Really, it's an actual requirement, for a week? Is that a requirement in your county, state or country, because I haven't seen any requirements for that. If it's true, then it would explain why US mobile contracts are so expensive - the operators would have to have a battery plus generator for every tower.

The cell tower outside our office (in the middle of nowhere in the UK), which gives us HSDPA has a battery that will last for about 3 hours, though I don't doubt that towers in more densly populated areas will have more robust solutions.

My personal conspiracy* theory about the whole MtGox debacle is this: After playing the legit game of taking commission on trades, they found it increasingly hard to deal in real money as various countries around the world shut out access. Realising that their revenue stream will dry up, they use a bug in their withdrawal processing that allows them to slowly transfer their bitcoin holdings.

Or maybe that they were simply playing the long game - make a bit of cash from the exchange, slowly build people's confidence, all the while "losing" bitcoins due to a bug, which conveniently isn't highlighted because they never bothered to reconcile how many bitcoins they thought had with how many they actually had.

I've seen a presentation where a guy followed the path of bitcoins (I can't find it now), due to the public transaction records, it'd be interesting to see if someone does that with MtGox's wallet ID, and whether a large amount of them end up in the same place.

* I enjoy making up conspiracy theories, one day one of them will take off.

I've tried, but all too often I cringe when confronted with circular arguments and the dreaded square brackets [to emphasize what was really meant] in a passage, so as to prove something - the Quran Project did exactly this in an advert in our local newspaper, it was littered with square brackets where the publicists had filled in what the prophets had "really meant" but clearly felt didn't need to be described unambiguously at the time of writing.

As for the Creation Museum, they have displays showing dinosaurs alongside humans. I show it the same amount of respect that I'd show a "Science Museum" who had a display showing George Bush Snr. and Bill Clinton welcoming Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon. It's a painful disregard of observations collected from a myriad of verifiable sources.

Seriously?

I have several pieces of Linksys kit that doesn't tell you what voltage it would like, and no, they don't all take the require the same voltage.

That was Dale Brown in Flight of the Old Dog - http://newsgroups.derkeiler.co...

Not to say that Tom Clancy didn't make mistakes, but Dale Brown was certainly on the trashier end of the scale. Then Dan Brown came along - I bought Deception Point by mistake (I was still buying Dale Brown books and misread the author) - he's somewhere up in near x-rays in the trashy spectrum.

I discovered that Google was indexing pages on it site that were only ever linked from emails - my guess is that they index any links in mails to and from gmail accounts. We just used robots.txt - the pages are for public consumption, it's just simple if they're not easily searchable.

In short, if you mention it via gmail it'll probably be indexed.

That's interesting, my experience was the exact opposite. I was recycling my HP desktop for a colleague to use and realised that I hadn't created recovery media after sticking Linux on it. I called HP expecting to be charged for the media (it was 18 months out if warranty) and the bloke just sent it out free of charge. It turns out I now have two copies - I found the original media when clearing out a cupboard a month later.

Maybe the difference was consumer grade laptop vs business grade desktop, even if it that were the case, there'll probably be no difference between the two now.

We already do, it's called the Navitron Autodrive system, but the trucker's union doesn't want the public to know about it.

Seeing as everything and anything can be classified as art, it doesn't really mean anything.

Take Kill Bill - I heard great things about it, and it's one of the few films that I've switched off half way through. The fight scene in the dojo where Uma Thurman continuously kills a stream of people, after a while it was about as stimulating as watching a woman give 40 consecutive blowjobs. At that point I realised I was watching porn and decided that as I wasn't in the mood to crack one off, I'd watch something else.

Then we'll get all the tablet users breaking red lights, tableting on pavements and knocking over smart phone users - it'll be carnage. Meanwhile, the Daily Mail will start complaining about all the middle aged Lycra-wearing tablet users being a danger to all the law abiding PC users, and that most of them are probably immigrants anyway.

It's not unreasonable at all - the guy was arrested for selling stolen goods on Craig's list, it's not unreasonable to suspect that the other items he has advertised have been stolen.

It's not like he was arrested for breaking a red light and wanting to search his house - that is not acceptable.

A colleague of mine did this with a restaurant that used his number in an advertisement. After informing them off this, they continued to use his number in subsequent promotions so he started taking reservations from people. That stopped it pretty quickly, probably due to their reputation going through the floor.

I heard on the radio a person who has been short listed for this. She sounded like one of the hectic/hyper women* who will be talking constantly. If that's indicative of their crew selection then I'm going to start a sweep stake on when the a crew member murders the rest.

* She's probably has big tits and is pretty.

Are you really trying to say that the police never release the name of a person arrested on suspicion of committing a crime?

Or are you saying that two wrongs don't make a right?