Women would have to wear their hair in sensible shoes? That would be interesting to see.

Full names are not necessarily unique either.

Sure, that works a treat. But it does require someone in reasonable proximity with such a rig and it still doesn't tell you *which* receiver happens to be operating. Certainly not practical for the sort of tracing the tin foil hat brigade is worried about.

The problem here is that there are two different words. "flame" and "inflame". "inflame" is not using the "in-" prefix. You can add "-able" to either one, with the usual meaning. That then gives "flammable" and "inflammable". You can then theoretically add "in-" meaning "not" to "flammable" which gives "inflammable". This is clearly an absurd situation since you now have two conflicting meanings which usually cannot be separated in context. (For the record, "inflame" does not have strictly the same meaning as "flame".)

In my part of the world, "inflammable" is generally thought to mean "not burnable" but there is enough confusion that it is better to avoid using the word altogether.

Those vans only find the "leakage" in local proximity. They can't, for instance, identify which house has a set if it were pointed at London from, say, Paris. And even if the *low power* GPS receiver circut is transmitting something receivable, it would only be retransmitting the signal already coming from the satellite, not the location information which never enters the radio circuitry.

Not only would you see a reduction in trials but you would have an immensely popular sporting event....

You do realize that it is conceivable that the last two combatants could kill each other or the survivor might not live long enough to issue a verdict? And odd or even, if you have to fight until there is only one left standing, you have the same potential problem.

Not flaming here. However, how can you be sure that your visitor using his own device is not doing something illegal? The answer is that you can't know, especially if you, like the vast majority, are not a computer expert. It's too easy to hide a process that is sitting around cracking passwords or downloading movies.

And that doesn't even take into account the fact that even a reasonably secured access point is crackable in a reasonable time frame, mac addresses are generally trivially spoofable, and so on. Thus, because wireless is easilly accessed compared to hard-wired networks, it is a reasonable argument that even a consciencious home network operator may not be aware of the infringing activity which may not even be happening on his property where he can see it.

And finally, the insanely stupid argument: are you going to hold the homeowner responsible for a burglar using his network to download illegal files? After all, a burglar is clearly not authorized by the homeowner but he will also appear to come from the IP address. Thus it is reasonable that the person alleging wrongdoing should have something other than an IP address.

It's not clear that common law makes the situation any better. It may seem to do so when the relevant legal history is short but when you have many centuries of precedents, laws, and other confusion, it hardly makes things simpler.

Actually, it can. Let's use the $10 example. The bank lends $9 on the $10, which ends up deposited. Now the bank has $9 more in deposits of which it can now lend 90% ($8.10) which gets deposited. Now it can lend 90% of that $8.10 which gets deposited and then it can lend 90% of that, and so on. After the second iteration, the bank has lent $17.10 on the original $10 deposit. That is a convergent exponential series with a limit of about $90. Of course, if the first loan were taken in cash, there could be no further loan (no further deposit) so the practical limit is less than that since any amount withdrawn reduces the reserve. Also, I've assumed exactly one bank in the system but it works the same whether there is one bank or one hundred banks.

That repetetive process is that part that is glossed over when fractional reserve is explained. The multiplication effect is quite significant when reserves start to get down into the single digit percents.