Also cheap and nasty doesn't necessarily mean bad. It's just a roll of a typical DnD dice.

I have currently a 3 year old, definitely cheap Chinese import battery in my ancient Dell XPS. It was less than 1/3rd of the price of the original Dell. This is now the 3rd battery in it. The original Dell lasted about 3 years, the replacement from Dell lasted about 1 year, and now this ebay Chinese one, covered in Chinese writing is almost 3 years in and still going strong.

When I bought my Nikon D200 I also bought an after market Chinese battery too for 1/4 of the price of the Nikon one. The Nikon one died first even though they were both given equal cycles (always swapped them when they needed charging). But with the D800 I have now the Chinese one lasted about a year and the Nikon one is still going strong.Also my sister's Dell Chinese knock-off battery lasted about 9 months before its performance notably degraded.

Do you feel lucky punk?

So, installing malicious software means your information can be accessed? SHOCKING.

Yeah, and we should also ban municipalities from building roads because they discourage private investment in toll roads. All the roads, including the street in front of your house, ought to be sold to UPS. You'd have to get their permission to drive your car on their roads. Since they'd be private property, they'd be within their rights to make any arbitrary rules they wanted. They could ban certain makes or kinds or colors of cars. They could allow you to drive only to certain pre-approved destinations. And don't even think about trying to create a package delivery service to compete with them.

Car manufacturers have been getting a lot of fire for not being high tech enough. Phones with apps made all their in-car systems look ancient, and people rapidly got to the point where all they wanted from a head unit was an aux jack. Thus manufacturers are finding it hard to upsell their higher end head units because they all look like phones did in 2002.

People don't want to pay for a second data contract when their phone already has one either.

Some manufacturers already offer Mirrorlink because of this. The Android system uses Mirrorlink and it is unlikely to go away any time soon. It's based on VNC, and supported by non-Android phones too. The Apple system I can only explain as being due to the reality distortion field, but I'm still surprised that manufacturers are on-board after being burned by the first round of iPod and iPhone compatible hardware. I suppose this time at least in future incompatible Apple devices should still be able to use Mirrorlink, even if they can't use the Apple specific stuff.

Toyota and Subaru have offered Mirrorlink on their head units for a couple of years at least now. Whatever lobbying the sat nav manufacturers have been doing it doesn't seem to be working.

Mirrorlink for screen mirroring (based on VNC) and MTP for media sharing is all we need and already exist.

Really? You're citing Top Gear as a source of factual information? What's next, are you going to teach me about the occupancy of pineapples at the bottom of the sea because of something you saw on Spongebob?

It's not clear that they have any say in the matter. The Pound is as much Scotland's as it is the rest of the UK's currency. It might end up as a fight in the European courts but I doubt that the rest of the UK would win.

It's also unlikely that any future government would want to force Scotland to use a different currency anyway, because Scotland would then walk away from much of the national debt.

This. The UK has delusions of grandeur and standing in the world because it joins in with America's wars. Remember when the US was thinking about firing missiles into Syria to disperse chemical weapons over a wider area? The UK was thinking about joining in. The US would have fired maybe 200-400 missiles total, the UK perhaps 4 or 6. Complete waste of time and money, the only result of which would have been even more animosity towards us and more British citizens radicalized to go and fight with IS.

We just want to be players, but it costs too much money and doesn't make us any safer. Can anyone suggest a realistic scenario where having nukes might actually help?

They didn't "infiltrate" the censors, they just got the same standard access to tools and communication channels as any other random social network site in China. This tells us absolutely nothing that isn't already public information if you simply read Chinese posts by people who have used the system.

In that case why is the press allowed to report it for days on end, and why are the police drawing even more attention to it?

From what I recall it's not illegal for me to see breasts. What I think you are describing is public exposure or "indecency" as a small subgroup of your "culture" calls it. That is subjecting others to content, and has nothing to do with consumption.

Now why is it that I am allowed to legally watch Pyramid Head rip of the skin right off a woman and throw it at some of his other victims, but I am not allowed to see one persons's head get separated from their body.

Again try and draw the distinction between viewing something in private where it affects no one other than yourself and tell me again what culture has to do with it. And also remember that statistically the cultured folk around you will be into all sorts of perverse activities in their private times.

I didn't say porn was illegal. I said extreme porn. Videos or images depicting realistic necrophilia, injury, and rape. The great thing about this law is that it doesn't actually even need to be real, it just needs to depict it. Think about it for a second and realise how broad the definition of extreme pornography actually is before you laugh at others point out how absurd the laws are.

The silent hill scene where a woman get's her skin ripped off, pass. But what about the scene from Irreversible where Monica Bellucci gets brutally raped? Illegal under this definition. We can happily spend all days killing zombies, but under this law if you have a bad enough day in court you may find watching the humorous Walking Dead parody may end you in hot water. God forbid you search for Rule34 on the Simpsons, because you know both Bart and Lisa are under-age and if you happen to see a comic or otherwise drawn and fake image depicting under-age pornography ... illegal.

Aside from the technicalities of the wording we are still talking about a law that criminalises the consumption of media instead of its provisioning or manufacture. The onus is on you to hope you don't get a BDSM advert pop-up while you're browsing the internet otherwise you are a criminal. Think this is absurd? I'm sure the UK were the ones who jailed someone where the only evidence of child pornography came from the cache folder from their browser and it was classed as possession.

As for the rest of the commonwealth, I assume you're lumping the UK together with the likes of India and Malaysia for your example. I can't find any western nations of the commonwealth who have laws against pornography other than bestiality and child pornography, and even then bestiality is regulated at the production stage not the consumption and even then only in some locations.

It's true, vast sums of money pissed away cleaning up pollution and emissions, billions wasted developing more efficient technology... And noting to show for it.

The OP said he read about it in Dr. Dobbs. It's the third result on Google for "nimrod programming language". At best, they deleted it too soon. Since it can't be un-deleted now someone has to start again from scratch. The fact that there is no stub doesn't help get one written.