Brilliant, just what i was asking for. You, sir, are a mathematical genius!

Does anyone know the time in seconds it takes to reach 100km/h, which is how the rest of the world compares vehicle acceleration? I'm interested, and not trying to start a debate about outmoded imperial measurements :-)

So right. You have hit the nail exactly on the head!

Few news reports here are mentioning the fact that France has been dropping bombs on Syria for many months. Given that information, it could be argued that this action by Syrians is them just fighting back in one of the few ways available. Both countries' behaviour is equally reprehensible :-(

The reason for the lack of security is obvious - the risk of hacking is present, but not very high. On the other hand, if the medical equipment does not work as designed, the patient may die because of that failure. Currently it's better to have the equipment work for sure and risk a hack than to put too many complicated steps into setting things up securely.

I use a desktop PC to access the BBC, and my PC does not have flash installed. I can't see any of the videos :-) the webpage insists I install flash. which i won't. silly BBC :-)

William Shatner killed google+ for me, when he signed up to it, google shut down his email account without any checks, leaving him with no recourse, and no email. Who wants to risk that? http://www.businessinsider.com...

Wasn't a suit a bit like this, but infinitely more flexible, invented over 500 years ago? I re-enact medieval battles and the full plate gear that we wear dated 1480 is perfectly firework proof. it's possible to do cartwheels whilst wearing it, too!

Three years ago in the uk i bought my daughter a dell laptop, i5 processor, 6Gb RAM, 500Gb hard drive, £350. Recently it died, so i looked around for a replacement. listed in the bargain forums here (hotukdeals.com) only a couple of weeks ago was a laptop i5, 6Gb RAM, 1Tb hard drive, £380. So in three years the price has barely changed for a remarkably simiar spec. Moore's law seems dead? I agree with the original poster!

I live in England, and I set up a new British Telecom Broadband internet account for a work colleague recently, 30 dollars a month 8Mb/s unlimited use. Options for the filter were off, low, medium and high. He said "I have kids, put on the maximum filter option please." Two hours later, I receive a phone call "internet explorer(!) won't let me access Facebook." Yup, the filter on the highest setting blocks Twitter and Facebook. He removed the filter then, without even trying the other choices.

Have you ever tried to contact Google? If you needed to discuss a problem with your account being shut down you would not find it easy. http://mashable.com/2011/07/18... He got his account back fairly quickly, but he would still have been much better off going nowhere near G+ !

Rapid justice, and punishment, for small crimes help prevent the perp moving onto bigger stuff next time. So a minor mugging that's satisfactorily solved could possibly stop the mugger committing further, more serious, offences

If Microsoft didn't patch I.E., most XP users would download and install a different browser. Almost overnight Internet Explorer as a common standard for web access would dissapear.

It's possible to fly from london to new york in three hours. In fact, you could do for a span of twenty years or so, before concorde was decomissioned. Just because it's possible, doesn't mean it'll become widely available, or even at all available. Ditto driverless cars. The technology will filter down into ordinary cars as extra safety features to augment the driver's slow reactions. For the foreseeable future, anyway.

I had a brief look at the stats - i live in the uk, where pistols are completely illegal to own, and shotgun and rifle possession is rare and heavily regulated. Policemen carry a truncheon! Murder rates in the uk are 1.2(per 100k population per year) Murder rates in the US are 4.7(ditto) Simple?