The main ones I have found which only work with early versions are embedded web apps in things like telephone systems. We had a Mitel 3300 which just would not work with anything later than IE6. The developers in their wisdom wrote some browser detection into the pages that if you weren't using IE6 told you it needed IE6 or later then refused to display anything else.

While people are "happy" to pay high prices for capped and low speed / unreliable services there is no incentive for the internet providers to spend vast amounts upgrading the infrastructure.

You either need a government backed incentive to roll out high speed internet country wide (meaning to everyone not just people in cities) or you need some foreign companies to start moving into the US market to introduce some competition that will force the existing companies to become more competitive in the price and quality of what they offer.

take off the headset before going to the ATM :)

The British government are not the country, I doubt there are many people in the UK who would support this action and even fewer who are happy with the way the government sucks up to the US.

I use a DS1511+ at work with 5 x 3TB in RAID5 setup and I love it. It's rock solid, good performance and reasonably cheap to setup. I have all my Centos servers rsync to it everynight.

http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS2411%2B&lang=uk Still portable enough to do your backup then take offsite.

Now if they have their heads screwed on they will use this as an opportunity to be able to contact the poorest parts of the community when the next natural disaster happens and hopefully save some lives.

The Stainless Steel Rat series are by far my favourite sci-fi books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat

Slippery Jim DiGriz is a top notch character, how these books have managed not to be turned into a film/tv series is beyond me.

Have to agree on the Battlefield Earth front, I love that book. The copy I have states on the cover "soon to be made into a full length feature film!" which when it did eventually happen absolutely did no justice the book whatsoever.

On a side note, my company's sister company has been told they will have to wait until after the Olympics have finished before BT will enable their FTTC connection.

Even though the exchange is enabled and ready to go (and they are in the building next door to the exchange).

Apparently BT have all their engineers on call in London.

fixed it for you

This relates to something which happened in a country which has no freedom of speech act. Therefore freedom of speech is irrelevant.

I finally gave up on Firefox a few months ago after using it from the first version.

Continually locking up on Google images was the last straw.

Moved over to Chrome and after the initial period of hating it (because it was an unfamiliar program) now love it.

Play multiplayer games at work in scheduled sessions, great for team bonding and de-stressing.

zero fucks were given