack"
I want one. I could be environmentally responsible *and* eco-friendly at the same time as being excessively violent (in a non-sexual way, of course, wouldn't want to trip the sex police radar) towards other car drivers.
A monumental one, which someone will get punted for, but a cockup nonetheless.
Unfortunately HMG and the industry they have dictated to, along with the Daily Fail and hordes of screaming panicking "I red it in da paper so it must be troo" Joe Publics have conditioned us all to the immediately respond with "CONSPIRACY! NANNY STATE!"
Shall we see what the *real* cause is before we holler?
BTW I'm an NTL (well, VM) punter and it all works fine for me.
Oh, lord, the many-headed beast grows another head
Cheasy Peasy < Lemon Squeezy < Ubuntu < Debian
How many more forks can we get? There's enough trouble with Ubuntu-ites who can't read bloody documentation turning up on support mailing lists and forums without going through their own, or Debian's, first. Now there's another one. Great!
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Blimey
Where's my bloody pen? I'm sure I put it down here somewhere...
Er...
Poppy, and as they say round here, cock.
Aircraft doors open outwards. The pressure inside the cabin far exceeds that outside when at height, which is how the windows and doors can blow outwards if they fail.
The impossibility of opening them is caused by the control systems, which can be disarmed in an emergency. Opening the doors in flight is a little-used technique to clear cabin smoke, but there are several things in place that have to be turned off to allow it to happen. Mr Lemmeouttahere, being pissed, would have found those things quite tricky.
Back in legal land, the airport authorities deemed the tweet to be unthreatening, as did South Yorkshire Police - but they had to hand it on to the CPS as a matter of course. It was only when they got hold of it that the anti-terror folks got in on the act.
Presumably...
...they're all now in the care of the Department of Correction. Which doesn't sound like punishment for the main perp, does it?
But
Does it have CiQ preinstalled?
Happy Punter
Been with NTL/VM for nearly 10 years. In all that time we've had precisely one bit of shonky service, in Oct 2010 when the local students arrived our broadband became practically unusable of an evening.
Being a networky type, I already had some monitoring in place. Firstly they came out and replaced the old cable modem (which apparently shouldn't have been working since they upped the signal strength for 50Mbps services) as it kept rebooting, and that sort-of solved things until the students arrived. Then it went pear-shaped from 6pm to midnight.
I tweeted about it. Their support guys from Twitter were bloody brilliant - I sent them some graphs, and their reply was "you're absolutely right, your head end is oversubscribed, we're fixing it in 6 weeks". True to their word, they did - and offered me a substantial reduction on my bill. I cashed it in for a TiVo instead (which has also been excellent).
It would have been better if there was no problem at all, but one service outage in 9 years is pretty good.
Oh, and we recently ported a BT number over to them. Absolutely, totally, completely pain-free.
Yep, happy punter.
It was...
...but an MP walked by, and it disappeared. They're well-known for bending the fabric of space-time, doncha know.
Finger pointing
It was them -> <- meht saw tI!
But...
Never let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, and vice-versa.
Policy, schmolicy
The term "compliance" is bandied about in data lifecycle management briefings and product notes like confetti at a wedding. However... The first question organisations (or individuals) need to ask is a completely non-technical one:
With *what* are we expected to be compliant?
Internal policies?
Industry "Best practice"?
Statutory law?
Also there's a trade-off, particularly for the public sector - the need to ensure that Data Protection laws are followed (that is, only keeping what is necessary particularly pertaining to individuals) but at the same time ensuring that this does not make Freedom of Information requests impossible to fulfil. You might find that statutory law means some piece of data has to kept for 7 years, but if it isn't going to be used (and pertains to an individual) it should not be retained. What a dilemma.
And when that FOI request arrives, all this data has to be produced, at which point the individual is likely to ask *why* you were keeping it.
So, before thinking about the technicalities, think about the reality - what do we need to keep, why, and for how long?
Dweeb?
Hey, Mr Anonymous Coward, let's see whether you actually read TFA...
Google - Android Market.
