Thumbprint, perhaps?

Since September you can pay for transport in London with a contactless credit or debit card. (There's no need to pre-register or anything, but foreigners should check their bank won't charge an unreasonable fee on a £1.45 transaction). They claimed to be first to set this up, including some new special kinds of keep-people-moving-and-deal-with-the-fraud-later transaction, so I expect it will catch on elsewhere in the next year or two.

The E-numbered roads aren't motorways for their whole length, especially at the edges (i.e. Scotland, Ireland, northern Sweden etc.)

It's an interview, so I'd take "favourite" to mean "interesting".

And if someone can tell me how to implement a linked list that's a good start. Even better if they can use that to tell me when using a linked list is worse than using an array list, and vice-versa.

In Britain, if your house is connected by an above-ground electricity cable I'd estimate less than 20 families live in the settlement.

(No evidence for that, but it's only tiny places that have above ground electricity. Above-ground telephone is more common, that could be small or old.)

The European countries have connections between them -- mine (UK) imports/exports power from Ireland, France and the Netherlands. There are plans to connect to Norway and Iceland (not in the EU).

http://rrc-energy.com/electric... shows most other countries have many more connections (since they're not going across water).

Something like a railway cable trough, typically concrete, is common in Britain at the side of most railway track.

But it's a criminal offence to trespass on the railway.

Better example: buried cables along canals in London. Only pedestrians and cyclists (and horses) can use that path, could it stand up to cars and lorries?

(I'm pretty sure the electricity company will use boats and barges to maintain the cables, which is probably a lot easier than having to divert road traffic etc, and earns them eco-points.)

A steam locomotive. When it runs out of steam, it stops. (Wording chosen for the pun with Rails.)

I switched banks a couple of months ago, and it's just occured to me that I didn't receive a chequebook. Perhaps I would need to request it. The previous account (opened ~6 years ago) sent me one automatically, though I only used three of them. This time, all my direct debits, saved accouts (mostly friends I've sent money to) were transferred automatically, and a redirect to the new account made for my salary.

I would use a debit card to buy a car. It's far more secure for both me and the vendor. It's less clear what the best way to buy a used card from an individual is.

Rent is paid electronically, set up either online or by filling in a form at a bank.

There are plenty of photos on Tripadvisor, and they're not nice. (e.g. mouldy socks left in a drawer, chunks of damp plaster falling off walls.)

Since it's a British card, so has a chip, even if the owner authorised (using his PIN) the cost of the room at the hotel using the card, they won't have authorised the subsequent £100 charge.

TFA says they booked through Booking.com -- on their page for the hotel I don't see any fine print with those words. They may have changed it today. They have a note about disabled access.

It's clearly an unfair contract term anyway. Would you agree to it if it was explicit? No -- it's intentionally hidden away in the small print.

If you agree we need a railway, then making it high speed shouldn't cost much more than not. (At least, that's the theory. I'm not interested enough to get past all the biased websites and find some facts.)

I wouldn't be surprised if some people do start commuting from Manchester to London, or working for part of the week in both cities. A few people already commute from Leicester, which is 70 minutes from London. You're sure to get a seat, so it isn't necessarily wasted time. Last time I passed through St Pancras there were adverts for commuter houses in Northamtonshire. Weekly commuting is probably more common. Two colleagues spend the weekends in York and Truro, respectively.

Regenerative braking requires very little extra equipment, the electric motors are used as generators and the power produced put back into the electric supply (overhead wires).

The alternative is simply dumping the generated power to a grid of resistors, which some diesel trains do, as it reduces wear on brake pads.

The interest is using Amazon Turk for a quick survey.

Or you might get the situation in the UK, where I can choose from a wide range of providers at a wide range of prices and service levels. A few lay their own fibre and connections, most of the better ones lay fibre to the phone exchanges and have some routing equipment inside, the cheap ones lease everything from BT and save money (compared to BT) with customer service and usage limits (but plenty for my grandma, who pays £2.50/month or so for a few GB to check her email and chat on Skype).