Is asking a question on how to circumvent the Chinese filtering system really appropriate? It's highly illegal, and you've been pretty blatent about what you want to do and that you don't care.

I'm surprised the question made it to the front page.

They don't check anything. I'm constantly requesting copies of birth certificates (genealogy) and I've never been asked anything. Just find the person whose certificate you're after, look them up in the BMD indexes and bingo bango, one officially approved birth certificate arrives in the post a week or so later.

Yes, it's an offence to be unable to produce it, but you have 7 days to do so at a police station of your choice. See the Road Traffic Act.

Yeah mine does the same.

My point was more that the cloned chips are using ripped off code with no guarantee that it's not been hacked about and will work properly. 9 times out of 10 the cloned chips will probably work fine. I'm just making people aware that the cheap ones do contain code that's been ripped off from another manufacturer and sold on for profit.

People can make up their own mind then as to what they want to do.

Not necessarily. There are a number of protocol that may be used, CAN is just one of them. See here for a list.

I've looked into this a fair amount and one thing I will say is beware of fake ELM ICs.

The ELM327 IC is what the vast majority of these scanners will be based on. The ones at www.scantool.net will use genuine ELM ICs, but the ones like this one and this one will almost certainly use non-genuine ELM ICs.

The ELM327 chip is just a PIC with some custom firmware on it. A few years ago someone managed to get the firmware off one of these PICs and since then the fake ones have really taken off. Whereas the genuine ELMs have frequent updates, the fake ones obviously don't.

I've had an @googlemail.co.uk address for a long while, and if you sent mail to youraddress@gmail.com instead of youraddress@googlemail.co.uk you always ended up receiving the mail fine.

The only difference for UK people wishing to 'convert' their email address to @gmail.com is what's displayed on the gmail.com site when you log in.

Anyone from the UK reading that would put their head in their hands.

Hill starts are a large part of a UK driving test. If you roll back at all you'll fail. That's what the handbrake is for.

You'll agree that it does somewhat reduce the impact of the sensational headline though.

Fair enough - no hint that the highlighted friends are based on profile views though.

Plus TFA is still fundamentally inaccurate, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the search box. Wonder where that info came from?

The default password only worked from the Facebook office on the Facebook ISP.

Rumpus: When you say “click on somebody’s profile,” you mean you save our viewing history?

Employee: That’s right. How do you think we know who your best friends are? But that’s public knowledge; we’ve explicitly stated that we record that. If you look in your type-ahead search, and you press “A,” or just one letter, a list of your best friends shows up. It’s no longer organized alphabetically, but by the person you interact with most, your “best friends,” or at least those whom we have concluded you are best friends with.

This is rubbish, isn't it?

I've just typed "a" into the search box and it comes up with an alphabetical list of contacts. The first one happens to be someone whos profile I don't think I've ever clicked on.

In England the subway arrives from right to left, not form left to right.

It's random, actually. It could come from any direction, there's no rule.