HAL9000

Just mind you don't use words like "paradigm" or your old adversaries might get a hard on again!

That bit of pavement sticking out into the northbound lane without any warning signs is a death trap.

Thomas Micklewright Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 5. ... and Hugenot Most of the regular posters will understand - but what do you suppose the OP will make of it?

It took a moment to see the wood for the trees, but No. 49 is one of the weirdest of the lot, in my view.

If you say it's clean, that should count for something. It looks like a useful little app, actually.

Just from the name (it was originally an antidote to a poison, after all), although I would always recommend caution, especially when an app comes via an .msi file that downloads and installs automatically before most users can check the integrity of the download before it has been installed.

Looks like the wrong colour for urine unless the donor has a serious addiction to beetroots?

The name of the author's website, Cum Grano Salis (Latin: literally, '(with) a grain of salt' {or 'wit'}, may suggest some caution before downloading and installing this application - at least until someone who knows what they are doing has confirmed that it is not infected with trojans or spyware.

Funny how 'laser' and 'razor' rhyme, though - that might explain how the phrase came about?

I'm glad I looked it up: it's a potential stumbling block for uninformed trekkies - especially after a few drinks!

That makes more sense in the context of having had a dry January.

LASERS will firmly be set tae MALKY!.....CHARGE. Always wondered what that expression meant: according to wiki here: Malky / Malkie - slang term originating from Glasgow & the West coast of Scotland, used to describe slashing someone with an open razor. Comes from the rhyming slang Malcom (Malky) Fraser (Razor). Is that right?

Not necessarily. Could be an undercover police officer on surveillance duty.

I tawt I taw a puddy tat. I did. I did tee a puddy tat!

A forum search on "Santiago" reveals a few previous mentions. There wasn't much interest then, either :(

People abducted by aliens are often sent back a minute or two earlier to avoid a close encounter of the third kind with themselves on the way out - hence the double post (and both my edits).

The Minkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'd make it myself from raw but I really don't have the confidence to > do so for fear I'd be missing out something vital, e.g. taurine. You probably know all this stuff already, but for the curious cats amongst us: Taurine occurs naturally in raw meat, fish and other seafoods - this VetLord article may be helpful: Taurine is essential for cats. There also appears to exist a thriving market for supplimentary vitamins and nutrients for furry fussy feline foodies.

The Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware application is quite good but often fails to detect the payloads of various Trojan and root-kit virus infections after they have been installed on an infected hard disk. In difficult cases, diagnosis may be achieved by downloading and running HiJack This and posting the resulting log to either a specialist ?bot? website or a forum such as MalwareCrypt for analysis by experts.

With respect to other posters' opinions, in my experience, from Windows XP (NTFS) onwards, file fragmentation is rarely a problem: defragging an XP+ hard disk is unlikely to produce any noticeable difference in performance.

Nuclear Safety Regulators will gradually come to realise that the future definition of an 'unpredictable' event will not include powerful undersea subduction-zone earthquakes followed by mega tsunamis causing simultaneous core meltdowns at three Boiling Water Reactors situated on the east coast of Japan.

The scant symptoms described could be caused by badly written anti-virus-type software or infection by root-kit viruses, malware, adware, spyware, etc. Try disabling anti-virus software to see if it makes any difference. Disinfection is often possible but usually not trivial - proper diagnosis is often difficult. Or it could be something else. Either way, good luck.

Interesting point. According to the BBC, in respect of the evidence against David Norris, But the forensic scientists found two small hairs in the evidence bag that had held the jeans. One hair was 1mm in length and the second was 2mm in length. The longer hair was tested for a mitochondrial DNA match with Stephen. MtDNA is only passed down through the maternal line. It does not provide a full profile of an individual, but is a very powerful scientific tool, often used to investigate family ties. A geneticist examined MtDNA databases and told the court the chance of it not coming from Stephen was one in 1,000. The cold case team that found the evidence say that the hair was "close to the limit" of what could be examined for DNA. R. v. Watters, Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), October 19, 2000, established the precident that a probability of 1 in 267 could not be considered 'beyond reasonable doubt' and should not have been left to a jury to decide. If the Judge failed to direct the jury adequately on this point (I've seen no reports that he did but I've not read the summing up) then it would serve as strong grounds for Appeal. ETA: R. v. Watters suggested that even odds as high as 1 in 29,000 could be unsafe.

Dobson and Norris were juveniles at the time of the offence and can only be sentenced on that basis.

Fresh Evidence for an Appeal is only one expert's contradictory opinion away. Regarding the bloodstain, I don't think the prosecution proved, in a scientific sense, anything of the sort. Rather, it seems to me that no defence experts were retained to experimentally confirm or refute the opinions of the prosecution's experts. In any event, the Law Commission's recent proposals on wrongful convictions and acquittals based on flawed expert evidence should figure prominently in any forthcoming Appeals. The failure to prosecute the original suspects at the time remains the real scandal that has never been adequately addressed, in my view. ETA: For those interested:- The Consultation Paper: The Admissibility of Expert Evidence in Criminal Proceedings in England and Wales The Law Commission's Proposals: Expert Evidence In Criminal Proceedings In England And Wales

Remember the Jill Dando murder? Barry George's conviction was overturned on Appeal grounds that the prosecution's forensic evidence was contaminated. George's Appeal ruling and today's convictions are inconsistent. Expect to see Norris and Dobson Appealing their convictions in due course.