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That's just a rumour...well, the naked bit...

Featured on BBC TV recently, here's a full article describing how BMW owners and owners of cars with similar locking systems are at risk. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/09/18/bmw-stolen-hacking-kit/ ( I know one Admin with a potential interest in this topic... )

If you use Internet Explorer as your web browser, best have a read of this advisory and consider switching to an alternative browser... http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/09/18/microsoft-advisory-internet-explorer-zero-day-affects-most-windows-versions

Very pleased to see it reinstated. Well done to Rugger and the Admin team!

This is another of the entrants to the "Only in Battlefield 3" competition. Indoor flying featured... I like his "parking" too! It is crazy!

Consider it a freebie from the UK, Damage! This sort of stuff is more important to Britons and French people as the stats indicate we drink 1.5 times the amount consumed by Americans... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption My guess would be that the pork industry had something to do with the funding.

A bacon sandwich really does cure a hangover - by boosting the level of amines which clear the head, scientists have found. Researchers claim food also speeds up the metabolism helping the body get rid of the booze more quickly. Elin Roberts, of Newcastle University's Centre for Life said: "Food doesn't soak up the alcohol but it does increase your metabolism helping you deal with the after-effects of over indulgence. So food will often help you feel better. Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/5118283/Bacon-sandwich-really-does-cure-a-hangover.html

Have a good one, mate!

WE WANT ALL ADMINS TO HAVE NO PERKS>>>>>HALF THE HEALTH OF EVERYONE ELSE and ONLY A PISTOL THAT SHOOTS BLANKS>>>>>lol or a BOW N ARROW Yeah, and no IR flares for Damit!

Don't forget the benefits of frying in sunflower oil. It lowers cholesterol! I fry all my bread in this to accompany my fried bacon and fried eggs. http://www.saga.co.uk/health/healthy-eating/health-benefits-of-different-oils.aspx

For a forum to be alive, there has to be a number of contributors, Ping, and I haven't personally encountered any other Apple users on here. We already have an iPod guru (hxtr).

The second one sounds like 2manybeers speeded up...

First the video. The Chinese one looks like a rocket staging, the swirly light could be from a laser and the numerous white lights Chinese lanterns. Some years back, I was invited out to our rear car park by a colleague who was agitated and saying that for years he had dismissed the notion of UFOs but I needed to see what was happening. What I saw was impressive indeed - a rotating ring of light with sharp fingers of light radiating down from it towards the ground. There was a light fog in the air and what we were looking at was the refracted light from a nightclub's laser, next to the beach about two miles away! Just an example of how the ordinary can appear to be extraordinary. I am very much a hopeful sceptic. Years back, I was involved in the SETI@home project, running a screensaver that analysed the output from radio telescopes in the hope that we'd detect some evidence of ET. A favourite movie of mine is "Contact" (and Carl Sagan's book, on which the movie is based, also remains a favourite). I am a keen consumer of science fiction and have been for nearly all my life (about 50 years then!). I have seen a "UFO" and met with the dismissive reaction of elders who thought I'd imagined it. The phone call... If the man was an actor, he is a good one. I was convinced of his fear, personally, but, in the absence of anything else, I would suspect he was suffering acute paranoia. The concept of "extra-dimensional" beings has been explored in science fiction. An sf series I watched from DVD recently - Charlie Jade - was excellent and its premise was that there are parallel dimensions and parallel universes. I gather that theoretical physicists have postulated similarly. I don't dismiss any of it, being, in part, the creation of a supra-dimensional Being to whom I remain devoted. Logic can assist, as Mr Spock, might say. If we assume that such extra-dimensional entities exist and have designs on our world, their ability to appear at will would seem to render conventional defence useless. They would have no need or desire to wipe out population centres as they could render all major defence sites useless and impose their will without a fight. But why would they bother? With such technological or natural abilities, why choose us and our world? It does seem improbable. When was the last time you took control of an ant nest? Baldie... Ah, Creationism versus Darwinism... It wasn't God who messed things up but Original Sin. Man was supposed to be immortal and, as the Bible describes, life-spans diminished over the ensuing generations. It is remarkable that, after all that went wrong, He took human form and died an agonising human death for the love of his creation, rising to conquer death itself. No, God isn't alien, as He is in all of us. Daily Mail... Tabloid... Not a newspaper! Remember it is the "silly season" for news. They can and do print literally anything! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_season

Presumably he didn't say, "Take good care of the place whilst I am at the games with my pals"?

A true legend in your own mind, Cheese...

