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The masses have spoken. Thank you all.

I have a Siemens dishwasher which has gone faulty. It's been fine since 2002, but now the water doesn't heat up. This is most probably the instant heater (£75-£120), a controller, or the main board. Let's assume it's the heater for now until I pull it apart and look at it. I'm not timid about having a go at fixing stuff, and my Dad's a good electrician. Now, I have a choice - fix it with quite an expensive part, and hope nothing else goes wrong, or get another new dishwasher. I saw the Currys 'Essentials' dishwasher is £179. Reviews on Reevoo are generally positive. I looked on espares and most major parts are available for this model, and the parts are cheaper than the Siemens/Bosch. Suspiciously, many of the parts look the same, but that's by the way. The floor is open for discussion.

Meh. He's no Rick Astley.

I can see that this is causing much rumination* as the news is quite hard to digest. But we'll soon have it down pat. *Biologist pun.

Bull! It's number 2 when I checked.

I'm a big fan of kettlebells - simple and convenient. There are umpteen workouts on Youtube, many you can follow in real time so you can use them as a fitness class.

I'd remove the echo off line for testing. This way you'll see any error as well as the values of the expanded variables.

What is ProcessMonitor.bat? Are you calling the script from itself? If so why not put a label at the start :start and loop back with goto :start

You could use mirroring as you suggest, but another option would be to use one of the disks as a live mount, and the other as a backup. Rsync could keep the disks synced overnight. The advantage of this over mirroring is that you would have an extra buffer should your clients get a cryptolocker virus, you delete stuff by accident, etc. Use crashplan to sync the 'backup' disk. The backup disk would not be visible as a mount to your clients, so would be insulated from accidental deletes, etc.

I use the inverted method for the Aeropress and only wait for only about 20 to 30 seconds before inverting (to the correct way up) and pressing. Top up with water. I don't take milk - milk ruins most things. Look on Youtube for various methods and recipes using the Aeropress.

The paranormal has been investigated since... well... forever and nothing has ever been demonstrated to anything approaching a scientific phenomena. My theory - there's a rat in the house. A bolting rat scurrying over a fish slice could easily kick it out of the way. A rat jumping or climbing on the door handle can open the handle. Rats like bubblegum, but I don't know if they are prone to blowing bubbles. But even so, it's a more likely explanation than anything paranormal which requires almost insurmountable explanation.

I've said it before, but he really should have been briefed on the basics before making such stupid statements.

Good piece in Forbes... No Country For Any Business: Imagining Britain Without Encryption - Forbes

You know the Spice of Arrakis? It's like that.

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I bet it was the frame that slipped, no matter which photograph it held. It probrably fell over a lot when you grandfather wasn't mentioned, but never really noticed it. I'm also guessing that you talked about your grandfather a lot, which increased the 'sample size' of events during which the frame falling would be significant, and noticed the coincidence when the frame fell. I'm not trying to single anythng out, but we are pattern-seeking mammals. We ignore the millions of events we witness that mean nothing to us, but sit up and notice the one or two events that coincide to which we ascribe a meaning.

I like the sound of this trick. Is it on Youtube?

No, it's total nonsense. The whole half-assed announcement is a casserole of idiocy. The asymmetric cryptographic methods are public knowledge, and cannot be un-learnt. They are open-source and not subject to any software publisher's control. In any case, people who intend to kill are hardly likely to obey such a trifling matter as not using encryption. If they wanted to stay under the radar, they could use old fashioned codes. Like a birthday announcement in Le Monde. Centuries ago, it was possible to have an absolutely secure, private conversation. Simply walk with somebody in an open field, if there was nobody about you were guaranteed privacy. There were no directional microphones, no laser interferometers. Society survived this reckless period of inscrutability.

Despite how convincing these things may seem, our senses are pretty bad at determining the state of the world around us. For a start, our vision is constructed largely by the brain as our eyes can only inspect a tiny part of the visual scene around us. Yet it seems an utterly convincing view of the world. If you have a spare hour, listen to the Cracked podcast 'Your Memory Is A Filthy Liar'

I don't believe in anything like this, but I love these stories. Can you set up a camera if something happens regularly; maybe enough for an episode of Sunnyknight's Most Haunted.

I'm no objectivist, and Atlas Shrugged was an awful book, but I do like this Ayn Rand quote.

I hope they tie the document bundles with tape and use a wax seal. This will replace PGP/SSL.

He really should be briefed on the basics before making these silly speeches. Even the slowest of minds can see that his proposals are nonsense.

I can see big businesses getting behind this*. *Not really.

None at all. Not yet, anyway. The correct response would have been an expert analysis of the Paris attack and a considered response based on the findings. This is nothing of the sort. They didn't need these laws before last Wednesday and now they do?