Why would you link to libraries on a remote web server? I this time and again, and have never understood the reasoning.

Maybe it's just me, but I really want to know what that Chicken vs Chicken plot actually is. Also the more I look at that paper, the more I think "is that really how chicken is spelt?" - it just doesn't look correct when written so many times.

I didn't vote for the PM either, and odds are 1 in 650 that he even represents you directly.

* I'm assuming that like me, you live in the UK.

You'll be lucky if you find a car dealer accepting a bank draft as cleared funds nowadays. I know of several companies that have been burned that way. Same goes for debit cards - we always assumed that they were cleared funds, however after one of our clients paid for a Bentley (trade transaction), some Muppet in the back cancelled the transaction, which meant that the seller was down £60k, the buyer wasn't even at fault.

As a result, we advise people to only release a car when the money is actually in their account, however that's not even guaranteed as we've encountered scams where people attempt to reverse bank transfers.

Short story, there no such thing as cleared funds.

Seeing as it's essentially an electronic device (a big PDA) "thrown" across our solar system, I think think the preferred unit is Campbells

I think you've got it the wrong way round - 465 (SMTPs) is deprecated, 25 is still the standard SMTP port.

I know, every time I read about something like this I think "these idiots are really opening themselves up for a massive DOS attack". It probably means a whole load of overtime, so maybe that's why they do it.

About as bad as the guy not being allowed to fly because of his optimus prime t-shirt, picture of him wearing it.

Or more accurately, like most other religious followers, the majority of Buddhists won't kill you for it. Like every religion, it has followers who are willing to kill for their beliefs - Special Report: Buddhist monks incite Muslim killings in Myanmar

But, but, but, they weren't true Buddhists - true Buddhists wouldn't do something like that!

Because nothing wins an argument like the No True Scotsman fallacy.

Not on the Block IIIA Satellites - DoD Permanently Discontinues Procurement Of Global Positioning System Selective Availability. Granted, they're not in the sky yet, but the US military already has the capability to deny GPS to specific areas, so they wouldn't need it anyway.

Remember, it was the FAA that was the force behind deactivating SA. Turning it back on now could well be more dangerous than just denying GPS and issuing a NOTAM.

How the hell is that 7 word phrase with punctuation (I'll ignore the case, as only the first word is capitalised) susceptible to a dictionary attack?

If I tell you that my password contains 7 words (contained in my /usr/share/dict/words which is 99171 lines long), with a comma after the 3rd and a full stop at the end, you will still have to search through 94,339,343,028,749,422,154,850,189,341,666,091 (9.4E34) combinations - best get cracking. If I'm even nicer to you and tell you that none of the words are repeated, then there are only 94,319,367,837,042,826,040,647,505,756,227,200 (9.4E34). It turns out that when I'm being nice, I'm not being that helpful.

I do use random alphanumeric passwords, because I can remember quite a few of them - it takes a while to remember them and it's massively annoying when I have to change one.

However for my company's keepass file, I use a pass-phrase that is an incorrect quotation from a well know poem - go on, have a guess.

Mario responded to PETA in person.

They're overrated - getting all the spokes out of the carcase is worse than plucking a pheasant any day. Also, the thighs don't tend to have much meat on them.

No, the search string was:

I'm guessing the person who ran the search made the assumption the search engine query is comma delimited, but was in fact space delimited.