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The only list containing my C&F password will be the one maintained by this board. If that had been hacked I think you would have had more comments. I suspect a hacked WiFi router at a pub or cafe somewhere, or their third-party WiFi provider - the logo for which got attached to a link to this ...

My session group also jokes consistently about “My darling’s a sheep”. So it is nice to know that seems like a wide spread joke.

"Definitely not from around here are you?" They nailed that, all right. :) I've picked up an amazing amount of British and Irish English since I joined up here, and I see from the survey that I've barely scratched the surface. But I played fair and only used such words as I grew up with a...

I am also very curious: Tor, what do you do with so many windows and desktops? In my imagination, you work in some kind of NSA Security Operations Center with several dozen monitors: watching realtime-data of what is going on all around the globe, but you also use the same equipment to check C&F...

Have any been tagged with graffiti yet? That's a lot of blank space just ripe for the taking. Hey: admin should consider having the art department glorify the little tykes. Yes we are all waiting for the inevitable student pranks Any idea what the weight bearing capacity is? If Charles Darwin could...

DrPhill wrote:

Mr.Gumby wrote:

Iron Age heating

Something like this? try have that talk to the interwebs..

Like this?

Nanohedron wrote:

AaronFW wrote:(I myself am trying to get into Cybersecurity so if I don't notice responses back I'm probably studying some more. )

Do so quickly and save us from ourselves. Please.

Those are some pretty high expectations.

Mr.Gumby wrote:

an Aga - much better.

Perhaps, but the Rayburn heats the water and drives the radiators so it is way more practical for heating the rooms that aren't the kitchen.

Yeah, my Reyburn doesn't do that.

Oh... Rayburn.

Right. Must go and fill the stove with logs. Robotics, Ben; robotics. Dust and spiders and splinters and burns are icky and not the way forward. You cannot be fulfilled until you have gadgetry up to your armpits and seeing to your every sanitized need; only then will Iron Age heating be brought int...

I'm not into connected things either. One of the major issues right now is that they aren't secure and some of the security (such as updates) rely on the consumer to update them, and really, who is going to make sure to update their lightbulbs? I was reading a publication about this issue recently: ...

...I had not heard the "peeing on roses" or "farting dust" before. Interesting. Did you have an immediate understanding of their meaning, even so? The reason I ask is that I never had to have them explained to me, but apparently this may not be the case elsewhere. I find it fran...

For my two cents, I had not heard the "peeing on roses" or "farting dust" before. However, it could be that I am young (~30) and haven't had a history of hanging around pubs until last year. The phrases could be from Minnesota or perhaps they have Scandinavian heritage? Who knows...

I've seen many other examples and references, too. As I understand it (this is probably way oversimplified), the transverse flute as a force arrived first in Britain via a German route, or at least was thought to, so the name stuck for a time as a way to distinguish this innovation, previously cult...

Or did older players use it? Yes. Older players commonly used it, well before Paul Davies. This might seem like a pedantic question, but I mean it in sincerity: Do you happen to know why they called it a concert flute? The reason I ask is because I would expect people to simply call it a "flut...

Woah, an early setback to my plans for world domination! Thanks for including us in the world domination. I'm attracted to Conical Bore's suggestion to use the expression, but start the introductory article with a definition, and take the opportunity to point out the term's inadequacies. But maybe ...