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I read it as a question. The difference between private rumours and a public board is that anyone more informed has a chance to say not. An advantage not shared by the "popular press". But, as their story-checking is so meticulous and coverage so balanced, we need have no need for concern - usually!

I'd imagine that the original cash is theirs, but any "returns" they got were fraudulent, so actually someone else's money. Tough if you thought you'd been doing OK for years (even tougher if you've spent it), but fair enough in context. It's only the UK government who can print money to make up for their gross deceptions and blunders. Losers think they've been fully compensated but everyone and everything is poorer in the end. Probably only a drop in the ocean compared with what they pee away on maladministration anyway! And, has Madoff done anything different? No one is suggesting that he did other than rob Peter to pay Paul. Maybe that's why, despite the rhetoric, he's been feather bedded. There but for the wisdom of the electorate go all our senior politicians and bankers! Only the low branches get cropped (caught).

There must be a Hebrew equivalent of that spiffing German word? And did the people who got their money out just in the nick of time have a close encounter of the fourth kind? Jews robbing Jews? Oy vey, what is the world coming to! Of course the real Quote of the Week should have been Gordo's saving the world faux-pas. But he'll be doing that next week, and the week after (ably assisted by Boy Darling), so there's plenty of time.

Nice! Almost said "I fancy a Wii"!! Three people have clubbed together to buy me a Lumix LZ10 camera at a bargain price. All I want now is for it to actually get here. http://www.ukdigitalcameras.co.uk/prod.asp...CFQ9PtAodRDgCCg Not where it's coming from though, or the price paid. First camera I've had (?) with image stabilisation - getting old and I shakke a lotottt. First Panasonic too. Looked a better bet than my usual choice of Canon. Uses standard AA batts; sick of buying cheap Chinese battery packs that don't last or £50+ OEM ones. Some unbelievable bargains in quality digital cameras at the moment.

We've sent the Bedlingtonshire Division of Santa S. Claus PLC a link to this thread. So be plain and you might just get what you wish for.

From The Telegraph discussion about Bernie Madoff's "investors" being taken by surprise when they learned his $50BN hedge fund was just one giant scam:

Ah now this is looking more interesting! http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ebook/index.php Looks like no SDHC support, but you can get an awful lot of .PDFs onto a 4GB SD. Wonder if you can buy them in Europe?

On about the second bottle of Christmas spirit, I'd guess!

Are we talking Christmas Trees perhaps? A neither of the above (Bah! Humbug! - Scrooge Option) seems in order. It's only in UK elections that you aren't allowed to exercise the democratic option of saying S** O**!

Quote? Where from? There are uninformed views and informed views. When there's nothing to back up a view it's fair to say it falls into the first category. I use FF simply because it's the default browser for Ubuntu Linux, no religious belief is involved; except... that long experience convinces me that open source software is inherently better. Hiding your mistakes (with a likely view to profiting from them) is no substitute for letting other experts look over what you've done and picking up potential problems you've missed.

By some drastic oversight this feature was somehow omitted from Chat Central. Problem now fixed - rate away!

I've collected stacks of books in .PDF form and don't want to be tied to a computer screen to study them. I want to read them around the house, read them in bed, out in the sunshine, in the dentist's surgery, even beside the computer like a regular textbook when I'm working. A few weeks back I though: OK I'll have a surf and then select a suitable LCD type reader that displays an A5 and maybe even an A4 page at good contrast even in sunlight. Trans-reflective screen technology is good enough for this these days - my old PDA and phone prove this, and I'd expect these types of displays have been improved since then. I don't want to write on the device, or play music, or videos. I don't need a power-chomping backlight. I just want it to be good to read .PDF files in daylight and at near normal book page size. No WiFi, no Bluetooth, no loudspeaker, just a navigating and page turning button, and as thin and light as possible. So what's out there? Essentialy b****r all! Amazon Kindle: proprietary format, no new ones available anyway. Send a bank draft off to China and hope that someday you will get something usable back. A Canadian book club that won't send their cheap (but too undersized, and looking rather dated) device outside North America. And a Sony offering which is, too little, too dear, and er... too too Sonyfied! Someone sell me a zero featured eBook reader that's not part of someone's devious scheme to corner the market for the printed page. One that is thin, light, and can be read in all conditions a printed page can be read. In the process you will meet a huge unmet demand and make yourself a fortune! Has anyone registered iBook?

