That assumes he at least know what letters are in the word... Which, it appears, he doesn't!

My take is that the DNA of The Doctor is male. Regeneration will recreate his body when damaged, but should obey the programming within his DNA. It shouldn't go changing chromosomes around.

There may be a lot of bending the rules of various fields of science, but the core basic stuff should remain in order for the sci-fi element to even begin to feel plausible. When writers mess around with the basics, I certainly turn off. I hate watching sci-fi and thinking "hey, you can't do that -- that just wouldn't work!!". For me, changing the gender of The Doctor is that thing which just wouldn't work.

I concur. I've used a Kinesis Ergo keyboard for many years. With a normal keyboard I used to find that I'd get pains in my little finger, especially on the right hand. Shortly after starting to use the Kinesis, those pains vanished.

The main keys that are normally pressed by the little finger (control, alt, backspace, enter, home, end, windows) are switched to the middle of the keyboard and used by the thumbs. Takes a little getting used to, but before long you'll be using those keys without thinking.
Shift is still in the usual spot for the little finger, however mine also came with a foot pedal that could be used for shift (or anything else, as it was also programmable). (I never used the foot pedal)

The only caveat is that they are expensive.

Are they...em...footprints?!

It depends on the road and the location.

Have a motorway/freeway without a speed limit (like the German Autobahns) can make sense. But having a road with no speed limit through a housing estate where lots of kids live would be a recipe for disaster. People already drive too fast on such roads, and debatably the speed limit on these roads is too high (50km/h here, which is ~31mph).

Again, though, some roads here have stupid speed limits: http://www.aanewsletter.ie/edition/9/img/IMG_1325_10p.jpg

So, yes, given a good quality straight wide road with wide lanes, a speed limit shouldn't be required. Other roads should have a speed limit appropriate to the road, the width, surface, location, etc.

75mph =~ 120.7km/h

*typo above

It's a 41mile stretch, so it may only be tolled at 41 mile intervals...

For those of us who don't know mph, here's some conversions to km/h:

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+85+mph+in+kph (etc)

100mph =~ 160.934km/h (by definition)
95mph =~ 152.9
90mph =~ 144.8km/h
85mph = ~136.8km/h (motorways in Italy, among other countries, have speed limits of 130km/h)
80mph =~ 128.7km/h
75mph =~ 128.7km/h
74.5mph =~ 120km/h (this is the motorway speed limit in Ireland)
70mph =~ 112.65 km/h (this is the motorway speed limit in the UK)

Agreed. Most lecturers make their notes available, so print out a copy and takes not on this. Pencil/pen on paper is still the best - easier to highlight points, scribble in the margins, etc. Technology is good, but not as good as the old-school methods. (Plus your pencil and paper won't run out of battery power)

I did a Masters last year and i wouldn't have been able to take as many notes on a keyboard or tablet. Plus a pencil is more accurate than a stylus, and much higher resolution than even a Retina display (due to it's pretty analogue nature)

Good luck with the studies.

Wasn't the declaration signed on the 3rd?

It was first read to the people on the 4th, and thus celebrations happen on that day, but the actual signing was the 3rd...

Google don't sell your data to the advertisers. Of the advertisers we want to target a group, google's algorithms will decide, based on your data, if you are part of that group. No human looks at the data, just the cloud computers.

The sheer number of people using Google products ensure individual privacy, as there is just far too much days there to talk through.

When you first login to the Android phone, you have the option to turn off sync for any services you don't want to sync with the cloud. You might leave on mail, but disable contacts, calender and gallery. This way, none of that data will be sent to Google, our pulled down from Google.

Also, remember that a LOT of people use Google - 200m Android , 550k new daily - so unless there is a very specific need for Google to look at your data, they won't. You can assume that to a fairly high degree your secrets will be safe.

It's amazing that, when I visit the US, I feel less free than when I'm at home, or in just about any other country.
Except, perhaps, the UK.

Especially in airports.

No, I don't believe the 'land of the free' is actually free any more. I think that a lot of people delude themselves, but have actually given up a lot of their freedoms in the name of better security. There is always a fine balance between freedom and security, and I feel the US is leaning, these days, more towards security than freedom.

Case in point - TSA.
Freedom means that you have a choice. With TSA, the choice is "we feel you up or put your in our under-your-clothes scanner, or you don't fly, even if you are a 5 year old".

Sounds to me like there's going to be a deluge of back-of-the-taxi pr0n hitting your favourite site come 2015...

$ sudo -i