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The guy swears it's only used for backups and not for ripping DVDs. Full article: http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/florian/

Sshhh.. it's a secret project. You have to promise not to tell anyone 'cos she's getting a world exclusive interview with Osama BL for the Bedlington.co.uk news desk.

This is the problem: the global warming industry is muddying the issue. C02 is a vital part of the ecosystem and available in abundance, even taken as a "greenhouse gas" it is only a marginal contributor, and man's contribution to this marginal contribution is pretty minor. Trying to alter the levels of an innocuous life-giving substance in the atmosphere at colossal expense is pure madness. But we can all see the environmental pollution that is going on; it makes us feel bad, and we know that it can't continue like this. Lead pollution is a crime for which a lot of people have escaped punishment. Its done huge damage to health, but it's a non-fashionable issue and is better buried as there's no political mileage in it. Plastics pollution is perhaps the single biggest problem we have on the planet. Practical measures are easy and cheap, but there's little political will to do anything about it. It's non-glamorous to go flying off to international conferences on global plastic waste. It's also a creeping problem, so impossible to imagine any doomsday scenario to capture the headlines. We are simply too familiar with plastics, they're part of our everyday lives and impossible to imagine an existence without. Suggesting that we should change our attitude to them has no political appeal at all. There's an interesting video on the Sun on the BBC website today. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8009185.stm Common sense says that when you turn down the only source of heat in the room things will cool. Some scientists are suggesting that this may presage another ice-age. The astronomers admit that they are baffled. But not the global warming industry. They know more about this than the astronomers and the the particle physicists put together. They are absolutely certain; here's proof positive that the problem is worse than even they imagined. As certain as if their globe-trotting expense allowances and comfortable new research budgets depended on it.

Sorry we're still closing down coal fired power stations. Doubtless continuing Maggie T's master-plan to trash the mining industry. It's now back to the future with nuclear! You really should get into the right century. To put the argument back on to a serious (and non-emotive) level: do you or do you not believe the planet is warming, and if so why, and on what grounds do you hold this belief? Please set out why we need to spend billions of pounds on carbon capture - technology that by and large doest yet exist, and is totally unproven - in order to make what little industry we have left even less competitive by driving energy cost up still further. Is this supported by any actual science, or is it just pure politics and/or green-lobby emotion? Do you believe we can tamper with nature on this scale to achieve a positive result? If you study the weather forecast on a daily basis you'll surely find that the five day one is of very little practical use, and the ten day ones are a pure fiction. So, do you think our current understanding of the atmosphere makes any predictions about what is going on at twenty or even fifty years distance worth the paper it's printed on, let alone worth throwing countless billions of pounds we don't have at? Assuming that we (as a nation) can lay our hands on the astronomic sums being talked about, don't you think that there would be better uses for these massive resources? If - for the sake of argument - the planet is warming then do you think the overall consequences will be bad or good? Actually it probably is warming a bit - we are coming out of an exceptionally cold period once again. However the more recent fashion is to talk about climate change - thus taking a two way bet on something that by its very nature has always changed one way or the other. Note that no one is saying we shouldn't take all practical measures to clean up exhaust gasses, and general pollution. In fact this issue is detracting from other serious issues that aren't getting the attention they deserve. What we are talking about here is the carbon dioxide + global warming myth. It's not about whether you are for or against the environment, it's about the sensible direction of available resources towards an achievable and worthwhile goal. Some reasoned argument to show that you haven't been sucked in to this dangerous and costly myth please? I've been following the arguments for some years now and have found the scientists who question it are more than eager to consider all the issues, whereas the ones promulgating it generally refuse to engage in serious debate. The same reaction you'd expect when you question someone's religion. So there's the challenge: show us you've though this one through properly, and that this is not a religious belief that you only feel must be true!

The story from NOAA our politicians and the press focused on: The correction that no one wanted to know about (or you to know about) - because it doesn't fit in with the requirements of the highly lucrative global warming industry. So, as long as their archives are correct their quality control measures don't extend to not putting out inaccurate and alarmist reports. This isn't the first time there has been a fanfare about the release of junk data which was then quietly retracted. Nor is it likely to be the last.

Ask Fourgee, he's the gamer! Nothing to stop Monsta doing some features for the site himself of course!

Don't think so. Wouldn't swap Ringo's women for any pick'n'mix of anything the Lennon McCartney matrimonial agency could come up with. And, on composing talent, I think our Paul have been doing a little re-writing of history of late. He was rumbled a short while back by the rediscovery in someone's garage of a long forgotten BBC Scotland tape of his younger more candid self. Bet he would have paid half a Heather divorce settlement to stop it finally reaching its intended desination. Three so far and counting.