Rumor has it that this guy is a known offender and is/was in custody.

"Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7784908.stm Useful links: http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

Called Real Life. Why people spend so long on the Internet etc!

No, you are getting confused! You mean: being moved was removed because moving it removed any confusion people may have had had it not been moved thereby removing any need for removal. Although I'm at one remove from the move and the moving plea about removal I trust this removes any doubt about the removal or need for moving and enables us to move on to more moving matters than the simple move (or suspected remove) of a thread that everybody agrees required moving and not removing as removing it would have been a move too far. I move to dismiss this thread, or maybe just move it.

Arrhh The Journal Bedlington.co.uk's most ardent new member. Wonder why they keep joining but never contribute anything? Seriously though, I'm told the local press is having a very hard time of it at the moment. One contact told me things have never been so bleak on the advertising revenue front. I do hope they survive Gordon Brown economics, as we will be a poorer community without them.

Yup, considering it used a Motorola 68000 running at just under 8MH/z it was really fast action. The Amiga had some specialist chips though to assist the CPU. Tele-tennis is a decade or more earlier; way back to the mid 1970's. They were dedicated machines that didn't even have a microprocessor! It was all done with basic digital and analogue electronics, not even any RAM or ROM. The first tele-tennis I saw was in a cafe on a Paris boulevard not far from the Sorbonne University around about 1973. Despite the crude hardware and limited B&W display it was really adictive. It was a few years before the idea was integrated into a single chip and sold as a home console. Sometimes there was a slider switch to select a number of game variants. Real collectors items now!

Buggy Boy for the Amiga. Hours of pointless fun. What's an Amiga grandpa?

Yes folks - straight from the horse's mouth. Despite all appearances to the contrary, Bedlington does have some of y'er actual business enterprise. At a time when others are throwing up their hands in horror at the Brownian financial mess we're all in, we have a pearl (or two or three) growing in the mucky oyster that is Bedlington. Nothing the WDC helped with mind you, more like hinder. Nothing local politicians know anything at all about (and do they even care?). Enterprise Centre I hear you say. More local enterprise coming to our long-suffering abode? I feel it in my bones! P.S. to Journal: Just having a bit of fun. Go forth and multiply the good news; no credit necessary.

Obviously not one of the green lobby then! If you'd read the short article you'd have seen that the i7 is quadcore, and it will scale to eight cores each hyperthreading to look like a 16 core device to the OS. Also the elimination of the FSB should remove a major bottleneck. i7 will likely leave the AMD Phenom in the dust! I'm very much an AMD supporter, they've kept prices low for everyone for a long time, by giving Intel much needed competition. But, unfortunately they are struggling to keep up at both ends of the market these days. They simply don't have the R&D bucks to throw at problems like Intel does. I don't think they even have a workable 45nm process yet. Anyway, it's not what you've got it's what you do with what you've got that matters!

...well almost! Now where's that old Mac I can convert into a digital wall clock? Got to be the most useful thing anyone has ever done with one.

Full Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/7766969.stm

"While one passenger may have reported the man wearing a belt with wires coming out of it - the man was only guilty of being an electrician." Safety is one thing, but when the outcome is mass hysteria on behalf of the authorities resulting in summary execution (and the de Menezes case was by no means the first time this sort of hysteria has happened) then it's manifestly unsafe to install such things. The fact that they work a few times results in lazy thinking - they become a substitute for common sense. I wonder what the ratio of genuine terrorists stopped to innocent people killed currently stands at? In fact have the police ever shot a genuine terrorist in order to stop an act of terrorism? I can't recall a single case.

Seamonkey needs adding to the list. Was having a play with it the other night because it has a web editor add-in which is more than passable for editing HTML text pages, and of course a freebie. Has a very Netscape Navigator feel to it so I presume it comes from that root? Better of worse than FF? Dunno just yet. ________ P.S. to MONGO: Like the new picture. Much more subtle than the last few, and oodles more subversive.