Lincoln's Inn Fields in London was famous for it. The area was fenced and the gates locked at night at some point in the 90s to keep them out, and it's now a nice park and doesn't reek of piss and shit.

Did I accidentally travel in time? Because this exact product has been in use for something like 15 years now.

What a brilliant idea, deliberately do even more damage to the hearing of those of us who wear hearing aids.

There are all kinds of things that can be done to make the roads safer without changing who drives and maintains what or how they are trained.

Rebuilding dangerous junctions or corners, for example. Better separation of fast and slow traffic. Improving sight lines by changing where signs are positioned. Putting shades on traffic lights so that you can see them better when the sun's shining on them.

11mg in how much tea? What blend? I have tea cups ranging from, well, cup sized (so about 4 fl oz) to a pint (20 fl oz) depending on which tea I want to drink.

Smokeless baccy isn't just chewing. Snuff suddenly became a lot more available when the indoor smoking ban came in here.

If your phone "likes to die", have you considered just getting a new phone that isn't broken, or carrying a spare battery if it's dieing because you're draining the battery?

And "the right thing" is to arrest Assange for jumping bail and haul him back in front of the court. The whole point is that he is *not* currently in detention (and so of course isn't being detained illegally) when he should be.

I know this'll get hate, but it's why I switched to using a Mac. I don't have to arse about trying to find device drivers and relying on people to write them for free out of the goodness of their hearts.

> Others note with skepticism the idea of a game publisher buying an e-sports league, which could lead to concerns about how games from other publishers are treated.

What's the problem? It doesn't matter that a chess tournament doesn't include a bit of Scrabble, or that the FA Cup doesn't include baseball.

I presume that people compete by playing Call Of Grand Theft Warcraft 97 against each other, and you don't have one person playing Call Of Grand Theft Warcraft 97, one playing Minesweeper, and one playing Doom 2, so why does it matter. And if other publishers feel left out they can start leagues for their own games.

Until about five years ago I supported a custom application running on CP/M. I just kept some spare hardware so that if anything broke I could swap it out, and I also could use the spare parts for developing on. Not that I actually did any development for the last fifteen years of the contract, all I did was visit once a year to blow the dust bunnies out.

"The software industry" != "developers".

The main argument in favour of physical keyboards is that you can type faster on them. It's probably true. Trouble is, data input is a minute part of what people do on their phones, so it's a micro-optimisation. And it's a micro-optimisation that comes with all the costs associated with having to engineer a small device with loads of moving parts.

For the majority of people, a mildly sucky virtual keyboard - one whose quirks you quickly learn - is a price worth paying in exchange for a smaller, lighter more reliable device.

Right now we''re recruiting some more developers at my employer, and while we're not actively discriminating, we seem to be consistently favouring older applicants. You can only get so far with youngsters who are willing to work all hours - eventually you have to address the debt, both technical and process, that they leave behind. And to do that you need at least some older people to mentor the kids and to rebuild and maintain the relationships between your engineering team and the rest of the business.

What's the point? Have they not heard of rain at Nissan? I find that rain does a really good job of cleaning my car.