Apple - App Store
Amazon - Appstore
I think you'll find that Apple's beef is with Amazon, not Google. OK, so the Android Market begins with A, but that's where the titular resemblance ends.
Options
mount -t vfat -o debug,flush,sink
Mine's the one with the USB stick in the pocket.
Never forget
Scunthorpe.
Essex.
Middlesex.
Sussex.
This is doomed to fail from the outset - determining what is "infringing material" is all but impossible in any automated system. The FP rate will be *enormous*.
Hrm.
"how will you ever know that your mates on Facebook or the celebs you follow on Twitter are really care about these things"
How do you know that the attractive, personable, 20-something couple who approach you in the street about environmental activism really care about these things when they're often getting paid for it? Come to that, if the subject comes up in the pub, how do you *actually* know that your friend really cares, rather than simply being a sheep?
1337?
Their server is also running mod_frontpage. 1337 5ki11z indeed.
Whack-a-mole
Newzbin3? 4? 5? 1337?
But...
...one failure and the whole anarcho-military-aerospace-industrial-government complex will come down on them like a ton of deorbiting ESA space truck debris.
Diversion
It was just a diversion. They do this so some dodgy bastard can nick small items like mobile phones from the trays... Thankyou, Heathrow security, for diverting my attention last year and letting some light-fingered member of staff (or a passer-by) walk off with my phone.
"pro" and "consumer"...
'What is next? Apple telling their customers that they can only get software for their Mac or Mac Book from iTunes also?'
How long until you have to pay top whack for Mac OSX Pro which will allow you to install "other" software, ie. not downloaded from iTunes? Not too long now given the OSX App Store's launch.
We poor "home" or "consumer" folks will have to make do with the App Store, and Apple will take a cut from every download. Want to install your own software from DVD or CD? Pay the cut up front on your OS costs.
Hrm. Believable, isn't it?
Parenting Fail?
I'm sure I'm not the only reader of El Reg who's simultaneously a parent and a technically literate Internet user. As an experienced hosting and network engineer of almost 15 years, and a parent for 7, I can see quite clearly that:
* most readers of El Reg know that a global filtering system is doomed to fail. False positives only have to happen once (or worse, more than that) to drive a bus through the whole argument. False negatives are even worse.
* most parents are perfectly responsible for their own children.
* too many Daily Fail readers and their ilk big up the "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" so loudly that those parents who aren't technically savvy get taken along, because explaining the technical difficulties behind such a scheme in terms they understand is very, very difficult - it's far easier to follow the soundbites.
As a parent, my main worry when my kids get a bit older isn't that they'll stumble across some porn when using the Internet at home (and remember, kids, The Internet is rather more than just The World Wide Web). It's that they'll be exposed to something using a mobile phone by a friend. I just hope that they'll be comfortable enough to talk about it to me when they do, and let me deal with it rather than some "parent by proxy" system which kids can work around.
To cap it all, a pair of technical question (which you should write to your MP to ask): Who would be responsible for the system, and how would they enforce it in multi-occupant properties? You know - family homes, with multiple age ranges?
I think a less sensationalist approach to the whole issue by all concerned would work wonders, personally.
Need?
"Everyone needs tablets and they need them now and they need the OS to be cheap, and better still, open source."
*Everyone*? Really? I'm doing OK without, kthxbye.
Shepshed Dynamo
Play at a ground called the Dovecote, on Butt Hole Lane... always raises a smile :)
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sourceid=Mozilla-search&q=butthole%20lane
POOR IMPULSE CONTROL
Would be a much better phrase for a numpty like that (Thanks, Neal)
And there was I...
...assuming someone had resurrected goatse. But no, this is far less shocking. What a disappointment.
"I would say this counts as SPAM."
SPAM is a trademark of Hormel, Inc, and has nothing to do with UBE/UCE. Nor does it have anything to do with representative government, and in fact I'm going to lobby my MP through 38 Degrees to ban it because it's horrid. That is all.
Profits, profits...
