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Generally, they don't, and no-one cares. Airband scanners are freely available to buy online and in shops. It really manifests itself when you look online to see "listen to ATC" li…

No, the Master followed the BBC Micro architecture, which was 32K RAM followed by 32K ROM, made up of 16K paged ROM then 16K of OS and memory mapped peripherals. The other 96K that…

S4C (Sianel 4 Cymru, Channel 4 Wales) receives some licence fee funding (partially via the BBC making programmes for it), but it's a separate entity to Channel 4

There's also a pre-school spin off called Timmy Time, which also uses animal noises in place of speech. But the best thing is that they subtitled it. https://subsaga.com/bbc/childr…

Why is it offering up .gb domains, when you can't register them?

I got bored long before then. It's a terrible piece of self-backslapping drivel

"No need to reinvent the wheel" Says yet another Linux video editor

Couple of things to note 1) The Pico doesn't have an OS, by default. It's designed to run bits of code people have written in the SDK. There are no guarantees that someone won't wr…

Kids swallowing coin cell batteries is a recurring and very serious problem. Hospitals will take it very seriously (x-rays, etc) if there's even a suspicion that one has been swall…

That map is very incomplete. It's missing at least 3 that I know of where I live.

Did someone at Fisher-Price forget to delete the page on April 2nd?

Indeed. I used to have some old bayonet fitting plugs from my grandparents' house. One was even in its original box, which showed an illustration of woman ironing using an electric…

HMS Queen Elizabeth doesn't have a catapult.

Waste companies have always done this. It happens when shared rainwater/sewage drains become overwhelmed in heavy rain and overflow into rivers. The legislation isn't allowing some…

Not just medium-sized islands. The UK has several interconnectors to other European countries for importing and exporting power https://www.nationalgrid.com/our-businesses/national…

Sorry, what? Pure water isn't toxic. And you can get minerals from other sources. That's like saying tap water is toxic because it doesn't contain a balanced diet of vitamins.

Also, more precisely, it doesn't cover Northern Ireland, which is separate and has its own system linked to the Irish rail network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NI_Railways

As an aside, after one was destroyed when it derailed in Cumbria, its replacement - a standard, non-tilting train - was nicknamed the "Pretendolino"

> British Siri was always a male voice The same male voice (same voice actor) who did the summary of contestant performances between rounds of The Weakest Link.

Thing I keep seeing and don't understand is "Legitimate interest" as a separate thing to consent. "You opted out of our cookies, but we're going to say we need them anyway, but you…

It appears the postcode was W12 8QT http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/downloads/14545 It's the old postcode for BBC Television Centre, so it's defunct (and the Royal Mail address …

"IKEA is continuing to try and remain true to their principals—protecting the environment and striving to become a carbon neutral company, while still remaining one of the world’s …

The European Arrest Warrant sorts a lot of it out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Arrest_Warrant

Atmospheric nitrogen sounds bad. And the Netherlands has to contend with some serious dihydrogen monoxide issues, too.

Presumably this service will be available for a week or so, and then replaced by a selection of garden furniture and a welding helmet