I think the phrase you are looking for is "corralation does not equal causation".

I really love how (presumtuously accidentaly) your signature really embodies this entire article.

Wireless?

Remember, don't iPlayer and drive.

Couldn't you simply run your connection through a Tor style service, which exits in the uk, and veiw iplayer via that? Or would that be too slow?

how long do you estimate a fork with a "normal" interface will take to appear?

I wonder whether this would function correctly on the iPhone, because apple cannot restrict this, it is only JavaScript after all.

I'm afraid you will have to deal with it, because that is the best what is currently available.

Because this is slashdot, and this is how slashdot works.

This type of system seems pretty commonplace in Britain, in both onstreet and car park situations, at one time a local hospital even had the system. Admittedly in my area at least on street parking is only about 6 parking spaces long, but even so this pay and display system just works.

i much prefer the square pins to the rounded ones on the BS546

Isnt that most diabetics?

We would belive you, but you are posting on slashdot.

This could be fun, imagine for a moment:
person: what is the meaning of life?
operator: 42
person Takes the word of operator as gospal, due to the lack of a certain book, concequently spewing false beliefs around a village. Who is going to stop the information from being read out of context?

surely the browser or the operating system should not be the dictatting factor in these things, surely it should be the web designers choice, it is their site after all.