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akirk wrote:and I have upgraded jont- to Admin, not just mod, so he now has even more tools at his disposal

The equivalent of moving from lump hammer to angle grinder

Please don't reply to threads with multiple spam posts - it's easier to tidy up if there aren't replies I need to worry about losing.
/although I think akirk/ Mr C-W have a larger ban hammer they can use to delete all of a users posts.

There's a new signup about every couple of minutes at the moment

Ban hammer working overtime
No sign of Admin, who I really need to tighten up the sign-up as I don't have permissions to do that.

Done what I can, will try and keep an eye on it later. Hopefully no important posts lost in the tidyup so far.

We seem to be having a spate of it today - thanks for the reports - please keep them coming if you see anything you think we should know about. Hopefully akirk will be a long shortly to lock things down a bit more tightly.

Strangely Brown wrote:That reminds me of...

Beat me to it

Strangely Brown wrote:I suspect that there is more to it than just saccade blindness. I strongly suspect that selective attention has a big part to play.

Selective Attention Test

Isn't that also a good example of why experience is useful?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/15/tesla_autopilot_rollout/ http://www.wired.com/2015/10/tesla-self-driving-over-air-update-live/ So Tesla can push major functionality updates out OTA, and yet describe the autopilot as "Beta" :shock: “We tell drivers to keep their hands on the wheel j...

The handbook for my soon to be 15 years old MX5 is full of legal gobbledegook and very little actual information; not that such a simple car needs much instruction I suppose. It is not an import so the book and the car are both UK market. A Spanish market Ford has a much more to the point, and more...

StressedDave wrote:Normally on a road like that I don't bother stopping, so any chance of a number?

B4560, from heads of the valley road to llandgynidr. I'm sure you must have been there