You type a lot of sense, but you're not quite right with the odds.

I play the exchanges, which means I am the bookmaker, and there is a phrase to follow: Bet high, lay low.

Placing three-fold bets at @7.00 (6:1) is never a good idea. Like you say, you'll win easily, but only 5 times out of 6. That sense of winning will stay with you and you'll win most of the time. You'll feel like a winner but, in truth, for every £10 you bet, you'll only ever see £9 in return. Longterm punters will recognise this pattern. Be a winner every week, but keep quiet about your loses.

Expect to lose most of your lays. They'll be the favourites. Expect to lose most of your bets. They'll be outsiders.

One @21.00 (20:1) win, every once in a while, will take care of the losses.

Only bet what you can afford to lose.

Betting is a mug's game and there's only one winner - the taxman.

So much anger in this thread.

Mine own child was using a phone since she knew how to say yes, no and OK.

How are you? OK
Have you been to playgroup today? Yes
Um, did you have something nice for dinner? No

They're slow and painful conversations at that age.

And now we have phones with video.

There doesn't need to be any outrage or claims of bad parenting.

Just a quick note: It plays all audio files I chuck at it too.

I know these are used within the AV containers, so there's no reason not to play them, but it's another tick in the box. I stopped using the excellent FooBar2000 a while back because VLC really does plays everything I chuck at it.

That's not to say there aren't problems with it. There have been memory problems in the past, artifacts while seeking, overly complex streaming and converting options, but these are all minor.

I would like more interface options. The minimal interface is not minimal enough in my eyes.

No where in the BBC charter does it say that.

They're not supoosed to chase ratings, but they do.

They're not supposed to promote state views, but they do.

They're supposed to be balanced, but they are far from balanced. Apple good, Android bad. Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea good, every other team bad. Israel good, the rest bad.

Inform the public? That's funny because when you read the news from other websites, you clearly see the BBC choosing not to report certain stories.

Their top story two weekends ago was about former Prime Minister Tony Blair's son getting married. Tabloid bullshit.

The BBC is full of paedophiles, managers who cover up for said paedophiles, managers who give golden handshakes to their mates, vastly overpaid presenters compared to other broadcasters, old fashioned sports coverage, third rate docu-soaps, hidden advertising that's not so hidden, Apple prasing tech stories "All hail Jobs!", bias news reporting, Siria propagandists for the state, Isreal loving, stuffy nosed, toffs.

And I have to pay for all that shite or risk a gaol sentence.

But hey, that's just my opinon. Other British people will have a longer list of the BBC's failings.

You'd fail your driving test in the UK for doing that.

Modern cars will not stall if your foot slips off the clutch pedal.

I used a pseudonym everywhere except Google+. On G+, it's my chance to promote the real me in the one place others are likely to find me (top result on a Google search). I have a dozen favourable post on there, a few +1s, a couple of pictures of my boring hobbies. Perfect, and very misleading.

If I had to give up my pseudonym, I'd give up posting on the internet and join the 80% of lurkers.

And all hashes generated by the same hashing function are the same.

if hash == true...

Unless they are salted, because everyone does that in 2013...

Stop me if you're laughing too hard to continue.

I use it for news and nothing else. Well, I also chastise my member of parliament, but that's another story.

There was a sonic boom over my town last year, although I did not know that at the time. It could have been a bomb. Within minutes, other people from my town were posting their tweets about the boom. A few recognised that it was a sonic boom.

The local and national news took serveral hours to write their stories, and their stories contained nothing of interest - it was no longer news.

That's one example of how I use Twitter.

I also follow the sport on there. Many small pieces of news never make to the mainstream news sites.

It's another tool in the box.

I'm also suprised some people cannot record numbers and plot graphs. It's all too easy to get right, I wonder why people question it.

Take a thousand people, some drink 0.6ppm of contaminated water, some drink 1.0ppm, some drink pure water. Record the number of illnesses, plot the graphs with pretty colours. If the 1.0ppm drinkers are above the pure water plots, and they are getting ill, 1.0ppm is too much.

Of course, that's simplified to the max, but the method is understandable.

And, getting water to mix with oil is child-science. I use soap, or any other detergent. The result is called an emulsion.

I went there before it was popular. Twice! And I regret it. Twice!

It was all about owning the most expensive shirt when, at the time, everyone in the scene was wearing jeans, t-shirts and trainers.

When MoS champion themselves as music heros, I wince.

I trust Mega. I trust them to store some files and serve them to anyone I provide a link to.

Forgetting that sometimes the uploads stick on 99%, and forgetting that some files timeout at random times and restart the upload from 0%, it's a really nice place to store 46gb. The up/down speeds can't be grumbled at either.

I couldn't give a flying shit if they are encrypted, nor do I care if they are ever deleted. I have local copies.

What am I suppoosed to be trusting again?

Kim DotCom gives me a large amount of free storage, with no nagging about upgrading. I'd buy him a beer if I met him.

I disagree.

Someone who steals is a thief. It does not matter if he steals from other thieves, he is still a thief.

In the unwritten rules of criminality, stealing from fellow thieves is the lowest of the low. It's not as bad as stealing from family, but close.

There's the slang word "ponce" in the UK. Forget the dictionary definitions, it basically means a criminal who steals from other criminals. A low class of person in the underworld.

You must be thinking of a different country. We're talking about the UK here.

There are generating companies, retailing companies and consumers. There is some overlap. There is no monopoly here. Cartel - maybe.

For the first time ever, I've grown tobacco in my greenhouse, in the UK. I've also grown it outside but the size of the plants are about 50% smaller than the greenhouse plants. I'm going to harvest any day now.

One of the most simplist plants I've grown. They've needed no TLC.

My peers are interested in doing the same next year. Seeds are a penny each. One plant could last a smoker a month. A square metre per plant is not a lot of space for an expensive crop.

Um, my point: people will grow both plants if they have a little knowledge (three cheers for the internet).