And right on cue the police employ a bent pathologist who has been discredited before to produce evidence of a heart attack. The IPCC and the family insist on another pathologist doing a second autopsy which concludes the guy actually died of internal haemorrhaging. This is a system we are supposed to have confidence in? Thank god for the IPCC, but how long before they are reformed away, have their powers limited in the interests of protecting us from something or other, or are simply compromised by the opaque appointments system. It's slow, it's steady, and it's insidious; but when an MP simply doing his job is threatened with life imprisonment in the very House of Commons, by a aspiring Gestapo officer who doesn't even have the constitutional right to be there, we are headed for a totalitarian state.

I'd insist on the use of the VIP facilities. Denial of such basic facilities for worship is an insult to your religion of western consumerism, quite apart from being overtly sexist. (No, forget the last bit, won't get you anywhere there). A cyber fatwa is being proposed on the airport manager. May his camels never spit at anyone again, and his satellite TV adverts be shown on faulty transponders! If the Dubai Four are on the same flight make sure the cake goes through the x-ray machine or refuse to board!

I'd have placed money on that! But, assuming you do understand how it works, you'd be giving others who don't the wrong impression of the security issues. People don't "search" your PC, and they certainly don't "access" it in any accepted sense of the term. They request slices of datasets which you have specifically published. Your client either grants or ignores the requests. The whole point of p2p is there is no server. That's why it's called... But you knew that already!

Um no, that's not what p2p (Peer To Peer) means at all! And, if you are simply transferring plain vanilla data viri aren't any sort of a problem. What I was talking about is that the older p2p protocols can corrupt good data during transmission - either allowing it to be done deliberately, or simply because the integrity checking isn't too good.

Yes, Gnutella and the other one who's name escapes me, is exactly what I'm "going on about". How could I ever admit to having used those - even if I had? Actually quite a few people still use older p2p, which surprised me too. Especially considering the duff data they often leave you with.

A further inducement - if one were needed with depositor rates at sub 1% - NOT to put your money in a building society. Then Gordo wants us to spend spend spend, just like him - so that's OK then. The telling article there is: A 'Copper Standard' for the world's currency system? At the monent they have too much tied of in dollars to see it slide too far. But as a medium term strategy seeing it no longer be a prefered trading currency is clearly their aim. Then no point in holding them, let simple market forces take their course.. The Chinese may well have gone up a blind alley with Mao, but they are ace capitalists at heart, learn fast, and plan well ahead. So when the dollar takes other western currencies down with it there's roaring inflation ahead for the UK to cap our stagnation. Enjoy the deflationary phase of the recession whilst it lasts!

Been reading the trial transcripts and it seems that Warner Brothers are being particularly legally aggressive. If TPB were to lose it wouldn't surprise me if open season was declared on WB material. However it seems that it's just the first round, in that there's near sure to be an appeal from either side. Meanwhile life will go on. Closing down TPB isn't going to solve anything, as there will be other trackers stepping in to take their place. You could imagine some sort of distributed tracker too; a bit like the older file sharing networks but better. Rather than regular scrapes there'd just be a centralised validation key server that could be moved around - a lot! It could even be cloaked as a multi-purpose service, maybe combating spam by validating e-mails too. A secret brotherhood of trusted key-holders; there's a gripping novel/film in there somewhere, can I claim copyright here and now! The film companies can't possibly win in the end so why don't they set up an amnesty scheme where you make a small payment voluntarily. So small that no one would mind. Added together the sums could be very considerable, and without the distribution middlemen to cream off a fair percentage. Sooner or later someone in the film industry is going to break ranks and start using their heads instead of throwing cash at fat cat lawyers.

Gordon's gang are the Weirmar Republic. The ones who made such a !*!@# of things that the Nazis had no trouble assuming power. There are some of them who would fall in line with totalitarianism though. The rest - pretty much regardless of party - would be a pushover. Don't mock, democracy is a far thinner veneer on society than you'd believe. I hope that you don't ever discover this the hard way; but that's the way we are heading at present - just in easy instalments.

These measures will rapidly become our "normal way of life", at least as far as the youngsters are concerned. I think the age split in countries like Iran has a fair bit to do with what their leaders manage to sell to their populations. If the aim of the terrorists is a Muslim state then it could just be that many here would acquiesce to this on the grounds that its a much more ordered and peaceful existence than our secularists are constructing!