...let's hope the publishers pass some of the profits over to XH558's owners, or the book is all we'll have. If anyone reading this article thinks they'd like to support the VTTS Trust, go here:
http://www.vulcantothesky.org/donate
and give them lots of lovely money to keep 558 flying!
I bought one of these
...in Hong Kong during the "nobody can fly to Europe" days, to replace a Touch Pro that the numpties at Heathrow T3 security managed to make me lose. I wanted a Desire but couldn't find one.
I like it. It's taken me a few days to get used to the capacitative screen - I've been a stylus/keyboard user for years - but it does exactly what I want it to. I do find that HTC Peep manages to hog the CPU a bit on large updates, but I can live with that.
Only problem I have right now is that I can't find a case to fit it into...
Oh, and it cost rather less than £320.
My other half
...used to work for NATS. Her boss was the same person mentioned in this article.
Not interesting, I know, but then most comments aren't are they?
Binary Compatibility
...with Fedora 10. The release which goes EOL next week. Useful!
Warranty
Running specific software can invalidate the *hardware* warranty? News to me.
Business Needs...
"mainstream users have stayed clear of it because of the lack of a clear business need for the technology"
That day will come. Unfortunately, when it comes it's likely to be a Big Bang moment - to persuade the beancounters right now that they need to transition to avoid future pain is itself a painful process. That pain, however, is nothing compared to the chaos that will likely ensue when we really *need* to move to IPv6 and the beancounters start telling us to do it yesterday :(
@David Webb
Hawking. That's HawkinG. HawkinS is that bloke with the trousers that are too tight,
Since 1969...
There have been no good films, let a lone sci-fi, since 1969. Arthur took the biscuit with 2001 and never gave it back to anyone.
@markom
That blog post is two years old, from their last major outage.
In this instance, the network the website is hosted on disappeared from the global BGP routing table for 90 minutes or so.
Er, woah
I've moved my number from Cellnet (original contract started back in 1993) to Orange, to Vodafone and now O2. Who collects the termination fee and who gets paid, as Cellnet eventually morphed into O2?
Maybe every call I make has a small quantity of money being passed perpetually between all the companies involved... and mine's a simple one, I know many people who change networks like they change their pants - once or twice a year :)
@Aleksis
I think you'll find that the "_something_" is "innocent"... but you knew that anyway. Irony, see, we all understand that. Except them thar folks from over that thar pond.
But the "until" should actually be "unless". The difference is very, very important:
"until" == presumption of guilt
"unless" == suspicion of guilt.
If you have nothing to hide...
...you have nothing to fear.
Apart from the baseless rumours and unfounded, indeed unconfirmed, allegations about which you know little (or nothing) and can do even less.
I wonder how long it will be (in all seriousness) before people have to be vetted and approved before they can have children? After all, the majority of abuse of young people happens in the home and is perpetrated by those adults closest to them.
<shakes head in disappointed resignation>
Re: Operation Ore
@Dan 55: possibly. Also listed as suspects were many, many people whose credit cards had been cloned or otherwise fraudulently misused, whose careers and lives were wrecked (and in some cases lost, sadly).
Yes, Ore uncovered a lot of diabolical behaviour and gave a lot of people a criminal record (and rightly so), but the collateral damage to those guilty by association was (is) a high price to pay.
@Citizen Kaned
Calm down dear, it's only an advert...
Stealing, eh? Let me just get this big bag of bits that I have here (they were megabits but I broke them up so you can have more of them) and put them in an email to you. There, my conscience is salved.
Personally I find Adblock (and occasionally NoScript) particularly useful for switching off those nauseatingly CPU-consuming JSON heavy Flash widgets (sometimes described as adverts) which nail my CPU to the floor and render my PC all but useless. Maybe, just maybe, if the people who wrote them (who I believe are called "programmers", but often refer to themselves as "web designers" because it sounds less dull) got the bloody code right more often and didn't screw the pooch in terms of browser performance then they wouldn't be as damned intrusive.
Do you describe people who ignore adverts in paper magazines, or fast-forward (or use autoskip) the ones on recorded TV, as thieves also?
