I always fancied "fuck you copper, this is a fit-up - I ain't going canary!". Speaking of which, my work computer's just told me my password is about to expire... ;-)

The real problem is the people in Dubai don't like the Flintstones. Thankfully the people in Abu Dhabi do.

We can expect millions of euros spent on months and months of wrangling to try to keep the most corporate-sponsored parts of the plan to be kept in whilst wording them in such a way that they don't look so corporately sponsored. All the features that the ordinary people of Europe might want will be watered down in wording that looks like it's all good but actually gives no power to those clauses.

If you want shitty legislation, you've really got to pay for it. If you want good legislation, look elsewhere :-(

I'm a mathematics genius too. I counted all my money, and I've managed to amass 23 billion pounds, just in my wallet (and that's after I bought lunch). That doesn't include all the money in my penny jar at home and the stuff that's down the back of the sofa. If we add all that, I'm pretty sure I'm the second richest person in the world.

Whenever I lose something, I go back to wherever I last saw it and retrace my steps. Have they tried that?

...like the BBC? All you need to do is search there instead of Google: http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/?q... Or even frikkin' Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?q=S...

And there is the ridiculousness of this law. It's not about "being forgotten" it's about breaking Google's market dominance. Either way, it's complete bullshit and should never have been made into a law.

They SAY they could do that, but they can't tell the truth.

So when we get to step 2, do I get an extra bedroom and a garage/workshop?

One place I worked had some branded water bottles made up for some event or other. Some of them didn't get used and got put in a cupboard for a year or two. When we found them, just about all of them had sort of "over inflated" a bit (and were past their use-by date). Given they were in the office, it seems unlikely they got heated to such an extent that the contents would have expanded that much purely due to temperature. I'm not qualified, but I'd imagine they'd begun to degrade, releasing a bit of gas into the water and reducing the structural integrity of the bottle allowing the "over inflated" look.Needless to say, no one was keen to try drinking any of the water ;-)

Creamer is made using the other 'cows' in the field that aren't busy making the (real) milk ;-)

Day 0 - Our sun is puked into existence, with a shit-tonne of rubble floating around it.
100 million years later, a big rock hits earth - thus earth must have been there, so we know earth was made on or before 100 million years after the sun. Previous measurements of our atmosphere from rocks suggests this to be true.

French people look at all the observations, and saw that the calibrations were a bit off, and then worked out that collision took place 60 million years earlier than previously thought. Therefore, the earth must have formed 60 million years earlier than first thought, and been solid and "finished" enough to be able to produce the moon from the impact. That suggests the earth was formed in 40 million years, not 100 million years - that makes quite a difference to our understanding of how planets are formed. From the French perspective, this means the FSM didn't have as many RTT days in his contract as was previously thought, and possibly worked many of the days we now consider public holidays too.

I just found out last night that my Galaxy Note 8 can't write to it's SD card any more (after a KitKat update). This also is some brain-dead move by Google to make my tablet "more secure".

What it's actually done is pissed me off so much that I'm now going to spend the time rooting the thing. I can understand limiting apps to certain areas of the system, but giving them 100% unfettered access to the internal storage, and deny just about anything from the SD card isn't it.

I'd like to be able to see the list of permissions an app needs (in groups, if you like), and then deselect any I don't think it should have - if an app I don't like the look of wants to use my SD card, then I should be able to turn it off. I know this is possible with a rooted system, so it seems that's the only way to go for me (particularly as I quite like being able to use my SD card that Samsung took the time to bundle with my tablet).

If my phone asks me to upgrade to kitkat, I'm gonna say no. I'm sure that doesn't make me more secure. I'm sure rooting my tablet isn't really Google's idea of "more secure" either. Assuming I'm right about that, then they should find a way to let me override their brain-dead missteps.

So what you're saying is that we're VHS, and killed off the early, but actually superior, BetaMax?

It's a long way from brilliant, but all my designs are now on Youmagine.com - which I see is starting to get some really interesting stuff posted (far better than any of the tat I've come up with! ;-).

It's run by Ultimaker, so in theory vulnerable to the same problems as Thingiverse, but Ultimaker are quite responsive to their user base, so may do as we've suggested and create a foundation to run it instead. They're also a much smaller company, so don't expect quick turnaround as they're resource constrained, or indeed for this to be any sort of problem for some years yet (although YMMV).

The other good thing about Youmagine (and Ultimaker) is that they're European, and so not hamstrung by US patents, or indeed the litigation thereof.

Get onto https://www.writetothem.com/ and type in your postcode. Tell your MP that you don't care who he/she is, or how good their record for your local area. Tell them that because they're affiliated with the major parties that are either condoning this, or failing to do anything to stop it you no longer feel you can vote for them. Tell them you're going to vote for one of the smaller parties - you're not sure who just yet, but will look into it and pick one that seems like it's acceptable, just so long as it's not any of 'the big three'.