Identify the core aims and objectives for the lab. What do you hope to achieve? How do you hope to achieve it? Your stakeholders will need to be cool with this, not least your funders and users. Everything follows on from this.

Identify the resources available. This is not just the hardware. You're going to need a room to house that lab. Electricity. Network? Internet access? Appropriately skilled staffing (likely volunteers). If you are not going to be regularly involved and on-site you may need a local to manage and champion the project. Are there going to be costs and how will you fund them?

Your choice in software might be largely dictated by the above. The relative merits of the software itself might not even be a relevant issue.

So, does NoScript work then? It disables flash unless you whitelist the domain it is coming from.

No that is not almost (or at all, in any way, shape or form) like a bribe. It is completely and fundamentally different from being a bribe, for the reason you state.

Forgot to mention that by running noscript, people like me are automatically blocking any adserving coming in externally, again unless we make the effort to whitelist it.

Is it practical to have ads coming from your own domain?

Myself and I assume many others, blacklist the likes of "ad.doubleclick.net". On sites I like, maybe I'll get around to whitelisting it on that page, but maybe not since I don't really want doubleclick tracking me. But when your ads are coming from the sites own domain then I'll have to be purposefully making the effort to block those ads; if they are not obnoxious I probably wont.

While you are at it, avoid having the likes of /adserver/ and /banner/ in the address.

If the loan was at an expensive interest rate or included specific terms for what it could be used for, then being able to repay the loan early is good news for Tesla and anyone with an interest in their success.

However if this was a cheap loan that was not tightly restricted, its an odd choice to repay cheap finance early. Didn't Tesla have anything good to put the cash on?

That is not very accurate from my experience. Opinions on Clarkson are broadly polarised in the UK.

Generally, most seem to view him as something of an opinionated oaf, with the difference being on whether this is found to be charming and entertaining or just stupid and loud-mouthed.

I think you're right to suspect that taking people out of the ads data reduces the value of those ads disproportionately. But I don't think your specific reason is much of a problem - they'd just factor it into the pricing.

Much more of a problem is that their ads and data are much less complete. They're having to add all these caveats and "we can" gets replaced by "we can't".

Mid-range TVs do all of this now, or you can point your webbrowser to any of the main tv providers.

Only thing to watch for is with the TVs, some of them take the piss with pricing on their proprietary USB wifi.

Moving a TV aerial should be a fairly straightforward DIY task unless you're renting, though you should be able to get someone in to do it for you quite cheaply and they should align your aerial for you too. If you still get a crappy reception, look into Freesat.

I think it is reasonable to consider that anyone who does not trust Adobe Reader is responsible for disabling it or installing an alternate reader.

Actually I wouldn't be surprised if the PDF-warning arose not in the interests of security, but from the days of dial-up internet and to advise it opens another application. Back in the day if there was a PDF to read I always used to download it as a file and then open it because Reader was a complete ass at trying to download pages as I was reading through it.

Interesting examples, but when someone asks a question it is illogical to respond in a manner that condemns him for being wrong and folly to do so with disdain.

Did it occur to you that maybe she did actually need to open the weekly reports and that the policy was not fit for purpose? The story seems intended to imply the ignorance of the user but I'm left questioning the ignorance of the IT guy.

This got me thinking, why am I paying insurance when my house has never once burned down yet???

I suspect the approach of this article may be more relevant than at many times in the past because we've gone a fairly long time without having compatibility issues from AGP/PCI-E ports, power supplies...

Additionally I suspect the increase in CPU performance over the period has been relatively low in a gaming context as a lot of the added performance has been multi-core which games do not utilise especially well. Added to that is a long period where many PC games are multi-platform - presumably this involves taking a game that runs on the lowest-common denominator (XBox360) and then upscaling it which - again presumably - mostly involves tarting up the GPU-powered graphics rather than the CPU-powered engine itself.

Pity though that they didn't give us much about how they could increase the graphics quality without falling below a playable level.

Carefully-worded!

Ireland is used by some companies as a tax-dodge because profits can be freely shifted around the EU and Ireland's corporation tax rate is amongst the lowest within the EU (and even friendlier for some specific things like IP). Tax-dodging companies shift profits into Ireland on paper using intangibles, management charges, interest and suchlike. It's typically... difficult to understand... how these profit-shifts relate to economic or commercial reality, especially when the corporate address booking most of the EU profits is a tiny office with a handful of administrative staff while there's massive operations in other countries consistently booking roughly nil profit.

However this Intel move involves actual investment, production and jobs into the country. Profits generated from that are economic and commercial reality. If the low tax rate was a factor then totally fair and valid. I would expect that they also got some other forms of assistance, maybe free lands rents, which is also fair enough if it is within the EU rules.