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The biggest single step to safeguard your computer is not to use Internet Explorer.There are other more capable and very much more secure free browsers such as Opera and Firefox available.If you want to clean out your computer there is an excellent free program called CCleaner.

No, it can't be infinite because that would mean infinite mass and gravity and it just wouldn't work. But for all intents and purposes the number of stars is so large that it almost behaves as an infinite quantity.Statistically there must be many places which are suitable to sustain life , some...

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But it won't be these people who would actually experience ***** activity! Be sure that if there was genuine evidence we wouldn't be asking all these questions about it.It's just not the sort of thing that can be kept quiet.

Absolutely impossible.This has been going on for decades and every single person involved remains tight lipped abbout it? That nobody in charge has felt that it's in the public interest to release it?And why keep it secret at all anyway? Also the planet isn't just the USA you know.That every...

Statistically it's very likely. There are just so many astronomical bodies in the Universe that even if intelligent life exists the odds against a visit from then are infinitessimally small.Why choose Earth when there are trillions of other places to go? If aliens had actually landed we wouldn't...

You missed the greatest of them all-JMW Turner who could paint in all styles and who led the way with Impressionist work a long time ahead of the rest of the world.A truly brilliant artist who really justifies the over used attribute of genius. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner

There's a point in Shayd's post which may be relevant-FF is a community project.The guys who like to ****** IE (sometimes because they don't like MS and what it stands for) may be the same guys who plug the gaps in FF.I don't know, it's just a thought.

Overrated? It's a pain ion the arse.

IE is full of exploits because of its construction and operating system.This is exacerbated by its wide use but not the cause of it.Firefox does have vulnerabilities but i) they are much less problematical because FF isn't part of Windows and ii)patches are produced as soon as vulnerabilities...

Coincidentally the date coincides with the birth of Charles Babbage who is credited as being one of the fathers of the computer.Although mechanical his designs incorporated many modern computer features including a printer. http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/?gclid=CKv5saai35cCFQoi3godZXdrDQ

This is like saying that I make the same journey every day so I don't need to fasten my seat belt.Some nasties come from innocent well run sites which have been got at. IE is intrinsically MUCH less secure against infection than any other browser;that's a consequence of the way it operates.I...

Ah, a man of impeccable taste.

I don't think the French, having suffered mightily at the hands of our bowmen,would have let them off with just removing two fingers.They would have butchered them-not unusal with prisoners at the time

Besides VHS and Betamax there was a third format-V2000 - pioneered by Phillips and Grundig.It was the best of the three by a light year.VHS was by far the poorest but its developers were very crafty and allowed other manufacturers to use the system relatively cheaply so everybody went for it.

It means to penetrate. I am bemused when I read about women fucking men-wrong way round.Women are fucked BY men.

Dangerous stuff. Remember what it did to the Titanic.

Socialism is not a good way of running the economy ; countries which have genuinely tried this-notably the USSR-have failed.Basically it doesn't deliver the goods.Capitalism does deliver the goods but if allowed full reign does not consider individuals.The trick is to let capitalism generate the...

It's a strange sort of theft because normally theft means depriving the owner of a possession but of course the owner still has ther song or movie etc that's been "stolen" It can be argued that by illegally downloading stuff you are depriving the owner of the fee because you should be paying for...

In the 50s in my part of the UK at the moment.

There should be no need for that.And FF has an image zoom facility too,as well as slideshow format for web pages.

Not for those who can't afford it at the moment. I am not a fan of socialism , I always vote against socialist political parties yet that doesn't mean they are wrong all the time.And if universal health care is a socialist measure I can say I've lived with it and approve totally.(Actually the...

First proper one was an Acorn Archimedes.Light years ahead of PCs at the time, vastly quicker because the OS was on a chip.Given the development that PCs have had, those RISC machines would really be something by now.

The big difference between the parties is that Labour is full of academics, teachers etc, all very worthy professions but without a clue how to actually make things work.A problem? Pass new legislation , even though existing laws will cover it.Economy in trouble because we borrow too much...

To see things in perspective we have to look back at how bad things were in 1979.Industry and industial relations were generally in appalling shape , massive overmanning was rife and successive governments had done nothing to address the situation.On top of which there was starting a major...

