Or the teacher could have asked him what he meant by "terrorist house" and cleared it all up in seconds, with no police time and money wasted.

Nope, they make recommendations to the government, who then implement them. If they want to.

Real name policies are brilliant for scammers. I had a Paypal scammer use my email address to look up my real name on Facebook. He made a supposed email from Paypal look more authentic by starting it off with "Dear ..." Luckily I use a fake name on FB, so it was easy to spot.

FOS is one of the fundamental rights EU citizens have. They also have a right to privacy and when these two come into conflict, something has to give. You can argue about where the line is drawn but to say that we don't understand FOS is just stupid.

Like real life then?

It's pretty crap, but you can still use it: go to my antique site at http://www.sodwork.com/funnies... and "Search the funnies" for "pussy" or "nuts". Please bear in mind the last time the site was updated was 10 years ago.

It solves the problem of Amazon not being on the front page of news sites for a couple of days.

If you've got nothing better to do then it's worth it, even if it just means they aren't scamming someone else for real while you are pissing them around. I've never had one but I fancy being the confused type who has a corded phone that is in a different room to the computer, meaning he has to explain each mouse click, sometimes several times.

I already listen to music from my Raspberry Pi using it as a transmitter with no analogue components - http://naich.net/wordpress/?p=...

and about 5 times cheaper than printer ink.

I remember FSP. You'd set it going on a file, log out, go on holiday for a couple of weeks, survive a nuclear war that reduces man back to the stone age, rebuild society and rediscover lost technology, rebuild the internet, and FSP would start downloading it again as if nothing had happened. Slow as hell, but you couldn't kill it with a bad connection.

Exactly. Most people here use a web interface to do their emails, while I use Pine in a terminal. I can knock off an email in about 1/4 of the time it takes them to fart around clickety clicking away at their browser. Don't just do change for change's sake, and don't let peer pressure force you into doing something the stupid way,

SPLITTERS!!

Booble.

That and you have to pull a tab to activate the tracking system, so it's not tracking you until you choose to let it.