"The kids need to be taken away" philosophy simply doesn't work. Once you've taken these kids away, what do you do with them? I for one don't want to be a foster parent for someone else's ungrateful, chavvy brat of a child and I'm sure a lot of other people would rather not either. Chavvy kids are unwanted by society - very very few people would be willing to adopt them to try and change them.

That problem could be solved by taking the kids away at a young enough age, before they're permanently scarred by chav culture - but then we have the issue of, how do we know the parents are doing a bad job before they've done it? On paper, when I was a baby, my parents weren't wealthy, we were living in a rough area in a council house, my mum was unemployed (to look after me and my brother) and my dad was working in the lowly ranks of BT. On paper, they didn't look particularly good. But as I got older and eventually left home, my parents are both doing very well for themselves (mum's a solicitor, dad has his own business) and they have 2 uni educated kids; 1 an accountant and 1 working out of a web development firm in London. For parents where only 1 of them worked and lived in a bad area, they didn't do a bad job.

My point is, the government can't decide who to take young kids from, and for older kids, it's too late - nobody wants them.

From TFA:
The robot takes a step every 340ms and has no contact with the ground for 100ms of that.

In the slo-mo, it looks like both feet are off the ground to me. Check again at 0.52-0.53.

Libraries anyone? During my 2nd year at uni (I didn't think of it for my first) I just got all the text books I needed from the library. Most of them were 4 week loans and could be renewed on the internet - so it wasn't really that much of a hassle.

At a guess, you're not a large corporation that needs to have instant access to this data from any location. So, using a combination of the following techniques would probably be suitable;
1. Only allow local access to the data. Maybe make it so it's only accessible from the machine it's stored on. Do you need to access it over LAN or WAN? If not, unplug it.
2. Turn it off when you don't need it. If it's not on, nobody can read the data.
3. Keep it in a locked room.

The main question is though; do you actually need to store half the data you're storing? If it's stuff that you can easily remember, or simply isn't sensitive enough to justify extraordinary means of protection, don't bother storing it on a server. Personally, any of my personal data that I consider sensitive enough to care about I don't store on any computer system, I just remember it.

Considering the rising sizes of games and the "traffic management" policies that all the major ISPs have now, it's not very practical for digital-only releases.

For example, GTA IV was the best part of 15-16GB. Even if ISPs didn't cap people's downloads, even if the digital distributors didn't crumble on release day, even if "upto 32Meg" broadband got close to those speeds, even if the game actually worked on PC (beside the point) - it would still take absolutely ages for me to download on my 2Meg connection. While I'm well aware of the fact that 2Meg isn't the fastest, I'm a student. I don't have the money to spend on 50Meg broadband. But similarly, because I'm a student, I have nothing better to do with my time than post ./ comments and play video games.

I've learned from my digitally distributed mistake, and in future I will;
Not buy another GTA game for PC
Just pre-order the physical copy - sometimes you actually get that the day before release.

Actually, that's where you could be wrong. It depends on your university/college/school's small print that you agreed to when you enrolled on the course. At the university I go to, the university claims ownership of any work you create there, eg, coursework, essays, notes, projects etc. By enrolling to the course, I effectively gave the university rights to use any of my work how they please (even profit from it).

When our head of department was confronted on this, she said that it is true, the university does take legal ownership for everyone's work - but most of the time, the uni doesn't care. So, if you create an amazing piece of software for a coursework and want to sell it afterwards - the uni won't really care. Legally, they are allowed to stop you or force you to pay royalties to the uni though.

tl;dr, read the small print. You'll probably find your answer there.

Having recently tried to bump start my car, but misjudged it and hit a Chelsea tractor square in the side - I don't believe this automatic braking lark would help if the engine isn't on (as in my case).

I quite like having a wireless mouse and keyboard. Fortunately, my mouse has a docking-station-type charger, so it never goes flat because I just pop it in that whenever I leave my computer. The keyboard's battery life is phenomenally long so that is also a non-issue. The keyboard not having a wire is more useful than the mouse not having a wire. If I'm leaning back in my chair with the keyboard on my lap, a wired one will probably end up getting tangled around my legs (knowing my clumsy self) so having it wireless avoids this. It just means, there isn't a cable that'll stop it smashing into the floor when it inevitably slides off my lap.

Actually, my mouse is the best mouse in the world ever. Simply because, it's wireless, rechargable, has a scroll wheel that acts like a 3rd button. Also, I only paid 13 quid for it, and that was about 8 years ago. I challenge any of those mice listed to beat mine in value for money. Of course, I'm sure those mice have extra 'worthwhile' features...like...wait...what exactly is there on those mice that actually has substance? I mean the rubbish like "UBER LAZOR IS SO REALLY REALLY PRECISE" is utter marketing drivel and I'm very sure that 99.9% of the entire technically literate world would not be able to notice the difference in 'precision' of a $90 laser mouse compared with my 8 year old £13 mouse. Is there actually any features on those mice that actually justify their price tags? I mean, sure, some of them have a couple of extra buttons, but from past experience of using mice with extra buttons stuck on the side - they're really rather pointless and didn't really catch on (like the Welsh language [reference to a show Rob Brydon did recently, I can't remember what it's called, but I'm not being racist]). Ok, so it makes skipping forwards and backwards in your browser that little bit quicker. But hitting the buttons on your browser's navigation bar doesn't exactly take much time. Neither does hitting backspace for going back or hitting whatever the button is for going forward, for going forward.

While it's easy to say that speed limits are set low to trap motorists and get £$â in fines...how many court cases do you think there will be if they say "You can drive 60mph on this road, but only 55mph at night...or if it's raining . But if it's just drizzle it's still 60. But if there's surface water, 55mph. For snow, lets say 45mph. For unusually clear, dry conditions, 100mph. If you have a new car with 5 star safety rating, you can do 80 on a regular day, but if you have a 20 year old fiesta, you can do a max of 40 in any conditions."

Laws need to be clear cut because people are idiots. People will not understand laws if they're over complicated, and the powers that be will "catch-out" more people who misunderstand the speed limits than they "catch-out" at the moment with the low speed limits.

There was a court case my mum spoke of recently (she's CPS) where someone was pulled up at a red light, and an ambulance on the blue was coming up behind them. So they did the human thing, got out the way. This involved going slightly over the stop line. The anti-run-red-light cameras took a picture of them, in their car over the line. They took it to court. They lost the case. The law saying you're not allowed past the white line when the red light is on stands regardless of the situation. No exceptions.

Before cameras for speed and red lights etc were about, it was the police who'd stop you for speeding, or running red lights. In a situation like this, a copper would use their discretion and say "Fair play, you were just getting out of the ambulances way" and not give you a ticket. Unfortunately, now there is no human judgement, you have to sit at that red light until it goes green and let the guy in the back of the ambulance die...otherwise you are in the wrong.

As far as this idea goes; bare in mind. If you get caught, you are seriously screwed legally. There was another case where a motorbiker would get hit by the same forward-facing speed camera pretty much every day. Because the bike didn't have a plate on the front, he got away with it for a very long time. Until, a rear-facing camera got his number plate. They matched his bike based on stickers and decals on his bike and helmet with all the previous pictures and did him...considerably.

A similar thing applies here. You can get away with it for so long and hope they never catch you. But if they do, they'll throw the book and then some at you.

I suppose, if you're desperate enough to want to try this deodorant is most likely desperate enough to ef a fatty. In which case, this deodorant is perfect for the job.