The story was on the news long enough to seem authentic but then went quiet. Maybe both sides worried about appearing ridiculous?

Googling found this page of related stories (including rock grenades) https://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/86382-tornadoes-drop-concrete-bombs.html and yes, it appears both the RAF and USAF used concrete bombs and they were actually laser-guided, not just dumb.

Can't do that, it's against the Geneva Convention.

You do know the story from Iraq, right? Saddam's people were setting up anti-aircraft posts just under the walls of culturally important sites, so that attacking the posts would damage the mosques etc. The mean RAF (and I guess USAF) took to dropping training bombs on them. These were non-explosive and made of concrete but could take out an anti-aircraft post nicely. Iraq complained under the Geneva Convention which bans the use of "unconventional weapons".

The BBC's Business Editor is in a different position from a blogger. And there is no doubt that his pronouncements can and do move markets. Guido has had several goes at him, and it is not surprising that a Select Committee wanted his evidence -- not at all the same thing as imprisoning him.

You are born unavoidably into a sinful state, and as you live your life you will inevitably commit more sins. Many of your everyday acts are sins. You are bad, bad, unavoidably bad.

Most of us have stopped letting anyone teach our children such damaging hogwash. Unfortunately our world is infested with green fanatics who will teach them that their birth is to be regretted as adding another consumer of resources, that they will inevitably commit various wastes of resources, and that many of their everyday acts are wrong.

Sorry, no time to read everything already posted. Two tried and tested ideas -- maybe for the younger end.

Science notebooks -- encourage students to keep a notebook about all sorts of sciencey things they come across in everyday life. Very easy to review and mark using a sampling system rather than exhaustive reading.

Encourage kids to become the local expert on a topic. Then use them to explain relevant items to the other students.

You forgot the bit about the apprenticeship where your ideas are nicked by your supervisor/lead investigator and presented as his own.

We had a ball too at the McMADSAT smaller and less-official Maker Faire event in Glasgow on Saturday -- an unfortunate clash. http://mcmadsat.blogspot.com/

We definitely need more of these.

Look around you. The cost to an individual professional woman who has a baby is currently colossal.

Women's rights to move around after dark are also a civil liberties issue. Women tend to be unhappy about walking alone late at night, where "late" can be quite early by men's standards. UK women tend to like having their route home covered by CCTV.

On a laptop, you probably need Master Password Timeout as well

Yep, back in the day, who would have thought that on my personal machines I could run through so many fruit beginning with "P", but with PDAs and phones as well it is getting a bit exotic round here.

But then, no scheme is perfect. I used to service a small not-for-profit whose two PCs were called Black and White for the most obvious of (visible) reasons, and people would still stand between the two desks and ask which was which.

OK, the Women's Forum at the recent World Engineering Congress held in the big Convention Centre in Brasilia did manage to schedule its environment strand in the lecture theatre Aguas Claras (clear waters).

Yet another way for Microsoft to track what you are doing -- because of course the queries go to their database on their servers with their monitoring.

Reportedly this was one of the reasons for the CueCat's failure, although there were ways you could supposedly anonymize them. Anonymize your phone?

I think QR codes do not funnel through a single provider, although I guess one provider may dominate in certain segments of the market.

We can't tell you what you will enjoy, you will have to work that one out for yourself. Explore the options within your course. Plan your paid work to give you broader experience. If you are also interested in another area, look at taking a joint major or at least a good chunk of courses there. Taking a road less travelled can result in less competition, or at least give you an advantage over fellow travellers who just strayed onto it.

Talk to your academic staff -- it isn't that difficult really! Discuss doing a masters -- better qualified people don't get used for repetitive jobs.

[And some people only really latch on to coding when they find a language or paradigm that is a better fit with their way of thinking, your time may come.]