European airlines are heavily regulated from what they can advertise to how they have to communicate their pricing. Ryanair have fought a battle against this for years and currently pay some fairly hefty fines for not complying.

What cell network is he on? Sounds sketchy to me...

Who says we're talking about your car insurer? What about your health insurer or life insurer?

If you want to get an idea of what's involved, have a look at the FunCube project - http://funcube.org.uk/

It got back from vibration testing in early November - http://www.funcubedongle.com/?p=1323

And TomTom are heavily involved in Apple's maps - so this is even more of a surprise.

How have you managed that ?

Did ? We're _still_ on XP on several thousand workstations.

The problem is that other countries don't understand how easy is to be arrested, so they still use an arrest as a criteria for allowing visa-free travel.

So if you book a holiday to the US in January and are scheduled to fly in November, but get arrested in August for a bullshit reason, you're screwed. Your travel insurance company won't refund anything and the US visa process requires that you travel to one of a handful of locations (and that's only if you can get an appointment in time!)

And for companies, if I have 9 candidates for a role without arrest records and 1 who's background check comes back saying that he was arrested for violence, am I going to hire one of the 9 easy ones, or bother to go to the effort of finding out that he was defending his wife and child in his own home ?

An arrest in the UK is a big deal. Regardless of a conviction, it shows up on background checks in the future and limits the jobs you can get. The police get to keep youru DNA and your fingerprints for a number of years.

It also means that you can no longer visit certain countries on vacation or for work (including the USA) without going through an expensive and time consuming visa application process.

It's a big deal and it sucks that we're arresting so many people under these laws. Mr. Bean is right - section 5 of the public order act needs to go!

And that's great and all - but it still claims reported space in explorer, stopping me from using that space.

In this case, it's because the generators got a little damp due to some rain in the area just before going into service :D

Given the amount of things that have happened, it's a 'better safe than sorry' move to do the overhaul.

Cell sites I worked in Africa run a pair of Cummins generators as their main power. In the unlikely event that both of these fail at the same time, there's a chance that the main grid might be working well enough to take over. But the fuel is the biggest priority on these sites.

At the moment, we have tankers on site at all of our NY DCs. 2 of them are on generator only, so we're topping up the tanks every 4 hours. The generators will need full overhauls when we're back on the grid properly, but for now we're keeping our clients serviced which is what matters.

Maybe it's just the met then...

That's true - as long as you've never been to the doctor for stress or depression.

People are upset about this primarily because at some point, it was decided that corporations should enjoy 1st amendment rights. I think there was a case around a large corp lying through their teeth about their products, and winning the right to do so under the 1st amendment.