Viewing entries posted in March 2011
Posted by John K. Bilsbury <stockport.ixie-at-googlemail.com> on 31 March 2011 | 0 Comments
When selling a 7/8" UNF tap, include a picture of it or mention how many TPI it
is so that the unsuspecting buyer can see that it is, in fact, Cycle thread and
not UNF at all.
I _could_ return it to the seller but for the couple of quid it cost it isn't
worth all the hassle. If I resell it someone else pays the postage so I might
just stick it back on the 'Bay unless anyone here (Jack?) is looking for Cycle
thread taps. Incidentally, it looks as though I already had a 7/8" UNF tap so it
was a swap anyway. I must update my "Die Nuts And Taps" Excel file. Spot the
obsessive tool fetishist :o)
Apologies to those who've seen most of this on Stalkbook already but I've
repeated it on here in case anyone wants the tap.
JKB.
I'm one of those bold heroes found on the highway...
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Posted by Jonathon Green <bigbadbikercats-at-googlemail.com> on 31 March 2011 | 0 Comments
On 31 March 2011 09:19, Chris G
wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:16:00AM +0100, Chris Pollard wrote:
>> On 31 March 2011 09:05, Paul Coyne wrote:
>> >
>> > It actually gets more complex. If 2 British citizens have children abroad and those children never live in the uk their children will not have automatic right of abode....
>>
>> Aren't the children British Citizens by descent? Sandy is.
>> She was born in the Philippines but has a British passport, obtained there.
>>
> But a British Passport doesn't necessarily give right of residence here
> does it?
As far as I can recall that went in the run-up to Hong Kong being
returned to Chinese control as a result of concern that the entire
population of HK might turn up at Heathrow overnight...
--
JG
"I'm going to start a new company. It's going to be called 'Easy
McApple.' The revenue stream will be based on betting who will sue us
first..."
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Posted by Roger Collier <roger.collier-at-oracle.com> on 31 March 2011 | 0 Comments
On 31/03/2011 09:22, Jonathon Green wrote:
> On 31 March 2011 09:19, Chris G
wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:16:00AM +0100, Chris Pollard wrote:
>>> On 31 March 2011 09:05, Paul Coyne wrote:
>>>> It actually gets more complex. If 2 British citizens have children abroad and those children never live in the uk their children will not have automatic right of abode....
>>> Aren't the children British Citizens by descent? Sandy is.
>>> She was born in the Philippines but has a British passport, obtained there.
>>>
>> But a British Passport doesn't necessarily give right of residence here
>> does it?
>
> As far as I can recall that went in the run-up to Hong Kong being
> returned to Chinese control
I don't think returned is quite the right word as it belonged to the ROC
rather than the PRC.
Roger.
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Posted by Paul Coyne <paul-at-gigglefish.org> on 31 March 2011 | 0 Comments
On 31 Mar 2011, at 16:16, Chris Pollard
wrote:
> On 31 March 2011 09:05, Paul Coyne wrote:
>>
>> It actually gets more complex. If 2 British citizens have children abroad and those children never live in the uk their children will not have automatic right of abode....
>
> Aren't the children British Citizens by descent? Sandy is.
> She was born in the Philippines but has a British passport, obtained there.
Yes, but if she'd not lived in the uk her children would have issues
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Posted by swixie <swixie-at-gmail.com> on 31 March 2011 | 0 Comments
On 31 March 2011 09:15, Paul Willis
wrote:
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It seems that our very own Keith/marvin has his own junction:
http://www.gnsra.org.uk/gnsra_gallery_locomotives3.htm
Stuart
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Posted by Paul Willis <flymo748-at-googlemail.com> on 31 March 2011 | 0 Comments
John K. Bilsbury
wrote:
> Which prompted me to have a quick mooch round the Great North Of Scotland
> Railway Society site. There are some corking pictures on there, this one in
> particular caught my eye, very evocative:
>
Strangely enough, I find the pictures of the diseasels even more
appealing, particularly the ones in the snow. Really atmospheric,
showing the variety of loco haulage that was still around in the 80's.
Flymo
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Posted by Paul Coyne <paul-at-gigglefish.org> on 31 March 2011 | 0 Comments
On 31 Mar 2011, at 15:23, "Ian Ellison"
wrote:
>
>> MWB:
>>
>>> I had also drawn a resounding blank for any hire company to rent a
>>> bike to a UK non-resident.
