I think it's almost time for another Miles/Litre on LPG thread :)

I think I just need an armoured grill, headlights and windscreen. Bloody Pheasants!!
I've got a new grill to fit.

Are any of them armoured? :)

hah, a week off just means you're working on your own list!

They are definitely the way ahead but I wish there was a tablet out there that was a millimetre smaller so it would line up with the bottom of the clock.

The one that is helpfully labelled as a motorway sign :crazy:

Hubba hubba!! :D

Lpgc wrote:

One thing that narks me - When in a shop paying at the til if they ask you for any or all of postcode, phone number, name, business name, email address. Tell them you don't want to give them the info and they sometimes act like you've insulted them or as though you're the exception and must be paranoid. If I'm under a car and hear my phone beep it's annoying to get out to check it just to read that summers here so I might be interested in Halfords sale on pushbike helmets or MachineMart's 20% off patio log burners.

Halfords are particularly bad for it, but that'll have to change. They can only insist on the information that is necessary for carrying out the contract (ie the sale of the goods) and they have to explain why they capture the information and what they use it for. If it isn't necessary for the contract then you can just say "no". In future. If it works as intended. Under GDPR you have the absolute right to refuse processing of your personal information for marketing purposes, so if Halfords store all this stuff and market to you they could eventually end up with a pretty stiff fine.

Gilbertd, one of the main changes under GDPR is the right to deletion of your personal information so you were bang on :)

Were Lucas ever any good?

I'm certainly in no rush to replace the DSP setup in The Duchess. When it fails, it'll probably all get ripped out in favour of an android headunit/nav system. Until then, it's quite cool.

Another neat touch from Simon was installing the filler with the lugs vertical so the nozzle is parallel to the bumper when filling. This reduces the strain on the hose and makes it easier to fill from either side.

My filler is about 8 inches to the right of the tow hitch. It's the same side as the petrol filler without being impossible to fill from the left.
At the same time, you can still get to it if you've got stuff on the hitch, like a bike rack.

Good to hear it :)
The greens are on The Duchess now, not bedded in yet but Mrs Morat is taking it easy (she claims!)

I'm looking for a set of greens for my Jeep but they seem to only be available in the US. It turns out that EBC have factories in UK and USA.

Gilbertd wrote:

Mukiwa wrote:

Every cell site is connected to GCHQ and they can access all SMS's and meta data over the phone networks.

Except for WhatsApp as it is end to end encrypted and doesn't appear anywhere on the network in a form that can be unencrypted. Which is why the security services tried to ban it......

What can't be done is listen in to your mobile phone conversations. The way GSM works is that it uses Time Division Multiplex. Each carrier is split into 10 time slots, 8 carrying speech as data and the other 2 carrying timing information. So if you were to break it down you would hear a snippet of conversation 1, a snippet of conversation 2, then 3, then 4, etc, until you get back to number 1 again. That's why music on hold sounds so bad on a mobile, because the codec is engineered for human speech as it has to fill in the gaps between slots and can't easily cope with music. CDMA and UMTS get even more complex.

GSM is decrypted at the tower - the authorities just get the feed from the carrier.

I've been getting calls on my work mobile for Jason Bennet ever since I first got the number in 2010. It seems that Mr Jason Bennet is being chased by just about every debt collector in the UK and he's using my phone number on the applications!

I was looking into WiFi, visitor apps and stuff for work. One of the most convenient systems is to use a Facebook login for users on the network. Since the Facebook data slurp scandal this is no longer worthwhile legally. One of the more scary things that the Facebook API had (before they switched it off) was a command called GetFriends

Yep, if you used a Facebook login that site or app could actually list all your Facebook friends and market them too. And probably make judgements about them/you into the bargain.

No requests you're allowed to admit 😆

Turns out it was 25k
Time for some new ones!

Gilbertd has a Disco? the shame!!!

I sometimes wonder if they get a bonus for each advisory. My "fave" so far was Headlights Slow to Illuminate - because I'd fitted a HID kit to my BMW E30. The garage owner hates HIDS but he couldn't fail me on beam pattern because the ellipsoid headlights worked perfectly despite the longer bulbs. The self levelling/washwipe stuff is only relevant for cars with HIDs from new or he'd have nailed me.