Agreed, even just an encrypted home folder will thwart your average laptop thief. If you wear a double thickness tinfoil hat and you're expecting a more determined, technically minded thief then by all means have whole disk encryption.

Amen to that... However, moving to/living in a tourist resort (whether it be a beach town or a ski town), is different from travelling. Every time you move to a new place it will take a while to find a good place to work from, maybe just a few hours, maybe a day, but if you're moving every couple of days it can be quite a hassle to be online every day.

What temperature does water boil at in Fahrenheit?

FWIW, this became a legal requirement in the UK 20+(?) years ago when we joined the EU and we have just about assimilated metric measures of volume and weight when it comes to consumables.

Also noteworthy, the building industry also works in metric these days, although there are many builders who still think in ft/in a lot of the materials are sold in metric sizes, i.e the width of a standard sheet of plaster board (sheet rock) dictates how you space your studs.

However, street signs are still in MPH and most people still measure their body weight in Stones and their height in Feet and Inches.

It takes a while but the ability to trade with neighbouring countries makes it worth it...

Yes, this. Although I'd disagree that Celsius has *one* minor convenience point:

0C == frozen roads and preserved food
100C == boiling water and sterile food

They'll probably outsource it all to the UK like the rest of ECHELON. I mean Google doesn't pay f#ck all tax here so why should the the rest of the USA

Really? That's so racist towards the Irish.

If only there was a +6 insightful...

Sounds like the cloud version or RAID 0, great if you just need performance and don't expect any reliability...

Same here luckily. Where I'm from it's also highly unlikely the assailant will have a gun.

Cricket 'strikes' is a terrible analogy to use in this case. Cricket differs from Baseball in that you can face many, many balls before you are out.

You are only out if one of these things happens:

1. The bowler ('pitcher' in BB) hits the stumps behind the batsman, this is called being 'bowled out'
2. The ball is caught directly from the batsman's strike ('caught out')
3. The fielders manage to hit the stumps with the ball before the batsman has finished his run ('run out')
4. The batsman blocks a ball that would have hit the stumps with his body instead of his bat (this is called LBW, Leg Before Wicket)

These are the most common ways to be out, there are other ways to be out, but to get back on topic: to compare the six strikes system to Cricket would seem to suggest that you are not 'out' until they have proved your guilt.

I don't think he was joking.

I submitted the story after seeing it on the BBC and was surprised to see it wasn't already listed here.

Approx. 2 hours after submitting the story it was accepted.

I guess the lesson here is don't crowd-source if expediency is of the essence. In this case I can't see a few hours making a difference, it's not exactly a 'developing story'.

Correlation != causation

I haven't had a cold since I started taking that homeopathic medicine...