Additionally, at least if the banks follow USAA's lead on this (USAA has been doing this for a long time now), the only customers who will be able to do this are the most trustworthy. That is those with a good account history with the bank, good credit etc.

Yes, but forged checks has always been a potential problem. If the routing numbers etc match up and the bank/customer doesn't dispute it it'll go through. That's the way checks have always worked. There's really not much more danger here than there has always been within the check system.

USAA customers have been able to do this with their mobile phones for quite a long time now. They've also been able to use scanners and software at home to do it for even longer (years).

I think you misunderstand what I meant, I mean it's not the customers fualt that using all the bandwidth the ISP provides them causes problems for the ISP.

Sure if the customer has problems with their own connection when they fully saturate it that's their problem not the ISP's.

But it's certainly not the fault of the user that the ISP is giving them more bandwidth than the ISP can handle them using.

My thoughts exactly.

It's not the customers fault that the ISP didn't design their network in such a way that someone using all the bandwidth that the ISP provides them causes problems. If people uploading too much is a problem, then cut down their upload bandwidth, but don't just ban them.

An excellent suggestion that I'd forgotten about! Stonehenge is worth seeing and Bath is a wonderful little place to visit!

I'm not sure this guy is the real douchbag here...

Oh, and since you're going to be there for 2 weeks consider taking the train up to Edinburgh in Scotland. The train-ride will take all day, but you get to see a pretty big cross section of England and Scotland, and Edinburgh is one of my favorite cities in the world. Plus if you're a golfer you can make a pilgrimage to St. Andrews (a town I love in it's own right. I spent a semester there in college) with a rather short train ride from Edinburgh.

Not sure if anyone else has suggested it (probably but just in case...) I would HIGHLY suggest going to visit the Cabinet War Rooms where Churchhill and his advisers planned WWII. It's pretty fascinating in general and if you're a history nerd at all it'll be doubly so. I've been there just about everytime I've been in london for any period of time and it never get's old. The last time I was there (back in 2003) they were in the midst of a major expansion of the areas that would be open to the public so it's probably bigger and more interesting now than it was when I was last there. It's not hugely well known but it's really really awesome (and at least everytime I was there not super crowded. There were still certainly people there, but it wasn't jam packed). Anyway that's my tourism suggestion to everyone who asks about cool things to see in London, since most of the other big attractions are more well known.

Oh I'd also suggest checking out Camden Town.