A disturbing item of news was sent to me recently entitled “Police scrutiny of mobile device data raises concerns”. It appeared in North Carolina’s  “News Observer” claiming that civil liberties advocates are worried that advances in mobile phone technology have opened a door for police in North Carolina to snoop on people without the standard [...]

This article supposedly written by a “cop” has been making the rounds over the Internet over the last few years (since 2001) and has appeared on another local media site a few days ago so I thought I would investigate the claims which at first sight appear to be sound advice.
The version below began as [...]

Now we have a fuel strike.
Don’t we?
What’s that you say? “No we don’t”?
But people are joining huge queues at the gas stations, or petrol stations or whatever you prefer to call them. There have been stories of fights and squabbles on the forecourts. Stores are running out of jerry cans.
But no strike.
OK, the union that [...]

Paul McGowan (PS Audio)
 
If you own a CD it is perfectly legal to sell that CD.  It’s your property.
It is also perfectly legal for you to make a copy of that CD for your own use on your iPod, a server or computer.  You do not have the legal right to copy the CD and [...]

A magnificent piece of political hokum was announced in the UK yesterday. VAT is going to be charged on hot food. This means that if you go and buy a hot pie or sausage roll you have to pay an additional 20%
No problem on the face of it; until you try to define the term [...]

Palmistry is the practice of telling fortunes from the lines, marks, and patterns on the palms of the hands. Palmistry is also called chiromancy, palm-reading, chirology, or hand-analysis. Palmistry originated in ancient India. It was said to be practiced by the Brahmins of Ancient India. Palmistry can be regarded as a part of Astrology. Records [...]