SteveBentley

Amazon can have whatever policy they want, but that doesn't trump your statutory rights to reject faulty goods and have the supplier replace them.

"Goods that are rejected because they are faulty" implies it's going back to Amazon rather than to the manufacturer to me. That paragraph suggests that you should be forcing Amazon to take it back under your statutory rights rather than being fobbed off with the manufacturer's warranty.

This. The end of the slip road is effectively a give way line. The onus is on you to wait for a safe gap to merge into rather than for traffic that is established on the road you are joining to get out of your way. I know a motorway isn't quite the same, but the principle is - see Rule 259 of the Highway Code Motorways (253-273) : Directgov - Travel and transport

I tend to find the accessibility argument makes this kind of question go away quite quickly.

The other issue is that 999 calls from a mobile are not necessarily handled by the local control room. Had the call been made from a landline the hoax would be obvious as it would have been taken by Humberside police and clearly not have come from Leeds.

And anybody who wants to be in charge is automatically disqualified

Abolishing the notion of political parties or at least party whips? If I vote for a particular person to be the MP for my constituency it's because I want them to vote in line with their conscience taking into account their appraisal of the wishes of the people in the constituency, not what the party whips have told them to do under threat of being kicked out of the party. I'd also like to see the Speaker of the House of Commons having some sanction against MPs (particularly ministers) who continually respond to questions by blaming the previous government/other party rather than addressing the question. If "it's all the last Labour government's fault" is all you've got, you've lost the argument and you're wasting time that could be given to other debates.

I understand that they need to check that I am the person that they intend to call, but as Andrew says, that comes after they demonstrate that they are who they say they are. Or a system where they call with a brief message asking you to call on a number you know and quote a reference number. We all know how gullible people are with the "Hello, this is [name] from Microsoft" scams, it's really no different.

Phone call from my soon-to-be former mobile phone provider. (I'd called the previous night to get a PAC and cancel the contract and they were calling with an "improved" offer to persuade me to stay. I won't be doing so.) Them: Hello this is [name] calling from [network] [general pleasantries] Them: For security reasons can you confirm your date of birth please? Me: Ok... Them: Please tell me your date of birth Me: Err no, you tell me what you think it is and I'll tell you if you're right. I have no way of verifying that you are from [network]. How do I know you're not phishing for my personal information? Them: Ok, I understand that. Could you tell me your postcode instead? Me: I will happily confirm that what you have on file is correct but I'm not giving you any personal information Them: I can't continue the call without confirming the details Me: You're the one who has interrupted me for a conversation I don't particularly want to have. Your problem. I really can't understand why they can't grasp the idea that if they initiate the call, it's them that need to prove their identity to me. I tried to feedback to them via Twitter and they missed the point there too. Muppets.

But how much of the revenue from exploiting the valuable IP in work funded by the taxpayer came back into the public coffers under the current system?

I'd be quite surprised if any commercial company was interested due to the copyright headache.

As I understand it Athens is a single sign on model, but what it lets you access is based on whatever subscriptions that institution that issued your account has. So it's perfectly possible to go to a journal publisher's site, click the Athens log on button, enter your credentials and be told you can't access the resource you wanted. It might be worth seeing what your local public library can offer access to electronically or see if the local University library offers limited access to the general public - some do. But I am aware that journal subscriptions are horrendously expensive and often on very restrictive licenses so that might not be something they offer.

Compare and contrast My School Lunches The council could easily have done something similar as a right of reply, without the mess they created.

I have heard comments that people with dyslexia and related conditions (Meares Irlen etc) find Kindles easy to use, not least because of the text resizing, and of course the very clear screen.

Seems that the council have realised their PR disaster and dropped the ban BBC News - NeverSeconds blogger Martha Payne school dinner photo ban lifted

Starting their own blog which shows these options which they claim are available would have been a much better move from a PR perspective.

There was a cookery show on the BBC that used QR codes to point you to the recipe on their website not too long ago.

Windows is a trademark of Microsoft. Hasn't stopped double glazing firms. It just stops somebody else launching a similar product with the same name, rather than being a general claim on that word in every context.

Doesn't that message come from BIOS rather than Windows?

It's Gif with a hard G. JIF is the "JPEG Image Format" and something very different. JPEG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There's a bit of freeware called jpeg2avi (or something similar) which is used for compiling a folder a jpegs into a timelapse video that might do the latter bit of the project.

Get as many network points in each room as possible, ideally a couple on each wall. That way when you want to rearrange things you just repatch to make a different point live rather than having great long cables around the room. I'd suggest that rather than looking at what technology you want, you probably would be better served looking at your curriculum and how that will be delivered and see what kit you need to support that now and in the future, rather than the temptation to buy shiny things now because you need them.

Probably uses the GPS based altitude rather than accellerometer?

Might be worth thinking about the "glass curtain" type of screen and a LED light on the front of the camera - apparently this kind of set up is more forgiving of the potentially sub-ideal lighting that a portable set up might suffer from.

I had a bad experience with Glasses Direct a few years ago, totally screwed up the order and took ages to get it refunded. But this was a while ago and I know of others who have used them with no problem.