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So are most police, but you'd be a fool to let them follow you everywhere! Have a look in you cookie directory and tell us that you know what half of them are for, that you know what info is in them, who owns the companies, and how the info is being used or exchanged with whom, or matched up with what other info. Also how many of them did you give permission to be stored on your machine? It pays to be paranoid - as four learned members of the House of Lords have just discovered!

BTW what you might not be aware of is that you can also be tracked by the flash plug-in. Here's the link to flash code that shows you who has placed flash cookies on your machine: http://www.macromedia.com/support/document..._manager07.html There's increasing use of flash cookies as more and more people defend against vanilla ones.

You can still do this and accept cookies from selected sites. Edit | Preferences | Privacy | Exceptions (button) How I have mine set up. It's far less work if you put tracker sites like doubleclick tradedoubler etc. in here as exceptions to reject too.

I say make this guy our new PM: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b0a_1232747931 Anyone who can be ridiculed by peers like in these 2006/2007 recordings, and stick to his guns, is a better bet than the entire brainpower of Westminster and Washington combined! If only our own "part-time lecturer in economics at a third-rate polytechnic" had had half the grasp of basic economics!

Log in and click the View New Posts link up at the top - just to the right of My Controls. QED

"I will buy anything that's shiny and made by Apple". Yes, there are several million like him, but this just has to be a spoof!

True. Not even dusting off Ken Clark is going to produce someone of the right calibre. I wonder if they'd even recognise someone of the right calibre if they had one! It's not possible to get rid of boom & bust. It's intrinsic in capitalism. It's a natural mechanism to encourage growth, then get rid of the resulting bloat and inefficiency elements. If you tamper with it you can only make things far worse. Something the amateur economists of NuLabour are about to learn - at our expense! All you can do is to make sure the booms and busts are mild ones. And you do this by keeping credit and public spending within reasonable bounds, and putting something away for a rainy day. This hasn't happened under Brown's tenure; we've had an unnaturally long boom produced by staggering levels of excess credit, and so the market is about to ruthlessly do the job for him. To borrow from Monty Python: He's not the saviour [of the world], he's just a very stupid boy! BTW you were wrong about gold - or so it seems! "It was the right thing to do."

As the Catholic father said to the Mormons who knocked on his door: We might well have the same head office, but we cater for quite different sectors of the market!

So, after being let off the hook by a statistical blip, the government (I use that for want of a better word) has to declare we are in recession today. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7846266.stm Optimists all! Gordo is hoping that things will be improving by the time he's forced to seek election (I nearly said re-election!) in May of next year. It won't! All the circuit breakers have been tripped, and there's no fuel in the standby generators. In fact the standby generators were auctioned off at silly prices. This is not a recession in the normal sense. It will slowly get worse. Its a crisis brought on by the fiat money system (SEE THE MOVIE HERE), and in which Gordo had a huge hand in! Have you noticed the number of times he and Darling use the word "global"? It's almost as if they were working to a spin-doctor written script. The intention is to convey the - no folks this is nothing to do with me it's a global problem - message. Untrue, indeed a massive con! He created the regulatory system he currently blames. He presided and set the agenda for the banks creating massive and unsustainable amounts of credit. Other countries are only to blame only insofar as they followed his lead. When will it end? Longer than anyone currently cares to imagine, and certainly long after Dr Death and Nurse Darling are forcibly removed from the patient they have been consistently poisoning. A full recovery may not even be possible in any time-scale we can seriously contemplate.

Wikipedia: "...a 1973 dystopian science fiction movie depicting a future in which global warming and overpopulation lead to depleted resources on Earth. This in turn leads to widespread unemployment and poverty." Only 36 years before its time then? The short answer is probably in an urn; he opted for the more "environmental friendly" cremation. Big carbon re-release but all over in an hour and a half or so. Just like the films really (with the possible exception of the epics!).

Though that there might have been teensy moderation error in your not moving this to the consumer forum. But maybe it's a correct call after all?

Just checking on prices of a gismo I fancy and it stuck me just how poor some of these supposedly consumer orientated sites are. Some list only one supplier of the gismo when in fact there are a score or more on the web. Most do not give the best deal - available by simply using a search engine and a bit of spare time. I suspect it's mostly about kickbacks. There seems to be some reasonably helpful ones though. Do you use price comparison sites, and if so have you found them helpful? Which one do/would you go to first? We'll get around to doing a survey here on a few test items, and sort the con sites out from the consumer orientated ones. Maybe we will give them our own star rating.