You don't win an argument by insulting people, and on the contrary I do lots of very constructive things. And - gasp - the very last thing I am is a Socialist Worker reader! Most of the people in the police force are well meaning and public spirited. But you have absolutely no grasp of how the system actually works. Where are the Gestapo now, where are the East German and Russian secret police? They were just ordinary well meaning people who got caught up in the madness - just like you are. They are now all in democracy mode and the excesses were someone else's fault. They even thought so at the time but no one would listen. It's posts like this which illustrate how our country is sleepwalking into Orwellian times. When you ignore the warnings from people who have been in power, know the reality and not the perception, and are worried about where we are heading there really is no hope. If yours becomes the real mass view, then we're sadly doomed to re-live history. You believe you are superior to these people and that it can't happen here? Curious how the younger people think that this time it will all be different, and the older heads know that they are deluding themselves.

A very scary remark, particularly because it's so common. Quite a few loyal Germans thought they had nothing to hide either. The ones that ignored the warnings of their fellow citizens and convinced themselves that the authorities would act reasonably and fairly. Approximately six million of them! It's not about what you say or mean, it's about what Maximilien Robespierre says you mean, or about what the party apparatchiks say you meant. They are the custodians of the records, the paymasters of the Gestapo, and the makers and the interpreters of the laws. So you can protest your innocence all the way to the scaffold. When the hard evidence is there (because somehow you upset someone in power, or your removal is expedient) you are screwed! Last week an old newspaper seller also though he had nowt to hide. Quite clearly he wasn't daring to protest against authority, and simply going about his everyday business. But that wasn't the view of the state thug(s) that downed him. If someone gets charged it will because it's not conceivably possible to cover up the problem, and be a damage limitation exercise. The state always looks after its own, because without unquestioning obedience there is no state. We can't have the anarchy that these loony-left protesters wish to precipitate, but equally we are heading for state anarchy under the guise of protecting us from things we don't need protecting from. It has happened so many times before, and at the moment it's as if we've learned nothing!

I mean that the laptop overtook the desktop in sales quite some while ago. Where did the 71% figure come from? You've just got to put your head inside a shop to see where the sales volume now is. Yes, I recently built a "desktop" too, but with an ITX mobo and a case the size of a tin of biscuits it's much closer to a laptop than it is to anything I'd have had on my desk (or on the floor beside it) up to about three years back. And.. there's an increasing volume of media-centre type PCs as well - you can't call those desktops. Ditto true pocket PCs.

I'm not for licking! I'm for handing out to people to prove you've "been there".

http://www.digitalglobe.com/downloads/feat...l5_2009_dgl.jpg If you trace back the hot air trail you can see the cloud of smoke around the launcher. If a commercial organisation can snap this when the don't know exactly when it's going to happen then imagine what the military is currently up to! http://www.digitalglobe.com/downloads/feat...29_2009_dgl.jpg Long blue building on the left obviously the assembly shed, and the launch pad in the middle. Why don't the sell advertising space on the roof?

Please support the Town Calendar by posting any events (both Public & By-Invitation) you know about in the area on it. It's not just there to consume, it's there to add to yourself. You know it makes sense that there's a place that everyone in the community can share without having to waste time searching all over the place, and then likely miss out in the process.

The events criteria is where Bedlington(shire) people would find something to do within easy travelling distance. Not as far as the big smoke but maybe as far a Gosforth Park. And... if you can run 10K then you'd probably not complain about having to go as far as Creswell to do it. News criteria is between the Blyth and Wansbeck and maybe a tad further. Blagdon fits that too. Thanks for the compliment Tony, there's more coming.

So you'd have bailed out Northern Rock? Economists (real ones, not part time polytechnic lecturers like Gordo) warned what would happen. It's called moral hazard in the trade. You can't both let the banks go bust and nationalise them! What we have now is the worst possible of all worlds. They should have all gone down the pan with their shareholders. And I say that as a bank shareholder who sold all his bank (and Northern Rock) shares some years back when he sensed this coming! Allowing the banks to fail and protecting both depositors (and the economy) are two entirely different issues. Here the Lib Dems seem much closer to reality than either of the two major parties. The recession is the result of a government (principally the UK one) allowing the banks to create too much debt by ludicrously low marginal reserve requirements. Decades back we had government controls on credit to stop this happening at the consumer level. As I said earlier: you can't borrow yourself out of debt. No, the recession isn't over. Investors call it deadcat bounce - where people are foolishly lured back into a falling market. Future tax receipts have been pledged to cover previous foolish borrowings. And those future tax reciepts probably won't come in anything like as fast as they'd like you to believe. There's nothing left for future investment in the creation of real wealth and real improvements in living standards. We're in the state of a third world country burdened by debt and with a clueless government who can think of nothing but retaining power. None of the fundamental problems have been addressed. They will come back again and again. Bust and Bust to replace Boom and Bust!