...but I do take the laptop out occasionally, where it'll last for as long as the journey from Nottingham to Brompton (West Central London) lasts, often upwards of four or five hours doing anythign from playing videos to playing games. Generally, if I'm near a socket it's plugged in though, I treat the battery as a six hour UPS - to be used only when necessary. So far it's lasted nearly four years.

that depends, how much tyre rubber needs to be deposited before you can't taste onion anymore?

the outward node has a public key, the receiving node has the private key, nothing in between gets anything useful.

I mean, why overcomplicate shit?

Hell, for that matter - airgap it.

I don't think there's anything here (UK) that prenvents *anyone* from striking... there's the slim possibility of a soldier striking for (pay and conditions!?), but we're at war, have been since the year Tet, he'd be backed up to a wall and shot. Public sector most definitely have the right to strike, recently we've had firefighters on the picket lines, earlier this year it was barristers and judges. Teachers are out on strike every other fucking week.

Is it a challenge to (what I think is) Facebook utilising some sort of behavioural analysis through deep content inspection?

Or do they actually have people running specific searches on content posted by specific groups or individuals?

http://www.olympic.org/photos/...

^fucking peep sights.

Nottingham, actually. I've never been to Locksley.

The Olympics lost all meaning when it was decided to admit events for people missing fucking LIMBS into a sporting gala previously for those who were ACTUALLY BETTER THAN AVERAGE! Better, stronger, faster. What the fuck is "dressage", anyway??

Take my favourite competitive sport: archery. OK, we have the longbow, which is pretty fucking difficult to STRING, never mind DRAW and AIM, but now we have the olympic event where they get to use counterweights, spring cam mechanisms to bring the draw weight down yet maintain nock energy, composite bows and superthin strings, peep sights(!) and drop scales, and the basic event which runs just 33 feet, where it is entirely possible to gain a gold medal. I *PRACTICE* AT NINETY FEET. WITH AN ENGLISH LONGBOW (and the trainer at the club across the river wonders how I don't tear the shit out of my shoulder muscles every week, it's because I've been shooting bow since I was FOUR). I could piss the basic event with my bow on a *bad* day.

strangely, I did post a submission on this very event, alas the phase of Kim Kardashian's arse took centre stage and pushed my submission out to the realms of "not important enough science to warrant even a sideline story on Slashdot".

http://slashdot.org/submission...

Fuck you, Slashdot.

I Would Rather:

Circumcise myself with a chainsaw.
Masturbate with a garlic hammer.
Gouge out my eyeballs with an ice cream scoop then rinse out the sockets with battery acid.
Watch the Den & Angie episode on a continuous loop.
Braid my own pubic hair. Then garotte myself with it.

A&A is pretty much the best out there, since they are in fact the only declared XKCD/806-compliant ISP in operation currently.

it is absolutely fucking clear that that is not the case: Camoron [sic] left his fucking daughter in a PUB. Anyone else does that, the kid goes into care. Cameron? Gets a "And finally..." lafftrack on the ten o'clock news.

Cunt.

I was denied the vote in the last election because my poll booth closed FIVE HOURS EARLY.

I'm not the only one this happened to.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_...

Highest turnout for thirty years?? Sure, half of them didn't get to fucking vote, though!

all it requires here is a doctor (pretty much any one single person with a doctorate, not necessarily in medicine either) to say "He's mental!" and you're in a room with nice soft walls and wearing a sweater with really long sleeves before you have the chance to try and refuse the needle (which you can't under the mental health act).

PIA18906 just became my new wallpaper. Forget the technical stuff, that is just beautiful.