Personally, I always like to have some bottled water and canned food in store. I also have the means to cook hot meals on a small portable charcoal-fueled barbecue. What brought home our lack of preparedness, some years back, was when an earthquake struck. We had no power, no landline phones and no idea what had happened. I actually phoned my office in France (via mobile phone till that network failed due to overload) and asked them to tune the TV into the BBC for me! We had no working battery-powered radio (we would habitually tune the hi-fi in and that was mains-powered). We do nowadays! I don't believe the end-of-the-world stuff for December this year but it is wise to make adequate preparations to sustain yourself and your family for several days, if necessary, until the authorities can respond. Natural disaster, failure of infrastructure (power, gas and water supplies) and terrorist threats have elevated the chances you may need to be independent for a little while sometime in your life. I wouldn't go as crazy about it as these people, though: http://channel.natio...msday-preppers/ (The "me" in the YouTube clip isn't me...but him.)

LESSON ONE - HELICOPTER LANDING 1. Always land your chopper with the next take-off in mind. You may have to do so quickly to escape an enemy attack. Note how this pilot has thoughtfully placed the aircraft carefully on its side to hide it behind the boxes. No one will spot it there and he can be off in a jiffy! 2. Select your landing site with care. Do not land in a blow-away zone. Note the way this pilot has positioned his chopper so that much of it remains airborne even when it has landed. This makes take-off that much quicker and will dumbfound any enemy! (The Admins are currently investigating the forward gunner for a suspected "mountain hack" - this is like a wall hack but involves a whole mountain.)

I would think the tip most relevant to your game style is that you must be standing behind your opponent when you use the knife in order to remove his dog tags! BF3 is intolerant of other programs running in the background so ensure you shut down all non-essentials and, if you have your anti-virus/ security program set to auto-update, alter its settings so it will not fire up during the game (or your game will probably crash/freeze up). It should not be necessary to shut down AV or firewall and thus expose your PC to security threats - resist any temptation to do so. If you are running a 32-bit system and find that the game does freeze or maps don't load up as required (i.e. you are left staring at the battle log screen and a pop-up saying "loading level"), do not panic. There is a simple fix to make more memory available to the game. If you're interested in learning to fly the jets and choppers, log on at a time when the server/s have few people in them and don't worry about your score. Spawn into a chopper and experiment (going up and down and keeping the thing level is a good start, then tilt the nose down a little to go forward - you'll soon get the hang of it. You could even ask Damit not to shoot you down whilst you're in "flight school"! Most of all, don't get disheartened in the early days. You will be shot frequently and, if such things matter to you, your kdr will not look that good. There are many ways to contribute to your squad without having to be a crack shot. Some intelligently placed land mines can stop/slow the enemy assault, first aid packs are always welcome after a fire fight and we all always need ammo, so try playing as engineer, assault/medic and support. If your squad lacks any of these, it'll aid it and make it more balanced if you choose the missing class. (I always fire up Teamspeak after Origin and BF3. Use TS when playing!) See you on the battlefield, soldier! Oh, and don't mind me... I always play like an idiot!

(It is usually faster - 15Mbps+ - and is throttled at the ISP's end.) Using the ISP's test returns even worse results...

The figures continue to change. For a rolling update, see: http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/ Our little town is supposed to now be fibre-connected and my ISP should soon be offering a product up to 76Mbps downstream and 19.5Mbps upstream. The major worth of such connections is for the increasing amount of streamed content like movies and TV, of course, though it'd help with BF3 updates of over 2GB per time!

If memory serves me correctly, the spawns at each end of the map are similarly affected but, as Beers says, there is a trick to evade being blown up... Hint: practise your bunny hopping?

Perhaps my mind works in a funny way but I have been considering opportunities for stunt flying etc. (I know some people think I fly that way unintentionally anyway... ) The big bridge is an obvious and relatively easy one - so far I have been under that with both wings level and wings vertical (not quite ready for inverted as the controls are reversed, of course). But the one I'm interested in trying is landing a chopper or choppers on the wings of that AC130 in flight. Could that be done? (For fellow practitioners of juvenile humour, don't forget the lawn sprinklers in Bandar Desert - if your soldier crouches on them, he looks like he's doing something else! )

Don't forget the vehicles that are at the flags - they aren't all at the bases. You'll usually find a jeep, quad bike or even a chopper at the objectives. Look in the outbuildings too. Yours is the first and only negative reaction to this DLC I have read/heard - it is, generally, being very well received. Yes, there are a few niggles/bugs - it isn't fun if you play a game of Rush to be picked off by the Gunship within seconds of spawning, for example (but the solution is not to play Rush!).

Amazon is showing a pre-order price in the USA of $49.95.

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