Posts by Mudslinger

Oh the wonders of the American language

"She's done so in a set of coordinated meetings with a select number press used to deliver the official message".

Means either .. meetings with select(ed) members of the press... or some kind of technological messaging system which involves selecting and then pressing a number (phone?)

Today's date being????

...the common theme of the fraudulent transactions was that they occurred between seven and 10 days after victims purchased goods from chainreactioncycles.com. Purchases at CRC between March 4 to 12 seem to be those most closely associated with subsequent fraud...

The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits.

<quote> Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister responsible for reducing the public sector pay bill, told the BBC he questioned the rising salaries in the wider public sector and the idea that they were necessary to attract qualified people.</quote>

And yet ever increasing remuneration packages are essential if the private sector is to attract the best.

Which means that all the talent will be in the private sector, public services will fail and will have to be privatised and then, because they are now private sector, wages will be permitted to rise for those at the top while, as ever, the people who do the actual work will be tightening their belts even further

@ Steven Jones, Uncle Slacky

Once again wikipedia is wrong (shock).

Double summer time <b>was</b> implemented during WWII, the clocks still went forward in spring and back in autumn, so the effect was the same as adopting CET would be today.

In 1968 -71 Britain experimented with British Standard Time which was 1 hour ahead of GMT all year round.

I have no idea why this experiment wasn't made permanent if the supposed saving of lives of schoolchildren were indeed realised.

@KroSha

Are you confusing Java and Javascript?

They're about as similar as cow's milk and soya milk

Automatic taxis are coming.

This is all leading, slowly but inexorably, to the day when driving is taken out of our hands because we can't be trusted to do it properly.

There will be no user operated controls , in the current sense, in the car of the future. Instead you will enter your destination into the navigation system and the car will take you there. An automatic taxi.

No problem if you're too pished to stand so long as the nav sys knows where you want to go. And if it's your own car only you are going to be upset when you puke.

so what else

was on this lappy?

Coutts banking details would be handy!

@Maybe there's more to it....

Ah, the French are little more subtle than the Italians then: the head of state is merely a friend of the main TV channel owner rather than being the same person.

I think I know what you mean

but

"The occasional chrono-adjustment is meant to keep the uniform time kept by atomic clocks since 1972 less than 0.9 seconds within the time-scale measured by the Earth's rotation around its axis."

isn't quite how I would have put it :-)

Fair comment?

Peter Sutcliffe (the Yorkshire Ripper) was also a truck driver.

@ Serial Numbers

The smarter crims may well fake the s/n, the smarter buyer will certainly check to see if it's recognised by the manufacturer's website.

@ Ernest

Just do what I did:

Fire up Safari in developer mode, switch to emulate IE7 and download onto a Mac. Copy to USB thumbdrive and Robert is your mother's sister's husband.

NO EXCUSE

>Because Doctors and such are often working at sites where they don't have access >to the main NHS network.

>Also, the WAN links between different NHS sites can be a bit flakey.

Laptops with built-in 3G cards are available. It's sheer laziness on the part of the health professional (or worse their IT dept) not to have done a proper risk asssesment.