What happens when Google chooses to ignore my carefully crafted robots.txt?

If they then download the my javascript experiment and run it at their cost, that's their problem.

When I can trust crawlers to not ignore my robots.txt I'll stop using fail2ban on my apache logs.

The guy who invented the light bulb.

Gwent Police explain texting while driving kills

QMC (University of :London) used to have a small nuclear reactor in Stratford E15. That's right where the London 2012 Olympic Park has been built. We had a visit there in 1981. They used to heat up a bit of water from the local stream and pour warm water back (kept the frogs happy). We asked "What happens if it melts down?" and the nuclear physicist who was showing us round said, "It's OK, not many folks live nearby.".

The reactor closed in 1982 and was de-commissioned shortly after that.So Usain Bolt won't be nuclear powered when he runs the 100m.

I stopped reading the article because they can't spell "ACSII".

So a quick Google turns up this Black-boxing the User: Internet Protocol over Xylophone Players (IPoXP)

Luxury. I live in a town of 140K and the best we can get is 4Mb.

Part of the problem is lack of investment by BT because they're a private company who have to feed their shareholders rather than giving the best possible service to their customers. Cameron and the ConDem Gov't can bleat on about superfast broadband for everyone including the folks in the Outer Hebrides but unless BT can turn that into a profit for their shareholders it ain't gonna happen.

I suspect most of the traffic is folks testing whether their ISP is imposing the censorship and if it is doing that testing whether proxies and/or VPN and/or OpenDNS/GoogleDNS or other methods circumvents that censorship.

From an island with a population of about 70million we've recorded 1706 deaths from CJD since 1990. The stats

In the mean time hundreds of thousands of ££££s have been spent researching this. The price of beef has rocketed.

It's been a complete waste of money in my view.

If this stops one Abdul the Knicker Bomber from flyiing and taking his explosive laden body to hell along with the other 200+ folks on his flight then it's done what's needed.

The US DHS get my details and my fingerprints when I go through immigration so what's wrong with them getting that stuff 10 hours earlier?

I have a fantastic ISP in Aberdeen they're exactly like that - they're a bunch of network guys running a stable network with 99.9+% availability. If I get any problem it's brilliant getting a nice Scottish voice on the phone who isn't a clueless drone in a call centre.

I don't want my gov't doing deep packet inspection.

I don't want my ISP doing DNS filtering.

I don't want my free and open Internet controlled that way.

I don't want a Great British Firewall

Because all of that shit is going to make my ISP want to charge me more money for the same services.

If I don't want my kids to see porn then I'll either a) sit behind them when they're using the computer, b) ban them from using it or c) install some shitty net nanny software and let them figure out how to crack it or how to bypass it.

It's the parent's responsibility.

Real writers re-write to avoid the problem: "Feds shut down narcotics store that had been a TOR user". But you're right the standard of English grammar used today leaves a lot to be desired. Samuel Johnson, the Merriams and Noah Webster can be heard spinning at very high revolutions.

WTF. That's not true. STOP means stop in the UK. GIVE WAY means yeild.

We'd never have "right on red", we drive on the wrong side of the street over here. Some lights have a left turn filter light (green left arrow that comes on while the main lights are still red).