Ah "Data-sharing"; what MI5/6 does and calls "intelligence", and the common man calls spying and snooping! All in the public interest of saving us time having to give the same data to lots of different government departments and quasi government organisations. Just think of the work this will save you in having to hand out your medical records to the DHSS (or whatever it's called this week), and the DTI so's they can assign you to a more suitable job - without your having to lift a finger. Brave NuLabor World - it's closer than you think, and in ways George Orwell couldn't even dream about! But you can't Mr Straw! And you won't Mr Straw! And we don't trust you (or your self-appointed unelected "Data-Commissioner") Mr Staw! And you've never asked the public if that's what they want. And you don't have the guts to do this - because you know what the answer will be! So please don't tell me what I want. BTW Mr Straw has great credentials in the matters of data security and civil liberties. Amongst other things he was the person accused of leaking Norman Scott's social security file during the Jeremy Thorpe scandal. And, as home secretary, presided over the small matter of the reduction of our historic right to trail by jury.

I was referring to the very helpful moderator of Talk of the Town etc. forums.

Goodness you are a moderator there too! That's two-timing us and all your punters! Yes, bedlington.org.uk is so uncannily similar that it IS this site. It's one of its many aliases on the nameservers. The slight problem with this is that the board software only kicks out bedlington.co.uk cookies. So you'd better clear out your cookie jar to avoid mixing flavours, thus confusing the computer's palate. There's a link here somewhere to do that. It's late so someone show me where? Otherwise tomorrow. So you want to know just how big the 20 acres actually is? Why not get class to pace it out? Got a GPS that gives proper lat and long? Got a BIG ball of string? I'd loan you my bike with its carefully calibrated bike computer but it's a bit of an up and down hill ride to get it to you! P.S. OK, found it - Click the forum link up top then look right down just above the statistics box for Delete cookies set by this board Covered in the Help files too. Click Help up top then Cookies and cookie usage. If still in doubt then feel free to PM the moderator.

The touch screen isn't the primary screen, it's meant to be used as a media center with a TV (HDMI output). But I can think of lots of other applications - point of sale, home control, etc. It's just a concept machine and may not go into production, but if it does I'm sure it will sell. And how wrong you are about Eee Box sales! Other manufacturers must be considering the same format. I'd like an Eee Box with the N330 dual core chip and maybe the Nvidia Ion support chip. Perhaps the second half of the year, and if Asus doesn't do it someone else surely will. Already built a machine with the N330 here and it's considerably faster than the N270 in video applications - even with the same graphics/support chip. I'd intended it as a home server but am using it on the desk here - picture soon. I see that both HP and OQO have switched to the latest Z series Atoms for their ultra mobiles/netbooks, and now that they are not burdened by a slow VIA chip they have to be worth looking at. In fact I really fancy an OQO 2+ now. Though it will probably have to be the promised cheaper cut-down version, and not this month or next!

The old ones are always the best!

...full specification computer! http://crave.cnet.co.uk/desktops/0,3902942...300492-1,00.htm Another application for the Atom CPU, and a concept which might even be as big as the Netbook or Eee Box. BTW bought our second Eee Box recently and it was far harder to get hold of than the first one a few months back; they just don't stay on the shop shelves.

...and finally: Last bastion of screwing the consumer, Apple ditches it too! Being phased out on iTunes over the next few months.

Oooh I do hope this one about said uomo doesn't get speedily removed like last one - on the grounds that someone might sue someone. Seems like the last one could have had more than a smidgen of truth after all! .

If only life were so straightforward! When you can't pay the bills you ain't going to be happy, and it can seriously impact your health.

You forgot prosperous. OK, I know - one can still wish!

Wishing all our members and moderators a happy and prosperous 2009. 2009 isn't going to be pretty. But remember that we all make our own good fortune, not some third-rate politician who daren't stand for election to the office he gained through a lie, and now desperately clings onto at any cost (our cost!).

No, no, there's no cure possible until you get up on your back legs and use the real word! I am a coffeeholic! There, I've said it!

Generation gap thing here Monsta. Wassa Alchie?