Good **** should be ***** warm enough to let the flavours come through,low 50s say. Chilling is really for "near beers" like Bud, Molson etc which have very little taste anyway.Interesting that in the US where craft beers are the growth market there are still bars serving quality **** in frosted...

I live further North than Winnipeg but rarely see snow.Get the occasional frost now and then.

Not quite.There are no longer "fixed opening hours" and any pub can apply to the licensing authority to open whenever it suits it best.The authority looks into the situation and makes a decision based upon many factors , primarily the location of the pub.If it's located in an area where the...

Wrong.Neither the name or the game originated there.Why should Americans have bothered to invent something that already existed?

Baseball is firmly established as an English game , it was simply refined , formalised and adopted in the US. on September 11, 2008, the Surrey County Council's History Centre gave documentary proof that the game was being played by the British before anywhere else and have written to Major...

I rolled three into one.Though I'm sure I read the exact phrase last July 4th :-) "As American as apple pie" is commonly met though.

It's like the difference between a last warning and a final last warning.

Why do you say "As American as apple pie,baseball and burgers" when all these things originated elsewhere?

I'm really talking about the UK. When the police were first introduced great pains were taken to reassure the public that it wasn't an extension of the military.Apart from sergeant (which is used in a variety of other situations) the ranks were not taken from the Army-so Inspectors...

That was the norm at one time.There are in fact a great many countries where people drive on the left.Basically because most people are right handed. There is strong evidence that it's safer for physiological reasons.The dominant eye is the right and in cars with manual gears the weaker arm...

No. A ship was only used for a four master.Other vessels had their own descriptions. Believe it or not, even as late as WW1 there were naval personnel who objected to calling the Royal Navy vessels "ships"

The Isle of Man isn't part of the United Kingdom so that's off topic :-)

It happens! There is a border town between England and Scotland called Berwick on Tweed. As far as I know it is at war with Russia. When the Crimean War started the British declaration of war was by"England,Ireland,Scotland and Berwick on Tweed" but the peace settlement was on behalf of...

Certainly.In 1536 the Act of Union made Wales a part of England so the reference to England included Wales.This Act was repealed in 1993. Notice that in 1773 some tea was tipped into the sea.THIS IS NOT how to make a good cup of tea. Use BOILING fresh water and NOT seawater.

Quote ;the vast majority of neutral unbiased climatologist and scientist in general say it's happening, and there is mountain and mountains of evidence that point to it happening, when government agencies think it happening, when even the damn oil companies think it's true, when sea levels keep...

It was he who stated this as a fact.

More than that,it's a new religion.There are great pressures to conform.David Bellamy, a high profile conservationist and "green" who was once on TV about every day has been dropped by the BBC because he openly states he does not believe that human activity is the cause of climate change. It's...

The number of "climatologists" has skyrocketed because of the global warming theory.If the fears proved to be groundless then they would no longer be needed.Do not confuse these people with meteorologists. The UNCCC was not set up to enquire into the causes of climate change but to investigate...

The only extra privilege the police have here is the right of arrest.My objection is that the police themselves call outsiders "civilians" which gives the worrying impression that they have forgotten that they are too.

NOthing worse than cold ****

The "neutral unbiased" climatologists know full well that if the myth is disproved their jobs have gone.A significant minority of the panel were sufficiently honest to voice their disagreement but were not allowed to publish a minority report.The agenda was fixed in advance, the panel wasn't...

As the long term trend is upwards because that's what happens when we come out of an ice age , any attempts to curb warming are ******* in the wind.But bet your life you will be taxed to the hilt in this attempt.

He would have been.It's one of those tales that does the rounds like the one about cars that run on water and the oil companies paid off the inventor.One limiting factor in 1947 was oil and fuel , it's modern oils in particular which have enabled modern cars to be so long lived and reliable.Then...

One Canadian discussed the Crown with me and his reasoning was that with a big powerful Southern neighbour it helps to keep these links rather than end up as lookalike Americans.

I'm talking about asking for it at a bar and getting served legally. I'm not aware of any minimum age for ******** at home-babies' gripe water used to be 5% *******! My **** always tried a sip from my glass.They enjoyed some drinks and not others.I don't think it did them any harm !