Makes sure that all you brits submit a request to the new Freedom bill to reduce copyright length of time, introduced by the previous government, to a much reduced figure, perhaps the same figure it was 50 years ago.

Intuitive about the ADHD however. Not ADHD but I am quite hyper.

You write quite beauifully as well I must say. You'll be snapped up in an instant.

Looks like we found the guy running round saying oldies suck then.

No wonder it's an anonymous coward.

Right on the money. That was my experience. I'm 49 and I was invited to an interview with Google (Approached). This was
initially flattering. However, when I got there the only person I saw all day that seemed anywhere near my age was the security guard at the front. not that this bothered me at all. During the interview they asked me to write a binary search algorithm on the whiteboard in whatever language I liked. Now all this some it was feeling somewhat insulted as these things are elementary, I also felt awkward doing such on a whiteboard, I spend almost 24/7 behind a computer and type faster than most folks I know. In addition, I spend 7 years working on hardcore search engine design and wrote a system that could fully index a 10GB corpus of text and html in a single pass (TREC test data) in 45 minutes on a circa 2002 PC (I know there was some systems that were faster, I could do it better now as well), and to be asked to write a binary search algorithm was not so inspiring, particularly when I asked if they wanted to see anything about the search engine I was working on they declined, stating that it would taint they interview procedure which was based on some standard tests. So what it comes down to is that it appeared that they did not take any past experience into account apparently (A procedure that maybe is just as well when hiring new graduates). Bizarrely enough, they didn't hire me for a sysadmin job, claiming I was weak in coding!! Some friends of mine reported that they knew some very smart people that reported the same experience, which helped my ego somewhat I'm glad.

I was better off that they declined anyway, I'm earning much more now than I could ever have earned there and have a couple of new promising businesses well on the way in addition to my day job (Business involving lots of coding, BTW).

Many modern IP cameras have audio build into them by default these days and it's a growing trend. Axis Q1755 is case in point. Axis cameras are a common choice for quality surveillance cameras.They don't even require separate wiring, it's just encoded over the IP if requested. Do you think the government is going to remove these mics? Or do you think they are simply going to ignore this are pretend they don't have the capability? I'm betting the audio recording on surveillance cameras on the street is happening now, but because people don't ask the question I doubt many people would know. I'm sure they will see it as a bonus and say nothing more.

That's indeed a good analogy. That's exactly how I feel about blueray disks, forcing me to watch through loads of ads. Once upon a time you used to be able to put in a disk and go straight to the menu. The bad taste in my mouth means that I'll only whore myself for really good movies, the rest of the time I'll simply not buy anything. Whereas in the past I used to enjoy buying and collecting media, nowadays I feel dirty when I do so.

What I have is a div that contains a table in the middle if the page (content area). And that has a column of floated items down rhe left, to rhe left of the content area (menu area).

Inside the content is a table. This gets pushed to below the bottom of the floated section. It only does this to a table. A normal div is positioned at the top of the content area as with alll other browsers. What's more is that if I put a tall enough div preceding the table (in this case 40 pixels is enough) it pulls the table back up. In my opinion if the div containing the table is not affected by non overlapping floated sections to the left of it. Block elements inside that should also nit be affected.

It's complex css so I don't have a minimal version yet.

I'm designing a site where I'm carefully choosing the css approachs to make it work on explorer,firefox,chrome and safari. I don't have the details to hand, but currently, I have everything working on all four platforms including heaps of javascript, however unexpectedly the latest issue I have renders correctly on explorer,firebug and safari with Google Chrome being the odd man out.

Just discovered it last night, so I can't tell you the specifics right now. But it relates to positioning of divs in the presence of floated elements. I think that Google is dropping a div below the level of the highest floated element whereas all other browsers I've tested do it differently.

I didn't expect chrome to be the odd man out.

The spykee robot has shocking security. It has the concept of a administrator account, however for some reason beyond me when you connect to it as a normal user, it transmits the administrator password back in plain text (From memory when I looked into it). Also, there is no way to establish a wan connection point to point with this robot, the only way to do it is via a proxy provided by the manufacturer. In addition, you have to provide the username and password for your robot to said manufacturer. All video communcations is routed via the manufacturer, there's nothing to stop them recording all video of everyone's homes to disk and the manufacturer has knowledge that would allow them to come into all the client's homes and look around. I mailed them about this and they responded "We would never do this".

Finally, (From memory again), if very easily reverts into a mode where it allows unencrypted adhoc network connections to it. I think all you need to do is interfere with it's connection to the configured network.

Spykee is a privacy disaster waiting to happen, I'm just wondering when the first case of a hacked robot being used to spy on little kids happens.

I was under the impression that the public have the right to request copies of the images of themselves, or deletion or some such thing. If companies are making their video available to third parties, I don't see how they are able to control what happens with that video or comply with any legal requests regarding the video.

In addition, if the "Making available" argument can be used against copyright violation, then I would expect this argument also to be viable against any illegal use make of video "Made available" by this company to members of the public.

Well, I when my back problems get bad, I see a chiropractor and it's get's essentially cured in one visit. It works for me and I've tried it. You haven't tried it, so by definition you are less qualified to have an opinion that actually means anything.

Not all back/neck problems are permanently solvable like this, after a motorcycle accident at great speed, some things have suffered permanent degradation. A physiotherapist isn't going to be able to fix this as much as anyone isn't.

A chiropractic treatment is not "just a quick fix", it's just as much about eliminating the cause as a physiotherapist is. Except, I believe more so from experience.

When mail is transmitted with transport level encryption, the attacker would have to implement a man in the middle attack to read the mail, which is more involved that simply looking at the stream and also requires the attacker to have access to some readable part of the path from source to destination mail server. This is somewhere in the ISP and most of this is over switches, which again are not so easily sniffed, or on a host that is routing the mail itself. And as we are just talking telephone bills and not banking data here, that's a lot of conditions that you have to put together to get at risk, and for what? Maybe the odds of a paper attack are then about the same?

I knew you never tried it!

Thanks for answering the survey.

I can't you say obviously never had back pain, because I've known people who do get chronic backpain that would rather suffer for ages than try a chiropractor. But that's their choice. It works great for me.

Now I'm totally against quacks. I'm not religious and I'm not into scientology. I can also fully understand the sentiment of not having necessarily to have tried something to be sceptical. I'm just saying, that as someone that has suffered from really bad back pain from a motorcycle accident, that back cracking thing that chiropractors do is a bit a of life saver. And I'm also noticing that there is a lot of criticism from people who haven't tried it. I understand where they come from, but it's still noticable that these people have not been in a situation where they had bad back pain and tried it. So from a scientific point of view they are still commenting from a position of pure speculation. Which is equally unscientific.

Think about it dude. Throw aside all of the "meta" explanation that they often have which I also take with a grain of salt and just think about the effect that untangling bunches of signal wires might possibly have on the a well functioning computer system.

I've proven this to myself numerous times. It just works.

I "suspect" that part of the problem is that chiropractors understand techniques that indeed work, but "maybe" they themselves haven't been able to fully understand the reasoning why and thus the typical human reaction to try and come up with some explanation (Much like religion) kicks in. However, to me I damn well works. That's just my take on it. I'll still see chiropractors when my back or neck is bad cause they fix me. A traditional doctor will only issue an anti-imflamatory or pain killer, which does little to quickly sort out my problem.

Give the user choice. Mom can login and do the useless crap that takes a lot of time.

Personally, I want the fast solution.

Hell I don't even mind if you make mom's choice the default and I have to login to choose my preferred option. I just want the option.