Let me introduce you to my 8 year old daughter. She had quite a lot of fun trying to solve the maze problem and come up with an algorithm to do it. She was interested in the problem, trying to teach her the syntax of a programming language would have made the problem less accessible, I doubt she would have enjoyed it.

My wife's pretty happy with her iBook running 10.5 and an old version of Office v.X - she doesn't use it regularly, but gives her what she needs when she's off at a conference or whatever.

Actually a new interpretation of the rules from ICO last week changes this. Presumed consent is now OK-ish.

Where to start on this post. Let's kick off with DNA retention. Firstly it was the European Court of Human Rights that ruled on this - and that court is not an EU body, and has nothing to do with the EU. Secondly the UK Supreme Court has also ruled against the UK government on this one, and the government is **still*8 dragging its feet, so by your definitions, presumably the UK is not part of the UK since the UK government dissed a UK court.

Tobacco imports? As far as I can tell the UK is not breaching any elements of EU law on imports and indeed last time it came up the EU courts ruled in the UK's favour http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/nov/24/news.retail

You might like to Google the relationship between the European Court of Human Rights and the EU.

In the meantime, I'll give you a hint - the ECoHR is not an EU body.

Well in that case, don't watch it or record it; it's not mandatory. Personally I like free-to-air ad supported TV and I'm not surprised that a TV company has at least tried a court challenge for a device that is explicitly designed to skip ads. Ad prices already factor in the fact the people may close their eyes, switch over, go boil the kettle or manually fast foward.

I would, but I can't recall the address of the DNS server.

>Can I restate what you said but a little more clearly?

No, apparently not.

You poor, delicate snowflake.

Cast your mind back to the early 1980s, the era of the Commodore PET, the ZX81, the TRS 80. They were all personal computers, known as PCs. Then in 1981 IBM launched the IBM PC and swiftly manufacturers sprung up selling IBM PC compatibles. Within a year the letters PC had developed dual connotations - personal computer and PC compatible - compatible with the IBM PC. This duality of meaning has survived to today, so while you can (correctly) fulminate that the Mac is a PC, others will (correctly) fulminate that it isn't. You'll have to get used to that, I'm afraid.

Has anyone here actually compared Boundless' offerings with the recommended texbooks? I know that 'dinosaur traditional publishers attempt to squash plucky upstart', but it may be that anyone dispassionate looking at the results would say 'hey thats an obvious rip-pff'. I have no idea - I haven't seen the output.

Sadly not. The poster apparently believes that the past tense of 'drag' is 'drug'. /shrug.

It's quite possible to join an organisation believing that you have a mandate for change,only to discover... You don't

Has Bellsouth outsourced its mail system to Google, by any chance. Quite a few ISPs have. It's a possible mechanism for this information leakage.

My approach - my ISP offers a free mailbox so I use that. I then pay for a domain and forward mail to the ISP mailbox.