While I doubt it would be reported as valid by Government readers what they have done is likely enough for a lot of situations. They probably couldn't travel on the card but I wouldn't be surprised if they could get work, claim benefits (maybe), open bank accounts, etc etc. They could also possibly acquire other valid ID with it. For example, they probably couldn't get a passport with a fake ID but maybe they could get a bank account and a driving license, with that they could get a passport.

I considered this but if you want to read books a dedicated e-paper reader is better. For example: I can read my 505 in full sunlight, a netbooks LCD display would be essentially unviewable. I can read a book for many hours, with the ebook I can do this untethered (for several days at least) with the netbook I would probably need to have the power plugged in after a couple of hours. Where a netbook does win though is viewing PDFs - all the ebook readers I've viewed suck at PDF so I'll grant you there is scope for improvement.

I have to agree with the parent the Sony Reader is probably the more open of the two big players offerings and long may it last (I have a 505 BTW). All the EPUB format books I've read have been well laid out. Adobes Digital Editions also uses EPUB but with a good helping of DRM thrown in. Fortunately it's generally possible to strip the DRM from your purchases. All in all I would buy another Sony Reader which is saying something as I normally steer well clear of Sony products because they always screw it up in some way.

The only reason I wouldn't buy another Sony Reader is if they move to an all touch interface. I _want_ a button to turn the page. The button location on the 505 is perfect I really hope they don't completely do away with them.

IANABiologist but I've studied some biology. AIUI the DNA is quite similar but breeding is about more than just the DNA. I doubt that the other machinery necessary to produce viable off spring is sufficiently compatible. Wikipedia sheds more light on the possibility of the humanzee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee

I'm guessing it was probably from blood getting into a cut / mouth rather than a misguided attempt to create an ape / human hybrid if you catch my drift. If you ever hunt something you will find out that like humans animals, as a general rule, don't want to die. This leads to a lot of blood, thrashing about and noise where you can easily end up cut. Even when they are dead there are risks as even a small animal has a surprising amount of blood in it which for some reason wants to spread itself liberally about your person.

In your situation what I would do is set up at least a single blind study. If you are correct about your hypothesis then we need to look at what is ending up in our milk. If you are wrong then you can look for whatever else is causing you to get stomach cramps. I suggest that you try to get four different types of organic and non-organic milk so that there is a good comparison, it could be that only one brand of milk is causing you a problem which might come from a particular breed of cow. Conversely it could be that the organic milk is coming from a breed of cow that doesn't produce something you are mildly allergic to. There are a lot of variables to control for and I don't think you will be able to say what the causative factor is.

A plant grown "organically" and one grown in what is now considered normal conditions will almost certainly produce all the same chemicals and take up the same nutrients and therefore have the same health benefits. We might be able to control the proportions of various chemicals in the plant - for example cause more sugars to be produced in sweet corn - but fundamentally it's the same plant and therefore it will produce the same things.

I looked into "organic" farming a while back when I got quite into growing my own vegetables. I couldn't believe the stuff they were allowed to use and still call it organic. Pretty much if it appears in nature, anywhere, it was fair game but I could find plenty of things in nature that are just as harmful as modern man made sprays.

I'm about to fit some BS 546 sockets in my living room to power lamps (rather than have standard ceiling lighting). The reason for fitting BS 546 sockets is simply to stop people plugging in high power appliances by mistake. The problem is that a regular light switch and lighting wire (1 or 1.5mm CSA) can only handle 10A, if you fitted regular sockets on the lighting circuit you could reasonably expect some people to deliberately or accidentally plug non-lighting devices in. If someone plugged in an electric fire for example pulling a full 13A it would melt the switch and possibly the wire and it would be more than possible to plug in multiple high power devices at the same time.

You can't really wire the lighting circuit in 2.5mm as a normal ring circuit because you can't then find a switch for it that would act as a light switch (because it would potentially have to switch 32A). Some people recommend fitting regular sockets and marking them as for lights only but I feel this is too open to mistakes.

A also check a socket before working on it even if the whole house is dead. It's just common sense when you weigh up the pros and cons. It takes a few seconds to get the meter out and check but the alternative is possibly dying because of a silly mistake. What I find amazing is the number of people that claim that getting a shock from the mains can't be that dangerous because "I've had one and I'm ok".

I think it's important to remember that these pathogens aren't unstoppable aliens from another planet bent on our destruction. They exist in nature and they haven't (yet) managed to wipe out all life so there must be natural control mechanisms (lets hope those mechanisms are based on geographic isolation). If they got loose they could certainly devastate sections of our farming for a while but that is partially our fault for exploiting a mono-culture farming methodology which is just waiting for some devastating infection.

Back in the day they used to have little children crawling around under cotton stipping machines. The children were needed to pick up fluff and other debris that would cause the machine to break the thread it was working on. Some children would get crushed in the machine because they weren't fast enough to get out of the way etc.

C++ is a bit like that machine. It works fine if you have the luxury of being able to pick only the fastest most able children but there comes a time when you need to grow your business beyond the limits of what the best can achieve. At that point you need to either accept that some of the less able children will get crushed (bugs in the code) or you need to make the machine safer. It's often cheaper and simpler to make the machine safer and hopefully those most able children will then be able to perform more complex and hopefully profitable work.

To paraphrase... everytime you argue for a language without safety features god kills a child.

The problem is you are saying he has to prove that he doesn't have the money. That's totally back to front. The other party should have to prove he does have the money. Making him prove he doesn't have something opens the system to abuse by his wife who presumably hates the guy because she left him to rot in a cell for 14 years (I'm assuming that if she waved the money the judge would probably have let the guy go).

Note that I'm not saying the other party has to know exactly where the money is just build a sufficiently good case that the money is still in some way under this guys control in one form or another.

This has got to be one of the scariest stories that I've ever read. No trial and not even evidence was necessary to put this guy in jail for 14 years. If that doesn't make you question the legal system nothing will. I think there is need for contempt of court punishments but they seriously need to be looked at in light of this case. For example, anything over two weeks should need the agreement of three judges and there should be a cap of a year. I would argue that in cases like this there should be a jury trial with evidence from both sides, the only trouble with that is it's virtually asking the guy to prove a negative (e.g. he doesn't have the money) but it's better than allowing one guys will to send him away for essentially ever. If there was a trial at least the guy would have some idea the maximum penelty and be able to formally present some evidence of how he lost the money - because surely there would have to be some sort of paper trail or other evidence of $2.5 being spent.