Agreee totally, if facebook want to read everyone's emails they should have to finance their own Streetview cars.

The manufacturers don't have an obligation under the GPL to supply you or any other member of the general public with the source code. They only have an obligation to supply Telstra with the source code.

Telstra, in turn, have an obligation to supply their customers with the source code on request and for a price that covers their actual costs of supplying that source code.

Branding is irrelevant here.

Maybe, but if you hadn't made your post I never would have thought of mine which we both got a good laugh out of. So teamwork strikes again and we both win.

After all, she can see outer space from her back porch.

I think this is all overblown and unnecessary paranoia.

I've got a lot of domains registered and don't get much more spam on the email addresses I use for registration than I do on my personal email address (Which has never been publicly used on a web-site or for domain registrations)

My partner is a cuddly lady who does fatagrams (partial nudity at stag and birthday parties) and we have the domain name fatagrams.com registered. We've never had any problems related to the domain name.

One C++ shop I worked in we used to have a short sample C++ program (~~ 2 pages long) that was deliberately written to contain a large number of problems, many obvious and some quite subtle. It was an "Animals" style example program so manifestly not production code. We asked candidates to examine the program and find as many of these problems as they could then suggest better ways of achieving the same thing.

We weren't terribly interested in how many problems they actually found but were vitally interested in how they approached the analysis and how deeply they understood object orientated design and the C++ version of that paradigm.

It was great fun to write and we eliminated quite a few posers with this tool.

I can see to this puppy are the low weight and the fact you can fold it up into a small parcel, otherwise it might as well be a Sinclair C5. I commute by pushbike and wouldn't use something like this for commuting myself, but a few years back I used to commute by public transport to a point 2 or 3 km from work then used a child's folding scooter for the final leg, so in a city like London where people travel ridiculous distances by train to somewhere near their work I can see a slight advantage on both fine days of the English summer. They need to get the price down and increase the range to be taken seriously though.

If you've got remote hosting, open a command shell and type

ssh -l myuser -D8080 myserver.example.com

Then tell your browser to use the Socks server at localhost port 8080

FWIW I use the technique to avoid weird flakiness on port 2222 (Direct Admin control panel) ... I suspect this is some kind of traffic shaping by my ISP but have never been able to prove it.