No, the Nissan Leaf is the "still rich enough to spend a huge chunk of money on a low-range toy" man's Tesla. There is no poor man's electric car, or even a lower-middle-class man's electric car.

Miles and yards would do, but I agree miles and feet (or miles and 0.1 miles) is just irritating.

Of course we still have cheques. Unlike the GP, we seem to have to write them for quite a lot of after-school clubs and things. It does seem very last century to me.

Still like that in the UK, apart from the interest rates. In fact it's got better here since the 80s. But you do need solid ID to get a bank account for some reason.

I wanted to trademark the work "drivethru" in the UK, to stop McDonald's using it and make them spell it the proper, British, way. But I couldn't be arsed.

So far it's proven to be more trustworthy than most government-issued currencies. This is the first real threat to trust.

And pay for a VPN to hide your IP when trading in Bitcoins.

Come on slashdot, get the guy's name right.

There is some truth to it? Hell, everyone did that when I was a kid in the 80s. Still didn't catch the damn thing until I was 16 though.

I tried a bunch last week, and MusicBee is the one that most closely matches my winamp usage patterns, so it's what I'm using at the moment. It's pretty good.

yep

Buy them off ebay using paypal - easy enough?

If F-Droid want to actually make an impact on the Android userbase, the home page needs to have instructions on how to install the damn thing! I know what I'm doing, but most people just install stuff from google play. If they follow this link and click the "install" link, they get an apk download and no help. This is not very useful.

In the UK it's "spring forward, autumn back"

There's an app for that, although it works on a time delay rather than a button press.