SNMP your router for interface stats - you'll have to poll this regularly and keep track. http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/ is good for this, you can also do pretty graphs of CPU usage, chip temps and many other things - anything you can query directly via SNMP or script around.

a vote yes on the 18th is NOT a vote for wee fat eck. vote yes to rid us of westminster and especially the undemocratic house of lords. I'm hoping we vote yes and then we get to become a republic and have complete electoral reform that removes our political overlords and hands power back to we the people. --- sorry for going off topic.

they'll probably just DACS (pair gain) the 2nd line (which might actually be the initial problem)

the $ limit should be on the giver not the candidate i.e limit = $5k you cannot give $5k to two candidates, but you could give $2.5k to each. And you can only donate if eligible to vote. NB companies are not eligible to vote.

yes, in french it would be "la douceur de vivre"

The Matrix Reloaded started something when 'The Merovingian' wore a number of very flashy ties... the thing it started was millions of geeks saying what a shit film it was.

I feel like I'm repeating myself a lot. England & Wales does not equal the UK. This ban does not apply to Scotland where the prison service is a devolved body. Sending books to prisoners is only banned in PART of the UK.

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while more of a communications protocol than a language he speaks brilliant Kermit. Like many Americans, Bill does speak English which is a foreign language. His wife is French. (OK, it's really just her maiden name - there has to a be a wife/cunning linguist joke in here somewhere)

the 4th has never applied to international borders.

1) Catch 22 2) LOTR trilogy 3) Stranger In a Strange Land 4) Everything by Ray Bradbury 5) The entire Discworld Series 6) The Gormenghast series. 7) Of Mice and Men 8) Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen 9) Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica 10) God Is Not Great

by the hand that feeds it i'm going to assume the government and not the movie/music buying public - whom they already persecute.

or simply inform Adobe, Microsoft, MPAA and all other interested parties for the data you have on your laptop that the US Government is in violation of copyright by copying their data which you have licensed and legally hold on your laptop. Let them with fatter wallets sue them.

true, however breach of the peace isn't an arrestable offence if it is not ongoing nor likely to recur.

breach of the peace is *NOT* and never has been an arrestable offence if it is neither on going or likely to recur. So you can stop yourself from being arrested if you shut up when the police arrive ;-)