An article that could have been astounding is on a site that got Slashdotted. Perhaps they need some experienced web programmers.

... so they cancelled the poll.

I didn't like their privacy system so I cancelled my FB account.

Because above the Armstrong Line (63,000ft) your bodily fluids (sweat, saliva, tears and blood) boil. That makes you die very quickly. You have to use a pressure suit.

Same here in the United Kingdom, for the same reasons.

• 1 Gallon (US) == 3.78541 litres
• 1 litre costs £1.379
• 1 GBP pound == 1.61340 US dollars.
• £1.379 == $2.22488

So 1 gallon of gasoline costs 3.78541 times 2.22488 or $8.42

Now stop complaining.

For folks who've not yet met the word "omnishambles", it means it's fuck up what ever way you look at it.

Most amusing was seeing Beardie Branson bleating that the Gov't was corrupt because they'd taken away his toy train set and given him a bank (Northern Wreck aka Virgin Money) to play with instead.

Or even a "DeLorean" if you want to get the spelling correct.

MOD PARENT UP.

We frequently get this discussion in the UK. It came up during the Olympics when cyclist was killed by a vehicle turning left across his path (he'd forgotten the simple rule of never go up the nearside of a vehicle that could turn across you). The media then got Bradley Wiggins in a press conference and asked him whether there was any way to prevent the death. Bradley (who'd not been briefed by his team or by British Cycling) said "Perhaps we should make helmets compulsory".

That doesn't work for a number of reasons:

1. Try getting an arsy teenager on his BMX to use a helmet, helmets aren't cool
2. You may take less care and do reckless and riskier things if you're wearing a helment.
3. I want to choose whether I use a helmet.
4. I don't want people dissuaded from getting on a bike because they don't want to use a helmet.

That said, I chose to wear a helmet. I've had too many visits to the hospital. I've cracked a helmet (rather than my head) when I crashed at speed. I've seen the reports of James Cracknell who was taken off the road in America by a truck wing mirror and survived (probably because he was wearing a helmet).

We're all adults we should be able to make our own minds up. We can also encourage our kids to wear a helmet but we don't want to follow our European friends by legislating for it.

Europe has a lot of advantages over the UK. They have bigger wider roads with dedicated cycle paths, they have car drivers who aren't selfish bastards.

I've only been waiting TWELVE weeks for the delivery of my Pi.

I'm not pissed off, of course.

Perhaps when they get round to delivering it, I'll be able to try some of this stuff.

Isn't whether they are displayed, isn't wether they exist or not it's whether they add any value, whether they describe why the code has been written in such an obscure way.

There's also nothing worse than a comment that states the bloody obvious. If I'm clearing a register to zero I don't need a comment next to the SR 6,6 or XR 6,6 that is performing that action. I can read the code to see what the bloody code is doing.

The time that code needs a comment is when you're shifting bits or multiplying something by a funky/obscure value for a sensible reason but the reason isn't obvious by simply reading the code.

Also remember you don't get the comments in the post mortem storage dumps when you're trying to fix someone's programming error at 2:30am with a few managers breathing down your neck panicing that it won't be fixed and running by 8:00am.

The UK Gov't is only implementing what the stupid folks in the EU Gov't told them to. The real problem is that the EU Gov't allowed this crap to go through in the first place. We need to get some (members of parlaiment) MPs and (members of the European parliament) MEPs who have a clue about IT, who have a clue about how the Internet works. That's the underlying problem - we've got clueless career politicians with a supporting organisation made from clueless lawyers and MBAs.

If I choose the option to opt out of storing cookies, the website stores a cookie to remember that decision. This law was drafted by silly people who don't understand how a stateless protocol needs to store status information to work.

If you want your web browsing to be a useless and painful experience try running with cookies disabled. I hope you enjoy re-entering your password on every secure page.

The fact that the UK Gov't QUANGO can't afford, can't be bothered and doesn't have the time to enforce this crap law is a good thing, they can spend my taxes on doing something more useful.

We've even started calling them "budgie smugglers" here in Pomgolia.

Unfortuneately too many of the links I can find point to dailyfail.co.uk so I won't post them here.

You insensitive clod, we've had a month's rain in 24 hours.