@Citizen Kaned (again)
And remember, there is rather more to The Internet than The World Wide Web.
Before you ask, I'm a specialist in Internet infrastructure. You know, the sort of stuff that moves drivel, sorry, content, from place to place. The sort of kit you really, really rely on.
Now, before you post another diatribe, please go and polish that last JSON call you wrote and make it really efficient, rather than preloading mountains of content into my browser just so I don't have to wait 10 more milliseconds for a div to display, there's a good lad.
Mine's the one with "Juniper" across the back. Yes, the one next to the Cisco bodywarmer.
PS I happen to think that the workers referred to ITFA are on a hiding to nothing - blow up factory, lose jobs, no money. Don't blow up factory, lose jobs, no money. Not a prticularly tasty choice, is it?
Rubbish
The phone might be good, but that bloke's swing needs some serious work. And he'd have conceded a lineout on the halfway line with that kick...
@fifi
But for the other 10%, for instance where someone moves house and doesn't update their details (you know, like the one explained ITFA) then... well, just then.
Late to the party, but...
I've had one of the 3M "joystick" mice for about 3 years, and it is utterly fantastic. I used to whinge and whine about pain and discomfort in my forearms, and it went away after a few weeks of discomfort in my shoulders (which this mouse creates as you change mouse methodology, but goes away as they learn how to move).
I was also single, and I'm now married to a 20-something blonde Swedish pilates teacher, just because of the mouse.
OK, the last bit is made up. But it's still a life-changing device IMO.
News?
Gullible member of the public (which all MPs are, after all) falls for scam on social networking site. Film at 11.
What's more newsworthy is the fact that millions upon millions of people continue to fall for the "Look at this!" "Free Pr0n!" "You won a million zloty!" messages that they get from umpteen different sources. But, because they're not famous, this is somehow non-news.
Sigh.
@Frank Gerlach
Flying like that, the crew need to keep an eye out for the Gruffalo...
@Windows only?
Nope. It means people who are scared of the NetApp CLI will now be able to do horrendous things using a mouse, instead of typing. Wizards notwithstanding, someone with little experience is likely to make very poor or sub-optimal decisions on aggregate/volume setup.
Like, for example, putting all their disks into one aggregate and putting Vol0 in that aggr. That plays merry hell when they come to the time they need to shrink aggr0... and can't.
Oh, that's ok then
"It was an issue for constituents, not the Government. We are checking all that and I am assured there's no evidence that confidentiality of constituents was affected," the former Home Secretary told The Telegraph."
Considering this account is the one advertised for constituents to use, I'd say that their confidentiality *was* affected - although one suspects the Lads from Lagos don't have too much interest in the state of the paving stones in Blackburn town centre.
Anyone interested in reporting this to the ICO?
Li-ion assault
"Initial plans are only for a mild hybrid with a lithium-ion batter pack"
I want one. I could be environmentally responsible *and* eco-friendly at the same time as being excessively violent (in a non-sexual way, of course, wouldn't want to trip the sex police radar) towards other car drivers.
What a brilliant typo :)
This all sounds like a cock-up
A monumental one, which someone will get punted for, but a cockup nonetheless.
Unfortunately HMG and the industry they have dictated to, along with the Daily Fail and hordes of screaming panicking "I red it in da paper so it must be troo" Joe Publics have conditioned us all to the immediately respond with "CONSPIRACY! NANNY STATE!"
Shall we see what the *real* cause is before we holler?
BTW I'm an NTL (well, VM) punter and it all works fine for me.
cheesyEasy Peasy rebrandOh, lord, the many-headed beast grows another head
Cheasy Peasy < Lemon Squeezy < Ubuntu < Debian
How many more forks can we get? There's enough trouble with Ubuntu-ites who can't read bloody documentation turning up on support mailing lists and forums without going through their own, or Debian's, first. Now there's another one. Great!
Funny...
...that they're no longer in the top ten at all. A little bit of public shaming does wonders, sometimes. Now what about the rest of the feckers?
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