Pledge of Allegiance: "...one nation under God..."

National motto: "In God we trust"

Court oath: "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?"

Oath of allegiance: "...I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God"

USA atheist? You're having a fucking laugh, mate.

From around 1730hrs yesterday, Cable & Wireless started having huge (95% packet loss) issues for about 90 minutes in the Holland/Germany area. Was interesting to note that trying to reach (from remote locations in Europe) two sites we have in Sweden, one (on Telia) was fine, but another was mostly offline. We're still waiting to receive a report from C&W about the outage.

You can find out here

s/UK/US/

Get a UK based VPS service and terminate your VPN there.

Doesn't matter. Most democratic countries run on the basis of "innocent until proven guilty".

Assange has as yet to be charged with anything, let alone tried or convicted.

I do not, however, include the USA as a democratic country, since they employ:

* Imprisonment without trial
* Torture
* Executions without trial
* Repression of basic freedoms

I would suggest that the LibDems, like the Tories, have come into service of the nation only to discover the barren waste left by the Labour administration. It's all well and good having grand plans, but when one peers inside to find the coffers empty through abysmal mis-management, it's difficult to step forward with increased spending plans without looking completely nuts.

Clegg and his bunch are in a very difficult situation where they need to keep some stability in the country by not having an early election called that could potentially bring Miliband into government. At the same time they need to keep the Right in check and ensure that some Liberal views are represented. The key to all of this mess is to get the country back on its feet before the Reds are able to get close to another attempt at drowning the UK.

There's always horse trading in politics and this is one area that it would be very surprising to see the Liberals allow to pass through.

I'm not in the lowest tax bracket and can attest to the fact that it's more than simply the price-point that is a consideration when it comes to purchasing an ebook reader. I've just ordered my first ebook reader from Amazon and selected the basic model (without adverts). What I considered to be their high prices had put me off looking at them in the past. Plus there was (and still is) the issue that if I buy treeware, I'd expect to receive a digital copy too, so that my original copy does not get ruined and I find I am unable to purchase another copy since the publisher has stopped printing it. Kind of like being able to make MP3s from my own CD collection.

There is something satisfying about selecting a book and settling down to read it, when it comes in a paper version. That being said, the convenience and space factors when travelling make the ebook reader a certain winner. The reduction in price of the Kindle is what tipped the scales for me. There may still be the relatively high prices to pay on new books (compared to the associated costs involved with virtual media), but when one considers the wealth of knowledge available that is not constrained by copyright, the low priced Kindles make for a good purchase.

Only to the British in England, not so for the English in Britain. ;)

I suspect you're confusing English with British

Great Britain includes England, Scotland and Wales.

IPv4 NAT can cause problems for some communications protocols. These include, but are not limited to:

• PPTP
• Bittorrent
• SIP

Things will only get worse on IPv4 when the ISPs increasingly move towards carrier NAT as a solution to avoid the perceived complexities if IPv6, when really it's just an excuse to do less work and squeeze more money out of the users.

You think that companies have only a single domain? You think that they use only a single IP?

iain@expat-tc ~ $ host www.microsoft.com.au
www.microsoft.com.au has address 203.19.66.74

iain@expat-tc ~ $ host www.microsoft.it
www.microsoft.it is an alias for microsoft.it.
microsoft.it has address 207.46.232.182
microsoft.it has address 207.46.197.32
microsoft.it mail is handled by 10 maila.microsoft.com.

I wonder what impact this will have on the ever decreasing amount of IPv4 addresses available. If it means that this pushes us towards a greater uptake of IPv6, it can only be good. For too long ISPs have been reluctant to encourage the rollout of IPv6 connectivity, all the time turning a blind eye to this problem of diminishing IPv4 addresses. Perhaps with a rush for new domains there will be a significant drop in the number of free IPv4 addresses and this will spur the uptake of IPv6.

Fixed.