>>
>>
>> In my naivety that seems bizarre to me, I would have expected
>> foreign tourists to be exactly the sort of customer bike hire
>> companies would want to attract. Perhaps they had too many bikes
>> vanish in the past. If not foreign tourists, who do they hire
>> their bikes out to? I'd be surprised if there were enough UK
>> residents who don't already have bikes wanting to take touring
>> holidays, so are they mainly hiring them out as temporary
>> replacements to insurance companies or to couriers, perhaps?
>
> A few years ago I looekd at setting up a bike hire company. IIRC it is perfectly possible to rent bikes to furriners, but there's a one off additional premium (it was about 20 quid at cost) to be paid for a non-EU licence holder.
>
Just out of curiosity why didn't you?
And don't mean to pry if it was a capital issue, just wondering if there's an inherent problem with the business model..
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Posted by Andy Cannon <andyc600-at-gmail.com> on 31 March 2011 | 0 Comments
On 30 March 2011 23:03, Andrew
wrote:
> That might work.
>
> Hmm. Might need to take the van to SOS in that case :)
I can pick them up from Chris this weekend and store them in my shed
until SoS. I'm not going to be there until Saturday so don't worry if
you don't see my Friday night!
Andy
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http://andyc600.co.uk
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Posted by Chris G <cl-at-isbd.net> on 31 March 2011 | 0 Comments
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:22:41AM +0100, Jonathon Green wrote:
> On 31 March 2011 09:19, Chris G
wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:16:00AM +0100, Chris Pollard wrote:
> >> On 31 March 2011 09:05, Paul Coyne wrote:
> >> >
> >> > It actually gets more complex. If 2 British citizens have children abroad and those children never live in the uk their children will not have automatic right of abode....
> >>
> >> Aren't the children British Citizens by descent? Sandy is.
> >> She was born in the Philippines but has a British passport, obtained there.
> >>
> > But a British Passport doesn't necessarily give right of residence here
> > does it?
>
> As far as I can recall that went in the run-up to Hong Kong being
> returned to Chinese control as a result of concern that the entire
> population of HK might turn up at Heathrow overnight...
>
They were one instance of people who don't have right of residence but I
don't think the whole concept disappeared did it?
There are two possibilities in a UK passport apparently:-
# a UK passport describing you as a British citizen
# a UK passport describing you as a British subject with the right of abode in the UK
So if the passport says "British Citizen" you're in, but if it says
"British Subject" it has to have the words "right of abode" as well.
--
Chris Green
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Posted by mike newton <bikermike.n-at-googlemail.com> on 31 March 2011 | 0 Comments
http://au.news.yahoo.com/tech-news/a/-/technology/9111113/samsung-in-privacy-scandal
free spyware sir?
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Samsung has been accused of secretly putting spyware on its computers
that can monitor and record user activity without their consent, it
has been reported.
The software was reportedly detected by the founder of NetSec
Consulting Corp, Mohamed Hassan, after he bought a Samsung laptop in
February.
The software records a person's computer usage, and can even track keystrokes.
Mr Hassan discovered the software after running a scan on his
newly-bought computer before installing any of his own programs on it,
technology website Network World reported.
He discovered a program called "Starlogger" which, according to its
creators de Willebois Consulting, can log users' actions without them
knowing.
According to the creator's website, the program "is completely
undetectable and starts up whenever your computer starts up. See
everything being typed: emails, messages, documents, web pages,
usernames, passwords, and more."
Mr Hassan uninstalled the software from his laptop, but, after some
issues with video, he returned the computer and bought a different
model Samsung from a different store.
After performing the scan again on his second new computer, he became
alarmed when he found the same software installed on it.
He called Samsung about it only to have the representative tell him:
"we just put them there to find out how the computer is being used,"
Network World said.
PC World reported Samsung had been given a week to respond to the
claims, but had not done so at that point.
It has since been reported that Samsung had launched an investigation
with the help of Mr Hassan.
A Samsung spokesperson reportedly said that the company was looking
into the claims.
"We take these claims very, very seriously," the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson had never heard of de Willebois Consulting, or the
spyware problem.
"We have no understanding of a relationship with this company and we
have no prior knowledge of this software being on our laptops," he
said.
Mr Hassan expressed his surprise at finding the software.
"These were new systems. They weren't used for anything," he said.
"I could give them the benefit of the doubt on the first one. But then
when I got a second model, a different model from a different store,
that tells me that Samsung is aware of the problem."
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