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Works for me. On, err, IE6.

I don't think that's right. 10^6 is a million in both languages. 10^9 used to be a milliard in British English but is no longer used. It is now referred to as a billion. 10^12 used…

I wouldn't be surprised if they were just manually adding a header. I've seen it done like that before, using a browser extension to add a header and then mod_rewrite to apply a sp…

I'm not sure if you're being serious or not, but the cost of double spending is vastly higher than the value of the coffee. The risk of accepting on 0 confirmations is probably low…

Being in the dictionary or not doesn't matter. Trademarks like "Apple" are often dictionary words.

But the idea isn't to teach kids chemistry - it's to get the kids interested in chemistry. I was given something very similar to this as a kid: http://www.amazon.com/Elenco-MX-907-…

UK point of view: No, it's tax avoidance. Tax will still be paid in the form of VAT/Sales Tax and Corporation Tax. You avoid paying Capital Gains tax.

You absolutely can in the UK. I pay £15/mo for the same service my friend pays £34/mo with a phone. He's in a 24month contract instead of my 12 and will end up some £150 down over …

That seems bizarre in the UK. I pay $24/mo and get truly unlimited data, with tethering included, as well as 2000 minutes and 5000 texts (and receiving doesn't come out of your all…

Very possibly because of this: http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/12/the-big-ugly-affiliate-mar... It doesn't look like squarespace offer an affiliate programme right now, but it seems…

You aren't, the port is backwards compatible, not the cable.

I quite like the system Hong Kong has: http://www.gov.hk/en/about/govdirectory/govstructure.htm "The Legislative Council is the law-making body of the Hong Kong Special Administrat…

Funner fact, the Trident II D5 ICBM shoots up to low altitude orbit and then fixes its location with a star sight! GPS is assumed missing in the global thermonuclear war scenario.

Less than 100 years ago, GPS wasn't a nav tool until the mid 90s. Astro nav was the standard right up until then and is still taught to masters today. We have calculators for atmos…

But when driving a manual car the driver doesn't put the clutch in while braking until almost completely stopped. If you need to slow down quickly enough that you're not just letti…

When I use my brakes I don't put the car in neutral until I'm almost stopped. The fuel consumption is the same.

It still wear components that are not as easily replacable as brakes. As for coasting to a stop whilst still in gear, I agree with that being a good idea but I don't think that's w…

I think we're talking about different things. digitalWestie's advice to use the gears to slow implied changing down through the gears to use the engine to brake, not simply leaving…

How would that be efficient? Engine braking wears transmission components which are considerably more fragile and expensive than replacing brakes. Engine braking only stops you usi…

One thing I have been taught to use is the "shit sandwich". Positive, negative, positive. The danger is your negative lesson being lost so this method does favour directness. The a…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon#Australia_and_New_Zealand We have different bacon to Americans.

Flock was a web browser until last year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_(web_browser) I know there are only so many names, but in this case both flocks are social apps, trackin…

Additionally it has a very low centre of gravity, further increasing stability.

A friend at a botanical institute sends and receives a 500GB hard drive weekly, exchanging data across the Atlantic. Back of beermat calculations at the time demonstrated huge effi…

I first heard this (or an adaptation) on the CBC podcast Wiretap: http://www.cbc.ca/wiretap/episode/2012/05/04/hell-is-other-p... I'd recommend it if you enjoyed reading this, it o…